grub booting message

2001-06-27 Thread Regnat Nikolaus
I'm using debian woody and grub. Since a few days I get the following message: There are differences between the bootsector and it's backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 28:3d/3f, 29:65/00, 30:9c/00, 71:44/00, 72:41/4f, 73:54/20, 74:45/4e, 75:4e/41, 76:20/4d, 77:20/45, 78:20/00, 79:20/00

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread virtanen
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > > Some more info. > > > > 1) Make sure your system boots using your 1 Gb hdd > > 2) Check what your kernel says about hdd's (dmesg is your friend) > > 3) Once you have found it use (c)fdisk to create partitions, and add > > filesystems using the no

Trying to build Redhat kernel on Debian

2001-06-27 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, this is probably the wrong list to ask this question but anyway: I'm trying to install a package which needs kernel 2.4.2 as included with Redhat 7.1 (apparently Redhat applied some patches which are required). Since I very much dislike Redhat, I copied the source tree for the kernel from

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Huygen
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:24:10PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote: > > [suggestion for community-wide sharing of config info and experience] > Well, I understood that wat he actually wanted, was to create a kind of automatic install utility. > This all sounds like a nice i

Re: mounting qnx filesystems

2001-06-27 Thread nestor diaz
Dear Mike: When I installed my potato r3, in the modules options I had the qnx filesystem option. I think I have not seen this option in the revision 2. Also I do not know how to do it with recompiling the kernell again or making a new installation. Maybe this other nice people will help you with

Re: iptables firewall help

2001-06-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, a couple of weeks I found this link on debian-firewall: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/adsl4linux/ADSL4Linux/ADS L4Linux/templates/firewall.iptables.devel?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd .viewcvs-markup It is a pretty good script. You have to set y or n for a list of service

Re: CR characters in d/l'ed text files

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
tr -d '\015' < pc.file should do the trick. Be careful not to redirect that ouput back onto your input file, though, you have to put that to a temp file first. (if you tried to do > pc.file the file would be clobbered when the output stream opened it for writing). While we're on the subject, and

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010624 10:13]: > What is interesting for you to know, is that if you want to use the cdrw > to burn disks, you cannot do that using the ide/atapi interface and have > to use the "scsi generic" interface. In order to be able to do this, > you must bind the "ide-sc

Re: custom upgrades

2001-06-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
"Dana S. Wheeler" wrote: > > I have a really slow modem connection (rural phone line) so updating by > apt-get on line is not really an option. Is there some > web site where you can compile your own custom cd and have them mail it > to you? > > Thanks > > Dana S. Wheeler > Hi Dana I don't kn

Re: make user named

2001-06-27 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > I want to run bind chrooted for security reasons. For this I need a user > named, but I do not want him to be able to login. How can I make a user > like nobody? You could take a look at this: http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-H

HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread OSU
hi, I am using kernel 2.4.5 with unstable, and was playing around installing new software . But in the process I logged off to take a break and was not able to log back in . I can not login as root or myself . Even before I am able to type the password I get the error " loging incorrect" . I a

BUG? : GDM ignoring locale settings

2001-06-27 Thread christophe barbé
In my uptodate sid box : gdm seems to ignore my wish in the language menu entry. I choose french and gnome start with all locales set to "C". If I set my locales to fr_FR in a shell, all apps started from this shell use my setting. So I belive this is a bug in gdm. What's wrong ? Christophe $ l

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread christophe barbé
I suspect that you've the 26 series of libpam modules (known as broken). Upgrade your libpam* packages (or downgrade if old version are present in /var/cache/apt/archive). Christophe On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:07:57 OSU wrote: > hi, > > I am using kernel 2.4.5 with unstable, and was playing around

tasten

2001-06-27 Thread Jörg Keller
moin . ich habe meine tastatur bei rumspielen auf englisch verstellt. wie und wo mache ich das rueckgaenig? mpunkt __ Ferienklick.de - Jede Menge Urlaub auf einen Blick! Hier geht's zu Ihrem Traumstrand: http://ferien

unsable: no login after dist-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Alexander Stellwag
Hi everyone, yesterday I updated my Debian/unstable system and after the (dist-)upgrade I wasn't able to login anymore. It simply said "module not found" or something similar (I'm at work currently so I can't give you the exact error message). I suspect it has something to do with pam but I ha

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread Frank Zimmermann
virtanen wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: I tried, but if I connect my IBM, the machine doesn't boot at all... This sounds pretty much like a hardware failure to me. I had a problem when one of my harddrives was broken. I always got a drive error and the PC wouln't bo

Re: unsable: no login after dist-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, look back two messages before your post, or check the archives. You have to upgrade or downgrade pam. Greetz, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 16-bit Subsystem. Any

Kernel building - missing symbols :-(

2001-06-27 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install a special application which comes with a binary only :-( module. When I try to load the module I get: mvfs.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074 mvfs.o: unresolved symbol panic_Rsmp_01075bf0 I think I missed something in the kernel however I can't figure out wha

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Aquila
You should read the other mails on this list. Anyway you need to boot into single-user mode (append "s" after your image name at lilo prompt), download the libpam*.deb packages from http://incoming.debian.org and install them, then reboot. On 27 Jun 2001 04:07:57 -0700, OSU wrote: > hi, > > I am

AW: tasten

2001-06-27 Thread Christian Kesselheim
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Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed Flash in Mozilla 0.9.1 on a sid debian machine but cant get to find java plugin for it. Any pointers? Thanks, PH Em Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0500, DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can

packages from unstable

2001-06-27 Thread Adri
Hello all, I read on a list archive that Samba 2.2.x was put in the unstable packages collection. How can I try to install it? I updated via dpkg and it brought me the 2.0.7-3 version. I'm on potato 2.2 rev 3 Thanks Bye Adri

SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Nik Makepeace
When I connect to my Debian potato machine using ssh (via Putty) protocol 1 or 2, after I have entered the correct password, it takes ages (about 10 seconds, although sometimes much more) to complete the authorisation process. Looking at top while this is happening shows sshd using about 2% for

[ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello List I'm using a web-based email provider (www.gmx.net). In the last few weeks, I'm really getting annoyed by advertisment popup windows. I wrote an email to them and told them I hate it, but there was only an answer from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup windows

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
>> Good info. I had a 486/66MHz system. I pulled out the huge >> 350mb hard drive and installed my 20Gb wd. The bios seen >> *something* and then I installed debian. Never had a hitch >> with it.I don't really think debian gives a rip what the >> bios thinks at any rate! Is actually Linux who does

Re: package naming?!

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:20:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Andre Alexander Bell wrote: [..] > > If you want to _use_ ssh. Install package ssh. > > If you want to _provide_ ssh... [..] Makes sense imho. > http://bugs.debian.org/39741 > http://bugs.debian.org/71864 > > Have a look at ppp, for a

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-06-27 Thread nico de haer
Hi Vineet, Did you compile SCSI-CDROM support in to your kernel? Yours, Nico de Haer - Original Message - From: Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:32 AM Subject: Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load _

Re: Custom kernel won't boot - unable to mount root fs

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:06:23PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > My guess is that your kernel does not know what a "scsi disk" is. > > > > Can you grep for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD in the config for your kernel (if > > you used make-kpkg a

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> You should read the other mails on this list. The thought just occured to me: What if they upgraded their box to this broken version of pam and for whatever reason either logged all users out or rebooted. If this is their only box, they can't login. If they can't login, they can't read their ma

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Greg Rowe
I saw this same problem as well. It is as you suspected, DNS. Since I had a name server on my masqed network I just created a reverse zone and all was well. There must be a way to prevent ssh from doing reverse lookups but I don't know what that option is... Greg On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Nik Makep

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread David Purton
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Greg Rowe wrote: > I saw this same problem as well. It is as you suspected, DNS. Since I > had a name server on my masqed network I just created a reverse zone and > all was well. There must be a way to prevent ssh from doing reverse > lookups but I don't know what that opt

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Nik Makepeace
At 08:17 27/06/2001 -0400, Greg Rowe wrote: I saw this same problem as well. It is as you suspected, DNS. Since I had a name server on my masqed network I just created a reverse zone Thanks Greg. I have been putting off looking at DNS (learn Python, do some work, go to the park, you name it

Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup > windows generally? This would be really great You could disable JavaScript when you visit that site and turn it on again when you need it. Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Enable JavaScrip

su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Davis
My machine has been up for a few days, and now I cannot take it down, since only the sessions that are now open to root will work. I am running "sid" the unstable, and recently did a major upgrade. In an xterm, the following is received: bash-2.05$ su su: Module is unknown Sorry. bas

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:09:43 -0300 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I installed Flash in Mozilla 0.9.1 on a sid debian machine but cant > get to find java plugin for it. > Any pointers? > Thanks, PH That's what I did: Becau

Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread Johannes Jörg
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > from the autoresponder... Now, Is it possible to disable such popup > > windows generally? This would be really great > > You could disable JavaScript when you visit that site and turn it on again > when you need it. Edit|Preferences|Advanced|En

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you run sid, I recommend that you subscribe to debian-devel. There has been a lot of discussion recently on PAM problems following a recent upgrade, which looks like what is happening in your case. I believe that new packages in /incoming correct the problem. Bob On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:3

Re: [users] big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread virtanen
Hi, thanks a lot. On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach virtanen (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:28:04PM +0300): > > I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk. > > try setting the jumper called "32Gb clip" > even the LBA enabled BIOSs still can't handle >32Gb, so you'll lose > 8Gb, but in my c

Re: [ot] netscape popup-windows

2001-06-27 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:29:10PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello List > > I'm using a web-based email provider (www.gmx.net). In the last few > weeks, I'm really getting annoyed by advertisment popup windows. I wrote > an email to them and told them I hate it, but there was only an answer >

Problems with modules

2001-06-27 Thread Yaba Yaba
Hello... sorry about my bad "english", I´m a brazilian guy... I had recompliled my kernel (by the 1st time), and, after that, my comp don´t load the modules where file should I look to fix that? tnx Feu __

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread Lars Knudsen
virtanen wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > > > > Some more info. > > > > > > 1) Make sure your system boots using your 1 Gb hdd > > > 2) Check what your kernel says about hdd's (dmesg is your friend) > > > 3) Once you have found it use (c)fdisk to create partitions, and

Re: reverse DNS lookup on local machine

2001-06-27 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:36:19PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > now that testing's ssh goes out on the net to do reverse namelookups, > I, again, am looking in ways to provide reverse DNS lookups > preferrably without having to run bind. any pointers? try pdnsd, it it a lightweight caching nam

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:28:22PM +0100, Nik Makepeace wrote: > At 08:17 27/06/2001 -0400, Greg Rowe wrote: > >I saw this same problem as well. It is as you suspected, DNS. Since I > >had a name server on my masqed network I just created a reverse zone > > Thanks Greg. I have been putting off

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:41:57AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > That's what I did: Because of a comment I read in debian-user, I > started Mozilla first as root (giving myself the permisions) and > visited a site I knew is using java. Then I just had to follow the > dialog boxes. and voilà! Now

Changing the keboard layout for X

2001-06-27 Thread Miguel Griffa
hi Could anyone help me on changing the kb layout for X, I always used us because I know it by hard and it's ok for some programming keys ; `... but now I installed debian on my girlfriends computer, and I need to have the kb on the proper spanish cfg. Any hint welcome, thanks

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you run sid, I recommend that you subscribe to debian-devel. Or, at the very least, debian-devel-announce. It's low-traffic. >I believe that new packages in /incoming correct the problem. They've now been installed in the archive proper. -- Colin Wats

Debian Citrix project

2001-06-27 Thread Chapman, Matt
Hello everyone. I am wondering if anyone has ever used a boot floppy that loads the linux (debian) kernel and such then initiates a Citrix connection? If not how might this be done so I can get this rolling and document it. -matt -- Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.duhnet.n

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:39:15 +0200 Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:41:57AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > > That's what I did: Because of a comment I read in debian-user, I > > started Mozilla first as root (giving myself the permisions) and > > visited a site

Re: xmms 1.2.5 package

2001-06-27 Thread Thomas Hess
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:15:57 -0400 (EDT), Daniel T. Chen said: > Tom, Josip (the official maintainer) released 1.2.5-1 on Wed, 20 June, at > 00:49:08 +0200. Run `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` to pick up the new > packages. ok, the problem was that for apt 1.2.5-pre1 was newer than 1.2.5-1

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Same here, exactly same problem. no xpicleanup process. just the file. I tried sun and netscape's java2... but no luck. It maybe a good idea for someone to make a deb so that I don't have to dig into that anymore. Just too exhausted. Edwin Lau On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:39:15PM +0200, Alex Su

Re: big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread virtanen
This is not bad info at all, which you're telling, thanks alot. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lars Knudsen wrote: > Sorry for breaking netiquette by jumping into the middle of a thread but > here goes... > > Several months ago I bought a 46GB IBM disk that I tried to install in a > PC with the same r

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Kent West
Aquila wrote: You should read the other mails on this list. Anyway you need to boot into single-user mode (append "s" after your image name at lilo prompt), download the libpam*.deb packages from http://incoming.debian.org and install them, then reboot. It's no longer in incoming; but it sho

Re: SSH takes ages to authorise

2001-06-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:28:22PM +0100, Nik Makepeace wrote: > Who knows where there is a good BIND tutorial for technically adept yet > ignorant monkeys like myself? I'm not familiar with pdnsd, but I've seen two plugs for it today and it sounds likely to be decent. But if you want to take th

Cannot login to woody box (i386)

2001-06-27 Thread Guenter Millahn
Dear fellow debianers, yesterday I did a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and a subsequently reboot on my woody box. Since this I am no longer able to login via telnet or via console. ssh also fails. Here is a monitored session example: > woodybox login: mylogin > Login incorrect > > woodybox login: Do

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Kent West
Alan Davis wrote: My machine has been up for a few days, and now I cannot take it down, since only the sessions that are now open to root will work. I am running "sid" the unstable, and recently did a major upgrade. In an xterm, the following is received: bash-2.05$ su su: Module is unk

bug #102226 regarding Samba: some good news !!

2001-06-27 Thread James D. Freels
Dear Eloy Paris: First of all, thank you for maintaining Samba for all of us on Debian. Second, I filed the subject bug report and I am happy to report that the problem has been resolved, but not how we might want. Basically, with the newest version out of unstable, it compiled this time under

Where's Java? [was Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla]

2001-06-27 Thread DvB
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I installed Flash in Mozilla 0.9.1 on a sid debian machine but cant get to find java plugin for it. Any pointers? Thanks, PH Em Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0500, DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: try htt

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Richardson
Harold Bibik wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:31:16PM +0200, Guy Geens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > scribbled > > > I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape > > fonts look better. I can't find it now, but this page seems to have > > the information you need: > > http://www

newbies and mutt

2001-06-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! This appeared in Debian Weekly News - June 25th, 200. And I found the site *very* useful for configuring mutt! Now I have mutt looking the way I want! >From Debian Weekly News - June 25th: Newbie Tip: If you haven't tried using Mutt to read your mail, you should give it a whirl.

[Fwd: SID USERS READ THIS!]

2001-06-27 Thread G.LeeJ
Original Message Subject: SID USERS READ THIS! Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:25:25 -0500 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:21:53 -0400 From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org This message is for all sid users who ha

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:21:06 -0400 Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > After a long and exhausted trial and error, I am giving up. I can't > get the java and flash plugin work for mozilla. Anyone care to tell me > how they get it working? Java doesn't seem

For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there. Since it is obvious now that the libpam packages were broken, just for the sake of comfort the imho simplest guide to fix it. 1.) Start linux with "init=/bin/bash" as parameter 2.) Do "/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh" and "/etc/init.d/mountall.sh" to remount all drives rw. 3.) Do "ap

Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386)

2001-06-27 Thread Timmy Douglas
you need to boot into single usermode: LILO: linuxkernelname single i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules. anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again

Re: For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is for the login problem with "testing" only. As it seems there is another login bug in unstable. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|

XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread Shivakumar Patil
Hi, I am new to debian and installed debian potato 2.2r3 on my 866Mhz, 128 MB RAM Dell Machine. I have xserver-svga as my X driver. I used XF86Setup gui tool to create a XF86Config file. I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chipset as generic, memory as 16 meg and monitor as a SVGA w

Re: For everyone that cannot login

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Sorry, I forgot to mention that this is for the login problem >with "testing" only. As it seems there is another login bug >in unstable. Hmm, the broken libpam-modules (0.72-26) never made it into testing (which is as it should be): libpam-module

Re: reverse DNS lookup on local machine

2001-06-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:31:33AM -0500, Andy Wettstein wrote: ... > try pdnsd, it it a lightweight caching nameserver, that will take your > hosts out of /etc/hosts and put them in its resolver. or you can define > them in your config file either way. I was hoping that /etc/resolve ed would be

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You should read the other mails on this list. > >The thought just occured to me: > >What if they upgraded their box to this broken version of pam >and for whatever reason either logged all users out or >rebooted. If this is their only box, they can't l

Re: Trying to build Redhat kernel on Debian

2001-06-27 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:53:27AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: | Howdy, | | this is probably the wrong list to ask this question but anyway: | | I'm trying to install a package which needs kernel 2.4.2 as included | with Redhat 7.1 (apparently Redhat applied some patches which are | required).

Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's what I get for being a command-line freak: everyone else is using > xterms and xterm termcaps seem to work fine between linux, irix and > solaris. I guess I have to sit down and set up linux termcaps on our sun/sgi > boxen -- using vt100 as I do now is clearly

Re: XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Shivakumar Patil wrote: :)Hi, :) :) I am new to debian and installed debian potato 2.2r3 on my 866Mhz, 128 :)MB RAM Dell Machine. I have xserver-svga as my X driver. I used XF86Setup :)gui tool to create a XF86Config file. :) I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chips

Re: headers in mutt

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:40:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I am using mutt. When I read a message sometimes appears a lot of stuff in > the > header. I want only the "From:", "To:" and "Subject:" fields. How can I do > that? > Using the option ignore in the muttrc file seems

Re: cd-rom "medium not found", no modules load

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* nico de haer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010627 09:04]: > Hi Vineet, > > Did you compile SCSI-CDROM support in to your kernel? > > Yours, > Nico de Haer > Yes, it's in there. (It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) And for the record, no I'm not trying to mount an audio CD =p I've tried various iso9660 and joliet

Re: XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x

2001-06-27 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: | On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Shivakumar Patil wrote: | | | I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chipset as generic, memory as 16 meg | I have ATI Rage Pro with 4MB ram. I use the mach64 driver, with 1024x768 FYI the Rage Pro and the

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
In any case, even though this bug was found in the unstable version, I though that some minimal testing is going on before packages are uploaded to the mirrors. In this case it was simple stupid sgaddset instead of sigaddset, but still. Do people test that basic functionality of the package work

Re: installing KDE

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:48:52AM +1000, Aquila wrote: > I think apt-get install task-kde is the "proper" way to do it. It's a > virtual package that depends on the actual kde packages. > > On 24 Jun 2001 17:17:02 -0500, Zac Hostens wrote: > > Run dselect and choose the package kdebase, and it wi

Re: Easy-going backup software

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:54:47PM +, Victor wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my > laptop. It ticks wonderfully!! > > Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under > SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back u

Re: Debian modules

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0300, Juan wrote: > > I would like to install: > - Apache (???) It was installed via dselect, but I not found httpd apache provides httpd services -- on debian it's called apache, whereas other distributions call it 'httpd'. you can always create a symlink h

Re: big IBM harddisk (fwd)

2001-06-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > virtanen wrote: > > I tried, but if I connect my IBM, the machine doesn't boot at all... > > This sounds pretty much like a hardware failure to me. I had a > problem when one of my harddrives was broken. I always got a drive > error and the PC wouln't

mutt -- was Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:23:19AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > O how I mis tin's capability to hide/unhide read messages. > Under mutt I simply delete read messages instead of having them fade > away. <\rambling> hmm. maybe there's a scoring mechanism, coupled with a macro, that you could cob

Re: HELP Please ! Can't login .

2001-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In any case, even though this bug was found in the unstable >version, I though that some minimal testing is going on before >packages are uploaded to the mirrors. In this case it was >simple stupid sgaddset instead of sigaddset, but still. >Do pe

Re: Netscape 4.77 Java Fonts too large

2001-06-27 Thread Harold Bibik
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:02:31AM -0700, Eric Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > > Already have the msttcorefonts installed and the Netscape.ad modified > > but there was some interesting stuff about scalable fonts at the > > bottom of the page you mentioned...thanks for the URL, I'll pl

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:44:32AM +, Victor wrote: > Me, again! > > No one using docbook & xml out there? > > Vittorio > Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the w

apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi. I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these installation candidates ?_ I always use apt-get install x, or the magic couple apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade...

where to do iptables setup?

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hello, I recently upgraded one machine to the 2.4.5 kernel from the 2.2 series. As it's running now, I have an iptables script which sets up my NAT and filtering rules. I was rather proud of myself having gotten my script to work fine on the first try, but I'm not sure what's the clean Debian Way

apt-get install mysql-server

2001-06-27 Thread Juan
Hi, I removed mysql-server and now I'm trying to install it again. The commands: apt-get install mysql-server ===> Sorry, mysql-server is already the newest version apt-get remove mysql-server ===> E: Couldn't find package mysql-server What should I do to fix this? TIA, Juan José Velázquez

Re: Broken Debconf

2001-06-27 Thread John Foster
Rob Weir wrote: > > After doing my regular apt-get update;apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade against > testing, I've managed to completely munge up my perl installation. When apt > gets to updating Debconf, I get the following error: > --

Re: Changing the keboard layout for X

2001-06-27 Thread nestor diaz
El Mié 27 Jun 2001 09:50, Miguel Griffa escribió: > hi > Could anyone help me on changing the kb layout for X, I always used us > because I know it by hard and it's ok for some programming keys ; `... but > now I installed debian on my girlfriends computer, and I need to have the > kb on the

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2001-06-27 Thread Jenner Almanzar
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Re: mutt

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
What works well for me is to use mutt with its threaded view and collapse threads that are no longer interesting for whatever reason. My index_format line looks like this: set index_format="%3C %Z %[!%b%d] %-17.17F(%?M?#%3M&%4c?) %s" All that garbage in the parens there roughly translates to "

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 12:12 p.m. 27/06/01 -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: Hi everybody!!! I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i do that? First check if it is compatible, then find which kernel module you need for it, then modprobe you_kernel_module and you got it. You _may_ need to recompile kerne

Re: apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:55:36PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want > to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I > haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these installation > candidates ?_ Use dselect. Update fr

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Re: apt-get install mysql-server

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:15PM -0300, Juan wrote: > I removed mysql-server and now I'm trying to install it again. > > The commands: > apt-get install mysql-server ===> Sorry, mysql-server is already the > newest version > apt-get remove mysql-server ===> E: Couldn't find package mysql-serve

Re: ???

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:12:45PM -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote: > I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i > do that? With a screwdriver. ;-) Go to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html and read it. It conveniently also answers the next 12 questions you were going to ask.

[OT] Mozilla/Java: xpicleanup.dat files wanted

2001-06-27 Thread DvB
There is currently a bug filed at bugzilla.mozilla.org which covers the problems with java plugin installation. As expected, the xpicleanup process keeps running after mozilla exits so that it can finish replacing/changing/removing files that were previously in use. Consequently, the xpicleanu

Re: your mail

2001-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
A good first setp will be to do some reading: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/install To do a network-install, the most common way is to download a set of boot floppies (install disks) and being the installation process. After it does some initial setup (including your network card and

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > Package ssh-socks doesn't conflict with anything, but ssh conflicts > with ssh-socks and ssh-nonfree. Do rules for making packages say that > conflicts have to be indicated by control-information of both > packages? No. Your versi

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:46PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote: > [...] > > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > > Below is stderr from this command: > $ ssh-socks -v -C -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L 0:redpraxis.org:1

Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with > > the manpages, there's suddenly a whole cosy circle of friends. ;-) > > But there's no manpage for "ssh-socks": > # man ssh-socks > > No manual entr

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