Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Gary Hennigan writes: > 'apt-get upgrade' dutifully notices this and upgrades your > kernel-image. BAM! Your custom kernel and all the changes are wiped in > one fell swoop. Which he deserves for not putting his local customized kernel source in /usr/local/src. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Da

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Ron Rademaker writes: > Your story is right if you install kernel-images, not if, like I always > do, download source code untar and gunzip it and ... Kernel-package does not require Debian kernel sources. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: X and sound settings

2000-02-14 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Patrick Kirk said > Having had a Linux server for a couple of years, I now want to make Debian > the main OS on my desktop machine. I have a CTX 1451 monitor which does > 1024 x 768 under Windows. I can't get a decent resolution under X. > > Anyone know which setting I

fonts gone wierd in wine

2000-02-14 Thread hawk
OK, who ate my fonts. After another round with dselect, my fonts have gone wierd in wine. Except for printing, wine runs my program reasonably well. But all of a sudden, the fonts it uses have been eaten. I now get a wierd semi-italic san serif instead of (i think it was) courier, and get to

debian training/certification?

2000-02-14 Thread john smith
hello, I would like to know if there are any institutions/organizations that offers debian training/certification in the U.S. thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Freeze due to video card?

2000-02-14 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Alberto, On 14-Feb-00, you wrote: AB> AB> Hello, AB> AB> I'm experiencing a very nasty freezing of my computer, connected to AB> video modes: AB> I've got an S3 Virge/DX, chipset 86C375 with 4Mb memory. I use the AB> SVGA driver. AB> No problem at all as long as I run @ 800X600 8bpp. AB>

vga font in X

2000-02-14 Thread Karl M Yerkes
Does anybody know a font that can be used in an xterm that supports vga/console type colors? I'm tired of vim syntax highlighting being all sybolic. karl yerkes

g+s on home dirs

2000-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
My newer debian installs have home directories that have the sgid bit set on them. Of course, that makes all new files and directories added to the home be owned by your group. But I don't see what particular advantage forcing that gains us. Can someone fill me in? -- see shy jo

gtk

2000-02-14 Thread Karl M Yerkes
i am trying to install nmapfe and it's asking for gtk stuff. What is the package that contains gtk? Is gtk just a library? karl yerkes

Re: Printing broken by email fix?

2000-02-14 Thread Douglas M. Hespe
Hi All, This is a reply to my own post, FWIW. The problem seems not to have been in email at all, but in Wordperfect8. The solution seems to have been to use the postscript pass-through printer within the Wordperfect setup stuff-- backing out the network changes suggested by LG #43 made no diffe

Need qt1 & qt2 to set up KDE in Enlightenment.Where??

2000-02-14 Thread John Foster
I have installed KDE as an addition to Enlightenment. Many of the apps require qt1 or qt2. The potato installation seems to indicate that both qt1 &qt2 are installed as libqt1 & libqt2. However KDE doese not recognize thse as clearing the dependencies. Is a symlink the solution? If so, where to put

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:07:46PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi Lee, > > So, when I do a dpkg -i kernel_image, would this allowed > me to install the modules one by one or it would just > install all the modules that I configure to build before > rebuilding the kernel? dpkg -i inst

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:28:16PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: : Your story is right if you install kernel-images, not if, like I always : do, download source code untar and gunzip it and ... Gosh, I wish I'd known that before I built 30 or so kernels using kernel-package and the tarballs from www

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:13:53PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: [ snip] : make-kpkg is a nice piece of software, and IMHO, well worth looking : into if you're using Debian and like keeping up your own kernels. Besides, kernel-package lets you leverage your (or your friend's) fast machine for buildi

HOT OPENINGS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS!!!

2000-02-14 Thread jobs
* * HOT JOB OPENINGS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS * * Exciting opportunities have just opened up in Austin, Texas. If you are thinking of making a career change

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:13:53PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > make-kpkg is a nice piece of software, and IMHO, well worth looking > into if you're using Debian and like keeping up your own kernels. Indeed, after avoiding it for months, I finally actually built a kernel 'the debian way' and f

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Your story is right if you install kernel-images, not if, like I always do, download source code untar and gunzip it and ... On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How are you guys compiling your kernel??? > > Why don't you 'just' config the thin

RE: No internet connection with 'frozen' and 2.2.14 kernel...

2000-02-14 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I compiled the pcmcia modules and still my internet connection is down. Are there any error messages/howto files/faq that I can look at that tell me about what programs have to work for the internet connection to work ie what is so different about 2.2.14 than 2.0.36 with respect to inter

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

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

postscript printing through magicfilter fails

2000-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Hlawatsch
Still fairly new on Linux, I installed a NEC P6 printer on my Debian Linux machine. Then I used the magicfilterconfig program to install this printer. The printer works fine using: lpr (filename); if the file is a postscript file I get only the description of the postscript as a ASCII but no Post

Re: Debian logo et al.

2000-02-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sun, 13 Feb, 2000 à 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the > > /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in > > the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it didn't work; > > I looked in the arc

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
How are you guys compiling your kernel??? Why don't you 'just' config the thing and do: make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install After that, simply edit your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and add your modules using modprobe or insmod (you could also use modconf) an

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread John Foster
> ---STUFF SNIPPED--- > "Pleae select the directory containing the file resc1440tecra.bin" > This stumps me. How the hell should I know where that is? ---STUFF SNIPPED--- > --- but wait it's actually wanting the location of a

Re: What sends IGMP packets?

2000-02-14 Thread Anton Emmerfors
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:10:50AM +, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: > As far as I know, there is nothing wrong. Your kernel must have > been compiled with multicast support, and it is trying to "subscribe" > to the general multicast group. > > I believe the multicast RFC(s) mandates this. Win9

pcmcia and nfs

2000-02-14 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi all, I'm running unstable on my Toshiba Satellite with pcmcia support, works very good. I'm now trying to move to nfs mounted homedirs from my server. Mounting works without problem, but at boot up mountnfs.sh from /etc/init.d/ always gets executed before the pcmcia network is up. Manually addi

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Lee, So, when I do a dpkg -i kernel_image, would this allowed me to install the modules one by one or it would just install all the modules that I configure to build before rebuilding the kernel? Secondly, when I installed the module during the fresh installation, I selected a se

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi All, Thank you for the replies. I'll use the kernel-package since it will make my life easier :) Could someone send me the kernel-package/README.modules since I do not have my potato-box with me :) Thanks! Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > O

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato >>> to include IP-MASQ plus some other modu

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread Clyde Wilson
John, Your disk is bad. All disks are bad that came with the first edition of the book! New Riders feels badly about this... Go to www.newriders.com. The home page tells you how to get your free upgrade. Next time go to www.Cheapbytes.com. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Darrington, John wrote: > >

Guru challenge: hosts/networking

2000-02-14 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I have a weird problem with my DSL setup, using the DSL router in "ppp" mode. The router incorporates NAT, changing the router's IP address into a Class A private network address. The problem seems to be associated, at least in part, with my /etc/nsswitch.conf file : passwd: compat g

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
Ahh.. that's it! On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:51:35AM -, Barry Platt wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > There *is* a way to get apache/php3/mysql to play nicely without having > > to use the dl() for it in every script... I just can't for the life of > > me, remember where I made the changes so it

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:59:28 -0700 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There *is* a way to get apache/php3/mysql to play nicely without > having to use the dl() for it in every script... Add "extension=mysql.so" to /etc/php/apache/php.ini -- J C Lawrence Ho

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

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

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
I believe this is the code that was getting me into trouble, but it could be elsewhere fscanf (file, "%s", Title); fscanf (file, "%d %d %d %d %d %d", &m, &n, &it, <, &EQ, >); I was always uncomfortable with the notation esthetically, so I took advantage of the occasion to change all the i

Re: rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato > to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to > know after the kernel and some modules were built, how would > I go about install the modules.

Re: Slink -> Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Have no idea if this is the problem, but, have you compared the version of lockfile-progs? I noticed that my updated cron seemed to have issues, and that it depends on lockfile-progs now, so I wonder if the latest lockfile-progs has problems. Don't know why things would be different between kerne

rebuild kernel and modules

2000-02-14 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to know after the kernel and some modules were built, how would I go about install the modules. I learned that I can re-install the new kernel by simply dpkg -i. Bu

A-x not defined in XEmacs

2000-02-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! I have a strange problem. I have an old keyboard with only Strg Alt Space AltGr Strg beneath the other keys. I thought that I had correctly set up X because everythin works correctly. Everything? Sadly not everything. I emacs a cannot hit the alt-key (Alt_L) plus f.eg. the x-key. When I do it,

Freeze due to video card?

2000-02-14 Thread Alberto Bigazzi
Hello, I'm experiencing a very nasty freezing of my computer, connected to video modes: I've got an S3 Virge/DX, chipset 86C375 with 4Mb memory. I use the SVGA driver. No problem at all as long as I run @ 800X600 8bpp. But if I use 16bpp or 24bpp that should be well supported by the 4 Mb me

Firewall routing question.

2000-02-14 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a routing question. I have tried this in various combinations, but I don't seem to have the right one. This is my desired HW and SW configuration. o One GNU/Linux firewall machine. This also has its own IP number. This will also handle incoming email, ftp and web traffic, but that

Re: Proper location for StarOffice

2000-02-14 Thread Bob Brown
>> Original Message << On 2/14/00, 4:21:45 AM, Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Proper location for StarOffice: > I would like to give Staroffice a try. I downloaded the tar and tried to > install in /usr/local/bin as root. Hoping this w

Is console forced to tty0 by init?

2000-02-14 Thread ferret
On my system running Potato (not up-to-date because of some recent version conflicts) I have the system console redirected to serial port with append="console=ttyS1,19200", with `console on serial port' enabled in the kernel comfig. I see the kernel booting on tty0, then atyfb changing the display

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:45:55 -0800, "davidturetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: Segmentation fault davidturetsky> It looks as though I was running into problems when trying to scan an input davidturetsky> file using c notation which is less efficient of memory,

Re: 10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

2000-02-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > > lleste >Do you know? If it's possible, how does one remove EZDrive without > lleste >trashing everything on the drive? > > if you find a way lemme know ...i treid for a few hours once and couldn't > get it out. > >

software from source on debian system

2000-02-14 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i remember reading about the recommended way of installing software from source on a debian system. i'm setting up a new system and would like to folow those guidelines this time but i can't find them any longer. if this is documented somewhere, i'd very much appreciate the pointer. tia, -- A

Re: How to set LANG variable for X windows sessions started by XDM?

2000-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: >Hi All, >I need to set the LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE variables for X sessions started >by xdm in my system. How to do it? >When I set it in the /etc/profile, it is set in the xterm's but not in other >programs started eg. by menu. >Should it be set in the /etc

Re: Proper location for StarOffice

2000-02-14 Thread Bernhard Rieder
I think you have to install SO with the switch "-net" to install it for more users. Please read the docs for more information since I am not completly sure it isf is -net or /net or something else. Then you have to run setup for each user which takes about 4MB per User. I hope this helped a littl

X and sound settings

2000-02-14 Thread Patrick Kirk
Having had a Linux server for a couple of years, I now want to make Debian the main OS on my desktop machine. I have a CTX 1451 monitor which does 1024 x 768 under Windows. I can't get a decent resolution under X. Anyone know which setting I shou;d use for this? Patrick

[continued] How to set LANG variable for X window session started by XDM?

2000-02-14 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
When i kill XDM, and start X by: export LANG=pl_PL; export LC_ALL=pl_PL; export LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-2; startx everything works OK - I get the Polish characters. However, when I kill XDM, and then restart it (as root) by: export LANG=pl_PL; export LC_ALL=pl_PL; export LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-2; xdm The

Install problem on laptop Toshiba T4400sxc

2000-02-14 Thread hgh ghgh
Would you know what is going on and how I could successfully install the system? Additional Information: - I tried booting from the RESC1440 but got a computer freeze on the following message : RAMDISK:Compressed image found at block 0 Couldn't get a free page Out of memory VFS: Mounted root

Install problem on laptop Toshiba T4400sxc

2000-02-14 Thread hgh ghgh
Would you know what is going on and how I could successfully install the system? Additional Information: - I tried booting from the RESC1440 but got a computer freeze on the following message : RAMDISK:Compressed image found at block 0 Couldn't get a free page Out of memory VFS: Mounted root

Freeze due to video card?

2000-02-14 Thread Alberto Bigazzi
Hello, I'm experiencing a very nasty freezing of my computer, connected to video modes: I've got an S3 Virge/DX, chipset 86C375 with 4Mb memory. I use the SVGA driver. No problem at all as long as I run @ 800X600 8bpp. But if I use 16bpp or 24bpp that should be well supported by the 4 Mb me

RE: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-14 Thread Barry Platt
Nate Duehr wrote: > There *is* a way to get apache/php3/mysql to play nicely without having > to use the dl() for it in every script... I just can't for the life of > me, remember where I made the changes so it would work. But I *know* I > found it in the configs for apache somewhere, and after c

How to set LANG variable for X windows sessions started by XDM?

2000-02-14 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to set the LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE variables for X sessions started by xdm in my system. How to do it? When I set it in the /etc/profile, it is set in the xterm's but not in other programs started eg. by menu. Should it be set in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup ? (or Xstartup_0 ?), I've

HELP: removed /var/lib/dpkg...

2000-02-14 Thread Debian Linux User
Hi, due to an damn' typo i removed my complete /var tree, including the dpkg files. I created /var/lib/dpkg/status by hand and did a deselect update to recreate the dpkg database. But when i do a 'dpkg -l' it shows nothing although lots of packages are installed. Is there any way to recreate the

Re: Out of control tcplogd

2000-02-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:21:04AM +0100, Onno wrote: > Wasn't tcplogd itself a security risk? > > I think it was on the debian-security mailing list... > yes, the problem is actually Denial of Service, all you had to do was portscan a target a couple times at once causing iplogger to go out of

Proper location for StarOffice

2000-02-14 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I would like to give Staroffice a try. I downloaded the tar and tried to install in /usr/local/bin as root. Hoping this would allow for shared use. It seems that the installation script is user-dependable, and I can only run SO as root now. Do I need an installation for each user in their respectiv

Re: PHP3 and MySQL

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
I know this sounds vague, but it's late, and I can't find it on my server box for some reason... but if it's any consolation: There *is* a way to get apache/php3/mysql to play nicely without having to use the dl() for it in every script... I just can't for the life of me, remember where I made the

Re: Slowdown on bootup

2000-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
You have a dns or network problem. Howard Mann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm suddenly experiencing a weird slowdown on bootup. > Things proceed normally until: > > Starting system log daemon : syslogd > > Then, it hangs for a long time until I get syslogd klogd > > The test of the bootup process then

Re: Display adapters: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
Actually, some variants of this card used the Permedia 2 chipset. CHECK IT! On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:30:47AM -0700, Howard Mann wrote: > sudheesh wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a display adapters "Graphics Blaster Exxtreme", and I do not know > > how to configure my system to use the

Re: gcc OK

2000-02-14 Thread dan
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 03:15:19AM -0800, davidturetsky generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Would appreciate any enlightenment on how to proceed in response > > David That message means your printer port is in ECP or EPP or EPP/ECP mode, i.e. the newer kind than the prehistorical 'Normal' type.

Re: Squid Proxy server-

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
You may also want to try to do the SHIFT-RELOAD thing. Netscape will dump its local cache of the page and also ask the proxy to force-reload the page, if I remember correctly. On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:01:38AM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: > Tom wrote: > > >Okay i have done this before but cant

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread dan
Hmm, seems like only you. It might take me 2 hours because I use download-base-put-on-future-swap-partition-install-make-swap approach, but shouldn't be impossible. If I have a clean drive in front of me, I just use ANY CD distro to quickly install it's base into a partition, download Debian base

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:02:08PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I > > was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. > > For all intents and pur

Re: gcc OK

2000-02-14 Thread aphro
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: davidt >I tried to print the output with a "lpr progout.dat" and got "parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation davidt > davidt >Would appreciate any enlightenment on how to proceed in response I believe that is a normal/s

Re: Out of control tcplogd

2000-02-14 Thread Onno
Wasn't tcplogd itself a security risk? I think it was on the debian-security mailing list... Regards, Onno At 11:07 PM 2/13/00 -0500, Mark Lynn wrote: >I have two machines running Corel Linux 1.0 (not sure which debain >release this corresponds to) and am having difficulty with >one or possib

Re: what is ginstall?

2000-02-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I have had this experience with two machines running Debian. While compiling > some apps, during 'make install', I get an error about not > finding "ginstall". I solved this by making a symlink: > > ln -s install ginstall > > Has anyone else had this problem? I take it this is not a deb

gcc OK

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
To my gcc correspondents and all   I've been trying to port some code from Visual c to gcc with the usual newbie difficulties   I rewrote some code to deal with library routines not provided by glibc and converted the c style i/o to c++ stream i/o but still ran into difficulties getting a cle

Re: Firewall question

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:26:46AM -0500, Bill White wrote: > Hi. I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should > be. > > I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers > in my living room. Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers, > one computer w

modules.dep is older than modules.conf

2000-02-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
Since my last apt-get upgrade today (potatoe) I keep getting this error message when I boot and modules are loaded. I 'touched' modules.dep to give it a newer time stamp but when I reboot it is changed back to 8 hours earlier than my boot time. This is probably happening because the boot scripts

Re: LinuxConfig

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:12:22AM -0800, aphro wrote: > linuxconf is in debian 2.2 (in beta testing now to be released soon) otehr > then that i dunno what to reccomend..after using windows for so many years > i learned not to trust GUIs whenever possible and go straight for the text > editing.. v

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread John Leget
Unfortunately the install side of things i have found to be rather rough at the edges myself. Installed debian over a year ago. And dumped the other OS. Ive been trying to create potato cd's from a copy on my HDD using "debian-cd" package. Finally mamaged to get it to a state where it creates im

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread aphro
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Darrington, John wrote: john.d >OK, so after 5 years of playing with slackware and Red Hat, I decide that my john.d >next OS will be Debian --- I've seen the web page, and like the philosophy john.d >and want to get started. The usenet reports that Debian is so difficult t

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
* Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) [000213 23:01] penned: > Unfortunately, you got bit by the "New Riders" bug. They screwed up with > the CD that comes with that book. I hear they'll ship you another CD if > you contact them. > Although we've been doing a non-official debian mirror where I work (a

Re: HELP HELP HELP

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > I accidentally pushed the reset button! > This resulted in a lot of errors in the disk and > several files lost. > > Could anybody tell me how to check the system consistency? > a. Linux distros ty

Re: V2.2.14 and X

2000-02-14 Thread aphro
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, j way wrote: jlw948 >Hi, my compiled kernel 2.2.14 runs fine except can't find X anymore. The old kernel jlw948 >2.2.14 from dists still runs X ok still. What should I read or do? jlw948 >TIA, John W. jlw948 > make sure you got networkign support in the new kernel. X is

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:05:14AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: > At 08:49 AM 1/19/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > >You have an interesting idea, but it won't work in my case. I have to > >put this between a pair of Cisco routers running EIGRP. They won't see > >each other if the router discovery pac

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:03:16AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: > Because of an upgrade of our computer network I must > run the primary and secondary DNS one 1 server with > two NIC's for a while... > > Has anyone experiance with this? > > My guess would be to run named twice and > point to two c

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
Check http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors I crashed my disk repartitioning it for Debian Linux so I don't have all the details, but I believe I paid $19.95 plus shipping. I ordered online and the order fulfillment was provided by Brandon Carter, 714-505-8915, Loki Entertainment Software, 250 El

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Darrington, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, so after 5 years of playing with slackware and Red Hat, I decide that my > next OS will be Debian --- I've seen the web page, and like the philosophy > and want to get started. The usenet reports that Debian is so difficult to > install can't all

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Unfortunately, you got bit by the "New Riders" bug. They screwed up with the CD that comes with that book. I hear they'll ship you another CD if you contact them. My first experience with Debian was a little less than a year ago. I got the 4CD set (2 binary, 2 source) from CheapBytes for a little

Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread Darrington, John
OK, so after 5 years of playing with slackware and Red Hat, I decide that my next OS will be Debian --- I've seen the web page, and like the philosophy and want to get started. The usenet reports that Debian is so difficult to install can't all be true can they? Unfortunately I've found they are

RE: No internet connection with 'frozen' and 2.2.14 kernel...

2000-02-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Feb-2000 Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ethernet connection. I have a 3Com 595 card and use the > 3Com59x.o driver module in linux. > > After I installed 'frozen' over the net, I downloaded 2.2.14 and > compiled it. > > During bootup, it recognises eth0 and prints out th

Slowdown on bootup:additional info

2000-02-14 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, Here is additional info concerning my recent post. Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages that I've not seen before : Feb 13 19:51:52 howardm kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled Feb 13 19:51:52 howardm kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 13 1

Re: Out of control tcplogd

2000-02-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:07:17PM -0500, Mark Lynn wrote: > > Obviously, I've screwed something up somewhere, but don't know what. > Any guess as to what's going on? Is there any particular significance > to port 832? I didn't see it listed in the services. What on meeko could > be attempting to

Slowdown on bootup

2000-02-14 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I'm suddenly experiencing a weird slowdown on bootup. Things proceed normally until: Starting system log daemon : syslogd Then, it hangs for a long time until I get syslogd klogd The test of the bootup process then proceeds at a _glacial_ pace until I get the login prompt. I then login O.K

RE: No internet connection with 'frozen' and 2.2.14 kernel...

2000-02-14 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I have an ethernet connection. I have a 3Com 595 card and use the 3Com59x.o driver module in linux. After I installed 'frozen' over the net, I downloaded 2.2.14 and compiled it. During bootup, it recognises eth0 and prints out the message regd the 3c59x card but then it gives me 'depmod' er

Out of control tcplogd

2000-02-14 Thread Mark Lynn
I have two machines running Corel Linux 1.0 (not sure which debain release this corresponds to) and am having difficulty with one or possibly both of them. The one machine, named kovu, started responding with "Resource temporarily unavailable" messages when I tried to perform most any task from a s

fvwm95 message

2000-02-14 Thread Jacob Schmude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi I get this fvwm95 message every time I start X. It doesn't seem to be a fatal error. the eror is: *FvwmTaskBar: Failed request: B adPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) *FvwmTa

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RE: Fashion Photographer's portfolio-Paris

2000-02-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Pollywog wrote: > These spammers must think we are fashion geeks. > > On 14-Feb-2000 Anne Perrin wrote: > > I would like to invite you to visit Karim's photographic website at > > www.karimramzi.com > Yes, that particular spam gets my vot

logfile names

2000-02-14 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I'm trying to write a script for parsing log files on a Debian Slink system, and I have a few questions: 1. When someone su's to root, where is that event logged? auth.log? 2. What exactly is the purpose of the debug file? They look like error messages, but what makes them different from th

Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

2000-02-14 Thread Bart Szyszka
> So, yes there are tools out there for the Palm. I don't know > about the Visor or any others. Handspring Visor (Deluxe is the one I want to get) has PalmOS on it and I even think that the same people who made the original Palm Pilot where the ones to make the Handspring Visor, so I'm assuming t

Re: Printing with GW?

2000-02-14 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
At 03:25 PM 2/13/00 -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Is anyone using Ghostscript (aladin, etc) to print to an HP printer? >Can you send me a listing of the gs packages installed and a copy of >your printcap? I've got an HP Deskjet 500 here, hooked up to a Debian 2.1 machine. I believe ghostscrip

RE: Fashion Photographer's portfolio-Paris

2000-02-14 Thread Pollywog
These spammers must think we are fashion geeks. -- Andrew On 14-Feb-2000 Anne Perrin wrote: > I would like to invite you to visit Karim's photographic website at > www.karimramzi.com

Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

2000-02-14 Thread Adam Shand
> I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to be > able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are there any > handhelds that Linux is able to work with? there are lots. the command line tools and libraries in the pilot-link package are what most of them are bas

Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

2000-02-14 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:20:48PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to > be able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are > there any handhelds that Linux is able to work with? I've got a Palm IIIe that I sync with a couple o

Fashion Photographer's portfolio-Paris

2000-02-14 Thread Anne Perrin
I would like to invite you to visit Karim's photographic website at www.karimramzi.com Karim Ramzi is a professional fashion and portrait photographer based in Paris, France where he has his studio. This is his official online portfolio and contacts. You can contact karim directly via h

Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

2000-02-14 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to be able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are there any handhelds that Linux is able to work with? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvanta

Re: What sends IGMP packets?

2000-02-14 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-02-11 21:16:20 +0100, Anton Emmerfors écrivait : > Since a few days something is sending out IGMP packages to 224.0.0.1 > and this is bad for several reasons. First, 224.0.0.1 is in the > private range of multicast addresses[1] (IIRC) so something must be > incorrectly configured. Second, I

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