Dselect database reset?

1997-10-01 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Is there some way to reset dselect so it knows what is currently installed? The problem is that I de-selected some items that I didn't want to remove. They had some dependency problems so I de-selected them too. I didn't want to remove them so I cancled out of dselect. Now I want to install somethi

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Is it possible you installed diald? I installed diald and changed the /etc/diald/diald.options so the connect option pointed to pon. That is a big mistake because the pon script has the persist option. If you would like to use your existing pon script you can modify the /etc/ppp.options_out and get

problem compiling kernel with sound

1997-09-14 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Has anyone had any luck with compiling a kernel on Debian? I can compile fine just as long as I don't try to compile with sound. NOTE: I did use the "make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image" option. This is the error I get (The same thing happens with 2.0.30 also): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src

Starting X in 16 bpp ?

1997-09-09 Thread Ricardo Muggli
What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this: startx -- -bpp 16 but I would like to be able to do just startx. Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly appreciated. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Mirror Cron job ?

1997-08-27 Thread Ricardo Muggli
What is the correct way to set up a mirror cron job that runs daily? This is what I have done. Created a file /etc/cron.daily/mirror with this in it: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org Shouldn't this be run as a different user than root? If so how do I set it up that

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Ricardo Muggli
: > Hi, > >>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a > Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would > Ricardo> like to kill it but it seems to b

killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Ricardo Muggli
This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would like to kill it but it seems to be really stubborn. I have tried : kill -9 pidhere but nothing happens to the process. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to kill the process? - [E

Re: tty with non-standard irq

1997-08-18 Thread Ricardo Muggli
for all of the replies.. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Ricardo Muggli wrote: > > > How do I set up a com port in debian that has a non standard irq? > > The port I want to use is 0x2E8 irq2 > > Um, I don'

tty with non-standard irq

1997-08-17 Thread Ricardo Muggli
How do I set up a com port in debian that has a non standard irq? The port I want to use is 0x2E8 irq2 This is what I tried. edited /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and added this line: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 2 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} and commented out this line: #AUTO_IRQ=aut

? about Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO

1997-08-16 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Two days or so ago the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO was posted here. I was wondering if it is okay to 1. use dselect and connect to a local ftp mirror 2. When prompted for Enter space seperated list of distributions to get during setting up the FTP Access Method, enter hamm/hamm 3. update