Re: ssh passphrase

2000-04-13 Thread Brian May
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will Jens> output environment variable for a unix domain socket. Then Jens> you run ssh-add and type in your passphrase. The ssh-agent Jens> caches your key an

Re: anyone using devfs?

2000-04-13 Thread Shaun Cloherty
Ben Collins wrote: > > You need to make sure devfsd is started up before anything else. Try > installing this devfsd package I've setup: > > ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/devfsd_1.0-1_i386.deb > > Should allow you to boot with no problems. > Thanks Ben, but I forgot to mention in my origi

exim.conf: R=lookup host defer(-1) remote host address is the local host

2000-04-13 Thread Tobias Knowles
Hi, I'm trying to get mail to my generic xxx-xxx-dsl.x.net address. Literal addressing seemed to work. qualify_domain and qualify_recipient entries are identical. Is that right? Maybe it's a problem with my mail transport? It's going thru cyrus deliver. Any help? Tobias Knowles

apt-get upgrade, bad news

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
you're in a maze of twisted little twisted passages, all twisted. this is so cool--i can't purge doc-linux-html. can't install. can't do nothin'. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 110 not upgraded. (aka 'held back' according to apt-get)

can't execv?

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
now that i'm halfway through completely butchering my debian linux, several (some, not all) programs won't run, period, saying Could not execv /your/luck/has/expired/today i presume it's referring to newly-installed programs hither and yon. it certainly happens for most of the (new) binary

Re: apt-get upgrade, bad news

2000-04-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
Try dpkg -i dhelp*.deb. It may require a few other things first. Looks like doc-linux-html needs the newer version of dhelp. Alternatively: $ dpkg --remove dhelp $ apt-get dist-upgrade $ apt-get install dhelp If you're upgrading distribution level, you should use "dist-upgrade" rather than "up

Kernel compilation

2000-04-13 Thread Jay
Under the most recent Corel Linux I compiled 2.2.14 for a notebook and everything went fine. I can ping around the globe, do nslookups, and dig. I also can ping back and forth within my intranet. No worries here. However, any browser, whatsoever refuses to bring up web pages from the internet. Tel

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 - Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:11:36PM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Has anyone tried WordPerfect Office 2000? I have three days to > decide or lose a $15 discount. I am using 8 download edition and > am relatively happy, but it's obviously missing some useful > features like templates and a man

potato + apache + php 4.0b3-4 + mysql NOT working..

2000-04-13 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello. i got my system to run apache + php4 it working greate. I want to access mysql from php, so i installed the php4-mysql package too. when trying to load the mysql module, i get this message: Fatal error: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/apache/mysqlso' - /usr/lib/php4/apache/

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-13 Thread Kjetil Thuen
Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? > I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so > that i do not get to expensive bills :) > So i would like one for linux :) You might want to check out tcharge. It e

Re: receiving emial

2000-04-13 Thread ktb
Wouldn't that be /var/spool/mail ? kent - Original Message - From: Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexandre Pereira da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian list Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:40 PM Subject: Re: receiving emial > just one more question, where is my local spool dir for

Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Debian users, Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. Bug#62154 reports that Bash gives a "Permission denied" error when it should complain "No such file or directory", but neither the Bash maintainer nor I can reproduce it. Please execute the following from the command line: ./thisdoes

w3m for slink

2000-04-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I tried compiling w3m for slink. I downloaded the w3m--orig.tar.gz, dsc and diff.gz files from frozen source tree. As I noted that libgc5 is a required package, downloaded that also. I could compile and install libgc5 and libgc5-dev. But when I tried to compile the w3m source, the process abor

Re: Modem not working

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm having a bit of a problem getting my modem working under Debian > Slink 2.1, and really I'm beginning to think that I will have to do > something drastic as playing with jumpers. > > It's a SupraSST 56i PRO DF card (Diamond Multimedia), and it se

Re: Installation help

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Sunil Pandey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related > > to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a > > way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 >

ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for you)? -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·character­set·when·compos­  » ing·email·messages. 

pentium iii debian installation

2000-04-13 Thread Carlos J . Peña
Can I install the last Debian version in a Dell Dimension L550r (Pentium III)? By the way, which is the last Debian version?   Thanks in advance,    

Re: Another install on an old 486

2000-04-13 Thread John Gould
Hello there, Have you checked where the /dev/cdrom sym link points to? Do a 'cat /dev/modules' and see if the Sony cdu31a driver is loaded. HTH JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Mike Rayle wrote: > I am planning on getting a cable mode

RE: OT(sort of): hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Vitux > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:58 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: OT(sort of): hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s > > When I'm surfing the 'net and run into a .ram file, Netscape > wants to save

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:13:58PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian > non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for > you)? Looks OK to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ ping ftp.jimpick.com PING jimpick.c

Re: pentium iii debian installation

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
Yes you can. Lastest Stable: Slink (2.1) Frozen: Potato (2.2) New Unstable: Woody (2.3) Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Carlos J. Peña wrote: > Can I install the last Debian version in a Dell Dimension L550r (Pentium III)? > By the way, which is the last Debian version? > > Thanks in advanc

Re: sources of debian apps: is there a standard place?

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why do you want the source packages? For almost evry package you can find a .deb, which is a lot esier then compiling. I put my source code (only kernels actually) in /usr/src Ron Rademaker On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I noticed when trying to unpack some sources to miscellaneo

paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches of stuff in /usr/share/doc. what's the functional or intellectual distinction: /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib

majordom

2000-04-13 Thread webmaster
Hello, I have Debian Linux 2.0 witth Sendmail. I want to install majoromo. Know anyone how to install it quickly? What are the steps more important to do? The manual is obsoleted., where I can obtain other recently manual? Un saludo desde Madrid a todos los Debianeros.

Re: hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
Lee Elliott wrote: > > Hello Vitux, > > On 12-Apr-00, you wrote: > > V> Hi There. > V> I can't seem to get the cmos clock set doing: > V> hwclock --set --date="foo/bar..." > V> I figure maybe my compaq mobo has some strangeness in it's > V> CMOS?? It's a EP 6350, PII/350, using (AFAIK) a proprie

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
w trillich wrote: > > my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, > and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches > of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > > what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > /lib >

RE: OT(sort of): hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is a debian package with a realplayer installation script (or something like that), I tried it once and it worked fine... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Vitux >

perl is bent (not broke; just bent)

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. this is just after a clean

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread Maurizio Mollicone
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:48:24AM -0800, Shane wrote: > Hi, > I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. > Each time I select "Make a Boot Floppy" it > fails with "Creation of a boot floppy failed..." > I have tested this on two different machines and > several floppy diskettes. This use

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, >and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with >/etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches >of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > >what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > /lib >

Re: Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:25:36AM -0400, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Debian users, > > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. > > Bug#62154 reports that Bash gives a "Permission denied" error when it > should complain "No such file or directory", but neither the Bash > maintainer nor I can rep

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
okay, I am sorry for having provided incomplete details.. I am using Debian 2.1r5 (downloaded only yesterday) on my pentium III machine with realtek RTL8139 ethernet card. I had installed from floppy earlier.. but probably botched up a few things so decided to inst

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then put a line containing rtl8139 into /etc/modules.conf. Also make sure that the the rtl8139.o file can be found in the appropriate directory under /lib/m

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
Shouldn't modules be loaded via /etc/modules (or modconf, for that matter) in Debian? My modules.conf says "do not modify" Christian > -Original Message- > From: Robert Varga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 1:45 PM > To: Sunil Pandey > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; De

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread John Stevenson
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
Oops, my error there, of course it should be /etc/modules. Robert Varga On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Shouldn't modules be loaded via /etc/modules (or modconf, for that matter) in > Debian? > > My modules.conf says "do not modify" > > Christian > > > -Original Message

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Oswald Buddenhagen, > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still > experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" I'm by no means a kernel hacker, but I try to read Kernel Traffic pretty regularly. My impression was that NTFS support is currentl

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > w trillich wrote: > >that's somewhere else entirely! eureka! > > > > > ls -F1 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin > > cleardbdir* > > createlang* > > destroylang* > > do.maintenance* > > initdb* > > initlocation* > > ipcclean* > >

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one > machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian > distribution What about /opt? Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 - Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 13, Carl Fink scribbled: [snip] > > Or am I better off getting the commercial version of 8? > > Do you need a spreadsheet? A presentation program? Just a quick question - any luck with using non ISO-8859-1 fonts/keyboards with WP9?? I never succeeded installing ISO-8859-2 or whatever o

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Aha; have you installed postgresql-client? I split the package, >> because it is possible to have the front-end on a different machine >> from the backend. However, postgresql ought to depend on >> postgresql-client. > >that sure looks p

Re: Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I asked: > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > ask them if they are using kernel 2.3.99 (or maybe some earlier 2.3.* > kernel) there has been some notes about this on the kernel > list. apparently the kernel has a bug or `feature' where it ret

ATI RAGEIIC AGP -X won't

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
What a lot of cap's -sorry folks. I've set the damn thing up w/ both xf86config & XF86Setup, all to no avail, the Mach64-server refuses to work properly. On startx, I get loads of errors, all amounting to insufficient ram. X aborts with "no modelines available". So I take a look at it in vi, and it

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Maurizio Mollicone, > I've got the same problem, I've tried with tons of new floppies, so > I cannot create a boot floppy... I'll second (or third, or whatever) that. It successfully formats the floppy, but as soon as it goes to create the boot floppy, it fails. This is consistent accros

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread tristan misseri
Hello, I also got the same problem does any one knows how to do? - Original Message - From: "Damon Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
just like star wars, rebel fighters in the trench heading towards the exhaust port: "almost there almost there" the "apt-get --reinstall" worked really well. now there's something weird with the initlocation script, probably a setting i've got going someplace. as the initlocation script

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: | | Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with | the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then | put a line containing rtl8139 into /etc/modules.conf. | Also make sure that the t

Segmentation Fault?

2000-04-13 Thread chris mc.
Hello. I'm a new user. Installed Debian 2.1r5 base and loaded XFree86 (unsure of version...I got the one from the "current" folder on freesoftware.com). Whenever I try to run X, or SuperProbe, or any other item in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder, I get a Sementation Fault error. What am I doing wrong?

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian--THE WINNER

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
i was beginning to think it'd never get to this: _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >just like star wars, rebel fighters in the trench heading towards >the exhaust port: "almost there almost there" > >the "apt-get --reinstall" worked really well. > >now there's something weird with the initlocation script, probably >a setting i've got going

Re: installation problem

2000-04-13 Thread Serena Peters
I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format ! What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ? Serena -Original Message- From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Serena Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org ; debian-testing@lists.debian.org

OT: perl/processes

2000-04-13 Thread Brian Clark
Sorry for the extra mailbox trash.. Bone-headed question of the week: Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd? I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid.. Brian

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000: Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Jonathan Markevich
> Has anyone tried WordPerfect Office 2000? I have three days to > decide or lose a $15 discount. I am using 8 download edition and > am relatively happy, but it's obviously missing some useful > features like templates and a manual. It's okay. Very buggy, but with more features, including some

Dialin using ppp and using ipx and ip protocol. cant get it to work.

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Gielen
Hi,   I want to use my linux box to provide a dailup and providing an ipx stack to talk to the novell resources on my local network.   IP works fine but having trouble with the ipx protion. I have ipxd running and configured the option file for the dialin port. I also compiled my kernel with

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2000-04-13 Thread Schroeder, Aaron
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php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, I'm looking to see if anyone has php3-pgsql working against postgresql 7 (from the unstable tree). I had it all working nicely under potato, but I saw that postgresql 7 was out, and I _really_ need foreign keys. (A lack of referential contraints is what got the old database here in trouble.)

FontSet problem

2000-04-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I run gv, I got the following warning message. I think I am missing some package, but I don't know what it is. [23:46|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % gv ass1_report.ps Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any us

Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file

2000-04-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 04 Apr 2000 15:52:28 +0200, you wrote: >* "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was missing sensors and w83781d. On the P5A, it now works. However, >> the temperature values are grossly off, reporting a "temp3" of 208.5 >> Centigrade... > >Same here. I think, temp3 is the connect

Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-13 Thread Henry Kleynhans
Hi all, I'm pretty new to Debian, still used to Redhat's click and it's all installed method of doing things. Can someone please enlighten me on how to get Gnome and Enlightenment setup together ? Thanks in advance, Regards, Henry.

RE: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
The (F)ilesystem (H)ierarchy (S)tandard tries to standardize the various paths and offers exhaustive explanations. It makes an interesting read, I think. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Christian > -Original Message- > From: w trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2

Re: Dial In Server setup

2000-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Denis J. Cirulis" wrote: > > Hello ! > > I'm running Debian 2.2 frozen and want to set up dial in server both for > shell logins and ppp. > > I've edited /etc/inittab and all the stuff in mgetty.conf , login.conf > When i'm dialing the server modem is answearing but nothing happens. > > Where

Re: perl is bent (not broke; just bent)

2000-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
w trillich wrote: > > install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load > '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module > DBD::Pg: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: > undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. >

Re: generating changelog files

2000-04-13 Thread r3ck
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I briefly looked at the man page for cvs-buildpackage and it does a lot > of stuff! The only thing is that I am not interested in building debian > packages but maybe in building source tarballs. Can cvs-buildpackage > build source tarballs and manage

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-13 Thread Felix Natter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: > I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My "manual" that came > with the CD, "Learning Debian Gnu/Linux" has a section on using GNOME. > > Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: home > directory icon and File Manage

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: > I think I am already doing that, althought I may not have done it > correctly. I edited "Xsession" and added the lines: > fvwm2 & > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session > I also tried adding the line: > gmc & > but that didn't make any difference. > Did I leave s

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Thompson
Kent perhaps you want something like this # # ###/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/up-time-sh #!/bin/sh rdate -s timelord.uregina.ca #use your own timeserver echo -e "#\nOnline: `date`" >> /var/log//online echo -e "`date +%s%t`\c" >> /var/log//online #

Re: installation problem

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Serena Peters wrote: > I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format ! > > What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ? Hmmm, that'll teach me to respond when I'm in a hurry, maybe. :/ Installing from a CD, but getting an error about a floppy, co

...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

2000-04-13 Thread Jeff Gordon
When 'diald' runs, it creates /var/run/diald.fifo and diald.pid. The accompanying X monitoring/control program, 'dctrl', evidently gets its information by way of diald.fifo. Is there some way I can engage in conversation (or eavesdropping) with diald.fifo, so that I can see on a designated tty sc

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000: Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:02:38AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > >Yes, but it's faster than StarOffice. > > Excellent! On what sort of machine? Cyrix M2-300 wth 128 MB of RAM. Potato system, kernel 2.2.13. According to the WINE newsgroup, it isn't fully compatible with XFree86 4.0, so if

HELP: proc mounts itself on /dev????

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i have a machine that is in a strange state since i conjunctily upgraded to a 2.3.99-3 kernel and a second ethernet card /dev is destroyed on every reboot, and what may be found inside seem to be parts of /proc, /proc beeing empty. thus the kernel stops booting remaining in single

Laptop PPP/Ethernet

2000-04-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've installed potato on a laptop and want it to be able to have a PCMCIA Ethernet connection and be capable of a direct PPP connection (without a modem). During the installation, I configured PCMCIA and then the network parameters for the Ethernet interface. I included PPP when configuring the dri

debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). -- Sunil Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doubt is a programmer's BEST enemy. pgpQo4utCet04.pgp Descript

Re: HELP: proc mounts itself on /dev????(addition)

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> /dev is destroyed on every reboot, and what may be found inside seem to be > parts of /proc, /proc beeing empty. thus the kernel stops booting > remaining this seems not true, i suspect that /proc is mounted on /dev since the same happens when i modify the content on /dev and make a hard res

Was WordPerfect Opinions?--Now FreeWWWeb

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > Has anyone tried WordPerfect Office 2000? I have three days to > > decide or lose a $15 discount. I am using 8 download edition and > > am relatively happy, but it's obviously missing some useful > > features like templates and a manual. > > It

Re: sources of debian apps: is there a standard place?

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:54:17AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Why do you want the source packages? For almost evry package you can find > a .deb, which is a lot esier then compiling. I'm a programmer. I compile for fun :-) I've already installed from .deb; I wanted to look at the source code f

encrypted files system

2000-04-13 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I would like to have a portion of my filesystem encrypted. I've got a laptop, and I'd like to protect a portion of the filesystem on the off chance someone steals my laptop. Essentially, I'd like to have a password required to access a dir and all subdirs. The dir contains code, so it's not

Re: OT: perl/processes

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: > Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to > check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd? > > I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid.. ---end quoted text--- It's O

Re: php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andrew Sullivan wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking to see if anyone has php3-pgsql working against postgresql 7 >(from the unstable tree). I had it all working nicely under potato, but I >saw that postgresql 7 was out, and I _really_ need foreign keys. (A lack of ... >Does the module need to

Re: JavaScript and JAVA

2000-04-13 Thread Angus Claydon
I can corroborate this too; Actually just now Netscape got further than last time in legitimately getting to my online bank account, even so far as accepting the verisign certificate needed for authentification. The documentation with the account doesn't list linux or any of the Unixes in system r

Re: Success story: potato on Sparc Classic

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:00:40AM +0200, BAUDIN Maxime wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:08:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > is that X doesn't work yet (I get a white screen, and the server says > > something about not being able to load PEX fonts), but I'll first check > > the mailing list arch

Re: cleaning lost+found on boot

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:02:55PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > Is there a real good reason for cleaning the files out of /lost+found on > bootup? > > In /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: > > # Wipe /tmp (and don't erase `lost+found', `quota.user' or `quota.group')! > # Note that files _in_ lost+found _are_

Re: encrypted files system

2000-04-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:24:42 -0700, Michael O'Brien wrote: > I would like to have a portion of my filesystem encrypted. Probably the easiest way is to build a kernel with encrypted filesystem support using the 'kernel-patch-int' package available from non-US. If you only need to encrypt part

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:36:35PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > > > /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to > > one > > machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian >

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread Meinolf Sander
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One > question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a > newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). You can run 2.1r5 with a e.g. 2.2.14 kernel without an

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread John Kuhn
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > > I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One > > question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a > > newer version of kernel (say like

apt-get upgrade <=> potato?

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
hi ("it's me again, margaret--i'll bring the weedwhacker, the rubber chicken and the peach preserves!"). if a debianist were to do a whole # apt-get update (with /etc/apt/sources.list indicating frozen) and then an entire # apt-get upgrade (iterating thru hell and back ironing out

Re: exim.conf: mail delivery notices go to bjb@isp instead of bjb@localhost

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:59:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Brenda J. Butler said: > > qualify_domain = achilles.net # my isp > > You need to also set qualify_recipient to either "localhost" or a name that > your machine recognizes as referring to itself. If qualify_recipient is not > set,

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > | > | Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with > | the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then > | put a line containing rtl81

Auto-Login

2000-04-13 Thread Fish Smith
A while back I inquired as to how I would go about setting my machine to automatically login on startup and start and X console. Somebody said to use wdm and configure it to automatically login. I know have wdm installed and I would like to know specifically what line in the config file to change

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian--THE WINNER

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
(on-list again) On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:26:03PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > (off list) > > > > While it's always rewarding to get something that was broken to work, > > it's usually more illuminating for the rest of the world to find out > > some details of

postgresql-test... NOT

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
# su postgres > cd /usr/lib/postgresql/test/regress > make runtest MULTIBYTE=UNICODE;export MULTIBYTE; \ /bin/sh ./regress.sh linux 2>&1 | tee regress.out ./regress.sh: ../../config.guess: No such file or directory === Notes... = postmaster m

Re: apt-get upgrade <=> potato?

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
No reboot, no new kernel. Just use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to potato. Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > hi ("it's me again, margaret--i'll bring the weedwhacker, the > rubber chicken and the peach preserves!"). > > if a debianist were to do a whole > # ap

Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's Office 2000? Snooping around in the editors, misc, text processing, and utils sections of the package tree didn't turn up anything, and a search of the ML archive for Word or Office 2000 was equally revealing (but maybe I was s

Re: Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-13 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Henry Kleynhans wrote: > I'm pretty new to Debian, still used to Redhat's click and it's all > installed > method of doing things. Can someone please enlighten me on how to > get Gnome and Enlightenment setup together ? > Create or edit the .xsession file in the user's hom

Re: receiving emial

2000-04-13 Thread Nick Barron
hello list: i am getting the following error when attempting to send email to my server: Error reading SMTP packet. ( this comes in the return of email) i have exim installed and the following line in etc/inetd.conf smtp stream tcp nowaitmail /usr/sbin/exim -bs --from your friend b

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Paul Huygen
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's > Office 2000? Yes. It is part af a software package called Office 2000, and it's sold by Microsoft. (Un)fortunately they have not ported it to Linux. So, there are two possibilities: 1

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's > > Office 2000? > > Yes. It is part af a software package called Office 2000, and it's > sold by Microsoft. (Un)fortunately they have not

woody smbmount smbmnt mount

2000-04-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
I can't mount samba shares anymore, somthing happened in woody not sure when maybe Sunday, mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=elmo mount error: Invalid argument Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mo

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > The debian cd should contain the rtl8139.o file. It should install it, if > you select the rtl8139 module during the kernel module configuration phase > of the installing. If you want to reconfigure the installed modules of the >

Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings to the list, I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the follow

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