oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

1999-12-28 Thread Robert Varga
I have tried to install oracle 8.0.5 on a slink machine upgraded to glibc2.1.2 . Kernel is 2.2.13. The machine is a Pentium-III 600. However during install, it could not create the databases since the program svrmgrl segfaulted when trying to create the database files. I ignored the error and c

Re: Can't remove pgaccess

1999-12-28 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 11:38:53PM -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error > dpkg: error processing pgaccess (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > pgacce

Re: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-28 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I got my jdk-1.2 from the following link( its the first site on the North America mirror sites listed in download section on www.blackdown.org) ftp://iodynamics.com/pub/mirror/linux-jdk/JDK-1.2/i386/pre-v1/ I downloaded 'jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 ' and followed the instructions in README.linux.

Proftpd error

1999-12-28 Thread Pollywog
I am getting this from proftpd: Dec 28 22:03:04 lilypad proftpd[23923]: PAM-listfile: Couldn't open /etc/ftpusers I never got this until yesterday. I did not know proftpd used that file. Anyone else getting this? -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all l

Philosofical Questions and Debian's Qmail...

1999-12-28 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list inhabitants! Happy new year for all of you. I have three questions to ask. Let's see them in importance order: 1. Philosofical Question: Can i ask 'bout the Debian's Precompiled Qmail dist here, or maybe better on a qmail list? 2. Yet Ano

Re: using swap files - where do I activate at boot?

1999-12-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
Brian Servis said: > It will get added to the swap at boot with the rest of the swap space. I > would recommend giving your swap partitions/files different priorities > in this case so that the faster partitions are higher priority and the > swap files are lower priority. See swapon(2) for more de

Re: enlightenment epplets and debian

1999-12-28 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 04:16:05PM -0500, Richard wrote: > anyone had any luck with these? I can't seem to get them to run right ... They work fine for me. get the epplet dostro and manuallyinstall it. -- Ben Lutgens (resume available at http://contractor.computerwork.com/index.cfm?blutgens) "T

FW: alpha 2100

1999-12-28 Thread Lalena, Peter
Hi , I am trying to boot 2.1 debian from CD-ROM on my alpha 2100. (sable) I receive the following message: I have no env. Variables set in the srm console Any idea's. Pete Aboot:loading plain Aboot:unexpected object file format 1000 Aboot:load compressed Unzip:unknown com

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Dennis Schoen
--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all,=20 I just wanted to say that Alexander Koch will act as a sponsor for me. Hopefully the packages will be uploaded before the 2.1 Thanks to all of you offered their help. Dennis --=2

Re: connecting to concentric.net

1999-12-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > Does anyone here use concentric.net? I'm trying to get my fathers linux box > setup with a ppp conection and am having getting the connection to work. > Assuming you are actually getting the phone to dial and getting connected that way, Concentric is

Re: ITP: crh

1999-12-28 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
May I be the first to congratulate you :) Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Scott Hanson wrote: > Intent To Package crh: Christopher Ryan Hanson > > Initially released: 27 Dec 99, 3:29 am CET, Hamburg, Germany > Package size: 4530 g, 56 cm (uncompressed) > Upstream author

ITP: crh

1999-12-28 Thread Scott Hanson
Intent To Package crh: Christopher Ryan Hanson Initially released: 27 Dec 99, 3:29 am CET, Hamburg, Germany Package size: 4530 g, 56 cm (uncompressed) Upstream authors: Frauke Petersen-Hanson and Scott Hanson crh is the initial version of a program that will eventually revolutionize the entire wo

Re: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-28 Thread David Teague
Hi folks Looks like I'm answering my own question, in part because I did not RTFM until after asking. I apologise for this all too common peccadillo. This was a no brainer. My libc is older than Blackdown jdk 1.2.2 wants. Quoting from one of the README files: This is the Blackdown Java-

enlightenment epplets and debian

1999-12-28 Thread Richard
anyone had any luck with these? I can't seem to get them to run right ... Castille

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:02:21AM +0800, Brian Almeida wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:36:44AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > That is understandable, but how one becomes Debian maintainer from > > scratch ? This is the cause why Dennis and I need a sponsor. > > We developing this software a

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:36:44AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > That is understandable, but how one becomes Debian maintainer from > scratch ? This is the cause why Dennis and I need a sponsor. > We developing this software and Dennis will maintain the Debian > packages. When I joined Debian abo

Re: using swap files - where do I activate at boot?

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "using swap files - where do I activate at boot?" > I inherited a Debian system running potato. The system occassionaly was > running out of memory so I thought I should increase my virtual memory. > Rather than repartitioning the hard drive to add ano

Re: Is is legal to have duplicate package names? (We got two)

1999-12-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 04:44:45AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > At the moment there are two in the archive. > > One is xgmod, which is in both contrib and main, with > the main one being newer. Looks like the package was moved > but not deleted out of old area. Accident probably. Indeed

Can't remove pgaccess

1999-12-28 Thread Matt Miller
I can't remove the 'pgaccess' package from my unstable distribution. I do 'apt-get remove pgaccess', and I get: dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing pgaccess (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors

RE: Installation Script returned error exit status 100

1999-12-28 Thread Hagen Finley
> The .deb packages are archived in /var/cache/apt/archives > which explains the > insufficient space message. The packages are installed from there. > > One possible solution, not really kosher, but you might try editing > /etc/apt/sources.list to go through only 'main' complete that > much of the

Promise + Scsi = Trouble

1999-12-28 Thread Ulf Svanstrom
Hi to you all ! i have a problem (no Whaaay) i have an scsi card with 1 scsi disk that i shall boot the system with the internal IDE channel are filled with HDs so far so good .. it boots on the linux and so on .. Now i gonna put in an Promise 33 card (Extra HD card with IDE disks) and now the

Re: ITP Heimdal (Kerberos 5)

1999-12-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Brian May wrote: > > - attempt upload to potato, non-us section. > > non-US isn't a section, it's an archive. What you probably want is the > section net of the main distribution of the non-US archive. (lets hope I > got all the terms right now..) > > Wicher

using swap files - where do I activate at boot?

1999-12-28 Thread debuser
I inherited a Debian system running potato. The system occassionaly was running out of memory so I thought I should increase my virtual memory. Rather than repartitioning the hard drive to add another swap partition, I thought it would be best to just use a swap file. So, I've created the file w

Re: Installation Script returned error exit status 100

1999-12-28 Thread Henry White
The .deb packages are archived in /var/cache/apt/archives which explains the insufficient space message. The packages are installed from there. One possible solution, not really kosher, but you might try editing /etc/apt/sources.list to go through only 'main' complete that much of the upgrade, del

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people li

Re: Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
reassign 48807 jdk1.1-native thanks On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I reported this as Bug #48807 against version jdk1.1 1.1.7v2-2 > > some time ago. > So that means this is an old bug and one that's not fixed. That's true. > Or is it fixed in the latest release? Don't know, I

Re: Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 04:19:46PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Everytime I start a JAVA program (that runs fine on a SuSe machine with > jdk-1.1.7v3) I only get the messages: > > Cannot open /proc/00525 for GCCannot open /proc/00534 for GC > [snip] > > Is there anything wrong with my setup?

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake is GPL)

1999-12-28 Thread Fish Smith
>>> > I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity >>> > and less stupid laws. What about canada? >>> >>> pandora is already in a perfect location... >> >>Thought we can't upload mp3 encoders to pandora? Or is that just because >>some mirrors couldn't handle it? >Why

Installation Script returned error exit status 100

1999-12-28 Thread Hagen Finley
I'm am still coming to an understanding with dselect. I can run a successful [U]pgrade, but when I run [I]nstall I get the following output: 0 packages updated 502 newly installed 0 to remove 0 not upgraded. E: Sorry you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives. Some errors occurred

PPP over null modem: no rcvd?

1999-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
Last night, I had a PPP connection over null modem working perfectly. I was using it to install packages on a laptop over the modem on my desktop, after installing the potato base using floppies and setting up IP-Masquerate on the desktop. It worked flawlessly. This morning I can't connect. As f

Re: slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 06:21:28PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: > But... in y2k slink upgrade no new package of leafnode??? What about it? = :o The slink version of Leafnode is very much o

CHINESE: Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-28 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Chan wrote: > The Simplified Chinese page automatically loaded when I hit your home > page. How can I change the default language to English? Probably you've put in your 'language preferences' 'simplified chinese' first. Do you use Netscape? hv

Unidentified subject!

1999-12-28 Thread Chan
Dear All, The Simplified Chinese page automatically loaded when I hit your home page. How can I change the default language to English? Thank you. Chan __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 04:13:35PM +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > I reported this as Bug #48807 against version jdk1.1 1.1.7v2-2 some > time ago. So that means this is an old bug and one that's not fixed. Or is it fixed in the latest release? Hay, if SuSe is able to run that software why aren't

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

1999-12-28 Thread Peter Makholm
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bugs need to be filed, though they need proper investigation. > > But do you think they are release critical bugs? If the packages can't be installed because of missing depencies it's and release critical bug. If the depencies just are ugly

Is is legal to have duplicate package names? (We got two)

1999-12-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
At the moment there are two in the archive. One is xgmod, which is in both contrib and main, with the main one being newer. Looks like the package was moved but not deleted out of old area. Accident probably. The other is ircii, which exists in both main and non-US/main. Almost the same version n

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

1999-12-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions > > I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, > > non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies > > can be satisfied. As it tu

slink leafnode and y2k???

1999-12-28 Thread Christian Surchi
But... in y2k slink upgrade no new package of leafnode??? What about it? :o Thanks Christian --- GPG fingerprint = D1E2 9A9D 1712 0E94 8671 834E 0CFF 30E1 2625 7B68 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released! Slink...?

1999-12-28 Thread Erich Zigler
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 07:05:10PM +0200, virtanen wrote: > > installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast > > too... as fast as the version for Windows. > Is it possible to install it to Slink? I tried, but couldn't get it > working. I too installed it to the latest un

RE: Blackdown's jdk1.2.2 v3 does not run....

1999-12-28 Thread David Teague
All Having reread my message about my jdk 1.2.2 problem, I must complain about MY request. It was utterly uninformative as to the problem and was hard to answer, but you have helped by pointing some areas to investigate and some inconsistencies in my remarks. I have posted a second message that

Re: help

1999-12-28 Thread Fish Smith
>help Might try being a little more descriptive. for instance, what do you need help with? It's somewhat hard to render aid when the entire request is "help". = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount S

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released! Slink...?

1999-12-28 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Nitebirdz wrote: > installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast > too... as fast as the version for Windows. Is it possible to install it to Slink? I tried, but couldn't get it working. hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Art Lemasters, The main positive feature of Opera is how fast it is compared to any of the two major browsers in the Windows world. I just downloaded and installed the beta version for Linux, and it seems to be pretty fast too... as fast as the version for Windows. However, it is not GP

Re: Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everytime I start a JAVA program (that runs fine on a SuSe machine > with jdk-1.1.7v3) I only get the messages: > Cannot open /proc/00525 for GCCannot open /proc/00534 for GC I reported this as Bug #48807 against version jdk1.1 1.1.7v2-2 some time ago.

cannot "make" anything - Please Help

1999-12-28 Thread Brian J. Stults
When I try to make zImage, I get tons of errors like the ones listed at the end of this message. It happens with almost anything that I try to make (glibc, gcc, etc.) Any ideas? Also possibly related, when I "./configure" when trying to compile make, I get this message: checking argument types

Spontaneous reboot with 3c59x kernel module

1999-12-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
I have had this problem on two different computers, at least 3 different 3com 59x network cards, and both the slink default kernel-image and my own compiled 2.2.12 (using kernel-package). In one case I was unable to install debian (slink) at all until I changed network cards to an ne2k compatible b

BIND security question

1999-12-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Dec-1999 root wrote: Was this someone trying to find out which BIND I am running? > > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Dec 28 06:39:09 lilypad named[342]: unapproved query from [206.79.22.9].1978 > for "version.bind" > Dec 28 06:39:09 lilypad named[342]: unapproved query fro

Java problem

1999-12-28 Thread Michael Meskes
Everytime I start a JAVA program (that runs fine on a SuSe machine with jdk-1.1.7v3) I only get the messages: Cannot open /proc/00525 for GCCannot open /proc/00534 for GC Of ocurse these files do not exist. In fact I never saw a file iunder /proc starting with zeroes. Anyway, I have the followin

Linux NAT and stuff.

1999-12-28 Thread Ronald Tin
Hi all, I am starting to use Debian (potato) as a firewall with NAT functions. I have fast NAT compiled into the kernel, installed iproute2, read through the documentation "ip-cref" and did what was suggested in Appendix C. Everything looks fine. Except ... I cannot connect to the NATed machi

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Supported Laptops?

1999-12-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, koyote wrote: >> I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to >> know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ? >> >> I have not found any reference to this on their respective homepages, and >> this question is important

Problem with Quake2

1999-12-28 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, If this question if off-topic, sorry about that... I upgraded to potato and saw that quake2 was installed. After an error with finding pak0.pak, I got it to run but it exits with the following error, * WARNING **: shmget failed! Error: VID: Could not get any shared memory Any suggestions..

pppd problems

1999-12-28 Thread Tom Allard
I continue to have trouble accessing web pages on my in-laws Slink machine. I can telnet to machines (even to port 80), but I can't get lynx, netscape, or kfm to browse web sites. I'm using mindspring and I have no proxies set. I can connect to the same account on my machine and access web sites

Timeline for potato

1999-12-28 Thread Matthias Klose
Richard Braakman writes: > Here is a summary of the plan for releasing potato. The dates after the > actual freeze are still "soft". Please speak up if you have problems > with them. > > > January 2 "No new packages" freeze what did happen to the libncurses5 packages? will they be

Re: is kernel 2.0.38 broken?

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Pollywog, There is a problem affecting the 2.0.x kernels in the sense that local users can cause a denial of service attack by using ping with a certain argument. However, there is already an update to the netkit package that temporarily fixes the problem. Nitebirdz On Sun, 26 Dec 199

Re: Making Debian packages cross-compiler ready!

1999-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 01:15:17AM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > i would like > to have a cross-compiler support in the debian packages by default so > i can specify extra gcc options or define the name of gcc or other > binutils for instance like the linux kernel Makefile it does. are there > an

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> fvwmconf => fvwm2 (yes! fvwm2 doesn't exist) Martin> Where is fvwm2 gone to? It is named fvwm now, as this is now the official fvwm version (prior to that fvwm 1.24 was the official version, and fvwm2 was a beta). fvwm 1.24 is fvwm1 no

Re: clearing SO's browser cache

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Pollywog, Did you check in the Office51 directory under your own home directory? I believe StarOffice puts a lot of stuff there. Nitebirdz On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know how I can clear my StarOffice browser cache? I can't even > find it and I believe it mi

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > You cannot read mail with a SMTP server. that is for sending mail > ONLY. This is true for every SMTP server there is(many mail packages > include both POP3 and SMTP so it may seem as if the smtp is allowing users > to read mail) the daemons listen on differ

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Miguel, That config sounds OK to me. However, how did you configure the email client (Outlook Express in this case). Also, can you tell us what error message (if any) you are getting? Are you popping the email at all? La configuracion me parece correcta. Sin embargo, como co

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
On 22 Dec 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i want to know what people reccomend for an e commerce package for > > linux(free or not) something thats stable, secure, and runs on debian 2.1 > > :) > > Freshmeat has this to say: > > --- - --- -

Re: [bug] Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Do we have a generic way to test whether a daemon is enabled for > > a given runlevel? That is -- one that works with filerc as well > > as sysvinit? > Not yet. At some point debconf will provide that information. I don't see, how debconf can r

Re: Ethernet drivers...

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 07:19 PM 12/26/99 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi! I just bought a D-Link DE-220PCT ethernet card for my linux box. It's a >10mpbs ISA card, so I figured it would work. I need to know what >drivers/modules I need to install during the debian installation for it. >Also, I need to know what a

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
>> BTW I can't think of any software that would be illigal here. > >Any kind of software violating a copyright... That was a no-brainer, but just to be precise: I can't think of any original software that would be illigal here. Regards, Onno PS: here = the Netherlands

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions > I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, > non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies > can be satisfied. As it turns out, there are many packages r

(none)

1999-12-28 Thread Marit Sandsmark Stabel
--=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF5128.1C2B3A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I need a driver to Hercules stingray 128\3D --=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF5128.1C2B3A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Tran

Re: Problem with key not repeating on X

1999-12-28 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I don't know how to change the system configuration to fix this for all the users but you can use "xset" to turn auto-repeat on in your "~/.profile" (assuming you use bash or ksh as a login shell). Put in something like: [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && xset r on HTH, Remco On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 23:46, R

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Greg Stark wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people like me that use file-rc. Please > > > provide first a solution for both cases. Then we can sen

ITP: libkakasi-ruby

1999-12-28 Thread akira yamada / やまだあきら
I intent to package libkakasi-ruby. libkakasi-ruby provides KAKASI interface for the object-oriented scripting language Ruby. Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/> KAKASI http://kakasi.namazu.org/> -- akira yamada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: unrouteable mail domain

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
You could try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Onno At 09:03 PM 12/24/99 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >I hope you all have a blessed Christmas weekend. > >I get this error sometimes - and there is no pattern that I can >discover because sometimes mail to the same address sometimes go >through without a

Re: GIMP Dying - Error Messages

1999-12-28 Thread Art Lemasters
Here's what the .xsession-errors file said. - Message: Passed serialization test gimp: fatal error: file gimpdrawable.c: line 240 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion failed: (GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)) gimp (pid:349): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or

GIMP Dying with File Saves

1999-12-28 Thread Art Lemasters
The GIMP program is dying here most times when file saves are attempted. I'm running GIMP 1.1 with Potato. Is anyone else having this problem? Art

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 03:23 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: > And what are the great points about Opera? Is it distributed >under a GPL? THAT would be nice... Regards, Onno

Re: Listening daemons and security

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 04:51 PM 12/24/99 -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: [snip] >(2) monitor your logfiles. Some good logging tools that are available as >deb packages are ippl (IP Protocols logger), and iplogger (icmplogd, >tcplogd; also known as IP Paranoia Daemons) iplogger is a security risk, see the debian-security m

Re: Listening daemons and security

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 01:59 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Howard Mann wrote: [snip] >What is the purpose of "omniNames" ? Do I need it? Is it a security >risk? A security rule: If you don't what is is, remove it! >I guess I do not need "portmap." I do not use NFS. What is the best >way to shut it off? In potato: root# ki

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 01:13 PM 12/26/99 +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >We should not, under any circumstances, mess our distro, only because >some group of morons claiming to be `government' ban such package here or >elsewhere. If there are such laws somewhere citizen of such country have only >these posibilities

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 12:49 AM 12/27/99 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 01:13:42PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >> We should not, under any circumstances, mess our distro, only because >> some group of morons claiming to be `government' ban such package here or > >Try to be practical. The U

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 01:42 PM 12/24/99 -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: >It doesn't look stable yet to me: Maybe thats why it is beta ;-) Regards, Onno

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Mas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Onno) writes: > At 09:09 PM 12/25/99 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> > I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity > >> > and less stupid laws. What about canada? > >> > >> pandor

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Stefan Hornburg
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24-Dec-1999 Dennis Schoen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, 17 Dec i've posted an ITP for > > > > libdbix-cgi-perl > > libdbix-easy-perl > > libcgi-extratags-perl > > > > with the note that i need a sponsor for the packages. > > > > I per

Re: Matrox Marvel G400 or Guillemot Cougar Video Edition

1999-12-28 Thread Nico De Ranter
Unfortunately the Matrox turned out to be slightly above budget and I ended up buying an Elsa Erazor III Pro Video (with a TNT2 chipset). Works with X without any problems. I'm now waiting for the Mesa drivers from Nvidia :-) Thanks, Nico On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > G400 by far as th

Re: Territorial Legal Issues and FTP Archives (was Re: Quake

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 09:09 PM 12/25/99 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: >On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> > I think the right solution is selecting a country with good connectivity >> > and less stupid laws. What about canada? >> >> pandora is already in a perfect location... > >Thoug

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-28 Thread Onno
At 03:06 PM 12/25/99 +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: >... as the primary non-US site is in Germany (IIRC). Nope, non-US (pandora) is in the Netherlands... Regards, Onno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-28 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 28 Dec, 1999 à 03:23:25AM +0800, Mike Markley wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 01:56:00PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > I've tried to be nice in this discussion. I'm no longer trying. > > > > > I WILL NOT CRIPPLE MY QUAKE PACKAGES TO SATISFY THE STUPIDITY INHERENT IN > > > THE LAWS O

Re: softupdates for ext2fs? (was: fstab - `defaults' and `sync')

1999-12-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On a side note, there is such thing as `softupdates' developed in > FreeBSD. Apparently, it allows synced disk I/O comparable in speed to > memory-based (async). Is anything like that going to be implemented > for ext2fs? It's my under

Docs for the developer DB online

1999-12-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I have written up some documents on how to use the developer DB, they are linked from http://db.debian.org/ In particular, if anyone looses/lost their password I will be directing them to: http://db.debian.org/password.html :> If anyone has any questions they would like to see answered let me kn

Re: System hangs on boot

1999-12-28 Thread Scott Henry
> "A" == Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A> For Christmas I got my hands on a Yamaha CRW6416S (SCSI-2 CD-RW) and A> Toshiba XM-6401TA (SCSI-2 CD-ROM) drives. They're running off an Advansys A> UltraWide SCSI controller (940UW). A> When I boot Linux, my machine hangs after detecting t

md5sum gave malformatted output

1999-12-28 Thread Jani Honkanen
I got this kind of error message, where I'm going wrong; -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/tmp> dpkg -i xfree86-common_3.3.5-1.99.slink.1_all.deb (Reading database ... 19108 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xfree86-common 3.3.5-1.99.slink.1 (using xfree86-common_3.3.5-1.99

Re: ppp

1999-12-28 Thread hypnos
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Nathan York wrote: > how do i invoke a ppp conection from the command line. i have already > setup the connection via pppconfig. now i need to know how to get it to > dial. To initiate a ppp connection, use 'pon'. I believe that, by default, regular users do not have acces

SquidGuard without libdb2 in /usr/local?

1999-12-28 Thread Beiad Ian Q. Dalton
I'm trying to build squidguard but am running into a little problem. It depends on libdb2, but the congigure script fails on Debian's libdb2 and libdb2-dev packages installed, saying the berkley DB package isn't installed. I'd like to build squidguard without having to have the packages under /us

Re: Troubles with moving /var

1999-12-28 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 09:58:51PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote > *- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Troubles with moving /var" > > On 20/12/99 aphro wrote: > > > >> > >>cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar > >>command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted i

Re: ppp

1999-12-28 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that pon should do it. IIRC, plog will tell you what is happening. > how do i invoke a ppp conection from the command line. i have already > setup the connection via pppconfig. now i need to know how to get it to > dial. >

System hangs on boot

1999-12-28 Thread Alec Smith
For Christmas I got my hands on a Yamaha CRW6416S (SCSI-2 CD-RW) and Toshiba XM-6401TA (SCSI-2 CD-ROM) drives. They're running off an Advansys UltraWide SCSI controller (940UW). When I boot Linux, my machine hangs after detecting the CD-RW drive. As far as I can tell, termination is ok... The

Problem with key not repeating on X

1999-12-28 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I just upgraded to potato and have a small problem... The key I press isn't repeated as I keep depressing it. I have to lift and press again. I have the same problem irrespective of whether I run fvwm95 or afterstep. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -Rajesh

ppp

1999-12-28 Thread Nathan York
how do i invoke a ppp conection from the command line. i have already setup the connection via pppconfig. now i need to know how to get it to dial. -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing MSIE's Search Bar under Linux

1999-12-28 Thread Nitebirdz
Bart, I haven't seen anything similar in Linux yet... with the exception of the new Mozilla build (M12). Granted it is not even beta yet, but rather in alpha, but it does have the feature you mention. If you are willing to run some buggy software, go ahead and point your browser to http:

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-28 Thread Joseph Carter
--SWsnvgFfkTS2ATo5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:24:02PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Well, IIRC we don't ship the game at all, we only ship the "engine".=20 > Without the 200MB data from the original CD (that

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Supported Laptops?

1999-12-28 Thread koyote
> I am a reseller of COMPAQ, HP, IBM and Toshiba laptops, and would like to > know if their current products are compatible with Debian GNU/Linux ? > > I have not found any reference to this on their respective homepages, and > this question is important to potentially 450 units that 1 of my c

Heimdal

1999-12-28 Thread Brian May
Hello All, I have uploaded heimdal to non-us. Hopefully, this upload worked, and doesn't try to put it into the wrong place... Known problems: - debconf setup not properly implemented yet. - kdc package not yet tested. - still considering moving files from /usr/bin to /usr/lib/heimdal-clients

Re: softupdates for ext2fs? (was: fstab - `defaults' and `sync')

1999-12-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On 27/12/99 Arcady Genkin wrote: On a side note, there is such thing as `softupdates' developed in FreeBSD. Apparently, it allows synced disk I/O comparable in speed to memory-based (async). Is anything like that going to be implemented for ext2fs? I thought i read on BSD docs (this was OpenBS

BIND problem fixed i think

1999-12-28 Thread aphro
god damnit. i hate it when this happens. it appears that my ISP changed the ips of their DNS *again* without telling me so when it came time to do zone transfers my system denied the new ip address. so i think thats what was causing the reverse DNS to be screwed up..wasnt the upgrade after all(y

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