keeping checksums of every file installed

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´ll soon have to give out the root-pw of one of my boxes temporarily, but I´m a little paranoid... Does anybody know of some program/script that could make checksums of each&every file installed and keeping this list somewhere safe so that I can compare it when I take the password away

Re: keeping checksums of every file installed

2001-02-15 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # Hi! # # I´ll soon have to give out the root-pw of one of my boxes temporarily, # but I´m a little paranoid... # # Does anybody know of some program/script that could make checksums of # each&every file installed and keeping this list somewhere

Re: keeping checksums of every file installed

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:26:32 EST, "David B. Harris" writes: >To quote Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ># Does anybody know of some program/script that could make checksums of ># each&every file installed and keeping this list somewhere safe so >that ># I can compare it when I take the passwor

Re: keeping checksums of every file installed

2001-02-15 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:12:08AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I´ll soon have to give out the root-pw of one of my boxes temporarily, > but I´m a little paranoid... > > Does anybody know of some program/script that could make checksums of > each&every file installed and keeping t

isapnp.conf problems

2001-02-15 Thread john smith
I am trying to revive an old isa pnp modem/soundcard and when I use pnpdump to try and configure my modem (not the soundcard yet) I see this error at /var/log and during boot-up when my card is being detected. Board 1 has identity of FF FF FF FF 003 054 07 AZT300 serial no-1 [checksum of ] /et

Re: kernel 2.4.1 and modules

2001-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, John Galt wrote: > Your modutils is out of date. Either get Testing's, or wait until Adrian > Bunk sets up the convience package for 2.4 kernels w/ potato. I've already set it up. Please read [1] for more information. cu, Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.htm

Re: keeping checksums of every file installed

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:12:08AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > Does anybody know of some program/script that could make checksums of > each&every file installed and keeping this list somewhere safe so that > I can compare it when I take the password away from my colleague to > make sure ther

Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel 2.2.17) with my PIII 800 with Debian woody (2.2.18 recompiled) using a "laplink" cable. I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove anything, but..), I

Re: Dlink ethernet card

2001-02-15 Thread ARTUS Guillaume
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I'm thinking of the correct card, it should be supported just fine > with the via-rhine driver. 2 friends of mine got this NIC. But on one computer we needed to change the base kernel in order to get this card working. I think there is 2 revision board for this car

Pilot-link utilities???

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Has anyone here used the Pilot-mail utility lately? I can't get it to recognize a port, each time I run it, it says "unable to bind to port -p" and "file does not exist". Well, perhaps I should qualify that, it did work, once, when I removed the "-p" from the parameters, but I haven't been abl

RE: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-15 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Well 2.4.1 kernel does impress me, but the mga problem is still there. 32bpp just freeze my system. and I don't even have to XFree log for 32bpp.. just have 24bpp XFree log attached On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:05:01 Joris Lambrecht wrote: > I remember reading that kernel 2.4.1(01?) has improved handli

RE: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
_sigh_ you probably just wan't to hear me say it, YES i'm using Outlook as i type (company policy) Sincerly yours, Joris -- Still hoping for a more sensible WORLD and a FREE desktop. -Original Message- From: Robert Waldner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:5

Re: Win2k LDAP and Linux oh my!

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
ive seen a lot of reports that say active directory does NOT get along well with any other kind of directory service. its basically if you use it that is all you can use. i really feel sorry for anyone who is forced to use AD. currently at my company we are using Netscape directory server 3.1 on a

RE: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Osamu, Since i'm an outlook user i'd like to point out these 'patches', i'd refrain from using that word in this context, are the most BRUTE piece of programming i ever witnessed. Bill must have done it in some spare time, imagine i can't even exchange .exe files ! GREAT PATCH, actually it really

RE: SCSI adapter supported?

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
yep, www.debian.org (upgrade yr kernel to 2.4.x) -Original Message- From: Mike Egglestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: SCSI adapter supported? Hi again... Doesn anyone know if potato can easily support this

FW: RE: SCSI adapter supported? (UU2465166)

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Great, UUNET (ISP) is processing e-mail manually [] [][]-Original Message- [][]From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [][]Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:30 AM [][]To: Joris Lambrecht [][]Subject: Re: RE: SCSI adapter supported? (UU2465166) [][] [][] [][] ** THE RETURN ADD

XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase?

2001-02-15 Thread hogan
Ok.. I've finally got XFree86 4.0.2 to the point where it will go into X :) Only problem - it shows stuff in 320x240 - and only half the screen.. Have attached my config file + log.. Any ideas? It says my card (actually on board S3) isn't supported but that SVGA driver should handle it.. I told

Remote Administration tool for Linux Network Park

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
VACM 2.0 (the project page is at sourceforge.net) http://www.valinux.com/software/vacm/

hosts, resolv setup?

2001-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
Can someone explain to me how to set up /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf for ssh (and similar programs) _not_ to search for my local network host names using the external nameservers in resolv.conf? The local network is built up with NICs. I'm not using bind on my debian host. It's installed on th

newbie question concerning installation/boot up

2001-02-15 Thread Schrammen
Hi ! I'm new to debian linux an would really appreaciate some help for the following problem: I bought a running linux box (specialised router +mailserver) with debian linux on it and wanted to use another mainboard. So I switched to a different board reinstalled the HD an started the maschine

Re: sound ensoniq es1371

2001-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: > T. Green wrote: > > > HELP !newbie !! > > I am using creative ensoniq audiopci card model es1371. > > i am not getting any sound form it, nor am i getting any sound when i > > run realplayer > > can anyone tell me what i am doing worng, are what is ne

Kernel-Source 2.4.1

2001-02-15 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Hi ! I just downloaded the above package and visited packages.debian.org for beeing sure I have all things the Kernel Package depends on. But everytime I try to make a build I get parse errors and I don't know why (I checked file permissions). Know I did exactly the same (also the same configurati

Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-15 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, hanasaki wrote: > I have a HD with > > /boot > / => a complete install of debian > > I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s). - mount the "another partition" to /mnt - copy everything in / to /mnt (but exclude /mnt, of course) cp -avf /root /var/ /home

newbie question concerning installation/boot up (update)

2001-02-15 Thread Schrammen
It's a IBM compatible Intel PC . Despite this error on bootup everything including filesystem works fine. I just cannot connect to the PC via network from another PC (telnet, http, ping) Can I keep my current ( small secure and specialized) kernel an just modify it to match the new mainboard ? If

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Lars Knudsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, Antonio! > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore. The AMD Duron and Thunderbird chips are a

Re: Kernel-Source 2.4.1

2001-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > Hi ! Hi Hanno, > I just downloaded the above package and visited packages.debian.org for > beeing sure I have all things the Kernel Package depends on. But everytime I > try to make a build I get parse errors and I don't know why (I checked file > per

gui config tools

2001-02-15 Thread christophe barbe
Is there a gui config tool to set network and stuff like that or is it required to edit config file. I want to set a default route and I don't know how to do that properly. I can add a line like "route add ..." in a init script but it's not really clean. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé Software

How to upgrade to a tested lib?

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Rowe
I have some apps I want to build that require newer libs than what I have installed from stable. How do I tell dselect/apt/dpkg to let me pick the newer SDL lib (for instance) out of tested, bring with it any dependent libs (which may also be in tested), but not make a change to newer packages acro

Re: How to upgrade to a tested lib?

2001-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robin Rowe wrote: > I have some apps I want to build that require newer libs than what I have > installed from stable. How do I tell dselect/apt/dpkg to let me pick the > newer SDL lib (for instance) out of tested, bring with it any dependent libs > (which may also be in teste

Joys of X4 upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
Hello World, I've just run apt-get dist-upgrade and now more or less am running testing. The task presently ocupying me is configuring XF86 4 What I can do: run everything X 4 except the the actual xserver (which is the X 3.3.6 SVGA server. This works and runs my window manager

Re: Win2k LDAP and Linux oh my!

2001-02-15 Thread fke
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > ive seen a lot of reports that say active directory does NOT get along > well > with any other kind of directory service. its basically if you use it > that > is all you can use. i really feel sorry for anyone who is forced to use > AD. > > currently at

Re: Joys of X4 upgrade SOLVED

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
got it - needed to add Section "Modules" Load "extmod" EndSection Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in

help: daemon msg module binfmt is?

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I just noticed after my last kernel compile I'm getting a daemon log message: modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-002a The last 4 digits change. Any idea what I missed or am missing? Thanks, Jonathan -- -==- ==-- _

configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I'd like to configure sendmail without things like FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl and possibly someo others but those fscking scripts (sendmailconfig and those called by this one) seem always to put them in. Where can I find prototype (or a script???) which I could edit

Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I am currently able to burn CD-ROMs with gcombust (GUI for cdrecord) only as root. What's the proper Debian way to allow all users to do that -- changing the according device's owner status is certainly not a good idea, I suppose? Greeting and thanks in advance for your answers, joachim

DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have set up a domain name server with BIND a couple of months ago. It worked almost correctly on every computer I had been on, however, some could not reach my domain. But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS

Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you can add a group 'burners', set the device-group permission to rw, add the user to the group ( addgroup user burners) and make the device belong to the group burners. Then you have to check you can find cdrecord as a user. Greetz, Sebastiaan On 15 Feb 2001, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > H

keyboard setting

2001-02-15 Thread christophe barbe
I use an Azerty keyboard but under the console it's configured as a qwerty one. Where should I configure my keyboard? Christophe -- Christophe Barbé Software Engineer Lineo High Availability Group 42-46, rue Médéric 92110 Clichy - France phone (33).1.41.40.02.12 fax (33).1.41.40.02.01 www.lineo

RE: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if it's a good idea to let all users use it, why not just change the execute permission to world permissions ? Also, i took a look at gcombust (yuck) and couldn't find a way to burn 12x cdrom's does anyone have any advice on this, i'm even thinking about commerial software right now, burning cd's

Sound

2001-02-15 Thread Fernando Carvajal
Hi All! I have some problems to play gnome sounds for users, when two of them login using virtual consoles in the Linux Box. the latest one that connect can´t play sounds events but from the command line using esdplay. This way it works ok. The first one hear it all allright when closing for i

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 05:58, Sebastiaan wrote: > But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the > domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS update because the > link was down during that period. But now, more than two days later, > things still do not work. >

Digest

2001-02-15 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello I am subscribed to this list in digest mode. However I am not getting any digests for the past two weeks . Is there any problem with it Is anybody else having similar problem Sunil -- Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2001 05:58, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > But, a couple of days ago, my server became unreachenable through the > > domain name. I guessed it might have missed an DNS update because the > > link was down during that period. But now, mor

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? When I do: nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nl then it works nslookup sacred-key.org elektron.its.tudelft.nl then it says that the domain does not exist. I had this before, someone suggested that it had to do with my revision file.

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 06:32, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > > Is jon00793 your box? I would guess either named is not running on > > the box or something else is blocking connection to port 53. Is it > > behind a firewall? Have you changed ipchains rules or

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan
I have version 8.2.2-P7 of bind. Is woody's bind up to date enough? Thanks, Sebastiaan On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? > > When I do: > nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nlthen it works > nslookup sacred-key.org el

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 15 February 2001 06:37, Sebastiaan wrote: > Ok, now that it is working, why does it not work everywhere? > > When I do: > nslookup sacred-key.org ns1.tudelft.nlthen it works > nslookup sacred-key.org elektron.its.tudelft.nlthen it says that > the domain does not exist. >

xdm takes ages to start after X upgrade

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
mmm - I knew one problem was hoping for too much. I think I remember a post about this before but I can't find it in the archives. Since upgrading to Woody and X 4 xdm takes a lng time to start (like a minute or so) Does anyone know how to fix this? ---

DocBook - db2pdf and db2ps problems

2001-02-15 Thread Henning Hansen
I'm a newcomer to Debian and Linux in general, and my current job is limited to prepare documentation using docbook on Debian. I do have some problems, and when I try to search information about docbook, I end up with RedHat specific advice. Are the following problems with db2pdf and db2ps due t

lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6

2001-02-15 Thread David Purton
another weird thing with my X upgrade is that using the X4 server I can't get the same res as when I was using X3.3.6. The modeline is the same, but X4 complains that the vertical timing is out of range. I've tried to fiddle with the timings, but seem only to be succesful in getting illegal ver

Re: gui config tools

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:20:22AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > Is there a gui config tool to set network and stuff like that or is > it required to edit config file. I want to set a default route and > I don't know how to do that properly. I can add a line like "route > add ..." in a init s

Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Hi all! Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I deleted the messages allready. How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and checked the permissions of /dev/audio

Re: Kernel-Source 2.4.1

2001-02-15 Thread Richard Black
Are you using the kernel-source-2.4.1-2 package for the kernel source? If so it has several problems. I emailed the packager Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and he indicated they woould be fixed in kernel-source-2.4.1-3 cheers Richard Hanno Böttcher wrote: > Hi ! > > I just downloaded the abo

Enlightenment menu

2001-02-15 Thread
I've installed Potato 2.2r2,X, Gnome and Enlightenment window manager but I do not like the default pop-up menu of Enlightenment. I'd like to have the panel menu, the one sliding on the right or on the left as it is with enlightenment in other distribution like RedHat, Mandrake and the likes. I

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Hanno Böttcher wrote: > > Hi all! > > Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I > deleted the messages allready. > How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one > explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and c

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:55:58PM -, Hanno B?ttcher wrote: > Hi all! > > Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I > deleted the messages allready. > How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one > explicit user)? I allready ad

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Yeah, you got it. After rebooting it works. But which service alternativly could be restarted I also couldn't find out. Thx anyway Hanno - Original Message - From: Jeremiah H. Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:12 PM Subject: Re: Access to the Audiodevice a

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
Lars Knudsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello, Antonio! > > > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you > > This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore. > The

Re: DNS: not working correctly

2001-02-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:43:44PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > I have version 8.2.2-P7 of bind. Is woody's bind up to date enough? This version of bind is vulnerable to root compromise, you should add: ## security updates deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib

rsh and openssh

2001-02-15 Thread christophe barbe
By default, rcp is linked (in /etc/alternatives) to scp which is (in my limited understanding) a secure version based on openssh. When I try to do a rcp with a computer without openssh I obtain "Secure connection to mypc refused" What can I do (on my computer) ? Is is possible to use rsh instea

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: > > Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to > take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid > this, but I don't know what it is. > Just logout and re-login. The user will now be in the audio group. -- David Raeke

[OT] Slashdot article

2001-02-15 Thread garyjones
Defend your distro! ;-) Thought you might be interested in this: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/15/1352219.shtml Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!

Re: disk duplication question

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sfdisk to partition the new drive; > mke2fs to make file systems on the new drive; > mkswap to initialize the swap area on the new drive; > cd old-partition; find . -mount | cpio -pdm /new-partition

RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a classless subnet of a Class C network, like [255.255.255.252]. --- Alencar ---

TDK CDRW setup

2001-02-15 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello,   I have a TDK CDROM burner and am trying to get Storm-Linux to recognize. Can someone help me?   Thanks Frank Rocco  

what is char-maj-4 ?

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Hi! Since I recompiled my kernel, I always get the message "Can't load module char-maj-4". But the question is, what is "char-maj-4"? Christian (Germany)

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Date sent: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:54:58 +0100 From: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: problem with sound Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I didn't compile it as a

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-15 Thread c-3
Sorry, that my knowledge does have a big gap so far what linux matters. But I think you wasn't born with your momentary knowledge, too. So please try to treat somebody with a little bit of the respect he gives to you, even although he has to advance in his abilities. I always try to do so, too.

RE: Emacs works differently within X and outside

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > > "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alan> If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then > Alan> the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both > Alan> work the same and delete the character to the left of the > Alan> cur

Re: isapnp.conf problems

2001-02-15 Thread Bernard and Jennifer Cohen
john smith wrote: > I am trying to revive an old isa pnp modem/soundcard and when I use pnpdump > to try and configure my modem (not the soundcard yet) I see this error at > /var/log and during boot-up when my card is being detected. > > Board 1 has identity of > FF FF FF FF 003 054 07 AZT300 seri

Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, > seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B > networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a > classless subnet

mutt broken in unstable

2001-02-15 Thread The Doctor
I get mutt: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot load shared object file: No such file of directory after an update/install this morning on my Laptop. Any idea where libiconv is or why I lost it? Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RES: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
Always learning. Thanks, David. -Mensagem original- De: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: Quinta-feira, 15 de Fevereiro de 2001 11:55 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to tes

Re: mutt broken in unstable

2001-02-15 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:04:26AM -0500, The Doctor wrote: > I get > mutt: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot load shared > object file: No such file of directory > after an update/install this morning on my Laptop. > Any idea where libiconv is or why I lost it? Goto in

kernel 2.4.x and latin2 (iso8859-2) characters in console

2001-02-15 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have just found out that latin2 (iso8859-2) characters are no longer displayed in console with kernel 2.4.1 :((( This is my setup: SCREEN_FONT=lat2u-16 APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user SCREEN_FONT_MAP=lat2u if [ "`env |grep TERM |grep -v COLOR |cut -c 6-`" = "linux" ]; the

Re: sound ensoniq es1371

2001-02-15 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Anthony Campbell saw fit to inform me that: >On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: >> > >Or don't use modules, at least to start with (as advised in the Sound >HOWTO). If you compile the driver directly into the kernel you reduce >the layers of possible error. Personally, I don't use modules at all.

RE: Outta my tree!

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
sorry 'bout that, figured the option pack for win95 would contain some iis for win9x i still think pws is a bad choice for serveral reasons but i'm known to be stubborn, if i were you i'd check out apache or even ibm's adaptation of apache, asp will be a problem though (chiliasp does work nicely i

Re: TDK CDRW setup

2001-02-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> I have a TDK CDROM burner and am trying to get >> Storm-Linux to recognize. Can someone help me? Linuxnewbie.org has a short article on setting up a CD-RW drive under Linux. It's rather RedHat specific, but the main parts can most likely apply to any distro. I know this topic comes up a lot.

Re: lower res in X4 than X 3.3.6

2001-02-15 Thread Ray Percival
Have you created a new config file XF86Config-4 should be its name if not I would suggest that you run through xf86config one time. I got *much* better modlines this way. -- Original Message -- From: David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 2

dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up at home. Knowing Windows/Debian I figure putting up the dhcp server would be faster and easier. Anyone know a good dhcp server that's packaged and e

Re: what is char-maj-4 ?

2001-02-15 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote: > Hi! > > Since I recompiled my kernel, I always get the message "Can't > load module char-maj-4". But the question is, what is "char-maj-4"? > Take a look at /etc/modules.conf - You will find the info there. At the top of the file you will a

Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am considering most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The s1834 is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. Any pros/cons welcome as well as comme

Re: dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the > laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up > at home. Knowing Windows/Debian I figure putting up the dhcp server would > be faster and easier. > > Anyone know a

Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs (was Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing)

2001-02-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up. I was just reading this in one of the TCP/IP books I have, so I'll take a stab at explaining it (and let somebody else explain the errors). IP addresses are divided into "host" portions and "network" portions. The host portion is assi

ppp-2.4.0 routing problem in testing: tap0 issue?

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi. When I upgraded to testing, I got ppp-2.4.0along with it. Once this version of ppp was installed, the routing no longer worked properly. In particular, with ppp-2.4.0 I get the following behavior: - [... not connected to anything ...] dkatz [~] $ /sb

Re: Emacs works differently within X and outside

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then > the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both > work the same and delete the character to the left of the > cursor). > > Any ideas? I have the following i

Re: Value too large for defined data type?

2001-02-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:20:17PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > > :rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.tar': Value too large for defined data type > : > :I was storing the save.tar in /tmp. I'm running stable version with kernel > :2.4.0. I have tri

Re: dhcp server?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
Perfect answer. Thank you. Robert Thus spake Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > > Just got a new laptop from work. I have to decide if I want to make the > > laptop work dhcp at the office and static at home or put a dhcp server up > > at home. Knowing Window

Re: configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to configure sendmail without things like > FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl > FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl > > and possibly someo others after sendmailconfig is done, remove those lines from sendmail.mc, run sendmailconfig again, when it prompts to re

libc6 upgrade problem

2001-02-15 Thread Brian Stults
I recently updated through dselect, and the process hangs when it tries to upgrade libc6. I am using testing. Here is what I get: Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.1-1 (using libc6_2.2.1-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 . It will hang there for at least an hour (yes, I let it run for th

Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Nate Amsden
look into XCDROAST. the new version(not packaged in stable) can do all of this and burn at 12x no problem. look for it at freshmeat.net. it also has instructions for how to set it up to run as non root with a special group. works real well. nate Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > if it's a good idea to

Re: configure sendmail

2001-02-15 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > I'd like to configure sendmail without things like -> > FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl -> > FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl -> > -> > and possibly someo others -> -> after sendmailconfig is done, remove those lines from sendmail.mc, run -> sendmailconfig -> again, when it prompts to regenerate(The first q

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I have the 1832, and I haven't had any problems with it, but then again, I only have one CPU installed. I chose this particular board because V A Linux is/was using this board in their dual processor systems, see http://www.valinux.com/products/mpts.html for the details. The 1

RE: Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
thanks a lot dude -Original Message- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:55 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Burning CD-ROMs as user look into XCDROAST. the new version(not packaged in stable) can do all of t

Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user

2001-02-15 Thread Ceri Storey
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:12:39AM -0800, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: [snip] > Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to > take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid > this, but I don't know what it is. you simply need to log back in, scince t

Slow DNS lookup

2001-02-15 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I have Bind 8 setup on a linux box acting as the nameserver for my web-site and ip-masq for a few windows clients. I can access everything from the windows boxes, but dns lookup for the local web-site is really really slow, but lookup for all other 'external' web-sites are fine. Any suggestions o

Re: kernel 2.4.x and latin2 (iso8859-2) characters in console

2001-02-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:12:19PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that latin2 (iso8859-2) characters are no longer > displayed in console with kernel 2.4.1 :((( > This is my setup: > > SCREEN_FONT=lat2u-16 > APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02 > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user > SCREEN_

debian command list

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all... I'm looking for a web site that would have a nice list and basic description of debian commands. Anyone know of such a place?   or even just linux commands for that matter...   Thanks Mike

Re: sound ensoniq es1371

2001-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Anthony Campbell saw fit to inform me that: > >On 14 Feb 2001, Kent West wrote: > >> > > > >Or don't use modules, at least to start with (as advised in the Sound > >HOWTO). If you compile the driver directly into the kernel you reduce > >the layers of possi

Re: Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Cashman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up. You've made me feel guilty. I would have expressed myself better if I'd known you were going to this trouble. > I was just reading this in one of the TCP/IP books I have, so I'll > take a sta

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