Re: Trouble w/ Mesa from recent woody/ unstable?

2000-12-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Oh...System specifics are as follows: Dual PII 400 Atrend ATC-6260 w/ Intel 440BX and Adaptec 7800 family chipsets. 256Mb PC100 RAM Matrox G400 = Regards- Nuhn O. Yobiznez Licq # 14373626 Why?.Why not?..Why not try?

Re: Problems with commercial program.

2000-12-21 Thread kmself
Note: it appears you're replying to a mirror or peer of this list hosted at Virginia Tech. Just FYI it makes replies slightly painful -- my usual list response doesn't recognize your address. You might consider subscribing directly to debian-user. on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:38:40AM +1100, Stewa

Re: How to start with postgresql?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:30:22AM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the task-database-pq from woody to find out and work > with postgresql database (web application, private database...). I > installed the gtk frontend, too. > > But where do I start with? Where can I find starti

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-21 Thread Nate Amsden
weird stuff. one of my friends came to me with something similar, i told him it worked he didn't believe me so i subscribed and unsubscribed in a matter of 5 minutes. i think his problem was he was using outlook and it had weird settings set to garble the message so the mailing list software didn

Re: irq problems

2000-12-21 Thread romain lerallut
1) please don't post in HTML 2) just a guess: did you check in your BIOS that the "PnP OS" was set to "Disabled" ? If it isn't it might explain why linux doesn't see your hardware. Besides, if all your peripherals are __still__ set to the same IRQ, you may need to force the IRQ settings in the

Re: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370

2000-12-21 Thread Glenn McGrath
Jon Branch wrote: > > Hi Alexander > > Sorry no solution from me. I'm faced with a near identical problem using the > HPT 370 on-board controller with a 2theMax BX7 +100 motherboard (actually > with five of them). So I'll be interested to see the solution if/when you get > one. > > Regards >

Sound record program

2000-12-21 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming from the sox package. With for CD-quality suitable settings "rec -c 2 -r 44100 -s w new.wav" I get gaps in my samples. I have to record more than one hour without any ga

CPAN help needed.

2000-12-21 Thread james \(home\)
Hi all aving great problems with installing and using CPAN can not find the FTP site at Demon, I am not sjure how to change the settings and specify another location. Find below the output from my box. As always any help greatfully recieved. fluffy:/home/james# perl -MCPAN -e shell; There

Squid dies periodically

2000-12-21 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, squid dies periodically an my debian 2.2, with following error messages: FATAL: You've run out of swap file numbers. or FATAL: file_map_allocate: Exceeded filemap limit To start squid again, i have to remove all cache dirs and rebuild them with "squid -z", but after some time i get agai

help: my cron is getting crazy

2000-12-21 Thread Jaume Teixi
now one of my debian servers reports to me this: --- Subject: Cronroot test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /bin/sh: root: command not found /etc/cron.daily/modutils: rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ksymoops/20001216062615.ksyms': No such file or

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:27:08AM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a > script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming from the sox > package. With for CD-quality suitable settings "rec -c 2 -r 44100 -s w > new.wav" I get

Re: How to read WordPerfect docs?

2000-12-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:03:19PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Now that I can no longer seem to find the free trial version of WP8 for > Linux, and since StarOffice doesn't read WP docs (how stupid is that?!), > how can I give my Linux users the capability to read WordPerfect documents? The window

RE: mouse probs on 2.2 install

2000-12-21 Thread Dominic Blythe
tried /dev/psaux and that made it worse, this was with I can't remember which window manager, it's the one that describes itself as "NeXTStep like" with the big debian squiggle wallpaper. the system was booting straight into X so I couldn't get in to XF86Config to change it back, so I reinstalled

Re: CPAN help needed.

2000-12-21 Thread Magnus Hultin
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, james (home) wrote: > cpan> install bundle::cpan CPAN is case-sensitive, so you will have to use the correct name for the bundle: cpan> install Bundle::CPAN Judging from the other output you got nothing else is wrong, so that should be all you need do. /Hultin =-=-=-=-

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Ok, I'll get ps compiled with debugging info and try again. > I'll get back to ya. (This oughta be fun) Well, not as much fun as I thought. I downloaded the procps source from debian woody (plus diff). I modified the Makefiles to remove "-O2" and a

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
Johann Spies writes: > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with > the --force-depends option. Unfortunately this did not work; I could not get around the dependencies on glibc 2.2. To shorten a long story, I have done a reinstall, and got the system up to working co

Re: Squid dies periodically

2000-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >squid dies periodically an my debian 2.2, with following error messages: > >FATAL: You've run out of swap file numbers. >or >FATAL: file_map_allocate: Exceeded filemap limit This is documented in the FAQ. The squid packa

Re: Sending files

2000-12-21 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:28:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > how can I send files to the Internet server where I want to set up > my homepage. I've already written it, so I only need to transfer the > files to the server. > > I have to login first for a connection so is

Re: backups

2000-12-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and > want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do > this? I am not familiar with unix backups. Maybe not as sophisticated as the other suggested solutions, but I w

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:38:59AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > one of my friends came to me with something similar, i told him it > worked he didn't believe me so i subscribed and unsubscribed in a > matter of 5 minutes. I've had no trouble in the past, but now I'm having similar problems with ev

building latest tulip

2000-12-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I tried to build the latest tulip driver for my LinkSys cards with 2.2.18pre21, and I got "cannot determine kernel version" from the pci-scan.o. This worked perfectly with kernel 2.2.12, and is currently humming along on my gateway/firewall. I compiled with the -DMODULES -D

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
Rob, You can use "apt-cache search someapp" to find stuff like that. dar On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Stupid Question: > > I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the > command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the > package

Is my server attacked and "rooted"?

2000-12-21 Thread Ola Muan
Hi Debianers, I have a little problem with a server that I am in charge of. Unfortunately my Linux skills ain't too good yet. The server runs Debian with kernel version 2.2.12. When I ssh into the server, the bash prompt freezes immediately after the login is complete, no matter what username I ch

Re: device3dfx-source ?

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
You might want to rethink your purchase. 3dfx is going out of business early in the new year. They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea. dar On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Joerg Huber wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket > mentioned in th

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
You might also try gramofile. It's more designed for recording off phono albums, but should work for what you want. dar On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a > script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming

Re: How to input Chinese(GB) in Emacs by freewnn-cserver?

2000-12-21 Thread Glenn Becker
Hello, I know I have successfully enabled Chinese input on Emacs20; however, my Debian box is at home and I'm at work -- I can send you more pertinent info once I get home. I had trouble getting Chinese to display properly until I changed the fontset Emacs to "standard: 16-dot medium" -- this is

stale apt-get mirrors?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
what's the lag on various debian mirror sites? % apt-get update % apt-get upgrade % apt-setup /pick a different mirror/ i'd just switched from ftp-mirror.internap.com to ftp.digex.net if that matters...? % apt-get update % apt-get upgrade Reading Pack

Re: How to input Chinese(GB) in Emacs by freewnn-cserver?

2000-12-21 Thread wen
Thank you so much for your reply. glenn> I know I have successfully enabled Chinese input on Emacs20; By freewnn-cserver? or by Quail? I can only input Chinese by Quail, but we have to input Chinese character one by one in this way. It is quite inefficient. glenn> I had trouble getting Chinese

Re: OT: Java vs Javascript, and is it in Mozilla?

2000-12-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
In one sentence, they're only relationship is Java in the name. Java is a cross-platform language developed by Sun, originally called Oak, and developed for embedded systems, that they then tried to push as a web standard. Javascript is a Netscape scripting language developed for their client,

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Johann Spies writes: > > > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with > > the --force-depends option. > > Unfortunately this did not work; I could not get around the > dependencies on glibc 2.2. > > To

Re: CPAN help needed.

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:09:15PM +0100, Magnus Hultin wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, james (home) wrote: > > > > cpan> install bundle::cpan > > CPAN is case-sensitive, so you will have to use the > correct name for the bundle: > > cpan> install Bundle::CPAN > > Judging from the other output y

mysql, dbi and help please

2000-12-21 Thread james \(home\)
having installed perl and mysql server etc, I have run my perl script available.plx and get the results below ADO No known data sources ExampleP dbi:ExampleP:dir=. Proxy Error: install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm i mysql No known data sources

Re: Adding a new HD and useing it as swap

2000-12-21 Thread Jon Pennington
Calyth wrote: > > Hi all, > I just got a new SCSI HD, it's 1GB and I would like to use part of it to > replace my current swap drive. At the risk of sounding ignorant, a GIG of swap?!? > The only problem is that after partitioning, where should I configure so > linux would see my new swap as def

Re: CPAN help needed.

2000-12-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"james (home)" wrote: > > Hi all aving great problems with installing and using CPAN James, while you'll want to use CPAN sooner or later, most likely, all you really need to do to get DBI is: apt-get install libdbi-perl And for the mysql-specific stuff: apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl

Re: device3dfx-source ?

2000-12-21 Thread Jon Pennington
"David A. Rogers" wrote: > > You might want to rethink your purchase. 3dfx is going out of business early > in the new year. They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea. In business or not, 3Dfx hardware is arguably still the best-supported and most-fully-functional fast 3D using Free

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Not always when I "pon" I get my modem going. A lot of times it just > lights a few of the little lamps. > It is already the second external modem I use, and is the same. Now I am > using a motorola 28.8, and most of the times when I pon only the second > light (t

Re: device3dfx-source ?

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
Jon, You could be right. I don't do 3d on Linux yet and don't have a 3Dfx board. But, personally, I'd be a bit leery of buying hardware that I _knew_ was going to be orphaned soon. dar On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > "David A. Rogers" wrote: > > > > You might want to rethink your

lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Hi all Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from that? Scenario: You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive as linux) and it overwrites your mbr.After wich you suddenly and to your horror discover that the dog lying in the corner looks so content beacause he has

Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-21 Thread John Travis
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:50, D-Man wrote: > Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was > very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection). > > Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found > some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find

XFree86 4.0 and the testing distribution

2000-12-21 Thread hawk
Gee, the testing distribution was announced later in the day when I decided that a lagged unstable was what was really needed . . . :) Anyway, I've tried toinstall it on the kids machine with mixed success. As near as I can tell, the dependencies between XFree 3.3 and 4.0 cross over. When I se

RE: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Holland
check out mkboot. its a pretty sweet way to create a boot floppy in case of emergencies. :) jason > > Hi all > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > that? > > Scenario: > You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive as linux) and it > overwrites your mbr.

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Stefaans Mostert wrote: > Hi all > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > that? That sounds a bit kinky. You might want to ask on debian-adult. > > Scenario: > You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > > > trying to do a new install on a box with an > NE2000 NIC > I was never able to get this done in the > install. I completed the install > without networking and then, after some > research, placed: >

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Vincent Besse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your > values) > in /etc/modules. That's all. > > Vincent I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments at the top scared me. ;-) I have installed slackware before and maybe I just got spoiled. Slackware

how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I reply to a message, I have to manually enter the debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I cut and paste) I was just wondering why the list's "reply to" address isn't set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks.. *we now return you to your regularly schedul

RE: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Holland
reply works for me. see, it just did! :) jason > > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAI

question about CD rom install

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all (again) lastnight I did an install from CD ROM (debian 2.2r2) when the package menu came up, and I started checking off packages I wanted to install, I noticed that emacs and apache weren't on the list. I was wondering if emacs and apache are part of another package? (I chose the 'simple' me

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:32:29AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMA

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You n

postgresql + JDBC

2000-12-21 Thread Pascal THIVENT
Hi, I'm looking for a high performance JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. Does someone have already tested some ? What are your recommandations ? Thank Pascal Thivent SQLI group +33(0)1.55.93.25.36 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:32:29 -0800 (PST) Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > --- Vincent Besse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your > > values) > > in /etc/modules. That's all. > > > > Vincent > > I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments > at the top scared me. ;-) /etc/modules shou

Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-21 Thread A R
David Wright wrote: > Quoting A R ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Not always when I "pon" I get my modem going. A lot of times it just > > lights a few of the little lamps. > > It is already the second external modem I use, and is the same. Now I am > > using a motorola 28.8, and most of the times when I

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Warning: this is a religious issue ;) > > Cheers, > ooops.. umm.. err.. oh! look, all better.. don't know what I was thinking.. carry on then.. *whistling innocently* ;-) xucaen __ Do You Yaho

Re: question about CD rom install

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:36:49AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all (again) > lastnight I did an install from CD ROM (debian > 2.2r2) > when the package menu came up, and I started > checking off packages I wanted to install, I > noticed that emacs and apache weren't on the > list. I was wondering if

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I for

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Silver
Get a new boot disk (or better yet a bootable cdrom), and load the kernel with the option "root=/dev/xxx" appended on the command line. Silver - Original Message - From: "Stefaans Mostert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:59 PM Subject: lilo > Hi all > > Well

Problems w/ Tomcat 3.2

2000-12-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:58 PM 12/12/2000 +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: If you find any more problems please mail me. If I receive no more bug repports I'll upload this version to the official archive soon (to contrib - but that's better than not in the archive at all). I did a clean new install of your 3.2 tomcat, and

vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! rather than tell you how many methods and in what glorious ways i've failed, i thought i'd start with tabula rasa and let you experi

Re: Is my server attacked and "rooted"?

2000-12-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Ola Muan wrote: > > Hi Debianers, > > I have a little problem with a server that I am in charge of. Unfortunately > my Linux skills ain't too good yet. The server runs Debian with kernel > version 2.2.12. When I ssh into the server, the bash prompt freezes > immediately after the login is complet

daily changes of my modem from crw-rw---- to crw-r-----

2000-12-21 Thread Ed
I'm using wvdial to to dialup. My modem device permissions seem to be getting put to crw-r- and I cannot dialup as a regular user until I set them to crw-rw as root. I understand that these permissions get changed during a dialup session and changed back afterwards. Something else is goin

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:32:29AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMA

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread John Covici
There is a nice patch for the 2.x kernels which gives you the ability for vpn clients if that is what you are looking for. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, will trillich wrote: > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > have any luck. o

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Stefaans Mostert wrote: > > Hi all > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > that? > > Scenario: > You reinstall windows (wich is on the same drive as linux) and it > overwrites your mbr.After wich you suddenly and to your horror discover > that the dog lying i

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My condolences. I didn't realize you work at Stonehenge. :-) Yep! BTW, from the Pine Info Center: pine-bin.sun56 . . . . . . . . . Dec 5 16:53 9559k which is 25% of my quota, whereas: 359784 Nov 11 1999 bin/mutt > But then I think I would be at

debian help

2000-12-21 Thread paul taylor
I installed debian in the belief that it would install. Xwindows simply will not install. As newcomer I can't work with a program w/o the gui. I wanted xwindows (eventually kde) ppp connection, printer, netscape and I want to do experiments with star office and other suites. Debian was suggested b

apt-get troubles

2000-12-21 Thread Ian Soboroff
i've searched the list archives for a solution to this, but haven't come across one that works yet... i'm running x86 woody. since the end of last week, i no longer get any upgrades with 'apt-get upgrade' (although 'update' runs without error). furthermore, when i try to install a package with

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > > list's "repl

Re: mysql, dbi and help please

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:00:14PM -0800, james (home) wrote: > having installed perl and mysql server etc, I have run my perl script > available.plx and get the results below > > > ADO > No known data sources > ExampleP > dbi:ExampleP:dir=. > Proxy > Error: install_driver

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:21:30PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, will trillich wrote: > > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > > have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! > > > > rather

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > > You can search the archives to find a link to the deb. There > > are licensing issues with pine so Debian doesn't include it but > > there are people who have built the debs. I just snagged the > > latest stable re

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:33:57PM +, David Wright wrote: > If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have > included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > in your headers. here's all of his headers. i dinna see any 'mail-followup-to' there: From [EMA

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that will trillich wrote: > anybody care to suggest a few simple steps to get VPN > up and running? i've looked at the nano-HOWTO and don't > have any luck. other methods are delightfully accepted! > > rather than tell you how many methods and in what g

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

2000-12-21 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
For me it was even worse. I half-installed libc6 in the old version, then opened dselect, and tried to remove libdb2 (something probably extremely silly). Now libc is broken, along with dpkg rm, mv, ls, and probably another lot of basic stuff. What is wrong for dpkg to work, is that it does not fi

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the > > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifies (i > > believe) that they are not an unmodifi

Re: backups

2000-12-21 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and > want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do > this? I am not familiar with unix backups. http://kmself.home.netc

Re: debian help

2000-12-21 Thread Scott Patterson
>I installed debian in the belief that it would install. Xwindows simply >will not install. As newcomer I can't work with a program w/o the gui. >I wanted xwindows (eventually kde) ppp connection, printer, netscape and I >want to do experiments with star office and other suites. Debian was >sug

OT postgres: bitwise testing & setting?

2000-12-21 Thread will trillich
this is way OT, but debian-user has the Folks Who Know... i'm using 6.3 postgresql on potato, and would like to compress a wee bit-o-space out of each record by using bitwise booleans, instead of bytewise. there seems to be no bitwise operators to facilitate such testing (nor even an numerative d

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:47:56PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > This seems to be for people having a reply-group or reply-all > button. So they can choose to reply only to the sender or also to the > list. > I really like this feature of the list. I used to wonder myself, but I heave learned

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, David Wright wrote: > If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have > included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > in your headers. That is inserted automatically by mutt I thought specifically to avoid this. I just changed 'lists' to 'su

anyone had experience with NIC: http://www.3com.com/mobile/pccards/3cn3ac1556b.html

2000-12-21 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious...trying this for an IBM thinkpadapparently it is an Irq problem. -walter

Re: Install/Config q's

2000-12-21 Thread Walter Tautz
> > > When I looked at the inittab file, it had a comment saying that > > runlevels 2-5 are mutlti-user. Ok, but not enough information. I > > have been using RH for 2 years, and it has runlevel 5 for X and 3 for > > full multi-user. Does Debian use the same runlevels? I know some > > distros

Re: XFree86 4.0 and the testing distribution

2000-12-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
Xfree86 4.x isn't included in the testing tree yet. The way I understand it, it will be added eventually. I *think* that woody is now the same as the testing tree, but the less stable packages in woody got bumped into the new unstable. People who were running woody before the testing tree came a

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Halahan
Mike I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said that I didn't really test it much. Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good at? I'm just curious to know when it might be useful. Tom On 21 4:34 am, M

kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, where can I find an original Debian potato .config file for kernel 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with the distribution works great, but I need to add/remove some things. When unpacking the kernel source, a minimal .config file exists, but when compiling the kernel, I do not want to miss anyt

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Jason Holland wrote: > > check out mkboot. its a pretty sweet way to create a boot floppy in case of > emergencies. :) > > jason > > > > > Hi all > > > > Well I was wondering can one transfer lilo onto a stiffy and boot from > > that? > > > > Scenario: > > You reinstall windows (wich is on the

Re: kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where can I find an original Debian potato .config file for kernel > 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with the distribution works great, but I > need to add/remove some things. > > When unpacking the kernel source, a minimal .config file exists, but when > co

Warning ALSA and 2.2.18

2000-12-21 Thread David A. Rogers
The ALSA source shipped with potato (yes even r2) has a compile error when built against the 2.2.81pre21 kernel source. Fortunately, it's easy to fix. In the alsa source include directory, you'll find a file drivers.h. Edit this file. Search for the word "wait". The first occurance is in a #if

Finding/Including sr_mod post install

2000-12-21 Thread JoshNarins
I don't have any SCSI devices, I just need it for to use cdrecord with an ATAPI IDE. I guess I am going to have to recompile my kernel, but first I have to FIND the darn thing. sr_mod, I feel confident, will be the only remaining module I need to install. I've looked through the modules HOWTO a

Re: Adding a new HD and useing it as swap

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Jon Pennington wrote: > > Calyth wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I just got a new SCSI HD, it's 1GB and I would like to use part of it to > > replace my current swap drive. > > At the risk of sounding ignorant, a GIG of swap?!? he wrote 'part of it'. but isn't 1GB disk just too small? must be reall

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
you're not alone, I have the same problem, the address I try to unsubscribe is on the list of approximate matches but it still says it cannot find it. This happens when I try to unsubscribe from debian-devel and debian-user. I was able to unsubscribe from *changes* lists about a week ago. I ha

Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the > > > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifi

Re: kernel defaults

2000-12-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> where can I find an original Debian potato .config > file for kernel 2.2.17? The kernel that comes with > the distribution works great, but I need to add/remove > some things. Look in your /boot directory. It should be called .config-[kernel-version], I think. I didn't know this 'til after I com

xdm error (pid 257): server unexpectedly died Help please

2000-12-21 Thread DTi4565459
When I try to startx, I get error message: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/SF86_S3 failed _X11TransSocketUNIX COnnecty: Can't connect: errno - 111 giving up xinit: Connection refused xinit: No such procerss (errno 3): Server error When I look at xdm log, I find error in subject line. I'm a newbie and w

Re: vpn -> how?

2000-12-21 Thread Pollywog
Check out www.google.com and use the following terms for a search: kernel patch vpn You will get some interesting links, including sources for the kernel patch. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:45:50 -0600, will trillich said: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:21:30PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > > On Thu, 21

Re: lilo

2000-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:36:08PM +0200, Stefaans Mostert wrote: > But the mbr IS overritten and the floppy gone! > can't get in! > What now Does the new mbr at least allow you to boot to windows? If so, do that and head on over to http.us.debian.org. Grab rescue.bin and rawrite2.exe. Use rawr

Re: xdm error (pid 257): server unexpectedly died Help please

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I try to startx, I get error message: > > X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/SF86_S3 failed > _X11TransSocketUNIX COnnecty: Can't connect: errno - 111 > giving up > xinit: Connection refused > xinit: No such procerss (errno 3): Server error > > When I look at xdm log, I f

Re: Finding/Including sr_mod post install

2000-12-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I don't have any SCSI devices, I just need it for to > use cdrecord with an ATAPI IDE. > > I guess I am going to have to recompile my kernel, > but first I have to FIND the darn thing. > > sr_mod, I feel confident, will be the only remaining > module I need to install. > > I've looked through the

Re: OT postgres: bitwise testing & setting?

2000-12-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
will trillich wrote: >this is way OT, but debian-user has the Folks Who Know... > >i'm using 6.3 postgresql on potato, and would like to compress >a wee bit-o-space out of each record by using bitwise booleans, >instead of bytewise. > >there seems to be no bitwise operators to facilit

vpn kernel patch sources

2000-12-21 Thread Pollywog
This URL has links for vpn kernel patches. http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html -- Andrew

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