Re: compiling a kernel

2000-09-06 Thread ktb
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > I am a newbie, and am curious as to what exactly compiling a kernel does > for me. > > I have some vague impression that it does something like make your OS > run better on your machine or allow you to add in and remove support for > stuff. > > Simply put,

Re: How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-06 Thread Brendan J Simon
Don't worry I figured it out. I didn't have a trailing / after propose-updates. ie. I had deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates instead of deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Brendan Simon. Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'm running some Po

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub > floppy on the Easy Guide is broken. So where do I get the GRUB floppy image > from? > > Also, is there anything I should watch out for with reagrds to e2fsprogs > versions? I

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:20:42PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not > > exist on my system. > > I've been trying to address this, am somewhat stymied by my o

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:22:12AM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to log the interaction between minicom and modem > similar to what chat sends to ppp.log and syslog? > > Ever since I upgraded to potato last weekend chat hasn't gotten along > with my modem (ext

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:56:10PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > > Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub > > floppy on the Easy Guide is broken. So where do I get the GRUB floppy image > > from? > > > > Also, is

Re: Helix and Galeon

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:59AM -0400 or thereabouts, Joey Tsai wrote: > > I don't think there is a Galeon Debian package, in either Debian "proper" or > from Helixcode. I heard Helix was going to package it, but I also heard it oh there is. lookie in http://silverchair.futureks.net/~solomon

Re: WP5.1 under DOSEMU uses 100% CPU all the time

2000-09-06 Thread kmself
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:06:02AM +0200, I. Tura ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi to all, > > After configuring DOSEMU I've started running WP5.1 for DOS there. > Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the > CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Purging and re-installing ipmasq resulted in networking with masquerading now working again (I still don't know how it broke). On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:06:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I rebooted today and started getting the same messages (lots of them!) > All networking ceased to work. I r

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:28:33AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > Another question relating to FS layout and organization: which > partitions should be mounted NOSUID ? Someone on another (local) mailing > list recommended that I mount /home NOSUID as a security precaution. the better question is

Re: Firewall message in /var/log

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:46:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Barry Samuels wrote: > Can anyone tell me why I should keep getting this message in my > /var/log/messages (I'm afraid I don't speak ipchains): > > kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 192.14.17.1:513 > 192.14.17.255:513 L=136 S=0x00

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-06 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > > On 05-Sep-2000 Carlos Laviola wrote: > > Hello people, > > > > I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for > > posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in > > a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I a

Re: downloading debian GNU/Linux 2.2

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:48:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Go to > ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/ > > Get all base*, recue*, root*, driver* you only need two diskette images - rescue.bin and root.bin the res

Re: [SLU] Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:23:22PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > > Ok, here's a dumb one.. How do you find a file directory that starts with > > a dot?.. Are they hidden?.. I know the location is: /home/shel/.netscape , > > but when I look for it, all I see is: /hom

Re: Compiling VMware 2.0.2

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:53:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Install either the 2.2.17 source or kernel-headers-2.2.17pre-whatever > (I expect that since 2.2.17 has been released, there will soon be a new > version). yup i got it to compile now. thx to all who replied. ---

Re: installing openssh

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:23:14PM -0400 or thereabouts, Scott wrote: > hi, was noticing that on the news update titled "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, > the "Joel 'Espy' Klecker" release, is officially released" openssh is > listed as one of the new software packages. i can't seem to find the > openssh p

Re: autolog error message

2000-09-06 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:19:37AM -0300, Ariel O. Garcia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A second question: I would like to have autolog close idle > console logins (/dev/tty's, that works ok), idle telnets into that > machine and idle X_sessions (:0 for instance) but _not_ xterms inside :0 > Both

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-06 Thread Federico Grau
Ok folks, thanks for your help so far. Next questions, 1) I added ( deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main ) to my sources.list file... I briefly checked (re-ran apt-setup) to see if I could use my local mirror (tux.org) for the security updates... but it appears this section is not

Silly modules question

2000-09-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
So, I've set up a number of modules, including ALSA (built from source, not the deb package), etc. so I understand the structure of /etc/modutils and update-modules, etc. I have an old Adaptec 1522 SCSI card in my system that's just used to drive my old SyQuest EZDrive. I can't figure out how to

TCP/IP Receive Window

2000-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I just had DSL installed and was told to adjust the DefaultReceiveWindow in the windows registry. This dramatically improved performance. To be clear, my understanding of the setting is this. It defines the amount of data which can be sent before an ACK must be received. The logic is the o

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
Wayne, > It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's > stability, but our > ISP has a contractor who's opinion is "Red Hat's the best, > thats why they > are so popular." I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own It is my experience most people feel whatever they ar

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:30:12AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > Generating a new key would be the best solution, that's right. But have a look > at the " yourkey" menu. [You could add an uid () and > then > delete the old one (surprise: ] except if you already have uploaded to a keyserver you won't b

Re: Problems rebooting after compiling a new kernel

2000-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Rajesh" == Rajesh Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rajesh> (Then I moved /lib/modules/2.2.17 to /lib/modules/2.2.17.old) Please note that this location shall not be used by either your old kernel, nor you new one. May I humbly suggest kernel-package, and specifically point yo

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: itz> window manager, and at present the only window manager with full itz> support for Gnome seems to be Enlightenment, AKA `E'. Joachim> That's nonsense, many window managers have Gnome support now, Joachim> e.g. icewm-gnome, wmake

Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim

2000-09-06 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:10:10PM -0700, Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:20:42PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:25:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is still broken: user `karsten' does not >

Sound Card CMI8738 (C-Media) and missing cdrom drive??

2000-09-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Hi folks - I'm on Debian Potato and I'm trying to set up for sound. My sound card is a CMI8738. Has anyone managed to get one of these working, and if so which driver did you use? on related topic:- during boot-up I'm getting a "No CD-Rom drive found" message, as below > sn

Re:"Joe" editor

2000-09-06 Thread Adrian Nims
The command "apt-get install joe" gave me the follwing answer: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package joe What can I do next ? Adrian Nims

R: staroffice .bin

2000-09-06 Thread marco frattola
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Andrew Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You mean to tell me (and the debian-user list) that > the .bin file for Star > -office that I downloaded is executable? yes, it is. you have to chmod it if it's not > What does it _do_ when you execute it? it

horde: install problem

2000-09-06 Thread Joel Gautschi
hi, if i try to install the horde debian package (horde 2:1.2.0-12) for debian unstable i get the following warning: --- Working, please wait...Checking non-HORDE config files WARNING You stated your using PostgreSQL as a database and that it is local yet the install program canno

how to reconfigure a package? (debconf)

2000-09-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, due to some bug, when debconf starts up the key is devalidaded, so upgrading of my machine is impossible i wanted to change the setting for debconf... but couldn't figure how to force reconfiguration of a package -- ciao bboett =

rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Jaume Teixi
thank you Craig, I've setup Document Root for each virtual host on /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com I made stats for each virtual host on /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com On Apache I want to forward http://virtualhost1.com/stats to /var/reports/virtualhost1.com I've setup: Alias

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-06 Thread Willi Dyck
> on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:59:25PM -0700, Nate Amsden sent 1.1K bytes on > their merry way: > > not sure what kernels your using but: > I am using kernel 2.2.16. > I'm using 2.2.17 (woody) > > > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to > put > > a DNS on the masq mac

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-06 Thread Willi Dyck
> Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > not sure what kernels your using but: > > > > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to > put > > a DNS on the masq machine and point machines to it instead, this was > not > > the case in 2.0 where it was able to masq without

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:40:43AM +0300 or thereabouts, Adrian Nims wrote: > The command "apt-get install joe" gave me the follwing answer: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package joe > > What can I do next ? > what you do next is give us

new machine froze, how to debug

2000-09-06 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW. Where should I start looking? -chris

Re: Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works > > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape > > > packages for 4.75. Anyon

Re: TCP/IP Receive Window

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Paul McHale wrote: > I just had DSL installed and was told to adjust the DefaultReceiveWindow in > the windows registry. This dramatically improved performance. To be clear, > my understanding of the setting is this. It defines the amount of data > which can be sent before an ACK must be receiv

Re: Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks for reply. Now the question is, which netscape package(s) should > I ask for? When I upgraded via proposed-updates I got some version of > netscape-base4.75 (can't remember which), but there are numerous > netscape packages on the site and I don't know which to tel

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Federico Grau wrote: > - I am disturbed that it does not tell me the package names before performing >the upgrade (if I recall correctly, normal "apt-get upgrade"s do)?! that one i can't answer it'd be nice if it did! i get the same .. > > - What is the significance of "communicator being

Re: compiling a kernel

2000-09-06 Thread Paul McNally
When you install Linux it comes with a stock kernel and a ton of device drivers. You want to compile a kernel to cut down to the device drivers you need. If you'd like pointers to documentation, send me an email. Paul

Re: new machine froze, how to debug

2000-09-06 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:53:08AM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook > in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine > frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW. > Where should I st

Re: new machine froze, how to debug

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook > in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine > frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW. > Where should I start looking? > -chris you can start specifying all the hardwa

Re: Sound Card CMI8738 (C-Media) and missing cdrom drive??

2000-09-06 Thread Frederik
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Hi folks - I'm on Debian Potato and I'm trying to set up for > sound. My sound card is a CMI8738. Has anyone managed to get > one of these working, and if so which driver did you use? Well, I succeeded after I recompiled the kernel with the sound car

Funny login comment...

2000-09-06 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, just after I managed to get my cable modem working under linux I noticed some funny things started happening to my computer. For example, when I login it gives me the message: "PAM_unix[390]: (login) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)" and then after the login message it says: "logi

Re: LILO-rific

2000-09-06 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:15:56PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote > Hello, > > Set boot to /dev/hda (the MBR) and your setup should work just fine. > > Tal > If you're really paranoid, you can use it as-is; you just have to use fdisk (linux or windows) to make /dev/hda3 (and only /dev/hda3) active/boo

Re: Netscape 4.75 problems

2000-09-06 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:20:04PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote > On 05 Sep 2000, Dale L . Morris wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I am currently running 4.73 Netscape from potato and it works > > fine. But when I do the apt-get upgrade it ignores the netscape > > packages for 4.75. Anyone know why? >

Re: "Joe" editor

2000-09-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Do apt-get update first, so that it loads all available packages. Make sure first that you have all needed entries in your sources.list for apt-get. Adrian Nims wrote: > The command "apt-get install joe" gave me the follwing answer: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree...

Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome (using Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome is really supposed to look and I like what I saw. So my question

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Malewski
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome > (using > Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I > booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome > is really suppos

Problem with the instalation!!!

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Antoniac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org, I have huge problems with installing the packages from potato. It seems that /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is corrupted gzip file: invalid data crc error. I tried in vary ways to fix it myself but

Re: Problem with the instalation!!!

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:52:31PM +0300 or thereabouts, Peter Antoniac wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org, > > I have huge problems with installing the packages from potato. > It seems that /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages

nfs module

2000-09-06 Thread Major Sébastien
Hi, I take nfs-kernel-server, the nfsstat prog say : Warning: /proc/net/rpc/nfs: No such file or directory Why ? nfs module is not loaded, so I wrote : modprobe nfs. Which alias command must appear in /etc/modultils/aliases to correct this trouble. The kernel function is request_module an

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-06 Thread avner zrihen
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Netscape Bookmarks [solved!!]

2000-09-06 Thread Shel Johnson
Ok, this is what I did.. I copied win9x netscape file, Bookmark.htm, to file /.netscape renaming it to bookmarks.html .. it was that simple.. next for fun, I transferred my address book because the file name is the same for both.. In a few weeks, Mr Gates can kiss my a$$!!.. Thanks everyone for you

URL for mysql slink binaries

2000-09-06 Thread USM Bish
>From where could I download mysql server and client (binary distributions) for "Slink" ?The ones on the debian mirrors now, appear to be for "potato". USM Bish

RE: 2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-06 Thread felix opare
please unsubscribe me . I do not want to be part of this. -Original Message- From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:14 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.2 -> Woody On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:02PM -0700, Kyle Lynch wrote:

Source directory

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi everybody, Which is the proper place to uncompress and compile source code that will be installed on /usr/local without any deb? It's /usr/src or /usr/local/src? For example, any program that I download from internet in .tar.gz file where should be uncompressed to follow debian policy (one of

Woody --> potato?

2000-09-06 Thread Andre Berger
Is there anything like apt-get dist-downgrade? -- Andre

apt-get upgrade size mismatch question

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
hello all, i'm having a small problem with apt-get and was wondering if anyone can help out. i'm running woody by the way. everyday i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, but i always get these errors when performing the upgrade. Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/debian/dists/woody/main

Re: sound

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:59:37AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > Hey guys, I finnally got Debian 2.2 installed and running on my laptop. > > My biggest problme was X, Why can't these companies just use normal > video chipsets? > Anyhow, it's working!!! > > I have a ess solo sound card. I insta

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Åsmund Ødegård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-cache pkgnames | grep task may be suitable for you? Maybe more suitable/easier: $ apt-cache search task Greetings, joachim

installation problems

2000-09-06 Thread Anderson, James H \[IT\]
I'm still working my way thru a first installation and am having a few problems. 1) Using apt-get I upgraded my _working_ pcmcia (LAN) stuff. I stupidly didn't bother configuring during the upgrade, thinking that my config file was already built, so there was no point. Of course the latest pcmcia

Re: how to reconfigure a package? (debconf)

2000-09-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:15:13AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > due to some bug, when debconf starts up the key is devalidaded, > so upgrading of my machine is impossible i wanted to change the > setting for debconf... but couldn't figure how to force reconfiguration > of a package ma

Re: cable modem: does my hostname matter?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:59:18AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put > cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks > like this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 24.115.135.172cr275960-a cr275960-a.crdva1.

Update Debian Slink->Potato: Problems with Soundblaster AWE64 and kernel 2.2.x

2000-09-06 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hallo! I have a weird problem with Debian 2.2: Since I updated my system from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2, sound doesn't work anymore. - Debian 2.1: Sound is fully functional with kernel 2.0.x and kernel 2.2.x (I tested one of my backups to make sure). - Update to Debian 2.2: Sound through /dev/dsp

thx to all, the firewall is running !

2000-09-06 Thread webmaster
Thanks to all, giving me tips to set up and configure my firewall !

any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello! have anyone ever managed to get sound working with ES1869 sound card? I've been using RedHat and gave up with it. Since recently I installed Debian 2.2 and got the same problem again. Do any of you know the way out or maybe there is a place somewhere to read about configuring a sound car

How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Adrian Nims
How do I start | stop a daemon under debian ? I have Debian 2.2 Potato. I understand that I have to use "ln -s" in order to start a daemon automatic after reboot. Is it the same for stopping forever a daemon that was set up to start after reboot ?

Re: dist-upgrade

2000-09-06 Thread luke
I checked my hostname files after booting off the rescue disk, and everything seems normal. Any other ideas? On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:09:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... >On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:32:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: >> Okay, I had potato on my computer and decided to upg

RE: How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
adrian, daemons are located in /etc/init.d to start lpd for example # /etc/init.d/lpd start to stop # /etc/init.d/lpd stop to control which runlevel a daemon is stopped/started automatically, use the command update-rc.d. as an example: # update-rc.d -f lpd add hope this helps you out! Jas

Re: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:24:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all Debians! > > I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home > (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always > have an extra partition to run an extra Linux distribution for t

/etc/rcx.d... how should be setup?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I would like to ask a question that has come to my mind... How should be the /etc/rcx.d directories managed ? (replace x with a number) I currently have runlevel 2 with gdm set and 3 without it. But is it there any program in debian that could manage this without breaking the package syst

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:20:49PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:56:10PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > > > Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub > > > floppy on the Easy Guide is

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:14:21PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub > floppy on the Easy Guide is broken. So where do I get the GRUB floppy image > from? Install the grub woddy package and then 'info grub'. You will find in

Re: why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:51PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Simply because the -l option links static libraries, those which end in .a and not dynamic ones (.so). When you try to compile with libcrypt, it not uses the one in /lib; it uses the /usr/lib/libcrypt.a instead. The same happens wi

RE: /etc/rcx.d... how should be setup?

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
Use the command update-rc.d, you can easily manage the rc directories with it jason > > > Hi all, > > I would like to ask a question that has come to my mind... > > How should be the /etc/rcx.d directories managed ? (replace x with a > number) > I currently have runlevel 2 with gdm set and 3 with

Portuguese charsets and fonts

2000-09-06 Thread Leonardo Dias
There's something wrong with Debian kbdconfig and kbd package. I've tried this more than once: I choose the br-abnt2 keymap using kbdconfig. The keymap is loaded and dead keys starts working. Only that whenever I try to do a "'a", for example, it doesn't return a "á". I've tried changing fonts and

Running X from /usr/local

2000-09-06 Thread scott worley
Hi, I built XFree86 4.0.1 from source and installed into /usr/local with ProjectRoot=/usr/local/X11R6 and EtcX11Directory=ProjectRoot/etc. When I run /usr/local/X11R6/bin/startx I don't believe I'm starting X 4.0.1. This startx has on its last line xinit ... without any path. Since my default

Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread racuti1
Dear Developer, Technician, User, etc...,   I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however does not work. I have tried to configure it in the xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs from the Logitech 3-button/scroll-wheel trackmarble to a

teTeX output looks bad. Any ideas?

2000-09-06 Thread Debian User
Hello fellow Debian users, I've recently did a clean install of stable, and I've run into a problem. The problem is that LaTeX/dvips-produced PostScript files, when printed appear to be at a lower resolution than they really are. More specifically, it looks like the fonts produced by MetaFont

supported hardware

2000-09-06 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
I am thinking of installing Debian on my PC. Could somebody send me a list of supported hardware? Thanks, Dimitar

Strange Post-install linkage Potato to RH6.2

2000-09-06 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I've just installed Potato onto my laptop in a multi-boot configuration. With LILO only configured for Potato on /dev/hda2 I can reboot with no problems but once LILO is configured for Win98 on /dev/hda1 and RH6.2 on /dev/hda5 modprobe complains about "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modu

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thank you Craig, > I've setup Document Root for each virtual host on > /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com > > I made stats for each virtual host on > /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com > > On Apache I want to forward http://virtualhost1.com/stats to > /var/re

Netscape Network Print Command

2000-09-06 Thread complaw
Okay, this may not be the best forum, but I know that some of you have run into this before... I'm using Netscape on a network. I have a printer set up (lp35) to which I can print things just fine from, say, enscript (using -Plp35). However, the same -Plp35 returns an "unrecognized option" error

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Morten Liebach
On 6, sep, 2000 at 02:13:18 +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome > (using > Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I > booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome > i

RE: supported hardware

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
If your hardware is listed somewhere on this page, debian will work http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Jason > > I am thinking of installing Debian on my PC. > Could somebody send me a list of supported hardware? > Thanks, > Dimitar > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscrib

.bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, Ghost here. Recently switched from ksh to bash and have a question. When I open up an Eterm, it does not seem to be reading my .bashrc properly. For one, I have the lines: eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls --color' # set a fancy prompt PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\'> Basical

RE: .bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Pollywog
Put in your user .bash_profile: source $HOME/.bashrc On 06-Sep-2000 Debian Ghost wrote: > > Also, wish to have my ls = ls --color. Both of these things are not > working. It almost seems as if my .bashrc is ignored. > > Can anyone give bash advice? > > Thank$ a lot! > > Debian Ghost > > 'spa

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew Porter
I had this problem; it went away when I purged gpm; gpm, as configured in Debian (but not in Redhat) interferes with X's mouse. - andrew porter, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with XFree86 4.0.1 and Gnome-calendar

2000-09-06 Thread James Carscadden
Hi there.., I am having trouble running gnome calendar under XFree86 v 4.0.1. I get the error: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 This repeats a few times then the program segfaults. Same thing happens with gmc and

Re: .bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dg> Ghost here. Recently switched from ksh to bash and have a question. dg> When I open up an Eterm, it does not seem to be reading my .bashrc dg> properly. dg> Can anyone give bash advice? The bash man page is _VERY_ comprehensive and well-wri

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Jaume Teixi
thanks Erdmut now on my rule 've RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/var/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] on the rewrite log I see: rewrite /stats -> /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com/ '/var/reports/virtualhost1.com/' to get passed through to next API URI-to-filename handler and then appears a 404

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Preben Randhol
racuti1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/09/2000 (15:52) : > Dear Developer, Technician, User, etc..., > > I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however > does not work. I have tried to configure it in the > xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackba

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Marcus Crafter
Hi! On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, racuti1 wrote: > I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however > does not work. I have tried to configure it in the > xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs from the > Logitech 3-button/scroll-wheel trackmarble to a

OT - I/O and CPU load

2000-09-06 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I'm sorry that this is off-topic, but I think many people here would be able to answer this question easily. The unix system in my research center has a file server with 4 CPUs. I don't know all the specifics of the machine, but my question is rather general anyway. Basically, the file s

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Willi Dyck wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > I don't understand the world (Debian)anymore. > > > > As soon as I compile things like > > > > - ip firewalling > > > > - ip masquerading > > > > - ip forwarding into the kernel, I can't ping any ho

X don't work

2000-09-06 Thread Adrian Nims
I want to make X work under Debian. I have Debian 2.2 Potato with kernel 2.2.17. After I removed gpm, after I configured X with xf86config (after SuperProbe saw my S3 Trio3D/2x with 4096 Kbytes of RAM video board), X start and freeze. You have attached the output of X at start in x.out and XF86Conf

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Jaume Teixi
problem is that Document Root for each virtual host is on /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com and I'm trying to forward http://www.virtualhost1.com/stats to /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com so rewrite rule RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/var/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] really looks for /

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Gray
Paul, > > > It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's > > stability, but our > > ISP has a contractor who's opinion is "Red Hat's the best, > > thats why they > > are so popular." I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own > > It is my experience most people feel

mIRC

2000-09-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks!

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