libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb but it complains about preinstall a

FTP File system

Hi, does anyone know about a kernel based FTP-file system, a mean something like nfs or smbfs but against an ftp server. Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Compañia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado

LPRng broked??

Hi, I'm trying to print trough LPRng to a JetDirect Printer and i got no succes even if i use the same printcap that work with the standar BSD lpr. I've tried lpd to lpd connection (The usual way) and direct connection to port 9100. Please Help. __ Fe

WMF to Gif or Jpg

Does anyone know about a filter to convert WMF (Windows meta file) to Gif o Jpg, or to a format suported by NetPbm or ImageMagick?? Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Compañia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.5

Reverse name resolution.

Hi, is it possible to turn off reverse name resolution in a global way or at least for the apache web server?? Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Compañia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemá

SCSI Adaptec AHA 1520B/1522B ISA (iomega jaz jet) Trouble.

Hi, at the bottom is my var/adm/messages file. The problem is this: When i boot to get the adapter recognized i have to append aha152x=0x340,11,7,1. The card is recognized and also the jaz drive. But no partition is reported and a "scsi: detected total." is displayed. /proc reports both the adapt

IP Masquerading

Hi, i could not get IP Masquerading work. I got two linux machines in a network with more machines. I've set up one machine as a Firewall for masquerading the other one but it seems that only one packet passes through the firewall. In the firewall i've done #ipfwadm -F -p deny #ipfwadm -F -a m

ImageMagick Guru

The problem is as follows: the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an mogrify -geometry x% i get an image with 8 bit/sample. I've search the man page without success. Please Help. It's very critical. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnec

Deskpro 2000 + TokenLink + AHA 2940

Hi folks. When I put only one card (i,e TokenLink or AHA but not both ) i got the card working Ok. With both im getting this error : tr0: Unknown command FF encountered. tr0: Unknown command 01 in arb. tr0: Unknown command 01 in arb. tr0: Unknown command 01 in arb. tr0: Unknown command 01 in arb.

PGP Which?

pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. Thanks in advance. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenci

DSelect SUGESTION

Hi Debian Project. It would be very cool if one could search not only by package name but for package description. Maybe Dselect already does that but i didn't found any hint. Congratulation anyway you are doing a great task. _ Felipe Alvarez Harnec

Printing Guru question.

Hi folks. I'm running linux but our printer a HP LaserJet 4p connected directly to the net trough a JetDirect ExPlus3 is atached to a Novell Print Queue. Reading the Printing-HOWTO i saw that it is easy to print to that kind of printers because they seem to be running an "lpd". Here is my questio

DOSEMU and IPX

Is it posible to run ipx under DOSEMU 0.66 without linux ipx support? __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Potenciado por Debian GNU/Li

Cross compiling with gcc. Target WindowsNT

Hi folks, is it posible to generate binary files for NT using gcc under Linux?? And if so, what packages shoud i install?? __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Univer

Linux IPX configuration.

Hi, folks. I'm getting trouble configuring IPX in my Linux Box. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 ncpfs 0.23 i do the following: modprobe ipx --- No error modprobe ncpfs -- No error ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on --No error /proc reports infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx Loca

Debian 2.0

Hi, this is a information i can't find in www.debian.org When is the release of Debian 2.0 spected? Chao. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de

Netscape helper aplications

Hi there. I've installed Netscape 4.04 by hand and i'm getting trouble running helper applications. The command that Netscape issue is something like sh ((foo /tmp/bar); rm /tmp/bar)& and if i run that command directly from the BASH command prompt it fails but if i do the same in tcsh it works. I