Re: Re: Gnome 2.14 crashes in Etch after upgrade

2006-05-24 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I noticed the message below on the list, and have the same problem. I manually restored parts of my .gconf directory, noting which things cause the crash. It was a time consuming task, the biggest nuisance is having to reboot after every crash. I have reduced it to: ~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml ~/

Re: need proxy server that can auth to parent proxy server

2004-03-13 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Thanks. I was hoping to get away with something slightly lighter than squid, but it seems I might just have to use squid... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

need proxy server that can auth to parent proxy server

2004-03-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
. Any ideas what proxy can do this? Does not *have* to be in Debian, I'll consider packaging it if it isn't. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Disappearing files ...

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
r ... curiouser and curiouser... (I did notice the non-rotation a long time ago, but didn't worry about it. The curious thing is the date...) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Disappearing files ...

2004-03-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
s, I've searched the debian-user archives for "usr/share/doc", didn't find anything. Sure, I should have been more thorough in my searching, but I have to finish a project for tomorrow... Any ideas will be greatly appreciated, thanks, Hugo van der Merwe signature.asc Description: Digital signature

ulimit, bash and ash

2004-01-30 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
bash or ash. Just a thought, posted in case anyone care to comment. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe signature.asc Description: Digital signature

exim4 and "local delivery"

2004-01-21 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
right now to figure this out for myself, and hope someone here already knows the answer. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-17 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I've got a USB storage device (what should one call these things? I hate calling it a "flash disk" since I feel it's not a disk (disc?) ;) It worked great at one point. However, recently, it still seems to register fine, etc etc, but the mountable device no longer appears in my devfs /dev/. How can

Re: Looking for tips on ppp problem: LCP ConfReq

2003-06-30 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:33:46AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > What are the modem manufacturers? Do you connect with a US Robotics on > > the gateway and with the internal modem of the laptop? >

Re: Looking for tips on ppp problem: LCP ConfReq

2003-06-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:33:46AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed Jun 25, 2003 at 11:46:00PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > gateway/firewall/webserver. I had to move it to a modem for a while, > > however, it refuses to connect. The laptop, howe

Looking for tips on ppp problem: LCP ConfReq

2003-06-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
serial setup is good? Any ideas that I should pursue? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe Jun 25 22:04:57 baboon pppd[31601]: pppd 2.4.1 started by hugo, uid 1000 Jun 25 22:04:58 baboon chat[31603]: abort on (BUSY) Jun 25 22:04:58 baboon chat[31603]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jun 25 22:04:58 baboon chat[31603]:

Found Answer: Re: ATI Radeon OpenGL results in black screen/window

2003-03-26 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
My apologies for not researching properly, a more thorough google search quickly and easily turned up info about current Debian packages being broken, and also the link: http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian Will try this out soon, thanks. Hugo van der Merwe On Wed, Mar 26, 2003

ATI Radeon OpenGL results in black screen/window

2003-03-26 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
d today, with local mirror, so I'm at most a day, likely not two, behind. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- The earth's surface is accelerating outward at 9.8 meters per sec^2 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Two network cards of same type, which eth0, which eth1?

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
ed to rather go with one rtl8139 and one smc, for convenience. Have yet to put them in, will probably only do so tomorrow. Thanks a lot, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Two network cards of same type, which eth0, which eth1?

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
o the trouble of buying two different kinds of network cards, then I'd be open to recommendations: something not too expensive, and of course, something that works very well with Linux ;) TIA, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: fetchmail is confusing me - SOLVED

2003-02-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
From: Mail System Internal Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: retained fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2 <...SNIP...> Mail System Internal Data. Thanks for the help, Hugo van der Merwe -- The earth's surface is accelerating outward at 9.8 meters per sec^2 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2

fetchmail is confusing me

2003-02-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
col POP3) at Mon 10 Feb 2003 07:10:53 SAST: poll completed fetchmail: normal termination, status 1 I'll use a -v -v next time, for now, I want to know what "emails" these are that never reach me. Please CC me, thanks. Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache configuration and host names?

2002-10-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
What else can I try? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. Please CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

process accounting paused...

2002-10-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Is process accounting paused for high loadlevels too? (I believe it is paused when you run out of disk space...) I've been seeing pauses lately, was curious what might be causing them. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe (ps. I would appreciate a CC, thanks.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

kernel bug!

2002-10-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
which is clearly related to the processes going balistic. I will try running an fsck. Any ideas? What should I do, what should I investigate? hugo@baboon[1]:~$ uname -a Linux baboon 2.4.19 #1 Thu Oct 17 14:05:10 SAST 2002 i686 unknown Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe Please CC... -- To UNSUBSCRIB

kill no longer functioning, curious?

2002-10-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
by my "music daemon"... (when run from the command line they're fine.) Any ideas why/how this happened? I'm running unstable, updated yesterday or the day before. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache-ssl, libapache-mod-ssl

2002-05-24 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
What is the difference (when would one use what) between libapache-mod-ssl, and apache-ssl? Is one of these "new", since the "crypto-in-main" transition? (I only noticed the -mod-ssl one today, I've used apache-ssl in the past.) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To UNS

Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
r is fine, I just have to play with vid modes etc? Any tips appreciated, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: ssh session doesn't terminate until programs are closed

2001-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> see http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.10 which (for shell) recommends a > stdout is your alternative anyway (proper daemonizing). > If coding in C, use daemon(3). Thanks a lot. Hugo van der Merwe

ssh session doesn't terminate until programs are closed

2001-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
does look like it backgrounds the program fine...) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

installing on local hard drive, without boot floppies ?

2001-10-31 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
for me to go to the trouble of finding out that way. So out of interest, will the new installer that is being worked on, make alternative methods of install like this a lot easier? (As it is still being, "designed" in some ways, maybe this is something that can be kept in mind if it is not alre

rebuilding kernels without make-kpkg clean?

2001-10-17 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
t one should run make-kpkg clean unless you know what you are doing. So I want to find out what I'm doing... ;) Any ideas? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
6/lib/" helped. Apart from that, I've found a version with some more bug fixes, and source-only, which I compiled, and seems to not suffer from this problem. So thanks for all the help, it's now solved. Hugo van der Merwe

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
If it does, try to > compile without it. If that's not feasible, edit the binary and make the > first byte of the RPATH data into an ASCII NUL. Did not find any "RPATH" in objdump's output. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
27;libXaw.so.6' > > ) = 43 > > _exit(16) = ? > Strange. There should be a ld.so.cache on your system. > Try to run ldconfig as root and check if /etc/ld.so.cache is created. There is an ld.so.cache. Not an ld.so.preload. (the strace shows this if I am reading it correctly.) I reran ldconfig, but that didn't help. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: locales, character sets, the like...

2001-09-06 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
hat, octal?) The "source" of the email is encoded as "=EA", > 8**2 * 3 + 8**1 * 5 + 8**0 * 2 == 234 (base 10) Hmm, which matches 16*14+10==234 ... dem, must have made a calculation error previously. Stupid. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpMhwL7kjR3N.pgp Description: PGP signature

locales, character sets, the like...

2001-09-05 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
e days, and it did work well in pine. (I set my charset to iso-8859-1 as well, iirc.) Thanks to anyone that can shed light on this topic during these bleak hours, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
abelled as for K6/K7/Athlon, so this should be fine then... (I see 2.4.9 entered "local" mirror today. Goodie) Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpUaMf4tkQ8S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: AMD Athlon optimised, customized kernel, on Woody, and kernel oopses

2001-08-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
c3 or an older gcc? This might also be 2.4.8 issues, I realize? Hope 2.4.9 makes it into Debian soon, or local mirror soon if it is already in Debian. Ideas? Thanks Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569

Re: SOLVED: Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-13 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
, ? This isn't really gnumeric's problem, is it? Rather, libgnomeprint-data should recommend the gsfonts package? Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpnEwtmFRJgH.pgp Description: PGP signature

SOLVED: Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-13 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
m? The solution: apt-get install gsfonts I think gnumeric should at least recommend this package, ? Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpb5M8xovHB5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
very helpful, though I think the person that filed #107797 has the same problem Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpJfXmYaQP2S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
tion on Sundays. It's wait and see... Thanks everyone, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgphMJTGLz5zl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
oted GNU/Linux again. The RTL shifted from IRQ 12 to 11, and the NE appears to work fine on IRQ 5. I guess the BIOS just configured the network card better than it was configured when it left it for GNU/Linux. Makes sense. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) ma

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install help? > No it doesn't, because the above file doesn't exist! ;^) I believe it does. At least on my system. Needs to be executed with perl. > Ack, anyone got a fix for this Gnumeric problem? I see there are a number of bug

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install help? Usage: run-gnome-font-install installer datadir srcdir What does it want as parameters? Hugo -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 60

gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
... Done Scanning directories: Done Sorting fonts... Done Sorting Type1 aliases... Done Building fonts... Done Something went wrong - NO FONTS atlantis:/home/hugo# What is gnome-font-install missing? Any ideas? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt

hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I.e. if lilo has no problems with it I can have lba32 in there anyway?) I also have "compact" in my lilo.conf, so that it boots a little faster. Is this hardware failure, or misconfiguration? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Erro

Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)

2001-08-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Tx descriptor 2 is 2000. Aug 8 22:22:52 baboon kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 2000. (queue head) Aug 8 22:22:52 baboon kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Any ideas? Thanks a lot, Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-re

Re: PS/2 mouse problems... IRQ conflict?

2001-07-02 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > 1st question: Are you also using gpm? Try turning that off and see if > problems persist. I have gpm running, but configured it to use only the serial mouse. (As I don't want to use the repeater, and ps/2 mouse cannot be used by both

PS/2 mouse problems... IRQ conflict?

2001-07-01 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
work, input hangs. Any ideas? I'd think this might be an IRQ conflict or something, except that /proc/interrupts seems to have nothing on IRQ 12 if the mouse isn't enabled. How can I debug this problem? What must I look at? Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe (A CC: will speed up re

modular kernels

2001-05-05 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
thing so far...) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe p.s. I'll appreciate a CC: -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgppZP2haaXCo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Try > > $ fuser -v /dev/dsp > > It'll show you the program that has currently opened the sound device. > > Most likely, you have 'esd' running as part of your Gnome session. > To fix, > > - run all your audio apps in ESound mode > - disable "Startup Sound Server" in your Gnome control p

Re: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Just have to mention, alsa appears to be working great. Still odd that the normal es1371 module doesn't work. Thanks anyway, Hugo On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:04:31PM +0200, hugo wrote: > A friend has a new PC (Athlon 900MHz) with a motherboard with onboard > "SoundBlaster PCI128" (or should I call

Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI - module loads, but no sound...

2001-05-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
works with the es1371 module...) - maybe I need to refine my searching techniques though... ;) Any ideas? Oh, and I'm using kernel 2.4.2.. I'm gonna try alsa now. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I'll appreciate a CC:. -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1

/dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
is. I also want to know out of pure interest. Any ideas? There's nothing obvious (at least to me at this point in time) in cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly}... I suppose I should try and find out exactly when this happens, but that will take a couple of days... as it doesn't happen daily.

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-22 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
up in 'dpkg --get-selections' at all. I was here referring to packages that have been removed, but not purged. They show up in --get-selections, and will be installed by these commands. All I was aiming to do was get the selections to match with the current state of the machine. I think the best way to go about his is sed'ing through the status file. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
full. > Personally, I think console apt should have some way of showing new packages. > if a package is marked 'new' and you have the sort order set to show new items > first, it would emulate dselect fairly well. If possible, this way should be avoidable if it makes console-apt any slower, I think. But personally, on my machine, I would also love to see this. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
have researched this properly: I haven't checked mailing lists for previous discussions, and haven't checked the BTS, so I apologize if this has already been discussed. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-14 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
rop the resolution to the best size, lock the mouse cursor into the window, and if possible, "position" the display correctly. Any ideas? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: network configuration - after install

2000-10-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
g to get the network configured: /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/network/interfaces... these files have all not been set up as necessary, and I think I may be missing a couple, which is why I'm looking for something similar to "pcnetconfig" (which is for pcmcia network cards). Than

network configuration - after install

2000-10-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
configured after a base install? (I'm considering going through the installation menu again.) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. Is /dev/cdrom created when the module is loaded, or some other time by some other script?

Re: pseudo-image kit: where to get binary-*.list

2000-09-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:16:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got them from http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev0/i386/ . > > Cheers > Matthias Thanks, Hugo

pseudo-image kit: where to get binary-*.list

2000-09-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
d time for web access today. Thanks. Hugo van der Merwe

gdk-imlib1 version

2000-08-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
mit a bug report. Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: Improper shutdown - weird results

2000-08-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, John Foster wrote: > Just a guess but did he have the filesystem mounted when he ran fsck :-) Aha, that could be... where else would he have found fsck? OK, so how does one go about running fsck without mounting root? I suppose that's supposed to be on a set of rescue disks,

Improper shutdown - weird results

2000-08-09 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
supposed to be? I'd think it simply uses the login name... Anyway, just sharing an "incomplete shutdown experience"... Hugo van der Merwe

SoundBlaster Vibra PCI 128

2000-07-27 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
), without recompiling the whole kernel. How does one go about doing this using make-kpkg, or does one have to use more "conventional" tools directly to be able to do this? Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I get the feeling most people (incl. me) have a habit of automatically CC:'ing t

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
ug" in the howto's? Also, that is IMHO the meanest part of the debian install - determining which network card module to load for a network install. (Doesn't linux autodetect this kind of thing once fully setup? Can this kind of functionality not be included in the installation disks?)) Hugo van der Merwe

Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hi, Anyone know if there is support for an Accton Cheetah PCI network card? I got stuck with the install when I had to load a module for the network card. (Network install.) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe (I'll appreciate a CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Bogus BogoMips with new kernel?

2000-07-24 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
to run 2.2.13, I think, or something around there), I get a bogomips rating of 240! This certainly looks bogus to me. Any ideas? Please ensure that replies are cc'ed to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), as I cannot handle all the traffic on debian-user (I rather go for debian-laptop). Thanks, Hugo va

Re: Funny format CD's...

2000-06-20 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
nse flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.017s timeout 480s Any ideas? Was my script messed up, or was this a freak occurance? I didn't notice anything strange while writing the tracks, except something about secsize being -1... Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe

Funny format CD's...

2000-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
acks to wave files... the last thing I can think of, is dumping the whole CD, and then cutting off the first part and possibly the last part, so that you'll only be left with track 7... Any ideas? Thanks Hugo van der Merwe

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
l if I use "apm -s" as root, but if I close the laptop display, it doesn't switch and it locks up... any ideas? Hugo van der Merwe

New HP Printers...?

2000-01-18 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
.upp" driver, maybe? Last but not least I noticed that the 500 filter makes use of djscript, but the 550 filter does not. I'd think it would be a good idea to make the 550 filter also make use of djscript, should I file a Severity:wishlist bug report? (BTW, I use a 560c at home, using th

Package differences - bla_all.deb vs. bla.deb

1999-10-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
e complete information. I will not mind a direct answer though. Thanks for the list's eagerness to help, Hugo van der Merwe

RE: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-10-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 30-Sep-99 Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to

Re: eth0: unknown interface...

1999-10-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
cable instead. I installed most of it by directly connecting the laptop hard drive to my desktop. Packages can be installed using chroot. The only thing that must be changed to make it work when it is in the laptop, is /etc/fstab, unless I missed something... Hugo van der Merwe

Re: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-10-04 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > > resulting .deb file. Everyt

pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
inserting it (one lowish, and one an octave higher). ) Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe ps. Please CC: replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it is the only way to be 100% certain that replies will reach me.

Re: eth0: unknown interface...

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
in > the kernel, but clearly it isn't. Or what modules must I load with > modprobe? As I just mentioned, I think the pcmcia card isn't properly configured/initialised. Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe -- ps. Please ensure replies are also sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I do

eth0: unknown interface...

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
probe? Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe -- ps. Please ensure replies are also sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I do not subscribe to the mailing list, and I mistrust the news server I read the list through.

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How can I install the debian "base" system to another hard drive in the > > same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and > > would like

Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
top's hard drive to my Debian machine, using an adapter. There must be some way to install Debian to this hard drive, using my desktop machine. How can I do this? Will the normal install-from-dos-partition procedure work? Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I would appreciate if replies

Installing Debian to different hard disk

1999-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
top's hard drive to my Debian machine, using an adapter. There must be some way to install Debian to this hard drive, using my desktop machine. How can I do this? Will the normal install-from-dos-partition procedure work? Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I would appreciate if replies

dselect and contrib/non-free - DWN-6/22

1999-06-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
should not be between comm and devel, but rather be apart from main. Same thing for non-free. Just another thought, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-17 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > having ALL: ALL in hosts.deny and ALL: 192.168.1.* in hosts.allow worked > > perfectly. hosts.allow was supposed to override hosts.deny. When did this > > change? >

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
hiding behind them, I now have to worry about my own security. What do most people place in their hosts.allow and hosts.deny files? Hugo van der Merwe

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
e ftp/telnet problem, but I think it solved another problem that crept up today. Hugo van der Merwe

Re: Configuring exim (or rather fetchmail and procmail)

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
r of any characters). Debian-Changes - file matching mail in this folder. If a mail message matches no recipies, it is filed in $DEFAULT, which is, by default, $ORGMAIL, which is, by default, /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME. See man procmailrc for more info. (And man fetchmail (not man fetchmailrc).) HTH someone, Hugo van der Merwe

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
my sound problems back in my 2.0 days. Hugo van der Merwe

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
ed nearly all packages under "Standard". (As well as "Req" and "Imp".) inetd is running. (Don't know if it is configured correctly though...) This is the output I get: # telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. # Thanks for your replies, Hugo van der Merwe

ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
when I installed kernel 2.2.7. I think it was the latter though. My hosts.allow and .deny files stayed the same, and I can still telnet from this machine to others. (Not to itself.) Any ideas? TIA, Hugo van der Merwe

Too many posts for my mailbox

1999-06-13 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
emporarily unsubsribe from this mailing list, until I find an alternate solution. TIA, Hugo van der Merwe