Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it > > (perhaps you meant "...is undefined"???) > > Ben> explicitly, then use -D_GNU_SOURCE in your CFLAGS.

Re: ISA SoundBlaster

2001-01-03 Thread Dan White
Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > > Hi! > > I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to > move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying > the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my > Debian, but nothing work

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> No, __USE_GNU is defined, unless one of the other _XXX_SOURCE Ben> macros are also defined (like _SVID_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE, Ben> or similar). Most likely the program you are compiling is Ben> defining one of these aswe

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:47:55PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > #include > #include > #include > #include > > but still get a warning: > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include-g -O2 -Wall -c -o main.o > `test -f main.c || echo './'`main.c > main.c: In function `xmlparse_file': > ma

Re: ISA SoundBlaster

2001-01-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > > Hi! > > I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to > move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying > the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my > Debian, but nothing work

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > why it has been this long and netscape does https://

quota woes

2001-01-03 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Yesterday I installed another disk in my private server, and now I thought it would be a good idea to also set quotas on it, of course to prevent the users filling the thing up... I added /dev/hdc to fstab, did `touch quota.user`, `edquota -u ` and `quotaon /home3` (where hdc is mounted).

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

2001-01-03 Thread Willy Lee
"Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If netowork admin told Dan to use fixed IP, ask him about available > IP which is not used by his DHCP server. If same IP as previous > DHCP assigned one is used without asking network admin, it sure > causes problem described by Dan. Actually,

Re: archive.debian.org

2001-01-03 Thread Leen Besselink
> Everybody a happy new year! Thanx. > I have a question.. ahhh, guestions..., my speciallity, but I'll try to answer one for a change. > I hope I am false but it seems to me that archive.debian.org is > down. Are there mirrorsite of this site? Seems it crached: nslookup archive.debian.org > 2

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Salve Seung-woo Nam, > Has anyone had the same problem? me too :-( -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4755831

Re: DNS & Mail

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have configured a DNS server using bind in Debian potato, Kernel >2.2.17. I have defined the hosts www.xxx.yyy.com, ftp.xxx.yyy.com, >mail.xxx.yyy.com etc. I can get the web page hosted at www.xxx.yyy.com >by typing the URL in browser window. How can I get t

upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? Nico

Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?

2001-01-03 Thread Nico De Ranter
The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) I don't know how to fix this however (see my previous mail :-) Nico On Sat, Dec 30, 2000

hylafax problem

2001-01-03 Thread Angel Parra
Hello!! I am using the Hylafax server on my linux, the 4.0.2-14 version, and I try to use it fron a windows machine with w2hfax 0.1.8, and when i try to add a new fax i get this error code: Runtime Error: '-2147467259 (80004005) Unexpected Python Error: Exceptions. ValueE

Printing Problem

2001-01-03 Thread Angel Parra
Hello!! I am usind debian as a printing server. I have an deskject printer, and when I try tu use it from a windows machine, if I want to get a page print as if i have a postscript printer (using Sanba at Linux and a PS driver on windows) I get the page perfectly and an extre rubber page.

Re: DNS & Mail

2001-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... donno if this was answered or not... didnt read prev msgs.. yyy.com. IN A 1.2.3.4 www.yyy.com. IN A 2.3.4.5 --- same or different place xxx.yyy.com. IN A 3.4.5.6 than in httpd you need to config the same tree or different tree for each s

Re: Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-03 Thread romain lerallut
have you tried the ESD output plugin instead of the OSS one ? Begin Original Message From: Jerrud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:55:06 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound blaster live! 512 I followed your instructions and did this: alpha:/home/me

Re: dist upgrade

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to > > the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato > > current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. > > See apt-get(8). > '

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Horton
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I install modu

Packages

2001-01-03 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to find the dependences packages. To install the the package "Afterstep", I need 7 dependes packages

Memory leakage

2001-01-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, i.e., of about 1 gb, where to look for reasons and fixes? The only running program besides the kernel, and x11 was rsnyc.

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. You simply need a newer version of modutils. You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > can't find any modules anymore. > > You simply need a newer version of modutils.

Re: init dying with NFS root

2001-01-03 Thread Tim Bell
I wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting, > but I'm not having much success. [...] > This is all using 2.4.0-prerelease. (2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre3 both failed > before even getting to mounting root -- I'm not sure why yet.) The > kernel is loaded by LILO from an

Re: Memory leakage

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, "Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense. Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or partitions on you hard

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Horton
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:41:38AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > > can't find any modules anymore. > > > > You simply need a newer version of moduti

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread jfclinux
Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. Thanks John > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:30:30 -0800 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1) > > on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka (

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Nico De Ranter
I found a mail from a few days ago (wasn't in the archives yet?) that solved my problem: make sure you have at least the following versions: > > o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version > > o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version > > o binutils

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread jfclinux
Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior to the crypto modules. Thanks John > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:30:30 -0800 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: https://

Re: quota woes

2001-01-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 07:40:26 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >I added /dev/hdc to fstab, did `touch quota.user`, `edquota -u ` >and `quotaon /home3` (where hdc is mounted). Now every process >accessing the drive, including quotacheck, repquota, quotaoff, umount, >touch etc, is hanging and won´t ev

cdrom error

2001-01-03 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
When I try to copy (or install) some deb file of my cdrom, it`s give-me the error message (without to acept CRTL X C, CRTL D , CRTL Z ) : ... sbpcd-0 [68] : abp_data : CDi_status loop expired sbpcd-0 [67] : abp_data : CDi_status timeout(time_out_data) sbpcd-0 [68] : abp_data : RESULT_READ

When Will Python 2.0 be included in Stable?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
When will Python 2.0 be included in a stable Debian distribution? Do we have to use 1.5.2 even when 1.6 and 2.0 is out? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni

gmenu crash

2001-01-03 Thread Fernando Carvajal
Hi All I know that there is a bug reported to gnome.org for gmenu Nº 29855. If you are root and try to add a new menu item the application crashes even when you only select the point where you can insert the new item. Though in my case in a previous instalation (but wihtout USB support for a 2.

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi jfclinux! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. > > Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior to > the crypto modules. apt will handle this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kdebase-crypt

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. > >Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior t >o the crypto modules. That seems to be kdelibs3-crypto, and apt-get install kdebase-crypto will install it automaticall

Re: unable to su

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:24:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Possibly an abnormally exited system update? Try: > > $ dpkg --configure -a > > ...which, I think, will attempt to reconfigure any packages left > pending. > > I've had related issues with gpg, which flashes errors d

Re: public_html directory requires chmod -R 755 constantly?

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:52:41PM -0700, Stefan Harris wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'm new here, so be gentle. > > Whenever a change is made to anything in the public_html directory, I must > > chmod -R 755 public_html you don't need to use 755 as the mode for everything, what you need ins

kernel and SmartRaidV controller

2001-01-03 Thread Alexis Roda
Hi, this morning I have upgraded a computer from slink to potato, the process went very smooth and all seems to be fine. My problem is when I try to get the kernel (2.2.17) to detect the SmartRaidV controller. I've downdoaded some patches from adaptec's web site and followed the instructions but ei

Re: Packages

2001-01-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Antonio A. Lobato wrote: > > Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install > packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition > and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to > find the dependences packages. To install the the package > "After

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:13:47PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Most of them are available from woody (you don't have to do a full > upgrade to woody, just upgrade the required parts). modutils 2.3.18 > isn't available however but I found 2.3.23 somewhere in the pool directory > and it instal

Re: Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???

2001-01-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the > "simple" setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the > package configuration step. "ldconfig" also reports the same error. > > The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not av

tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter

2001-01-03 Thread Vincent_Gaines
I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on my hp c3010 harddrive using a tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter. if I use the 1.44 boot disk images (linux 2.2.18) i allways get an error "invalid command interrupt... kernel panic no recovery". However i have discovered that ftp.tekram.com had boot disk images for

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:46:03PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Jerrud wrote: > > > > > > I followed your instructions and did this: > > > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer no no, chmod 66

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the > Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, > focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just > freezes and doesn't show any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome

font-lock, xemacs, latex

2001-01-03 Thread Giulio Morgan
At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability for LaTeX in xemacs, in trying to diagnose the problem, Auctex info sent me to "font-latex.el", then with locate, I get the following three files: /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex.elc /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/au

X-windows in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Tom Schuetz
I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape out of this during the boot p

Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-03 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:14:34AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their > > date/timestamps? > > Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all files touched, > > which causes mutt to lose track of the folders which have new mail

Re: X-windows in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:07:28AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the > machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working > beyond letting me enter username/password. > > C-ALT-D only gets me back to the ini

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). unstable != testing You need the modutils from unstable (sid). Keep

Re: ISA SoundBlaster

2001-01-03 Thread David A. Rogers
You might find my document "Debian University" helpful. It gives a very good explanation of how modules work and talks about what you need to do to get OSS/Free sound working. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > Hi!

FW: X-windows in startup

2001-01-03 Thread David Turner
after booting up press F1 to go into a console terminal. logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just move it, if you dont want to delete it shutdown -r now worked for me this morning, anyway. david -Original Message- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03

Re: pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf

2001-01-03 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Vicente wrote: > > I am starting to create an presentation based > on slides. I want to use PDF format for this work. > I will write the presentation with LaTeX. > > I have been testing pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf, and get > that text quality of the prese

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? you should be using the linux fdisk. --- Michael Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently bought a debian software > package and I've been reading the book > 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the > fdisk utility on my hard driv

Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem an

Re: X-windows in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Russell May
Also, that is xdm doing the login stuff. Remove it from the init.d settings. Or remove the xdm from your install. Check http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xdm.html for more details on what xdm does. -Russell May I signed up for the debian-users list and all I got was this lousy .sig - Orig

Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Debian Warriors, I have purchased a book titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, it is about 1120 pages in length and in the back cover is a CD labeled Debain GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. I have a clean Pentium 255 MHz machine that previously ran SuSE Linux with no problems. To make t

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > error!" Sounds like the CD in the book is damaged. I tried one as well that was, then I bo

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Kristian Rink
And Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave word to the following thoughts: > I can't provide a solution but I've had the same problem. Try running > the control center using strace. You'll probably see that it tries to > find all kind of librep/rep-gtk related things. You need to fiddle > aro

Re: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

2001-01-03 Thread jfclinux
My bad. I was going from memory. I'm not in front of my debian box right now. Thanks for the clarification. I believe he'll still need OpenSSL installed though right? Thanks John > > From: Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:25:27 +0100 > To: debian-user@lists.deb

Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Debian Warriors, Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian GNU/LInux 2.0 Linux 3 CD-ROM with new manual Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it today with any of the on-line bo

RE: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket.

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != testing > > You

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
"Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > only a single path is give and it is highlighted; > > /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > error!" > > There was a problem extracting the Base System

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
"Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it > today with any of the on-line book sellers. Don't get a book with Debian 2.0. 2.2 is the latest stable, and is at least 18 months newer than 2.0 (this is a conservitave guess). > Wh

Some refreshing news

2001-01-03 Thread csnyder
I thought that everyone could use to hear something a bit refreshing. I upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lots of errors, graphics look horr

Re: cut-and-paste

2001-01-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
H. I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I can do a mknod? I turned off GPM, set my laptop to use /dev/psaux and a ps2 type. I told it to use Emulate3Buttons, but when I try to hit both buttons so I can paste it treats it as a 3rd click of the first button. T

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian Warriors, -| -| Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian -|GNU/LInux 2.0 -| Linux 3 CD-ROM with -|new manual -| -| Does anyone know where I can purchase this boo

X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the command line using startx? (i'm asking because I don't have X installed right now, but will in a few weeks..) thanks!! xucaen --- David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after booting up press F1 to go > into a console terminal. >

Re: cut-and-paste

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:18:24AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > H. > > I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I > can do a mknod? its a fifo, i thought gpm created it automatically but maybe not: mkfifo /dev/gpmdata chmod 644 /dev/gpmdata -- Ethan Be

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
Hi. the latest stable release of Debian is 2.2r2 I ordered my CD's for $10.00 from https://www.justwebit.com/cgi-bin/e/eshopdb.cgi?9713 They download all the latest images from most of the major linux distros and burn their own CD's. the CD's are bootable. good hunting! xucaen --- "Holp, John M

OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread John Travis
I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX that is

RE: X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread David Turner
nope doesnt disable X just prevents it from starting automatically as part of the INIT process of linux. read the article http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/runlevels-intro.html mentioned on this list earlier today for more info. so startx should work fine (if you have setup your config files

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:39:10AM -0600, John Travis wrote: > I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I > provide the email address that the message in question was received from. > And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just > got an email (

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket. It's not a great book, and it's not 2.1. It's a hybrid from VA Linux systems. I had endless networking problems with the kernel on that CD.

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-03 Thread Cam Ellison
Better still, use cfdisk. It's more sophisticated and useful. Cam Xucaen wrote: > > are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? > you should be using the linux fdisk. > > --- Michael Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just recently bought a debian software > > package and I've been

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Michael Smith
I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social engineering

Re: gnome MIME types

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 00:15:09 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I > > > wanted to change the

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: > I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at > least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this > is > one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. NOTICE: you h

Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Barry Samuels
I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17. Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated .Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible! I am trying to record usin

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:08:57 -0500, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish > menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, > etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and d

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I ins

Re: Packages

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:07:39 -0200, Antonio A. Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages > manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing > it from my hard disk ( ! ). > My problem is being to find

Recompiled potato kernel and

2001-01-03 Thread Badiane Ka
now I'm having problems with modules not being inserted. I have tried to insert them manually with no success. I ran linuxinfo and notice that my laptop speed which is 500MHz is now something in the low 100's. Can someone help. Badiane __ Do Y

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != t

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > > kernels need at leas

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > "Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > [...] > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > > error!" > > > > There was a problem extracting the Base System from > > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread John Travis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:20 -0900, you wrote: :On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: :> I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at :> least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is :> one of the voluntary

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:26:20AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, > to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your > cooperation. > > ;-) > My brother got a similar e-mail from a friend of his once. It said "Thi

Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?

2001-01-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in > the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. > (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) > I don't know how t

Source list

2001-01-03 Thread Brandeil
Hi ! I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. GIMP, MC, GTK and others i have not been able too, their is an attempt made and downloa

RE: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Juerqen, Thanks, I have ordered the 6 CD set and feel much better about that approach. I am currently doing Red Hat 6.2 and SuSE 6.2 and was not well informed about Debian but this site seems really good. John -Original Message- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:39:10 -0600, John Travis wrote: > > I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I > provide the email address that the message in question was received from. > And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just > got an email (not

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: >> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... >> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 >> > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). >> >> unstable !

Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

2001-01-03 Thread csj
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Second question: where is the best place to get t

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution. -- Original Message -- From: "Michael P. Soulier" <

Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in. -- Original Message -- From: Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT) >I have

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
Potato is the current stable (version is 2.2r2) but a large number of packages are out of date. Woody is 'testing' now (not unstable any more) so I expect that it is now quite reasonable and will be 'stable' soon. If you don't need to install right away, I would recommend waiting a while and get

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux. -- Original Message -- From: "Holp, John Mr." <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-03 Thread csj
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 22:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the > >contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? > >I tried different options to do it,

Re: Source list

2001-01-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to > add a link to the source list (the attempts that i > have tried causes an error and does not run) Run "apt-setup" to add source "locations" for software. Select "http" as your access method and then choose a mirror site (or the main Debian site, if

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