Re: SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, you seems to know alot. So I may be wrong but let me try... On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:51:20PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking > for the password. Here is what I tried: > > I have SSH (OpenSSH_2.9p2) running with RhostsRS

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-09 Thread David Turetsky
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:39:18PM +0800, Rino Mardo muttered: --> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:13:31AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: --> > might be, --> > --> > did you receive confirmation? or error message saying that you address --> > is not subscribed? --> > --> didn't received anything. no r

Re: weird 100% disk usage

2001-10-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
joey tsai wrote: >My drive appears to be full via df: >[corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda1 61M 59M 0 100% / > >However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used: >[corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # d

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:33:00PM -0400, Kyle Girard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The proper method is to use SSH tunnels, as posted previously. You'll > > have to check your sshd allows X11 forwarding (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). > > Then: > > > > $ ssh -C -X remotehost > > > > I try this fr

potato -> woody on multiple machines

2001-10-09 Thread Richard Hector
After apt-get dis-upgrading one box, am I ok to just tar up /var/cache/apt/archives and dump it on the other? This should save a considerable amount of time ... Later I'll do something better, like squid, or a local mirror, but I need a new disk first :-) Thanks, Richard

problems with screen on potato

2001-10-09 Thread bruno waes
I have a strange problem with 'screen' on my potato debian box, i can start screen with no problem but i cant create a second window, i could before but it suddenly ceased working, it was a bit after i installed ximian that it stopped working, could that be the problem, it has worked god with xi

Debian GNU/Linux as email & DNS server

2001-10-09 Thread Davi Leal
Hi all,   I am going to use a debian box as email and DNS server. The goal is duplicate the functionality of a host which is using sendmail, xinetd (pop3) & bind. I have thought to use:       debian 2.2r3 (potato)   sendmail instead of exim, to facilitate the duplication of the existing

Re: ppp problem

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Zimmermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, all I'm new to linux and I'm experiencing a problem that is at least a bit odd: I first installed the kernel 2.2.17 and wvdial was working fine, then I installed kernel 2.4.9 and wvdial stopped working properly: it said something like "the PPP deamon has died!" r

evolution: funny folder structure (IMAP)

2001-10-09 Thread Erik Steffl
system: uw-imapd-ssl 2001rc1debian-1 evolution-ssl 0.14-2 debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10 when using netscape, I see the folders in ~/mail (which I set as top folder in netscape), here' how the directory looks: Drafts Sent Templates Trash in-l-alsa in-l-debian-devel in

Re: KDE

2001-10-09 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:56:25PM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: > I was just wonderinfg if there is .deb packages for the KDE desktop? > If so, where can I find them? > > thanks, mike To install KDE on potato put deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto in your /etc/apt/sources.list As root ru

Puzzling PPP Problem

2001-10-09 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have a problem that I have started getting recently with one of my ppp connections. I have two dialup connections at home, one via my place of work, and another that I pay for myself. Both use the ISDN modem that I share between two computers, via a switch box in the serial cable. One computer

Re: egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

2001-10-09 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:04 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) mumbled: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? > > I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've encountered no problems with > 2.95.x in my configurat

Re: weird 100% disk usage

2001-10-09 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Hmm, I'm also sometimes getting such disk usages on my 2,5 GB hdd machine. But you cannot write infinite amounts of data on it when it is in this state... only some dozens of MBytes... maybe this data is just fetched by the linux cache?? Cheers, Stephan - Original Message - From: "O

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya martin -- donno if you are looking for answers... or if you are looking for flame wars ... -- lets seee ... simple quickie answers... if you have 20 PCs...you use a mask for 32 machines... 12 of um will be unused ... that youhave to protect somehow... make a dummy

mutt and gpg in woody

2001-10-09 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I got a problem using mutt and gpg since the last update for these packages. When I try to encrypt and sign a message I get an error after entering my passphrase. Error message: gpg: Missing argument for option "--comment" Press any key to continue... I tried using the gpg.rc file from /usr/

Re: 4 doubts on Kernel compilation (A dual boot Win-Lin Machine)

2001-10-09 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:05 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, Stephen Gran mumbled: > p.s. - I'm told the debian way is much easier, but I've never used it, > so others can tell you more. > AHHA! The Debian Way! Basically, you can install a kernel-source .deb from apt, or download a tarball from kernel.org, it doesn't r

Re: modules.dep 0 bytes on 2.4.10

2001-10-09 Thread Timeboy
- Re: modules.dep 0 bytes on 2.4.10 - On Sunday Oct 07 21:14 Adahma wrote: > ** I've just tried to upgrade to the 2.4.10-386 kernel image from > ** unstable. I cannot get it to boot , seemingly because none of the > ** modules get loaded. I noticed that modules.dep in the >

Re: Exim default build

2001-10-09 Thread Timeboy
- Re: Exim default build - On Sunday Oct 07 21:27 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > ** Does the default exim package that is included with the standard potato > ** install include SMTP Authentication? > ** > ** If not, how hard (for a relative newbie) would it be to install it?

Re: X font problem

2001-10-09 Thread Timeboy
- Re: X font problem - On Monday Oct 08 21:08 tjm wrote: > ** Hello. > ** In the process of trying to correct an X problem, > ** I developed the following problem when trying to > ** run icewm: > ** > ** --- > ** Could not load fontset '-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-

Re: ppp problem

2001-10-09 Thread Timeboy
- Re: ppp problem - On Monday Oct 08 05:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** hi, all > ** I'm new to linux and I'm experiencing a problem that is at least a bit > odd: > ** I first installed the kernel 2.2.17 and wvdial was working fine, then I > ** installed kernel 2.4.9 an

Re: Gnome menu item and prompting

2001-10-09 Thread Timeboy
- Re: Gnome menu item and prompting - On Monday Oct 08 19:53 Gary Hennigan wrote: > ** usr/bin/X11/xterm -e ssh -X %a(host:) > ** > ** so WindowMaker would prompt me with a dialog box and "host:" as a > ** prompt and then I'd type in the host name and WindowMaker wou

samba-tng - samr problems?

2001-10-09 Thread Chris
Hello, I am in the process of setting up samba-tng on woody. When I try to add a domain user from samedit I get the following error: SAMR_CREATE_USER: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED Create Domain User: FAILED and the log.samr says: create_pipe_socket: /var/run/samba-tng/.msrpc 0700 /var/run/samba-tng

Re: Blackbox stopped working after upgrade...

2001-10-09 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Karsten M. Self wrote: > rxvt is a terminal emulator, not a window manager. Yes, I know. I should've said; "started X with rxvt as a "window manager". > If it's just blackbox, try 'strace' on the program and look for > suspicious output. You may want to run this (again) from a console > rather

legodacta, mindstorms, anyone using it?

2001-10-09 Thread ae roy
I might get my hands on a couple of these legodacta sets, and I'm just wondering how they function with debian. Does anyone use it? Anyone having any tips & tricks ae.roy --- The Fastest Browser on Earth. Get your FREE download of Opera for LINUX a

Re: Re: Resierfs on Potato?

2001-10-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Geoff Beaumont wrote: >Is the lilo in Testing ReiserFS friendly? Frankly, I didn't try the lilo in testing. I built my own ppp debian package from the source (i'm using lilo 21.7.5). It doesn't freak out like the one from potato. From what I've know (basing from the version of lilo in tes

Re: Re: Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

2001-10-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Robert L. Harris wrote: >Has XFS gone read-write? Last I heard it was still very experimental >and read only in the kernel. Not at all! XFS is very stable. If you want the full capabilities of an XFS-capable kernel, you better stick with 2.4.5. It's good enough for production systems (the guys

Re: Dudas sobre Hardware

2001-10-09 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
Quiza tengas que quedarte en potato (a menos que actualices tu RAM) y si te gusta navegar por internet graficamente creeria que andarias mejor si bajas el opera de www.opera.com ya que este consume menos recursos. Yo arme una maquina con esas caracteristicas, con la diff de 32Mb de RAM, y si pon

I must have mistreated a potato ;-> can anyone help me please ?

2001-10-09 Thread R. Alexander
I had a nice and clean potato installation. At a certain point I needed to install a qpopper 4.x debian package which forced me to upgrade libc6 to 2.2.4 After a certain number of problems with apt-get which I cannot clearly reconstruct I am in the following position. An apt-get -f install remov

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-09 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:56:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: | dman wrote: | > Yeah, the coloring in view is neat, but the scrolling and quitting | > wasn't as convenient for a pager which is why I don't use it. | | Try the following script: | | #!/bin/sh -e | vim -c 'so /usr/share/doc/vim/macros/l

Re: X missing DRI module?

2001-10-09 Thread Geoff Beaumont
At 18:08 08/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 18:02, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > I'm having difficulties persuading Direct Rendering to work on my Woody > machine (Matrox G450 graphics card, XFree86 4.1.0.1) - all the relevant > packages appear to be there, kernel modules (kernel 2.4.9)

Re: Can't print via samba

2001-10-09 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:49:31AM +0900, Tomoo Nmura wrote: | Hello, | | This is the first post. | After installing sid samba, I can't print anything. Samba said the | following message. | What is wrong ? | | [2001/10/09 11:06:18, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40) | =

Re: mutt and gpg in woody

2001-10-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:11:07PM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > I got a problem using mutt and gpg since the last update for these packages. > When I try to encrypt and sign a message I get an error after entering > my passphrase. > > Error message: > gpg: Missing argument for option "--c

Re: egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

2001-10-09 Thread Florian Weimer
Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 10:04 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) mumbled: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? > > > > I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've e

Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
Without reformating it? While it's mounted? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit o

Is http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator up to date?

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to add a default route for my potato machine. A kind reader of this list pointed me to http://www.debain.org/doc/manuals, which seemed like a gold mine. However it references /etc/init.d/network, which my mcahine does not have. Whats the story here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Help Please! eth0: catd reports no resources

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
I can't use my potato (with 2.4.9 kenrnel) system for these message continously poping up on the console. I've upgraded to the 2.4.9 kernl, but that did not help. I connected the card to a 100MB line, instead of a 10M line.. I replaced the card. (which is an Intel Etherxpress Pro). Help Please!

vcd player

2001-10-09 Thread Robin S
hiya, did any one ever tell you where to get that vcd player?` Could you please send me a note back and let me know where you got yours. Thank you for any help you may give. Rockin. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http:

Re: vcd player

2001-10-09 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:34:29AM -0500, Robin S wrote: > hiya, did any one ever tell you where to get that vcd player?` Could you > please send me a note back and let me know where you got yours. Thank you > for any help you may give. Rockin. http://mplayer.sf.net -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Ad

Woody

2001-10-09 Thread Mike Grover
Is there a cd-image for woody, or a way to do a PSEUDO-IMAGE for it? mike...

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Stan Brown wrote: Without reformating it? While it's mounted? If there are no data on the partition yes, otherwise no. Frank

Re: Woody

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Mike Grover wrote: Is there a cd-image for woody, or a way to do a PSEUDO-IMAGE for it? Yes, for example here: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody mike...ÿôèPÔ" ' ÿzf¢-Úy¸s(Y"û¬z¿ëz«z(²ßåS(Ëlý×>0/00©ÿ¢¸0S(ØZ²æãyËh?û§²æìr¸>{ÿÓ®<>.ï¢{ZrÙb²Ùs(²×«þX¬¶ÏÝy¸s(Y"ú+ Wha

Distro's

2001-10-09 Thread Mike Grover
What is the diff between Woody, Sid, and Hurd? mike...

Re: Distro's

2001-10-09 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:19:14AM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: > What is the diff between Woody, Sid, and Hurd? Woody is the testing tree. Will become the next stable. sid wil be unstable the whole life ;) Hurd is a GNU Kernel. It's just an alternativ to Linux. Sven -- Sven Hoexter Earth - Germany

xcdroast problems

2001-10-09 Thread Vittorio
I've installed the xcdroast.deb package coming with potato (I think v.0.95). Now I've had a go at burning an audio (music) CD using "create audio CD". It all has seemed to go ok. I've copied ten tracks from the original CD to the hd (and seen them all on the hardisk) then I've written a CD-R on th

Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-09 Thread Royce Bell
Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement. Debian Linux was

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-09 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
> Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my > experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the > interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and > infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement. > > Debia

Re: Distro's

2001-10-09 Thread David Z Maze
Mike Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MG> What is the diff between Woody, Sid, and Hurd? Backing up a little: POTATO: The current Debian "stable" release; aside from security fixes, this will never change WOODY: The current Debian "testing" release; will eventually become "stable"; updates con

Re: Re: Re: Resierfs on Potato?

2001-10-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
>Geoff Beaumont wrote: >Is the lilo in Testing ReiserFS friendly? Frankly, I didn't try the lilo in testing. I built my own debian package from the source (i'm using lilo 21.7.5). It doesn't freak out like the one from potato. From what I've know (basing from the version of lilo in testing),

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Stan Brown wrote: >Without reformating it? While it's mounted? unfortunately, no. ReiserFS is way too different from ext2fs. Ext2fs (as well as its progeny ext3fs) is an inode (information node) based filesystem. Inode based filesystems store pertinent file data in (as expected) inodes, and

Re: Distro's

2001-10-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Mike Grover wrote: >What is the diff between Woody, Sid, and Hurd? Woody is (currently) the testing release of the Debian GNU/Linux OS. After some period of testing, Debian releases the testing version as stable. Expect Woody to come out some time soon - when, I hope soon enough (God knows for s

Where can I find some docs on debconf?

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
Man debconf comes up dry. /usr/share/doc/debconf has a changes file only. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell fo

Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX machine. At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this list is like hotel california

2001-10-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Rino Mardo wrote: > > "...you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave..." > > i sent an unsubscribe to the listbot three days ago and up to now it > hasn't acted on it. failing that i sent a request to the list > maintainer and that too hasn't acted on it. > Question to more savv

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-09 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:53:10AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: >Debian Linux was recommended to me by a friend, but (this is embarrassing to >admit, as I feel like a newbie all over again) quite frankly, I'm >confusingly overwhelmed at the different products now available. Debian, >RedHat, etc. Ever

RE: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-09 Thread John Purser
I'm was in a similar position a year or so back. I used Red Hat for a while and I must say the install for Red Hat 7.1 is lovely! Now I'm using Debian Woody and am unlikely to go back. I think the Debian "philosophy" (for want of a better word) suits me better. As a new user I feel that there i

RE: Distro's

2001-10-09 Thread THIVENT Pascal
Title: RE: Distro's GNU/Linux is a monolithic kernel while the HURD is based on GNU Mach, the microkernel of the GNU system. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement services. See : http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html http://www.gnu.org/software

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Stan Brown writes: Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX Stan> machine. Stan> Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. Stan> Sta

Re: System Problems -- I've screwed the pooch on this one

2001-10-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > My system is displaying some truly unfathomable behavior. > > I had to reformat my /home and /usr partition because of bad blocks, > so while I was at it I also formatted / and swap (to start fresh > again). > > When I rebooted, my CDROM would not boot. I've ch

Re: Pine only executes from Midnight Commander

2001-10-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, V.T.Jones wrote: > Just compiled pine 4.05. First I tried "build lnx" but it couldn't find > "crypt" so I did "build slx" with success. Why are you using pine 4.05? It's ancient. I suggest using pine 4.33. This is the version in testing/unstable and I was able to sucessfull

Read a xfs partition from windows.

2001-10-09 Thread bkw
Hi, Are there any software to windows which can read more filesystems than vfat. I would be intrested if there was anything that could read xfs ext2,3 and reiserfs. If not, will it be very difficult to write such program ? Thanks Bo Karlsson - bkw [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mysql-Php error

2001-10-09 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Not sure if this is the right place to be asking this question but I just recently installed Mysql - client and server and PHP 4 and also PHP4-Mysql.  I am trying to configure PHPNuke but when I load the default index.php page it returns this error   Call to undefined function

Re: Newbie: How do I create a .deb from source?

2001-10-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > Hi, > I believe I need to use 'dpkg -b /sourcedir ' but when trying > to build a package of the current iptables-1.2.3, it fails with an error > about not finding '../DEBIAN/control'... I then tried the option '--nocheck' > to no avail. Please point

Re: setting up network (error!)

2001-10-09 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 04:05 9.10.2001, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: I was adding the ip of my network card in the interfaces ( ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2) and it returned this message: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: Unknown interface: No such device Now, what it can be? Some configuration error propably.

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Stan Brown wrote: On Tue Oct 9 09:43:49 2001 Frank Zimmermann wrote... Stan Brown wrote: Without reformating it? While it's mounted? If there are no data on the partition yes, otherwise no. So, given the following layout: / /boot I can't convert / ?, since I can't boot without it get

Re: Newbie: How do I create a .deb from source?

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:45:39AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Then (in /usr/local/src/gsl/gsl-0.9.3) issue "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc > -rfakeroot". You will need to do all this as root. fakeroot exists so that you don't have to do any of this as root. Since you've already recommended -rfakeroot,

Re: how to stop dhcp-client echo on console ?

2001-10-09 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:34:52PM +0200] martin f krafft : > this is a note from iptables, not from dhclient. Thanks for this help. Yes, it pops up again when I start ipmasq which calls up iptables on a 2.4.x setup. Goes off when the ipmasq service is switched off. > is tryinig to multicast on

Re: Where can I find some docs on debconf?

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:58:02AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Man debconf comes up dry. /usr/share/doc/debconf has a changes file only. Install debconf-doc and look in /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc. Also install debian-policy and look at /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/debconf_specification*. -- Colin

Help with a large disk parition

2001-10-09 Thread R. Alexander
I have a 18GB SCSI HDD. I have created a first partition (around 6GB) which is labeled /dev/sdb1. It's in use and works great (a Squid cache). Now I would like to create a Debian rsync mirror on the last 12GB ... created the partition with fdisk. here is the pic: lori-renato:/home# fdisk -l /d

Unable to connect to some hosts with ipmasq enabled

2001-10-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
I submitted this bug report; I'm wondering if I'm the only one having the problem? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=93 With IP Masquerading up on my Debian box, my Debian box cannot connect to some hosts, i.e. www.half.com, the 2600 majordomo listserver, my bank, etc. There i

Re: Sources for tulip

2001-10-09 Thread Greg Wiley
On: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But there is nothing in the /usr/src directory since I installed from the > net, and I guess I didn't install any sources... > Coan someone tell me what I need to apt-get apt-get install kernel-source- Where is the, well, versio

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread P Kirk
>other (real) creating of a file system would. You can easily convert it >to ext3 if you like to. > >Frank Its interesting that people don't really seem to think much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. I use a headless box with very old components. If I need to reboot and can't ssh in,

Re: kdm, blackbox, and .xinitrc

2001-10-09 Thread Greg Wiley
On Monday, October 08, 2001 8:49 PM, egm2@jps.net wrote: > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:27:49 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Alexander N Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Sources for tulip

2001-10-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks a lot! I'll check that out! On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > On: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But there is nothing in the /usr/src directory since I installed from the > > net, and I guess I didn't install any sources... > > > Coan someone tell me

Re: X missing DRI module?

2001-10-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Geoff Beaumont: > At 18:08 08/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 18:02, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > >> I'm having difficulties persuading Direct Rendering to work on my Woody > >> machine (Matrox G450 graphics card, XFree86 4.1.0.1) - all the relevant > >> packages appear to

PCMCIA - Please help

2001-10-09 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 100 + Modem 56 (Ethernet Interface). I can't get my networt up and running. I have at no time specified that Debian should use the xirc2ps driver, and I don't know where I do this. If I run "/usr/sbin/psnetconfig", it asks me to specify "

Re: Debian GNU/Linux as email & DNS server

2001-10-09 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:39:16AM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: > >Hi all, > >I am going to use a debian box as email and DNS server. The goal is duplicate >the functionality of a host which is using sendmail, xinetd (pop3) & bind. I >have thought to use: > >debian 2.2r3 (potato) > >sendmail

Newbie needs help finding newer packages ...

2001-10-09 Thread Brice D Ruth
I'm a newbie when it comes to debian - I've relegated myself to the likes of redhat and mandrake for the past 5 years :( ... I have an installation of debian 2.2 and it seems to be working all right. My main problem is that I can't find updated packages to install ... using dselect, the 'pota

PCMCIA - Please help - UPDATE

2001-10-09 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 100 + Modem 56 (Ethernet Interface). I can't get my networt up and running. I have at no time specified that Debian should use the xirc2ps driver, and I don't know where I do this. If I run "/usr/sbin/psnetconfig", it asks me to specify "

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Its interesting that people don't really seem to think > much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* conversion to it -- no reformat needed. > I use a headless box with very

watchdog

2001-10-09 Thread rogério
o módulo do kernel2.4.9-k6 carregado no boot é o tulip e após um pequeno tempo de uso aparece o seguinte informe: METDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit time out isto só tem ocorrido porqeu ao fazer uma atualização para o kernel 2.4.9-k6 do kernel.2.2.18 não consegui que o módulo ne2k-pci seja ca

Webcam behind a debian ipmasq box

2001-10-09 Thread yatsu
I'm running into trouble trying to get my webcam to work (upload a stream of images to a website). Sadly the cam is hooked up to a Win2k laptop. It's a creative webcam III plus. Although it works fine when simply displaying video, when using it's software to upload images to my homepage (using

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 19:56]: > press cntrl+c to freeze it and cntrl+q to unfreeze it that's ctrl+s to pause and ctrl+q to unpause. This is the same as using scroll lock, but is handy on terminals where scroll lock is either not present or not supported (i.e. via some rem

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* MarceI Figuerola Estrada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 12:02]: > When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view because > the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? The short answer is 'dmesg'. Check out 'man dmesg' for more info, or just peek in /var/log/dme

Re: setting up network

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Antti Tolamo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 16:37]: > > I don't think you need more than network(in this case 192.168.0.0) > and define gateway to DSL router. I'm not sure what 'auto eth0' does, > I atleast don't have it with my DSL connection. auto eth0 specifies that eth0 should be brought up au

Re: drivers

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 19:11]: > Hmm.. I tried upgrading some drivers (orinoco-0.8.tar.gz) by copying > them into the linux drivers tree (/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/...) > but the new modules didn't get installed when I ran 'dpkg -i > ../kernel_image...' did they get

Using Debian

2001-10-09 Thread Justin Vu
Hello, I down load the package f2c_19991025-1.diff to convert a Fortran77 file to C but I don't know how to use it. Please give me a direction. Thanks.  Justin Vu Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month.

Re: Using Debian

2001-10-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Justin Vu wrote: > I down load the package f2c_19991025-1.diff to convert a Fortran77 file to C > but I don't know > > how to use it. Please give me a direction. Thanks. Judging from the filename, I'd say you've downloaded a patch, not a package. Under

Re: Read a xfs partition from windows.

2001-10-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include bkw wrote on Tue Oct 09, 2001 um 05:36:35PM: > Are there any software to windows which can read more filesystems than > vfat. I would be intrested if there was anything that > could read xfs ext2,3 and reiserfs. If not, will it be very difficult > to write such program ? For ext2/ext3

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
On Tue Oct 9 11:18:32 2001 Bill Benedetto wrote... > Stan Brown writes: > > Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 > Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX > Stan> machine. > Stan> > Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't >

Re: setting up network

2001-10-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:49:35AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Antti Tolamo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 16:37]: > > > > I don't think you need more than network(in this case 192.168.0.0) > > and define gateway to DSL router. I'm not sure what 'auto eth0' does, > > I atleast don't have it with m

Re: X missing DRI module?

2001-10-09 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:42:38 -0400 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Woody here, and I do in fact have those files - looks like > it didn't install right. > Good luck, > Steve Cheers Reinstall time then. -- Geoff Beaumont [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get dist-upgrade dropping carrier

2001-10-09 Thread Hamma Scott
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and have been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier. Is it possible to apt-get dselect-upgrade after my update to install Woody in pieces? And if that's possible, is there a set order that should be followed

Is gzip broken on woody ?

2001-10-09 Thread Jason Harris
This is my first Woody install - please forgive me if I cannot see the obvious. I can't seem to get a 2.4 kernel, 4.0 X or mozilla to work on my new woody install. So, my plan was to start fixing/installing things by hand. However, gzip and/or tar is not working either.Is woody really t

Re: Is gzip broken on woody ?

2001-10-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Jason Harris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -xzvf > tar: option requires an argument -- f > Try `tar --help' for more information. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -xzvf > mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned

Can rlogin to my Debian box from remote machine, but not from itslef!

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
New Debina install )(potato + 2.4.9 kernel). I can rlogin to it from FreeBSD machines on the network, but not from itself. I get the error message "Trying xx.xx.xx.xx (correct address) followed by debina.xxx.com: Invalid argument. I do have the machine name, in both short form and FQDN in /etc/hos

Starting X early

2001-10-09 Thread Casper Gielen
Hello, I'm looking for a way to start X (kdm to be exact) before my system is done booting. On a stock debian system KDM is started at the end of runlevel 2, S99kdm . However it takes a few seconds before X is started. My idea was to start kdm a bit earlier so X would start parallel with the last f

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > Its interesting that people don't really seem to think > > much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. > > I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no > complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* > conversion to

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:08:26PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: >> Its interesting that people don't really seem to think >> much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. > >I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no >complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* >conv

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Bill Benedetto
Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX Stan> machine. Stan> Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. Stan> Stan> Sugestions? Bil

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Alan Shutko
P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But is there any need to check the fs from time to time or can I > assume that my little box now has the type of resilience that users of > BeOS used rave about? The manpage says this about "-c": You should strongly consider the consequences

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