Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Kent West
hammack wrote: Problem: I cannot get a cursor in X with my PS/2 generic mouse. I do get a cursor in the Text mode and can cut and paste between VC's. In X I can click in the window and get menus to pop up and occasionally I will lite up a button all in the blind.Below are the two confi

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Casey Webster
sorry for the blank first message, hit ctrl-x instead of c... here is what is in my gpm.conf, and XF86Config, my mouse works fine under X and in console at the same time gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=ps2 append="" XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"

minimal Debian installation

2001-01-29 Thread Ralf Müller
Hello, Installing Debian on many Systems from time to time gets me into troble. If I want to install a minimal system while using a kernel compiled by me, the standard Debian installation procedure often fails. Does anyone know the install procedure od Debian? Because I want to make the following

Ho switch foreign keyboard?

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I initially set up my system with a French keyboard but have now got my hands on one from the US. I know I can switch in XF86Config for X, but how or where do I switch at the command prompt? Thanks. Jonathan

save package selection?

2001-01-29 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, is there a way to save the selection of packages (independent of version numbers) that exist on the system so that the same set of programs can be conveniently restored or installed on another machine? sure, i can parse dpkg -l into perl and do my thing that way, but that's a feature a package

Font corruption under XF86 4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Daishi Harada
Hello, I recently moved from stable to testing, and in the process to XF86 (4.0.2-1). The problem that I am having is that fonts/text seem to get corrupted/not properly refreshed; i.e., when I originally type text everything is fine, but if I occlude the text (e.g. with another window) and then

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christopher! > > On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > >> > I try to print with the command > >> > > >> > $ lpr test.ps > >> try "lpr -Plp or lpr -Plp0 file" > > > > I tried that also. The docs say that if you don't specify a -Pprinte

DriveReady SeekComplete Error!

2001-01-29 Thread jdls
Hello,   In the middle of reading a disc for package installation of deselect an error occurs:   Trunks:/#hdc: cdrom_decode_status:status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 end_request: I/0 error, dev 16:00 (hdc) sector 110248     Is my cd defective or

Re: konqueror not rendering jdk api documentation

2001-01-29 Thread Matthias Wieser
Joseph Schlecht wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone else noticed that konqueror (kde 2.1 beta2) will not render sun's > jdk api documentation. Here is the link > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html > > Does anyone know why only the frames load, but do not render? > It does not render

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

2001-01-29 Thread Matthias Wieser
Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I'd just like to pledge my support for this, and if you need any help then > please > do get in touch! Thank you for your offer :-) I opened a sourceforge project: mydebman I would be glad to see you join :-) > > Yes, the database structure must be very very extensib

OT: New Linux book out

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Off topic, but maybe of interest. Just saw a review in this week's Economist on a new book detailing the history of Linux. Not a collection of essays like Cathedral... Glyn Moody "Rebel Code". Jonathan

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-29 Thread serge delorme
Le dimanche 28 jan. 2001 à 11:23:33 +0100, Carel Fellinger a écrit: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, serge delorme wrote: > > > > > > As root it's ok but as "user" I can't access the drive even if: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: save package selection?

2001-01-29 Thread Mike
MaD dUCK wrote: > hi, is there a way to save the selection of packages (independent of > version numbers) that exist on the system so that the same set of > programs can be conveniently restored or installed on another machine? > > sure, i can parse dpkg -l into perl and do my thing that way, but

Re: debian install

2001-01-29 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, EuphoriaDJ wrote: > I have been using gnu/linux for about four years and have used several > dist's but I finally found out that apt > is the packager I have been wanting and that it finds what you need when you > want to install something. > Perfect "NOW THAT IS A PACKAGE M

Re: Ho switch foreign keyboard?

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I initially set up my system with a French keyboard but have now got my >hands on one from the US. I know I can switch in XF86Config for X, but >how or where do I switch at the command prompt? Try 'setxkbmap'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: /etc/netgroups format.

2001-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quick questions regarding /etc/netgroups and nis. > >In a previous life (using solaris) it was possible to >have a netgroup file like.. > >8<- >hostgroup1 (host1,,) (host2,,) >hostgr

mkfontdir on SparcStation2

2001-01-29 Thread Warren Turkal
Mkfontdir seg faults and causes problems with install xfont family of packages. Also, is X4.0.2 Compatible with sparcstation 2? --Warren

Re: Ho switch foreign keyboard?

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: Thanks for getting back to me! > Try 'setxkbmap'. I looked it up and itr seems to deal with X11 only? That correct? I can switch the X keyboard easily. Linux also botts initially in English. It's when the boot is finished that the command prompt keyboard ia French. That's wha

Q: Keyboard Solved

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks, but kbdconfig did the trick. I am curious about the other recommended applet. Jonathan

net-pf-10?

2001-01-29 Thread Svante Signell
My log files are full of complaints on this module: Jan 29 22:52:39 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Where to find more info about it? It is not found in .../linux-2.4.0/Documentation/devices.txt or ...linux-2.4.0/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt! Or is it described t

Re: Ho switch foreign keyboard?

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 at 11:17:17 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Thanks for getting back to me! > > > Try 'setxkbmap'. > > I looked it up and itr seems to deal with X11 only? That correct? I can > switch the X keyboard easily. Ah, right. I misunderstood you (thinking that y

woody packages broken

2001-01-29 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have noticed that I cannot update freetype2 package on Debian woody (testing), and libguile6 also: sudo apt-get install freetype2 ghostview gs gv mgp pstoedi t vflib2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you h

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-29 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Torbjorn Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like there just was an update of the ssh package from > the sequrity team, which supposedly fixes the problem. > It didn't... It was linked to some version of libcrypto which wasn't on my machine Regards Tobbe

Re: net-pf-10?

2001-01-29 Thread romain lerallut
check /etc/modutils/alias (aliases ? ) it's an alias for the IPv6 module, that you don't seem to be using. uncomment the line and it should disappear. Or else, compile IPv6 ... HTH, Romain Begin Original Message From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:45:30

IP masq

2001-01-29 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hi, I connect to the Internet from a masqueraded LAN through a masquerading gateway/proxy server. My problem is that, if I am logged in to somewhere outside our network with ssh or telnet, after a little while of inactivity the gateway resets the connection and I have to reconnect. The proxy serv

console display problem

2001-01-29 Thread Johann Spies
For the first time I got different and incorrect results from my compose key on the tty1-console. Characters like ëôáéíóú shows up as greek or mathematical symbols on tty1. I wanted to send you an example, but copying the output from tty1 to tty2 resulted in the correct characters displayed in tt

Re: Shell script

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:39:23AM +0100, William Leese wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to write a simple script that will do several things: > > 1) merge 3 files in a predefined order > > 2) replace a few words in one of the files to be merged, the values with > which the words will be replaced mu

Re: Debian Testing distro problems

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:47:49AM +1100, William Shui wrote: > Hi, > I have recently upgraded my potato to testing. > > A strange thing happened. > It appears that after 1 or 2 days of uptime, when I'm idle (either > in a x environment or in a console). The output of "whoami" would

Re: woody packages broken

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Fluch
> I have noticed that I cannot update freetype2 package on Debian woody > (testing), and libguile6 also: > sudo apt-get install freetype2 ghostview gs gv mgp pstoedi > t vflib2 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean t

Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been tracking the upgrades in Woody for about 2 months using apt-get without problems, but today it tried to upgrade X and it's broken it so that X won't work at all. Question: how can I start again and reinstall everything from potato? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you need to apt-ge

Re: Start up?

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew Clark
Joshua Kruck wrote: > > hello, > Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can > put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i > would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an > easy way to do this? The easiest way I have f

crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Timo
hello, why my crontab not / works like crontab -e 00 21 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0 works fine But when I try start with file crontab Eth0Dwn starts job, but nothing else happend. Eth0Dwn 00 21 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0 TT

Re: woody packages broken

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bostjan Muller wrote: >> I have noticed that I cannot update freetype2 package on Debian woody >> (testing), and libguile6 also: [...] >> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >> freetype2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1) but 2.2-11 is to be

Re: konqueror not rendering jdk api documentation

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joseph Schlecht wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed that konqueror (kde 2.1 beta2) will not render sun's >> jdk api documentation. Here is the link >> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html >> >> Does anyone know why only the frames load, but do

Re: Debian Testing distro problems

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
William Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have recently upgraded my potato to testing. > > A strange thing happened. > > It appears that after 1 or 2 days of uptime, when I'm idle (either in a >x environment or in a console). The output of "whoami" would be, "you do >not exist,

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might > > be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably > > more of a pain than fixing X). What sort o

Re: woody packages broken

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
I noticed during my dist-upgrade tonight that freetype was being kept back, which is most likely because it has some missing dependancies. -Rob On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Bostjan Muller wrote: > >> I have noticed that

Re: keymaps

2001-01-29 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c?
> > Dear all, > > I have some problems with the maping of my keyboard. > I read all the manuals and howto's about it. > What is about? > ... > > I have I want > > normal: > `1234567890-=`1234567890-= > qwertyuiop[]\ăşertţuiop[]\ > asdfghjkl;' asdfghj

need to add 255.255.255.255 to route table

2001-01-29 Thread Nick Barron
hello,   I recently installed a fresh potato box from 2.2r I need to add: route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth1 to my route table to make windozs boxes happy w/ dhcp allocation   where can I add this line to execute at boot?   using 2.1 w/ 2..0.X I was able to add it to /etc/init.d/networ

Romanian translation

2001-01-29 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c?
Hi, I would like to join the team which translate Debian in Romanian. The link I found on http://www.debian.org/international/Romanian lead me to a dead end. I would appreciate if someone can point me in the good direction. I have some problems with /usr/share/locale/ro_RO/LC_TIME. Can I make an

Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I'm interested in setting up a Linux Box to host my web-site and network.  I've started reading the appropriate how-to's (Security, DNS, NIS, Firewall, etc.) and am just a little unsure about one thing. BTW: running debian of course.. :)   Can I have one Linux box working as my name server,

Re: need to add 255.255.255.255 to route table

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:17:39PM -0800, Nick Barron wrote: > hello, > > I recently installed a fresh potato box from 2.2r > I need to add: > route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth1 to my route table to make windozs > boxes happy w/ dhcp allocation > > where can I add this line to execute at b

xterm

2001-01-29 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c?
Hi all, Someone knows where I can get the default behaviour of characters from 128 to 255, if they are separators or not. In man xterm it sais about class CharClass, but it refer only to 0-127: The default table is static int charClass[128] = { /* NUL SOH

remote modem access

2001-01-29 Thread mheyes
I have just setup a VERY small ethernet network with one user box and one server. User and server can see each other, ping, etc and user can access Internet provided the server is already logged on to my ISP. What is the best way to enable the user to access the server's modem to dial out and conne

Re: How to manage file /etc/modules; What process?

2001-01-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have changed the kernel modules several times and > in looking over the various files that are used when the > kernel boots..I noticed the the file /etc/modules has not > changed since I installed the system Dec.18,2000. It > seems that this should be altered as the kernel gives a > lot of boot

Re: Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:28:31AM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > I'm interested in setting up a Linux Box to host my web-site and network. > I've started reading the appropriate how-to's (Security, DNS, NIS, Firewall, > etc.) and am just a little unsure about one thing. BTW: running debian of

unresolved symbols

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Marquez-Klaka
Hello list, i have running stabel. I installed kernel-headers-2.2.17, kernel-source-2.2.17 and kernel-package. Then i made my own kernel ( make dep clean bzImage; make modules; make modules_install) After that i copied System.map to /boot/System.map-2.2.17 and /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzIma

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Timo wrote: > why my crontab not / works like > crontab -e 00 21 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0 > works fine You mean you run "crontab -e", and then when it starts its editor (vi by default) you enter "00 21 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0" then save it? Yes, that should work. But why do you want this to be

Taper

2001-01-29 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hi, I'd like to set up an auto-backup from cron. I run taper with the following command line, but it always gives me its help without any error message. taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g `date` -t "Aryo ($(LANG=de_DE date "+%A"))" -U @default What's wrong with it? And why

Re: unresolved symbols

2001-01-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> i have running stabel. I installed kernel-headers-2.2.17, > kernel-source-2.2.17 and kernel-package. Then i (Off-topic -- kernel-package isn't needed since you're compiling kernels the "old" way or the "non-debian" way) > made my own kernel ( make dep clean bzImage; > make modules; make modules

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
--- hammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XF86Config: > Protocol "PS/2" > Device"/dev/gpmdata" > or > Protocol "PS/2" > Device"/dev/mouse" > and gpm.conf was > Device/dev/psaux > type ps2 > I may be mistaken, but doesn't the device need to be exactly the same in both? xucaen

Re: Romanian translation

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to join the team which translate Debian in Romanian. >The link I found on http://www.debian.org/international/Romanian >lead me to a dead end. Go to http://lists.debian.org/ and look for debian-i18n@lists.debian.org (internationalizati

Re: need to add 255.255.255.255 to route table

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:32:54AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:17:39PM -0800, Nick Barron wrote: > > hello, > > > > I recently installed a fresh potato box from 2.2r > > I need to add: > > route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth1 to my route table to make windozs > > boxes happ

Re: unresolved symbols

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Marquez-Klaka
Thanks, that solved the problem. Daniel On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: >> i have running stabel. I installed kernel-headers-2.2.17, >> kernel-source-2.2.17 and kernel-package. Then i > >(Off-topic -- kernel-package isn't needed since you're compiling kernels >the "old" way or the

Re: Font corruption under XF86 4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Rick Loga
Are you using the xfs-xtt font server or the xfs font server? You refer to both. AFAIK only the xfs font server works with version 4 and to use it you do need unix/:7100 in the front of the font paths. X starts with the first line and if it doesn't work, it tries the next line, etc. --- Dais

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed them? Thanks much. -- Or

Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > --- Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Christopher > > > > On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > > > lp0 :\ > > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > > > :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ > > > :if=/usr/share/apsfilt

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
Noticed I forgot to mention the other bit of advice. You might just give it a few hours (all my machines are at work so I have to wait to go home and fix my home box) and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade again. I'm sure the developers are fixing this even as we speak. BTW thanks for the list of p

Re: How to manage file /etc/modules; What process?

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have changed the kernel modules several times and in looking over the > various files that are used when the kernel boots..I noticed the the > file /etc/modules has not changed since I installed the system > Dec.18,2000. It seems that this should be alte

openssh and non-free ssh coexisting

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´ve got network equipment which only supports RSA-ciphers , so obviously I cannot use OpenSSH (which supports only blowfish and 3des) with it. The (for me) obvious solution would be installing ssh-nonfree, but this always wants to remove OpenSSH (same with non-free ssh2 from unstable).

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: > This is a strange way to want to set a crontab... Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are given, I suspect that `crontab ` is the most historically standard/ normal way to use it. > "man crontab" >

vim window resizing

2001-01-29 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, my vim, when started from my regular 80x24 xterm, will blatantly proceed to resize the xterm to 80x50. i don't remember enabling such an option, and it's absolutely not what i want. how can i disable this? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTEC

dist-upgrade on stable

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade on stable. I expected to see 2.2r2 in /etc/debian_version but only 2.2 is there. Is this ok? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 _

Re: /dev/ttyS* permissions

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Neil Youngman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In my experience the only time pppd fails to restore the serial port > > permissions these days is when it gets a 'kill -9' or is otherwise > > prevented from cleaning up. > > I've never used kill -9 on it. I use wvdial and exit with ^C. Predictable

Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, last week I sent the following e-mail and someone replied me. I forgot the mail. It is something like get boot-floppies package and use dbootstrap. I tried to do a "make release" and the following error occurs: find . -name \*~ | xargs rm -f make resc1440.bin resc1440-s.bi

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Timo
Hello, Yes, you are rigth, it´s not good reason to use that file. (but test) And (crontab -e) uses vi editor. crontab -l looks: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (Eth0Dwn installed on Mon Jan 29 17:07:59 2001) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting serge delorme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > CD-burning packages are not installed yet, I was just testing the drive > after recompiling the kernel. > As a user I could mount the drive but could not read it with a simple ls > command... I would get a "permission denied" reply. > BUT this morning

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here is what I added to my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 > 0 > > This lets me *access* the drive ok, but when I try to mount it I get the > familiar > > mount: block device /dev/cdro

Re: Ho switch foreign keyboard?

2001-01-29 Thread Tom Marshall
I put this in my .bashrc ... function aoeu() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout us; else loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-latin1.kmap.gz; fi; } function asdf() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout dvorak; else loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kma

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: >> This is a strange way to want to set a crontab... Dave Sherohman wrote: > Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are > given, I suspect that `crontab ` is the most historically standard/ > normal w

Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Tom Schuetz
Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell script? I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, and the CHMOD shows up correctly as executable in ls -l, but still will not "go". What should I check? Thanks, Tom Schuetz __

Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Are you sure your usb-printer > > ist recognized by your system? > > Try "cat >/dev/lp0. Does it work? > > No, the command just hangs. What did you actually type? I assume you *didn't* try /dev/lp0. But they are correct in that you should

vim and number pad

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
I'm using vim 5.6.70 in Potato. In xterm and gnome-terminal I can't use the number pad to enter numbers. What happens when I try is a letter is printed and the cursor starts jumping all over. OTOH I the number pad works fine in rxvt. I've looked through the vim documentation and looked at envir

Re: Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:44:42PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I forgot the mail. It is something like get boot-floppies > package and use dbootstrap. I tried to do a "make release" > and the following error occurs: > > find . -name \*~ | xargs rm -f > make resc1440.bin

testing distribution security updates?

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Ruvolo
Hi all. I've just installed a box with packages from the testing dist. Some questions came to mind about security updates for packages in testing. If a package is in the testing distribution and a security update is issued that effects stable, testing and unstable, how long before the testing pa

Re: unofficial pine 4.32 .debs available

2001-01-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Coronya wrote: > BTW, do you know any other unofficial deb sites? ;) > Debian developer, Stephane Bortzmeyer has a list of unoffical apt-gettable sites at: http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
What's the exact error message that you are getting? Leonard Leblanc - Original Message - From: Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:03 AM Subject: Newbie Shell Script Problems > Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell > scr

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:03:01AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell > script? > > I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, and the CHMOD shows up > correctly as executable in ls -l, but still will not "go". > > What sho

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Kent West
Tom Schuetz wrote: Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell script? I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, and the CHMOD shows up correctly as executable in ls -l, but still will not "go". What should I check? Thanks, Tom Schuetz _

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2001-01-29 Thread Chris Kesler
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Re: unresolved symbols

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Do a "mv /lib/modules/2.2.17 /lib/modules/2.2.17-backup" and then re-run # "make modules_install". Another option is to edit the kernel toplevel Makefile. It's probably /usr/src/linux/Makefile . Four lines down, there an EXTRAVERSION variable that

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Timo wrote: > Yes, you are rigth, it´s not good reason to use that file. (but test) > And (crontab -e) uses vi editor. > > crontab -l looks: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (Eth0Dwn installed on Mon Jan 29 17:07:59 2001) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13

Installation Problem

2001-01-29 Thread Jeremie Lasalle-Ratelle
When I try to install from my existing Dos Partition using install.bat, I get this message while the installation kernel is loading.   Attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=1279706953, limit=4096 dev 01:00 blksize=1024 blocknr=1279706952   sector= -1735553392 coun

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Timo
The reason I asked that crontab problem was, I use crontab using Backup scripts using and it always works fine and if I stop outgoing network traffic using crontab + ipchains rules everything works well too. The main problem is, why does cron not understand network parameters while using specific

mysql uninstall

2001-01-29 Thread John-Mark
Hi people I have messed up my grant table on mysql and can't fix it. I am basically getting access denied on all users including root. I have only junk databases and tables To sort out this problem I have decided to start from scratch by this i mean to completely remove all traces of mysql ( i

Re: Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
Samuel Hathaway wrote: > > Samuel Hathaway wrote: > > > Actually, I have another question about exim. I have it set up properly, > > but I > > am hosting a couple domains for friends (they all point to the same IP), > > and I > > was wondering if there was a way to set up exim rules to forward,

Re: Connecting to a Microsoft Proxy Server

2001-01-29 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
As others have noted, Microsoft Proxy Server does support SOCKS. This feature must be enabled by the administrator. Having done that you can install the SOCKS client and use: runsocks apt to use apt. I'm not sure if runsocks comes with the debian package. You might have to download the source

Re: dist-upgrade on stable

2001-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:31:49PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade on stable. I expected to see 2.2r2 > in /etc/debian_version but only 2.2 is there. Is this ok? Yes. I got that on a fresh 2.2r2 installation. Bob

Re: PyORBit vs. ORBit-Python

2001-01-29 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
Sounds great. The available PyORBit isn't much use anyway since as near as I can tell, it can only understand CORBA objects which were compiled into it. I assume ORBit-Python can take in new IDL at runtime? Roland Mas wrote: > Hello people, > > This message concerns Python users, and in par

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
The only hints I can give are to "man bash", "man sh", and to start out simple...do something like: #!/bin/sh echo "Hello world\n" Also, read through your system's start up scripts or any other shell script on the system. Usually, the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d are basic and can provide you w

Re: mysql uninstall

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM +, John-Mark wrote: > Hi people > I have messed up my grant table on mysql and can't fix it. I am basically > getting > access denied on all users including root. I have only junk databases and > tables > To sort out this problem I have decided to start fr

Re: Font corruption under XF86 4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
I think the problem is that xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi are not downloaded with dist-upgrade for some reason, as this sounds like how my display looked with just xfonts-base installed. -Rob On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:55:41AM -0800, Rick Loga wrote: > Are you using the xfs-xtt font server or th

Re: (also) mysql uninstall

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:44:57PM +, John-Mark wrote: > Hi people > I have messed up my grant table on mysql and can't fix it. I am basically > getting > access denied on all users including root. I have only junk databases and > tables > To sort out this problem I have decided to start fr

RE: unresolved symbols

2001-01-29 Thread XPOINSAR
I had the same problem. It was solved by updating modutils from testing. -Original Message- From: Daniel Marquez-Klaka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:46 PM To: debian-users Mail-List Subject: unresolved symbols Hello list, i have running stabel. I installed k

NAT-ed ftp server and passive connections

2001-01-29 Thread ahall
Hello, I have an issue that appears to have been looked at many times before, yet I could not find a solution anywhere. I searched the list archives and google but did not find much. Here is what I have NAT-ed host --- NAT box --- Internet --- NAT box --- NAT-ed ftp server In this setup req

use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,,
Hello, I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... I did a "normal" installation of potato some months ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages that I didn't installl at first installation...so I don't know if when I do an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade it review only

can't ncftp2

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
I've got this problem with ftp right now. I can use it locally on my network but when I try to ftp out I can't. I ran the debugging option with ncftp2 - $ ncftp2 -D ftp.gnu.org After I supposedly access the ftp server I get the following when I use "ls" in ncftp2 - _

Re: openssh and non-free ssh coexisting

2001-01-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rw> I´ve got network equipment which only supports RSA-ciphers rw> , so obviously I cannot use OpenSSH (which supports only rw> blowfish and 3des) with it. Not obvious at all. The RSA patent expired last September, and there is no restriction t

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell # script? # # I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, and the CHMOD shows up # correctly as executable in ls -l, but still will not "go". If you run 'echo $PATH' from

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