Re: Debian kernel & VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) > > vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). > > > just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the > kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade > to 2.1. > > When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: > "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.." > > and halts. When I try to repair the problems using d

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under > CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it > yet. > > My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use > the branch sy

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things. I'd like > to hear about some other ways. I've toyed with the idea of using CVS, > archiving /etc and making a local package. Slightly related, I'm also > looking for ways to quickly clone a sy

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, > > and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can > > anyone recommend a particular board? > > Not right

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, John Krueger wrote: > >From personal experience with that particular board, I highly recommend > spending a few extra dollars and purchase a different motherboard, sound and > video card. The PC100 boards use the SiS5xx series chipset, with SiS530 > video and a more or less ge

Re: keyboard repeat rate

2000-01-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? > Because when I start X and end my X session I observe the following: > when I press some key I must wait a while to get any character on the screen. > Then the keyboard echos the characters normal

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

2000-01-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: > I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new > harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, > with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem > was the BIOS, so I upgraded that t

Re: read-only file system

1999-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > >mount > /dev/sda11 on /usr type ext2 (ro) > > > To change to read/write see the man page for mount. > did it, now i have remounted. I should check fstab file > before I down the machine just to make sure it is not > mounted with 'ro' again. Act

Re: read-only file system

1999-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > I can't create dir in /usr/doc area. I get: > > genome:/usr/doc# mkdir test > mkdir: cannot make directory `test': Read-only file system > genome:/usr/doc# Probably because /usr was mounted readonly. Try: mount and see if this is true. To cha

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has > a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/Rea

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > now I tried something else > I set my password to a 9 characters one > lets say "poipoipoi" which is 9 charaters > you can type "poipoipoi" followed by anything... you just get in as > well... I believe that, by default, the library function cryp

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had > > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine > > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older t

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on > > Where is this bugs page? http://bugs.debian.org/modutils In particular, see Bug#47830.

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
st be set. See attachment which is the response I gave earlier today. -- Jean Pierre From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 01:23:52 1999 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: modprobe errors again

Re: modprobe errors again

1999-10-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and > again I get the modprobe errors below: > > Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep This is a know bug in

Re: Linux/NT dual booting

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote: > i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is > this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat > match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT There's a Linux HOWTO

Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find > GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*. -- Jean Pierre

Re: Remote Login

1999-09-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, j way wrote: > Hi, login from ttyS1 is rejected while the same username & > password are accepted on the main console. Is there some > further permission required to enable? You may need to edit the file /etc/login.access. See the man page login.access(5). -- Jean Pierre

Re: lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: > I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat > file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup > correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says "no daemon > present". I do a lpc up all and it says

Re: cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Davis wrote: > I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the > same two numbers. What does this mean? This is the output from the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib file. I've fixed this in the potato release of cracklib-runtime so you could try installin

Re: read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Wood wrote: > I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make > most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How > can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be > helpful. I went down this route

Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote: > The dosemu source packages have "orig" and "diff" in their names. How do > these packages work together? There are several files that work together to form an overall package. The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian package from the o

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use > non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to > change their passwords and so the checking done by executing > /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of "dict

Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...

1999-06-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: > I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to > a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was > wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? this is not > normally a problem, but I am try

Re: Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > I have Debian running on my SONY VAIO and it works like a > dream. Only thing I am missing is the APM support. I downloaded > the kernel source package, etc. and I am getting ready to > compile the kernel with APM support. > > I would like to keep my sys

Re: TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 4 Jun 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, > telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and > worked before. It's the classic problem: > > In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) > > ALL: 127.0.0.

Upgrade of sp and sgml packages breaks validation

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
My recent upgrade of potato's sgml and sp packages broke the validation of HTML 4.0 documents. When I try validating a file known to be valid: nsgmls -s -c /usr/lib/sgml/catalog index.html I receive many errors along the line: nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/entities/HTMLsymbol:24:27:E: "402" is

Re: PCMCIA broken after apt-get upgrade

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pat O'Brien wrote: > I have a Toshiba 2535 laptop, with a minimal Potato - X - Gnome install. > I got audio, ppp, and pcmcia going and decided to upgrade the whole > kitten caboodle to the latest stuff, so I apt-get updated, and apt-get > upgraded. When I rebooted, the kernel n

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was > "10baseT" but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no > trouble. :) Yes, no problems. In fact, I use the car

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I > have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC > working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on I've been using the potato release fo

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-04-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 29 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and > somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a > fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime? It has been fixed and uploaded to potato. There has since been

Re: web link checker

1999-03-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, > > but it is in unstable. Cheers. > > So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html > or, a slightly

Re: Linux drivers ?: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD)

1999-03-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Roy, Purna wrote: > Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other > settings for this ? Check out the following site. It works well for my Dell Inspiron notebook which uses this chip with 8 Mbytes memory, not so well with the version that has 4 Mby

Re: debian <- NFS -> Solaris

1999-02-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, File Server Admin wrote: > does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility > between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? > Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. > Problems are: > - mailx and elm hang, > - tar and make demonstrat

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). > And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I > didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but > now after doing the

Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers > til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a > notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook > manufacturers tend to allow for

Re: What does this mean?

1999-02-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: > I get this message every day. What does it mean? > > -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) > From: root (Anacron) > > > 45375 45375 This is a bug in t

Debian network consultant desired in MA

1999-01-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
-term support. Anyone interested should email me directly. Thanks, -- Jean Pierre LeJacq CTO Quoin Inc 1208 MASSACHUSETTS AVE STE 3 CAMBRIDGE MA 02138 voice: 617.492.6461 fax: 617.492.6861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > > passwords as the users set them. > > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. > > Please tell

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of > passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. > > I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' > passwords. There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that i

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 21 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. > > > partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS > > partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory > > How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) > about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ > > >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. > > Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. > > >It needs

Re: NFS and Solaris 2.5

1999-01-19 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Matt Delaney wrote: > I am running a Debian 2.0 on a i686. It functions as an NFS server to > a number of other Debian i686 machines and a SPARC Solaris 2.5 machine. > I think the SPARC is crashing the nfsd on the Debian server and it > typically occurs when I copy very large

Re: cracklib's cron emails.

1999-01-18 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Sergey Imennov wrote: Hi Sergey, I wasn't able to read the body of your message but I'm guessing your asking about the emails from cracklib cron. This is a known bug that I'm working on fixing. Till then you simply have to rediret the output of the cracklib utilities to /de

Re: help wanted for kernel install

1999-01-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, now I cd to linux and I'm in 2.0.36. This seems right to me, >but I must still missing something, because make menuconfig >produces the following errors: > >debian:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include

Re: new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...

1998-12-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I > just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. > I get the error message : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo > First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signatu

Re: pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?

1998-11-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: > i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after > resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after > resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not > there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia re

Re: Unresolved symbols on networking modules

1998-11-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: > I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I > can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip > masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it > up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules. > T

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful > > description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? > > > >Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: > > that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is > > this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have > > a /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (which I think should probably be a link to > > /usr/lib/netsc

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > -- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > > > > > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > > > following message: > > &

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > following message: > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: > 45375 45375 > > Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing > me with those two numbers, and neither do the crackl

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

1998-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like > this: > > if (x) > { > x = 0; > } > > But I want it to look like this: > > if (x) > { > x = 0; > } > > How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu bu

Re: pine warning

1998-09-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > So I finally cobbled pine 4.05 together...except now it keeps giving me a > "Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection". I don't know > which directory it's talking about and what exact permissions it wants... I assume its talking about: /v

Re: some questions

1998-09-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > The Debian source of pine 4.05 is available in project/experimental, > under the source directory. It should compile cleanly in a Debian 2.0 > system. I still use pine 3.96, because I consider it more stable. Could you elaborate on what problems

Re: xemacs

1998-09-23 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote: > Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue. > Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font) > but when push tab so indent the line I get this message: > > External entity html not fount > Public identifie

Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm

1998-09-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to > 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of > this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my > /usr/local and /etc and t

new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles

1998-07-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in lockfile management. The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing the daemon instead of the group "mail". This causes a problem since I currently have the spool d

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > > the one included in 2.0.33 (which

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Eric House wrote: > I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files > with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 > _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that > distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by

Re: Linux NFS question

1998-07-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in > linux until 2.1.5? > > Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to > mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the > linux box.

Re: NFS/Network locking available?

1998-06-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris > machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about > network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking > supported in hamm? If so, how

Re: "LI" when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Roark wrote: > I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution > anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and > freeze at "LI". What how-to do I read to find the fix? There's a problem with your lilo configuration. Take a l

Re: 3c905b

1998-05-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 28 May 1998, William D. Rendahl wrote: > How do I set up a 3Com 3c905b (Cyclone?) NIC at 100Mbps on Bo? Use the 3c59x driver. The Ethernet-HOWTO and NET-3-HOWTO will help. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: is pam linux specific?

1998-05-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > that's the question... No. At least Solaris uses it as well. I believe Sun was the primary developer of pam. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid question for the day

1998-05-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I > find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in > /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I > set one up I did it manually and would lik

Re: Ethernet Problems

1998-05-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 9 May 1998, jscogin wrote: > I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address > and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring > the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0 > driver is not loaded and it sa

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good > >reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"? > > only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does > some checking before saving the file,

Re: Object-Oriented Database

1998-04-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> Does anyone know of an object-oriented database that uses the odmg c++ > bindings and run under Linux. I have been using poet and o2, but from > what I can tell they have no Linux version available. I only know of texas. It is an oo database but uses a model similar to ObjectStore and not the

Re: pgp

1998-04-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it > complains that it can't find the package pgp. > > Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based distribution. Go to www.debian

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there > any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon > after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree > when running it from the fvwm* menus

Re: dwww and dhttpd??

1998-03-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing > the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly more security minded

Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

1998-03-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > 1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? Yes. > 2) Are there different ones to get? Quite a few: RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, ... > 3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for > user-friendliness? What are it

Re: pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols

1998-03-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. > > I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and > installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules > however if I insmod the precompil

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

1998-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: > Thanks, > > It was in the modules file. > I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs > I have. > There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory. > > I am beginning to realise that debian linux is

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

1998-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: > I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they > were not needed. > I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make > modules_install, and copied the zImage file to /boot and created a symbolic > pointer /vmli

Re: where is libext2fs.so.2

1998-03-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: > Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining > about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. e2fslibsg -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is > supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for > linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS > locking among linux and ot

Re: Out of PTTY's

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script > program I get a message saying "out of PTTY's" and the program aborts. > Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. You may be using all your available pseudo-t

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times > on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the > expected LILO: > What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? This is the boot loader provid

Re: diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier > regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available > and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it > if someone would *PLease* take a few

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI > > > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that > >

Re: ethernet card (hamm)

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except > the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that > my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? > > `ifconfig eth0' has the right I

Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. > > > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) > > From: root (Cron Daemon) > > To: root > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > > >

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that > I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. > > After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've > come

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: > to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my > pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried > to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: > >/lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol > > i

Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of explaining the basics. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: > > To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: > > Network firewalls > IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? > IP: f

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port

1998-02-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX > motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together > on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the > case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port:

Re: Using 100Mbit ethernet with Debian 1.3.1??

1998-02-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joergen Haegg wrote: > We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system. > None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net, > ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'. > > This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905. We've been using the 3c905

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > >On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > > >>Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to > >> incorporate Star Office 4? > > > >If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an > >entry for st

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to > incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need

Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable > > system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 > > which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in > > converting the rpm files to deb files

Re: CDE

1998-02-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: > > > Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. > > Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). > > CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > > > Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and > > > that's the connection that's taking so long. If yo

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a > > timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated > > many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just w

Re: Installing Netscape

1998-01-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by > a bus error. > > It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of > the buttons don't have images. Which X server are you running? I had problems running t

Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of | this. | | What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make | the browser better? | | 2. What features would you add to the browser? I'd like the abili

Re: Network Problem

1998-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Uros Platise wrote: > The only work marvin will do is routing between > Packet Radio network and home (local) network. > After setting the network configuration files I can > ping my working machine (called ide) from marvin. > And I can also ping marvin from ide. NFS is also >

Re: super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its > > logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to > > a file works. Here

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