Re: pcmcia - network

2000-05-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Robert Fendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am running debian linux 2.1 (kernel 2.0.38) on a laptop with a 3com 3c589D > ethernet card (pcmcia). > there are scripts > > A) /etc/init.d/pcmcia (starting pcmcia services) > B) /etc/init.d/network (containing loopback & nic config, ip adresses etc..,

Re: efm window manager

2000-05-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz > by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's > something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp > site. My

Re: What did I do wrong?

2000-05-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:38 PM 5/10/2000 +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:> >hi > > > >... you need to configure your network if you haven't already done so ... > >the files you need to edit are: > > > >/etc/init.d/network & /etc/hostname > > I thought that was all done during

Re: Any way to mount, read and write to a ntfs Win2000server?

2000-05-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need a driver or info as to new kernels that allow for mounting, > reading and writing to a Windows2000 file server from Debian Linux. Any > Ideas?? Are you talking about accessing files on a remote server or a disk in a local dual boot machine? For the

Re: From IP to domain name

2000-05-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ivan J. Varzinczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to know if someone can give me any sugestions about > how I can discover the domain name given an IP address. For example, > if I have the IP address 205.188.146.23, I would like to discover what > the domain name is, in that case,

Re: ssh an obsolete package?

2000-05-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Charles Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > deselect shows: > > --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-US --- > *** Opt non-US libssl09 0.9.4-5 > *** Opt non-US ssh 1.2.3-3 > > Is ssh imbedded in another package or what? Surely it's not trul

Re: color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't > been able to find any reference to it in the emacs > docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any > info appreciated. Last time I checked into this one of t

Re: Samba Setup

2000-05-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice when I go into /etc there isnt a file named smb.conf. Does that > mean that samba is not installed or do I need to create the file myself? On Debian it's in /etc/samba. "locate", "find" and "dpkg -S" are your friends! Gary

Re: Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed > > since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, > > because you could just back up files that were changed since your > > last backup... > > > find sh

Re: Finding a package name?

2000-05-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? > > {0}:iggy:/root>dpkg -l | grep ^r > rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 > fonts for X servers. There might be a more elegant solution

Re: Viewport size in X

2000-05-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After much searching, I can't find anywhere how to set the viewport in X > to the current screen resolution. Either it is set manually, or it is > the highest resolution possible. I have consulted my "gurus" to no > avail. Also it is annoying to some pe

Re: thinkpad install prob

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Skipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I formatted this for submission to the bugs list, but it seems > such a basic problem that I suspect it stems from my status > as an absolute novice with linux--and so I'm posting here. > > package: boot floppies > version: linux 2.0.36 (kernel-image-2

Re: Tar for Idiots Question

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a slew of tar.gz files in a directory, and I want to unpack them in > that directory. I can't seem to "wildcardize" the usual commands I use to do > this: > > tar xzvf *tar.gz (and) > > gzip -dc *gz | tar xvf - > > both fail to do it. > > Any

Re: obsolete packages in dselect

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15 > > Now, when I go into dselect->select several packages are listed as Obsolete. > What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages? If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete

Re: USB

2000-05-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try a 2.3 kernel, it supports USB (I think there are also USB patches for > 2.2 kernels but I'm not sure.). Yes there are 2.2.x patches. Haven't tried them but they're there. Take a hop over to http://www.linux-usb.org and look for the Backport of 2.3 to

Re: linux usb modem support

2000-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"David C. Ables" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a debian newbie stuck with an annoying winmodem, so I'm about to buy an > external modem for my system. (the diamond supraexpress 56e has been > recommended to me.) > > my question is whether linux supports usb modems. the hardware-howto only > me

Re: Java 1.2 JDK released for Linux...

2000-05-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2. > > Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already? I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been out for at least a month or two. As far as I know it's not packaged f

Re: Fwd: Opportunity is knocking at your door! Grab it!!

2000-05-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 07:29:40AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Anyone else get this? [Snipped for berevity] Just checked my Spam box and I did not receive that message. > i don't know if i got this exact message or not, i delete anything > with sub

Re: R: tulip.o kernel module

2000-05-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Parrish M Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I built it by hand. Reason being I shouldn't have to recompile the > entire kernel to add one module. So I tried it that way. I downloaded > the 2.2.14 kernel-source and messed arround with the compile command > for a while and found that the sugeste

PCMCIA trouble

2000-05-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in potato? I just tried installing kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-1.deb pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1.deb and the PCMCIA modules are giving me a lot of unresolved symbols whenever an attempt is made to install them. I tried compiling from

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

2000-06-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Martijn Meijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 > and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading > kernel-image-2.2.15-2.2.15-1.deb. And tha

Re: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop. > Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued: > make-kpkg modules_clean > make-kpkg modules_image > and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi all, >I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, >woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if >someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config file for >this. I only mirror th

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I only mirror the 386 portions of potato, US and non-US, and my > > archive is about 2G. > > I guess you don't do the sources then. Nope. Just th

Re: netdate missing in potato?

2000-06-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't seem to find netdate in potato. I am pretty sure it was there > > in slink. > > Is there any replacement for it? > > > > > Not sure if I am not confusing netdate with something else but I believe you > should check *ntp*, and chrony. netda

Re: dist upgrade the hardway?

2000-01-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, > I'm showing 3 days download of potato. Instead I'm doing a recursive > ftp get of debian/dists/potato/ on http.us.debian.org. This may, or may not, work. Depends on your ftp client and what ftp server you're using. The trouble is that some

Re: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality?

2000-01-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
Tim Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can anyone tell me what this error message might mean? > > sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? > > this message was printed on the screen several times and it looks > like something which should be looked in to. > > thanks for any help, Well, sl

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? Just hold down the shift key when you click on it. That seems to do the trick. Gary

Re: Mirror using http

2000-02-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a package that is functionally equivalent to mirror that > uses the http protocol instead of ftp? There are two that I'm familiar with, and I'm sure a lot more that I'm not familiar with. If you want a very broad idea of what's available I'd

Obsolete kernel-image?

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
I thought I saw this discussed at some point in the past but can't find it in the archives, so, if this is a repeat forgive me. I just installed the kernel-source package for the 2.2.14 kernel from potato. I used make-kpkg to build up the kernel and now when I go into dselect it shows that the ker

Re: Unexpected EOF on devpts.sh

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > I wonder if the /devpts line being commented out in /etc/fstab has > > anything to do with the problem. > > > > -- > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: > > > > > When booting a Potato box, I'm getting the error: > > > ./devp

Re: Open Source tools

2000-02-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Cliff Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to start work on a Java project that I'm hoping will make its > way into the Open Source world soon. I have a few questions: > > 1. I was thinking of using the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The GPL is > definately too restrictive for me, an

Re: XSetup?

2000-02-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, > I hate "xconfigurator". It did it's job but it's confusing as hell > if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies. > > When my box was redhat I had an "XSetup" which was considerably easier. > I haven't found it yet. Any

Re: LateX/TeX problems on slink. tex.fmt missing???

2000-02-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does somebody know how to set up tex/latex system on slink? > > While doing simple configurations I always get errors like > tex.fmt not found or latex.fmt not found. > > So I can't convert *.tex files via latex nor use LyX. > > I tried with FAQ suggest

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:04:05PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from > > stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This > > caused dselect to complain a lo

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato > > to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to > > know after the kernel and some modules were

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How are you guys compiling your kernel??? > Why don't you 'just' config the thing and do: > make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make > modules_install > > After that, simply edit your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and add your modules >

Re: MacOS X (was Re: What *is* Gnome/KDE?)

2000-02-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > > nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not > > > > > counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix > > > > > desp

dip obsolete in potato?

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
While it may seem unbelievable to some, one of our dialup servers at work still requires SLIP, as opposed to PPP. So I was a bit disturbed to see that the "dip" package disappeared from potato upon my latest apt-get upgrade. I've been using dip for many years now and haven't had to touch it in year

Re: dip obsolete in potato?

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just read the latest news (debian.org) on potato. Seems that whoever takes > care of DIP hasn't be responding to the "bug horizon" request and was dropped > from the project/package. I need DIP too for other reasons, so I hope that > the person c

Re: recursive file deletion

2000-03-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I > need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files. > Thanks! I generally use something like: find . -name '*.bak' -print|xargs rm -f for tasks lik

Re: periodic crashes

2000-03-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:05:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > I just ran the "last" command, and I noticed that my machine has crashed > > several times since March 1 and in each instance, the time was the same, > > 17:01 > > UTC. > > > > What is the best way to tra

Re: User access to write vfat partition?

2000-03-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey gang, > > I want to temporarily allocate some disk space I have spare on my > /dev/hda1 partition (vfat) and link it to a symbolic link in a users > directory so he can upload files. The setup works fine if I create > links for all the files manually,

Re: extract a deb package ?

2000-03-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How could I extract ( like unzip ) a deb package to a directory? > I wouldn't install it. I'd like to get a file from it. *.deb files are simply ar archives, like *.a libraries. To extract: ar x file.deb The files are actually contained in a gzip'd tar

DNS/resolver trouble

2000-03-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
I just started having problems with my DNS queries after I recently upgraded potato (been running potato for quite a while). Now when I dial up I'm getting timeouts on queries. I have a local DNS server that serves my little 3-host home network. I also use the same box running my local DNS server t

Re: Is there a smart mirror?

2000-03-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I currently maintain a small debian mirror for a local computer user group. > I run mirror daily to keep up with the latest version of potato and > woody. We have one problem, mirror is quite good at getting the newest > packages, but it keeps the old o

Re: which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the one that came with the card (actually, I downloaded it from the > web site) > and that worked best for me. > > matt garman wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was > > wondering i

Re: Potato networking problem

2000-04-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Greg Quinn wrote: > > > I have potato 2.2.13 running on an AMD Athlon box. Looks good, but the > > network interface dies under pressure. Typically, an ftp of a large file > > from a remote machine to this new box will kill the netwo

Re: MST7MDT (and America/Denver?) timezone broken?

2000-04-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Scott Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote: > > I too got daylight time to be recognized by changing experimentally from > > the SystemV-style EST5EDT to America/New_York. But that is not a solution > > to the problem that EST5ED

Re: Install with dpkg only.

2000-04-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ringo De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an empty harddisk installed, and I want to installing Debian > packages to create a working Debian system. I have unpacked the dpkg > package (ar -x and then tar xfz data.tar.gz) on my working RedHat > system. I now want to install packages using

Re: MST7MDT timezone broken?

2000-04-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5 Apr 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the > > daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to > > GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). > > That would be a bug, if it was true.

Re: netscape6 anyone?

2000-04-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on > my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not > an important system) and it complained about missing library: > > libstdc++ > > So I checked thorugh dselec

Re: fetchmail/exim losing messages when downloading

2000-04-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from > my pop3 box. > > This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down- > loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten > new ones in there.

Re: XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming the binary is compadible with the version of XF86 you have > installed the easiest way is to do this: > > copy the binary to /usr/X1R6/bin > > change /etc/X11/Xserver's first line to point to that filename, and it > should work, or, just see what file

Re: 64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)

1999-12-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps your BIOS is set for a 1MB memory hole? Maybe some of the > memory chips not working? What are the BIOS boot reports? What > DOS/Windows report ? > > > > > > Hai, > > > > I have been working with debian 2.1 for almost one year > > now in a prod

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does it have internal 50-pin connector as well? I'm thinking of bying > this card second-hand, and can't find this info on Adaptec's > web-site. Yes, if it's a 2940UW it has 3 connectors: an internal wide connector, an internal narrow connector and an ex

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > a.genk >Gary, thanks a lot for your reply. I'd like to seek another advice > a.genk >then. For what I'll be using the card, a simple SCSI2 card would > a.genk >suffice just fine (I'll have 3 devices on it: CD-R, CDROM, and

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jose Roberto de Chermont Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does someone have already had problems with the DEC PCI Ethernet DC21142 > network card? I thought it was defective, but on Nt it works. I have > isntalled Debian and FreeBSD to see what was the problem but both can't > use them. The c

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Servis: > > > Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. > > That's too bad. > > > One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for > > development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at > > bui

Re: mirroring?

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato > cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for > setting up a debain mirror is? > > I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over > christmas, where

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mark Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say > >xterm...it gives this error: > > >_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 110 > >xterm Xt error: Can't open display: progression:10.0 > >

Re: X11 Forwarding over SSH problem solved...

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Mark Santaniello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok I figured out my problem and now I feel stupid... > > However in the interest of making the list archive complete so that other, > perhaps also stupid people, can fix this problem (should they be so stupid > as to create it), I will post the deta

Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

1999-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:24:30AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Mark Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and at

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission > problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user > can play sounds/music? Yes, add them to the audio group. You can see what group a particular device is in by l

Re: Problem with g77

1999-12-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't > > get it to work > > It doesn't answer your question of why the build is failing, but why > not just install the binaries to get the system up and

Re: Problem with g77

1999-12-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Paul Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't > > > get it to work [snip] >

Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX

1999-12-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > installed it under Debian/slink. Unfortunately it doesn't run because > > it is linked to the following libraries which are not available under > > Debian (even not with potato): > > I can't answer your question about slink, but I had no t

Re: Potato inconsistency

1999-12-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:00:37PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > > > Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) > > ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2

Re: How do I generate modules.dep?

1999-12-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recompiled the kernel and installed the modules with the > make modules_install command, but it didn't create a modules.dep file. > > I hacked one by hand from an old copy I had and it works, but what is > the proper way to generate modules.dep? It's

Re: Logging out of X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't > > have any sort of large income to spend on books. > > > > I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows

ncurses or xterm problems in potato

2000-01-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Is anyone else having xterm problems when logging in to a potato system from another system? I'm actually not sure where the problem lies, xterm, ncurses or somewhere else, but whenever I log in to my Debian laptop from my workstation (SGI using ssh in an xterm) the terminal properties seem to be m

Soft ejects (was Re: umount - URGENT)

2000-01-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about "Re: umount - URGENT" > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: > >> while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > >> media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on > Sa

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > > (custom-compiled) and just a

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Howard hollered, > > > > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > > > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was > > not created u

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Well, I can't help with how to generate it but on my potato system: > > % locate latex.fmt > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt > > It is not associated with a package, ie., dpkg

Re: apt-get without keepalive

2000-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems with apt-get which I believe are related to the > fact that my ISP runs a caching proxy server which seems to > transparently intercept all traffic sent to port 80 of anywhere. The > symptom is that the first request to any server wo

Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
sig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke Is anyone else in a similiar situation, ie., accessing their Debian box remotely from a non-Debian machine, that can try to recreate the problem? Thanks, Gary Hennigan

Re: Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Roger Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:16:36PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? ... > > I am. Remote boxes are Ultra 1's, AXi's, and AXMP's, running > Solaris 2.6 or 7. Worked

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my > perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail > with fetchmail I get: > > reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed The a

Re: Remote xterm trouble

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian > laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm > the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the > cursor. For examp

Re: modversions.h ?

2000-01-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20-Jan-2000 aphro wrote: > > if the program you are compiling requires 2.2.x i suggest re linking > > /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (i think thats > > right) .. rename /usr/include/linux > > That is the action I was considering, but I

Re: mail confusion

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now. > Firstly dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" tells me: > > FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep "mail transport" > ii sendmail8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent. > > which is as I e

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Hennigan
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple > partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the > whole thing over to Debian. > > Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a > few tests and all seemed

Re: I thought Potato used a 2.2.x kernel?

2000-01-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Jessop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly > on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM) > but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget > which). How? Why? >

Re: mail filtering techniques

2000-01-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter > your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such > techniques of dealing with several high volume lists) > > I am going to be switching to mutt soon and the filte

Re: system requirements for SCSI

2000-01-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Brian J. Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers > so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower > computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't > require much from the processor. Is t

Re: system requirements for SCSI

2000-01-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel > I've seen recently. As I stated, I haven't had any problems with the driver not working. It's more a question of whether Adaptec's product is worth the premium price they place on their

Re: logrotate bad count...

2001-01-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Each time I boot my potato box I receive the following email: > > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: /etc/logrotate.conf:6 bad rotation count'2 ' > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 > > > My /etc/logrot

Re: Mail not bouncing back?

2001-01-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what I changed recently, nothing that I know of, but mail > not bouncing back. I tried using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it went through > and no bounce back. I assume it's fetchmail? There's so many things that are happening here I'm not sure w

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to clarify: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 > > Root device /dev/sda3 > > (Booting with 2.2.18 works) > > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 > > Root device /dev/sda3 > > ... but not

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:13:25PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > Kernel panic: VFS:

Re: Subject: Can't find /etc/X11/*

2001-01-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:37:41AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > > I'm trying to configure X11, but can't find /etc/X11, even though > > xf86config says it's writing its configuration to that directory. > > > > What do you mean you can't find /etc/X11 ? > $ cd

Re: dsl

2001-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Matt Fair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just got Qwest DSL with a cisco 678. I am confused, what is the best > way to set this up? I want to have 3 computers on my lan to share the > connection. I installed dhcp-client. The modem also has a serial > connection, but I do not know how to acce

Re: vi in ssh window

2001-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Robert Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I ssh in to my debian potato system and try to do something like vi, > or dselect, the screen messes up. For example, the vi status line occurs > at the top of the screen, and I can't see the line the cursor is currently > on. In dselect the same t

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:12:44AM -0800, Terry Carney > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > > Error:

Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)

2001-02-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have information on the status of the afbackup package? > Its way out of date (with a rather severe bug that can cause data > loss). Is this package orphaned? There are many bugs filed against > it and the maintainer does not respond to

Re: Can't open root device

2001-07-02 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jaroslav Knespl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using testing version of debian + 2.2.19 kernel and I would like > to use 2.4.5. > > But when computer boots, a folowing kernel panic message appears: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > > Does anybody meat this problem, or can a

Install "testing" from scratch?

2001-07-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
grade to testing but that's an additional step I would rather avoid if possible. Thanks, Gary Hennigan

Poor PCMCIA performance

2001-07-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
I have an IBM Thinkpad 600E and a Linksys Etherfast PCMCIA 10/100 - 56k combo card. I've had the card about a year but have never really had occasion to worry about performance, until now. I started transferring a CD image over to it and the performance was absolutely abysmal. We're talkin' about 1

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