Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-08 Thread Corey Popelier
When its done just run make bzlilo, and then if you want to be really careful run lilo. But make bzlilo should be enough to reboot with your new kernel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello

Re: Database program

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Thompson
The spreadsheet "tsiag" the console version of siag spreadsheet from the Siag Office Suite might fit your needs, I use it for my bookkeeping applications. It will save your data in a variety of formats and has minimal memory needs. A simple but fast database I use is NoSql, a flat file dat

begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which one?

Cant find bzImage

2000-07-08 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing.

Using ATI's All-in-Wonder 128 16mb to capture videos...?

2000-07-08 Thread Rafael Maximino Dib Goncalves
Hi, I was wondering how could I use my recently acquired ati all-in-wonder 16mb to capture videos on linux... I've searched around and found some projects such as linuxvideo.org, broadcast 2000 and other stuff, but even being able to run some as bcast2000, I couldn't capture, and I dunno wh

Re: Font corruption under X - possibly solved!

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Mike Werner wrote: > Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > Try it and let us know. > > If I can ever get the package downloaded I will - I'm currently getting > *really* low throughput. It's now installed. I ran the combo that eariler caused that corruption instant

Re: line drops

2000-07-08 Thread Patrick Barr
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:35:27 Brent wrote: > Hi > I was wondering how come when i dial into my service provider and then i > startx the line drops. > But when i startx and then dial into the service provider i have no > problems. > I have a friend that also uses debian but he does not have the pro

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to > > double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the > > SVGA server. ::sigh:: > > Is there any reason why you don't use the specialized xserver >

Re: Potato .deb pkg install of apache/php/mod_perl/postgresql or mysql

2000-07-08 Thread Gordon Pedersen
Thanks. Your post built confidence so I waded in today. I got apache, php4 and postgresql limping along together, now working on mod_perl. I bear in mind what you said about php4, but it was already installed so I just used it for today's trial. It was easy for the first three: apt-get install

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to > double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the > SVGA server. ::sigh:: Is there any reason why you don't use the specialized xserver for your card? The package is

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Ashley Clark wrote: > What video card are you using? I noticed this on a cheap S3 > Virge/something (dx i think), upgrading my video card to a Matrox G200 > seems to have solved the problem so I suspect it had something to do > with the S3V implementation of the SVGA X server, but I'm still only >

Re: mouse problems

2000-07-08 Thread Philip O'Sullivan
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:29:10PM -0400, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > i was wondering if someone could help me get a scrolling mouse to > function properly. i read some various suggestions on how to get such a > device to work in x which suggest that it is important to make changes > in the XF86Conf

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Ashley Clark
* Mike Werner in "Font corruption under X" dated 2000/07/08 19:36 * wrote: > Hiya folks. Some time back I started having a strange and sporadic > problem with the displayed fonts in X becoming corrupted. Recently > it started happening more often. I've not been able to determine > what causes i

Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Hiya folks. Some time back I started having a strange and sporadic problem with the displayed fonts in X becoming corrupted. Recently it started happening more often. I've not been able to determine what causes it, but it happens more easily when Netscape is running. I don't think I could descr

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-08 Thread Charlie Kroeger
>If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one >of those partitions empty, Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? C.K.

Re: networking questions

2000-07-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you'll want to take a look at samba, with samba you can share your disks on your debian box to windows and the other way around AFAIK. But first off all you'll have to get the network to work. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Franco Cone wrote: > Howdy! > >I have a few networking

Re: boa & doc-central -- Work for anyone?

2000-07-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
Wouldn't you know, I found that errant "print 'DEBUG ..." line. Anyone else having problems with doc-central (v. 1.3) should comment out line 56 in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/docinfo.py (in function parse_info). Adios. -- According to MegaHAL: The emu is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear

Re: boa & doc-central -- Work for anyone?

2000-07-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:46:57AM -0500, Jim Louvau wrote: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Don't know where the problem is exactly, but I'm trying to use the new > > doc-central (in woody) with the boa server and I get the 505 error. > > > > The logs for boa a

networking questions

2000-07-08 Thread Franco Cone
Howdy! I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 networked machines (win98 & debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: 1.how do I let win98 see the debian box thru network neighborhood? 2.how do I make deb

mouse problems

2000-07-08 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
hello group, i was wondering if someone could help me get a scrolling mouse to function properly. i read some various suggestions on how to get such a device to work in x which suggest that it is important to make changes in the XF86Config file, so I did the following: in the Pointer Section i h

mouse problems

2000-07-08 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
hello group, i was wondering if someone could help me get a scrolling mouse to function properly. i read some various suggestions on how to get such a device to work in x which suggest that it is important to make changes in the XF86Config file, so I did the following: in the Pointer Section i h

older packages

2000-07-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
Where can I find older debian (woody) packages? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: Debian Printing Again

2000-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know what modconfig is, but if you select the ljet4 filter in magicfilterconfig, that should work with this printer, according to the database at www.linuxprinting.org. On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:13:42PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I was reading the list on printers and though

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:16:20PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote > C. Falconer wrote: > > At 09:55 PM 7/7/00 -0400, you wrote: > > >For example, on my box here I get: > > > > > >HAL9000:~$ mount > > >/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) > > >proc on /proc type proc (rw) > >

Re: su question

2000-07-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:22:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:14:55PM +0200, tom wrote: > > howdy guys, > > > > This is one of those things that has > > been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I > > edit files that require su privilages? (like /

Initial X Load

2000-07-08 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi I just installed Potato via apt and everything seems to go well until its all done and I go to test out the x server. I starts but I get the following error regarding my keyboard: System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compil

Debian Printing Again

2000-07-08 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I was reading the list on printers and thought I would try to setup my Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Laser Printer. I installed magicfilter and as before it wanted me reconfigure the printcap. So I ran magicfilterconfig but I had no idea what input filter to use. Also do I need to recompile or

Re: apt-get upgrade problems

2000-07-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
Gary Hennigan said: > After the keygen you'll have a file called ~/.ssh/identity.pub. Copy > the contents of that file and add it to the file on remote machines > called ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Worked great - thanks! At this point, I only have one authorized key; I presume that I'll want to set u

No booting after kernel rebuild possible

2000-07-08 Thread Christoph Walther
Hello, using Debian 2.1 from the O'Reilly-Book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux", I'm wondering about a problem after kernel rebuild, no starting neither with the new kernel nor with the old kernel is possible: Partition check: request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root d

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2000-07-08 Thread Christoph Walther
Hello, using Debian 2.1 from the O'Reilly-Book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux", I'm wondering about a problem after kernel rebuild, no starting neither with the new kernel nor with the old kernel is possible: Partition check: request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root d

RE: Debian Printing

2000-07-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Jul-2000 16:49:37 R. D. Loga wrote: > I did the stop and start as you suggested and got replies that lpd > was > stopped and started. I do not know what you mean by "You did put > printer > support in the kernel or a kernel module, right?" My understanding > is that > I am using modules an

FW: Debian Printing

2000-07-08 Thread R. D. Loga
I added the parport_pc module with modconf and my printer is working! Thanks for everyone's help. -Original Message- From: R. D. Loga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:50 AM To: Pollywog; debian-user list Subject:RE: Debian Printing I did the stop

RE: Debian Printing

2000-07-08 Thread R. D. Loga
I did the stop and start as you suggested and got replies that lpd was stopped and started. I do not know what you mean by "You did put printer support in the kernel or a kernel module, right?" My understanding is that I am using modules and I added the lp module with modconfig. Is there another

RE: Debian Printing

2000-07-08 Thread Pollywog
You should not need to reboot. I just restart my print spooler: /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.d/lprng start I believe there is also a '/etc/init.d/lprng restart' but I am not sure. You might be using a different print spooler that I use. You did put printer support in the kernel or a kernel

Re: logrotate rotating too much

2000-07-08 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 10:57:21AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > Hi all > Hi Hello :) > > My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: > Strange... my logrotate doesn't even mention exim, exim does it's log > rotation in a cron.daily/exim script here, do you have both? Oops, ther

RE: Debian Printing

2000-07-08 Thread R. D. Loga
The lp was not in my /etc/modules files so I used modconfig to add it. When rebooting, the messages indicated I had a device lp0. I then used magicfilterconfig and it complained about an existing /etc/printcap file so I renamed the existing file and used magicfilterconfig again and answered the q

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread eric k. wolven
Fernando: Yes, check "no" for DMA Enabled in kernel config. This thread about the message has appeared before. Opinion was divided whether it signaled a bad hard drive or a minor glitch. By all means, if you can exchange your hard drive easily, do. I chose to disable the DMA by default optio

Re: logrotate rotating too much

2000-07-08 Thread Ashley Clark
* Sven Burgener in "logrotate rotating too much" dated 2000/07/08 12:43 * wrote: > Hi all Hi > My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: Strange... my logrotate doesn't even mention exim, exim does it's log rotation in a cron.daily/exim script here, do you have both? > Why tho

"apropos" won't stop

2000-07-08 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hello, another really strange problem with my Debian-Potato-system: if I start "apropos [some command]" apropos just won't stop writing what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate it. "whatis" works fine. What might be the problem here? BTW: Is there a way to keep the curso

Re: Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Alec, I tried to use potato floppies from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/images-1.44 boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. What can be wrong? Quoting Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Try the Potato boot d

RE: line drops

2000-07-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Jul-2000 09:50:27 Brent wrote: > Hi > I was wondering how come when i dial into my service provider and > then i > startx the line drops. > But when i startx and then dial into the service provider i have no > problems. > I have a friend that also uses debian but he does not have the > prob

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
Dear Eric, Thank you very much for your answer.! The Ttings which are related to DMA in my present kernel configurations are the following: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y If I understand correctly your solution, I should say No to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA. Is that correct? One thi

Re: Database program

2000-07-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
I don't know about memory usage, but I think MySQL will work for you... Ron Rademaker On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use > as a personal filing system. I'll be organizing a lot of different > things that I own

restore fails

2000-07-08 Thread Werner Reisberger
I can dump file systems without problems but the restore fails. I am calling restore -ivf /dev/nst0 I can run the commands cd and ls but when I do a add file the command fails with bad name to addentry ./dir/dir2/file abort? [yn] Any ideas? Werner

HW for UPS

2000-07-08 Thread Werner Reisberger
Does someone know which UPS hardware could be used with the debian ups packet. TIA, Werner -- Werner Reisberger public-key available: voice: +41 1 3120086 Viktoriastr. 15http://www.gene.ch/mypubkey.txt CH-8057 Zurich

Database program

2000-07-08 Thread henrymar
I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use as a personal filing system. I'll be organizing a lot of different things that I own and so I anticipate that the file may become extremely large. I'm running debian on an Intel 486 with 16mg RAM. I worried that if I don

Re: mysqldump

2000-07-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi > does anyone know how I could do a dump of my database ( using mysqldump) but > i > want to leave out 1 specific table. mysqldump x specific > save echo "drop table specifi" | mysql x mysqldump x > bigdump mysql x < save rm save of course only if no write actions take place to the specific

Re: hi

2000-07-08 Thread Kevin Hutto
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Trefois wrote: > How can I run cgi scripts under apache > I have got some but they dont work. i get 500 internal server error. I am > running under windows 98 > > Thnkas for your reply, > > -- > christophe The CGI scripts will run without having to do anything. Just make sure

Re: Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Mike and all, I dont have much experience with laptops. This Armada came with a pcmpcia lan ethernet card. I installed slink and pcmcia-cs packages (and answered it's config questions). When I insert the card it not beeps it does nothing. ifconfig show me

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread eric k. wolven
Fernando: I removed the DMA option from my compilation of the kernel. I do not get those messages anymore. Eric Wolven

hi

2000-07-08 Thread Trefois
How can I run cgi scripts under apache I have got some but they dont work. i get 500 internal server error. I am running under windows 98 Thnkas for your reply, -- christophe

I: XFS

2000-07-08 Thread marco frattola
i think 64 bits refers to data structure for filesystem, not to processor internal architecture. Marco Frattola (S3 - Sviluppo Software e Sistemi) - Cubecom S.p.A. Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC 16149 GENOVA tel. 010 6591184 > > > > -Messaggio originale- > > Da: Oki DZ [ma

logrotate rotating too much

2000-07-08 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: /var/log/exim/mainlog { missingok monthly create 0664 mail mail rotate 1 } Why though does it compress exim's other log files, too?! # ls -l /var/log/exim/ total 220 -rw-rw-r--1 mail mail87254 Jul

mailman segmentation fault

2000-07-08 Thread Brian May
Hello, I can't seem to load the administration page of my mailing list any more. I always get "Internal Server Error" and "Premature end of script headers: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin" from apache. I haven't been able to find any errors from mailman. Other mailing lists work fine. strace (

HOW-TO report a bug?

2000-07-08 Thread zhaoway
Hi, I cannot report a bug using neither reportbug nor bug. The problem is that even I have set the EMAIL environment or using the --email opt to set my from: line, the bug message sent were still using my local not-FQDN hostname hence got to be rejected by Debian's SMTP server. (only that reportbu

line drops

2000-07-08 Thread Brent
Hi I was wondering how come when i dial into my service provider and then i startx the line drops. But when i startx and then dial into the service provider i have no problems. I have a friend that also uses debian but he does not have the problem i have Anothert thing is also i find is that when

I am searching IC STR-Z1505

2000-07-08 Thread KKI
Hi Folks, Please, help me and let me know where can I get the IC specified as follows:   STR-Z1505 Integrated Cirquit for SMPS impulse transformer for feeding HP LJ 6L Thank you,   ZJK or Zbigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange problem with man

2000-07-08 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:51:13AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Hello, > if I try to load a man page that does not exist I do not get the usual > "No manuel entry for XXX" but this: > > nepomuk:~# man foo > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cvsconfig.1.gz: whatis parse for > cvsconfig(1) > fail

Re: Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-08 Thread Robert Waldner
What type is the card? Slink or Potato? I succeeded installing potato on a Compaq Armada M700 with a Kingston Ether/modem-combo, so I may be of help with slightly more specific questions ;-) cheers, &rw On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:49:51 PDT, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: > Hi

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:32:32 +1200, "C. Falconer" writes: >1) Temperature... has a CPU fan, case fan, or PSU fan seized up and >died? no, all fans running fine (see <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >2) Have you changed anything recently? moved it, rebooted it, run a >new kernel? no, the hardw

Re: software watchdog

2000-07-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:33:25 EDT, paul writes: >> My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it >> will freeze completely. >> >Is there anything consistent about the behavior? How long between reboot >and freeze? Are there any error messages during startup? What >app

RE: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-08 Thread erik
HI Scott, >Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. I'm getting closer. >I compiled a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array2, placed it onto the >Rescue floppy and ran the following rdev commands on the kernel image: The >install can now see the controller and the 1 logical drive (YES)

Re: equivs problem-o

2000-07-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, Brien> dh_installchangelogs Brien> parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 5 Brien> dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure Brien> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 Brien> Error during the build process: Illegal seek at /usr/bin/equivs-build line 162

VGA consolefont wanted (acm|sfm get reset)

2000-07-08 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Holla I want to have a VGA text console. The closest I get is this setting: SCREEN_FONT=default8x9 SCREEN_FONT_MAP=cp437 APP_CHARSET_MAP=cp437 however one of them, sfm or acm, at least get reset sometimes. I am not exactly shure when. however - I always end up with this silly iso01 encodeing.

Re: su question

2000-07-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:51:49AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > But of course that's why sudo allows you to restrict usage to certain > commands defined in /etc/sudoers. Obviously this limits the compromise > even further. Being able to give certain users access to specific > commands, without gi

DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
Dear Debian users, I am running Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.15 on a Pentium II 266, 128MB. My 3 hard disks are reported at boot time as follows: hda: Maxtor 90430D3, 4028MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1023/128/63, UDMA hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A, 3067MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=779/128/63, DMA hdc: FUJITSU MPE

Re: su question

2000-07-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:55:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:28:54PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > sudo alleviates the need for this. I suggest using that where you are > > interested in an easier method. Also, sudo requires a password just like > > su, but caches t