Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Seth R Arnold wrote: > This I admit would be sort of slick -- perhaps there should be a > "copyrights" directory off of /usr/share/doc/ that contains the entries > "GNU" "Artistic" "BSD" "XFree86" "Mozilla" and packages could symlink their > copyright to one of those entries, if it match

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
(this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To accordingly) Previously MiniVend wrote: > 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha, > etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed > software does NOT include references to process

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
Ok..i've been playing around with this for the past 2 hours and still its not doing what i'm expecting it to do ..(i just ordered the sendmail book from www.ora.com to help me too) i reconfigured sendmail to use mailertables(via sendmailconfig) and set /etc/mail/mailertable to include: .aphroland.

Re: Sendmail problems - resend.

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if i had this problem i would just re-install sendmail, remove the current one (using --force-depends) and reinstall it. and reconfigure it(again)..make sure /var/spool/mqueue is cleared too..(move the files or delete them if they are not important, spooled mail) beyond that im not sure what to su

Re: unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if your using deiban you need the unzip package (or the unzip-crypt) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: mathes >Hey, mathes > mathes >just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I mathes >need to download a utility to do this? mathes > mathes >Thanks, ma

Re: copy permissions

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 24/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have nfs shared a directory on one machine and used "cp -a" to copy the directory to another machine...(to produce an identicle file server) What puzzles me is that although i was logged on as root... i was still unable to copy some files.. it saying that

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/1/2000 David J. Kanter wrote: OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? are you sure /dev/hdc is your cdrom device? the /de

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-23 14:46:28, aphro wrote: > wind >Clearly, you are hosting something on galactica, otherwise mail for > wind >your "local" user would be forwarded to your other machine. What is > wind >the mx record for galactica? Do you have a domain hosted on bebo and > wind >some users from that d

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-01-23 16:35:54, aphro wrote: > i reconfigured sendmail to use > mailertables(via sendmailconfig) and set /etc/mail/mailertable to include: > > .aphroland.orgsmtp:firetrail.com > .mac-resources.comsmtp:firetrail.com Is this the correct format? > but it appeaars it is ignoring

Re: need Identd

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Horansky
Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't get on IRC chat server without it. Identd is installed > how do I get it running? In /etc/inet.d there should be a line like identstream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/identd identd -i You made have take out "#" characters at th

Re: Failed to extract Drivers floppy

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Horansky
Yabba Dabba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a CD for debian 2.1. When I get to the point of installing > the kernel after booting from the CD, it says "failed to extract > drivers floppy". I've tried telling it exactly where to find the > resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files, and I've tried p

I need Help

2000-01-24 Thread ftrudeau
I'm am now the lucky owner of a Corel LinuxOs standard edition, which is a Debian partner. I'm satisfied with my product but I'm having a problem. I need to get the Lyx or KLyx software which Debian can provide over it's site, the problem is, I don't know which files I need to get it to work on

Re: Make menuconfig dependency not met

2000-01-24 Thread da Bobstopper
i get exactly the same error and have to use xconfig instead (which i don't like as much). i'd say it's a bug somewhere. can anyone tell me different? from da Bobstopper > Can anyone drop me a line to say what I've forgotten to install? > > enterprise:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f in

Re: I need Help

2000-01-24 Thread doug
There are two options to find out what a package depends on. You can use apt-get which will list all packages needed to install the package you want and prompt you to continue or there is dpkg --info package which lists the dependencies among other things. Doug > I'm am now the lucky owner of

Re: automate multi form submission

2000-01-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:17:16PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > > I am setting up a system where I can automatically submit all > > the info to a FORM for registering a new domain name using perl > > scripts. > > > > I use the followi

Getting DHCP working with windows

2000-01-24 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I'm trying to get a DPHC working for my MASQ'd network - primarily so that windows machines can come and go as they please. So far, however, I haven't been having much luck. All I have to test it at the moment is an NT4 Server box, and that can't find the DHCP server. I'm running pretty

Re: Playing audio CDs question

2000-01-24 Thread David J. Kanter
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 01:08:01AM +, Ethan Benson wrote: > also you did logout and > login again after ... This was the problem. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread atray
What packages are pon and pppconfig in? Adam *** Free voicemail and email, by phone or Web! Free phone calls too! Get it today at http://www.myTalk.com ***

Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt into blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two numerical parts. For example: , | group-1-member-01.txt |

Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread David J. Kanter
This is odd: I can only mount some of the CDs I've put into my CD-ROM. Why? I've tried 4 CDs: three music CDs and one Quake 3 CD. The Quake CD and one music CD (which, incidentally, has some Windows videos on it) mount fine. The other music CDs give me this error when mounting: milwaukee:/home/da

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
"David J. Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is odd: I can only mount some of the CDs I've put into my CD-ROM. Why? [snip] > What gives? The default mount type is iso9660---could that be the problem? > Are not all CDs iso9660s? I've noticed that when I close the CD tray on the > working CD

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:54:42PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files > > foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt > > into > > blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt Try the attached Perl script (just put it in a directory that's in your path and make it executable).

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Generally we don't mount music CDROM's to play them. I don't think music CD's are iso9660 (most of the time). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +---

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Shao Zhang
A quick solution that pops out of my head, but it is pretty stupid, and certainly not the easiest: ls -1 > rename; cat rename; group-1-member-01.txt group-1-member-02.txt group-2-member-01.txt vi rename; then do the following: :1,$s/\([a-z]*\)\(-[0-9]-\)\([a-z\-]*\)

GnomeICU dies

2000-01-24 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I'm running potato (updated 2000-01-22) and GnomeICU has been dying with this error for *several* weeks: Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 9 error_code 9 request_code 134 minor_code 1 Sometimes it runs for 1 second and other times for as long as

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. First note that X11 distinguishes between an applications *class* and its *name*. So you could try wri

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread John Foster
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > (this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To > accordingly) > > Previously MiniVend wrote: > > 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha, > > etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed > > software

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What packages are pon and pppconfig in? > > Adam Try 'dpkg -S pon' and 'dpkg -S pppconfig' hth, kent

Help

2000-01-24 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I am running potato with 2.2.13 kernel. I screw up perl. So perl 5.004 is broken and cannot be removed. dpkg-preconfig is a perl script, so my upgrade failed. I try to the following command dpkg --purge perl-5.004 apt-get -f install It seems that apt-get depends on perl, and i cannot clean up

Purpose of shutdown and halt users

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, Is there any purpose for the shutdown and halt users? Is the intention there so that you can give operators an alternative means of shutting down a server other than giving them the root password? Thanks in advance Andrew Andrew Pollock Asia Online ABC Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind >Is this the correct format? from what i could see on www.sendmail.org it is .. wind >Hmm... that sounds like normal behavior to me. If you serve the wind >domain and the user doesn't exist, sendmail should correctly wind >reject mail. i'd hope it

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alain Birtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it starts loading stuff, like a normal

Re: Help(solved)

2000-01-24 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I use "dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-5.2_i386" to overwrite the old one, and it works. Jianbo

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
You're on target. Here's a sample of my ~/.Xresources copied from the sample Xdefaults that comes with Xemacs. Emacs.default.attributeBackground: white Emacs.default.attributeForeground: black The default Debian setup wants it named .Xresources (as opposed to .Xdefaults). -- +-

Re: Getting DHCP working with windows

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Damon Muller wrote: dm-deb >I've also tried adding the 255.255.255.255 route as described in the dm-deb >HOWTO, but it didn't make any difference. make sure a firewall is not blocking the dhcp broadcasts..the package 'ipmasq' pretty much blocked everything from my machines (i

Re: pon and pppconfig

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
On 23 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atray >What packages are pon and pppconfig in? atray > pon - ppp pppconfig - pppconfig (slink, not sure about potato) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetra

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
you cannot mount a music cd, it kjust doesnt work :) just tell the cd player to play directly from the drive (e.g. /dev/cdrom or /dev/scd0 ..etc) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant >This is odd: I can only mount some of the CDs I've put into my CD-ROM. Why? djkant > djkant

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files > > foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt > > into > > blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt > > Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', > and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are

strange ppp traffic

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Marlow

minimal installation

2000-01-24 Thread Friedemann Schorer
Hi all :-) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ system from debian disk and CD's (e.g. a preformed profile), which runs only the services that are really needed and then can be upgraded ? I tried it bef

Re: minimal installation

2000-01-24 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Some what recently, Friedemann Schorer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about minimal installation >:) Hi all :-) >:) I'd like to install Debian on an old 486 machine which only has a >:) little 500 MB HDD. Is it possible to install a really _minimal_ >:) system from debian disk and CD's (e.g.

Re: CD-ROM only plays mono??

2000-01-24 Thread Greg Starkes
Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > > I'm using the cdtool package to play audio CD's from my CD-ROM drive. For some > reason, playing CD's only outputs MONO sound (ie. only to one of my speakers). > It's not a problem with my speakers since .mp3 and .wav files plays as stereo > without any problems. > > Is

Re: don't want x as default startup

2000-01-24 Thread Matt Folwell
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:50:43PM +0100, mek wrote: > it's too late now, i already deleted it. but since that time i cannot startx > as > normal user anymore Edit /etc/X11/Xserver abd change the second line from RootOnly to Console -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL

Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Beranek
Hello! Is there anyone that succseed to insatll Glibc 2.1 in Debian 2.1 Slink? If so, PLEASE help me!! Thanks, Robert __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com?sr=mc.mk.mcm.tag001

Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Roger Weinheimer
I'm trying to install debian packages with dselect, and ftp fails to connect on 'update available packages' step. Can someone look at my boot message and network configuration files and tell me why my network isn't working, please? data... ***/var/log/messages Jan 24 01:07:36 m68k sysl

How to add ethernet cards (also interrupt problems)

2000-01-24 Thread Joshua J. Brickel
Hi folks, I seem to have a couple of problems setting up my ethernet cards. I've set up my system as a router, hence it has two ethernet cards. Both cards are 3COM Fatsh Ethelink XL 10/100 (I think the driver is 3c59x). Either way for some reason during installation of my debian (2.1) system ne

Re: Very frustrating

2000-01-24 Thread virtanen
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Don Cavaiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Finally, is it possible to put a new icon on the window desktop so > > that > > I can start a favorite program with just a click? > > You need a file manager which uses icons. A very nice one to use is

How to Make a Debian Rescue CD from Windows

2000-01-24 Thread Craig H. Block
Someone asked about making Debian CD's from Windows. Here's how I've been doing it; Create an archive on your Windows machine, for example c:\debian_cd Copy the 2880K rescue image (from disks-i386/2.2.4-2000-01-03/disks-2.88 in the master archive) to c:\debian_cd Copy drivers.tgz, disks-1.44

Re: Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I'm trying to install debian packages with dselect, > and ftp fails to connect on 'update available > packages' step. Can someone look at my boot message > and network configuration files and tell me why my > network isn't working, please? > data... Thanks for posting your problem three times.

ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick
I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ How can I tell what's wrong? I see nothing in logs nor tail -f /var/log/messages. Patrick

imapd, horde or imp problem

2000-01-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some troubles in setting a webmail server. Almost everything is working fine except for Creating new folders in HOME directory as well as for saving sent messages. Could somebody help me in solving this, please? Things I can do at the moment are: - s

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Tilman Kranz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:34:09AM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: > Hello! > Is there anyone that succseed to insatll Glibc 2.1 in Debian 2.1 Slink? > [...] Greetings, sure is. I upgraded via downloading and installing the .debs from unstable using dpkg. I also have installed a self-compiled glibc

Re: dropping libc 2.1 into stable for some development work possible?

2000-01-24 Thread Tilman Kranz
Greetings, On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:34:18AM -0900, Britton wrote: > > Is it possible to get the upstream library, install it in /usr/local, and > then compile certain packages against it (static or whatever is fine for > the moment) without disturbing the rest of the system? Will I see full >

Netscape -- Bus Error

2000-01-24 Thread jason
Netscape crashed hard on me the other day.. now whenever i try to run it from the command line i get >Bus Error anyone know what i have to do to fix this? -jason "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. Tha

xconsole "couldn't open console"

2000-01-24 Thread Carl Fink
After an apt-get upgrade (using potato) attempts to open xconsole show the above error. I can't pinpoint the exact time of the problem because with Linux I went weeks between boots, and it's started by my .Xsession. I tried looking up the problem in the Debian-User archives, but unfortunately the

Is it possible to Increase file number on ext2fs ?

2000-01-24 Thread test
Hi all, I'm using kind of linux on 386 box with 40 MB hdd (8swap+32 ext2). It carries two modems and servers as Dialup server. Just now I have about 8 Mb free on hdd. But file count is nearly at its limit. So is there any way to increase possible file count for my FS ? Or I have to look for some o

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
IP forwarding and IP masq-ing are enabled in the kernel? Regards, Onno At 10:29 AM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: >I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run >echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY >/sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously John Foster wrote: > I was referencing the kernel package. It seems to have a lot of stuff I do > not require for my i386 CPU but when I have removed/deleted some of these > from the tree in the past, it screwed up my dpkg dependencies. The kernel source package only contains a tar arch

Re: Problem with console-data package in Woody

2000-01-24 Thread David Natkins
Sorry if this has already been reported, but the console-data package in Woody (the new unstable) has a problem with the default keymap. I renamed it and used the old one and everything is ok. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick
ip masq is definately enabled in the kernel but not sure about ip forwarding. My real question is how can I diagnose the error. Where can I get a message what setting I've missed as I know this is Operator Error. Patrick

need X help, please

2000-01-24 Thread Steve Winston
Please give this newbie some advice. I have configured X to the point where I get an Enlightenment window including one open terminal window that gives me access to the command line. But I can't use any functions. When I try to open Eterm, Electric Eyes, GIMP, etc., I get messages saying they are

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Arcady Genkin said: > What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files > > foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt > > into > > blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt mmv is the way to go. It's in the mmv package (imagine that...); just install it (if you haven't already done so) and then mmv "foo-*-bar-*" b

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Big Gaute
Christian Lynbech on satellite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that > this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have > anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. > > First note that X11 distinguishes

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 01:56 PM 1/24/00 +, Patrick wrote: >ip masq is definately enabled in the kernel but not sure about ip forwarding. > >My real question is how can I diagnose the error. Where can I get a message >what setting I've missed as I know this is Operator Error. If 'ls /proc/sys/net/ipv4' yields a

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
i assume your talking about ipmasq ? did u set the gateway of the other machines to the ip of the linux box? what happens exactly? make sure your using kernel 2.2 if yer usin ipchains nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: patric >I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I

Slink or Potato

2000-01-24 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm a user who are way behind the debian upgrade. I've recently mirror the slink and plan to upgrade from my debian 1.3.1 to slink. However, I've just noticed the potato was recently frozen. I'd like to solicite you all comment on whether I should upgrade to slink or potato? Se

Re: Is it possible to Increase file number on ext2fs ?

2000-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On 24/1/2000 test wrote: I'm using kind of linux on 386 box with 40 MB hdd (8swap+32 ext2). It carries two modems and servers as Dialup server. Just now I have about 8 Mb free on hdd. But file count is nearly at its limit. So is there any way to increase possible file count for my FS ? Or I have

Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread ^chewie
I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get the correct

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Dänzer
--- Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private? Michel

RE: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems > to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, > 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in > console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get >

ISDN, Calling in, HOW?????

2000-01-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I want to be able to call in on my linux computer from both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Linux computers, the linux computer has a ISND (Teles) Card. I've tried to do it by putting a getty on a modem line (/etc/inittab) but that won't work. I think mgetty only works with anologue modems (tell me if I'm w

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now. > Firstly dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" tells me: > > FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" > ii sendmail8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent. > > which is as I e

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Khimenko Victor wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > AI> Apologies for the delay, I've been having some email trouble. Future > followups > AI> will be a lot quicker. > > AI> Khimenko Victor wrote: > > >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PR

RE: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread I can. Thank you.
you are typing with a french keymap. on the french keyboard swaps a - q, z - w, and puts some other keys in different places. i don't know enough about setting keymaps to tell you how to fix the problem, but maybe someone else knows matt On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > > > I'v

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Beranek
Tilman, could you please tell me exactly which packages did you install, beacuse when i want to install libc6_2.1.2-11.deb it says that i should update timezone package which i cannot find. Sincearlly Robi On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:34:09AM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: > Hello! > Is there any

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2000-01-24 Thread Johannes Jäschke
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Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > 1. If you are lucky and have working RAID based on stock 2.2.x (for example > > RAID 0 :-) you should be able to upgrade to 2.2.14 without big hassle. > > So upgrade to RAID 0.90 in mainstream kernel posponed to 2.4 ... > > Thanks, I will do that as soon as possible. > > > 2. RAID 0.90 need s

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Arcady Genkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files > > foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt > > into > > blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt > > Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', > and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Khimenko Victor
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adam C Powell IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AI> Khimenko Victor wrote: >> 2. RAID 0.90 need some changes in some important kernel structures and such >> changes will affect even users without RAID. >> >> RedHat 6.1 includes RAID patches anyway so I'm not sure if 2. still can

Re: Netscape -- Bus Error

2000-01-24 Thread Robert Rati
Ya, I just had a similar problem. Uninstall plugger and that should fix it. Rob On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, jason wrote: > Netscape crashed hard on me the other day.. now whenever i try to run it > from the command line i get > > >Bus Er

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Khimenko Victor
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > 1. If you are lucky and have working RAID based on stock 2.2.x (for example >> > RAID 0 :-) you should be able to upgrade to 2.2.14 without big hassle. >> > So upgrade to RAID 0.90 in mainstream kernel posponed to 2.4 ... >> >> Thanks,

Re: Batch rename files

2000-01-24 Thread Matthias Hertel
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files > > foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt > > into > > blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt > > Note, that all of the files have identical portions `foo-', `-bar-', > and `.txt' in the filenames. Different are two

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
> Ask Cox, not me :-) Since Cox is RedHat's employee it looks VERY weird to me > that RedHat's kernel and "official" Cox's kernel are two such different > beasts. 2.2.15 and the Red Hat kernel are two different things. They I suspect always will be. The things vendors want "make it work now" and

program like SuperProbe for sound?

2000-01-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
I was wondering if there was any program which would do for soundcards what SuperProbe does for graphics - in other words, go talk to the hardware, ask it what it is, and tell you everything you need to know to choose the right kernel module to run it. I have an old Packard Hell machine in which I

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread John Foster
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > The kernel source package only contains a tar archive of the kernel > source now. If you safely unpack it and then remove parts of the > unpacked source, dpkg won't care if you do that. This just happens to > be the way in which the kernel source is distributed, and ev

Blocked high ports (fwd)

2000-01-24 Thread Bradley M Alexander
Hello all, Got a problem that is driving me nuts. Sorry to have sent to both lists, but it is affecting both my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT) and my desktop (K6-2/450) machine. I installed Debian/Slink afresh on defiant (the desktop) over the weekend, and immediately upgraded it to Potato.

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

2000-01-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail > the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for > the best overall if I make it $HOME again. Argh! Okay. Does anybody want to suggest any other imap daemons that allow me to set the mailroot

Re: Removing unwanted files at installation time

2000-01-24 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:22:52PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I usually use the kernel-2.2.xx.tar.gz files from "www.kernel.org" and > make my own source package. I was suggesting eliminating the unnecessary > tree elements from the tar ball. Is that possible? I did not think > Debian would work p

Broken KBD installation

2000-01-24 Thread Pavel Epifanov
Dear All, Lately I had a trouble with keyboard mapping changed completely. It seems to me that installation script for the kbd package was broken and replace my correct /etc/kbd/default.kmap.gz by wrong one. The solution is very simple - reboot from rescue disk (or logon thru ssh) and rename/mov

Re: Slink or Potato

2000-01-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a user who are way behind the debian upgrade. I've > recently mirror the slink and plan to upgrade from my > debian 1.3.1 to slink. However, I've just noticed the potato > was recently frozen. I'd like to solicite you all comment > on whether I sho

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

2000-01-24 Thread Joe Block
Joe Emenaker wrote: > Actually, what we *really* need is some sort of consensus. I mean, it would > be pretty nice if imapd and other tools (like procmail) all looked in the > same default location without any configuration. I know Elm and Pine used > $HOME/Mail and $HOME/mail at one time. > > Sur

Re: Slink or Potato

2000-01-24 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi All, It seems to me that potato would support the latest jdk1.2.2 better than slink and I'm also need the use of jdk1.2.2 as well. In this case, I'll go for potato from hamm. Well, I just need to know one more thing, does potato support IPMASQ the same as the previous versions (ha

Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick
Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the whole thing over to Debian. Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a few tests and all seemed to work as tar xzvf recreated the files. Now

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: > Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar xzvf datstore > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode. Hopefully you didn't transfer i

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple > partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the > whole thing over to Debian. > > Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a > few tests and all seemed

Re: sgml-tools, LinuxDoc, and customization

2000-01-24 Thread Colin Marquardt
* J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> README.Debian file for sgml-tools says that version 1 is orphaned >> upstream. I take that to mean that I might not get help from the >> upstream authors. > Not sure, but I think that even the sgmltools2 is orphaned by now. Indeed. Because of lack of

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Too many people whined. If you use raid use the 0.90 patches. Unfortunately > a pile of people don't want raid 0.90 in the standard kernel, which is silly. Pfft. The current in-kernel code is junk compaired to the 0.90. I think the most correct course of a

Locate question

2000-01-24 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Sometime during updates from slink to potato the locate database is not updated any longer. Anacron is running after a reboot, but the updatedb does not locate recent files. Can somebody enlightenment me how things are workingtogether: find, locate, update, updatedb, anacron and cron. Svan

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Strange...by a stroke of pure genius, you've hit on the answer I feared most. Sigh. Thanks. Patrick - alone with thoughts of what to tell the taxman.

RE: sources.list

2000-01-24 Thread Ross Boylan
A caution: potato is not 'stable' it is 'frozen'. It is definitely not stable yet. frozen = no new packages, trying to get the bugs out (I think). > -Original Message- > From: Martin Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 1:22 PM > To: Rob Hensley > Cc: debian-

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