>The best chance of an answer is probably to post the questions
>to one of the developer lists, if that is where the experts are
Actually, I've always made a point of ignoring user questions on the
developers list, but I've *also* started putting more time in on
debian-user. (I've also gotten a
> 1. change the resolution / pixel depth of my x setup?
I'm not sure what you want here. Control-alt-keypad+ will cycle through the
available resolutions. xf86config will let you interactively configure
your server.
> 2. make it work as a POP server (so i can continue to read mail on my
> mac)?
Sten Anderson writes:
> A list only for us newbies would result in a lot of questions and no
> answers. We need a list that is read both by newbies and experienced
> users.
As I recall, the idea was that experienced users would explicitly assign
themselves to read and answer questions on debian-n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailing lists) writes:
> i have just installed debian on my first intel machine (i've had apples
> forever) and i have a couple of questions i hope someone doesn't mind
> answering for me. though i've checked out man pages, i haven't been able
> to figure these out on my own, th
Is there a way to detect / trace where the spoof ip addresses are coming
from? Or is it an impoosible task?
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>>[10-31]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";;
That means "a single character in the set 1, 0 through 3, and 1", so
it will match any of 0 1 2 3 and nothing else.
>># [12][0-9]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";;
>># 30 | 31 ) Day=02; SearchStr="$Month 9";;
That's more like it; the [12][0-9]
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
> Nice package, btw. I'd been struggling with rvplayer, and once I did the
> above, it installed and ran flawlessly. :):)
Is there any way to get it to work as a plugin for Netscape, short of
upgrading to hamm? I understand the problem is really with ba
On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 10:06:53PM +, Bill Leach wrote:
> OK, that was probably the case as fvwm2 is now working. However, I do think
> that it would be more useful is dselect/
> dpkg reported "configured".
>
> Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
> dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
> pa
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote:
> I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is
> there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is
> not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when
> I used rpm I could query the contents
On 16 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I see questions about Debian in the newsgroups I usually email an
> offer of help. Often the only help I can offer is the suggestion to ask on
> debian-user. Often the response is "I tried that but nobody answered me".
>
Posibility 1 : Noone knew t
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Nathan A Pelton wrote:
> My HD is partitioned accordingly:
> 30mb for thr root directory /
> 450mb for /usr
> 50mb for swap space
> 1000mb for home directories /usr/local
> 0mb for /tmp
> 40mb for /var
> I will be the sole user on this system. Is there a better way
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Mike Nachlinger wrote:
> "alias -p" reveals no aliases on my system.
>
This will show your bash aliases and has nothing to do with smail.
> Running "mkaliases /etc/aliases" returns
> "/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for aliases"
> I've modified /etc/aliases with t
On 16-Nov-97 mailing lists wrote:
> 2. make it work as a POP server (so i can continue to read mail on my mac)?
I can help with this one ... install either the qpopper or cucipop packages.
Takes about a minute and they hit the ground running, no additional
configuration needed.
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i have just installed debian on my first intel machine (i've had apples
forever) and i have a couple of questions i hope someone doesn't mind
answering for me. though i've checked out man pages, i haven't been able
to figure these out on my own, though the answer may be easy ... so, what
do i need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >From a recent posting on comp.os.linux.setup:
>
> > Support from the Debian list was practically non-existant. One reply came
> > on the mailing list in response to a question: not very helpful.
>
> This guy dumped Debian in favor of Red Hat.
>
> When I see question
> >What java version are you using? jdk-shared/static (1.0.2) from non-free,
> >jdk1.1.3 from hamm/non-free, jdk1.x.x from blackdown.org or jdk1.1.4 from
> >Sergey Nikitin? (There are a lot of options, as you can see :)
>
> I'm running the version from the javac package on the Cheap*Bytes 1.3 disc
OK, that was probably the case as fvwm2 is now working. However, I do think
that it would be more useful is dselect/
dpkg reported "configured".
Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration
cannot configure (current stat
> Ok, I've been dinking around with JAVA text applications, and I finally
> decided
> to make the break into graphics. Everything works fine until I try to run a
> program that uses the awt library, and then I get:
>
> java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path
> at ja
Ok, I've been dinking around with JAVA text applications, and I finally decided
to make the break into graphics. Everything works fine until I try to run a
program that uses the awt library, and then I get:
java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path
at java/lang/Throwa
> I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
> the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
> and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems
> and I have seen that the Matrox Millenium-II is not compatible with
> XFre
Matt Thompson wrote:
> The package in ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/ looks for
> 5.0b1, but the archive at RealAudio's site contains 5.0b2. I was able to
> unpack the archive, rename everything and repack it and it works fine now.
> I was just wondering if this package could/should be
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dima wrote:
> I upgraded fetchmail to 4.3.2-1 and did some rtfm'ing -- that
> helped. New fetchmail wants to be told where to deliver mail:
> add eg. "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc. Don't forget
> to check if your MTA knows "localhost" is "this box here".
> It tur
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > I have two boxes running debian 1.3 ( +some stauff from hamm).
> > If I telnet from one box to the other one, I can't type in äöüß any more.
>
> Try alias telnet='telnet -L'
>
Hi,
works great :-) Thanks for your
I've got a CD that won't mount under Win31 or FreeBSD
2.2.2 (yeah, I'm working on getting them to install
Debian ;) ).
Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and
reading the directory structure.
Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could
give me the file system typ
The package in ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/ looks for
5.0b1, but the archive at RealAudio's site contains 5.0b2. I was able to
unpack the archive, rename everything and repack it and it works fine now.
I was just wondering if this package could/should be changed to reflect
the curre
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jeff Alami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
> > the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
> > and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility
Tim Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have
> left after a backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on
> tape - how do I know how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a
> 4-8GB DAT drive with 90m and 120m tapes. I just need
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want users only in certain groups to be able to mount specific
> filesystems.. eg
>
> floppy = /dev/fd0 (floppy drive)
> cdrom = /dev/hdd (ide cdrom)
> staff /dev/hda1 (dos)
>
> If I use the user option in fstab, all users can mount the fs.. and
Jeff Alami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
> the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
> and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems
> and I have seen that the Matrox Mil
"alias -p" reveals no aliases on my system.
Running "mkaliases /etc/aliases" returns
"/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for aliases"
I've modified /etc/aliases with the addition majordomo aliases.
Mail to majordomo is routed to postmaster
This happens on the saved dist. file also.
MTA is
I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems
and I have seen that the Matrox Millenium-II is not compatible with
XFree86, even
I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that
the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM)
and a 15" NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems
and I have seen that the Matrox Millenium-II is not compatible with
XFree86, even
> The page
> http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/ppiie/software.htm
> contains comments from the main OS vendors on what they have done to
> solve the problem.
>
> I can't beleive there are OS vendors like Sun, Novell, Microsoft, etc
> that say that they are not affected by the bug
>From a recent posting on comp.os.linux.setup:
> Support from the Debian list was practically non-existant. One reply came
> on the mailing list in response to a question: not very helpful.
This guy dumped Debian in favor of Red Hat.
When I see questions about Debian in the newsgroups I usually
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
| Look at the results of dpkg-deb --help. The -c or -I options may
|be what you want.
'dpkg -c package.deb' is the command the original poster is looking for.
The nice thing about .deb files is that they use standard UNIX formats -
ar(1) and tar(1),
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure this doesn't affect M$. I am awaiting a news virus which triggers F0
> 0F C7 C8 at random times instead of deleting the disk (or even both). And
> what was the URL again where you can get this fine F0 0F C7 C8 Active X
> control...
Has anyone e
On 16 Nov 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> I can't beleive there are OS vendors like Sun, Novell, Microsoft, etc
> that say that they are not affected by the bug because they require
> user authentication to be able to run programs in the OS's, or that
> they haven't heard of problems from their custo
My HD is partitioned accordingly:
30mb for thr root directory /
450mb for /usr
50mb for swap space
1000mb for home directories /usr/local
0mb for /tmp
40mb for /var
I will be the sole user on this system. Is there a better way to
arrange these directories on the partitions?
I
Hi!
Always wanted to contribute to the Debian project, but never knew how?
Please read on for some very interesting possibilities!
You may have heard about the Debian Documentation Project (or DDP for
short). The goal of this project is to write a set of manuals for
Debian. One of the manuals
Apologies to Raul and everyone who got bounces from me.
I upgraded fetchmail to 4.3.2-1 and did some rtfm'ing -- that
helped. New fetchmail wants to be told where to deliver mail:
add eg. "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc. Don't forget
to check if your MTA knows "localhost" is "this box
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Bill Leach wrote:
> Receiving error messages such as the following:
>
> Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
>dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
>package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration
>cannot configure (current status `installed')
>
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote:
> okay I've used linux for a little bit now but I have yet to figure
> this one out.. How do you change the window manager for X? and
> where does one get new window managers? I was reading boot magazine
> the other day and it had an article on linux and
On 16 Nov, Zach Wilkes let loose with:
> okay I've used linux for a little bit now but I have yet to figure
> this one out.. How do you change the window manager for X? and
> where does one get new window managers? I was reading boot magazine
> the other day and it had an article on linux and it
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Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> I have two boxes running debian 1.3 ( +some stauff from hamm).
> If I telnet from one box to the other one, I can't type in äöüß any more.
Try alias telnet='telnet -L'
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Hello,
I am new to this mail list, although I have followed other
Debian lists for more than a year. I would like to know if some one has
booted LINUX in any of the following machines:
DELL PowerEdge 4200, Pentium-II 266 or 300 MHz) single or dual processor
or
any Digital Prioris HX6000
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote:
> this one out.. How do you change the window manager for X? and
> where does one get new window managers? I was reading boot magazine
We have many window manager packages -- fvwm, fvwm95, fvwm2, olvwm,
kde, even more -- just look under X11 on the we
Here is a repost of the kernel message log. It should be OK now with cr
and lf unless msdos edit has changed under w95.
Donald Harter Jr.
Nov 1 14:54:30 domain kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Nov 1 14:54:30 domain kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Nov 1 14:
okay I've used linux for a little bit now but I have yet to figure
this one out.. How do you change the window manager for X? and
where does one get new window managers? I was reading boot magazine
the other day and it had an article on linux and it had a picture of a
really cool geiger-esque wi
Hello tried to install Debian the other nite.
I have partitioned my drive 750-250Mbs for debian on the 250Mbs
I boot the rescue disk and it starts install
then it reaches this error message
Probing PCI hardware
Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107) please read include/linux/pci.h
As i have not i
Look at the results of dpkg-deb --help. The -c or -I options may
be what you want.
Bob
Tim Ferrell wrote:
> I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is
> there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is
> not installed? I like to see what it is
Hello people,
I just found the official Web page for the Pentium Invalid Instruction
bug.
The page
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/ppiie/software.htm
contains comments from the main OS vendors on what they have done to
solve the problem.
I can't beleive there are OS vendors l
Hi,
I saw the book fronm linux press at J&R music world today. so has anyone
used the set, also what are your impressions?
allan bart
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Maybe I have an old version ... at the very end it finally mentiones the
conflict. the last item in the howto. I think it should be moved up to
where the lists of packages you need are mentioned.
On 16-Nov-97 joost witteveen wrote:
>
> I'm sure that is mentioned in the libc5-libc6-mini-ho
Þann 16-Nov-97 skrifar Jameson Burt:
>
> Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their
> operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a
> person
> ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe consumes
> weeks of time. You
> >
> > Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their
> > operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a
> > person
> > ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe
> > consumes
> > weeks of time. You might save tens of p
Any experts on apache rewrite commands?
I want to redirect http://somename.domain.com.au to
http://www.domain.com.au/~somename. someone is one particular
instance and does not need to be generic. somename.domain.com.au
is a cname to www.domain.com.au. It looks like RewriteRule
with a RewriteCond on
Hi,
>>"Torsten" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Torsten> Let's say I just created a new kernel-image package using
Torsten> make-kpkg --revision 1.1 kernel_image ,
Torsten> accidently removed the ../kernel-image... file and want to
Torsten> recreate it. If I type the above comman
On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 05:50:46AM +, Bill Leach wrote:
> Receiving error messages such as the following:
> Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
>dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
>package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration
>cannot configure (current status `i
>
> Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their
> operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a
> person
> ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe consumes
> weeks of time. You might save tens of people a hundred w
Put the IP address in brackets like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15-Nov-97 R. Chris Ross wrote:
> If I send a message out via sendmail that has [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> format sendmail returns the message with an error that appears to be
> looking for ip_address to be a DNS that it can't find.
Cheerfully trying to edit a new file, I got into the help minibuffer to
find out an Xemacs command. I tried loading a file, and got an error
message. I moved to the *scratch* buffer, but that turned out to be the
help minibuffer also. I then kept deleting buffers until Xemacs died, with
a core du
joost witteveen wrote:
> (Oh, come to think of it, why do courageous people have bootdisks?)
Hi, there, I was courageous (though when I downgraded ldso, there was no
warning message yet), and had no bootdisks. It didn't help that all other
linux machines here were unable to boot with my server do
Craig Sanders wrote:
> > | preline procmail
> >
> > isn't all that difficult.
>
> no it's not difficult. the PITA factor comes in because it has to be
> done for every account. As i said, i use procmail as the local delivery
> agent - which means that i need a global setting for it, not a per- u
If I send a message out via sendmail that has [EMAIL PROTECTED]
format sendmail returns the message with an error that appears to be
looking for ip_address to be a DNS that it can't find. Is there a feature
that I need to change in my sendmail.mc file?
Chris
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I have an older Dell mother board that has a BIOS that will in no
way deal with large disks. After reading thru the large disk FAQ and lilo
docs it looked like I would be able to make a small partition ~ 2 Megs,
leave the rest of the disk as one large ~4 Gig partition, put the kernel
and l
Turn off plug-and-play if you can. If not, copy the kernel from the rescue
disk to your hard disk, and re-run LILO. You might have to build a kernel
with plug-and-play enabled - I don't know why you have a different
kernel on the rescue disk and on your hard disk if you have not already
done that.
Receiving error messages such as the following:
Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2
dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure):
package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration
cannot configure (current status `installed')
Errors were encountered while processing:
fvw
The key document for upgrading from stable "bo" to unstable "hamm" is
libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt. I have botched the upgrade from rex to bo, and
the upgrade from bo to hamm. I botched the upgrades because I installed
programs from the unstable version over several months successfully, then on
Alex Monaghan writes:
>
> Help,
>
> I attempted to install Debian 1.3.1 from the Linux Systems Labs =
> "Official" Debian CD onto my father's PC.
>
> This installed OK from the boot floppy made from the CD.
>
> When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq =
> 15 and
> I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is
> there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is
> not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when
> I used rpm I could query the contents first. Is there a dpkg equivalent?
dpkg
> > You can't put comments into the chatscript. Remove all extra lines and try
> > again. If it fails, look at the end of /var/log/messages for possible
> > explanation.
>
> ok, i've removed those too. I now get as far as a ppp connection, but
> now plog reports, roughly (minicom doesn't seem to
In README.mirrors, Debian's primary site ftp.debian.org has the remote
directory listed as /debian. Using the standard "mirror" program, I have
always gotten the response
"Cannot get remote directory details (/debian )"
For a year, I just went on to other mirror sites.
The above message
Is it safe to turn shadow passwd after NIS has been running for a while?
What is the proper procedure for the NIS master and slave?
Thanks.
Bao
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I am new to Debian, so this may be a somewhat stupid question... Is
there a way to use dpkg to list the contents, etc. of a package that is
not installed? I like to see what it is I am installing first, and when
I used rpm I could query the contents first. Is there a dpkg equivalent?
Thanks!
Tim
On 15 Nov, butch let loose with:
> Hello,
>
> well i was in J&R music worlds computer store and i saw the set- ,and they
> have a really good price on it. has anyone bought it and what are your
> opinions of the value for money?
>
I got the book about two weeks ago - I am somewhat new to debain
Howdy...
The current hamm xmcd package seems to not like running on my machine.
First, it complains about having insufficient privlidges:
overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd xmcd Fatal Error:
Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root. Please have
your system admi
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> That looks better, although I'm still confused by
> "3dillusion.3dillusion.com" ... but it's your domain :)
>
> At least DNS is doing what you think it should now.
I wanted the hostname to be 3dillusion when users logged on..
3dillusion.3dillusion.co
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
: On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > It's a problem at your server, as I said. The solution is to make sure
: > that a line like
: >
: > IN NS ns.3dillusion.com
: > actually reads
: > IN NS ns.3di
On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Dale Martin wrote:
> Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ./lib/X11/app-defaults -> ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> >
> > The XErrorDB & XKeysymDB files also used to be symlinked to
> > /usr/X11r6/lib/X11 but aren't any more (although *I*
I wanted to print the policy manual, and wanted to use sgml2latex,
but it tells:
% sgml2latex policy.sgml
Processing file policy.sgml
/usr/bin/nsgmls:0:1:27:W: cannot generate system identifier for
document type "DEBIANDOC"
/usr/bin/nsgmls:0:1:27:E: reference to entity "DEBIANDOC" for
which
Hello,
well i was in J&R music worlds computer store and i saw the set- ,and they
have a really good price on it. has anyone bought it and what are your
opinions of the value for money?
allan
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On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 12:56:27PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
:
: Ah! Well, with a few thousand customers ... hmmm, separate your news into
: feeder and reader machines. Run INN on the feeder(s) which handle your remote
: newsfeeds and leafnode feeds to the reader machines. cnews + nntpd + msgidd
trying again; i'mdialed in on a horrible university network . . .
george bonsur wrote,
> On 15-Nov-97 Rick Hawkins wrote:
> > I can't quite get this combination to work.
> > changing /etc/ppp/pap so that the last line is now
> > hawk * mypassword
> Don't you mean pap-secrets?
err, yes :)
> > I can't quite get this combination to work.
> > changing /etc/ppp/pap so that the last line is now
> > hawk * mypassword
> Don't you mean pap-secrets?
err, yes :)
> > I commented out the "expect ogin:" and "expect word:" ion
> > ppp.chatscript, which instead gives me an alarm and a failu
while this:
mount -t ufs /dev/sda1 /disk1
looks correct, did you compile ufs file system support in to your kernel?
You mention no success, what error message do you get?
kc
Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello all!
>
> Just tried taking an external SCSI disk from one of our SparcStatio
Chuma Agbodike wrote:
>Thanks Oliver. You nailed it.
Good.
>I had forced install of libreadlineg2, libc6 and a bunch of other stuff post
>gresql 6.2.1 was complaining about that it needed. Boy! am I sorry I did
> that.
>What a mess. My dotmatrix
>printer now prints a line a mi
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