konqueror can't handle html ?

2000-11-27 Thread Lehel Bernadt
When I click on a html file in konqueror or try to use it as a browser, I get an error dialog saying: "There appears to be a misconfiguration. You have associated konqueror with text/html, but it can't handle this file type." Hmmm ?

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 29-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > >> Description: dpkg -s pacakge >> List all files:dpkg -L pacakge >> list all packages: dpkg -l > > So, does that mean apt-get's cache is shared with dpkg then? I > thought

Re: superformat?

2000-09-27 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Sep-2000 Felix Natter wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Michael Soulier writes: >> > Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2 >> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux >> > manpage... >> >> FAT16 is a pretty

Re: OT: IRC & the ~

2000-09-24 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: >> Running a vanilla identd is a Bad Thing IMHO. It helps attackers >> identify >> usernames and find out under what UIDs daemons are running (eg. if >> sendmail >> is running as root). > > Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC server wants

RE: OT: IRC & the ~

2000-09-23 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: > Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed? > I cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden. > When I had deb installed on another system I somehow picked up identd and > I was not listed as ~ in name so

Re: Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 23-Sep-2000 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? >> > there was a big discussion about this about half a year ago. maybe you > want to look at the archives. > > i reject these packets and it works. > if some server denies you access because of this, you

RE: ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 20-Sep-2000 Tommy Wu wrote: > Hi! > >I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box. >But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something > failed. > >Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb. > > === cut start === > isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... > isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug

RE: ssh, gethostbyname, and hosts.deny, oh my!

2000-09-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Sep-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [...] > Sometimes ssh works. Sometimes it doesn't: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ ssh lists > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > ...maybe 1 of 4 attempts succeeds. > > On the host, in /var/auth.log, I see: > >

RE: sound interrupts

2000-09-10 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 10-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. How do I raise the priority of the interrupt that the > soundcard is on so that music doesn't "stutter" during heavy disk > operations? Use irqtune from the hwtools package.

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-09-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 01-Sep-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote: [...] > pr> I know but it seemed to be a different problem. I did a usermod -G > pr> floppy after I had done the audio and that removed me from the audio > pr> group. I misunderstood the functionality of usermod -G :-) > > A common mistake--that's why I s

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Aug-2000 Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] > I stumbled onto this yesterday for the first time. While the login went OK > (what happens with a mixed--UC and lc--password?) Nothing strange. Just type the password as you would at a lower case passwd prompt, and you'll be logged in.

RE: Sending mail via exim: spooky....

2000-08-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Dear debian-users > > I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account > on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at. > I

RE: Anyone know who owns this gateway?

2000-08-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Aug-2000 Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That gateway is flooding the list with duplicates. Does anyone know who > owns it so we can get ahold of them to tell them to shut down the gateway? I > tried mailing to tha

Re: Pointing Device

2000-08-24 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 23-Aug-2000 Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > Geez, maybe somebody should write a mouse howto or something. (just kidding > isn't that what the XFree86-HOWTO is for?) There actually is a 3-button-mouse mini-howto. My mouse problem was that I set it up as microsoft in XF86Setup, and the middle button

RE: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of > desired sma

RE: man is using gxditview

2000-08-20 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 19-Aug-2000 John Bagdanoff wrote: > When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode > this is not nice. > > I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't > found how to change it back to using less. > > Any ideas? As root run "update-alternatives

RE: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 19-Aug-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > what's the command for removing user accts? userdel

RE: X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 18-Aug-2000 Trevor Ramoutar wrote: > So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation > I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get: > > Fatal Server Error: > Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory) > > and I don't know what to do! Help! You should con

RE: xdm init level question

2000-08-17 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 17-Aug-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may > be a "oh no, not this again" question); maybe someone can put the > rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching > the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

2000-08-14 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 14-Aug-2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: > The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) There are xfree 4.0.1 debian packages (very experimental, though) available at http://www.debian.org/~branden/.

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

2000-08-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: (...) > What happens by default when all memory and swap file is exhausted? > I would like to know that. Must it be that system crashes or that > it denies every use of my computer? At first, nothing. But when a daemon or other running program tries to malloc so

RE: sound card

2000-08-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 11-Aug-2000 cam wrote: > hello, > > I've tried unsuccessfully to get my Aureal sound card (8810 chipset) to > work. When I attempt to install the drivers I get the following error: > > make install AUCHIP=AU8810 > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/au88xx-1.0.5' > mv -f /etc/modules.conf

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li

2000-08-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 11-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: >> > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: >> > >> > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian

Re: /etc/environment

2000-08-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 11-Aug-2000 Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > which man page do i need to learn more about the LANG and LC_LANG > variables? is there a comperhensive list of env variables? - man [1|5|7] locale. - the "Locales" chapter in the glibc manual Usable variables are in /etc/locale.alias and the directory nam

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 10-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0400, David Teague wrote: >> >> On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape >> versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to >> 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your har

RE: Mutt locale settings [Was: Re: /etc/environment]

2000-08-10 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 10-Aug-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Since mutt was the only program that doesn't display these characters > correctly, I searched the mutt mailing list archives. I still don't > understand why unsetting LANG solves my problem, because the correct fix > is to set LC_CTYPE to an appropriate v

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li

2000-08-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: > > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7, > and Win-98, (and BeOS till recently): > >a) Create a separate partition, (Type of partition msdos or vfat

RE: /etc/environment

2000-08-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 09-Aug-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hi, > > I was having trouble with the display of special characters in mutt when > logged in using ssh, and I found that the LANG environment variable is > the culprit. > > When I use mutt from an xterm, special characters like ë, é, § for > example are

RE: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello there, > > I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, > which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is > working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot > from harddisk, and

RE: autofs question

2000-08-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 03-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount > points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to > them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an > xterm, or from within an applica

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, >> and zip programs are all installed. > > Inter

RE: FAT32 issues

2000-08-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 01-Aug-2000 Matthew D Davis wrote: > Hello all, > > I have my system setup to dual boot win2k and Debian 2.3. I would like to be > able to access my large fat32 partition from both OSes. Whenever I mount the > drive from the prompt or out of fstab (options are default,user, > error=read-only

RE: MC

2000-07-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 31-Jul-2000 Christopher Clark wrote: > As an ex Rred Hat user, my midnight commander left me in the current working > directory when I F10 out of it. The Debian version dumps me back to > the original directory. Is there any way to convert my Debian potato MC > to the redhat style? > regards

RE: dhelp problem

2000-07-30 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 30-Jul-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > I have used dhelp for a while in a standalone woody box, and all > worked fine. Now I've installed apache and glimpse (to use the > search feature)... And things seemed to stop working: > > After installing apache, glimpse, and reins

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > Yes but what I'm wondering is not why linux users recompile their kernels, > or why windows users can't, but how is it that windows users get away with > not having to? The closest answer I got is that windows kernels have > a bunch of drivers already compil

RE: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote: > I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog: > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 > > now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this > error to stop? It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute. > > Any help would greatly b

RE: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Debians, > > I goofed up a little while ago and connected two SCSI devices with the > same ID. I've cleaned up the mess, but now I have a number of files > in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! > > Typical output of ls -l on

RE: combining unused space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . > > IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that > was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into > files. There's about 80

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: >> > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead >> > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of >> > the login prompt. :) > >> Press ^V the

Re: reread inetd.conf

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Hi Richard, > > The man page say you can send it a SIGHUP signal to have it reread its > configuration file... > > I think its... kill -s SIGUP pid where pid is the process id you get by > ps aux | grep inetd Wouldn't be more simple & elegant kill -H

Re: cannot talk with AT modem

2000-07-24 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 24-Jul-2000 Tomasz Barszczak wrote: > Well, too soon to be happy. > cron runs periodically rmmod -a . > Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded: > Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > tty01 at 0x02f8

Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.

2000-07-23 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 22-Jul-2000 adam b. wrote: > isapnptools works okay, probably. > > I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten > them actually working before giving up. > > Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know > free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memo

RE: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 17-Jul-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called >

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to >> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: >> >> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. >> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote: >>If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one >>of those partitions empty, > > Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the > earlier generations? What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh.. The 8 GB limit applies o

RE: Making new "/dev" entries

2000-07-07 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: > So it sounds like there are files containing > pre-defined information for making /dev entries. > I would therefore conclude that it knows that > "lp3" would be a printer port and configures > it accordingly. > > That helps immensely, thank you > > I wou

RE: DRIVERS

2000-07-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 06-Jul-2000 JOHN G BROPHY wrote: > Hi. > Can you please supply me with a web site address so that I can download a > driver for ESS1688 PLUG AND PLAY. > > JOHN BROPHY > These cards are supported by both OSS

RE: permissions

2000-06-15 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 15-Jun-2000 Johann Spies wrote: > I have the following file in /lost+found: > > br-xr-srw- 1 4462 25959147, 103 Jul 25 2019 #1355791 > > Can somebody explain the following to me please: > > 1. The meaning of 'b' in the permissions. > 2. The group end owner of the file > 3. Why thi

RE: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Jun-2000 Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim" fails.

RE: Documentation for the Xlib

2000-06-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 05-Jun-2000 Sven Garbade wrote: > Dear List, > > I want to port some old DOS-programs to Linux. The programs produce > simple graphics like filled circles, moving rectangles etc. I´ve take a > look in the xscreensaver sources, but I would find it very helpful, if > there´s an overview about th

RE: Debian 'crashes'

2000-06-02 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 02-Jun-2000 Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > Already several times happened to me the following: > When I use a few memory eating programs like Netscape and dselect > together, by whole computer freezes for a long time (10 minutes or so) > and I don't see another way out then simply turning it o

OT: dial-up -> leased line

2000-05-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
Hi folks, I'm thinking on switching from a dial-up connection to a leased line. Is there anything special my modem (3com usr 56k ext) has to know to do this (ie. to deal with the differences between a normal telephone line and the leased one) ? TIA, Lehel

RE: Problem with rescue disks

2000-05-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-May-2000 Shane Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency > recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am > having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as > restore(8). When I chroot

Re: Another package installation problem

2000-05-27 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 27-May-2000 Craig McPherson wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:42:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: >> >> Update the dpkg package and that error should go away (though methinks >> there would be quotes around the string "System V ..."). >> > > Thanks... but I'm using the latest version of

RE: Sound Question

2000-05-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > I am trying to setup a SoundBlaster16 sound card, I have recomplied the > kernel for sound and pnp support. Now I see the howto is telling me to: > > Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug and Play > devices, saving the result to the file

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-21 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 21-May-2000 w trillich wrote: > Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> >> * "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 >> >> w> hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke >> w> equivalences? >> >> Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-) >> >> Maybe it is

RE: trouble changing time regions

2000-05-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 18-May-2000 Nick wrote: > i am having a difficult time changing from CEST to PDT/PST > > i have tried the following > > date --set="Thur May 18 00:00:00 PDT 2000" > > but get Thur May 18 00:00:00 CEST 2000 > > can't get rid of it, it is stuck from the install! > > thankx for the tips You

RE: changing default shells

2000-05-18 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 18-May-2000 Nick wrote: > i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH > > thankx Use chsh.

Re: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-16 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 16-May-2000 Brad wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> >> No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get >> only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of >> depend

RE: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 15-May-2000 David E. Young wrote: > Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux > user/administrator (mostly RedHat). > > I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went > flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an > upgrade to the upc

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-05-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > etc. etc. > > > any ideas? > Read the XFree86 FAQ ! The most possible case is that you've chosen the wrong

Re: Install Linux on Win98 computer

2000-05-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 05 May 2000, Jason Dodd wrote: > Hello all, > Newbie here, I've installed Debian at home and would now like to install > Debian on a separate partition on my work computer. Win98 is currently > loaded on the first 2 Gb's of the drive, the remaining 1 Gb is currently > free space. I

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Brian May wrote: > For me, the problem with Windows is you have to think when thinking > should not be required. Take for instance, autoexec.bat. > > I know a Windows computer, that whenever it starts, it flashes up > with the message "Bad command or filename" for a few second

Re: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

2000-05-02 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 02 May 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > 2. Where can I find out to which device (if it is a device it refers > to) a number like 16:05 in the error message above refers. I have > looked at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, but do not get a > clear answer on this. 16h=22, so look in /us

Re: samba's /etc/samba/cmb.conf -- empty?

2000-04-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > of course, since apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade didn't install > everything (or download everything, for that matter) i don't know > why i insist on thinking that apt-get install somepkg would include > the pertinences relating to that package. it doe

Re: OT: Help! I need emacs html mode

2000-04-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote: > I have almost everything important working now from my switch last week > from RH to potato. While I can't say that it's been painless, I have > learned some things, which, I s'pose is good for the soul, or something. > > So, one of my two major remai

Re: syslog

2000-04-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog > files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and > recreate them? Yes, you can delete & recreate them, but do not forget to send a SIGHUP

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify > depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your > examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies. Huh...download the source too ? You can edit the

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote: > I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was > wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux > distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning > to customize and modify it, but ha

Re: Linux Installation

2000-04-22 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, college pc wrote: > > Dear, Sir > How are you ... > I have 4 CD's , 2 Binary & 2 source of Debian Linux 2.1r2 . I try to install > it. > > 1- I ask about applications, are they included in these 3 other cd's or not.? The "GNU/Linux operating sytem" = the kernel + OS spec

Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. > If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet > range. OK, here is what I got: > > Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box,

RE: no wonder...

2000-04-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Why don't you debianize the package or create a fake one that provides the > > debian-package equivalent of what you locally installed ? > > Ah, I should have known there is a proper way to do this. This had briefly > occured to me, but I've neve

RE: no wonder...

2000-04-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > What I don't like about apt/dselect is how they treat packages locally > compiled from source tarball. I couldn't find an option to really ignore > dependencies and do what I say. > > Specifically, if I want "esound-alsa" but have compiled the ALSA

Re: xfstt question

2000-04-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, john smith wrote: > I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both > as root and user accounts) > $fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or > xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to verify them us

Re: qmail error

2000-04-07 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, john smith wrote: > hi, > when I try to install qmail after building it I get the error: > > green:/tmp/qmail# dpkg -i qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 28966 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking qmail (from qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb) ... > Perform

Re: zip-util w/ disk-spanning

2000-04-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote: > Hi deb's > Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks? > I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for > one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop... > thx > Vitux I'd suggest rar.

Re: suidmanager - error

2000-04-05 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Bill wrote: > *** > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered > but not installed at /etc/suid.conf line 7 > *** > > can someone please tell me how

Re: redirect hidden output to screen...?

2000-04-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Jeff Gordon wrote: > I have a li'l program I wrote, Mail-Penguin, that retrieves mail for us > from our POP box on the web -- it's a home-brewed 'fetchmail', sort of. > > Normally it sends informational messages to the screen -- but now I > have it being launched by diald's ip

Re: trying to install mozilla

2000-04-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Attila Csosz wrote: > I tried to run mozilla M14 but I got the followin error messages.. > > ./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Running locate: I have.. > > /usr/lib/li

Re: unlink or kernel error?

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under > slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program: > > #define RUN "/tmp/.rem.run" > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > main() > { > open(R

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > > > What kind of boot disk do you have : > > ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? > > What is its configuration ? > > I understand that you use the same disk for debian & s

Re: Make/makefiles

2000-04-01 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can > find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive. > > I have a small project with 3 source code files, and I don't want to compile > all of the

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-03-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an > old SUSE last > night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with > that > distribution. > > I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sig

Re: makeinfo

2000-03-31 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > Hi there, > > I was experimenting some new things here and I decided to try to > build binary packages from the source ones (to get benefit from > compiling them with pgcc instead of the regular gcc) and, although I > suceeded to do that with

Re: kde Window Manager

2000-03-21 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager > > > > i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following > > > > exec currently set to wmaker > > > > what do i specify for KDE? > > > kwm > That's a wrong answer. You should d

Re: Making the "Windows" key work

2000-03-20 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote: > Can someone explain (or point me to the correct > documentation for) the procedure for making the > Windows key pop up the start menu for the kde, fvwm or > icewm desktops? > To do something useful with the winkeys you must ensure that they are mapped t

Re: Is the following part of /etc/security/access.conf?

2000-03-19 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > I have managed to mv files that I did not meant to. Can someone tell me if > the > following is part of /etc/security/access.conf? > > [03:49:10 /tmp]$ cat /etc/security/access.conf > #%PAM-1.0 > auth required pam_unix_auth.so > accountrequ