Xlib: connection to ":?.?" refused by server

2004-01-19 Thread Stef
Hi all, 

Any idea what causes this message? :
Xlib: connection to ":2.0" refused by server
Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
Unable to open display

I have googled and found very little on the subject. 
I found some info in this thread :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/thrd9.html#06539

which suggests that this is controlled by a ulimit or a limit in the 
xserver itself. (changing these have no effect) OR : A broken app.

I've narrowed down the suspect apps to a single one :
xscreensaver 

xlsclients, lsof, ps afx and /proc/ didn't help at all. So my
problem is that I need to now restart x every time after
xscreensaver ran for an hour or more. I really like xscreensaver,
and would like to keep it if possible. Could it be the nvidia driver.
How do I narrow this down further.

INFO :
OS = SID - Linux version 2.6.0-test9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) 
#2 SMP
Graphics Card : RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro

Oh, I just noticed , I get this in dmesg :
Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:548
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Call Trace:
 [] __might_sleep+0xa4/0xac
 [] __alloc_pages+0x38/0x2be
 [] __alloc_pages+0xa6/0x2be
 [] pte_alloc_one+0x18/0x47
 [] pte_alloc_map+0x42/0xf5
 [] remap_page_range+0xc2/0x1d1
 [] rm_ioctl+0x19/0x20 [nvidia]
 [] KernMapAGPPages+0x31/0x60 [nvidia]
 [] nv_kern_mmap+0x1bb/0x324 [nvidia]
 [] do_mmap_pgoff+0x3eb/0x59d
 [] sys_mmap2+0x7a/0xb3
 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Any Ideas?

TIA
Stef


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Re: Opening URL from multi-gnome-terminal

2004-01-21 Thread Stef
Victor Munoz mentioned :
=> Hello. What should I do to be able to open URLs directly from
=> the multi-gnome-terminal (woody system)? I couldn't find any clue
=> reading files in /usr/share/doc/multi-gnome-terminal. I thought

With some people it works by  +  or  + 
on the URL. Mine doesn't. If you  on the
underlined URL, You get an option to "open in browser"
BTW, did you notice that there's a multi-gnome-terminal-doc
package? (I didn''t either, that is until now :)

Here's another URL for docs :
http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/web/doc/usage.html#LIVEURLS

=> maybe defining the default URL handler would do the job: Control Center->
=> Document Handlers-> URL Handlers, and then Protocol=default,
=> handler = mozilla "%s". I also tried Protocol=http. Anyway, when I
=> right click on a URL I get the menu option "Open in browser", but it
=> does nothing. Should I set up something somewhere else? Thanks in
=> advance,


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Re: Shutdown

2004-01-21 Thread Stef
Cristiano Tavares - SP mentioned :
=> How can I make my computer turn off power when I make shutdown -h now

AFAIK : apt-get install apmd

And if you run a hand-compiled kernel, you might need to
compile in support for advanced power management.

This worked for me most of the time, but I have one amd
machine that this doesn't work on. Maybe I missed something 
as well.

Cheers
Stef


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Re: VoodooLinux Debian Systems

2004-01-23 Thread Stef
M.Kirchhoff mentioned :
=> P.S. No, I do not work for them!

OR
them not work for you :)

I get :
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /store/product_info.php/products_id/437 on this 
server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an 
ErrorDocument to handle the request. 


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Re: Kernel 2.6: bootup errors not logged?

2004-01-28 Thread Stef
Kristian Niemi mentioned :
=> At bootup I see a number or error-messages flash by, but they dissappear 
=> too fast for me to read them. I've tried to find them in dmesg & various 
=> files in /var/log/, but so far I haven't had any luck. I see the place 

You can't read the error-messages, but you know what you're looking for??
M...

=> where they *should* appear (in dmesg and various files), but they 
=> seemingly don't get logged? Is there a particular file I should be 
=> looking into, or ... ?

All the module error stuff I ever needed, that wasn't in dmesg, was in 
/var/log/boot
The modules "unresolved symbol"  messages are usually the ones that scroll very fast.
If it turns out to be that, (and a lot of that) fix /lib/modules/

C
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Re: Kernel 2.6: bootup errors not logged?

2004-01-29 Thread Stef
Kristian Niemi mentioned :
=> They're not in /var/log/boot.
=> I don't believe it's "unresolved symbol" that is printed on the screen, 
=> but not sure either.

You know what I mean :) 
The message isn't the same in 2.6 kernel 

=> Pretty sure the errors have something to do with modules from previous 
=> kernel trying to load.
=> 
=> Tried to grep FATAL in all logs (in /var/log), but that didn't return 
=> anything, so I assume it's not there; i.e. those errors aren't logged at 
=> all?

Now that you mention it like this, I remember quite a few modules 
that changed, and might have given that exact message at boot time.
Check in /etc/modules for any old modules that 
aren't working anymore, and change them in that file.
Otherwise, just run modconf. I think modconf works with 
.ko modules nowadays.

Cheers
Stef


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Re: trouble setting up kde 1.1p2

1999-01-29 Thread Stef Coene
Brian Morgan wrote:
> 
> I've downloaded all the *.deb files for the new kde from ftp.kde.org, and
> placed them in a new directory: /usr/local/kde.  I am running slink, but
> downloaded potato version (only choices were potato and hamm).
> When I run dpkg -i kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb, I get a
> dependency error, saying it needs kdelibs0g and qt1g.  Fine:  I download
> kdelibs0g from stabe dist (couldn't find it anywhere else) 
Wasn't there a kdelibs0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb file on
ftp.dke.org? I installed also kde1.1pre2 and i had also a few problems
with qt1g. But now, everything works fine. First install support, then
libs and then base. The oter packages aren't required.

I used the following files: 
kdeadmin_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdegames_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdegraphics_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdelibs0g-dev_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdelibs0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdemultimedia_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdesupport0g-dev_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdesupport0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
kdeutils_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb
korganizer_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb


Staf


Re: announcing debian-installer release candidate 2

2004-11-22 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:02, Joey Hess wrote:
> This second Debian-Installer release candidate is expected to be the final
> release of the installer for Debian 3.1 (sarge). Limited changes have been
> made to the installer since the pre-rc2 release last month, but there are
> a few:
>
>  * All errata items, except intermittent red screen problem are fixed.
>  * Support for LVM volumes on software RAID.
>  * Experimental support for installing with the 2.6 kernel on the
>hppa architecture.
>  * Lots of improvements to the installation manual, which is now fully
>translated to Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and
> Czech. * More bug fixes than we care to recall.
>
> As always, links to bootable images and documentation are on our web site.
> <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer>

I have used the installer for 3 installs at home on various machines, 
from 
servers (firewall/router, nfs & samba server) to a workstation. I found it 
excellent, effective and and relatively easy to use and feel the team has 
done a great job..  Keep it up and look forward to seeing it released with 
Debian 3.1 (when that finally eventuates)..  8-)

> For the d-i team,

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ftp.au.debian.org mirror

2004-11-30 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi there..

Anyone else having problems accessing the ftp.au.debian.org mirror for 
downloads and updates? Is there a reason for this (maintenance\server down), 
this was the main server I use (have now moved over to aarnet.edu.au & 
pacific.net.au which seems to be ok...

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Re: dist-upgrade

2004-12-17 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Friday 17 December 2004 23:33, Jianan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have got hold of a 'sarge' installation cd #1. I am currently running
> 'stable'. To minimise the disturbance to my system, I would like to do a
> apt dist-upgrade rather than a new installation with the cd. Is that
> possible? If yes, then how?
>
> Thks
>
> Jianan

Hi Jianan..

Just a little hint.. Could you try to post in plain-text format to mailing 
lists, as it's the preferred format..  8-)  

You can use disc's or straight download using an apt debian mirror..
Best of luck.. Merry Christmas..

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ncurses with sarge

2004-10-21 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi Deb Peoples..

I am trying to compile xfbb from source (rather than using deb binaries) with 
sarge (Testing), howver, I get an error -DUSE_NCURSES when I try to install 
them it wont let me using "apt-get install ncurses" 
--output---
Package ncurses is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ncurses has no installation candidate

Tried various others finding packages with "apt-cache search ncurses" however, 
older versions 4 & 5 are shown. When trying to install says latest installed 
and older version obsolete..  

Any help much appreciated..


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Debian Install

2004-08-23 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Greetings..

For those who have found installing Debian difficult in the past, well I 
recently downloaded the new Debian Installer (sarge-i366-businesscard.iso) 
and used it today to install a new system. I have tried numerous times 
unsuccessfully to install a system (with working GUI) prior to this time. My 
install  today went without a hitch and the operations of the installer were 
much improved than past ones.. I installed a 'unstable' system, which 
installed kde3.2 and various other up-to-date packages, very easily..

For those who always wanted a Debian System, go for it..!! You can get it 
from Debian Homepage. I too now have a fully function Debian system and very 
impressed with it.. (and that apt-get tool.. how powerful is that!!)

WELL DONE to the various maintainers of the Installer..!!
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ncurses with sarge

2004-08-24 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Howdy..  I recently installed sarge (Testing) Debian installation, where I 
have been setting things up as required. I am trying to compile a 
applications, where with ./configure I get an error that it requires ncurses.
I tried "apt-get install ncurses" and was told it was obsolete and not used 
anymore. Is there a way around this or will I require ncurses source 
compilation and install.?  Many thanks..
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Re: Debian Install

2004-08-24 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:51, Michael Satterwhite shared with us the 
following:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 06:47, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
> > Greetings..
> >
> > For those who have found installing Debian difficult in the past, well I
> > recently downloaded the new Debian Installer
> > (sarge-i366-businesscard.iso) and used it today to install a new system.
> > I have tried numerous times unsuccessfully to install a system (with
> > working GUI) prior to this time. My install  today went without a hitch
> > and the operations of the installer were much improved than past ones.. I
> > installed a 'unstable' system, which installed kde3.2 and various other
> > up-to-date packages, very easily..
>
> I'm curious as to how you installed "unstable". I thought the only way to
> do that was to install "testing" and do a dist-upgrade.

WIth the installer, you get option of stable, testing and unstable.. Then 
select the one you want..
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Re: ncurses with sarge

2004-08-24 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 20:57, Thomas Adam shared with us the following:
> If you're compiling you want '-dev' packages, in your case, specifically
> 'libncurses5-dev'.
>
> -- Thomas Adam

Thanks for that .. I did apt-get install libncurses5-dev and it went and did 
what was required.. much appreciated for the hint..
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OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Howdy..

I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with Deb Sarge. I 
have successfully installed printer and test pages under Kprinter and works 
fine.. I cannot however, print using OpenOffice. I have tried using printer 
manager in OOo, which cannot find printer installed. Printer installed on 
server (arg sake 192.168.1.1) using device 
"ipp://server:631/printers/canon_s520"; with Suse 9.1 and is shared.

Any other info required, let me know..

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Re: OpenOffice printing with cups.

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:31, Jacob S. shared with us the following:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:12:46 +0930
>
> Stef VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Howdy..
> >
> > I am trying to organise a network printer to work with OOo with
> > Deb Sarge. I
> > have successfully installed printer and test pages under Kprinter and
> > works fine.. I cannot however, print using OpenOffice. I have tried
> > using printer manager in OOo, which cannot find printer installed.
> > Printer installed on server (arg sake 192.168.1.1) using device
> > "ipp://server:631/printers/canon_s520"; with Suse 9.1 and is shared.
>
> I seem to remember that the cupsys-bsd package was required to get
> printing in OOo to work with cups. Does dpkg -l cupsys-bsd show it
> installed?
>
> Once everything was installed properly, printing in OOo just worked for
> me. No configuration required, other than selecting the printer I wanted
> to use when the print dialog box came up.
>
> HTH,
> Jacob

Thanks Jacob all seems to work now.. many thanks for the tip.!!
Also to Ed for the bug report..
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Re: OpenOffice printing with cups. * CORRECTION*

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:45, Stef VK5HSX shared with us the 
following:

> Thanks Jacob all seems to work now.. many thanks for the tip.!!
> Also to Ed for the bug report..

Sorry Rene.. Mistakenly placed Ed as the reply with bug report instead of 
you.. Apologies..!
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Re: "Stretched" printing in Firefox with CUPS

2004-08-31 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:34, Norman Walsh shared with us the 
following:
> For a few weeks now I've been getting "stretched" printing from
> Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so
> that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper.
>
> Printing works from other applications. I've been hoping this would
> just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long
> enough to become irritating.
>
> Google reveals I'm not alone, but doesn't point to any answers.
> Anyone worked out a fix?
>
>
> Be seeing you,
>   norm

Yes I have been getting the same thing here.. however, this is also on Suse 
9.1 installation using Firefox. (As well as my Debian Sarge Firefox also). I 
feel it is a Firefox problem, with something to do with fonts on printing..
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Banshee?

2006-05-23 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi there..

I am wondering whether anyone has used Banshee (reviewed at
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html and if so, what
have they thought of it? I like others use and Ipod, however, GTKpod is
good, but I am having to use crossover to run iTunes instead. I have
been looking for a suitable replacement, however, none come close..
Anyone tried it?

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PUBKEY errors

2006-05-24 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Greetings,
These following errors were shown with the "apt-get 
update" command.
I have tried a few things to try to import the PUBKEY into my sytem,
without success. I would appreciate any help.. Many thanks

W: GPG error: http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures
couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
010908312D230C5F
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

As I understand it, some places do not have PUBKEY for the packages on
the system. Is there a way to turn off the .gpp functions for some
repositories in the sources.list file?

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Re: PUBKEY errors

2006-05-26 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi Florian..

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:22 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> The first key that you are missing is the 2006 Archive Signing Key:
> 
> wget -q -O - http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc | apt-key add -
> 
> (the "apt-key" part needs root)
> 
> The other key is the public key of Christian Marillat:
> 
> apt-get install debian-keyring
> gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg -a --export marillat | 
> apt-key add -
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
>   Florian

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PPP doesn't work anymore.

1998-08-16 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I made a new installation on a new harddisk with Debian 2.0
Before I used Debian 1.3.1

I copied my ppp scripts from my old harddisk, and I inserted the ppp
module into the kernel. If I want to fire it up now, it starts, but
network connection doesn't work. After 30 seconds the other side hangs
up. The last lines of the logfile look like this:

Aug 16 13:24:10 tod pppd[451]: Serial connection established.
Aug 16 13:24:11 tod pppd[451]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 16 13:24:11 tod pppd[451]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Aug 16 13:24:45 tod pppd[451]: Connection terminated.
Aug 16 13:24:46 tod pppd[451]: Exit.

What could be the problem?

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gimp: font != NULL

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 2.0.0 When I want to start gimp, I get the following
error messages:


** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): "font != NULL"

** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 177 (gdk_font_equal): "fonta != NULL"

** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): "font != NULL"
gimp fatal error: sigsegv caught
[n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: e


What do I have to do to make the gimp work?

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netscape

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I have two problems with netscape. The first has already been posted,
but I din't see a solution to it: The menus are just black instead of
colored.

The second is, it cannot find some fonts:

Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks a lot!
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xanim

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 2.0.0

xanim displays animated GIFs and MPGs garbled. The GIFs have black
vertical stripes...

Stef


Re: netscape

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Are you running X in 24 bpp?  Netscape, and other programs, can not run
> correctly in this color depth.

Hm, so why does the same netscape work under Slackware in 24 bpp color
depth?

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No PATH for tcsh defined?

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I prefer tcsh as the standard shell instead of the bash. Why is the
path not set as for the bash? I manualy inserted
setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
into
/etc/csh.cshrc
Now it works.

Is this a bug or a feature or did I miss something?

Stef


ftp: User doris access denied.

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use a /home/users and a /home/friends folder. Users in that
directories cannot access our server via ftp. They get an

530 User doris access denied.

error (wher doris is a sample user). The users that have their
homedirectory in /home can however access the server via ftp. 

Whats wrong?

Stef


PATH and ftp

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
While updating from Slackware to Debian I seem to be deleted
erroneously from the debian-user mailing list. Should anybody already
have answered to my posts concerning PATH for tcsh or access denied
using ftp to an account in /home/users, could he or she please send
the response again to my normal e-mail account: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorry for bothering and thanks a lot!

Stef


rtin: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 2.0. EDITOR is set to 'emas -nw'. When I want to post
something using rtin, it tell me:
Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii)
But I don't see any 8 bit character in my posting.

What could be wrong?

Stef


moving in mutt

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I just installed Debian 2.0 via ftp.
I cannot move up and down in mutt to select individual mails using the
arrow keys (is that the right expression?) in my keyboard. It just
tells me: Key is not bound. A bug or a feature? Under Slackware I
didn't have a problem with that.

Stef


/etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Under Debian 1.3.1 I just had a /etc/named.boot file. In Debian 2.0
ther is now also a more complicated looking /etc/named.conf file, and
guess what, my nameserver is not serving the zones it should be
primary for anymore. I guess this is just a RTFM issue. So could
someone please tell me which FMTR?

Thanks a lot!
Stef


ftp

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> well, I didn't see the original emails, but I'll take a stab at your ftp
> problem.  take a look at the file /etc/shells.  

Gosh, that was quick :-)
Silly me! Changing from Slackware to Debian, I thought it was smarter
to do a ln -s /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh instead of changing the
according line in /etc/passwd. Clearly it wasn't...

Thanks a lot! 
Stef
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PS: moving in mutt.

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I just installed Debian 2.0 via ftp.
> I cannot move up and down in mutt to select individual mails using the
> arrow keys (is that the right expression?) in my keyboard. It just
> tells me: Key is not bound. A bug or a feature? Under Slackware I
> didn't have a problem with that.

I just realised, that mutt started directly on my computer here at
home has no problems with cursor movement, but only if I rlogin to the
computer at work from an xterm. But both computers have Debian 2.0
installed. The one at work a very recent installation via ftp (two
days ago), and the one here at home an installation made a few days
after Debian 2.0 was released.

Stef


disable anonymous ftp?

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
To fiddle withe the /etc/passwd file is one way to disable anonymous
ftp. But what ist the 'natural' way? I use wu-ftp.

Stef


Re: /etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Did you update or make a new install? 

I made a new install. Debian 1.3.1 is running on another machine.
> I guess on 1.3.1 you used bin
> 4.x.x and now 8.x.x. They have different configuration files. If you
> put your old configuration and zonefiles in /var/named, you could run
> bindconfig to update named.conf.

I ran bindconfig, which created a new /etc/named.conf file, but also a
new /var/named/boot.options file without all the zones named should
act as primary server for. So I mved /var/named/boot.options.old to
/var/named/boot.options, and sent named a HUP, but it still does not
serve these zones as primary. Do I have to increase all the
serialnumbers in each zone file also, or is the problem still
somewhere else?

Stef


Re: /etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> The primaries are configured in named.conf with a new syntax (primary
> is now master). If you now run bindconfig, your old zones will be put
> in named.conf.

No, I ran bindconfig once more, and ended up with the same result as before...


Stef


Communicator Pro

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
netscape4_4.0-12.deb will only install navigator* or communicator-v4*
packages, but not communicator-pro-v4* packages. Can I just rename my
package from communicator-pro-v4* to communicator-v4*, or will this
mess up something?

Stef


vncserver

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
When i start vncserver, and then xvncviewer or vncwiever from Windows
NT, the keyboard ist totaly mismatched: a seems to be , c and d
result in a q,  in a 2 and so on...

Stef


PS: vncserver

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> When i start vncserver, and then xvncviewer or vncwiever from Windows
> NT, the keyboard ist totaly mismatched: a seems to be , c and d
> result in a q,  in a 2 and so on...

I now installed vnc-3.3.2r2 'by hand' into /usr/local/bin. The
vncserver runs now without that keymaping problem. Instead there is
now a small problem (I think it is perl moening):

sos:~> vncserver 
Using Socket.pm instead.  Change your script to 'use Socket;' instead of 
require "sys/socket.ph".
require sys/socket.ph called at (eval 1) line 1
eval 'require "sys/socket.ph"
;' called at /usr/local/bin/vncserver line 520
main::SanityCheck() called at /usr/local/bin/vncserver line 29

New 'X' desktop is sos:1

Then, when I want to start the vncviewer that comes with the
vnc-3.3.2r2 distribution, I just get a Segmentation fault.
Installing xvncviewer from the Debian package instead solved this problem...

Stef


No EXPN and VRFY in smail?

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Is there a way, like in sendmail, to dissalow EXPN and VRFY in smail
via the configuration files?

Stef


smail: mailinglists

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
How can I configure smail, not to send an email to someone being on an
mailinglist, if that someone is the sender of the mail. In other
words: someone sends email to list, where he is also included, and I
don't want him to receive the mail he sent.

Stef


Re: /etc/named.conf

1998-09-15 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> You could also just edit /var/named/boot.{zones,options} as before and then
> use the command named-bootconf to automatically convert them to the new
> syntax.

Yep, that did the trick :-)

Muchas gracias

Stef


Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot
> floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load
> anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed).

Hm, to me it sounds like a problem with lilo. What does it say, if you
execute /sbin/lilo as root?

Stef


Configuration files?

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There seem to be two independent system.fvwm95rc on my freshly
installed Debian 2.0 system:

sos:~> ls -i /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 
  14384 /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
sos:~> ls -i /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 
 149639 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
sos:~> ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 
-rw-r--r--   1 root root29942 May 13 18:49 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc

What is the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc usefull
for? After what I read, Debian keeps all its configuration files in
the /etc tree.

Stef


Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system
> from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive
> on the parallel port so I can start installing packages (can't handle a
> stack of hundreds of floppies).

You just insmod the module for ZIP. Its in the section of the scsi
modules (yes, also if your ZIP is not the scsi version, but just the
parallel port flavour!) Then you can mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip if your
ZIP disk is an ordinary dos one and you first did a mkdir /mnt/zip. 

Stef


Re: Basic question from a Debian new boy

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
>   As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian
> distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of
> other applications. Is there a document available that tells which
> apps are contained in which *.deb packages?

Yep. Its in the Contents-* File. E.g. debian/hamm/Contents-i386.gz

> other, similar applications), is there a document available which
> gives a summary of the function, purpose and usage of the many and
> varied applications available for Linux? 

Well, you can read one of the fine books about UNIX (My favourite is
'UNIX for the impatient'). But I think that approach would be rather
boring. I suggest, you take one of the standard installations the
installation program proposes to you. This should give you a rather
well behaving System. As you get acquainted with Linux, you may want to
tweak some tiny bits of your installation according to your personal
taste.

Stef


Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the
> five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for
> scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be
> for insmod? 

If you start your installation from the rescue disk, you will get to a
stage where you can choose the modules you want to insert. As soon as
you choosen the ZIP module in the scsi section, you can switch to the
second console with   and mount /dev/sda4 /somewhere. If you
don't find the ZIP module in the list, it may be that it already is
included in the kernel and you can mount the ZIP disk right away.

Stef


Re: installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having

Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but
there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing
Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD
drive. Someone mailed me, I could install the base system myself on
the empy partition, and do some more fiddling around. I prefered to
install a floppy drive from an older computer into the server. This
way I have also some redundancy in booting: If I fondle with my
harddisk too much, I can still try to save i using the rescue disk.

Still a easy way to install directly from an existing Linux partition
would be neat.

Stef


Compiling kernel?

1998-09-19 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I compiled kernels before (under slackware). How do I do it properly
in Debian? I think the proper way will be to have a .deb package in
the end. How do I do that? Is there information on the web on how to
do that?

Stef


Re: Compiling kernel?

1998-09-19 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Install the kernel-package package then:
> 
> man make-kpkg

OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do

make xconfig
make
make-kpkg binary

in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?

Stef


security hole in named?

1998-09-20 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
A Friend sent me an e-mail telling me about a security hole in named:
It should be possible to gain root privileges by sending named a too
long paket. Does the named in Debian 1.3.1 have this bug?

Stef


Staroffice 5

1998-09-21 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
After the information comming with Staroffice 5, every user has to
start the Staroffice 5 setup program after it has been installet with
the /net option. Is there a way to automate this? Is there a Debian
package that does this?

Stef


RPC: Port mapper failure

1998-09-21 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I have a Debian 1.3.1 Machine where I started /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and
updated /etc/exports. If I want to nfs mount from the host I put into
/etc/exports (this host runs Debian 2.0), I get the following error
after some time:

mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive

Any ideas, what could be wrong?

Stef


Re: vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz under debian hamm

1998-09-24 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> i have installed the tar-file from vnc (vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz)
> and copied
> all files correctly to /usr/local/...
> in netscape i can start the the vnc viewer to look on my win95 desktop.
> 
> the (X) vncviewer dies with a core dump.

I had the same problem. Now I use the vncserver from
vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz, but the xvncviewer from the Debian
package. This works fine (but I still have the problem, that after
soem connections to the vncserver it can be made no more and I have to
kill the vncserver and start a new one. I had no response on that when
I mailed to the vnc mailinglist. So if somebody finds this bug, I
would be glad to know.)

Cheers
Stef


vacation

1998-09-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I upgraded from Slackware to Debian 2.0. Now vacation does not work
correctly anymre, and I get an e-mail from the MAILER-DAEMON telling
me:

|- Failed addresses follow: -|
 "|/usr/bin/vacation alpenr" ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status
EX_1 (1)

What could be wrong?

Stef


Re: NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
>   We already had this kind of "problem", but I believe the answer is
> quite simple: try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'. I \t
> should suffice.

What do you mean with try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'?

Stef


No GIF in gimp?

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp?

Stef


Re: No GIF in gimp?

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp?

Because I didn't install gimp-nonfree...

Stef


Re: tin charset problem

1998-10-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Has anyone ever seem this error from tin?
> 
> Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii)
> 
> I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it.

The solution: Press M in rtin, choose item 73. MM_CHARSET and set it
to ISO-8859-1. 
Now I can post without rtin giving me that message.


How to install Debian?

1998-06-26 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Our Mailserver runs with Slackware. I want to change to Debian. The
problem is the following: There is no CD-ROM, no floppy disk and no
DOS installed. How can I install Debian from an existing ext2fs
partition. In Installing Debian Linux 2.0 it says to make a floppy if
I want to do this, hmmm

Anybody done this before?

Stef


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How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? 
I added a line saying:
pop-3   stream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  in.pop3d
to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems
not to exist in Debian (checked the Contents-i386 file)

Stef


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smail delivers same mail several times

1998-12-10 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
the same people.

What can I do to find out what the cause of the problem is?

Stef


smail problem

1998-12-10 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
> mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
> some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
> the same people.

I had a look into /var/spool/smail/msglog 
there were messages concerning the messages who have been delivered
multiple times. The messages start with several lines of

Xsucceed: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: 
Xsucceed: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Xsucceed: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Xsucceed: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
...

and end with a line saying:

Xdefer:  parent: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: ...

The nonworking e-mail address is alway a hotmail.com address. One reason was:

(ERR172) transport smtp: no connection to remote SMTP server: 499 read
error from remote SMTP process

another reason:

(ERR148) transport smtp: connect: Connection refused

So it seems, that there is a bug in smail: When there is a problem
with an address in a list, and it has to resend the message, it sends
the message to the whole list again instead of just to the erroneous
address?

Does anybody know about that problem?

Stef


smail problem P.S.

1998-12-10 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
> mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
> some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
> the same people.

P.S. I use Smail-3.2 (#2 1996-Nov-26)

Stef


smail mailinglist?

1998-12-10 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Can anybody give me the e-mail address of the smail mailinglist, and
tell me how to subscribe there?

Stef


less shows fortune

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Since I put these lines 

echo "\n"
fortune -a
echo ""

in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the
newlines instead of the contents of a file:

sos:~> less ei


The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic.  It showed that
two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated
by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics.
-- I.F. Stone

lesspipe.sh: Command not found.


When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this
lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the
contents of the file are displayed.

What could that be?

Stef


Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing.  I 
> assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not 
> sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it.  I found 
> one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there.

In the lilo manual there you find described what actions lilo performs
before printing evry letter of LILO. If I remember right (don't have
the manual around...), stoping after LI means, that lilo cannot find
the kernel-image on the disk. So it seems, like somehow the geometry
is translated in a different way. But booting from floppy and issueing
a /sbin/lilo should solve the problem I guess.

Stef


less still shows fortune...

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> > When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this
> > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the
> > contents of the file are displayed.
> > 
> > What could that be?
> ( -> man less )
> less tries to run lesspipe.sh. just remove the environment variables
> $LESSOPEN from your /etc/profile and/or /etc/csh.cshrc .
> 
> or create a lesspipe.sh anywhere in your $PATH like this:

But why was there no lesspipe.sh already? Anyway: I did what you said,
and I don't have the lesspipe.sh error message anymore. But less still
shows me a fortune instead of the files contents.

Stef


Building package

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I want to build a hamm source package under bo. After saying 
./debian/rules binary
I get the following:

test -f src/smail.h
test root = "`whoami`"
rm -rf debian/tmp
install -g root -o root -m 755 -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN \
 debian/tmp/etc/{smail,cron.daily} debian/tmp/var/log{,/smail} \
 debian/tmp/usr/{bin,sbin,lib,man} debian/tmp/var/{lib,spool}/smail \
 debian/tmp/usr/doc/smail/{guide,examples} \
 debian/tmp/var/spool/smail/{input,msglog,retry,error} \
 debian/tmp/etc/init.d
make  install 
MAKEFILES=/home/stef/tmp/smail/smail_3.2.0.101/smail-3.2.0.101/debian/overrides
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/stef/tmp/smail/smail_3.2.0.101/smail-3.2.0.101'
ROOT=. /bin/sh ./conf/lib/mkdefs.sh
Read ${ROOT}/conf/EDITME ... conf/os/linux ... conf/arch/32bit ... done
Build $ROOT//defs.sh ... defs.h ... defs.sed ... done.
/bin/sh: ./debian-defs.sh: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/stef/tmp/smail/smail_3.2.0.101/smail-3.2.0.101'
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2


Is it not possible, to build hamm packages under bo?

Stef


Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-13 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar.
> 
> Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious
> to spot

I don't think so:

# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
PS1="\\$ "

export PATH PS1

umask 002
/usr/bin/check-sendfile
echo "\n"
fortune -a
echo ""





# /etc/csh.cshrc: system-wide .cshrc file for csh(1)/tcsh(1).
# $Id: csh.cshrc,v 1.4 1998/06/05 21:04:02 luisgh Exp $

# Getting a consistent keyboard mapping
if ($?tcsh ) then
  bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line  # Home
  bindkey "\e[7~" beginning-of-line  # Home rxvt
  bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode # Ins
  bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char# Delete
  bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line# End
  bindkey "\e[8~" end-of-line# End rxvt
endif
if ( $?prompt ) then
  if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then
set prompt = "%m:%B%~%b%# "
  else
set prompt = "%U%m%u:%B%~%b%# "
  endif
endif

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setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
setenv EDITOR 'emacs -nw'

#echo "\n"
#fortune -a
#echo ""


Re: Problem with the mailing-list?

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I didnt receive the debian-user-digest for 4 days now. Do you have
> troubles with it?

No, I don't think so. Maybe there were some troubles with your e-mail
account, and you have been deleted from the list (it happened to me
once...)?

Subscribe again, and everything should be fine.

Stef


Re: Gimp file formats?

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> The "save as" option on my Gimp only offers its internal
> (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif.  What'm I
> missing here?

Layers can only be saved in gimps own format. So you have to flatten
an image first, before you can save it as GIF. Also if it has more
than 8-bit colors, it can't be saved as GIF an must be converted
first.
Third thing to mind is, that GIF is in the non-free Package for
gimp. Did you install this one?

Stef


Still the less fortune problem...

1998-12-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> case $- in
>   *i*)# interactive shell only
> echo "\n"
> fortune -a
> echo ""
> ;;
> esac

Hm, this gives me an
Illegal variable name.
error...

Stef


BitchX: Scripts

1998-12-23 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I try to load and use the autoop script in BitchX. Si within BitchX I say:

/load autoop

Then I say:

/addchan #channel

But BitchX tellx me: Unknown command. What do I do wrong?

Stef


Change ftp server?

1999-01-24 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I just installed Debian 2.0. ProFTPd is installed, but when I ftp to
the machine i see:

FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready.

How do I make Debian use ProFTPd?

Stef


rtin: ... illegal character in hostname

1999-01-26 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the
following error message from our Mailserver:

|- Message log follows: -|
 no valid recipients were found for this message
|- Failed addresses follow: -|
 Adrian Sieber \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... illegal character in hostname
|- Message text follows: |

Whats wrong with rtin?

Stef


rtin and <>

1999-01-26 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> The \'s are not supposed to be there, and the 2nd one causes the bounce.
> 
> It's known that rtin isn't that good in handling From: lines in some cases
> when replying. Just edit the To: line of your message to contain just "To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]", without those quotes and without the full name etc.

Hm, but I never had this problem until some weeks ago. And now this
happens every time I try to reply.
So I wonder, what I could have done to cause this behaviour.

Stef


Compile 2.0 Package under 1.3?

1999-01-28 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
How can I compile the newest Smail Debian source under Debian 1.3.1?
Doing 
dpkg-source -x *.dsc
and
./debian/rules binary
resultes in:

/bin/sh: ./debian-defs.sh: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1

Stef


named: No response from Server

1999-01-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Few days ago I setup a machine withe Debian 2.0 r3. I have named
running on that machine, since it will be connected to the internet
later. Right now its just part of my private network
192.168.1.0. After installation, named ran fine, and could resolve the
two hosts I put into /etc/hosts. After I rebooted the machine, named
does not work properly anymore:

two:~> nslookup 
Default Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

> set debug
> tod
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

;; res_mkquery(0, tod.hoes.li, 1, 1)
timeout
timeout
timeout
timeout
*** localhost can't find tod: No response from server
> 

Any idea, what could be the problem?

Stef


dftp interrupted

1999-02-01 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Last night I started dftp to update my system. After ist downloaded
packages for some hours, the connection to my ISP was shut down. Is
there a way how I can resume dftp with the packages it already
downloaded?

Stef


dftp problem...D

1999-02-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Yes you should be able to run 'dftp getselect' again, but first you want
> to:

I did what you told me. After doing
dftp getselect
it got all the packages, but then ist stopped, so next I did
dftp unpack
Which kept the system busy for some minutes. Since the packages were still in 
/root/packages, I then did a
dftp clear
but this gave me lots of 
Keeping ./dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/*/*.deb (not installed)
error messages. For example:
Keeping ./dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/x11/xarchie_2.0.10-9.deb (not 
installed)
But when I say:
dpkg -s xarchie
I get:
Version: 2.0.10-9

So what could be wrong with dftp (or with me)?

Stef


mailcap changed

1999-02-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
This weekend I made an update via dftp. I also upgraded to mutt
0.95.1i which is in slink. Now my /etc/mailcap has changed. There are
no more text/* entries. eg. text/html
Any idea how theu disapeared and how to get them back?

Stef


Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they?

Thanks a lot
Stef


KDE: libkde0?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> They're on KDE's ftp site.  Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on

OK, I did so. I had a look into 
http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3
There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in
/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg
But this directory does not exist. This library also is no longer
distributet by Debian. 
It also says that I should install the debian menu package first. But
I have no idea what the debian menu package is.

Can you help me some more?

Thanks a lot!
Stef


XF86Setup: xinitrc not there.

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I wanted to run XF86Setup. It told me, that it cannot find
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
So I checked in slinks Contents-i386. According to it, xinitrc should
be in xserver-common. So I installed that package, but xinitrc still
is not there (also not in /etc/X11/xinit/).

Am I missing something?

Stef


Re: Token ring card diffuculties

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Hi,

> the card, but when I use ifconfig to assign an IP address (or  make the card
> active using ifconfig tr0 up), the process that is running ifconfig hangs.

I had the same problem. If I remember right, the Token Ring adapter
can't be configured if it is not connected to a network.
So just connect it to a MAU and try again!

Cheers
Stef


Where is kdenetwork?

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There is a version of the kdenetwork package for hamm, but there is
none for potato on the ftp.kde.org. Ehat happened to it?

Stef


windowmanager does not start

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
when I startx.

Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?

Cheers
Stef


Re: Soundcard under LInux ?

1999-02-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> How can I configure it under Linux ? Must I make a device with MAKEDEV? How 
> can 

You have to compile your own kernel. Check the Sound-HOWTO

Stef


Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.

1999-02-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:56:46PM -0800, rod peters wrote:
> where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.

debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.42-1.deb


smail: 552 Message exceeds administrative size limit

1998-10-13 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
smail sent me the following message: 

 Xfail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reason: (ERR152) 
transport
smtp: 552 Message exceeds administrative size limit (2868234 > 200 bytes)

On both hosts I use smail, and have the following line in /etc/smail/config:

max_message_size=10M


So why does smail use the standard message size limit?

Stef


ncurses link

1998-12-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
In /usr/include there is a softlink called ncurses pointing to . I
want to make a backup of the whole machine, so I connected to it via
ftp as root, cd'ed to / and said: get ..tar

But now tar gets stuck with that softlink pointing to itself: Its
still transfering, but a tar -tf just shows more and more ncurses
adding to /isr/include/ncurses. Why does tar not just pack that
softlink, but tries to copy the file its pointing to? Why is that
ncurses pointing to . anyway?

Stef


Remote backup

1998-12-03 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I want to make a backup from one machine directly into a tar file on
another machine. How could I do that? I'm thinking about something
like: tar -c / | rcp ...

Stef


ftp chroot for normal users?

1998-12-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp 
Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp
connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so
joe cannot go bellow ~joe ?

Stef


Old Packages?

1998-12-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old
libc5 Packages I need?

Stef


smail without relay

1998-05-08 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 1.3.1

I want my smail not to relay. So I have to add the line
smtp_remote_allow = 127.0.0.1:
to the config file. This works only from smail_3.2.0.101 on, which
is a hamm package. So I need to upgrade libc5_5.4.33-3 to at least
libc5_5.4.33-7 first, in order to be able to upgrade to
libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. I already upgraded to ldso_1.9.8-1.

Is there anything else, I have to be aware of, when I upgrade to
libc6?
I read the Debian libc5 to libc6 mini HOWTO, but I also got the
following answer from USENET:

> But beware, cause it could force you to do a pretty big upgrade
> to hamm. If you still want to do the upgrade join debian-user and ask
> there.

So I wanted to be sure.

Stef
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compiling teTeX

1997-09-24 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
In order to use PPCHTeX i have to recompile teTeX with a parameter
stack of 200 instead of 60 in the file:
.../tetex-bin-0.4pl6/kpse-2.6/web2c/tex/tex.ch

But what do I do now? Edit all the other files as said in the README
and INSTALL and do a make world? Or is there a way to compile a
debian source package with dpkg?

Stef


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Re: Going out

2007-02-28 Thread Stef Daniels VK5HSX
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> Hello. I want to go out from this e-mail group.
>  
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