Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread sena
On 27/01/2001 at 00:58 -0500, RAccess wrote: > Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd > for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can > fortune be appended as well? They should both work along the same lines, > just quota system would be har

renaming files

2001-01-27 Thread oj .
I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3. Do you know how can I do that using scripts? ThanksGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:46:45PM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,, wrote: > Hi! > > I use Debian since some months ago (potato). > I did upgrade my box with apt-get dist-upgrade some times. > But the last three or for seems like is nothing to upgrade exception > from spidermonkey (gnome), so,

Re: A postcard from the bleeding edge

2001-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:24:49AM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Subtitle: My experiences installing a vew video card, kernel 2.4, > ReiserFS, XFree 4.02, DevFS and upgrading to testing all in the same > day. > > This is a (probably long) recounting of my experiences doing a bit of an > upgrade. Th

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread John Galt
echo `quota -v` `/usr/games/fortune` >> /etc/motd On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, RAccess wrote: > >Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd >for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can >fortune be appended as well? They should both work along the

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:13:27AM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter > your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the > parts you really need. > It would work like that: People who have already set up their

xchat with ssl?

2001-01-27 Thread Forrest English
i see that xchat has an ssl option, and i know some servers that support it. but, there's no xchat-ssl package. is anyone working on this? (sorta along the lines as licq-ssl) -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "I don't like this air, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop breathing." -D

SSH connection problem.

2001-01-27 Thread Curtis Hogg
Whenever I try to connect to any of my machines running the latest updates from testing, i get -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh tomoe-hotaru ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host -- my SSH was working just fine until i moved to the testing set... the SSH in question is 2.3.0p1

need help installing unstable

2001-01-27 Thread James Sinnamon
I am installing 'unstable', having previously succeedeed somewhat with 'testing'. I am using commands such as apt-get install taks-debug. This and other commands seem to invariably generate a lot of error messages such as: Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC

Re: BBDB problem

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel Wagner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've got a problem too with the new bbdb-package in unstable. with the new package the bbdb-complete-name doesn't work anymore. i always get: Symbol's function definition is void: bbdb-extract-address-components seems that there's something missi

Re: need help installing unstable

2001-01-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ... > Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 [...] > > 1. Is this just a matter of course? Do I need to work my way , slowly > and laboriously through these sorts of problems

Ethernet Card

2001-01-27 Thread Henry Gomersall
I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to the internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installed the base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However, This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs during

my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Henry Gomersall
I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem tothe internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installedthe base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However,This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs duringins

unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors

2001-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, It appears there's something fscked up with debconf+X+perl upgrade procedure in sid, upgrading from potato. The upgrade left me without /etc/X11/X (I've already filed a bug about that) and see what I get when I try to reconfigure stuff: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common Can't locate wa

Re: renaming files

2001-01-27 Thread Moritz Schulte
"oj ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres > such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and > characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3. for name in *.mp3; do newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g')

update to woody

2001-01-27 Thread Torben Korte
Hi I just made an update to woody and now all my locale settings are messed up! My man manpages are in english and so is Gnome aswell! I have no clue how to change back because the language-de file in /etc is still there and correct. Somethinks with seemed to be messed up as well because I allways

Re: BBDB problem

2001-01-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Daniel Wagner writes: > Hi, > I've got a problem too with the new bbdb-package in unstable. with the > new package the bbdb-complete-name doesn't work anymore. i always get: > Symbol's function definition is void: bbdb-extract-address-components > seems that there's something missing in the new

Re: unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors

2001-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > It appears there's something fscked up with debconf+X+perl upgrade procedure > in sid, upgrading from potato. The upgrade left me without /etc/X11/X (I've > already filed a bug about that) and see what I get when I try to reconfigure > stuff: Yes, this is widely reported (see

Re: unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors

2001-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:18:48AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > It appears there's something fscked up with debconf+X+perl upgrade > > procedure in sid, upgrading from potato. The upgrade left me without > > /etc/X11/X (I've already filed a bug about that) and see what I get when > > I try to reconf

Re: Debian - Testing network (FS105/FA311/10T-2)? CMD/SiS IDE?

2001-01-27 Thread Martin Albert
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hogan wrote: > Have SiS IDE controller in my current Debian box - it says something about > bus-mastering disabled in bios, running in a more basic mode. Leave it be? Try > to enable it? I can't see any option in the bios that would affect this unless > bios is hard coded to di

Re: update to woody

2001-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Torben Korte wrote: >Hi I just made an update to woody and now all my locale settings are >messed up! My man manpages are in english and so is Gnome aswell! I have >no clue how to change back because the language-de file in /etc is still >there and correct. Somethinks with seemed to be mess

Re: unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors

2001-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:41:30PM +0100, joy wrote: > I guess I could close #83731 now, but I still don't know how to get > /etc/X11/X, how does it get created? Ah, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-s3 did it. I'll assume that had it not been for debconf/perl errors, the upgrade process would have done it

HELP! How do i config lilo?

2001-01-27 Thread Dou Minggang
There're two OS on my harddisk --Win98 SE2(chinese) and debian linux. But lilo can't load Win98! my E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

New locale environment variables in woody

2001-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, After my upgrade to woody some day ago I noticed that there are new locale variables: LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT, and LC_IDENTIFICATION, all set to "C". However, I can't find where they are set (grepping /etc didn't help) or any other information about them.

Mozilla 0.7 && Java support

2001-01-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello everybody... ...being not sure if this is the list for that topic... Again, being in search for a good web browser which (thanks to the admins of some of the sites I have to visit more or less regularly) is able of rendering Java applets. So, Netscape 4.7 works *very* unreliable on my potato

[Offtopic] LaTeX

2001-01-27 Thread Angel
Somebody can tell me where to find a good and complete electronic book (pdf, ps, dvi, ...) of LaTeX ?? Thank for all, and sorry for te offtopic Angel

Best way to update kde2

2001-01-27 Thread Holger Mense
Hi, I am using Debian potato with some packages from unstable. I am currently running KDE2-Beta1. What is the best way to update to Beta2? I only want the necessary files for kde2, all other installed packages should not be updatet. I thougt about "apt-get install task-kde", because task-kde has d

Setting locale failed?

2001-01-27 Thread Torben Korte
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). I did local

Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread David Z. Maze
Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NLM> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:07:37PM -0800, Christophe Broult wrote: CB> I have just relocated from Normandy, France to Boston, CB> MA. I am wondering if any of you in the Boston area CB> would have any suggestion about an ISP whether it is CB> vi

Anyone using php4.04-6 or php4.04pl1-1 answer please

2001-01-27 Thread Benj
Hi, I would like any one using php4.04-6 or php4.04pl1-1 and having php scripts running on their web server to check their apache error.log. Tell me if you get some errors like this: [Thu Jan 18 23:42:28 2001] [notice] child pid 29702 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Thu Jan 18 23:42:29 2001

Re: [Offtopic] LaTeX

2001-01-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Angel wrote: > > Somebody can tell me where to find a good and complete electronic book > (pdf, ps, dvi, ...) of LaTeX ?? You might want to try the LaTeX 2e Short reference ("Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e") in English for starters. It's a nice introduction into LaTeX in general and has p

DHCP and DNS address with cable modem service . .

2001-01-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have a cable modem and use the NTL service in the UK. Recently, NTL changed the DNS servers for cable modem users, but I had manually set up /etc/resolv.conf to contain the original addresses. NTL maintain that using a DHCP client should ensure that the ISP can change DNS addresses and the custom

Re: [Offtopic] LaTeX

2001-01-27 Thread Shaul Karl
I find /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/general/*, and in particular lshort.dvi.gz a very good. There is also a tetex-doc package which includes latex2e-doc. Isn't there a Tex/LaTex guide on the LDP with more pointers? > Somebody can tell me where to find a good and complete electronic book > (pdf, ps

Networking w/ Win98

2001-01-27 Thread DSC Lithuania
Okay, I have my system up, my ethernet NIC installed, and am getting to like this.   However, I was playing with the network utilities, trying to figure out how to link to our local Win95/98 Ethernet-10 network, and having little to no success.  Part of the reason, I suspect, is that the W

Re: xfree 3.3.6 and 4.x

2001-01-27 Thread Gary Jones
On 26 Jan 2001, Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-( > > > I'm curious, what has changed between 3.3.6, and > 4.x? I'm using 3.3.6 now, and it seems ok to > me.. > is 3.3.6 incompatible with any new sof

Re: DHCP and DNS address with cable modem service . .

2001-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:22:55PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have a cable modem and use the NTL service in the UK. Recently, NTL changed > the DNS servers for cable modem users, but I had manually set up > /etc/resolv.conf to contain the original addresses. NTL maintain that using a > DHCP

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: :It could be someone trying an NFS exploit against your system, though :potato systems shouldn't be vulnerable to it. I'd s/could\ be/IS/; :>f :>Jan 18 19:16:45 brockwell :>^F/binF^D/shA0<88>F^G<89>v^L<8D>V^P<8D>N^L<89>^K<80>^A<80>^?

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread RAccess
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Galt wrote: > > echo `quota -v` `/usr/games/fortune` >> /etc/motd > > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, RAccess wrote: > > > > >Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd > >for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can > >fortun

Re: SSH connection problem.

2001-01-27 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
connect with the -v switch and post the output up to the connection being closed to the list... robt Curtis Hogg wrote: > > Whenever I try to connect to any of my machines running the latest updates > from testing, i get > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh tomoe-hotaru > ssh_exchange_identificat

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:54:16PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: :I have heard good things about shore.net as well. In fact I was once :offerred a sysadmin job by them, and toured their facility. They're a :very clueful group. I know some excellent folks who've worked for shore.net and they s

Re: HELP! How do i config lilo?

2001-01-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:42:43PM +0800, Dou Minggang wrote: :There're two OS on my harddisk --Win98 SE2(chinese) and debian linux. :But lilo can't load Win98! add something like: other = /dev/hda1 #where ever win98 lives label = dos to the end of /etc/lilo.conf the run "lilo" as

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread sena
On 27/01/2001 at 10:34 -0500, RAccess wrote: > edit /etc/motd. Now next up, I have to clean up the output from 'quota'. > Something along the lines of: > > You have used 40.2Mb of your quota of 500Mb (hard limit: 510Mb) > I don't use quotas, so I don't know if this is correct: #!/bin/sh set `quo

Re: Setting locale failed?

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning:

Re: HELP! How do i config lilo?

2001-01-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
You have to properly set up the Lilo configuration file /etc/lilo.conf, and then run the 'lilo' command to have the changes to /etc/lilo.conf take effect. You can probably figure it out easily enough by reading the Lilo documentation, and also this HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.ht

Re: Networking w/ Win98

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
DSC Lithuania schrieb am 27.01.2001: >Okay, I have my system up, my ethernet NIC installed, and am getting >to like this. > >However, I was playing with the network utilities, trying to figure >out how to link to our local Win95/98 >Ethernet-10 network, and having little to no success. Part of the

Re: Networking w/ Win98

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Set your outlook express to fold after 72 chars, please. 1. You need to set network protocol to TCP/IP for WIN9x. NETbios over TCP/IP is the protocol to use for Win9x/NT anyway. NETBEUI will not work with Linux. This is depreciated even for Win only network. IPX should work

mysql port 0

2001-01-27 Thread Marcin Kurc
I have mysql-server 3.23.31-1 installed and it is not accepting any tcp connections. The config is alright, set to accept tcp on 3306. It worked with earlier versions, but now it shows that mysqld is running on port 0. basedir: /usr/ datadir: /var/lib/mysql/ tmpdir: /tmp/ language:

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do not know the solution but following may help if this is pci card. # cat /proc/pci|grep -ie ethernet or # cat /proc/pci|less This gives actual chip used on the NIC then you can decide which driver to use. I have Kingston Card and Linksys card but they use same family of chip. In my case

Re: A little sed

2001-01-27 Thread A+B Frank
"N. Raghavendra" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote: > > > - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from > > tags. I tried sed -e s/\// file.html > > > file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole > > > script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work

[OT] Broken CD-ROM drive

2001-01-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, sorry for being off topic, but I wouldn't know whereelse to ask ... I think I'v managed to break my CD-ROM drive. It get's recognized correctly by the BIOS and during kernel boot, but when I try to `mount` a data CD, mount reports "No medium found". When I try `cdplay` on an audio CD,

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Martin Albert
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Henry Gomersall wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to > .. > This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs during > installation (of the base system from the rescue disk). This then means I > .. > (ftp.dlinknet.com/

Re: Where is gnuchessn ?

2001-01-27 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:44:19PM -0500, Balbir Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > The potato dristibution of debian does not install variant of gnuchess > such as gnuchessn, gnuchessx etc. Could you please point me to a > package that has these preferably deb. apt-get install gnuchess?

2 ttyS0 questions...

2001-01-27 Thread Xucaen
Hi all... I have 2 questions regarding ttyS0. First: I want my user name to have access to ttyS0. where can I find info on how to do this (i.e. which HOWTO if any) Second: I load minicom and sometimes the ALT keys don't work (I haven't figured out why yet). when they don't work, the only way I can

Re: need help installing unstable

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke toys... :) -- Original Message -- From: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200 >On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: >> Setting

Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
I agree the ,helixcode stuff needs to be unstable, for everything else you will be much better in the long run if you track one thing and going by stable testing or unstable is better IMHO because when a new version goes stable you will then get that without having to mess with your sources. Also k

[OT] Toy Story

2001-01-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:41:58AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke > toys... :) YARTTS¹ ... One of these days I have to watch Toy Story myself. Or is there anything I have missed? =) ¹ Yet Another Reference to Toy Story -- Tommi Ko

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules > included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get PCMCIA > sources? There is the obvious pcmcia-source -- 'dat the beast? http://pcmcia-cs.sour

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:46:57AM -, Henry Gomersall wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to > the internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installed > the base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However, >

ethernet after reboot n/a

2001-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m running a masquerading and packet-filtering firewall on my home-machine. Since my graphics-card displayed vertical stripes whenever the harddisk was active, I powered the machine down (losing 224 days of uptime ) and swapped the gfx- and scsi-card in their respective pci-slots. I hav

Error installing base over HTTP

2001-01-27 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
When attempting to install the base over HTTP, I get the following error: "nf_http_fetchfile :: file download failed, content-length is 15698691 bytes, file is 14974976 bytes". I first got this while trying to install over HTTP from a web server on my network, so I attempted to install from http:

Unable to install LILO

2001-01-27 Thread John Johnson
I've been trying to install potato to two machines: A Dell Inspiron 3200 and a Compaq DeskPro 2000. Both are older machines with pre-1998 BIOS. The Inspiron has a 4GB hard disk; the DeskPro, 2GB. For both, I am unable to make Linux bootable from hard disk. Strangely enough, though, I was able to in

Re: 2 ttyS0 questions...

2001-01-27 Thread Angel
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all... > I have 2 questions regarding ttyS0. > First: I want my user name to have access to > ttyS0. where can I find info on how to do this > (i.e. which HOWTO if any) Add yourself to the diagout group, as you can see //dev/ttyS* belongs to this group. > > Second

Re: Unable to install LILO

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote John Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I've tried following Debian's suggestion to place a # small /boot partition at the beginning of the disk, # but that hasn't helped, either. Has anyone run into # and been able to fix this? Please include your lilo.conf and any errors you received. Davi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Vinod Kurup
> MediaOne is known to have some periodic routing problems, but based on > what I've heard I'd take them over Verizon. I've heard a lot of > people with similar problems with RCN to what Noah describes, I'd > avoid them like the plague. > Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use

Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Adam Read
When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and then my machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do anything. I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've tried a completly monolitic kernel. The kernel is correctly configured for my hardw

Compiling java (gcj, jikes, kaffe...)

2001-01-27 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, This is really stupid, but I don't know any further. Every time I try to compile some java source code - actually the HelloWorld example from the Debian Java FAQ - I get error messages: with gcj: /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undef

Re: HELP! How do I configure LILO?

2001-01-27 Thread DSC Lithuania
Right now I am using loadlin.exe in my d:\linux directory, with a batch file "linux.bat" that has the statements   D: CD LINUX loadlin linux root=/dev/hdb4 swap=/dev/hdb2 mem=4m   (Of course, your mem statement would reflect your memory, and your swap and root would reflect your own partiti

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Adam Read wrote: > When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and > then my machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do > anything. I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've > tried a completly mo

Weird behavior of Java graphical programs under KDE2

2001-01-27 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! I'm writing to report a weird behavior of Java graphical programs under KDE2. I think it's concerned to KDE2 because it's occur only under it. I use Borland JBuilder and, after some time, the up arrow key and the left arrow key stop to work. Even if I close and restart the program again, it

Re: Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-27 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Will, Thanks so much for the detailed information. I will set this up when I get a chance. (hah) > there's an awful lot you can do with all these -- it's kinda > like killing a mosquito with a nuclear bomb... It certainly looks that way! Actually, I have another question about exim. I have it s

configuring potato to recognize 3com ethernet card

2001-01-27 Thread john connolly
Off the cdrom installation of potato results in a setup that does not utilize my 3com509xxx card. The config file has CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y What else do I need. Thanks JWC

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:33:03 -0500, Adam Read said: > When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and then my > machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do anything. > I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've tried a > completly mono

Re: ethernet after reboot n/a

2001-01-27 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:03:50PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > eth2: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xd800, 00:80:c8:e4:83:e9, IRQ 9. > eth2: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link . > > bash-2.03# ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.1/24 up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailabl

Re: Mozilla 0.7 && Java support

2001-01-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:02:42PM -0100, Kristian Rink wrote: > Hello everybody... > ...being not sure if this is the list for that topic... Again, being > in search for a good web browser which (thanks to the admins of some > of the sites I have to visit more or less regularly) is able of > rende

reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely appreciated all the info and help from you guys, but the Debian server I set up at work is now wiped. The reason I had to set it up was for the Webtrends Enterprise Reporting Server, which is technically for Red Hat. I was havin

cups with a bjc610 anyone ?

2001-01-27 Thread Olaf Foellinger
Hi, I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like gs or does cups works alone ? Does anyone have a ppd file for me that works ?

Re: configuring potato to recognize 3com ethernet card

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Most network cards are compiled as modules and you do not need to recompile kernel. insmod or modprobe with correct module will solve this. osamu On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:19:18PM -0600, john connolly wrote: > Off the cdrom installation of potato results in a setup that does not > utilize my 3co

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:34:34 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > Is this on a laptop? I have the same problem on my ThinkPad 560 and > since there are no error messages, I don't know why. Both of us should check the archives for debian-laptop, if your machine is a laptop, that is. -- Andrew

Re: cups with a bjc610 anyone ?

2001-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 27 Jan 2001 21:48:22 +0100, Olaf Foellinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a > canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I > want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like > gs or does cu

Re: Setting locale failed?

2001-01-27 Thread Torben Korte
On 27 Jan 2001 17:10:59 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = (unset), > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" >

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Stefan Srdic
Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with another scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message) Why this module is loading I have no idea, I do not have any scsi

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
Try adding the following parameters to your kernel: ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi You can do this with lilo.conf's: append="ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi" Or right at the boot prompt. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Angel
Stefan Srdic wrote: > > Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw > working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with > another > scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message) > > Why this module is loading I h

Converting from Exim to qmail

2001-01-27 Thread Alec Smith
I've been using Exim on my Debian boxes for awhile, but would like to convert over to QMail (in Potato) in the process of doing a major server upgrade. Right now I have Exim and QPopper doing the following: 1 - Providing primary MX service for several domains 2 - Handling outgoing mail for the

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:46:15PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely > appreciated all the info and help from you guys, but the Debian server > I set up at work is now wiped. The reason I had to set it up was for > the Webtrends Enter

Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread artlemas
Will a woody system compile good CGI binaries for an AT&T System V system? Or would it be wiser to try to find existing public domain bins? ...trying to get a Web counter going for someone else. I'm on the Rocky Mountain Range, the snow is dumping from the sky, and there's nothing better to

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
I dont have the exact link handy, but if you visit xcdroast.org and click the ling near teh bottom for a CD writing HOWTO, it will describe how to do the following: you are not getting your cdrom under scsi-emulation because the IDE-cd driver is loaded for that device. You need to tell ide-cd not

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Koopman
better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure web surfer behaviour anyways, only web server behaviour. staf wagemakers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:46:15PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely > > a

Re: Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
if you really want binaries, you prob need to setup gcc to cross compile for your destination platform, unless the ATT sysV system happens to understand the i386 ISA, and ELF or a.out binary formats. If you just want to write scripts in perl/shell, they will work on the ATT box provided you stick

RE: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Magus Ba'al
I had to add a line to lilo to get it to use scsi-ide. Here is my entry for lilo: image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb3 label = linux append="hdd=ide-scsi" Where /dev/hdd is my cdr. You could also just type that in manually at the LILO prompt during boot. This I found on the CD BURNING HOW

What files do I need to set for NetWork Connection?

2001-01-27 Thread Jean-Philippe Durrios
Hi, I have all the information from my Cable operator: fixed IP, netmask, broadcast, gatewy, dns, nameserver, hostname, domain name, etc... What files do I need to modify and what should I write in it to get my Internet connection to work? I cannot ping anything :-( Thanx you for you help JP

CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-27 Thread John Travis
Hello Debianites :-). I've been too busy to track this list for a while, but I thought I get back into swing by asking a question for a friend of mine first. They don't subscribe to the list, but I figured some of the gurus here could answer the question... _ Is there an app like (

Re: Converting from Exim to qmail

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've been using Exim on my Debian boxes for awhile, but would like to > convert over to QMail (in Potato) in the process of doing a major > server upgrade. > > Right now I have Exim and QPop

Howto (re)enable dead keys?

2001-01-27 Thread Ernst Martin Witte
Hello! How can I enable dead keys in XF86? On my console dead keys work very well. If I use startx, dead keys are disabled. If I use kdm, dead keys work in the login dialog, but after login, my dead keys are gone. My deadkey line in XF86Config is: #XkbVariant "nodeadkeys" How are the

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
i'm not familiar with cvsupit, but if you are just looking for CVS capabilites, apt-get install cvs will get cvs installed and you can do all your normal cvs stuff. I assume this is what you mean by manual cvs. -Casey On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, John Travis wrote: > Hello Debianites :-). > I'v

Re: unstable or testing - which one to use?

2001-01-27 Thread Erik Steffl
David Z Maze wrote: > > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DS> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > ES> what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting > ES> that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable > ES> was. what's t

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
ignore=hdc may not harm but it was not needed for my system with stock 2.2.18-pre21 kernel. Try following as root: # cd /dev # ln -sf scd0 cdrom If it does not work, please post /etc/fstab /etc/modules and output of # ls -la /dev/cd* /dev/scd0 /dev/hdc In my case, # ls -l /dev/scd0 /dev/

Re: Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread artlemas
The admin. at the remote Sys V server only allows binaries, although he allows them in user html spaces, too. ...doing this for a friend who has spent many years on one historical Web site. I'll look into the documentation "to setup gcc to cross compile" for Sys V, as you advised. We probably

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote: > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure web > surfer behaviour > anyways, only web server behaviour. customers ask for it :) -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://st

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
After reading your message and dmesg: Your CD-ROM is still connected as IDE CD-ROM at hdc. No wonder you can not mount as scd0. Did you run lilo after adding append line? Or are you booting right kernel where you added append line? Anyway, you should read CD-Writing-HOWTO first. That shoul

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