Re: Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install

2000-10-18 Thread Julian Stoev
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Mark Mohrmann wrote: |Good Afternoon: | |Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5. |I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and |SUN hardware. | |Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. It works well. I did this and install

Where are manpages about libc?

2000-10-18 Thread Chung, Ha-Nyung
I couldn't find out the package containing manpages for libc, I think. i.e. printf(3), scanf(3), etc Where are they? -- Chung, Ha-Nyung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if you'd like to pick it up, I'd be happy to see that. :) I'm trying to figure out how to build debs right now, because I develop using jde (which needs a maintainer

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-18 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake Tim Wood: > Hello, > I'm running potato on a desktop and a laptop using > ice-wm/gnome in X. > > The laptop is set in the bios to blank the screen and that's fine. > > The desktop screen blanks in console but not in X. I'm trying to w

Re: What documentation and what order

2000-10-18 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:34:52PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and > have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a yard to mow this > becomes a less viable option. > > This is a problem I have with Linux

RE: oracle8i ... and privacy

2000-10-18 Thread Bernd Kulawik
Hello, I just registered there ... and got a confirmation e-Mail back with my password in clear letters ... ... and the advice, to change the password as often as possible because: "This is one of the best methods of protecting your privacy." I think, they are serious !!! So, if anybody on

HELP - voodoo 3 trouble

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, when i try to run test3Dfx on my dual celery550 (debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.0-test9), it reports: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.60.00.0415 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board

Adding local gnome-applets

2000-10-18 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, today I checked for some useful panel-applets for my GNOME desktop. I tried to compile zclock -- worked after some package installation. But I find no way to add them to the Panel-Menu (Panel->Add to Panel->Clocks). How do I make the gnome-panel notice the new applet under /usr/local/? I coul

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-18 Thread Mikael Hedin
`find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type d' maybe? or define a function `function lsd() { find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ; }' HTH Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)980 73547 (home) S-Box 812, 981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46 (0)980 79050 (fax)

Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
I am able to print PostScript files with: $ lpr file.ps to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. But I am unable to print plaintext files with: $ lpr file.txt What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to PostScript and send them on to the printer. My prev

Error when mounting CD-image with loop option

2000-10-18 Thread Johann Spies
I want to make backup copies of my debian CD's. After copying CD's 2 and 3 to my hard disk with dd if=/dev/scd1 of=cdi3 I also did it with the option bs=2048 at another time I wanted to verify the copy by mounting it with the loop option and then the following happens: --

/etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-18 Thread will trillich
after seven months, i still stumble into handy discoveries like this: using apt-get and sources.list to update your debian system: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/ch-upgrading.en.html [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally looking for

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-18 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally > looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can > get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?] If you are in the

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
Answered my own question. The answer here appears to be the enscript package. Dwight On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files wit

Re: Creative Live Value !!

2000-10-18 Thread Debian GNU
Hi All I am also using Live value !!(emu10k1). I have been using it with excellent quality in RH 6.1. When I changed to Debian, it gives very poor quality of sound with distortion etc. I tried both alsa and the driver from Creative site. Can you give some more details regarding the applications

Re: What documentation and what order

2000-10-18 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:34:52PM -0500, thus spake David A. Rogers: > > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Snowfox wrote: > > > > > David - > > > > You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig > > in and start doing things. > > This sort of disconnected learning is only useful

Re: Full Automatic Unattended install like RedHat "Kickstart"

2000-10-18 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
> Is there a install format in Debian like Red Hat's "kickstart"; > a text file with all options, prompts, package selection, disk > partioning, root passwd, ... etc for a full installation with ANY > keyboard interaction. > >Thanks, > Terry Orlowski > Hi, you

Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk to samba

2000-10-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
Take a look at this output from lsof: smbd1149008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 afpd3101002u REG3,3 3207 1136655 auction - envelope.rtf afpd3101005u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 afpd3101008u REG

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt ... > My current printcap (created with m

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Answered my own question. > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Phil

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally > looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can > get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?] ' Debian FTP or

links and w3m (was Galeon, gecko, etc.)

2000-10-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:31:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > windows easily. w3m is my preferred choice. > > I like w3m, but am using links as my main browser now. Can spawn new > windows easily, background d/l'ding, good

howto reflect cfdisk changes

2000-10-18 Thread Jaume Teixi
I've changed added free space to /home partition with cfdisk increased form 4Gb to 6Gb after rebooting, when I type df -h still doesnt' reflects changes, jaume.

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > Answered my own question. > > > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. > > But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Because I am trying different config

Re: Weird X Problem

2000-10-18 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the > net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the > screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs > that xsreensaver run)

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt You can use a2ps for this. It converts ASCII text to formatted postscript. > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:

Re: backup and rebuild strategy

2000-10-18 Thread Mike . Jones
Pann (pann @ourmanpann.com) wrote:- > Mike, > > I've given this some thought. Attached is a text file of my musings on > the subject. > > Since I wrote that file I've done one thing to make my life easier. I've > started using rcs to track changes to config files, especially in /etc. > As part of

[OT] gcc-warning: more info

2000-10-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more information, as I still don't understand, why the warning main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast is generated in my case: I have the following (among some other function and structure dec

Re: What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-18 Thread Ian Stuart
Andreas Palsson wrote: > Until now I have never experienced a crash, freeze, system-/disk-fault in > 3 years. I might be lucky, but I never experiment with unstable or > 'frozen' distributions or applications. > > What tools are there to check the system/disks/ram/installed packages? The disks wil

X Font changed after woody dist-upgrade

2000-10-18 Thread Ian Stuart
This may be a simple thing, but I cna't track it down I recently upgraded from Potato+Helix-Gnome+kde+XFree4 to Woody+Helix-Gnome+kde+XFree4 My base font has changed dramatically - and is now *huge* I'm running E, with XFree 4 (1280x1024) The Gnome apps all pick up the correct fonts (as de

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody >can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow >is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong? No, that is correct. Shutdown wasn't rea

Re: howto reflect cfdisk changes

2000-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:44:04AM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I've changed added free space to /home partition with cfdisk > increased form 4Gb to 6Gb > > after rebooting, when I type > df -h > still doesnt' reflects changes, all you changed is the partition table, not the filesystem. the files

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-18 Thread Tim Wood
--- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake > Tim Wood: >> > Somewhere in your home directory you have a file > called .xsession? Stick a > line like this in it. > > > > xscreensaver -timeout 2 -cycle 2 -no-splash & > > That

Re: [OT] gcc-warning: more info

2000-10-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:08:23AM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello there, > > Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more > information, as I still don't understand, why the warning > main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast > is generated in m

Re: Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk to samba

2000-10-18 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Take a look at this output from lsof: > smbd1149008u REG3,3 55296 1136647 Maintenanc.fp5 > afpd3101002u REG3,3 3207 1136655 auction - envelope.rtf > afpd3101005u REG3,3 4156 1136656 Word Work File L 1 > afpd

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Marcus Crafter
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference > implementation now. Correct. > Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is > anything coming? It's not too difficult to change to To

Re: Debian box sick... "hda lost interrupt" "Unknown vector 67"

2000-10-18 Thread hogan
> >I have a 486DX4/100 (Overdrive) with 32MB of RAM that I run Debian on.. > > > >Up until yesterday it was running like a dream.. Now it does stuff like > >"Unknown vector 67 in CPU#0" and after that and something about idling says > >"hda interrupt lost" over and over and over again. > > I had th

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-18 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Leen Besselink wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian, > > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection). > > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compre

Can anyone tell me how to config DNS when dialing with wvdial?

2000-10-18 Thread doodler
Hi,all, I am using wvdial to dial to my isp ,after it starts pppd ,I can not lynx www.debian.org ,lynx can not locate www.debian.org . I think it is caused by my machine can not connect to a DNS server. doodler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail

2000-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2 weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I check the log, and I see entries like this: fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying mail.storm.ca (protocol POP3) at Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:20:01 -0400 (EDT) f

HL-1240 in 2.2

2000-10-18 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello everybody... Having my box put to potato some week ago, now I'm struggling to get a new piece of hardware to completely work with it: It took me quite some time to get the Brother HL-1240 laser printer to work with the system until I checked the linux printing page, now only problem that i

dpkg-architecture

2000-10-18 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi, i patched my gcc with pgcc for pentium processors. Now my build architecture is i586. To compile some debian packages with dpkg-buildpackage -B i made changes for correct working with dpkg. First i changed the archtable file in dpkg sourcedir and after recompiling i changed %archtable in /usr/b

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-18 Thread mike
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:13:21 -0700, Joe Emenaker said: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > > and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no > > > network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without > > > bringing in netbase and it's dependen

Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable

2000-10-18 Thread Dpk
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:59:23PM -0400, Dpk wrote: The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:24:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2 > weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I > check the log, and I see entries like this: > > fetc

Re: dpkg-architecture

2000-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
"Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, i patched my gcc with pgcc for pentium processors. Now my build >architecture is i586. [...] When I last asked about this, I was told to install the pentium-builder package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System.map problem

2000-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Yes, it happend after I compiled the kernel, and yes, I see that size > of /boot/System.map-2.2.17 is different from that of > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/System.map Just curious people, but what purpose does the system map s

Need help compiling gtk apps :-(

2000-10-18 Thread John Travis
I just nuked my Storm install (intentionally, but it is a great distro :-), and did a full reiser-debian install and re-upgraded to Woody. In trying to get everything back the way it was I have run into a few problems. I can't seem to compile any gtk apps. A simple example In file included

Re: Creative Live Value !!

2000-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:06:02PM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > > > I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and > the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put > OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*, I'm using C

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt I had that happen with printtool when I

What's wrong with this address?

2000-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
This message has failed twice. Do I have something misconfigured? Anyone shed any light please? Anthony --- >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Oct 18 12:43:25 2000 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail by acampbell.cix.co.uk with local

Re: What's wrong with this address?

2000-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
Sorry about this stupid question; please ignore, I had the address misconfigured :-(( Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "

apt-get question

2000-10-18 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I have to install? Thanks. -- :%s/Micros~1/GNU\/Linux/g^M :wq!

Re: Need help compiling gtk apps :-(

2000-10-18 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard John Travis say > I just nuked my Storm install (intentionally, but it is a great distro :-), > and did a full reiser-debian install and re-upgraded to Woody. In trying to > get everything back the way it was I have run into a few problems. I can't > seem to compile

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > it means either the name was not resolving at the exact time and date OR > that it timedout while checking for mails. > > sounds crazy i know but that's my experience with fetchmail having used it for > over two years now. anyway, i'm open to more reasonable ex

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-18 Thread Bryan Walton
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out > skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse panes are v. cool IMHO > > http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ I would have to second the idea of Skipstone. I discovered

Re: apt-get question

2000-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I lists the available packages on my Debian CDs with apt-get? >Supose I need to install XWindow, how should I know which packages I >have to install? apt-cache search whatever I found that the investment of time in learning dselect was well w

[OT] gcc-warning: SOLVED!

2000-10-18 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello all there, In fact, the shortened code I gave you was correct. What was missing in the original code was #include "bet.h" in main.c, so the prototype for this function was indeed missing for main, as many of you said. I might have come across it in the further development of the program, bu

Filesystem problem

2000-10-18 Thread Frederik
Hi, I have a 20 GB HD, partitioned in several smaller parts, some vfat: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1035628677468305552 69% / /dev/hda11 909112693236169692 81% /home /dev/hda6 2063504 124764

Re: X Font changed after woody dist-upgrade

2000-10-18 Thread Ian Stuart
guran remberg wrote: > > Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > > My base font has changed dramatically - and is now *huge* > > When this happened in Mandrake 7.2beta, they were adviced to reinstall > the XF86 100 points font. Hm. This seems to be a bigger problem than just fonts I've now noticed

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I saw it listed in the Debian/Java FAQ page as something which might be soon included (March 2000). Greg At 10:58 PM 10/17/2000 -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if

Re: Need help compiling gtk apps :-(

2000-10-18 Thread John Travis
Thanks for the quick reply but... both of these examples were using autoconf/automake. That's what I don't understand. checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... yes checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK -

Re: gcc-warning: more info

2000-10-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DR> Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more DR> information, as I still don't understand, why the warning DR> main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast DR> is generated in my case: DR> DR> I have the foll

squid, snmp and mrtg

2000-10-18 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've managed to get squid's snmp daemon running so far. However I can not get mrtg to work with it. cfgmaker doesn't work and I don't know enough of mrtg to start scripting stuff. Can anybody that has got this working send me his /etc/mrtg.cfg file? FYI, I'm running o

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to > > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt... > > Not really. If the packag

Re: Problems with my cable company

2000-10-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Rogelio E Castillo Haro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: REC> I've a COM21 cablemodem from my cable local company to access Internet... REC> But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, I don't know what your provider is like, but mine would only install on a Windows or Mac machine, which I fortunatel

Values for /etc/ppp/options mtu

2000-10-18 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I want to tune my ppp connection a little bit. What is a good setting for mtu? Can there any recommendations made? I could not find a suggested value anywhere. I have a 56k modem. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

NCP

2000-10-18 Thread Lukas Kempf
Hi, Does Debian-Linux support the NCP(Netware Core Protocol from Novell)? Does Debian have an Program for merge a Debian-Server to a Novell-Network? Please help me!! Sincerely Lukas Kempf -- Sisag Lukas Kempf Tel: 041/875 07 11 FAX: 041/875 07 12 E-Mail: G: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P: mailto:[

Weird sound problem

2000-10-18 Thread Richard Black
Hi All @[EMAIL PROTECTED] it but my sound has died. All was working fine yesterday, then I updated my (woody) system and now all is silent. I am using alsa and gnome. Everything _looks_ okay--modules loaded, esd running, volume up--just no sound. The only thing that I have noticed is that whe

Why is checksecurity looking at this?

2000-10-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I got this message in my box this morning: /etc/cron.daily/standard: find: /mnt/accountant_c: Input/output error I confirmed that the error comes from checksecurity doing its setuid checks. My problem is not with the error; it's that checksecurity looks at this filesystem at all. Doing a 'mount

where is the source code??

2000-10-18 Thread Omar Shuja Siddiqui
hi i have installed linux. i want to know where can i find the source code for basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. is the source code included in the distribution that i have installed. from where can i download it.? is the kernel the main part of the linux?? please reply at your ea

Re: Problems with my cable company

2000-10-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:43:38AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > Rogelio E Castillo Haro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > REC> But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, > > I wanted to use as a gateway was a different machine, though, with a > different Ethernet card, and the cable modem would on

Re: Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.

2000-10-18 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:08:18PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-10-17 18:16:49, RenX99 wrote: > > > What I have is this.. You open mutt, press "c" to change folders, > > press "?" to get a list of folders. The debian folder has a "N" > > next to it when there is no mail in it, and the ot

Re: where is the source code??

2000-10-18 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/source/ Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux. > i want to know where can i find the source code for > basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. > > is the source code included in the distribution that i > have installed. > >

Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works

2000-10-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Inside Alien: How the Debian Alien Package Works When: Wednesday 18 October 2000, 8

Sendmail 8.11

2000-10-18 Thread Craig Coles
I was looking for some updated files last week, that were in the Woody collection, and updated my Potato installation... Sendmail was updated to 8.11 and now my Netscape users cannot use this machine as their outgoing mail host. My Pine users are ok! When sending mail with Netscape it complains ab

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-18 Thread Robb Kidd
Jesse Goerz wrote: >[...] What I really want to do is > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing > around > I do.) Are you saying I can use the Pseudo Image Kit to creat

Who configure video OPTi82c264?

2000-10-18 Thread Edwin Alexander Gelves Peña
Hello. I don't configure video opti82c264. Helpme!!! Edwin A. Gelves P. Colombia.

Staroffice and Debian

2000-10-18 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with Debian "woody"? It always tells me something about "missing components" but works on a SuSE box. bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My emails are vanishing...

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:41:25PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Are you using exim? It has a limit on the maximum number of messages > per smtp connection. > > Check your /etc/exim.conf file for a line like > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 Make the value 0 for unlimited messages

long fsck [was Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")]

2000-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:05:56AM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > Try remote rebooting a server with a 120Gig Raid array and 1GB Ram takes > several hours to come up if wants an fsck! Not if you're using reiserfs or some other journalling filesystem on the RAID array! What does this have to do with t

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:41:48AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > The problem is that apt-get offers no means of choosing a site source > on a per-package basis. That is, I want to offer preferential treatment > to Helix for Gnome stuff and maybe to tydc for KDE2 stuff (or maybe to Or alternati

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-18 Thread Robb Kidd
Robb Kidd wrote: > > Jesse Goerz wrote: > >[...] What I really want to do is > > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing > > around > > I do.) > ... I seem to recall

Sound, card cs461x, basic questions

2000-10-18 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Debianistas I have finally decided to venture into sound on debian. The card is one of the cs461x flavor, and I have a number of questions that I would like to direct to someone who has sound working with that specific type of card, because it appears to have some idiosyncracies not shared by ot

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The psonly600 filter should already invoke enscript for text files (enscript is the default for files which don't fit any of the other filter criteria). I believe enscript defaults to 2-up, but the filter can be edited to change this. ps600-filter does not use enscript, however (they also differ

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-18 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Ethan Benson wrote: > > [...] > normally anyone whether anyone is logged into the console or not can > press control alt delete and reboot the system (if you have that line > in inittab) adding shutdown.allow changes this so that > control-alt-delete only works when a listed user is logged into a

Re: CD-drive blocked after successless mounting

2000-10-18 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Jason Lunz schrieb: > > [...] > I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the > tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button would > work. Try using it, or killing it and using something else. > [...] I haven't got X installed yet. Regards, Andreas.

Re: Staroffice and Debian

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
It works for me. According to debian-devel, a Debian package is being prepared. On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with > Debian "woody"? > It always tells me something about "missing co

Re: System.map problem

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
it's a list of the addresses of kernel exported variables. mostly not needed except by kmod and a few strange apps like dosemu. see http://www.dirac.org/p/linux for more details. pete linux To err is human, to forgive

Problem with KDE2

2000-10-18 Thread GustawKit
Hello debian-user, I have one problem with KDE2, after instalation KDE2 (from 2.2 r0 potato from 'Unoficial binary' disk) does not want oneself to start.During showing kde2 logo start.. there is some errors: "Was some error setting up inter-process communication for KDE, Could not read

COMPAQ IJ600 printer problems

2000-10-18 Thread Falchion DaSword
I can not get this printer to work in linux. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? paraport and para-printer are on in my kernel. It detects the paralalel port. but, for example, if I do cat file > /dev/lp0 I get nothing,. No error messages, but no printout. :< Someone said they think the

Re: Staroffice and Debian

2000-10-18 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:01:12AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > It works for me. According to debian-devel, a Debian package is being > prepared. A debian package? Perhaps you are refering to Open Office (gpl'd version of Star Office)? > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Christian Hammer

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get

Anti-spam system

2000-10-18 Thread Alberto Pereira
People, I have an anti-spam in my MTA system, a sendmail Sendmail 8.10.2/8.7.1. But when somebody send a message in this format: To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@my.host it can pass throught my anti-spam system. It is like this: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@{relay}> Somebody

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
> I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out > the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of > Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP > mail). I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > > --dummy-run to do a du

Re: where is the source code??

2000-10-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to know where can i find the source code for > basic linux excluding graphics and x-windows. [...] > is the kernel the main part of the linux?? [...] Linux is a kernel; nothing more (IMHO you could say that some tools, which are interactin

KDE 2.0 debs for woody

2000-10-18 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Just to let everyone know. The current set of Debian packages for KDE 2.0 in woody are not tagged as Official 2.0. There are still upstream fixes that are continuing to come through and although I screwed up and taged the changelog as 2.0 it is not. Official release is scheduled for Monday I bel

pppconfig

2000-10-18 Thread Cavaiani, Don
Greetings, I had no problem using pppconfig to set up Linux to my ISP. Also, I have installed the Netscape package and all works well. Now, I have a 2nd need - to also be able to connect to my company's RAS server from my home and then be able to Telnet into our mainframe. I do this now with D

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data' (fwd)

2000-10-18 Thread Matthew Thompson
All right, I read the FAQ at horde.org/imp, and did find this: --- 5.1 Common error messages 5.1.1 "Document contains no data" The Netscape error message, "Document contains no data", only tells you that nothing was sent from the web server to the

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