Re: got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:54:52PM -0700, James A. Hilsenteger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please use text, not HTML, in list mail. > I successfully downloaded Galeon and installed. Two problems: 1) text > was not showing up on Galeon or other display-type apps. I then > rebooted and now I can

Re: menu_update vs. .twmrc

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:02:15PM -0700, Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. If I don't have a .twmrc file then the menus I find in twm are the > ones provided by debian menu_update. That's almost what I want, but > that doesn't give me the standard twm choices for raising and lowering > w

StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Nick Croft
Greetings! After doing a major update to unstable last week, I find that Star Office won't start. It can't find shared libraries in its own lib directory. So I save my work and schedule and decide to wipeout and reinstall. Same prob - /cdrom/linux/office51/setup returns ./setup: error while

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the > official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, > however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been > unsuccessful in

Re: StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nick Croft wrote: >./setup: error while loading shared libraries: ./setup: undefined symbol: at >exit upgrade libc6 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47

Re: StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Nick Croft
Thanks Oliver, libc6 is already the latest version. It keeps having trouble loading its own libraries as well. Nick + 1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we command

potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try

2001-08-21 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Happens now and then - cannot write to floppy. Then I try linuxconf (both - in X, in console mode), toggle the "read only" (in "File Systems") - nothing happens. Then I go: "chmod 777 /dev/fd0 - nothing happens. All the above as "root". This happens ever so often, sometimes I just try to fix it

FW: Certificate signing failure

2001-08-21 Thread MunFai
Hi! I am trying to sign my own server.crt file for use with Apache. I am using Debian, with OpenSSL 0.9.6b-1. I seem to be running into a problem when I'm running sign.sh to sign the .csr file. This is what I get: sblabs:/etc/apache/ssl.crt# ./sign.sg server.csr CA signing: server.csr -> server.

Re: StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Marc Wilson
Are you running *testing*, or are you running *unstable*? The current version of libc6 in unstable is 2.2.4-1, and the version of libc6 that has the atexit flaw is 2.2.3-10. It sounds like you haven't updated your box since installing the flawed library package. So. The *unstable* distribution

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-21 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when >trying to run apt-get update: > >Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib Packages > Something wicked happed resolving 'us.debian.org/http' > >Here's the first two lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list: > >deb http://us.debian.org

Re: StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Nick Croft
Marc, It's handy to learn that there is an atexit bug. Thanks. My debian mirror hasn't got version 2.2.4 yet. I'll have to look for it elsewhere I guess. debian:~# apt-get install libc6/unstable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 2.2.3-10 (Debian:unst

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when > > trying to run apt-get update: > > > > Err http://us.debi

Re: potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:19:09PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Happens now and then - cannot write to floppy. Then > I try linuxconf (both - in X, in console mode), toggle > the "read only" (in "File Systems") - nothing happens. > Then I go: "chmod 777 /dev/fd0 - not

How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Hi Ben, Thanks for your great work! I see you've got a very important bug marked closed: libdb2 breakage when upgrading from potato to woody http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107636&repeatmerged=yes Would you kindly take a moment to give us the procedure of how to upgrade stable

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still running fine as I could telnet to it and all se

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Err, I think I would rather have titled that message: "How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system." rather than "How to upgrade ...", because I the procedure I gave there (and want) is about doing a fresh install. Of course, the answer is relevant to doing an upgrade of an existi

kdev 2.2 debs for testing distributions....

2001-08-21 Thread Nicolas Salvagno
hi , i'd like to install kde 2.2 on my workstation, but i don't want to be in sid version?? so. Where can i find theses deb for testing version?? -- Nicolas Salvagno President LUG Linuxpien http://www.linuxpien.org Gnome developer http://www

Re: potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try

2001-08-21 Thread F Zimmermann
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: >Happens now and then - cannot write to floppy. Then > I try linuxconf (both - in X, in console mode), toggle > the "read only" (in "File Systems") - nothing happens. > Then I go: "chmod 777 /dev/fd0 - nothing happens. All > the above as "root

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:26:37PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my > ineptness! that is, i did: > > tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp > > silly me filled up my current dir

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:54:52PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > silly me filled up my current directory with a file called > "--remove-files". > > my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast > > > > i've tried > > He

Re: IOMEGA ZIP-100 / ZIP-250 -- banging my head against the wall

2001-08-21 Thread F Zimmermann
On 21 Aug 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > > "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote: > > >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active > >> partition. > > Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's > > No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a >

libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared objec t file: No such file or directory I've done a Google search and seen this come up a lot but can't find a fix. Is my system now broken beyond repair or is there a way to fix this? Manually compile glibc perhaps? -- Pa

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > > >>I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages > >>were installed t

Re: WinModem Driver

2001-08-21 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Naiara Nozella wrote: > > Is there already driver for the modem 3Com USRobotics 56Kbps > V.90 Winmodem ISA model number 5683 ? A search for winmodem US Robotics on http://www.google.com/linux will give you plenty of links that might help you a lot. > > > Na >

Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread Johnny Morano
dont worry, it's not that bad. i found out when i switched from potato->woody that sometimes you just have to softlink the "missing" files to existing (possibly with lower version-numbers) files... or sometimes do a 'dpkg -x /' if it still wouldnt want to install. oh yeah, dont forget to run

WinModem Driver

2001-08-21 Thread Naiara Nozella
Is there already driver for the modem of manufacturer 3Com / USRobotics, of 56Kbps, type V.90 Winmodem, slot ISA and model number 5683 ? Naiara _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
Thanks for replying but still struggling. | dont worry, it's not that bad. | i found out when i switched from potato->woody that sometimes you just have | to softlink the "missing" files to existing (possibly with lower | version-numbers) files... or sometimes do a 'dpkg -x /' if it still | woul

[Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday

2001-08-21 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Please excuse me if this is slightly OT, but it's important stuff!! I went to Linus' book-signing in Stockholm yesterday and finally got to meet our hero in person. The event was organized as a kind of "press conference", where the "press" were the people waiting to buy a signed copy of the book.

Re: Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
Good call! It is a broken symlink. enterprise:/home/patrick# ls -al /lib/libdb.so.3 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Aug 21 10:00 /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb.so.3.old enterprise:/home/patrick# locate libdb.so.3.old enterprise:/home/patrick# So, what do I need to do to get a libdb.so.3.old

Re: Re: Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread Johnny Morano
the trick i did was: i check /lib/ for any libdb* and then just symlinked the one with the highest version to /lib/libdb.so.3 (maybe do ln -s /lib/libdb.so.2 /lib/libdb.so.3 ), i ran ldconfig, and it worked... hope this will help... (--[ on Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:40, P Kirk bothered us wit

Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread John Galt
get the updated libdb2. apt-get install libdb2. This was supposed to be fixed by now, I guess that the change will take some time to propagate. dpkg/apt misprioritized things such that perl, which needed the new version of libdb2, was getting upgraded before libdb2. On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, P Kirk

Quake3 & ymfpci

2001-08-21 Thread harsha
Hi, Tried to play Quake3. unfortunately there is no sound output. This is the error that it gives. I did search at google. it showed some relevant posts with respect to alsa saying that was problem. However I am using the driver that comes with the kernel. I am using 2.4.9 kernel. I have a YMF-

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages > were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still > running fine as I could telnet to it and all services appeared to be > running correctly but it would not accept any

Re: [Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday

2001-08-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya peter... there's several linux birthday celebrations going on... around the world... http://www.Linux10.org guess the dayz when there was just 10 people gathered around Linus is long since gone ...was only 5 or so years ago too have fun alvin On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Peter Hugosson

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
It has been suggested already that `rm -- --remove-files` is the proper way, but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick (but could erase a lot more, so watch out)! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Re: Re: libdb.so.3: Potato->Woody

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
And it works for me as well. Thanks Johnny!

uninstalling GRUB

2001-08-21 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, I look in all grub documentation but I didn't find any clue about uninstalling GRUB. A friend want to "clean" a disk to install Win2K (poor of him :). Thanks, Dan

Re: uninstalling GRUB

2001-08-21 Thread Joel Mayes
> "Dan" == Dan Pomohaci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> Hi, I look in all grub documentation but I didn't find any Dan> clue about uninstalling GRUB. A friend want to "clean" a disk Dan> to install Win2K (poor of him :). G'day Dan, You probably don't have to worry about uninstal

Re: newbie questions

2001-08-21 Thread Hamma Scott
--- "James A. Hilsenteger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell > Inspiron 3000 into a Debian > box. Welcome aboard, remember Google is your freind and this site is great for harvesting answers from. > After a few false starts I have a working Debian > c

X environment variables

2001-08-21 Thread Roger Keays
Hi. Is there a way to set up my default environment variables for all the X sessions presented by kdm? ie. startkde, gnome, icewm I can't simply edit .xsession as it is ignored by all sessions except 'default'. Thanks in advance, Roger

Re: GL-related X freezing

2001-08-21 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > This sounds like typical hardware problems which Windows users have to. > Try to relax the AGP timing values in your BIOS settings, and check the > heat conditions of the graphic processor. Maybe there is some dust in > the cooler, or your tower is too sm

strange reboot

2001-08-21 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[Please Cc: to me because I am not subscribed to the list.] My machine was rebooted, but I didn't typed "reboot" or "shutdown" or something, and the log says nothing about it. "last -x" says oohara tty2 Tue Aug 21 19:56 still logged in oohara tty2

dubel network cards

2001-08-21 Thread Tandex
I am done with my linux gateway with only one network card, buth it will go faster if use 2 network card in the same computer one card to my home network and other to cabel-modem. How will I setup this other card and it's ip, how can I make difrence between them. _

Re: strange reboot

2001-08-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > [Please Cc: to me because I am not subscribed to the list.] > > My machine was rebooted, but I didn't typed "reboot" or > "shutdown" or something, and the log says nothing about it. > > "last -x" says > oohara tty2 Tue

Re: dubel network cards

2001-08-21 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tandex wrote: > I am done with my linux gateway with only one network > card, buth it will go faster if use 2 network card in > the same computer one card to my home network and > other to cabel-modem. > > How will I setup this other card and it's ip, how can > I make d

Perl 5.6.1 debs for potato

2001-08-21 Thread Ilya Martynov
Does anynody know if there exist unoffical debs of Perl 5.6.1 for potato? Sure I can build them myself (at least I think so) but maybe someone already have done it. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

ReiserFS and shred

2001-08-21 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I wanted to shred some files on my ReiserFS partition. But then I saw the message on the bottom of the --help printout saying: CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but

problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread Juan Antonio
I have installed debian woody but I still use kernel 2.2.19 (the one which is installed with floppy disks) I installed Xfree 4.x.x (the ones that come with woody). And they do not recognize my mouse. So I can´t  execute xf86cfg. When I execute xf86config and  asks me for the dev entry for my

Peoplestreet/Microsoft/Quantum

2001-08-21 Thread Tina
Monday August 20, 2001 QUANTUM UNVEILS INVESTMENT IN PEOPLESTREET. New York, NY., August 17, 2001 PEOPLESTREET ("Peoplestreet" or the "Company", nears FINAL Series B closing with a commitment from Quantum Venture Partners. As per the following Press Release by MICROSOFT: Microsoft and People

Re: Linking with X

2001-08-21 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting this link error > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to > `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' > > Does this mean I need an extra library? If so, which > one? Sounds like a symbolic reference that's not resolved. Goto /usr/X11R6/lib and

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages were ins

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when | > trying to run apt-get update: | > | > Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib

Re: got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-21 Thread James A. Hilsenteger
ran /usr/sbin/locale-gen no problems there. Still get the same error running startx: bash: startx: command not found - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:21 PM Subject: Re: got galeon downloaded but...

Re: WinModem Driver

2001-08-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Have a look at linmodems.org. --- Naiara Nozella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there already driver for the modem of > manufacturer 3Com / USRobotics, > of 56Kbps, type V.90 Winmodem, slot ISA and model > number 5683 ? > > > > > > Naiara > > > _

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave> Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I > Dave> sometimes want to bypass squid), then you can in

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:38:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Yet another solution: > > $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f {} \; ...which is just a longwinded way of saying "rm -f ./--remove-files". (Unless you have a subdirectory containing another file named "--remove-

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-21 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I'm having trouble getting X-Windows to work correctly on my machine.  According to the messages displayed on the screen, my monitor and card are setup correctly.  However, X-Windows won't recognize my mouse.  I have a PS/2 mouse.  What device file represents the PS/2 mouse?  Many thanks.Dav

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-21 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
David Frischknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble getting X-Windows to work correctly on my machine. > According to the messages displayed on the screen, my monitor and card are > setup correctly. However, X-Windows won't recognize my mouse. I have a PS/2 > mouse. What dev

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:40:48AM -0700, tluxt wrote: > Err, > > I think I would rather have titled that message: > "How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system." > rather than "How to upgrade ...", > because I the procedure I gave there (and want) > is about doing a fresh install

Re: debian linux and SMP

2001-08-21 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:45:36PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > Does anyone on the list have any experiences with debian or linux on a > Tyan Tiger 230 SMP board? Is there a list for people running debian SMP? I have a debian system with Tyan SMP board. What's the question? -- John__

Re: cannot open dhelp file

2001-08-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to install icewm-gnome in woody, and the install stops > trying to install a dependency icewm-common (1.0.7-1) with the > complaint of : > cannot open dhelp file ' /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. > Geocrawler had e-mailswith this complaint but the only s

Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:44:00PM -0500, Juan Antonio wrote: > I have installed debian woody but I still use kernel 2.2.19 (the one > which is installed with floppy disks) I installed Xfree 4.x.x (the ones > that come with woody). And they do not recognize my mouse. So I can?t > execute xf86cfg.

Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my installed list. /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / du -m /usr/399 du -m /usr/src/ 173 du -m /usr/share148 du -m /home 120 I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can

Modem/PPP fails on Progeny, works on Mandrake

2001-08-21 Thread avdi
Hi, First, apologies for the cross-posting; I'm not sure which list this plea belongs on. I finally took the plunge last weekend and made my switch to Progeny Debian from Mandrake 7.2. I'm not going to talk about Progeny's (horrible) installer in this message. Suffice to say I got Progeny ins

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can | /usr/share be so big? Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the machine is only going to be a samba server and/or gateway/firewall. Also r

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > /usr/share be so big? All packages install at least a couple files under /usr/share/doc. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-20T23:38:02Z, "Karsten M. Self" writes: > Yet another solution: > > $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f {} \; Since we're getting creative: perl -e "unlink('--remove-files');" is my obligatory contribution. :) -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:12:55AM -0400, dman wrote: > | exim install It's good to have an MTA (not necessarily exim, although it's what I would use) on every box to handle outgoing mail (e.g., snort mailing you a report that something funny is going on). You should modify /etc/init.d/exim and /

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Dresser
dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > | /usr/share be so big? > > This list is things that I don't think you need on this system. If > you intend to have a nice, useful desktop system the

Re: C library not found!

2001-08-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Yong Jing Hung wrote: > > Faheem, > >Thanks for your feedback but it is still not working. What I want is > the man page for C libraries... I got man page for printf, and the basic > functions but haven't got fork() or wait() as part of my man page. I hope > that you c

Re: Modem/PPP fails on Progeny, works on Mandrake

2001-08-21 Thread John Hasler
Avdi writes: > The modem is *amazingly* slow to respond. But it dials, and then slwly > the ISP's prompts appear. This is a symptom of an incorrect IRQ. What do setserial and 'cat /proc/interrupts' say? > Hoever, the default chatscript I modified had the "ogin:"/"sword:" > expect/reply pai

changing date's output

2001-08-21 Thread andrej hocevar
hello i'd like to change the names of the months into slovenian ones, that is the old-style names (like vinotok for october). Of course, there are the locale files sl_SI, among them the LC_TIME, which states only those 'international' names. now i'd simply like to change that but i don't know how t

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > | nfs-common install > > | nfs-server install > > I assume that portmap is also installed if these are present. Remove > it, too. Especially on a firewall. portmap, unfortunately, isn't removable on a potato system. Trying to remov

latest in my struggle to set-up a debian box for the first time

2001-08-21 Thread Guest One-POR
Here's the run down on what has happened so far... Installed Potato onto a Dell Inspiron 3000 laptop using the CD's. After a few miscues on disk partitioning, I got a good install (note: this is a debian-only box. No other OS on it). I got into X and have the Enlightenment manager running things

Re: strange reboot

2001-08-21 Thread Oohara Yuuma
[Please Cc: to me because I am not subscribed to the list.] On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > "ps aux" said > root 1 0.0 0.4 1020 464 ?S12:43 0:05 init [2] > (Note that [2] is what "ps aux" said --- it is not a foot-mark.) I mean "footnote", not "foot-mark". Sor

sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get: ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.XX refused. (XXX.XX.XX.XX is the IP of my box). What do I need to do to fix this, so that anyone can ssh into my bo

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
Thanks all. Serious pruning got it down by over 100MB. Still Debian is becoming a very big system. ITs a pity the small install option is gone. Patrick - Original Message - From: "P Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:51 PM Subject: Why s

[changing date's output]

2001-08-21 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
- Forwarded message from andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-X-Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: , > Subject: changing date's output > > hello > i'd like to change the names of the months into sloveni

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:32PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian | packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get: | | ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX | Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.XX refused. | | (XXX.XX.XX.XX is the IP of my

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:32PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > | I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian > | packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get: > | > | ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX > | Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > Me is a standard user (barik), not root, having access to group users, > audio and video. I am at a University, the network is not firewalled. I > have not specifically installed a firewall or any firewall type software > on my Debian box (as far as I know

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Walter Hofmann
Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Dienstag, den 21. August 2001: > but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick No, it gets globbed to "rm --remove-files" so this won't work. Walter

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:32PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian > packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get: > > ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX > Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.XX refused. > > (XXX.XX.XX.XX is the IP of my

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Titus Barik
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: > > I take that back.. seems I have ipchains running. > I apologize for the multiple posts. In my haste, I said that ipchains was running. What I should have said is that when I look at dselect, the ipchains packag

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > I apologize for the multiple posts. In my haste, I said that ipchains > was running. What I should have said is that when I look at dselect, the > ipchains package is installed. I do not know how to tell if it is > running. ipchains -L

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread Wes Byne
Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to see if connections from your client are explicitly allowed. Also, see if your package of ssh has tcp_wrappers compiled in (they like to do that around here), in which case you'll need to explicitly allow hosts. As previously mentioned, try s

Re: Bogus swap usage problem?

2001-08-21 Thread Chris Ruvolo
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:52:18PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > Kernels before 2.4.7 had a bug in the swap code, leading to the > behaviour you described. 2.4.7 is better, but apparently it doesn't > fix things completely. > > Try upgrading to 2.4.8. Thanks for the info and your suggestion, but it d

Re: More problems with xfstt

2001-08-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for this pointer - as it turns out, you're right; a barcode font was the first returned when xfstt was on. I've fixed it like this; a hack, but it makes things work right: 1.) Make a new font directory: mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default 2.) Put the default font in it: cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts

forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* What I want to do, is either; a) make a bootdisk with a script that automaticly starts running that disables the root password, then halts the machine. I

Re: problems with intellimouse explorer USB

2001-08-21 Thread Anthony Lau
At 7:50 AM -0700 8/21/2001, David Roundy wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:44:00PM -0500, Juan Antonio wrote: > I have installed debian woody but I still use kernel 2.2.19 (the one > which is installed with floppy disks) I installed Xfree 4.x.x (the ones > that come with woody). And they do n

OT: competent .de registrar sought

2001-08-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi guys, i am trying to register a couple of .de domains but so far, the two registrars i have tried, netbeat.de (ACK) and accountservice.de do not meet up to my needs. what i want is a registrar that allows me to configure and reconfigure DNS entries as well as admin-c, tech-c, and zone-c. i h

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and boot into "single" user

ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Jason Majors
I have four machines: a firewall, an internal server, and two workstations. When I try an SSH connection from the firewall to the server, or from outside the firewall using its port forwarding to go to the server, I get the error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I can

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread csj
On 20 Aug 2001 18:37:25 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote: > (BTW, as a side comment, both of my posts to this list > regarding DVDs in the last month received almost no responses, > a very curious fact -- is it an indication that

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | > | > I take that back.. seems I have ipchains running. | > | | I apologize for the multiple posts. In my haste, I said that ipchains | was runni

XDM

2001-08-21 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I'm currently using xdm to log into Linux. However, I'd like to revert back to logging into a command prompt and starting X from there. Could anyone help me out? Thanks a bunch. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com _

Re: creating a cd-image

2001-08-21 Thread Philipp Bliedung
thanks for your help! I want to set up a server (at home), and there is no cd-drive in it - I won't need a cd-drive in there anyway. but just in case I want to install extra packages I thought I'd just put the iso-images on the hdd and install all the packages as usual using apt-get. I'm pret

Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread Han Yoo
Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for Debian? (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) Thanks! Han _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread Pedro Neves
Hi: How come DVD playing in Linux is illegal? Is there any place where I can get more info about this? Thanks in advance Pedro Neves > > DVD playing is perhaps one area where the hacker/cracker distinction > (which I myself don't believe in) falls apart. Playing most DVDs in > Linux is ILLEGA

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for | Debian? | (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) Which kernel do you have? Take your pick from 'iptables' 'ipchains' and 'ipfwadm' depending on kernel version. (BTW, I've neve

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