Re: Where is "ps" command.

2000-04-03 Thread Andrei Ivanov
procfs, if I remember correctly. To find out where a given program is located: on the debian site, under Distributions->Online package list, second form is exactly for that purpose. Andrei > Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:48:20 +1000 > From: Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subj

Where is "ps" command.

2000-04-03 Thread Brendan J Simon
I am using Debian Potato. I installed a base 2.1 system from CD and then did an "apt-get dist-upgrade". The "ps" command is not available. I thought it would be part of the base system but it appears not. What package do I need to install to get "ps" ? How can I find out this kind of informatio

trying to install mozilla

2000-04-03 Thread Attila Csosz
I tried to run mozilla M14 but I got the followin error messages.. ./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Running locate: I have.. /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.a.3 /

Re: console-data error

2000-04-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph de los Santos wrote: > hello, > >when I try to upgrade my console-data package I get the error: > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-12) ... > syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 123, > near "goto " > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib

Re: What to do when install/uninstall both fail?

2000-04-03 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Campbell wrote: > What can you do when you can neither install nor uninstall a package, > which is left broken? > > I've done this with tetex-base. Even using the force option to remove it > sith with dpkg doesn't work. > > I think I may have to make an entirely new installation of Debian

Re: Unusual Lilo "LI" problem

2000-04-03 Thread Marc Moody
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:33:56 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have'nt followed the thread, so it could be that i repeat > someones answer. But here it goes anyway: > > If you want to boot from an scsi-disk in a mixed ide-scsi setup > then do the following: > > 1. set your bios to

Re: logging password changes

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Collins
Package: libpam-modules Severity: important On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:35:13PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:31:34PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Install libpam-doc, which is more up-to-date and probably more complete > > than the above address. Adding session to the passw

Re: debian + red hat linux

2000-04-03 Thread Jonas Anderson
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi Cris, > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > /hda1 2.5 gig. debian > > /hda2 1.5 gig red hat > > /hda3 115 meg. swap. > > > > i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to > > install debian (wi

masq package

2000-04-03 Thread Beavis
i got the following trying to init. IP Masq.   ipqadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available.   any ideas why?   beavis

Re: ftp problems in masquerading with WIN box

2000-04-03 Thread sgaerner
If you are using Windows as FTP client you can also check to if this client can connect in passive mode (like the most browsers do). Sven On 03-Apr-2000 Bill wrote: > Thank you Ashley, works well, > > I'm a beginner, but I'm getting there slowly :-) > > - Original Message - > From: A

Re: HELP! (was: Er... bootable, not anymore )

2000-04-03 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Christian: I think the problem is the latest kpkg. I was getting the same unbootable kernel-image, only when "installed" the read was: "Kernel panic. No init". Try a non-debian compilation of your kernel. That appears to work. I'm sticking to a kernel-imag

HELP! (was: Er... bootable, not anymore )

2000-04-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Pernegger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:23 PM > To: Debian user list > Subject: Er... bootable, not anymore :( > Importance: High > > > Just when everything was going fine, oh well... > > I compiled yet another kernel. The

Re: C and system calls

2000-04-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any system calls to move or copy files? I know I can do it with > system("") but i don't like that solution. > > Bart rename(2), unlink(2) etc OK

Re: gnome mimetype and /etc/mailcap

2000-04-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hunter H Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where does gnome store its mailcap inforamtion? Or even its information! There are corresponding .mime and .keys file pairs in /usr/share/mime-info/. Interesting for you are the *.mime files; they are in plain ascii, of course. Greetings, joachim

boot from rescue floppy, install from cd?

2000-04-03 Thread Jordan
I got the rescue floppy .bin file and will hopefully get my sytem booted from that. Will my system recognize the cd drive (so I can do a full install) if I boot from this floppy? My system's bios doesn't have a boot from cd option. If the floppy isn't enough, what do I need to do to get the sytem b

C and system calls

2000-04-03 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, Are there any system calls to move or copy files? I know I can do it with system("") but i don't like that solution. Bart

Re: C and system calls

2000-04-03 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
"Bart Friederichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any system calls to move or copy files? I know I can do it with > system("") but i don't like that solution. For move, user rename(2). For copying, you need to do it by hand (e.g. open the from file for reading, the to file for writing, t

Re: Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: > This is a newbie question to vi: > > I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so > that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the > wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrang

ipopd and ~/mail/mbox

2000-04-03 Thread aphro
I am switching my systems over to using ~/mail/mbox instead of /var/spool/mail/$USER i configured procmail to deliver mail to ~/mail/mbox and configured pine to look to ~/mail/mbox but i cant seem to get imapd or ipopd from pine 4.21 to look there. and there seems to be very little documentation

Re: Make/makefiles

2000-04-03 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Bart, > Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can > find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive. try the info-pages on make (hope you have some kind of info-browser installed). There is a chapter at the beginning (some kind of int

RE: server die in few days

2000-04-03 Thread C. Falconer
What is the hardware? Sounds like the machine is under specced for the number of users or the amount of data you're pulling. Or that the hardware is flakey (waiting for delivery of some SMP kit to replace my P133 linux server) -- From: Madarasz Karoly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

DC390?

2000-04-03 Thread gmak
Hi, I've just been trying to install Slink (2.1r4) on Intel (actually AMD K6-3) and keep getting hung up at: DC390: 0 controllers found (or something like that). Having read the installation instructions, some of the email archives, and a HOWTO (boot parameters), I'm still stumped. I've also tr

Re: Unusual Lilo "LI" problem

2000-04-03 Thread reiner
Hi, I have'nt followed the thread, so it could be that i repeat someones answer. But here it goes anyway: If you want to boot from an scsi-disk in a mixed ide-scsi setup then do the following: 1. set your bios to boot from scsi first 2. tell LILO about this with (lilo.conf) disk=/dev/sda

USB w/ Epson Color Stylus 740 [was Re: sound hell]

2000-04-03 Thread Jason Christensen
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > so, while i'm here, i have one last thing until this whole setup is > perfect. does anyone know about the current support for USB devices? i > have an Epson Stylus Color 740 w/ USB i'm trying to get to work. > though no luck so far. can't find a HO

Re: NIC

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No, doesn't work. Must not be a supported NIC. Well it might help if you revealed what sort it is/they are. Have you looked at the ethernet HOWTO? It has a section specifically aimed at you: 3.3 The ether= thing didn't do anything for me. Why? Che

corpspeak.org

2000-04-03 Thread Jacob Kuntz
inspired by eric raymond's speach at geek pride last saturday, i decided that what the open community needed most is help communicating with corporate america. what i imagine is a website where people can look up the buzzwords and acronyms that the corporate world uses, and add new terms as we enco

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't use modules. I have my printer connected through the Zip drive > and I can use either or both without problems. This is with kernel > 2.2.14. Yes, that's what I would expect with 2.2 kernels, as in the HOWTO that Gregory quoted. But I pres

Re: daylight savings time problem with potato?

2000-04-03 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
Re potato seeming not to be handling EST correctly, I'm still confused, but I have it working okay now (with some manual intervention) and have more info ... I noticed that when I use tzconfig to set timezone to EST5EDT it copies file EST5EDT to /etc/localtime (rather than creating a link, as the

Re: logging password changes

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:50:09PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > Running current potato and I have the following in /etc/pam.d/passwd: > > password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=4 > password required pam_unix.so use_authtok md5 > > This works well for logging password-c

Re: Trying to autostart mySQL

2000-04-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to sutostart mySQL at boot up on my Corel Linux machine. I have > put the mysql.server script in /etc/init.d and I have aput a symbolic link to > it in /etc/rc3.d name S90mysql but it doesn't run on boot. I can start it by > typeing /etc/rc

boot messege: "snd: card is out of range (0-0)"

2000-04-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, since I got to setup my sound card (with ALSA), I get a warning message at boot time: "snd: card is out of range (0-0)". I couldn't trace the message to a script, but I think, it's from alsa's init script. I managed to setup the newest (woody) alsa packages and compiled the modules from

Re: fortify does not recognise my netscape

2000-04-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The newest fortify deb package (1.4.6-0.1 in woody) recognizes this > > one, if I remember right, as well as Navigator 4.72 which I use now. > > I have this one installed. And there is no newer one in woody. > Is there anywhere a 128-deb versio

how to email distribution lists...?

2000-04-03 Thread Jeff Gordon
What's the normal/usual method for sending one email to 100 folks who are not local users of the system? Is this commonly handled by a mail reader program or by a separate program on the system? (Not talking about "an interactive mail list", here, but just a one-way "distribution list".) -- -

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

2000-04-03 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:58:44PM +0100, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > Debian packagers can make more informed decisions about the filesystem > arrangement than the kernel developers and this will always be the case, > so use the "smart" tools provided with debian to ease the brain strain. > > Unless

RE: NIC

2000-04-03 Thread Chris Mason
No, doesn't work. Must not be a supported NIC. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq

...second sound/CD card...?

2000-04-03 Thread Jeff Gordon
I'm running potato on a P-120 Compaq Presario 992 box that has an on-board sound card. Under OS/2 I could never persuade the system to understand and accept the addition of a second slightly better sound card/CD controller. I'm guessing linux is smart enough to figure this out, though -- how co

Re: Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
Radim Gelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a newbie question to vi: > >I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so >that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the >wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrange the >text and want to wra

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2000-04-03 Thread Grendel
** On Apr 02, Bob Nielsen scribbled: > I just compiled a new 2.2.14 kernel after doing a new potato install and got > the message: > > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. You compiled the kernel with wrong root partition, it happens sometimes. The best bet is to use

Re: Unusual Lilo "LI" problem

2000-04-03 Thread Marc Moody
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:13:37 David Wright wrote: > > This brings up a new question. LILO > > keeps setting hda1 as the first drive. Is there a way to get it to > > think of my SCSI disc as the first drive and still have the IDE > > connected? Thanks for all your help. > > I don't think this

Re: Set user ID on execution

2000-04-03 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:57:33AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : I'm not sure about mount, but it seems to need root permission to be > : able to tell the kernel to mount/umount a filesystem (if i understand > : these sources correctly... ;) > > > Unless

Re: I have a gravis ultrasound card

2000-04-03 Thread Grendel
** On Apr 03, WINDOWS SUCK scribbled: > > - Original Message - > From: WINDOWS SUCK > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 5:15 PM > Subject: I have a gravis ultrasound card > > > how do i get it going > i have a debian 2.1 linux with a kernel 2.2.13 Get

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Apr 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gregory Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If I try to use my printer, downstream from a Zip parallel device, I get > > "Status: cannot open, /dev/lp1 - device not configured" > > > > But if I power down the Zip pre-boot, it works fine. > > > > I am ru

Re: Include directories

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > > Are you saying that the software you downloaded has .c files and some .h > > files specially for it? > > Exactly! > > > What I do in that case is to have all the .c > > and .h files in the current directory (whereever),

Re: gzip/gunzip problems

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kevin A Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 12:09 PM 3/31/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > After (ftp) downloading a .gz file and running gunzip on it I get the > > error: > > > invalid compressed data--crc error > > > > >the linux ftp client is probably in ascii-mode. set it to "bi

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:14:51PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > while () > { > s#http://209\.155\.163\.97/#http://www\.pexchange\.com/#g; > print; > } > > -- > > run it like: > $ cat small_file | ./filter_above > new_small_file ... Perl... ;) In thi

Re: serial ports faster that 38.4K?

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Conover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > How do you make the serial ports in 2.1 go faster than 38,400? The arg > spd_vhi doesn't work any more, (setserial claims its depreciated, and > it doesn't work,) but the docs claim that that is the way to do it. You said in your previous posting that

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Angus Claydon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > >hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost > > >Win95 partition) > > > > > >hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system > > >

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gregory Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If I try to use my printer, downstream from a Zip parallel device, I get > "Status: cannot open, /dev/lp1 - device not configured" > > But if I power down the Zip pre-boot, it works fine. > > I am running Debian 2.1R4. Well, yes, I think I saw you

Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-03 Thread Radim Gelner
This is a newbie question to vi: I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrange the text and want to wrap it again paragraph after paragraph to get ri

More network setups

2000-04-03 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm moving from network to network quite often and I carry my notebook with me. This leads to the need of more network setups (IP addresses, DNS, hostname, SMTP/POP server, etc). I thought, I can solve this easilly by introducing shell script, that will prompt me for a configuration and according

Re: Bandwidth Limiting ftpd?

2000-04-03 Thread Grendel
** On Apr 03, M. Tavasti scribbled: > Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know of an FTPD for debian that supports limiting > > upstream/downstream bandwidth on either a system wide or > > (preferred) user/group basis? I am currently using a cable modem > > Is it possible to

Re: NIC

2000-04-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You need to add: ether=0,0,eth1 to your kernel params. If you're using LILO to boot you can add the line: append = "ether=0,0,eth1" after the 'image=' line for your kernel (there are lots of these in Corel, so just add the 'append = ' line after each of them. Chris Mason wrote: > What's th

zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread Gregory Guthrie
If I try to use my printer, downstream from a Zip parallel device, I get "Status: cannot open, /dev/lp1 - device not configured" But if I power down the Zip pre-boot, it works fine. I am running Debian 2.1R4. Gregory Guthrie From Zip-Drive mini-HowTo: "As of kernel version 2.2.x you can do pa

Re: What to do when install/uninstall both fail?

2000-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > Before resorting to this, is there anything else I can try? Editing the database. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

info, emacs and minfo

2000-04-03 Thread mcclosk
In upgrading from slink to frozen a couple of weeks ago, I seem to have messed up my info system. This is too bad because it's the way I like best to get at documentation. I assume that the problems have to do with the shift to the /usr/share directory structure. Under slink, all the info files w

Re: I have a gravis ultrasound card

2000-04-03 Thread WINDOWS SUCK
  - Original Message - From: WINDOWS SUCK To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 5:15 PM Subject: I have a gravis ultrasound card how do i get it going i have a debian 2.1 linux with a kernel 2.2.13   help me  

Re: Unusual Lilo "LI" problem

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marc Moody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I've recently install a new potato system that's been working well for a > > > couple of weeks. Yesterday I compiled a custom kernel > > > (2.2.14) (installed using make-kpkg), and now I can't boot my Linux > > > drive. I CAN boot using the rescue f

Upgrading kernel, scsi cdrom, xcdroast

2000-04-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
A few days ago I made a fresh standard install of slink, after that I did an upgrade pointing to frozen my apt-get, which came out very smoothly (only procmail was not found). Any way, after having upgraded I decided to upgrade my kernel also, so I did "apt-get -f install kernel-source-2.2.14",

daylight savings time problem with potato?

2000-04-03 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
Arriving at work this morning I notice that my Debian box (running up-to-date potato) still thinks it's standard time. A similarly configured RedHat 6.0 box reports daylight savings time. Am I missing something? # date Mon Apr 3 09:38:53 EST 2000 # cat /etc/timezone Sys

NIC

2000-04-03 Thread Chris Mason
What's the easiest way to add a second NIC to my Corel Linux box. The first one was auot-installed during the installation of the OS, but now I have to add another PCI NIC to allow me to setup a firelwall. THanks Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 F

Re: what is the num value of "s" in -rwsr-x--- (chmod)?

2000-04-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : what is the "s" letter stand for? r stands for read access,w write, and x : access files and subdirectories, I can even c a "d" i.e. : drwxr-xr-x. what does those stand for and what are their numerical access : mode values? See "man 2 chmod" and "info ls"

What to do when install/uninstall both fail?

2000-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
What can you do when you can neither install nor uninstall a package, which is left broken? I've done this with tetex-base. Even using the force option to remove it sith with dpkg doesn't work. I think I may have to make an entirely new installation of Debian :-( Before resorting to this, is th

Re: Cannot delete a file though su.

2000-04-03 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jussi Mattila wrote: > > This happened when I tried to compile ssh2. The compilation did not work > out, so I finally decided to delete the whole directory, but there is one > file that rm refuses to delete despite all possible force options > and when I am running as root. This causes extra messa

Re: Set user ID on execution

2000-04-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
man 2 chmod Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Greetings, : Following my problem with su earlier last week, I figured I'd better get a : refresher on permissions before I really get myself in trouble. : I guess I never knew what the "s" was for in: : -rwsr-xr-x : I checked out `info

Re: Set user ID on execution

2000-04-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'm not sure about mount, but it seems to need root permission to be : able to tell the kernel to mount/umount a filesystem (if i understand : these sources correctly... ;) Unless you give user access in /etc/fstab. -- *** Running Debia

Re: debian + red hat linux

2000-04-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
I believe the man page for lilo.conf will tell you how to do this. Seems like there may be some HOWTO's that would help. Try the Kernel-HOWTO. You might have to put your kernels for both systems where the bios can find them. Something like -- /hda1 5.0 meg kernels /hda2 2.5 gig debian /hda3 1

Re: removing hard drives

2000-04-03 Thread Vitux
Chris Mason wrote: > > I had three hard drives, one boot drive and one partitioned into two. I > physically removed the second hard drive ( who needs 20GB on a linux system). > Now I get errors on boot(fsck). How do I removed the dives from the boot > sequence? > Did I do it wrong? > > Chris M

Re: removing hard drives

2000-04-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I had three hard drives, one boot drive and one partitioned into two. I > physically removed the second hard drive ( who needs 20GB on a linux system). > Now I get errors on boot(fsck). How do I removed the dives from the boot > sequence? > Did I do it wrong? > just remove the entries from /e

Cannot delete a file though su.

2000-04-03 Thread Jussi Mattila
This happened when I tried to compile ssh2. The compilation did not work out, so I finally decided to delete the whole directory, but there is one file that rm refuses to delete despite all possible force options and when I am running as root. This causes extra messages during boot up (but everyth

removing hard drives

2000-04-03 Thread Chris Mason
I had three hard drives, one boot drive and one partitioned into two. I physically removed the second hard drive ( who needs 20GB on a linux system). Now I get errors on boot(fsck). How do I removed the dives from the boot sequence? Did I do it wrong? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla,

Er... bootable, not anymore :(

2000-04-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
Just when everything was going fine, oh well... I compiled yet another kernel. The only difference being that I enabled basic sound support. When I installed the new kernel-image package, it didn't ask about making Debian bootable via floppy, so I ran mkboot manually. Now I can only boot at all u

contents-i386.gz

2000-04-03 Thread pplaw
debs, where's the "contents-i386.gz" file? (i.e., where does one get it?) ia, t. -- >> Bentley Taylor << __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

potato

2000-04-03 Thread Carlos x
When potato distribution is going to finish? Sorry for my English. In Spanish: ¿Cuando saldra la potato(debian 2.2)? Tu correo gratis en MixMail http://www.mixmail.com Inicia tu navegacion en http://www.ya.com

gnuplot 3.7, cant compile

2000-04-03 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I tried to compile gnuplot 3.7 on a debian machine runing debian 2.1r2. It gives lots of errors of the following type, on giving the command make gnuplot_x11. /usr/local/src/gnuplot-3.7/gplt_x11.c:1697: undefined reference to `XChangeProperty' /usr/local/src/gnuplot-3.7/gplt_x11.c

Re: Bandwidth Limiting ftpd?

2000-04-03 Thread M. Tavasti
Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of an FTPD for debian that supports limiting > upstream/downstream bandwidth on either a system wide or > (preferred) user/group basis? I am currently using a cable modem Is it possible to use another IP for ftp-server? If you have ftp-se

Re: debian + red hat linux

2000-04-03 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi Cris, On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /hda1 2.5 gig. debian > /hda2 1.5 gig red hat > /hda3 115 meg. swap. > > i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to > install debian (with booting from hard drive) and then install red hat linux > on the se

Re: dpkg with force option

2000-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Apr 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > My tetex installation is badly broken; I can't either remove it or > reinstall it. > > Can someone please say what is the syntax for forcing dpkg to do this? I > can't follow the description in the man page. > > Anthony > > Sorry to follow up on my own

server die in few days

2000-04-03 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello all! I configured my first linux server to provide ppp connections via modems, and samba services. Now everithing work fine, but in few days the system is overloaded and finally die for the users. The server itself is working make a super intens disk activity. Any ideas how to diagnostic an

Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file

2000-04-03 Thread Marc Haber
On 01 Apr 2000 00:37:21 +0200, you wrote: >Do you have the modules loaded? On my computer (with a p5a-board too), >it was necessary to add the modules listed below to /etc/modules: > >i2c-proc >i2c-ali15x3 >i2c-dev >w83781d >sensors >smbus >i2c-core > >With this it works. I was missing sensors and

RE: How to fix missing modules after kernel update?

2000-04-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
That did it! Thank you, Colin... Christian > -Original Message- > From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 2:05 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to fix missing modules after kernel update? > > > "Christian Pernegger" <[EMAIL PRO

cdimage problem with rsync

2000-04-03 Thread Brian Lavender
I am trying to create my own CD Image. http://cdimage.debian.org/ I am trying to run the following rsync command to update my pseudo image but I get the following error. $ rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 \ > --temp-dir=/home/brian/tmp \ > rsync.kernel.org::mirrors/debian-cd

Re: Switching to console makes X run amok

2000-04-03 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Bill! Am Son, 02 Apr 2000, schrieb Bill Alexander: > When you are in console mode, try Alt-F7 to get back to X. Sorry I forgot to mention that I tried Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Alt-F7 as well. I have this problem since I installed slink, before I had Caldera. I discussed this problem in an X-newsgro

addendum: Re: what is the num value of "s" in -rwsr-x--- (chmod)?

2000-04-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
oh - i forgot, that you also asked for the numeric value: 04000 for set-gid it is 02000 -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Re: what is the num value of "s" in -rwsr-x--- (chmod)?

2000-04-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> what is the "s" letter stand for? r stands for read access,w write, and x > access files and subdirectories, I can even c a "d" i.e. > drwxr-xr-x. what does those stand for and what are their numerical access > mode values? to further add to my question, how do I give a user access so > that h

Re: ftp problems in masquerading with WIN box

2000-04-03 Thread Bill
Thank you Ashley, works well, I'm a beginner, but I'm getting there slowly :-) - Original Message - From: Ashley Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: Re: ftp problems in masquerading with WIN box * Bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, ip_mas

Re: Set user ID on execution

2000-04-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > [set-uid theory] > OK, I understand the what you've said above, but give me an example. I have > seen what happens when /bin/su is not setuid, but WHY does it have to be > like that, and WHY does it do what it does when it's not setuid? I've seen > a lot of other binaries in this predicament

which mailing list to follow potatoe

2000-04-03 Thread Brian Lavender
I want to follow the development and evaluation of potato. Which list should I subscribe to. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

top CPU percentage off by factor of 100 on 1st iteration

2000-04-03 Thread kmself
Package: procps Version: 1:2.0.6-6 The CPU state summary for top reports percentage use values which appear to be off by a factor of 100 on the first iteration of an iterative 'top' session, or if run in one iteration in batch mode. In the example below, the actaul values should be closer to 8%

dpkg with force option

2000-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
My tetex installation is badly broken; I can't either remove it or reinstall it. Can someone please say what is the syntax for forcing dpkg to do this? I can't follow the description in the man page. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http:

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Chad, Here is a perl script that should do what you want (C is not really suited to this kind of thing). #!/usr/bin/perl while () { s#http://209\.155\.163\.97/#http://www\.pexchange\.com/#g; print; } -- run it like: $ cat small_file | ./filter_above > new_small_file It is wor

console-data error

2000-04-03 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hello, when I try to upgrade my console-data package I get the error: Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-12) ... syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 123, near "goto " BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config line 333. d

Re: Stock kernel config info?

2000-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
You will fine the file at: /boot/config-x.x.x where the x is a value of your kernel release. Johnny Terry Hancock wrote: > Is it possible to determine what the configuration settings > were for the stock kernels that Debian packages? > > I need to recompile the kernel (1st time), and I would l

Re: DHCP

2000-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
Perhaps you are using pump as the dhcp client, therefore you could probably try: pump eth0 or just: pump Hope this helps. Johnny. Chris Mason wrote: > >On a Linux box, just run dhcpc eth0, > I get "command not found" when I try that. > > > > On 01-Apr-2000 Chris Mason wrote: > > How do I forc

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-03 Thread Jeff Gordon
- Forwarded message from Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > a connection is something open, it needs (at least) two (active) ends. > otherwise it is only a route. a masq rule is (kind of) a route. >>> Thank you for helping clarify the distinction. > no problem. sorry for the ha

MST7MDT timezone broken?

2000-04-03 Thread Scott Barker
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the MST7MDT timezone, should we not be on MDT now? On my slink machines, the time correctly adjusted last night, but on my potato system, it did not. If I'm not mistaken, I'll file a bug report... -- Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Consultant http://ww

Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello everyone, we have something like 30,000 ++ small files lying around different subdirectories, named 01.cgi ++. (from Ultimate Bulletin Board, www.ultimatebb.com, and let me add that their customer support sucks and their documentation is even worse) heres an example of one :

what is the num value of "s" in -rwsr-x--- (chmod)?

2000-04-03 Thread john smith
what is the "s" letter stand for? r stands for read access,w write, and x access files and subdirectories, I can even c a "d" i.e. drwxr-xr-x. what does those stand for and what are their numerical access mode values? to further add to my question, how do I give a user access so that he/she will

Re: Where's gimp1.1?

2000-04-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 19:52:11 Sean Johnson wrote: > Has anybody else noticed that gimp1.1 has completely vanished?? > > Any ideas oh where it went or what happened? > > And this isn't a dropped package ordeal, as it has vanished from woody. > > Sean Well, that's interesting. I just noticed that

Re: dhcpcd

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Baker
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, kometboy wrote: > I conclude from this that I don't know what I'm doing with dhcpcd > (networking is my weakest area of Linux), and that my other two machines > are working quite by coincidence. I'm using roadrunner, and it works > fine with dhcpcd on the two machines that have

Errors from manuals

2000-04-03 Thread Maurizio Boriani
Hi to all, I've upgraded my slink to potato using apt-get and now if I use man it tell me that this manual page don't exist (in /usr/man it exist), it's posiible which there isn't the man index. In fact if I use mandb it do the following response: (699-0) nt-maurizio-ttyp1 [~]#m

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