Re: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > Does anyone have a grip configuration for cddb that works? > xmcd works but I can't seem to figure out exactly what I > have to put into grip to make that one work. This seems to work: DB: freedb.freedb.org CGI: ~cddb/cddb.cgi DB

Re: Help with printer

2001-03-15 Thread Jordan
Vadim> Do you mean: Vadim> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html Vadim> I didn't find it to be very helpfull for configurating lpr I agree. However, the LPRng documentation, esp. LPRng-HOWTO, is excellent!! J.

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Forrest English wrote: > > ok, here's what i do on the server. > > /etc/exports file contains > /cdrom 192.168.2.30 >From my experience it has to look like this: /cdrom 192.168.2.30/255.255.255.255(ro) 192.168.2.30 is the ip address allowed to remote mount the cdrom 255.255.255.2

Re: realplayer 8 won't install via apt

2001-03-15 Thread Denzil Kelly
Thanx, I found the fix, and everything seems to work well now. --- Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having troble installing real player 8. apt > doesn't work. It is unable to complete the > installation because it say's that I am in a > non-interactive mode. Does anyone know what th

Re: Help with printer

2001-03-15 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jordan wrote: > > Vadim> Do you mean: > Vadim> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html > > Vadim> I didn't find it to be very helpfull for configurating lpr > > I agree. However, the LPRng documentation, esp. LPRng-HOWTO, is excellent!! > > J. That

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Forrest English
no change. same results. -- 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 left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > Forrest English w

Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Hello, Nautilus is broken once again on my machine. I use latest unstable. When I launch it, it just doesn't display anything (either launched from a terminal or from gnome menu). If there is no ~/.nautilus/first-time-flag file, then it shows the wirzard and hangs. The whole story is that was br

printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a postscript printer (hplj2100tn) The fonts are (AFAICT): HMLODN+Universal-GreekwithMathPi AIKCIF+MathPackOne acroread correctly displays the document, but when printing, it is sent to pdf2ps (which is from the gs package) b

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory leak? Which was why apache-perl was created in the first place. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PR

kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I built a 2.4.1 kernel from the debianized source, and have noticed a couple of problems: 1) kmod shows no signs of working, though I did compile with this option on. modprobe is able to load the necessary modules. 2) iptables NAT facility doesn't seem to work. I have a line iptables -t nat -A

Serial port weirdness

2001-03-15 Thread Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson
Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At all. It used to be able to do so. I tried wvdial (just in case); but it didn't find

RE: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hello James! On 14-Mar-2001 Lewis, James M. wrote: > Does anyone have a grip configuration for cddb that works? > xmcd works but I can't seem to figure out exactly what I > have to put into grip to make that one work. My grip-configuration looks like the following lines: DB-Server:freedb.freedb.o

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: > i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS > > where do i look to determine whether or not this is important? > and what to do abou

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: > ok, here's what i do on the server. > > /etc/exports file contains > /cdrom 192.168.2.30 > > and the client's fstab contains > 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 > > i on the server, i then did... /etc/init.d/nfs-serv

Re: requirements of cipe

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nick wrote: > what kernel do I need? > Can I use 2.2.14 or 2.2.18 I have tried a few times and never had any joy with this... So I had a hunt around and found 'vtun' instead, which does exactly the same thing, is more flexible and is quite straightforward to configure :) >F

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:23:02AM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > The most useful thing I can think of for the CHAOS class is the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 > > That'll only work on real nslookup's, which doesn't include the current > De

Re: initial console

2001-03-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pplaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >after getting a kernel panic, as a result of >trying to boot a custom kernel (2.2.18), i managed >to fsck dev/hda1 (using a rescue floppy). when i try >to boot via lilo, i can't open an initial console: > >fs: mounted root (ext2 fil

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:53:45PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi everyone. I just downloaded a TrueType font (Lucida Sans Unicode) and > am wondering what's the best way to install that so that everything > works in the Debian fashion. You know, what's the "official Debian" > policy-guided (et

Re: Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Not to respond to my own message, but I have got some more info on my problem : When I launch nautilus, I get this message in /var/log/messages : Mar 15 11:38:51 socrate gconfd (alci-965): starting (version 1.0.0), pid 965 user 'alci' Mar 15 11:38:51 socrate gconfd (alci-965): No configuration fi

Re: man missing !

2001-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >franck routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>for a few days, when I type 'man xxx', I get the following error message : >> >>bash: man: command not found >> >>However, I have installed manpages and man-db packages : >> >>socrate:/home/alci# dpkg -s man-db >>P

RE: man missing !

2001-03-15 Thread Subramaniam Aiyer \(CTS\)
hi i faced this problem but the error which i had got solved when i did su. please check if this helps thanx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2001 4:33 PM To: debian-user@list

Brief Grimaldi's Lounge & Office

2001-03-15 Thread Grimaldi's Lounge & Office
Title: Grimaldi's Lounge & Office

fetchmail-ssle clarification

2001-03-15 Thread David Purton
What is the difference between fetchmail-ssl and fetchmail with the ssl flag set? (Both are separate packages in woody) 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

Re: ldconfig, again

2001-03-15 Thread destruss
Hi Jim: There is hope. I just went through the same problem and was able to locate a web page devoted to this problem. I didn't save the url but I used geocrawler to search debian-user for ldso. ( or maybe it was ldconfig). Anyway it told how to reload ldconfig for those who tried to upgrade to woo

unknown local-part "m2k94f9za3.fsf" in domain

2001-03-15 Thread Bud Rogers
Pretty often mailq turns up an outgoing message from my Mailer-Daemon about an undeliverable message. The undeliverable message is always spam of some kind, and always addressed to a non-existent user like the one in the subject. The addressee is always [EMAIL PROTECTED] I never see the inc

Re: Xircom Rex

2001-03-15 Thread christophe barbe
I've a old one. When It was still a starfish(/Franklin electronic) product. The card is seen as a normal pcmcia memory card. The chip use directly this memory. So you can already backup you content. Starfish has provided a software RexConnect (require a NDA) to seen this content in a more conveni

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
> Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =) But not 'nsl' ;))) gdh

RE: man missing !

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Finally, I just did 'apt-get remove man-db' + 'apt-get install man-db' and this solved my problem ! I'm afraid we'll never know what happened :-) Thank you anyway, Franck Le jeu, 15 mar 2001 12:07:06, Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS) a écrit : > hi > i faced this problem but the error which i had got

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-15 Thread Andy Spiegl
> Andy> Nothing. It doesn't exist. I do have a .procmailrc, but > Andy> even when I move that out of the way this second from line > Andy> appears. What else could be adding it? > > Where is procmail called (I assume it is)? Is formail used? /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: MAILER(procmail)d

Cannot log into any account other than root

2001-03-15 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
When I installed Debian, I selected shadow password and MD5. I can "adduser" and the entries appear in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files as I expect to see them. However, when I try to log in as that user, the system pauses (for a few seconds) after I enter the password and then tells me "L

Re: unknown local-part "m2k94f9za3.fsf" in domain

2001-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pretty often mailq turns up an outgoing message from my Mailer-Daemon >about an undeliverable message. The undeliverable message is always >spam of some kind, and always addressed to a non-existent user like the >one in the subject. The addressee is alwa

Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Ilya Martynov
Hi, I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is user-mode linux kernel. Does anybody had experience with it? How stable is it? Is there any limi

Re: Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Me again :-) After a search on deja.com, it seems that my problem is related to bug #79448, marked as done in nautilus 0.8.1 Well, not quite :-( Le jeu, 15 mar 2001 11:45:54, franck routier a écrit : > Not to respond to my own message, but I have got some more info on my > problem : > > When I

RE: Cannot log into any account other than root

2001-03-15 Thread George Wright
Try rerunning passwd as root for this particular username and then try again. I had a similar problem and suspect I may have something syntactically askew in my adduser statement. Doing this solved my problem. -George > -Original Message- > From: Randolph S. Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

avifile-player DivX

2001-03-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, After reading some of discussions about the DivX, I decided to try it out. I apt-getted it(0.6.0), but it is not working as expected. The file I tried works with xanim. I am running the latest unstable. Here is what I am getting: [12:55|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % aviplay test.avi libwin32.so.

A question??

2001-03-15 Thread 00456409
Hi I have a doubt ¡¡ How I can format my disk in 4K, I need a program or a comand or what??? where i can find this information? Thanks Atte Christhian Flores from Mexico

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Forrest English
oh, the test thing is because initially i thought it might have been a problem with trying to export a cdrom. and i made a test dir and export. anyhow, i switched it back to the cdrom in both cases. thneed:~# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper

Frontpage Extensions

2001-03-15 Thread P.A. Barrow
When attempting to set up Frontpage extensions in a newly created version Debian 2.2r2 system to be used as a Apache server, a library error was encountered: /usr/local/frontpage/version4.0/bin/fpsrvadm.exe /fpsrvadm.exe: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

Re: Debian and HP49G

2001-03-15 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, David Z. Maze wrote: > Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GB> I just got an HP49G calculator ... purchased the "PC > GB> Connectivity Kit" in a fairly clueless moment (clueless = not > GB> thinking that the included software might be Windoze-only). > GB> > GB> Have fou

NVdriver problems

2001-03-15 Thread Kyle Girard
Alright I've been trying to get this kernal module to work for a couple of days off and on without any success I have tried many different ways with many different kernels and I get natta, zip, zilch.  Any help would be apprieciated... Here's my problem:   I cannot insert the NVdriver modu

Building from CVS

2001-03-15 Thread William Leese
Hi all, I'm attempting to install X from recent sources i downloaded from their cvs, but i have no clue where to go from there as theres no configure file. Can someone tell me how this is done, i.e. how to create a configure file? (or any documentation on this) William

Re: wraping lines in mutt

2001-03-15 Thread Wouter de Vries
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:48:25PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:35:42AM -0800, Steven E. Harris wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > | > | > In my case, it is vi. I have a .exrc file in my home directory that > | > has the following contents: > | > > | > set wl=76 > | > |

Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned about apt, though... I wouldn't ex

Re: kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 1) kmod shows no signs of working, though I did compile with this > option on. modprobe is able to load the necessary modules. No idea 'bout that one - kmod just worked for me > 2) iptabl

Re: fetchmail-ssle clarification

2001-03-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Purton wrote: > What is the difference between fetchmail-ssl and fetchmail with the ssl > flag set? (Both are separate packages in woody) Both are also separate packages in sid (unstable), but only because of Debian policy for non-US software. I don't believe fetchmail-

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:03:16PM +0300, Ilya Martynov wrote: > I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to > implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular > capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is > user-mode linux kernel. Does an

OpenSSH public key auth

2001-03-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am running unstable with OpenSSH_2.5.1p2 installed. Now I am trying to connect to a machine that is running Redhat 6.2 with SSH 2 from ssh.com. The regular login works OK, but I am having problems getting public key authentication working. I

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "DS" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:03:16PM +0300, Ilya Martynov wrote: >> I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to >> implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular >> capabilities as F

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-15 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Kyle Girard wrote: > Alright I've been trying to get this kernal module to work for a couple > of days off and on without any success I have tried many different > ways with many different kernels and I get natta, zip, zilch. Any help > would be apprie

fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear Debianers I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the program? Thanks in advance! -- ___ Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Ray Percival
Not knowing about *BSD's jails I'm not sure if you want to restrict a user to only one part of the filesystem why not use chroot? -- Original Message -- From: Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:03:16 +0300 > >Hi, > >I'm interested if the

Re: acroread won't print

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:00:10PM -0800, peanut butter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems printing from acroread. I use lprng with the > filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter on an HP Laserjet 5M. Things > print fine from the command line and I can even save the file as a

ah1542 scsi CD probs, deb potato

2001-03-15 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, I've swapped a scsi cd I had (working fine, btw) in an old machine to a newer one. Trouble is, when booting from the deb potato rescue floppy I get the following: scsi0: Adapatec 1542 scsi: 1 host aha1542.c: Unable to abort command for target 0 aha1542.c: Trying device reset for targ

Re: fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Frederico S. Munoz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:20:47PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear Debianers > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > program? You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:02:29PM -0800, Forrest English wrote: > ok, here's what i do on the server. > > /etc/exports file contains > /cdrom 192.168.2.30 > > and the client's fstab contains > 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 > > i on the server, i then did... /e

Re: fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > > program? > > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed > after you login. Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unles

make errors in testing

2001-03-15 Thread Debian User
I am trying to compile busybox 0.49 on my Debian box. I'm running testing and this is the first problem i've had. I had the same error with 0.48. I am a relatively untrained wannabe programmer so I have no Idea if this is gcc , make or my downloads. heres the error: gcc -Wall -Os -fomit-frame-poin

Installing a new machine with a selected list of package ...

2001-03-15 Thread Bruno BEAUFILS
I would like to install my new laptop with the same packages as those installed on my desktop (which is a sid debian). So I installed a basic potato debian without selecting any packages, then after the first reboot I mount (via NFS) a directory where I stored a debian ftp site mirror plus some s

RE: ah1542 scsi CD probs, deb potato

2001-03-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Is this the only scsi device attached to the controller ? I remember similar problems when there was a termination problem or a conflict between the assigned scsi id's. Check this first. The 1542 does require you to set the ID on the device and to properly terminate it. Also make sure your cable wo

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Carl Greco
Dave - You could always mount the `/usr' filesystem on the server as readonly and use the `remount' option of `mount' to remount `/usr' as writeable during an apt upgrade. The other option would be to export `/usr' readonly, i.e., in the `/etc/exports' on the server. Dave Sherohman said on March

Re: fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Frederico S. Munoz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:35:37PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote: > > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > > > program? > > > > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed

viavoice installation question - debian

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm installing ibm's viavoice on debian woody. in converting the rpm package ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2.i386.rpm to a deb package using alien, i'm getting the following error: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libviavoiceps.so not recognized BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 2

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 10:22 AM 3/15/01 , you wrote: I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned

Re: OpenSSH public key auth

2001-03-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:48:54AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi! > > I am running unstable with OpenSSH_2.5.1p2 installed. Now I am trying > to connect to a machine that is running Redhat 6.2 with SSH 2 from > ssh.com. The regular login works OK, but I am having problems getting > public

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: > ok, here's what i do on the server. > > /etc/exports file contains > /cdrom 192.168.2.30 > > and the client's fstab contains > 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 > > i on the server, i then did... /etc/init.d/nfs-server

Re: fetchmail at login

2001-03-15 Thread Steve Cooper
You may benefit from also checking out getmail. It's simpler, cleaner and may be less prone to dropping mail (a fact advertised by the author of getmail). I find it works really well, particularly when combined with wmbiff. Wmbiff can be set up to execute getmail whenever its polling detects m

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and anti-aliased fonts?

2001-03-15 Thread Felix Natter
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've heard that it might be possible to use anti-aliased fonts with > XFree86 4.0.2, but I couldn't find more information about it. Can somebody > point me into the right direction? check the documentation on http://www.xfree86.org --

Re: kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Ross Boylan
At 10:25 AM 3/15/01 -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 2) iptables NAT facility doesn't seem to work. I have a line > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.10.0/24 -o eth1 -j SNAT > --to-so

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > No. chroot is not safe enough. I want to create virtual boxes in which > I can give root rights to other people and I want to be sure that they > can't break other boxes. The closest Linux

Re: nfs problems

2001-03-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I just remembered something: nfs might not let you export cdroms. I had this with redhat about a year ago. You also can not proxy nfs (that is: install a nfs server and mount a nfs mounted filesystem). I do not know what the status is now. I do know that the exports file is vary annoying, esp

Re: ppp mystery

2001-03-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gil Elad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1. I tried connecting using Minicom at different speeds ranging from 19 to > 38 kbps without success. "Without success" doesn't mean anything in this context. I'm not necessarily expecting you to make a connection. Your modem ought to work at 115200 bps -

Re: xdm font failure

2001-03-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:52:12PM +, Timothy Bedding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Okay, I solved the perl problem and managed to configure debconf. > I will explain the debconf resolution after I have got X working... > > Now, I have a problem with xdm not working. > It is xdm version 4.0.2

Re: kmod and NAT broken in 2.4.1?

2001-03-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I don't think I was trying to contact the external interface, but we may be > using that word differently. > > My router has a card eth1 with address x.y.z.q, used both by me and the > outsi

no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi everybody, I just compiled the 2.4.2 kernel. Everything is working fine except for the sound. Under kernel 2.2.17 I had this is my /etc/modules: sound mpu401 ad1848 opl3sa2 opl3 options opl3sa2 dma=1 dma2=0 io=0x538 mpu_io=0x330 mss_io=0x530 irq=7 options opl3 io=0x388 I used gom as the mixe

Re: etherexpress card and modconf

2001-03-15 Thread Tomasz Wolak
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:17:00PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Don Seiler wrote: > > > > >hullo. > > > > > >I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online. Using > > >modconf, when I try at add the "eexpress" modu

Re: Frontpage Extensions

2001-03-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"P.A. Barrow" wrote: > Is there a library that can be installed to resolve this issue? Is it > possible to implement the Frontpage extensions on a Debian system, most > of the documentation for FPE imples RedHat was used. libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 is the package you want. and yes it is possible to se

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:07:27AM -0600, Carl Greco wrote: > You could always mount the `/usr' filesystem on the server as readonly > and use the `remount' option of `mount' to remount `/usr' as writeable > during an apt upgrade. The other option would be to export `/usr' > readonly, i.e., in the

Dell OptiPlex GX110

2001-03-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, We received such a machine and I've installed Debian testing/unstable on it. I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get solved is for DMA/UltraDMA. The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever I try to set the using_dma flag with hdpar

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread will trillich
Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class > > CHAOS > > > > where do i look to determine whether or no

on upgrading to testing

2001-03-15 Thread James D . Freels
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am not currently subscribing to the list(s). I am looking for an honest opinion. I currently am a Debian 2.2.r2 (with several extensions) user. Because of several circumstances among which are: 1) I manually installed Xfree86-4.0.2 over the stable version to get

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:22:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the > basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to > date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum

RE: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Josep Ll. Paniagua
UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!! > -Mensaje original- > De: Eric G. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2001 17:52 > Para: Debian-User > CC: Dave Sherohman > Asunto: Re: Debian with read-only /usr > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:22:47AM -0600, Dave Shero

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread TeknoDragon
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm in the process of doing this right now. You also need agppart > support compiled into your kernel. I'm using kernel 2.4.2; I couldn't > get the PCI network card to play nice with 2.2.x and knew the i810 > stuff was in the 2.4.x kernels as well :

RE: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread Josep Ll. Paniagua
UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!! > -Mensaje original- > De: TeknoDragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2001 20:38 > Para: Nathan E Norman > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: Intel FW82810 chipset > > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >

RE: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Eric G. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:51 PM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: grip cddb config > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > Does anyone have a grip config

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory > leak? Which was why apache-per

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Colin Cashman
> No. chroot is not safe enough. I want to create virtual boxes in which > I can give root rights to other people and I want to be sure that they > can't break other boxes. > > AGAIK if you have root you can escape chroot'ed directory. Another > problems that root can have direct access to devices.

Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Mathieu, Barry
Trouble. My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There is a mouse menu that allows reboot, but only works if logged-in as root, which I am not. And, I am a bit of a Linux newbie. Is there anyway to reboo

Re: Serial port weirdness

2001-03-15 Thread pplaw
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:50:20AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: > Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last > year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to > connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At al

Re: Selecting i686 for compiled code?

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
pentium-builder will allow processor-specific instruction sets. On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > >I am compiling my first set of code under Debian and the >Debian package management system. > >I downloaded the source for bash and I want to try to >compile it for the i686 instructi

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-15 Thread TeknoDragon
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, TeknoDragon wrote: > I'm trying to setup an i810 and a matrox g400 (on debian/testing)... but > when I try to start X the screen never comes up and there's no error (EE) > messages in X's logs... More info: (mem\ was ok) It appears that the i810 is losing out to the g400...

Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: >> Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =) > >But not 'nsl' ;))) count the keystrokes... >gdh > > > > -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remin

executable problem

2001-03-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I've just compiled a FORTRAN program but I am unable to run the executable, because "bash: qhdiv0.e: command not found". I think this is because the present directory it is not in the PATH. Please, I need to know: a) where is the file where the PATH is defined b) what should I write in it

Re: Neet to get PostgreSQL 7.0.X

2001-03-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to install PostgreSQL 7.0.X for my job, the version in potato > is 6.5.X, so what options do I have, I have downloade the .deb from > unstable but it has unmet dependencies. So what options do I have? I > was thinking about upgrading to unstable

Re: Debian and HP49G

2001-03-15 Thread John Galt
lrzsz and minicom may be a bit better. It's certainly freer... On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Chris Gray wrote: >On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, David Z. Maze wrote: >> Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> GB> I just got an HP49G calculator ... purchased the "PC >> GB> Connectivity Kit" in a fairly clueless

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mathieu, Barry wrote: > My keyboard is not responding (poof - dead), even the LED indicator > for caps lock doesn't illuminate. I have X running, w/ ICEWM. There If your keyboard has fallen out of the socket then you can plug it back in. It should work fine. (Well, if you

more nfs problems (thank you all for last time)

2001-03-15 Thread Forrest English
sorry folks, i don't know why i didn't tail my syslog on those systems sooner. it would have helped a lot faster. here is my network setup. server/router/etc (truffula.net) eth0 192.168.2.1 (lan2.truffula.net) eth1 externalip eth2 192.168.1.1 (lan1.truffula.net) on eth0

SSSSSSH error@^%&$ PLEASE help

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Livingstone
Hi! One of my boxes is running openssh_2.3.0 with only ssh2 enabled.. When i first installed Debian and ssh i could easily connect to

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
heh. i've had this happen. if you're luck enough to have the letters "s", "u", either "h", "a", "l", "t" or "r", "e", "b", "o", t" and all the letters in your root password, you can cut and paste your way into a reboot. this has happened to me before, and worked. can you ssh into your machine?

Re: no sound with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Matthew Bryant Baxa wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > I used gom as the mixer. When I booted the 2.4.2 kernel (witeh the same > > /etc/modules) and tried to play a song I got this: > > "Cannot open audio device. Please make sure that the audio device

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