Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

Hi all. I am the epitomy of newbie. I've finally had enough of MS (Multiple Sclorosis)..I'm tired of being paralyzed. But I need help. After plenty of review, and a couple disappointing attempts with RedHat, I've decided to try Debian. Primary reason being the quality / layout of informat

(very) remote install

I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this? The owne

Netmeeting and ipfw

Hi, In some news archive I found your message about ipfw and netmeeting (from may 1998!). Did you get it working? For me, I can receive audio and video, but can't send any. Probably netmeeting is setting up peerconnections, sending audio and video. How about ICQ? I sometimes am not able to setup

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, > > instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". These > > files are all types, a file created by

Re: (very) remote install

Once you've reformatted /dev/hda, how do you transfer and unzip the base system? paul wrote: > > I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several > thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in > Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the curr

unformat linux

HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk w

linux unformat

HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk w

Alternative to fetchmail?

Hi all: Fetchmail has been acting up on me. I've been using it for over a year to fetch email from my ISP via pop3, running it as a daemon. On two occasions it would just die off for now apparent reason, and need to be restarted. But what's worth, on three occasions it would refuse to retrieve a c

dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?

dpkg-repack won't work and complains about bad permissions, but I don't see bad permissions. Example: drwxr-xr-x 85 root root 7168 Oct 15 01:02 /etc drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Aug 25 14:00 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 14 1998 /usr/lib/wine But t

Re: unformat linux

Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with > linux? > I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb > free) > and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. > I choose the linux server custom

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:01:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > APPS and GAMES: > - > Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on > the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) Quake works perf

Re: linux unformat

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote: > HI [snip] You've mailed this message four times now. Please stop it. If anyone has ideas, they'll say something. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: (very) remote install

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, paul wrote: > Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with > Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this? > The owner of the machine (call him john) wants to avoid the reboot, and > does not know (or trust) anyone at the re

Re: unformat linux

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote: > HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated > with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for > win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the > free disk space. I choose the linux server custom in

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I am the epitomy of newbie. > > I've finally had enough of MS (Multiple Sclorosis)..I'm tired of being > paralyzed. But I need help. > > After plenty of review, and a couple disappointing attempts with RedHat, > I've decided to try > Debian. Primary reaso

Need SCSI Tape Help

Hi all! I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /

Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: > dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. > dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. > > Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. I assume you are doing this in your home directory. It's caused by the directori

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

There must be something I misunderstand, then. I put the following into .muttrc: my_hdr From: Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So that my real name would show up as well as my address. If you look at the headers in this message, my real name is gone. This has annoyed me for a while now. -- M

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what > > > > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove > > > > ...unfortunately console-apt simply isn't a sufficient replacement > > for dselect without this feature (in some fo

Re: installing on a compaq deskpro

Do you install on scsi? If not, can't you turn the scsi off in bios? I use AHA-2940 on several servers and never had any problems, neither with 2.0 2.2 nor 2.3 kernels. If it helps any: (scsi0) found at PCI 17/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:46:13PM

[PHILADELPHIA] PADS: Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release

The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release When: Wednesday 20 October 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, S

install, I'm in over my head

Hi. I am doing a floppy install of debian. I am at the point of installing the driver modules but am very confused. I have a 486sx computer with a 408mb hard drive and 16megs. of ram. I have made the first partition swap with 32 megs and the rest a boot primary linux partition. Anyway at the drive

Re: install, I'm in over my head

> Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. You probably don't need any of them. paride is for parallel port IDE devices. All the RAID ones are for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. I'm not sure what linear is for. > I could not install one module though it really sounds important: >

RE: 24-bit graphics woes

I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape bug, I'm currently runni

Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

I'm trying to get a couple of things running for a client here. I need the system to be able to do two things :- 1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a small script that converts the text output from another program into Postscript, and then merge that file with a previously createed

Re: Word to the wise Re: is your WINE broken too?

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14-Oct-99 David Coe wrote: > > Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package > > that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the > > continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack > > first,

Re: Proxy Server Problems (Possible Solution)

Hello,     a while ago, I wrote about a problem I was having with a proxy server setup. I had two networks 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 joined by a router. The proxy server was 192.168.1.1 and though I could ping, telnet on both networks to the other, the proxy server would only work on the 1.0 ne

Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?

Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. > > dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. > > > > Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. > I assume you are doing this

running apt from an at command

I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want to download, and since there is nobody at the keyboard to enter "Y", the command does not execute. Is there a way to enter the "Y" or to have the command execu

ftp login banner

Is there something like issue.net for the ftp service I want to disable these message: (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. Another posibility is to change to another ftp packagewhich one is the best?

Re: running apt from an at command

Run it whi -y apt-get will assume yes to all prompts and will and non-interactively On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this > did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want to download, and > since there is

Re: (no subject)

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: > unsubscribe > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the instruction footer to something less cryptic? Rob -- It's later than you

Re: running apt from an at command

Run it with -y apt-get will assume "yes"to all prompts and will run non-interactively. sorry for the other message!!! On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this > did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really wa

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. > I need to know what are the best (if any) alternatives available on Linux > for applications I use > on a daily basis.I also need to know a bit more about Debian now that > I've decided to give it > a go.. Netscape. Aren't you interested in browsing somethin

Re: (very) remote install

William T Wilson wrote: ... > Other than that, the plan is fairly sound. Make a minimal Debian system, > put it in some free space *on its own partition*, set lilo to boot that > new kernel, and reboot. You don't really need to chroot anywhere during > the process. ... This sounds good to me.

Sun floppy boot

Hi, I tried to boot my Sun Classic off of a floppy yesterday, but it didn't work. I don't know how to change the boot media in the prom monitor. I have tried ">boot floppy", ">setenv boot-disk=floppy" and "go". I have surfed the web too, trying to find a document on prom monitor. But I haven't fo

printing special characters

Hello, where may I look for the reason that my Canon BJC 210 suddenly is unable to print special characters like ñ, ö, ç, etc? I´ve been looking in the Printing-HowTos, the LPRng - Documentation and the aps / magicfilter documentation. But I didn't find anything that could help me to find out why I

2.0.38 make install - unable to find lilo footprint

When I make "install" for the kernel 2.0.38 - which I didn't get from a .deb, I just downloaded from Finland - when it comes to the part where every other kernel says "shall I run lilo?" this one says it can't find a lilo footprint. What is it looking for? Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin

Re: ftp login banner

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:48:11AM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > Is there something like issue.net for the ftp service > I want to disable these message: (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. >From the manual page: If the file /etc/ftpwelcome exists, ftpd prints it before i

Re: ftp login banner

/etc/ftpwelcome works but I still get the FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) message...I want to disable that message!! On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:48:11AM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > > Is there something like issue.net for t

I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's /etc/passwords entry. But now, t

Very basic question

Hi all, I just put Slink on a new machine and am having problems adding users. I want to add a user so that they /home/username as their home directory and so that they can receive mail. What is the command to set up a normal user? Is it useradd -m username? This doesn't seem to set ip a mail f

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

Martin Waller wrote: > > Hello, > > I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but > forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where > there were 'x's fro the password fields. [...] > How do I fix this? these 'x's are ther because you have shado

Re: Very basic question

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I want to add a user so that they /home/username as their home directory and > so that they can receive mail. > > What is the command to set up a normal user? Is it useradd -m username? > This doesn't seem to set ip a mail file in /var/spool/mail and th

More mail grief

When I try to delete messages in mutt, I get a message "Unable to create temporary file" or perhaps its unable to create temporaty buffer. Help please...my mailbox is getting very full! Patrick

please help if you can ...

Please explain in layman terms ... - ( I have read all faq's/howto etc) Example A system with a 2 GB hardrive and following partitions. 1) 25 mb > dos/fat16 2) 500 mb > win95c/fat32 3) 1393 mb > ext2 (proposed)/(debian/gnu/ --- hur

eterm: mutt & slrn

I'm trying to have both mutt and slrn iconized and using eterm. I added the following lines in /GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook: "mutt-e" EXEC Eterm -T "mutt-e" -e /usr/local/bin/mutt "slrn-e" EXEC Eterm -T "slrn-e" -e /usr/bin/slrn but if I change the icon for, say, mutt, it also changes

man not working?

I can't make the `man' command working: $ man man No existe entrada de manual para man (There is no man entry for man) I recently compiled and installed mutt and gnupg in /usr/local, and tried to compile/install QT as well; it's ever since then that `man' is not working. TIA, -- Horacio

ppp not working

i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in the install is the ppp module loaded? i thought that this was an integral

Re: HP 9070cxi ???

Rob Reesor wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the intrusion. I noticed your exchange muc.lists.debian.user. I'm > having trouble posting, so thought I'd send email directly. > > I've just ordered a Red Hat Linux system and am having a hard time finding > a printer. Seems that most of the printers listed o

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:06:05AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but > forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where > there were 'x's fro the password fields. > > Then I changed the root pa

Re: Very basic question

adduser is the command I needed. Many thanks! Patrick

Re: xanim error :(

> "Jonathan" == Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> hi, when trying to run xanim (from netscape via plugger Jonathan> or from the command line) I get the following error: Jonathan> error in loading shared libraries :undefined Jonathan> symbol:__re

Re: Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

> 1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a > small script that converts the text output from > another program into Postscript, and then merge that > file with a previously createed postscript file. > > Here's the script segment that does these things :- > > --- Begin Script Segme

Re: More mail grief

If su then everything works. So it sounds like a permissions problem on /var/spool/mail Anyone got any thoughts? Patrick - Original Message - From: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:56 AM Subject: More mail grief > When I try to delete messages i

Re: keymap error when closing X

Hi Lance, [cc to kernel mailinglist] > I get the following when closing Xwindows. > > What does this mean? > How do I fix it? > > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m > us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap > compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > I am using A stable Debian Slink production system. Netscape version > > 4.71 glibc2.0 from ftp.netscape.com. > okay that makes sense then. i suggest that if you like that version of > netscape you don't upgrade to potato. netscapes

Creating/Moving a partition

I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have

Re: Sun floppy boot

Hello again :) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I tried to boot my Sun Classic off of a floppy yesterday, but it didn't > work. I don't know how to change the boot media in the prom monitor. I > have tried ">boot floppy", ">setenv boot-disk=floppy" and "go".

apache ASP perl : config ?

hello, please can someone help me with installing libapache-asp-perl ? I don't know what to add in : /etc/ apache/ access.conf srm.conf httpd.conf i set it to download the perl_mod. thanks

2.3x and IP masquerading

Marcin If you are ready to live dangerously, I would suggest you join the the Linux Kernel mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They should steer you in the right direction. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, > > > which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". > > >

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

Bill wrote: > > I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape > 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and > and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The > other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape b

Re: (no subject)

Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the > instruction footer to something less cryp

Any way to install modconf on current potato?

Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they are, just not the module names - they were never mentioned in make xconfig) 2) See the

swap quotas?

Is it possible to limit certain apps to limited amount of swap? This morning I sit down at my machine to find that something ate all my swap which then proceeded to crash lots of daemons and my X session. I don't know what was the culprit but I wouldn't be supprised if it was netscape. I could

Re: ppp not working

Make sure "ppp" is in your "/etc/modules" file. Also make sure the module exists -- "/lib/modules/2.?.??/net/ppp.o" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to inv

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive spac

Re: install, I'm in over my head

If you can find the documentation for the CD-ROM, check to see whether it is an ATAPI drive. If so, you don't need any special drivers for it-- you just use the (E)IDE driver. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN

Re: More mail grief

Operator error. I loaded a spare partition /dev/hda4 as /tmp [ as /tmp was conveniently empty!] and that screwed it up. Sorry for the waste of time.

Re: eterm: mutt & slrn

I'm not sure about using menus, but I've done the two-icon thing just using xterm. In xterm, I did this: xterm -name "Mutt" -title "E-Mail" -e mutt & xterm -name "Slrn" -title "News" -e slrn & This lets me chose a separate appicon for one without affecting the other. Since Exit session in Wmake

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

> Hi all! > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a > really sweet server here except that I just noticed th

Re: Printer suggestion

Manuel, I have an HP 540 and an HP 310, both of which just work out of the box with all of my Linux systems. However, all HP printers use the same control language, called PCL level 3. This means that any HP Inkjet will work with Linux as long as it isn't one of the Windows-only versions. This m

Potato Dependancies problem.

My problem: A new version of slang is in Potato (version > 1.3) mc and mc-common depend on it (along with ae) but whiptail wants slang to be < 1.3 and modconf depends on whiptail. Suggestions? (obviously a new version of modconf and whiptail with a

timezone question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have 2 slink boxes at home. I'm having a timezone problem on one of them, and I can't figure out what to do about it. If I run 'date +"%Z"' on one machine, it prints 'EDT' which is correct because we're in daylight savings time. On the other machine, it print

Re: More mail grief

Operator error. I loaded a spare partition /dev/hda4 as /tmp and that screwed it up. Sorry for the waste of time.

Re: timezone question

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:28:31 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > and the time on the system is 1 hour behind what it should be. Running > tzconfig on either machine prints out 'US/Eastern'. Are you sure it doesn't have the "TZ" environment variable set? > Is there a way to get/set the BIOS clo

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

Mike Barton wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a > really sweet server here except

Re: (very) remote install

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 08:13:01PM -0400, paul wrote: > I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several > thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in > Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with > Debian from my pre

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 09:26:16PM -0400, Justin Settle wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Nt boot loader is a pain - you can't use lilo. There is a howto for > this though. I take you have partitioning all done as fips can split > and NTFS partition as of yet. I saw something yesterday or

Re: install, I'm in over my head

jh wrote: > [cut] > > Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would seem to > fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see > mitsumi cd-rom and mitsumi cd-rom with extended features. When I try to > install these I get an error message like: >

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

> "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition becaus e > > I've got plenty of availab

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Mike Barton wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDRO

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:43:27AM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > Hi > > If no-one objects, I'd like to do an NMU of MRTG early next week. The > major reason for this is that the SNMP_Session Perl modules need to > be split off into a separate package (a number of applications make > use of

Re: Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

Peter Ludwig wrote: > > 2) Dial-in PPP Access. Before people start screaming > at me to read the manuals, I suggest they also look in > the documentation. The current documentation is not > detailed enough for me to get the system to work. I > can setup shell access using mgetty, but as soon as

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

I wrote: > 6. Now, use "cp -a" (or "cp -av" if you want to watch it) to copy your >files, permissions and ownership to the new partition. > >cp -av /var/* /var > PS That command should be: cp -av /oldvar/* /var

Re: How to Access 2nd Serial Port & Cisco 675?

I would just try using minicom or seyon. Both these programs will allow you to make a "terminal" connection to the device and type whatever commands you wish. The second serial port ordinarily will be accessed as /dev/ttyS1. Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I access my Cisco 675 modem/router

Re: ppp not working

Samuel Varghese wrote: > > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a > message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in > the > install is the ppp module loaded?

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive spac

Re: timezone question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thanks for the quick reply. It turns out my hardware clock was an hour off. I fixed it with hwclock and life is good. Thanks for pointing me to that program. noah On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:28:31 -0400, Noah

Re: ppp not working

I think what's being overlooked in all of this is that the orignal problem was that pppd was not found. pppd is the daemon. As root, issue the command: updatedb then enter : locate pppd and see what comes up. "Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Samuel Varghese wrote: > > > > i am new to debian but

eth1 can't be loaded

Hi all, Does this look like a hardware failure on a NIC? I'm getting a little desperate now as the kids will be most upset if they can't browse the Teletubbies sites over the weekend! enterprise:/lib/modules/2.0.36/net# ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.25 netmask 255.255.255. 0 broadcast 10.0.0.25 SIOCSIFFL

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var > > NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! > > Do NOT use mv! This will change the ownership and protection rights > of the files. That could be very, very bad and will most certainly break > something. Oops. I missed out: First make

Mail refusing to leave my machine

I have two ISPs: Demon and Freeserve. In the last week it has become almost impossible to send out mail (I'm sending this from a different machine which seems to work). It's been slow at times in the past but this is ridiculous. I'm using Slink with smail. I've RTFMd till I'm dizzy and have fiddl

Banner

I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux penguin may be. How do I do it?

Re: Any way to install modconf on current potato?

Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of > potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: > 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they > are, just not the module names - they were never mentio

Re: Potato Dependancies problem.

David Natkins wrote: > My problem: > > A new version of slang is in Potato (version > 1.3) > mc and mc-common depend on it (along with ae) > but whiptail wants slang to be < 1.3 and > modconf depends on whiptail. > Suggestions? (obviously a new version of mo

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote: > "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partit

Re: Banner

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid > of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is > rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux > penguin may be.

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > APPS and GAMES: > - > Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on > the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) > Q3A > VisualStudio6.0 > Word 6.0 -- I've been told that StarOffice is

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