Re: Error debian/rules? Solved...

2001-03-06 Thread Jonathan Gift
mike polniak wrote: > > > > Any help on what is missing? > > dh_testdir is from the pkg debhelper. > -- That was the one. Thanks a lot to all who responded. Sylpheed still kicks up tons of error messages, but that's another story. Great program though. Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [

Re: [q] apt-get source ..

2001-03-06 Thread csj
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 12:25, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:55:57PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, two/three days ago, look in the mailing list of this week > > > about "trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source".

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Neil Booth
Anthony Towns wrote:- > The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are > mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, > instead of the other way around, for some reason. > > Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
When I thought about recompiling GS in potato, I read its documents for required action. The packager states that you need to have some source code next to where you start compiling GS. --+-- GS tree | +-- some source tree (SVGA lib or png or something) So this source package with builddepen

Upgrading method

2001-03-06 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am still at that intense early learning stage. I keep these two machines at home firmly in "stable". I upgrade regularly with dselect and add and remove packages as I come to terms with all this. Recently I have started to wonder how all this works with a major change, such as when "woody"

Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having this odd ball problem where ssh refuses to read the host > keys and it is unable to setgid. I've no idea what is wrong. Does > anyone have a clue about this? I'm getting it too, and it's terribly annoying... but I worked around it by insta

Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
Read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86908&repeatmerged=yes and then do a dist-upgrade - the bug in libpam has been fixed, and SSH works again :) gdh

Re: Upgrading method

2001-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Recently I have started to wonder how all this works with a major > change, such as when "woody" becomes "stable". Will I just find that > when I upgrade my packages one day that I have gone from "potato" to > "woody"? That's up to you, or rather, up to your /etc/apt/sourc

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anthony Towns wrote:- >> The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are >> mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, >> instead of the other way around, for some reason. >> >> Easiest way to avoid this

Printing on a Windows printer via SMB

2001-03-06 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, does anyone of you have a hint how I can print on an Epson Stylus Color 740 (stc500) which is connected to a windoze machine? I've tried already the hints in the SMB-HOWTO but it doesn't work... Does anyone of you have that working? If yes, help me please... :) Thanx Arne -- Sent through GM

OT : RE: Debian on Windows 2k

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
:-) from experience i can say that in the end win2k is as bad or as good as you think winnt is. Especially at the lower level (drivers etc.) layer things go wrong very badly from time to time. Some Antivirus software and Personal Firewalls have the habit of crashing you system once in a while. Ther

Re: Open Look Window managers; removed?

2001-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:19:46PM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >> I do not appear to be able to locate olvwm in testing? has it >> been removed and why? > >A lot of packages in testing appear to be removed. I suspect this is >because the version

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With the reputed development support that Debian has throughout the >world, isn't there someone who could take some time and come up with a >more fool proof and easier installation routine?. Yep, it's called debian-boot@lists.debian.org and the debian-installer proje

wmaker, kdm, wine

2001-03-06 Thread juergen
Hi, I have a strage problem with X: I can't start wmaker via kdm or xdm (wmaker appears and disappeares after a second), but I can run wmaker if I startx manually and put 'exec wmaker' in .xinitrc. This would be ok, but when I now run a game with wine, the mouse-pointer is not in the game but o

Re: OT: problems with OpenGL

2001-03-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:03:46AM +, Jerrud wrote: > I`m trying to compile this 3D animation program (Flow), and I keep > getting this error when I compile it: > > partDrawOGL.cpp:148: implicit declaration of function `int > glPointParameterfvEXT(...)' make[1]: *** [partDrawOGL.o] Error 1 >

Re: Who can recommend me a news reader?

2001-03-06 Thread Dale Morris
I like slrn, it's easy to setup, just copy the .slrnrc.gz files to your home directory, edit and download a list of news groups. Oh, you need jed editor installed for standard .rc settings. HTH Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20010305 17:57 +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > Has anyone

Re: OT: Removing Vim Splash?

2001-03-06 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> Someone just posted a msg about removing the splash screen on vim as: > > shortmess=I > > and it doesn't work on vim or gvim potato here. Vim starts asking me to > hit a carriage return everytime i want to do something. Is there a > command? is this the only one? RTFM. Run vim and type `:help

Problem with last debconf package in unstable

2001-03-06 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have the following error message when trying to upgrade the debconf package in unstable : Setting up debconf (0.9.10) ... no template name specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 17. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned e

Re: Shells

2001-03-06 Thread Jonas Moberg
> Does anyone know of a good website that teaches and gives good examples for > programming Shell scripts in bash? I have some in one of my Linux books, > but only about 5 pages worth and only gives extreme basics Heiner's SHELLdorado at http://www.oase-shareware.org/shell/ should be a good start

Re: Problem with last debconf package in unstable

2001-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
franck routier wrote: > I have the following error message when trying to upgrade the debconf > package in unstable : > > Setting up debconf (0.9.10) ... > no template name specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 17. > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post

ppp socket

2001-03-06 Thread Nick Croft
Just installed potato on a new box, with a 30G hd. First 5M == /boot Then around 25G in one partition for Debian. Third partition is 128M swap Fourth is RedHat, hardly used, but my friend wanted it there. Have connected to my old box and ftp'ed all the files I want to keep. When I put the modem o

Diskless workstations with cluster-nfs

2001-03-06 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have a setup of diskless mosix workstations using cluster-NFS. I have 3 directories for every workstation. /dev /tmp /var I have a problem with /var. It is that programs like locate/updatedb and apt-get uses /var to store a database. But I would like share this database between every work

Re: laptop boot image?

2001-03-06 Thread fheitka
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/06/01 at 12:05 PM, Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: >> >> Hey people. I heard a rumour that the toshiba laptop I have works with >> Slackware, so while I wasn't able to get Debian's boot disks to work, the >> Slackware boo

X configuration

2001-03-06 Thread giovanni sartoni
I am still straggling to get the X configuration allright, so my questions are probably not unfrequent in this list, sorry for repeating them. I have a Trident Blade3D/MVP4 graphics card, so I have installed the SVGA driver, but I have now X set with default pixel depth to 8bpp and screen reso

Re: apt-get and dpkg broken

2001-03-06 Thread fheitka
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/05/01 at 09:17 PM, Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Joey Hess wrote: >> Glen Snyder wrote: >Thanks for the suggestions. It turned out that the problem was with >perlI reinstalled the perl packages and everything works fine. >dpkg-preconfigure is a pe

openldap2 for potato

2001-03-06 Thread Borut Mrak
Hello. Does anyone know if there is a nice soul creating openldap2 packages for potato? Right now I'm recompiling db2 and other necessary stuff to build the openldap2 package from unstable on potato, but if there is someone else who already did it, I'd gladly use his packages. Oh btw, I need po

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-06 Thread fheitka
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/05/01 at 06:54 PM, MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 10:08:27AM +1100): > >>With the reputed development support that Debian has throughout the > >>world, isn't there someone who could take some time and come up w

Re: apt question

2001-03-06 Thread fheitka
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/05/01 at 12:52 PM, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Just package your private package with higher version number and install >over working Debian is safer. That is the right way. Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How hard is it to do

Missing /lib/modules/2.2.17 file

2001-03-06 Thread Keith & Cecile Schooley
In the process of compiling a new kernel, I renamed my /lib/modules/2.2.17 file. I won't take you along the convoluted process that made me think that that was a good idea. Anyway ... I can't boot up. I keep getting an endless series of messages that /lib/modules/2.2.17 can't be accessed becaus

package

2001-03-06 Thread dko
hello when i reinstall a package apt-get take configs i've made i'd like to reinstall a package with it's default config. how can i do that. i removed config files in /etc but it doesn't work. KOAN David - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SNAISO communications - 141 avenue de Verdun - 92130 Issy-les-mo

Re: Q: How install additional debian cdrom?

2001-03-06 Thread csj
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 05:15, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Glyn Millington wrote: > > KDE > > > > The prog you you need is. wait for it... > > > > > > apt-cdrom ! > > apt-cdrom add... > > No? > > But the q is will it read a non-debian cdrom and find the debs in > the /potato directory?

Get-apt Does it overwrite ?

2001-03-06 Thread Daniel Ray
when you get updated files  does it overwrite current configuration?       ( just want to be safe )     Daniel

Re: Missing /lib/modules/2.2.17 file

2001-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Keith & Cecile Schooley" wrote: >In the process of compiling a new kernel, I renamed my /lib/modules/2.2.17 >file. I won't take you along the convoluted process that made me think that >that was a good idea. Anyway ... > >I can't boot up. I keep getting an endless series of messages t

Missing /lib/modules/2.2.17 file

2001-03-06 Thread Keith & Cecile Schooley
> In the process of compiling a new kernel, I renamed my /lib/modules/2.2.17 > file. I won't take you along the convoluted process that made me think that > that was a good idea. Anyway ... > > I can't boot up. I keep getting an endless series of messages that > /lib/modules/2.2.17 can't be acce

ssh or not to ssh

2001-03-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins the other deny. I get the standard /etc/motd, then a line saying: setgid: Operation not permitted Connection to vanguard closed. I've checked for p

Re: ssh or not to ssh

2001-03-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes > all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins > the other deny. I get the standard /etc/motd, then a line saying: > > setgid: Operation not permitt

Re: package

2001-03-06 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:10:26PM +0100, dko wrote: > > hello > when i reinstall a package apt-get take configs i've made > i'd like to reinstall a package with it's default config. how can i do that. > i removed config files in /etc but it doesn't work. > 'dpkg --purge pkgname' That should do

Re: Debian on Windows 2k

2001-03-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
Robin Rowe wrote: > > Yes, you should have a separate partition for Debian. But, with the low cost > of drives it is more economic to install another drive rather than waste > your time dividing up the one you have. Maybe you already have a smaller > drive laying about (2GB is nice) that has nothi

Re: ssh or not to ssh

2001-03-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
Will do when I get home. Thanks. Robert Thus spake Gavin Hamill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes > > all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins > >

downgrade from ximian to debian packages

2001-03-06 Thread Brian Stults
I would like to cease using the ximian packages and go back the the pure debian packages. I thought I could just remove the ximian line in sources.list and do update/install in dselect. However, I guess since the ximian packages still appear to dselect as the newest, it will not install the debia

intel810 + network configuration

2001-03-06 Thread Subramaniam Aiyer \(CTS\)
hi, first of all thanks a lot the debian mailing list , i could load win2k alongside debian ( kind of : ) ). however there are a new set of problems i face > first of all i use a intel 810 chipset which i can't find in the existing video cards as a result of which my

Q: Using Network Address as IP Address

2001-03-06 Thread Brian White
Our new ISP has assigned us a small subnet and has given the router an IP address equal to the network address. network:209.161.204.232 netmask:255.255.255.252 broadcast: 209.161.204.235 router: 209.161.204.232 machine#1: 2

Re: package

2001-03-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:10:26PM +0100, dko wrote: > > hello > when i reinstall a package apt-get take configs i've made > i'd like to reinstall a package with it's default config. how can i do that. > i removed config files in /etc but it doesn't work. dpkg --purge ; apt-get install Purge en

tripwire

2001-03-06 Thread Leonard Leblanc
I've installed tripwire and initialized the database and everything seemed to have went fine but when I ran it I got the following error message: preen_change_count: /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables: illegal database record! Aborting... (nfields=14) '1 001.10 100755 342460 1 0 0 4328 0wU3O4 0wR

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just a question to the gnus-people: Can you use gnus to read > > newsgroups offline like I do with slrnpull and slrn --spool? > > You certainly can - it's great! Would you mind to write a quick/dirt

Where do I pass arguments to teh Xserver?

2001-03-06 Thread morten
Hi I've been trying to track down where I pass arguments to the Xserver. I used to use OpenBSD, with xdm, and there I could tell the Xserver to not listen on tcp ( -nolisten tcp ) in /var/X11/xdm/Xserver. How do I do that in Debian? I use Potato with all updates, Ximian GNOME and gdm for login.

Re: apt question

2001-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Read packaging-manual and debian-policy. I aint no expert. > Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How hard is it to > do that? Is there a link to some good docs? -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D9

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Juan Fuentes wrote: > * Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> int main(int argv, char **argc){ > > Mark you need to link to math library: > > gcc -g thick.c -lm -o thick This is (of course) correct. > And main should be: > > int main(int argc, char **argv); This

Re: Getting rid of Vim's startup screen

2001-03-06 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:37:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: | >"Colin Cashman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >>Every time I start Vim with a new file, I get an intro screen. How do I | >>surpress that? | > | >Put 'set shortmess=I' (or 'set shm=I') in your

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-03-06 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: | On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:08:12PM -0500, James Moody wrote: | | i thought that the dlink 530 tx cards have a via rhine chip as cat Just to summarize what I have recently learned regarding the D-Link cards : DE-530TXtulip DFE-

Re: size of a directory

2001-03-06 Thread Gregor Kaleta
"du -sm /usr" was for which I looked. Much thanks at all of you! Gregor

Re: Get-apt Does it overwrite ?

2001-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
"Daniel Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when you get updated files does it overwrite current configuration? If it does it's a bug. You'll always be asked about files that are marked as "conffiles" (see 'dpkg -s packagename' for the list of conffiles owned by that package). Anything else is up to

Re: mailing list software

2001-03-06 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:13:39PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote: | i'm confronted with setting up a mailing list with about 20-30k | subscribers. i find mailman very useful, | but i want to remove the password option. is there a patch available? I take it you don't want the users to need a password?

Re: Where do I pass arguments to teh Xserver?

2001-03-06 Thread Manuel Reiter
> I've been trying to track down where I pass arguments to the Xserver. > > I used to use OpenBSD, with xdm, and there I could tell the Xserver to > not listen on tcp ( -nolisten tcp ) in /var/X11/xdm/Xserver. > > How do I do that in Debian? Try /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers HTH, Manuel

rawio?...

2001-03-06 Thread Max Lock
Hi Folks, Has anyone got any pointers on setting up raw IO under 2.2r2? I can't find the raw command, apparantly it's missing from util-linux package. Anyone know where I can pick it up, and whether 2.4.1/2 needs patching at all?.. -thanks Max. -- Max Lock, Linux Systems Administrator, TELE

Re: debian hardware

2001-03-06 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > Is there a web site or somewhere where I can > find which hardware is compatible with debian 2.2 r2 > I want to buy new servers and new network cards > and I don't want to find out that the card isn't supported > say... and brand new 3co

_Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I thought I'd found a gcc compiler error (and still may have). The following program crashes with a segmentation fault. #define N 209677 int main(int argv, char **argc) { int i; double a[N], b[N], c[N], d[N], e[N]; c[0]=0.0; i=1; c[i]=c[i-1]; } If I make

Help!

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Perry
I have been trying to subscribe to debian-user or debian-user-digest and while I get a response from the list software, I get no email from the list either in digest or non-digest. I have confirmed my subscription when it requested. I use mutt 1.25 and exim from stable. I sent email to the list

RE: Installing Debian

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
VERY true, i've walked that path about eight years ago when going thru SCO Unix Administration courses (Initiation and Basic Administration). There i've learned that (besides the marketing bable) the way microsoft operates it's OS is basically NOT DONE. You'll understand the workings of your machin

RE: Is it possible...

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
on windows 9x you can boot into Linux with some-alternate-way-of-installing-but-i-think-i-forgot-the-name, isn't it the umsdos install method ? -Original Message- From: Kevin C. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 1:28 AM To: MaD dUCK Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.

RE: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Dear dUCK, isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? -Original Message- From: MaD dUCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:38 AM To: debian users Subject: high load average someone explain this to me: albatross:~$ uname -a L

Re: intel810 + network configuration

2001-03-06 Thread Nate Amsden
"Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS)" wrote: > > hi, > first of all thanks a lot the debian mailing list , i could load > win2k alongside debian ( kind of : ) ). > however there are a new set of problems i face > > > first of all i use a intel 810 chipset which i can't find in the

Re: downgrade from ximian to debian packages

2001-03-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Brian Stults wrote: > > I would like to cease using the ximian packages and go back the the pure > debian packages. I thought I could just remove the ximian line in > sources.list and do update/install in dselect. However, I guess since > the ximian packages still appear to dselect as the newest

getting a fake xfree package?

2001-03-06 Thread Forrest English
i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for the system to stop paying attention to x dependancies, or to fake it out somehow?

Re: _Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Kovacs
I don't think this is a GCC error because gcc compiles this program successfully. The problem is: you're simply asking for too much stack space. On my machine, ulimit -s reports 8129 (that's in Kilobytes). When I write a seperate program such as: #include void main(int argc, char **argv) {

Re: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. > Not ? You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of processes that

xf86config keyboard question

2001-03-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I've installed Debian 2.2r0 on a UMAX laptop and I am trying to get X to run. The keyboard has 88 keys and I have SuSE running on an identical box and it says "pc104" in the keyboard section of the XF86Config file. I'm trying to migrate from SuSE to Debian. What should I choose for a keyboard?

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > Hi, > > > So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something > > promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, > > and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or > > directory. > > It's c

Software to read eFax

2001-03-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
I just signed up for eFax, so that I could receive some needed info. The FAX arrived, but I can't seem to find anything that will read more than the cover page. The faxes are sent as TIFF-F attatchments to an e-mail message. Any help will be appreciated. PS - I seem to have stopped receiving th

Re: package

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> > hello > when i reinstall a package apt-get take configs i've made > i'd like to reinstall a package with it's default config. how can i do that. > i removed config files in /etc but it doesn't work. > Can you refer to a specific 1 or 2 packages? Can you run your commands under script sc

Re: tripwire

2001-03-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Leonard Leblanc (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:34:33AM -0800): > Now I got this right after initializing it, so I don't think this has > anything to do with someone changing a file, but does anyone know what it > means?? have you tried re-initializing? or doing the -interactive approach? mayb

Re: mod-ssl

2001-03-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 17:51:52 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i established my own certificate authority and have a server > certification - and now i would like to create a new server > certificate, signed by the same ca. however, when i do > mod-ssl-makecert It appears mod-ssl-makecert wasn't wri

Rebuilding package selections

2001-03-06 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, after upgrading to a new HD I miss my old package selection. I have backuped /var/cache /var/backup /var/lib How can I rebuild my old package selection? I just want to do something like "Rebuild cache" and the "apt-get upgrade". Kai. -- mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] · pgp: [EMAIL PR

Re: _Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mark Phillips (on Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:18:56AM +1030): > -rwxrwxr-x1 mark mark 4731 Mar 7 02:53 test* > -rw-rw-r--1 mark mark 162 Mar 7 02:53 test.c > -rwxrwxr-x1 mark mark 4733 Mar 7 02:53 thick4* > -rw-r--r--1 mark mark

Re: Is it possible...

2001-03-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joris Lambrecht (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 06:06:37PM +0100): > on windows 9x you can boot into Linux with > some-alternate-way-of-installing-but-i-think-i-forgot-the-name, isn't it the > umsdos install method ? loadlin? and yes, you could use umsdos. on windows 9x, you can also just simpl

Re: Missing /lib/modules/2.2.17 file

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> In the process of compiling a new kernel, I renamed my /lib/modules/2.2.17 > file. I won't take you along the convoluted process that made me think that > that was a good idea. Anyway ... > > I can't boot up. I keep getting an endless series of messages that > /lib/modules/2.2.17 can't be acc

Re: apt question

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/05/01 >at 12:52 PM, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >Just package your private package with higher version number and install > >over working Debian is safer. That is the right way. > > Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How h

No controlling TTY

2001-03-06 Thread Lance Levsen
"You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. lost connection" Last month I asked about this error w/ regards to x11-ssh-askpass. Basically I've narrowed the problem down to wdm, X, and all the apps running in X don't have any tty. Exactly what the error says oddly enough :). All of

Re: getting a fake xfree package?

2001-03-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FE> i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i FE> have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that FE> system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for FE> the system to stop payi

Re: ppp socket

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> Just installed potato on a new box, with a 30G hd. > First 5M == /boot > Then around 25G in one partition for Debian. > Third partition is 128M swap > Fourth is RedHat, hardly used, but my friend wanted it there. > > Have connected to my old box and ftp'ed all the files I want to keep. > > When

Re: X configuration

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> I am still straggling to get the X configuration allright, so my questions > are probably not unfrequent in this list, sorry > for repeating them. > > I have a Trident Blade3D/MVP4 graphics card, so I have installed the SVGA > driver, but I have now X set with default pixel depth to 8bpp > and

Upgrading to unstable.. debconf probs

2001-03-06 Thread William Leese
Hi all, I just dist-upgraded to unstable from woody and i am running into a few problems. The cause of these problems seem to be because i cant get debconf configured and set-up. This is what i get: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lilo: lilo depends on debconf (>= 0.2.2

Re: Where did the incoming mail go?

2001-03-06 Thread Shaul Karl
> After setting up sendmail to work and transfer my outgoing mail I went > ahead and setup fetchmail. I have included the verbose output of its > execution below. For some reason the mail is not getting onto my system, > even though everything appears to be running correctly. > >

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-06 Thread Stephen Stafford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 March 2001 9:35 am, Matthias Wieser wrote: > 2Q: > In what package can I find fuser? psmisc > in What package can I find lsof? lsof-2.2 HTH ('apt-cache search ' generally will give you some hints as to which packages contain the com

Re: Where do I pass arguments to teh Xserver?

2001-03-06 Thread morten
On 6, mar, 2001 at 05:08:38 +0100, Manuel Reiter wrote: > > I've been trying to track down where I pass arguments to the Xserver. > > > > I used to use OpenBSD, with xdm, and there I could tell the Xserver to > > not listen on tcp ( -nolisten tcp ) in /var/X11/xdm/Xserver. > > > > How do I do th

Re: getting a fake xfree package?

2001-03-06 Thread Forrest English
xlibs is one of the dependancies. but xfree86-common is also one of them. thats what i'm trying to avoid without forcing and manualy installing them all. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing lef

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-06 Thread Glyn Millington
On 06 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Would you mind to write a quick/dirty howto (I used to use leafnode, > which works with gnus, but I want to try slrnpull)? Well I've got it set up with leafnode here, and it works well. To get you started, you need a .gnus file in your home directo

Re: getting a fake xfree package?

2001-03-06 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i > have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that > system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for > the system to stop paying atten

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-06 Thread Xucaen
--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vector". But they are just arguments to a > function and can have any > name a person wants. So all the following are > correct: > > int main(void) > int main(int foo, char **bar) > int main(int foo, char **bar, char **baz) > to be honest, I haven't s

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Re: Trouble with sound

2001-03-06 Thread Wouter Eerdekens
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:57PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > It looks again like an esd problem. gxanim may try to open /dev/dsp > directly while esd already opened it? If so, you might want to try > `esddsp gxanim`. Here esddsp tries to reroute /dev/dsp read/writes to > esd. You were right, it'

Re: Where do I pass arguments to teh Xserver?

2001-03-06 Thread Lance Levsen
> On 6, mar, 2001 at 05:08:38 +0100, Manuel Reiter wrote: > > > I've been trying to track down where I pass arguments to the Xserver. > > > > > > I used to use OpenBSD, with xdm, and there I could tell the Xserver to > > > not listen on tcp ( -nolisten tcp ) in /var/X11/xdm/Xserver. > > > > > >

Security Issue

2001-03-06 Thread Ken Sandell
Hey guys, I want to have User Read Only directories, but I want to have users in the same group and have them still not be able to read any other users home directories.   Also, the folder ~user/web is where their web shit is and should be viewable.

Apache-SSL error at start

2001-03-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed apache-ssl and could get it started. The following log is showed bellow. Any hints? TIA,Paulo Henrique ping:/var/log/apache-ssl# /etc/init.d/apache-ssl restart Reloading apache-ssl modules. /usr/sbin/apache-sslctl stop: http

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Xucaen (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 10:36:15AM -0800): > > int main(int foo, char **bar, char **baz) > to be honest, I haven't seen this last one. how > does it work? the third argument is a pointer to a sequence of pointers to environment var=val pairs, terminated by a null pointer. martin

Sparletter mit den neusten Angeboten !!!

2001-03-06 Thread Sparletterman
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Re: Software to read eFax

2001-03-06 Thread John Galt
The gimp does tiffs, so may do tiff-fs. You may need the xsane stuff tho (the reason I know that the gimp does tiffs is that's how I prefer to save my scanner stuff, and I don't really remember precisely what part of the setup does tiffs). On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Marc Shapiro wrote: >I just signed

Re: Where did the incoming mail go?

2001-03-06 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
The problem was with procmail. I had not set up a filter correctly and all my mail was going to a different folder. I found this out by doing a check in procmail's log. Now I can get and send mail using Elm with Sendmail and Procmail! Thanks to any who replied Ian As was proclaim

Re: No controlling TTY

2001-03-06 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> All of my /dev/tty* are chmod 666 and scp/ssh work from an xterm or vt. o > > When I do a ps aux the TTY column is '?' where as the regular vt's and the > apps running in a vt are a tty1 and so on. I am curious as to what others > see > when doing this. (try M-! tty from emacs.) This appear

Re: Security Issue

2001-03-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:55:40AM -0800, Ken Sandell wrote: > Hey guys, I want to have User Read Only directories, but I want to have users > in the same group and have them still not be able to read any other users > home directories. > > Also, the folder ~user/web is where their web shit is a

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