Re: Does Windows regenerate MBR by itself?

2000-06-09 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:47:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:33:03PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > I'm going over tomorrow to reinstall LILO for him. > > you should dd his kernel to a floppy, then use rdev to set the root > device to is real root partition. th

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-09 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian > on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would > appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware > probl

Re: purging X from debian installation

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
I am having basically the same problem, except that I built XFree86 4.0 from source and I use that as my X server. Almost all packages built against the older X libraries work fine, but dselect keeps bugging me to install these packages. Is there a way to get it to stop bugging me once and for al

purging X from debian installation

2000-06-09 Thread w trillich
i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell. i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and use only ncurses console/telnet/ssh interaction, and server software -- but when i try to zap the xlib6 packages (xlib6 and xlib6g) it wants to remove elvis, perlmagick/ libmagick and a

Re: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:03:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html Nice pages, thanks. Also look at http://www.snort.org and click on "Port Search" link for a handy search tool. -- Bob Bernstein at http://www

RE: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Bryan Scaringe
This is a scan for Sub-7, a nasty little trojan. A good place for info on what you're seening in your security logs is: http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html Whenever someone scans me for sub-7 (or any other trojan) I add their IP to my ipchains script. Today they are loo

Re: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
Just a guess, but maybe they don't like people who sent HTML mail? > Joseph Kafka wrote: > > Hello, I have been the subject of repeated scans of port 27374 on > my system by the same IP address, over and over again.What > might their intent be? Please advise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Joseph Kafka
Hello, I have been the subject of repeated scans of port 27374 on my system by the same IP address, over and over again.What might their intent be? Please advise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who/what is GR (was: Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...)

2000-06-09 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Who or what is "GR"? GR stands for General Resolution, ie. the process Debian goes through before making a vote on something.

Re: off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
X Windows was ported to OS/2. Thats why a lot of X based packages work on it. But OS/2 is not compatible with Linux unless you have the code and can work with it to run under Linux. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, john smith wrote: > this is sort of off-topic but I don't know where else to ask I would

Who/what is GR (was: Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...)

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Who or what is "GR"? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread David Blackman
In potato it's libncurses5-dev, you'll also need bin86. ===< David Blackman > - http://www.whizziwig.com=== | | /| / / _ \/ _/President | |/ |/ / ___// / Whizziwig Productions Inc. |__/|__/_/ /___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] lbh ner gbb trrxl =

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2000-06-09 Thread john mason
To Whom It May Concern: I have a Western Digital 15.4GB harddrive and a 1.6 GB harddrive.There are in a pentium 100 system.I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe without any progress.My BIOS only supports up to a 8GB harddrive and I think that is promblem,but I am not sure.I cann

Re: passwords broken

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:20:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > > Please, please help me. > > > > Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I > > had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: >MySQL is faster, but at the sake of some redundancy/features. MySQL also > has a quirky, non-free license. > >PostgreSQL is slower but is a fuller SQL implementation. It's also DFSG > free. Someone did some benchmarking awh

RE: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Jay Kelly
-Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 3:16 PM To: Dan Brosemer Subject: RE: Lost Mail?? sendmail.mc file divert(0) VERSIONID('@(#)sendmail.mc 8.11.0-1 (Debian) 2510') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
You also need to install ncurses-dev or whatever it is called. I ran into this yesterday. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, deja luser wrote: > Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new > kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I > should

Re: passwords broken

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Please, please help me. > > Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I > had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped and > started the computer, and when it came back up I got the usual fs

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with > > the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent > > attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line > > > > "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" > > >

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I'm worried about loosing contrib, waisting _more_ time > > supporting some non-free or contrib software, and the explosions > > of badly-made and incompatible deb packages that may result. > > Point taken. I, howe

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > tell it: > > > > /usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real > > Thanks for the answer, but it is not working :( > > Fortify says: > > "/usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real" is > n

Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

2000-06-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi rick if you want your box to automatically mount your floppy than you can do so... you might need to tweek the options and stuff - stick the floppy in... - ls -l /mnt/floppyand you see the stuff on the floppy however, popping out a mounted floppy is bad idea... you sh

Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware problems with it. Many thanks! p3 650mhz

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
Johann Spies wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:40:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to > > > fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct

Re: mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:14:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > I'd lke to be able to give one command and any files on my local server > > would be uploaded if they were newer. Any ideas? > > rsync. > > -- > Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness

Re: mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:14:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'd lke to be able to give one command and any files on my local server > would be uploaded if they were newer. Any ideas? rsync. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.e

Re: off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
john smith wrote: > > ... if software from os/2 can be ported to linux. Basically, any software can be ported. If you can get the source code... > I know that os/2 > can use enlightenment, etc so that means the libraries used are not much > different to linux??? (i'm guessing here...) The libr

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > There are many types of users that depend on Debian. Most of them probably > > have a mixture of motives that include both the political (DFSG) and the > > practical (apt rules!). However, the argument that Debian should be > > worried about keeping

potato libdb2 package missing from all ftp mirrors

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
Hello, I am trying to upgrade from Debian 2.1 to 2.2, and I am having a problem. The libdb2 package upon which many others depend is not in the right place on any debian mirror. All the links from the package download page on www.debian.org are broken. This is the error that apt-get upgrade giv

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Colin Watson wrote: > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 8 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > >> There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that > >> is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also > >> a few others that I am not aware o

mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Mason
My usual workflow is to work on a locally hosted debian/apache webserver then upload to a remote site. I would like to be able to sync the sites more easily than using an ftp program. I looked at fmirror but it only transfers remote to local, not the other way around. I'd lke to be able to give one

Re: Arbeitsspeicher nicht auf 100%

2000-06-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:27:26 +, Thomas Wild wrote: >ich bin neu in der Liste und wende mich direkt mit einem Problem an >Euch. Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not German. [Hier spricht man gemeinhin Englisch, nicht Deutsch.] >Wenn ich den TOP-Befehl eingebe, zeigt

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > Both have excellent manuals and tutorials. Being in the process of teaching myself SQL by way of PostgreSQL, I have to say that the PostgreSQL docs fall far short of my definition of "excellent". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But it does cost money to put the non-free stuff on servers Really, I don't think that's the issue. "Resources" have been mentioned, but I think the idea is more of developers' time [1]; non-free is about one-tenth the size of main, and changes relatively

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:57:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Well I put localhost in the local-host-names and then killall -HUP. I then > tried again but I had the same problem. I receive the mail but cant find it. > Any Idea's ??/ Try posting your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. -Dan > On Fri, Jun

Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have for some time been concerned about the overall size of the basic >Debian distro. I voiced that opinion and here will repost it. The >Debian distro would be best served by limiting the BASIC distro to >those main items covered by the GPL, LGPL etc. and

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Igor Mozetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, if this resolution is passed, I will consider switching to another >distribution. I have to maintain 11 Debian machines, and even so spend >quite some time on proper configuration. Before such a move, I would like >some informed suggestions about pos

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think this is a good thing. >Debian is a great distribution, and I do agree, the project shouldn't >be wasting time with bug trackking (except where its the deb that got a >problem). Um, I think that's one of the main goals of the project :) We c

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: >> > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have >> > access to Debianized packages of this non-free software? These >> > packages would simply have to be manag

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer > > > have access to Debianized packages of this non-free > > > software? These packages would simply have to be managed >

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there? edit the file. Put 'localhost' on a line of its own in the file. Then issue 'killall -HUP sendmail' as root. When you're testing fetchmail, use 'fetchmail -k' so

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: >> There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that >> is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also >> a few others that I am not aware of. The nature of the GR is to

RE: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Jay Kelly
My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there? -Original Message- From: Dan Brosemer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:23 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Lost Mail?? On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, J

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread Randy Edwards
> I wanted to setup a Apache+PHP3 Intranet Database Server, > Orcale, MySQL or PostgreSQL, which one is more easy to > learn and config also better supported by Apache+PHP3 ? As far as ease of learning I'd say they're a tossup, six in one hand, half-dozen in the other (not saying I'm an expert

passwords broken

2000-06-09 Thread Brian Stults
Please, please help me. Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped and started the computer, and when it came back up I got the usual fsck for an uncleanly umounted file system. I was required to give the ro

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hi All, > Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im using > sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my isp, I > cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking in

Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Jay Kelly
Hi All, Is it possible to tell sendmail where to store new incoming mail. Im using sendmail along with fetchmail and after my mail is retrieved from my isp, I cant seem to find it. I use mutt to read my mail and have mutt looking in /var/spool/mail/neutec but there is never any mail there. Fetchmai

Re: 2.4test1 make zImage error

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
"adam.edgar" wrote: > > I have run into a bit of a problem when compiling the test kernel > under potato. When I make zImage it runs all the way to the end and then > crashes after reporting that the system is to large. In that case, use `make bzImage`. It uses bzip2, if I'm not mistaken

Re: Us ROboTÝCS

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
I'd like to help... and so might others. However we need more precise info from you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.3com.co.uk/products/modems/prod-faxmod-ext.html <-- this is > my modem. Good for the link... > i used kppp kwdial minicom . i used all linux versions, i > compiled kernel

Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
Alan Cox sent a message that it needed to be compiled as a module. This did correct the problem. Now I need the modules parameters to define the resources. What are they for this card? >Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 14:07:27 -0400 >From: Jonathan Paul Cowherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have access to > > Debianized packages of this non-free software? These packages would simply > > have to be managed outside of the official Debian infrastruc

Re: kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Reid Sutherland wrote: > Hi Mario and thanks for the prompt reply. Hi Reid, I think the problem is not related with the number of files/dir you've in your system. Reading the inode.c you'll see that some inodes doesn't correspond to files/dir in your disk; they're emp

CONFIRM

2000-06-09 Thread neutec
-- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com

nesuss & potato - solved

2000-06-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i think. after adding a user that already existed on the system, and wiping that user's nessus config files it allowed me to connect and -- GASP -- it showed the plugins ! now if i could only get a fix to this NFS crashing issue.. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/

Arbeitsspeicher nicht auf 100%

2000-06-09 Thread Thomas Wild
Hallo Zusammen, ich bin neu in der Liste und wende mich direkt mit einem Problem an Euch. Wir haben einen Rechner (AMD Athlon 550Mhz, 128MB RAM PC133) Wenn ich den TOP-Befehl eingebe, zeigt er mir aber nur einen Memor von 64MB an. Wo bleiben die anderen 50% ? Oder muss man etwas umstellen ? V

RE: frontpage extensions for apache

2000-06-09 Thread Paul McHale
> Can anyone offer omse info on adding frontpage extensions to The easiest way I found was using mod_frontpage (www.freshmeat.net) with apache 1.3.12. The good news is the mod_frontpage is pretty much cookie cutter. The problem is 1.3.12 requires you to download the latest apache source and comp

Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread Jonathan Paul Cowherd
> > undefined reference is found with the error message below. The > > ymf_sb.c modules compiles fine and is loaded in the sound.a library. > > So why won't it link? > > drivers/sound/sound.a(sound_core.o): In function `soundcore_init': > > sound_core.o(.text+0x3e5): undefined reference to `init_y

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread Dietmar
Nobody ever had trouble with conflicting sound support of sawfish and gnome-audio in case one runs xmms? Dietmar

Re: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:36:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:12:03AM +0200, Antonio Moragues Ramón wrote: > > > grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H &> lawpc34.log & > > > > but that doesn't seem to work > > > Try grep -r lawpc34 / > lawpc34.log & > > Or: find / -exec grep l

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have access to > Debianized packages of this non-free software? These packages would simply > have to be managed outside of the official Debian infrastructure. Note the _have to_ above. Who will do this? >

Module error

2000-06-09 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I have just recompiled my kernel and after the compile I have a few module dependencies errors(ERROR MESSAGE BELOW). Im using kernel 2.2.15 with potato. What did I miss in the kernel setup. I selected DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support for my nic cards(which are working fine). For Files

Re: kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Reid Sutherland
Hi Mario and thanks for the prompt reply. My number is the same. This clue leads me to believe that I have too many files / directories on my system. Now I'm not sure, but is it one inode per file / dir? Does anyone else think that I may be maxing out my inode limit? - Original Message

RE: What hardware is supperted by Debian?

2000-06-09 Thread Stefan Ilivanov
Tell what are u have as hardware ? > Hi. > I am very interested in getting Debian, but as my computers is very new, I thought that I'd better check out what kind of hardware is supported (i.e. graphics cards, network cards, and the like). > I looked up in your FAQ page, but if it was there, I mu

auto-97 program

2000-06-09 Thread Vicente Torres
I am trying to install the AUTO-97 program (ftp://ftp.cs.concordia.ca/pub/doedel/auto) on my potato but I can not compile it. I suppose the problem is related to the libc library version. Has anyone installed it on a potato? I have spent a lot of time trying to install it so any help will be r

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 21:21:37 +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > I wanted to setup a Apache+PHP3 Intranet Database Server, Orcale, MySQL or > PostgreSQL, which one is more easy to learn and config also better > supported by Apache+PHP3 ? I haven't worked with Oracle, but I suspect it is quite complex (g

Re: Linux client for NT workgroup

2000-06-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:06:23 -0700, Peter Welte wrote: > Is it possible to configure Debian (or any other Linux > distribution for that matter) to verify logins against > a Windows NT server instead of the /etc/passwd file? Most likely, yes, by using PAM and the pam_ntdom module (http://fresh

Re: loading modules

2000-06-09 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:07:57PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > > I have found a way to get my sound card working. It seems that I just need > to load the module "esssolo1.o". > (# modprobe esssolo1). > The problem is that I have to be the root user to do this and I don't like > to do it manuall

RE: Can't get php4 to work with Apache

2000-06-09 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I just did this same sort of thing to get Imp working on a potato box. The problem I found was that Apache didn't have the php module loaded. In your /etc/apache/httpd.conf you need a line similar to: LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so But

Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread Alan Cox
> undefined reference is found with the error message below. The > ymf_sb.c modules compiles fine and is loaded in the sound.a library. > So why won't it link? > > drivers/sound/sound.a(sound_core.o): In function `soundcore_init': > sound_core.o(.text+0x3e5): undefined reference to `init_ymf7xxsb

Re: Which "baud"?

2000-06-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My the permissions for /dev/ups -> /dev/ttyS2 are: > crw-rw 1 root root 4, 66 Jun 4 13:54 /dev/ttyS2 > $sudo stty -a < /dev/ttyS2 > bash: /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied I have $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root dialout4,

Re: wheel mouse

2000-06-09 Thread Richard Dansereau
Hello! I followed some of the instructions at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ and got things working in a number of apps under X. I just changed the line Protocol"PS/2" to Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2" in my XF86Config file (you might have to c

loading modules

2000-06-09 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello Everybody, Another problem. I have found a way to get my sound card working. It seems that I just need to load the module "esssolo1.o". (# modprobe esssolo1). The problem is that I have to be the root user to do this and I don't like to do it manually. I guess there is a better way to do

Can't get php4 to work with Apache

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
I've got Apache 1.3.12 installed and working. Loaded the deb package. I installed PHP4 using the deb package also. But when I try to bring up a php page in my web browser, it gives me an unknown file type message. But I have looked in the srm.conf file and I have put 'AddType application/x-h

wheel mouse

2000-06-09 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello everybody, Same question again, I have my (Logitech) wheel mouse working for a terminal window, and that is about it. I mean, it only works for a terminal window. It doen't work when I use: Netscape, gv, xdvi, emacs, I don't understand this. The funny thing is when i do "imwheel -k"

Debian packages for gl?

2000-06-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
I think a lib or bin might have gotten nuked when I upgraded to XF86-4.0. I can't get Q2 to drop to gl mode. Anyone know which packages I need for OpenGL so I can remove, purge and re-add them? Thanks, Robert :wq! --- R

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:40:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to > > fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to > > direct Fortify.sh t

Re: Which "baud"?

2000-06-09 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for the explanations everybody. On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:18:05PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > I think I warned you not to use the -F switch in my first posting > to you. If you need to convince yourself, try typing the line you > have typed above into a VC and an xterm. Then try and exp

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Re: kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Reid, As you ask for clues, here goes my $0.02! This message comes from $KERNEL_SRC/fs/inode.c when the kernel tries to get more inode. Browsing the file I found a #define MAX_INODE (16384). What's your number? Maybe you can try increase this and see if the problem persist.

new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-09 Thread James D. Freels
I have recently upgraded my kernel to the new stable version 2.2.16. I noticed the new kernel has new support for "legacy Yamaha PCI sound", so I thought I would give it a try. There is very little documentation (only the comments in the driver code). I enable the driver in the configuration,

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with > the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent > attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line > > "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" > > or something like that.

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:54:56AM -0400, deja luser wrote: > Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new > kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I [. . .] > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No suc

kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-06-09 Thread Reid Sutherland
[Running Debian 2.2 (unstable) - with 2.2.16-ow1 (openwall.com security patch)] Hello, kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached It seems no one I've talked to can figure this error out. I'm getting this error every few days (sometimes every 5 days, sometimes in 3 days). It will start coming

Re: Where is Xdefaults? (new to X tweaking)

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> John Foster wrote: > > > > Vitux wrote: > > > > > > Hi debs > > > I thought .Xdefaults was supposed to be in /etc/X11/yadayada, > > > but I can't seem to locate it. Do I make this file myself? (I > > > *am* using the -a option with ls...) > > > Running potato, 2.2.14, Afterstep or fvwm. > > > Re

Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-09 Thread Christopher Mosley
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:59:56 -0400 (EDT) From: David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Wed,

2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" or something like that. Now I suspect the p

Re: Gnome-Language...

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello everybody, > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) : > > > > > > due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now > > > appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each > > > dialogue bo

Re: very quick question :)

2000-06-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Andrew McRobert said: > does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a > machine for a pattern e.g. "lawpc34", I've been trying: > > grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H &> lawpc34.log & > > but that doesn't seem to work grep requires that the last argument be a filespec telling it

OT: wine hangs when executing winhelp

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
I finally have wine running Quicken2000. "Help" wasn't working at all. I found that I didn't have winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe in wine's c:\windows directory. When I put either or both of these programs in place (using win95 for exe and dll), it gives this error and hangs Quicken: Xlib: unexpecte

Re: how to make *deb package from source ?

2000-06-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > I am interested how to make debian package from source - > maint-guide seems to me a good starting point. Either install it as a deb or go to www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide. -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread David Teague
Matthew, and Debian Folks, On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote, in part: > The real change is that non-free will no longer be covered by the same > bug tracking system as the rest of Debian. This will have the most > effect on the packages in the contrib section that depend on packages in

frontpage extensions for apache

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Mason
Can anyone offer omse info on adding frontpage extensions to apache whch has been installed from the package? 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 Guid

which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I wanted to setup a Apache+PHP3 Intranet Database Server, Orcale, MySQL or PostgreSQL, which one is more easy to learn and config also better supported by Apache+PHP3 ?

Re: Which "baud"?

2000-06-09 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're > the same for a port. Not for an asynchronous port. The baud rate is symbols per second and counts the start, stop, and parity bits (if any). bps is data bits per second and usually works out to 80%

Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

2000-06-09 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this > information anywhere. I'm wondering what a function would be in C++ > that I could use to clear the screen at the beginning of the program > (this is just a console program).

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Ron Flory
ktb wrote: > > Andrew McRobert wrote: > > > > hi all > > > > When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, the setuid > > bit is always set for group members, ie. > > > > drwxr-sr-x > > > > umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for new files to = drwxr-xr-x ... > > and is t

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:40:17AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > AFAIK, sticky bits, setuid, setguid are "inherited" from the parent no, only setgid bits on directories are inherited by new subdirectories. the sticky bit (-t) is not inherited (see /tmp) nor is setuid. setuid/gid

Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome

2000-06-09 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:32:50PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: => Hi Glyn, => => I suspect that they just call it woody because it came after the potato => freeze - it doesn't seem to depend on anything in woody. I installed it => on a Potato system with no (significant) problems. You must have t

Re: umask

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:07:05AM +, ktb wrote: > Andrew McRobert wrote: > > > > hi all > > > > When a user creates a new directory/file in their home directory, > > the setuid bit is always set for group members, ie. > > > > drwxr-sr-x > > > > umask = 022, what do I need to set it to, for

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to > fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to > direct Fortify.sh to. I am not sure for which file Fortify is > looking. > > Can somebo

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