Re: SMP

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Sean Johnson wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > Seems to be on the PPros too > > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 > Virtual Wire

Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My friend is thinking about buying a scanner tomorrow, but I told him to let me find out if it would be possible to use in Linux. It's just an offbrand, 50$ scanner. Could we get drivers (or use it) in Debian Slink? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: gdm

2000-02-21 Thread Marshal Wong
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It looks like that the package listing and the actual files are not in sync. You probably have to wait a bit to let the files and the package listing sync up. All I can say, try again tomorrow Marshal > Hi, > > I'm trying to install gdm, but it seems that

Re: SMP

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Trying it is the best way of finding out. Just keep in mind that pretty > much any 486 is slow, and adding a second processor will mean that it's > still slower than a Pentium. Yes sure, but the problem is that the other machine is currently being use

where is lpr (or LPRng) ?

2000-02-21 Thread Steve Brown
I have newly installed slink, have an lp module, and created a printcap file and spooling directory for my HP540 deskjet. What is the command to print a file? I have read the printing HOWTO, it seems there should be an lpr command, or possibly LPRng, but I don't see any sign of them. Also doe

Re: where is lpr (or LPRng) ?

2000-02-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/20/00 04:14PM, Steve Brown wrote: > I have newly installed slink, have an lp module, and created a > printcap file and spooling directory for my HP540 deskjet. What is > the command to print a file? I have read the printing HOWTO, it > seems there should be an lpr command, or possibly LP

Squid on Slink a little sick

2000-02-21 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, We have a slink system that has been running quite nicely for some time, which acts as a pretty important server (for us, at least). One of the functions that it serves is as a proxy server, running squid (the current slink version, whatever that is). Yesterday I noticed that it had sto

DHCP clients

2000-02-21 Thread Brad
This is a question more for curiousity than anything else, but here it goes... I see several dhcp clients available: pump, dhcpcd, and dhcp-client. There's almost certainly more available that aren't debianized. I was wondering what the differences are between them, which one people recommend and

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Christian Dysthe wrote: > would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to > use squid as a proxy on my workstation. I don't think so. Here in my place, I use Squid on a Linux dial-up router, used for connecting to the Internet via 28.8K modem. I have set up

Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
Hello, Just a quick Dselect question. I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > - Squid is designed for one thing. My perception is that browsing is >faster using squid than relying on Netscape's cache. Squid is My perception is that pressing Netscape's "back" button is faster. (I set Netscape's local file cache to 0M

Re: DHCP clients

2000-02-21 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-20 18:53:22, Brad wrote: > I see several dhcp clients available: pump, dhcpcd, and dhcp-client. > There's almost certainly more available that aren't debianized. I was > wondering what the differences are between them, which one people > recommend and why. dhcp-client has a hook that e

gzip/bzip2 C library

2000-02-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Does anyone know where I can find the C libraries for gzip/bzip2, so that I can use it to read gziped files in a C program. Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Green) wrote: >Just a quick Dselect question. > >I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has >errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do >a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. > >Is there a way

Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"

2000-02-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: > You can, however, give each user her own chatscript and put it in her group > so that only she and root can read it. So each user would have its own ppp-on-script, or better yet: A global ppp-on-script in /usr/local/bin, which uses $HOME to access the user's private chatscrip

Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"

2000-02-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: > You can, however, give each user her own chatscript and put it in her group > so that only she and root can read it. So each user would have its own ppp-on-script, or better yet: A global ppp-on-script in /usr/local/bin, which uses $HOME to access the user's private chatscrip

Re: gdm

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On 20 Feb 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: > It looks like that the package listing and the actual files are not in sync. > You probably have to wait a bit to let the files and the package listing sync > up. All I can say, try again tomorrow Well, I tried that last Friday, and also this morning. O

Re: gdm

2000-02-21 Thread Marshal Wong
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Feb 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: > > It looks like that the package listing and the actual files are not in sync. > > You probably have to wait a bit to let the files and the package listing > > sync > > up. All I can say, try again tomorrow > > Well,

Re: SMP

2000-02-21 Thread John Foster
Peter Bartosch wrote: > > Hi! > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > pbruts >Yes, I've heard (she posted here once). All the documentation I've > > seen > > pbruts >for dual P5 boards, and all those that I've talked to, say that > > such a > > pbruts >machine can't exist. > >

Re: Sound Blaser Live

2000-02-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Mars Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? One option is a current ALSA: http://www.alsa-project.org Or OSS: go to http://opensource.creative.com, grab a snapshot there and follow the instructions in the docs/README* file. The only t

RE: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread John Gay
Scanners are supported under sane for Linux. I've got a AGFA Snapscan 1236S SCSI scanner and this works fine with sane, xscanimage, the X window interface and xsane, a separate X interface for sane. This also works directly as a plug-in for gimp as well. I would recommend going to : www.mostang.

enabling suexec with debian apache ...

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
hi. hopefully this isn't a cause of me failing to rtfm, but i can't find the docs on it. i want to enable suexec for the debian apache but as far as i know this is a compile time option. the debian docs discuss suexec but when i try and enable it by using the User|Group directives i get this er

problems with gnome-card-games and libguile6

2000-02-21 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I decided to grab the latest deb gnome stuff to play with a bit. I got the task stuff installed, got the regular games installed, but when I go to get the gnome-card-games deb installed, I get something like this: Unpacking libguile6 (from .../libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: er

Re: gzip/bzip2 C library

2000-02-21 Thread Brad
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:37:44AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find the C libraries for > gzip/bzip2, so that I can use it to read gziped files in a C program. i don't know about slink, but in potato/woody you can get zlib1g and libbz2. Don't forget the co

Re: Rationale behind the groups "dip" and "dialout"

2000-02-21 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > You can, however, give each user her own chatscript and put it in her group > so that only she and root can read it. Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > So each user would have its own ppp-on-script, or better yet: A global > ppp-on-script in /usr/local/bin, which uses $HOME to access the user's

Re: gzip/bzip2 C library

2000-02-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:37:44AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know where I can find the C libraries for > gzip/bzip2, so that I can use it to read gziped files in a C program. > > Thanks. > > Shao. You want: zlib1g-dev # gzip type compression libbz2-dev

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-21 Thread David Z. Maze
Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TK> I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to TK> ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so TK> dselect won't work. You sure? I see one that's probably useful in ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/b

Re: gdm

2000-02-21 Thread Oki DZ
On 20 Feb 2000, Marshal Wong wrote: > Yep! esound is up to 0.2.17-3, and I haven't had any problems > updating lately. However, I use ftp.debian.org. OK, I did apt-get update, now gdm works fine. Thanks, Oki

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
> Here is a list of searches from the apache main site about suxec AND > security: thanks but i just figured it out. all that needed to happed was to have the suid bit set on the suexec binary. # chmod 4711 /usr/lib/apache/suexec the log file shows that it is now detecting the suexec binary, a

Re[2]: OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i did have this problem and i figured out what was wrong ... and i can't > remember what it was ... it was a minor config error. one thing i had to > fix was the path the the sshd_config file in /etc/ssh. Not sure I follow you here; what path? -- Bob Ber

Re: Re[2]: OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Shand
> > i did have this problem and i figured out what was wrong ... and i can't > > remember what it was ... it was a minor config error. one thing i had to > > fix was the path the the sshd_config file in /etc/ssh. > > Not sure I follow you here; what path? during the upgrade /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re:

2000-02-21 Thread John Carline
"TaoX { Brian Hinson; }" wrote: > ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find > the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is > my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem > is... when I send messages for help

Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I've needed to upgrade Win98 to Win2000 Pro yesterday, but a side effect of that is that my Mustek scanner won't work. Apparently Mustek has refused to develop drivers for Windows 2000 because they sell to home users and Windows 2000 is a business OS. My only hope right now is that I can ge

Re[4]: OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...so ignore me :) Done! > i thought there was something else little as well going on but whatever it > was because very obvious when i killed ssh (/etc/init.d/ssh stop) and tried > to start it manuall with the -d switch (/usr/sbin/sshd -d). This last ex

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
By this point I somewhat gathered as much. So what does eth* refer to? That's what I'm asking. And what device represents eth* normally? Is it just another ttyS*? Or is it one of those other ones with wierd names? --- aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > its normal, there isn't supposed to b

enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. Since I installed debian I've been re-installing things like Enlightenment. I can't seem to find the enlightenment configuration tool though. I checked enlightenment.org but no sign of it there. What package to I need? Robert :wq! -

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
By this point I somewhat gathered as much. So what does eth* refer to? That's what I'm asking. And what device represents eth* normally? Is it just another ttyS*? Or is it one of those other ones with wierd names? --- aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > its normal, there isn't supposed to b

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0800, Fish Smith wrote: > By this point I somewhat gathered as much. So what > does eth* refer to? That's what I'm asking. And what > device represents eth* normally? Is it just another > ttyS*? Or is it one of those other ones with wierd > names? There is

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
By this point I somewhat gathered as much. So what does eth* refer to? That's what I'm asking. And what device represents eth* normally? Is it just another ttyS*? Or is it one of those other ones with wierd names? --- aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > its normal, there isn't supposed to b

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello, > > I've needed to upgrade Win98 to Win2000 Pro yesterday, but a side > effect of that is that my Mustek scanner won't work. Apparently Mustek > has refused to develop drivers for Windows 2000 because they sell to > home users an

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know. So if I get you right, eth0 is kinda like ppp? Interface, not a device? That just seems odd, the way I've seen it referred to in conversation. I knew I was missing something. > There is no relevant device for eth0. It is not a > device, it is a

Re: DHCP clients

2000-02-21 Thread Carl Fink
> For my part, i've been using pump, patched to have an option to cut down > on the amount of junk it dumps to syslog (one day it filled my 400M /var > partition... the next i patched it). Haven't had any problems other than > that. Pump adds about twenty lines a day to my syslog, unpatched. Mayb

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #322

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
>> when I send messages for help I get responses... but I have yet to >> see a question from anyone else? Am I supposed to check something, >> like a pop server or news server? or are they emailed to me? I just >> don't know what or where to go/do to see other people messages for >> this list... >

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> First question: is this a parallel port scanner? Nope. SCSI. The 'S' in 1200 LS stands for that. The Parallel Port version would be (is?) called 1200 LP. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the W

ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' and 'gnome-gv' on a number of different documents, including some system documentation which I *really* think ought to be legal, as well as piped output from mpage, eg: ps aux | mpage -2 | gv - I'm finding some articles s

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. Since I > installed debian I've been re-installing things like > Enlightenment. I can't seem to find the enlightenment > configuration tool though. I checked enlighte

RE: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread John Gay
Go to www.mostang.com/sane There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner. This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners. Cheers, John Gay

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
If you had read, I have installed enlightenment and related packages. The problem is that if you open the Gnome control panel, and go to WindowManager, you can select Enlightement, and then a configuration editor that was standalone for adding themes, etc. I just found the source to the enlight

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:03:53AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote > Hey, > > My friend is thinking about buying a scanner tomorrow, but I told him to > let me find out if it would be possible to use in Linux. It's just an > offbrand, 50$ scanner. Could we get drivers (or use it) in Debian > Slink

Re: enlightenment control-panel?

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
>I just nuked my RedHat box and installed Debian. >Since I installed >debian >I've been re-installing things like Enlightenment. I >can't seem to >find the enlightenment configuration tool though. I >checked >enlightenment.org but no sign of it there. >What package to I need? My guess is tha

[no subject]

2000-02-21 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/pub/enlightenment/enlightenment/tools/ go here and get enlightenment-conf-0.15.tar.gz this is the enlightenment configurator you are looking for... TaoX -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: '61511769' AOL IM: 'TaoX 0x1'

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread Fish Smith
> How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window >will rise to the >top >if I click on the title bar? > I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the >mouse over a >window and >have it in focus. However, I don't necessarily want >that window to >rise to >the top/foreground. I do want

Re: your mail

2000-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
I found it. Was hoping I'd find a .deb file. Atleast it's something that'll work though. Robert Thus spake TaoX { Brian Hinson; } ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ftp://ftp.enlightenment.org/pub/enlightenment/enlightenment/tools/ > > go here and get enlightenment-conf-0.15.tar.gz > > this is the en

Re: SMP

2000-02-21 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Oki DZ wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Sean Johnson wrote: > > > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > > > Seems to be on the PPros too > > > > In

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
Actually GNOME isn't a window manager... so you should look toward the window manager that runs under GNOME typically enlightenment or KDE... though any window manager that supports GNOME's hints should work with GNOME. If your windows manager is enlightenment.. then use enlightenments configuratio

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Go to www.mostang.com/sane > There you will find a link to supported scanners. I know there is a Mustek > back-end, but I don't know if it supports the 1200 LS scanner. > This will give you just about as much info there is for scanners. That's what I was afraid of because there doesn't seem to b

apt does not upgrade eterm

2000-02-21 Thread John Leget
Ive now had this happen a few time. Update local mirror ran dselect ( using apt ) and update Eterm shows up as newer version install blah blha I go back in and eterm is still listed under new updated, i confirm it wasnt installed by checking the current version on the system. Its marked for insta

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:44:43PM -0800, Fish Smith wrote > > How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window > >will rise to the > >top > >if I click on the title bar? > > > I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the > >mouse over a > >window and > >have it in focus. However, I do

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's all I had to do and this scanner was running. Oh, there were a couple of rough spots. First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support. THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX. (Why weren't they there?

Adding second IP problem

2000-02-21 Thread Chuck Peters
After installing imp with apt from frozen I want to add an IP for the webmail.axs.org. I did the usual add a ifconfig and route in /etc/init.d/network as follows: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.190.237.140 /sbin/route add -host 192.190.237.140 dev eth0:0 Works fine on the command line, but when I

Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' Following up to myself There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting a problem with gs and /etc/gs.Fontmap. The following strace exerpt run with *no*

Re: modem in bash

2000-02-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Michael Zielinski writes: > > I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working > > under Debian 2.1. > > Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and then run 'pon' to start > ppp and 'poff' to stop it. man pppconfig, man pon, man poff. > You might also try minicom or

Re: Adding second IP problem

2000-02-21 Thread Chuck Peters
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, George Bonser wrote: > > use eth0:1 for the alias Thanks, but still not working on bootup. Just changed the messages error a bit. Feb 21 02:41:25 lenape kernel: net_alias_dev_create(eth0:1): unregistered family==2 Could it be something odd about a partial upgrade to fro

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? > > Can you compare it to other alternatives? > > Network UPS Tools (was smart-ups tools). > http://www.exploits.org/nut/ > Is that debianized? The link there only leads to a .deb th

Solved: Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread kmself
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:02:16AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv' > > Following up to myself > > There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg > --set-selections' on the new one. I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself without muc

libc6 installing error

2000-02-21 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
(please cc to me, i follow this mailing list via the archives) hi, whilst upgrading my frozen-box, i got following error. chesterfield:/etc/apt# apt-get install libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0

Ipfwadm -> ipchains conversion syntax help 2.0.x -> 2.2.x

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
Hello .. Im about to go from kernel 2.0.38 to 2.2.x I have some syntax questions with regards to ipchains .. and have included below my existing IP setup in init.d/network and some local settings .. If someone could let me know the ipchains syntax .. that'd be great. Current net config .. wit

francois@ctrlaltdel.ch

2000-02-21 Thread Mikhael
Hello ! Je cherche le package mars-nwe pour potato. Je vois pas ou le trouver sur le Net (il n'apparait pas dans la database des packages Debian potato). T'as une idée ? Mercii ;-))

Is Debian going to run on my machine?

2000-02-21 Thread Rong Shen
Hi: I am thinking of doing away with Windows completely and using Debian. But Microsoft has suckered me into buying a bunch of hardware that I am reluctant to throw away. Specifically, I have (1) a printer (HP color deskjet 722C), (2) a CD burner (Memorex CDRW-1622 rewritable), (7) an ATAPI 2

conf.modules

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
Hi there, does anybody know if there is a example file which includes all possible modules? I include one that I have found on a SuSE-Distribution. Uwe# # Copyright (c) 1996-1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved. # # Author: Hubert Mantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 1996-1999 # # Confi

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:59:27AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Most SCSI scanners work under Linux, using SANE. > > USB and parallel port scanners may work with kernel 2.4 > when it comes out, which means they may also work with > some 2.3.x (development) kernels). Does it include only "SCSI ov

eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, At boot potato gives me this message eth0: unknown interface: No such device I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there a package which I can delete? Armin

mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-21 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I've to kill gpm with gpm -k before starting X or I can not use my ps2 mouse in X. That's new in potato. Switching back to a console I don't have gpm then. I'm not pleased with this. I would like have gpm and a mouse under X. In slink this was no problem. What can I do? Armin

Upgrading to potato

2000-02-21 Thread fasanti
Hi, I am going to upgrade from Debian slink 2.1 to potato. Can anybody tell me if I am wrong about the procedure? Actually, I am working with a spanish non-official Debian distribution and it includes apt-get, Kde, gnome, etc. I am not sure about the consequences of upgrading to the official distr

voodoo question

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have an old Voodoo-I (Orchid Righteous 3D) lying around here. Would I gain anything (eg better performance) if I installed it in my P166-box, especially when using snes9x? Theres something about 3dfx-support in the documentation of snes9x, but no word regarding better performance... I a

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> eth0: unknown interface: No such device > > I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have > one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there > a package which I can delete? Maybe it's enough to deactivate the following line in your "/etc/conf.modules":

samba 2.0.6 for slink

2000-02-21 Thread Przemek Bak
Hi, Is there any samba*2.0.6*deb for slink ? przemol

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-21 Thread Carl Mummert
>Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know. >So if I get you right, eth0 is kinda like ppp? >Interface, not a device? That just seems odd, the way >I've seen it referred to in conversation. I knew I >was missing something. If you know C, the following can help explain it: You cannot op

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
That has nothing to do with it and won't work (by the way, there are a lot more network cards then just ne compatible ones). What you should do is edit your /etc/init.d/network, you should make it look like something like this: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 If you want

ppp possible VJ compression problem

2000-02-21 Thread Richard Vanek \(ETM
Hello, I would like to ask you for a help with ppp connection. I was searching for past five days debian-user mailing list. I have found a lot of different solutions for different problems but I think I didn't found situation which happens on my computer. I setup Debian 2.1 from CD, I made a min

Re: afterstep

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Cormac, I'm glad to see the problem was discovered by other user as well. For days, I thought that I was the only dude uses afterstep and the only dude imagined thing :). And thank you very much for filling the bug report because I have yet to learned how to fill the bug report...

recompile kernel for IP-MASQ

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm trying to compile the kerne 2.2.14 with IP Masquerade option and I did know which options should I select for the IP Masquerade. Please help. Thanks! --- tcp

Re: mouse with gpm and X

2000-02-21 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Armin, What was the options that were supplied to the gpm by check the file in /etc/gpm.conf (in potato). If you see the line "repeat+type=". Comment this out by placing an '#' (without the quote). and stop and restart the gpm by: /etc/init.d/gpm stop and /et

.forward and exim

2000-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, This .forward will send two copies of a message addresses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to martin How can I improve on this to get them one copy each? Patrick if error_message then finish endif if $header_to:,$header_cc: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] then deliver patrick endif

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> That has nothing to do with it and won't work (by the way, there are a lot > more network cards then just ne compatible ones). > What you should do is edit your /etc/init.d/network, you should make it > look like something like this: > > #! /bin/sh > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0

Re: Scanners in Debian

2000-02-21 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp. That's > all I had to do and this scanner was running. Do you install sane-gimp1.1? Because if I install gimp1.1, then sane gets removed and if I install sane then gimp1.1 gets removed. Is there a configuration utility that comes wit

Re: .forward and exim More info

2000-02-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sends two copies to each of them.

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Well, what you said about the modules.conf would only prevent the computer from loading the module for the network card when booting. By loading in this module the interface (eth0, or if there are more network cards eth1, eth2 etc.) is known, later during boot the init.d scripts are being called (w

perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread John Davis
hello I have the latest perl for slink, but perl reports the year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? John Davis

Recommended networked filesystem structure?

2000-02-21 Thread Nils Ackermann
Hello, We have four SparcStation4 and an Ultra1. Up to now we had Solaris running, the whole System installed on every machine. I added a /usr/local hierarchy on the Ultra server with all the good stuff from GNU, and mounted it as a nfs filesystem under /usr/local on each one of the clients. No

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread webmaster
> Well, what you said about the modules.conf would only prevent the computer > from loading the module for the network card when booting. By loading in > this module the interface (eth0, or if there are more network cards eth1, > eth2 etc.) is known, later during boot the init.d scripts are being

Re: eth0: unknown interface

2000-02-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Removing the module won't work, because bye removing the module the interface eth0 still won't exist (you could say it exists even less) and the error will still occur. Renaming the scripts will work, along with editing /etc/init.d/network and another possible solution is reconfiguring the network

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "John" == John Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> hello I have the latest perl for slink, but perl reports the John> year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? Nm, have you considered adding 1900 to the returned value? 8^)= And maybe try reading the documentation for the date comma

tetex

2000-02-21 Thread Laszlo Barabas
bei der Installation von tetex-base und tetex-bin Pakete geht etwas schief fmtutil:'tex -ini -progname=latex latex.ini' failed man dachte, muss auch per "Hand" gehen mit "texconfig init " aber ging es nicht ... ..mpost.mp Datei nicht vorhanden... ... ?? ??

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread John Hasler
John Davis writes: > I have the latest perl for slink,... Exactly what version of perl? > ...but perl reports the year is 0100. Any idea what I should do? Post some code that illustrates the problem you are seeing. And read the perlfunc man page section on gmtime, especially the last sentence.

Re: Solved: Re: ghostscript errors? (gs-aladdin 5.50-8)

2000-02-21 Thread L. Peter Deutsch
> The problem is related to the TrueType font definitions for gs. > > Invoking gs with no arguments produces an error message with the bad > gs.Fontmap file. > > The problem is line 564 of gs.Fontmap. There is some garbage data in > the Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique definition line. I've

oracle8i 8.1.5

2000-02-21 Thread Vincent Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cdrom/install/linux$ ./runIns.sh Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM i have followed the redhat installation instructions from http://technet.oracle.com, which really aren't redhat-specific at all. has anybody else had thi

Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]

2000-02-21 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Here is a list of searches from the apache main site about suxec AND > > security: > > thanks but i just figured it out. all that needed to happed was to have the > suid bit set on the suexec binary. > > # chmod 4711 /usr/lib/apache/suexec > > th

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