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Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
This is my route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 213.250.143.240 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 00 eth0 172.16.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 172.16.16.0 0.0.0.0

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
to be onest, I have no idea where SNMP is used for, but I read in the docs that mrtg is able to work without extra snmp installations. I just want the traffic on eth0 measured. snmp = simple network management protocol, mrtg uses it to gather network load information. you need to install snmpd

Re: Apache and Caps

2002-09-24 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Is there anyway to tell Apache to ignore Caps? > > try mod_speling, see documentation in apache-doc package. hope this helps. pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Mark T. Valites wrote: > How about shells other than bash? > > Is there a shell independant way of doing this? > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: i browsed a solaris sh man page, and i didn't find anything like $'...'. you can probably use something like $ ls > list then edit th

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Mark T. Valites wrote: > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are > not literal question marks, but just represent an

Re: how long does stuff in /var/tmp stick around?

2002-09-06 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Dan Jacobson wrote: > I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily > power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody > configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's > some cleaner program that is going to come along every 1/2 a year > etc. when I

Re: can't delete a file

2002-09-04 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I created a file as root and chown it to a common account, then su to > that account, trying to delete it as that account but failed. Any idea? > this is one of the most problems for unix newbies... basically, when you remove a file you don't modify it, b

Re: dpkg "status" file lost

2002-06-28 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jerome Warnier wrote: After a powerloss, I lost also all dpkg info, including the "status" file. Could someone help me get it back to work? I'm far, far away from the machine, which rebooted nicely (some libraries were also lost, though), but I'd like to reinstall all those libraries which may

Re: man or info?

2002-06-20 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. Paul apt-get install pinfo or if you have apache installed apt-get install info2www hope this helps pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Setting system time on startup

2002-06-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, What is the advantage to keep the clock on GMT? it keeps your system simpler and cleaner. believe me, it's worth it! for instance, linux needs the bios clock on gmt, so adjusts it at boot and at shutdown. if you don

Re: Setting system time on startup

2002-06-05 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Ian D. Stewart wrote: Howdy Folks, Right now, when booting my linux box, the system clock is off by four hours (I'm guessing it is set to GMT). I can reset the clock using date, but this is starting to get a bit tedious. Is there a way to automate this process and/or convince Linux to set t

Re: Locale Q:

2002-06-04 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jeff Johnson wrote: So... locale gives: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= what happens if you set LC_CT

Re: Locale Q:

2002-06-03 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jeff Johnson wrote: I am getting these messages with all sorts of gnome apps. Can anyone point me to info on locals or better yet anyone have some hints? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-terminal Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modi

Re: Man page output

2002-05-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place... you already got good answers to your question, but if you need the

Re: vfat and samba

2002-05-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Stefano D'Ubaldi wrote: Hello everyone!! I migrated to debian 2.2r5 from windows98 preserving the original vfat filesystem ; then I installed samba 2.0.8 in order to share this filesystem with other users in the network for read-write access; it works fine but whenever the win9x clients create

Re: getting disconnected from a mounted smbfs

2002-05-23 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Dayalan Manohar wrote: > After getting disconnected from a mounted smbfs I find that I am > not able to unmount it and df hangs when I try to check if it's > still mounted.How to gracefully handle getting disconnected from a > mounted smbfs?Is there any special mount option for this?IIRC nfs > has

Re: chmod

2002-05-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Daniel D Jones (by way of Daniel D Jones ) wrote: I've been using Linux for awhile but every thing I know is self taught. That means I know some things quite well and am abysmally ignorant in other areas. Hopefully, this question isn't too stupid. Or maybe it'll give you a good laugh and you'll

Re: apt/dpkg problem

2002-04-27 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Peter Parkes wrote: > After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now > having problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable > to parse status file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1). it happened a few times to me too. i was usually able to solve it by editing /var/lib/dpkg/s

Re: SOS

2002-04-22 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Luigi Rolatti wrote: > Ho necessità di sapere come entrare col login > > (eventualmente con quale comando per bypassarlo) poichè non mi > accetta il login e pw inseriti all'installazione > > ho installato i due cd della versione Linux Debian 2.2r5 > > Grazie per la risposta > > Luigi nessuno dei

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Keith G. Murphy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, is there any software that can interact with Access? If you're thinking about doing some lightweight work with Access from Linux, and it's OK for it to be Perl-based, you might w

Re: Was: Unix(LF) files to MSDOS(CRLF) and vice versa

2002-04-09 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi, On 9 Apr 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:42, Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi ! How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the "\n" character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be the right tool, but I can't figur

Re: rawrite2

2002-04-03 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
fti International wrote: Hello all, When I use rawrite2 to wirte root.bin to a floppy, the resulting floppy contains files with their names corrupted, not readable at all. I did this from the Dos box within Win98, by double-clicking on the rawrite icon, and even reboot my PC into MS-DOS mode.

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

2002-04-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Chapman, Matt wrote: Hi, I would like to know if anyone has something that will work for debian in the following scenario. I build a server with Debian on it as well as a filter (url) and squid for caching. I ship the box. The customer has a hardware issue and replaces bad drive etc. Then ne

Re: XFree86 and NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-03-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Anna Lindgren wrote: > >Hi, > I'm a totally fresh user to Debian, have tried Red Hat before, but > wanted to try out Debian instead, but I seem not to be able to install > the Xserver. I have a NVidia GeForce 2 MX graphics card, which is not > supported in Xfree86-3.3.6 that is included in my

Re: Xfree 4.1 on potato

2002-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I'm trying to install Xfree 4.10-14 onto an otherwise > (reasonably) stock potato machine but am having a problem with a > dependancy. you can find XFree86 4.x debs compiled for potato here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ i installed them yesterday, it worked quite well. follow the instr

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2002-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I used to download Bunk's stuff to get kernel 2.4.x. bunk's packages are still available: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main > Now where can I find the deb packages with, for instance, kernel > 2.4.18 (is out isn't it?)? i usually download them using the forms at http://www.deb

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > THX > Ines xterm -e ssh -X :-) really, it's hard to me to understand what exactly should do a gui for ssh. maybe you need a way to launch gui apps via ssh? if so, you just need the -X switch. pietro.

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
George Karaolides wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > George Karaolides wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > > > > > Best

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > Best regards, > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. pietro.

Re: Wood + squid problems at some hosts.

2002-03-06 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
hanasaki wrote: > > I am running Wood with Squid and Kernel 2.4.17 If I NAT port 80 I can > browse the following sites. If I run IE or Mozilla from Win2000 through > the squid proxy, the connection times out. > www.sun.com > www.nvida.com. easy try: is the proxy box natted? can

(OT) Re: ma esistono donne che usano debian?????

2002-03-05 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> ma esistono anche donne che usano debian??? > mi riferisco a eleonora. > che magnifica sorpresa. parità dei sessi e open source. > questa è la filosofia giusta > libertà ovunque. il mondo sta cambiando! > anche i bambini molto presto useranno linux (approximate) translati

Re: anacron

2002-03-01 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm using anacron on my router (just an old 486) and everytime anacron is > running a job, it's hard to do anything else with it (e.g. takes about 5 > seconds or so just to get a login prompt and it takes a minute or more to get > a small internet site). I

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

2002-03-01 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Great! Thank-you. Now my kernel actually boots. :-) I do have one other > weird problem though. My new kernel has a lot of modules (especial input > modules such as hid, usb-uhci, etc.) that have "unresolved symbols" (normally > they do not). Any idea what might cause this? > > Thanks again,

Re: Locale e caratteri italiani

2002-02-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Ciao, > Trovo problematico usare il supporto per il display > di caratteri italiani es. e con l'accento ecc... > > Dopo aver settato la variabile cosi': > export LANG=it_IT > > locale mi dice: > LANG=it_IT > LC_CTYPE="it_IT" > LC_NUMERIC="it_IT" > LC_TIME="it_IT" > LC_COLLATE="it_IT" > LC_MONET

Re: Newbie question: Setup the network card and DHCP

2002-02-20 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1. Where to find the driver or compatible one and how to install it in > Debian Linux? make sure your bios is configured for a non-pnp os and post the output of cat /proc/pci. meanwhile, try the tulip and via-rhine drivers: just type modprobe as root. > 2. How to set up DHCP for my computer

Re: Less and .gz files

2002-02-19 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> On my earlier SuSE system "less" was able to read gzipped text files. Can i > get less to do it also on Debian? try zless (and zgrep, zcat...) pietro.

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck warns it is > dangerous to check it. this is the safest way, but it needs a reboot: touch /forcefsck init 6 this will force a full fsck on all your partitions. if you set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, everything will happen au

Re: perl script to replace html login?

2002-02-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Hi! > > Is there a easy way to make a perl skript to send an http post request > produced by the following html form? > > > > > > > > The reply of the server is not important... install libwww-perl and use LWP::UserAgent . pietro.

Re: Samba clarification

2002-02-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it all resources on my and other > Linux workstations are not shared out to Windows OSes from the local Linux > workstation per se, but by the Samba server (which in my case is a seperate > box). well, a server can't share something it doesn't own :-)

Re: debian newbie : 2 simple questions

2002-01-29 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ?? > (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be > running. install mailx + exim, then comment out the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf, then killall -HUP inetd . ask for more informations if you n

Re: debiandoc (Latex) for Italian

2002-01-22 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > When I want to use debiandoc to produce ps or pdf, it activate Latex. > > Problem is both in woody and potato, latex does not load hyphnation for > italian. Is this normal? > > LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1 > Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, germa

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> > any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send > > keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat >

Re: Login problem

2002-01-16 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have a problem that seems like login is working too slowly for my > computer, or my computer is too slow for login (a little more likely). > Occasionally I get results similar to the results for this fictional user. > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 icosagon tty2 >

Re: vi vs ae

2002-01-15 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:40:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > type as root: > > > > > > update-alternatives --config editor > > > > > > man update-alternatives will tell you a

Re: vi vs ae

2002-01-15 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I noticed that somewhere ae has started taking over as the default > editor in place of vi/vim. > I have tried placing EDITOR="vi" in the /etc/profile line but it > doesn't always work. > > CVS was defaulting to ae. > crontab will sometimes default to ae. > > How do I fix this? ae is not at al

Re: broken "man"

2002-01-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> How can I determine if man is installed and see if all > of the things that man depends on are installed as > well? try "apt-get install man-db" to install the man program. it is not included in the default minimal install, iirc. pietro.

Re: informazioni

2002-01-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> buongiorno, > sono un ragazzo che ha per le mani la versione "debian2.2.r3", mi > potreste informare come si installa dato che le spiegazioni sono > in inglese e io lo capisco solo un poinoltre e' possibile > installare debian con windows?? da quello che vedo sul sito www.debian.org il manua

Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?

2002-01-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Andy Spiegl wrote: > > Pretty sad to respond to my own posting, but I'm desperate. :-) > Is there noone who can help me with that? I'm on a satellite uplink and > _have_ to use the proxy. > Thanks, > Andy. this is my apt.conf proxy line: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.mycompany.com:8080";;

Re: Looking for lib's

2002-01-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> BTW does anybody know if there are any MySQL.deb packages available? I mirror > the MySQL site, but they do not seem to have one (this is for another > machine). "apt-cache search mysql" will give you a list of packages, then you can use "apt-cache show " to know exactly what a package is. you

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 2.4.x vanilla is a PoS in certain areas. The VM is one. The latency is > another. With dumb xmms, it cannot help but cause skips. Use something > better, with huge output buffers, and you will not have so much trouble. Or > patch the kernel. xmms output buffer size is configurable: [little butt

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
martin f krafft wrote: > > can anyone please explain this to me? > > seamus:/usr/local/share/phpgw# find . -name Root | xargs vi > 221 files to edit > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > > seamus:/usr/local/share/phpgw# vi `find . -name Root` > 221 files to edit > > how the heck does v

Re: FTP install using proxy ?

2002-01-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
"François Chenais" wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there any way to use a proxy with apt-... commands ? > > Thanks a lot > > François i wrote this line in my apt.conf: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.mycompany.com:8080";; the same thing (with obvious changes) sh

Re: libraries

2002-01-04 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Please send me in attachement libraries: > > libc.so.5 > libm.so.5 > libf2c.so.0 > > I need them to install mopac 7.01 for Linux. NEVER NEVER NEVER get binaries from untrusted sources! (especially if important as libc) (yes we are all untrusted :-) install the libc5 package for the libc

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-29 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Whatever that floppy can still not be mounted error message? pietro.

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-28 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam, > > I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not. > > Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for you > in the course of closing things down? It seems on of those things that > is going to get forgotten in a r

Re: dd /dev/hda /dev/hdb block size

2001-12-28 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I have a second HD I am using as a mirror for my first. > I am going to use dd to initially copy files from one > to the other and then rsync on a daily basis. don't do that. use tar. > Do I need to format hdb before dd if=dev/hda of=/dev/hdb? don't do that. use tar. > Someone mentioned I sho

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-27 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> > I note that when you copy a file to /floppy it seems to be incredibly > > quick. Is it in fact written to the floppy at the same time as it > > appears on /floppy ? > > > Ian, > > All I can say is "Ouch!". Unlike the DOS world, Unix in general, > and Linux in particular, do not guaran

Re: virtusertable

2001-12-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Roberto Angione wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Pietro Cagnoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Roberto Angione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:41 PM > Subject: Re: virtusertable > > > &g

Re: virtusertable

2001-12-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Roberto Angione wrote: > > Buon Giorno, > mi trovo attualmente ad amministrare un Server con Debian installata. > Non riesco a rendere operativo il virtusertable ( in red Hat non avevo > problemi). > Potreste aiutarmi per favore? > > Grazie > Roberto Angione hum, stai parlando di sendmail, ver

Re: How to get IRQ/io inventory...?

2001-12-10 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
tom schuetz wrote: > > What's the best way to get IRQ and io info on all the devices on my (potato) > system? > > Thanks! $ cat /proc/interrupts $ cat /proc/ioports pietro.

Re: cdrom was /dev/hdd now /dev/scd0. Can someone explain?

2001-12-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > woody box with 2.4.9 kernel I compiled. I've been using this kernel > since 23 Sep 2001. For over a year, /dev/cdrom has been linked to > /dev/hdd, and "mount /dev/cdrom" worked with no problem. /etc/fstab > entry is: > /dev/cdrom/cdromiso9660 defaults,ro,user,n

Re: Does connection in TIME_WAIT count?

2001-12-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jozef Skvarcek wrote: > > Hi, > > When a client closes, say HTTP, connection to my server then the > connection continues to be listed on the server for some period of time > in the state `TIME_WAIT'. Does such a connection still counts as valid > one, ie does the web server see it? > > Thank yo

Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

2001-12-06 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
shock wrote: > > Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem. > I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module. I've tried it with > both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file. Both end > with the following: > > cc -c -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -

Re: xscanimage can't find device...

2001-11-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
is your scsi card configured properly? can you see the scanner in the output of cat /proc/scsi/scsi? did you try modprobe sg (kernel module for scsi generic devices)? make your tests with scanimage (no x involved, easier to troubleshoot). when you'll be able to see your scanner in the output of s

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> > I think the uptime counter counts up to 497 days, and then it > > starts all over again. So currently we would not have any reports > > positively documenting more than 497 days of uptime. > > I read somewhere that the time is counted in "jiffies" where one > > i believe that bug was fixed in

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me

Re: UNATTACHED INODE

2001-10-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
John Lord wrote: > > Hello, > > After a crash during booting I now get the following error message: > > UNATTACHED INODE 161806 > > /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISENCY; RUN FSCK MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p > options) > > Please repair manually and reboot. > > To remount it rw: do mount -m

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-19 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > If you decide you must do this, others have pointed the answer to you. I > > just > > want to say beware the path you are taking. > > > > Users of other editors will find editing your codce to be a royal nightmare

Re: How to use Linux as a dial-up provider?

2001-10-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I don't know exactly the terminology to use. I'd like to set up a Linux > box on the ethernet at home, slap a modem on it (attached to an analog > line of course), and then dial-up from home to the modem, authenticate, > and have internet access. In essence, I want to be my own ISP, allowing > my

Re: Can Linux use a Microsoft Proxy Server to access theInternet?

2001-10-01 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> However, I was able to run ftp and connect to ftp.debian.org.br > manually. When I did that, the command CD works, but LS and GET don't. > What's going on? Does this have anything to do with FTP being in passive > mode, or the host I'm connected to can't find me because I'm behind a > pr

Re: OT : Internet Services on Unix-like systems

2001-09-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> does anyone know where I can find statistics on Internet Services > (w3, etc) running on unix-like systems ? I.e., how many machines uses > unix-like systems for web services, ftp services, etc ? the command you need is probably netstat. lots of options, see the man page. pietro.

Re: source.list error recovery

2001-09-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I've just played with some unstable packages lists and it doesn't behave > like I want. Is there any way to downgrade all packages to the latest > avaibled in the corrected sources.list. I mean a softer way than a reinstall > ;-) you will have to reinstall, but just the bad packages. remove them

Re: core dump

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> To adapt a program to Debian the author needs a core dump. > He says the program *will* crash on Debian when started. > But since I switched to Debian I didn't see any crashes :-) > > Is core dumping enabled by default on potato, and where > can I configure that? the command to use is ulimit, w

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem to have > got a corrupted one: > > (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using > .../xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xfon

Re: Apt and MS Proxy server

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have read the man pages for apt and apt.conf, and added a line to my > apt.conf > along the lines > of http::Proxy {"http:///msproxy:80/";}; this is my (working) apt.conf line: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.my-company.com:8080";; so you probably have to write

Re: Problem with ncurses when making "make menuconfig"

2001-09-24 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Ricardo Diz wrote: > > Hi! > > I tried to config my kernel using "make menuconfig" in a console and > it exited with > > /usr/bin/ld : cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries > > although I have ncurses installed. >

Re: info to man

2001-09-24 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I know there are tools to convert info and man to html, and that's a > decent format when read with lynx. Maybe the answer would be to convert all to > html, and then write a front-end for lynx so I could type (help ) and it > would invoke lynx on the appropriate page. > > Any informatio

Re: Netscape & download

2001-09-21 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Sometimes when I download a file from a site under Netscape 4.77 it > happens that the browser doesn't show the usual download box with the > downloading file but just I see that it is (down)loading the file > as it were a web page. I've tried to find the downloaded file under > /.netscape and $H

Re: cannot start sshd

2001-09-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
a few things you can check: try checking with netstat -a if someone's listening on the ssh port on the server; run sshd -d, and try to connect with a client (your sshd -d dump is regular, it just stops waiting for a connection); grep sshd /var/log/auth.log hope it helps. pietro.

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

2001-09-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
>foreach (<*>){ > print "$_\n"; > } > or <*> replaced by glob('*') > > do not work. what happens exactly? any error messages? any output? the glob function is implemented with csh, so this could be a csh problem. pietro.

Re: ssh braindamage (protocols, RSA auth)

2001-09-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Still interested in comments if anybody's got any. :) uh, maybe you already did that, but... i've always been able to solve my ssh problems using sshd -d and ssh -v hope it helps pietro.

Re: as & ld equivalents of gcc

2001-09-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> So, how do I get these to resolve? i don't know exactly, but if you run $ gcc -v -c hello.cc you will see the calls to as and ld on output, and you can start investigate from there. hope it helps. pietro.

Re: Sylpheed

2001-09-07 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> How do I upgrade a single package and it's dependencies from the stable > versions to a less stable version like testing? a similar question (about samba) was posted and discussed on Debian Planet: see http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=322 pietro.

Re: mount permission problems

2001-08-10 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I've been struggling for the last few days trying to get my wife's > Win95 laptop to access her Quicken files that I have on a fat16 > partition on my linux machine. There is something about 'mount' that > is eluding me. it's been eluding me a couple of times too... vfat just doesn't have the pl

Re: Apache on second ip address?

2001-08-03 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
see my reply to your 'ifconfig remove eth0:1' message on the list... .. and comment out all the Listen and BindAddress directives! everything should work painlessly without any virtual host configuration. pietro. > I'm moving our intranet onto a new box with address x.x.x.23 from an old > box wit

Re: ifconfig remove eth0:1

2001-08-03 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> If you saw my last message, "Apache on second ip address", I have tried > to get Apache to server the same content on two ip addresses off the > same adapter. > > I have setup the second address successfully (I can ssh into it) but > can't get Apache to be "sensitive" to the second ip address.

Re: can't install task-ximian-gnome

2001-08-03 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> As far as I know from reading this list you are running into trouble > when using Ximian Gnome. It is recommendet to use the Debian Gnome > packages. > > Frank i use it everyday at work on my potato machine. well, the application i use 90% of the time is gnome-terminal, but everything seems qui

Re: Putting a TESTING package on a STABLE system

2001-08-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I have a similar, but reversed problem. I have one package that I do NOT want > to upgrade. It happens to be LILO, and it is currently broken when used on > laptops with SystemSoft BIOS. I want all packages except LILO from woody > but I want LILO to stop at potato. Is there a way of telling

Re: can't install task-ximian-gnome

2001-08-02 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I followed the instructions in ximian's website but trying to apt get > install task-ximian-gnome tells me that apt couldn't find that package... > does anybody has had this problem and how to fix it? IIRC you had to append to /etc/apt/sources.list the line deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debi

Re: Slicing a big file; putting it back together

2001-08-01 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I need to send a big exe windows file, but the size is getting to be a > problem. So I need to slice it and send the pieces separate. What is the > best method? use the split command. pietro.

Re: CGI isn't working too well

2001-07-27 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > #ScriptAlias /~news/ /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/ ok, maybe it's too easy, but did you try to uncomment the ScriptAlias /~news/ ... line? whith this setting, the url http://your.host/~news/script.cgi will execute /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/script

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in > | italian is "Modalità provvisoria": 640x480 screen with very few colors); > > FYI it is called "Safe Mode" in English.

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
just an easy try - did you use the gcc -g flag? pietro.

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Still Mr. fips is not happy . He says that the last cylinder is still not > free . > > Is there any way of installing Linux onto a FAT (Win 98) part. , without > standing the > risk of losing data (either of the disk or of the partition ) ? > Thanks , > ([EMAIL PROT

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> $ apt-cache search ppp e subito dopo, dimenticavo, $ apt-cache show

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> La ringrazio. > Veramente gentilissimo. non c'e' di che. > P.S. posso approfittare solo per un'altra cosa? > In pratica volevo segnalare una cosa che non mi è piaciuta > molto nell'installazione: la selezione dei pacchetti > A parte che moltissimi non hanno la descrizione (di un rigo) e quindi

Re: CONNESSIONE IN RETE

2001-07-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Ho appena installato la vostra distribuzione e sono veramente colpito > per come è realizzata. > Premetto che sono un neofita di Linux (lo usato per pochi mesi per > fare l'esame di Sistemi > Operativi) e ho 2 problemi: > 1) alla fine dell'installazione ho cercato di configurare la > connessione

Re: Module Kernel Problems DAMMIT! :(

2001-07-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/fs/smbfs.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/dummy.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/ipv4/ip_masq_user.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/ipv4/ip_

Re: C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to > show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from > sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). > Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version > numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme? > > For

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