Re: common questions -- System.map

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:41:41AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:39:19PM +, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > >3. I keep getting this error "kernel:klogd 1.3-3#3- log > > source=/proc/kmsg > > started > > "kernel: cannot find

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-15 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
Here's my color section of my .muttrc: # Color / video attribute definitions. # color hdrdefault green black color header brightyellowblack "^from:" mono header bold"^from:" color header brightyellowblack "^subject:" m

Re: SOLVED: Re: VI and .html files?

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:21:13AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > At 09:01 2000/08/09 -0400, you wrote: > >On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: > > > I've been using VI for 8 years now, but this is the first time I've ever > > > seen it have this little problem. I try and VI a .html file, and I g

mutt -- in color

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
i've heard rumblings that mutt can be configured (via ~/.muttrc?) to hilite display items using color. anybody have a quickie sample to share, that does this kind of thing?

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:11:24PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > No it's not, it's a defect in the way gpm hands the mouse to svgalib. ie, > > it doesn't unless svgalib goes into graphics mode. Mercury oughtta fix > > that with another hack.. =p Put svgalib into some pathetic VGA mode

Re: tk8.0 drops /usr/bin/wish8.0 despite being in tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:19:01PM -0400, Jameson Burt wrote > Three times I entered, > dpkg -i tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb > Each time, the file >/usr/bin/wish8.0 > was not installed. > I even purged the package then reinstalled the package. > All other files were installed from tk8.0; > only this fil

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:11:42PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote > Well I broke down last night and went to wal-mart at 3:00am and bought a IDE > cd rom drive. So now everything will install but..The instructions > in the book that came with the dist. said to make a boot floppy and then > reb

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 15 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: > That's the question that I asked about originally! I was wondering > if anyone's ever used apt-move, and if they can give me some > pointers, and some things to look out for. I use it every single day. I takes the packages out from the apt cac

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> That's the question that I asked about originally! I was Adam> wondering if anyone's ever used apt-move, and if they can Adam> give me some pointers, and some things to look out for. There is also apt-proxy from woody...

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:27:10PM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > >Try also apt-move to move all the downloaded packages from > >/var/cache/apt/archives/ to a local `mirror' directory tree. You then > >then export that tree using a http or ftp server. > > That's the question that I asked about or

another XFree86 4.0.1 prob w/ mouse this time

2000-08-15 Thread Dave Wilk
Hey folks, thanks for all the folks to those you gave me hints with loading font modules in 4.0.1. I have found that after switching to a console on a virtual terminal (out of X) and back to X again, I lose my mouse! I've got a logitec mouseman that is 'autodetected' by X and works great. Howev

Re: xfs servers

2000-08-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:40:59AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > To enable the use of xfs-xtt in X the first FontPath line in > /etc/X11/XF86Config should be > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7101" Sorry. FontPath "unix/:7100" -ff --

OFFTOPIC connection attempts to napster port

2000-08-15 Thread Pollywog
Today, I have been seeing many (10 or so today) attempts to connect to my napster port (6699). What could that be about? Could it be people trying to make sure napster is really shut down? I have never run a napster server. -- Andrew

Keyboard died

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew Martin
I installed debian and went as far as to make a boot floppy and reboot the system.  When it came back up and prompted me to pick a root password the keyboard was dead.  I picked the default keyboard settings during installation.  How do I go back and change the settings?   Andrew [EMAIL PROT

Re: xfs servers

2000-08-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:44:43PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am not able to get the xfs or xfs-xtt packages to work on Potato. They > load but when I try to test them with "fslsfonts -server localhost:7100" > it fails. Also, my xterm tells me it cannot get the fonts. What do I > need to do

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:41:30PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > Florian finagled, > > > What kind of network adapter do you have? > > I expierenced similar problems with the rtl8139 driver. > > It's an etherexpress, I believe an etherexpress 10. It worked for a > month or two under FreeBSD

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 22:05 2000/08/15 -0400, you wrote: > > > Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions. > Adam Scriven said: > > How would I implement shared apt? That sounds like what I'd like to do, > > but I've never even heard of it. Orion wrote: > What I do is have /var/cache/apt/ar

Re: Licensing Information Request

2000-08-15 Thread ferret
Also, if you need the extras (such as paid per-incident technical support) you may wish to go to www.stormix.com and peruse their Debian-based commercial offerings. I believe they may be better-equipped to answer your concerns regarding the United States exports and sanctions laws. Also keep in

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew Martin
Well I broke down last night and went to wal-mart at 3:00am and bought a IDE cd rom drive. So now everything will install but..The instructions in the book that came with the dist. said to make a boot floppy and then reboot the system. I did that. Now it wants me to type in my root passw

tk8.0 drops /usr/bin/wish8.0 despite being in tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb

2000-08-15 Thread Jameson Burt
Three times I entered, dpkg -i tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb Each time, the file /usr/bin/wish8.0 was not installed. I even purged the package then reinstalled the package. All other files were installed from tk8.0; only this file /usr/bin/wish8.0 was not installed. I finally entered, dpkg -X tk8.0_

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > > Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions. > Adam Scriven said: > > > How would I implement shared apt? That sounds like what I'd like to do, > > but I've never even heard of it. Orion wrote: > What I do is have /var/cache/apt/archives as an NFS share from one >

Re: printing with SLRN-Solved!

2000-08-15 Thread Dale L . Morris
After thinking about this for a while I realized that I had installed SLRN before I had configured my printer with printtool. So I uninstalled and the reinstalled. Printing seems to work fine now. On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:18:41PM -0700 28, "Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I conf

Re: Bandwidth Usage Check-out

2000-08-15 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 15 2000, Wilson Yau wrote: > Could anyone suggest any handy GNU utilities that can investigate > the usage of the bandwidth of a network? Yes, there is a very interesting network monitor available for Debian, called iptraf. Apt-get it. :-) []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi again ... it looks to me like the SPARC is trying to boot from the network, as Christopher said, hit Stop+A or Ctrl+Break to get yourself a prompt. On the Sparc here, I have to type "n" for new command mode", and then "boot /fd" to boot from the floppy ... Andrew -

problems with cdrom (IRQ ?)

2000-08-15 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
Booting Potato on my laptop (Dell Latitude) I receive the following message hda: FUJITSU MHH2064AT, ATA DISK drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0) hdc: IRQ probe failed (0) hdc: ATAPI cdrom (?) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x17

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:18:14PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote > [snip] > > > > If your CDROM isn't an IDE or SCSI CDROM, or it's connected to > > an ISA/PNP card, then you'll definitely need rescue.bin and the > > file drivers.tgz, so that you can load the driver required for > > your CDROM and co

Re: still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-15 Thread Ashley Clark
* Mario Olimpio de Menezes in "still problems w/ horde/imp" dated * 2000/08/15 15:02 wrote: > Hi, Hi > I also put the corresponding lines in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini > for dynamic extensions (pgsql.so). It should have at least: extension=pgsql.so extension=imap.so and possibly: extensio

Re: Console display - font & line sizes

2000-08-15 Thread s. keeling
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of > lines per screen for the console?? Assuming you use lilo, man 5 lilo.conf. See the vga= line. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Softw

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I sent LSL email and they have corrected their web site to read: > > Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 CDR Intel (6 CD Set) $8.99 > Debian 2.2 Binary CDR Intel (3 CD Set) $5.50 > > So it's consistent now (and pretty cheap too). > > Next I'll email cheapbytes because they also ad

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-15 Thread Tal Danzig
Or Libranet (www.libranet.com) Libranet is potato based and has a very nice install + helixcode + kde etc. Anyway that's my (biased) opinion (read .sig) Tal On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:44:16 -0500, Charles Lewis said: > If you want a commercial distro with pure debian 2.2 (potato with 2.2.16, > h

Re: [PADS] Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg.pm

2000-08-15 Thread Ethan Pierce
This idea of User groups is great. Does anyone know where I can find a list of such events? I live in the upper valley of the VT/NH border in the states. Thanks for any info! -Ethan >>> Michael Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/15/00 07:40PM >>> >Attendees are invited to gather for dinner pri

Re: [PADS] Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg.pm

2000-08-15 Thread Michael Leone
>Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior > to the meeting at 6:30 PM at The Nile Restaurant, >120 ChestnutStreet, Philadelphia,PA. Please RSVP so >we can get an appropriate sized table. I'm in. = ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤¤º°`°º¤ Aging means your nip

Re: Debian Release

2000-08-15 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dave Whiteley wrote: > re. Release of Potato > Message to the developers > > Many thanks I propose a toast to them. I second that...

Re: Licensing Information Request

2000-08-15 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'd advice you to go to www.debian.org and read the social contract, I think it'll give you enough information. Ron Rademaker PS. Basically it says that debian is and will remain 100% free (it also says what's meant by free), and some other things... On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dompnier, Frank wrote:

Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-15 Thread jens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there Can someone explain me what a "Bus Error" is? It sounds like a new invention by Micro$oft. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1i iQA/AwUBOZnIqqFxQTtRrRT1EQIRIgCfRzbFcj9owj9bJackLZvei2RznMYAnip0 7d82M

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-15 Thread Charles Lewis
If you want a commercial distro with pure debian 2.2 (potato with 2.2.16, helix-gnome, etc), then you need to go to www.stormix.com Installation is VERY smooth and it comes with some nice add on features like a gui package manager and administration system (you don't know how hard it is for me to

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-15 Thread Charles Lewis
If you want a commercial distro with pure debian 2.2 (potato with 2.2.16, helix-gnome, etc), then you need to go to www.stormix.com Installation is VERY smooth and it comes with some nice add on features like a gui package manager and administration system (you don't know how hard it is for me to

Need help with MyODBC, iODBC, unixODBC, libiodbcinst

2000-08-15 Thread John Foster
I trying to find Debian versions of MyODBC, iODBC, unixODBC, libiodbcinst. The purpose is to be able to link MySQL databases with StarOffice 5.2 and Apache and Interchange-4.05. Any pointer will be appreciated as I have been trying to get these to compile and run from source code for 2 days. so far

Re: losing network regularly

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
jon jesticulated, >are you using dhcp at all Nope; it's a local network, and I'm the only non-windows machine (which the tech people don't like, but my boss interfered on my behalf). -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-470

Re: Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'm not sure what the 'problem' you had is was with 2.1, corel has slightly updated software but it is still based on 2.1 i wouldn't expect official 2.2 cds for a couple weeks, when 2.1 came out it took i think 3 weeks before i was able to get ahold of them. of course things may be different now.

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Orion
Adam Scriven said: > At 13:20 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: > >This is so not true. If you installed all your machines, without using any > >sort of shared local cache it would still produce less bandwidth than 1 > >week of a full local mirror. You realize it takes about 200meg/day to keep > >up wit

Re: losing network regularly

2000-08-15 Thread jbardin
are you using dhcp at all -Jonbegin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux gaming community x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jon Bardin end:vcard

Re: Bandwidth Usage Check-out

2000-08-15 Thread jbardin
try iptraf "apt-get install iptraf" -Jonbegin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux gaming community x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jon Bardin end:vcard

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 13:20 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: This is so not true. If you installed all your machines, without using any sort of shared local cache it would still produce less bandwidth than 1 week of a full local mirror. You realize it takes about 200meg/day to keep up with our archive? Ok, fair enoug

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: need to constantly force-reload networking In-Reply-To: Message from Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:54:58 +0200." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-T

Licensing Information Request

2000-08-15 Thread Dompnier, Frank
> Name: Frank Dompnier > Company Name: Talisman Energy Inc. > Address: Suite 3400, 888 3rd Street SW > Calgary, Alberta T2P 5C5 > Phone: (403) 237-1284 > Fax: (403) 237-1674 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Request type: S/W Export restrictions We are interested in purchasing Debian Linux fo

Is Debian Linux 2.2 available in San Jose, Cal.

2000-08-15 Thread Ed Burke
Since the Linux conference is running in our area this week, I thought someone or some resource would be available locally to purchase an update CD. 2.1 didn't get the job done but I'm told 2.2 should do the job. However maybe I should just jump to Corel - Not a threat, please don't consi

Don't know what this module is!

2000-08-15 Thread bsamuels
Just noticed the modprobe message in /var/log/daemon.log as shown below: Aug 15 20:34:36 DATAMAN1 nmbd[191]: Aug 15 20:34:36 DATAMAN1 nmbd[191]: * Aug 15 21:15:00 DATAMAN1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 Aug 15 21:15:06 DATAMAN1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate modul

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi John On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:48:12PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I only had one ipchains rule to turn it on, and added another to prevent > timeout on secondary ftp connections, but I don't really understand it all > yet. I might try the script below, though. What do you name it, and where >

Re: [Fwd: Installation halted by scsi failure

2000-08-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 14, 1980 at 11:05:29PM -0700, Ed Burke wrote: Wow, that means I don't exist. :) Sven -- "[Microsoft] ... guarantees 99.8% NT uptime for certain hard-/software. That's exactly the 3 minutes daily that my NT server needs to reboot."

Re: Themes in mozilla

2000-08-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:47:47AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Stuart, > > I just checked my 'dselect' again thinking it was finally updated with > mozilla, but all I am seeing is 'build m-14'... Did you do an apt-get > or dselect to get your m-17? Hi Stuart. I just download the t

statd/lockd hang?

2000-08-15 Thread Norman Walsh
Has anyone seen this? Suggestions? I've been running a Debian desktop box as a nfs-server for a while. Now I want to run nfs-client on there, too, so that I can mount a directory of my laptop and back it up (the CD burner is on the desktop). So I installed the nfs-client package and now I get:

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote, confued about why certain vendors were selling only 2 CDs: > The reason I ask is that it's time for me to buy some potato CDs, > and I'm having a difficult time deciphering know what vendors are > selling (from 2 to 4 CDs): > > www.lsl.com > >Debian 2.2 Binary CDR Intel (2 CD Set

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread John Reinke
I only had one ipchains rule to turn it on, and added another to prevent timeout on secondary ftp connections, but I don't really understand it all yet. I might try the script below, though. What do you name it, and where do you put it so it gets read? (Nice footer, BTW.) John On Tue, 15 Aug 200

Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg.pm

2000-08-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging libgnupg-perl When: Wednesday 16 Augus

Re: Quickie Kernel question

2000-08-15 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:30:15PM -0400, Tim Jump wrote: > My apologies if this is an rtfm situation, but I haven't been able to > find the answer in my all-too-brief search. > > Do I need to download the kernel-headers package to compile a > new version of the kernel? What the heck is that fo

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 08:08:15AM -0700, Stan Kaufman wrote: > This has been discussed recently on the firewalls listserv. Check out > http://geocrawler.com/lists/3/Security/90/0/ for a searchable archive; > think you'll find some answers there. (I personally am still trying to > figure this out

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > >I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for > >all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it > >would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian > >servers that are bei

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread C. Falconer
At 09:37 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian servers that are being pummelled ri

Re: Quickie Kernel question

2000-08-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tim Jump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies if this is an rtfm situation, but I haven't been able to > find the answer in my all-too-brief search. > > Do I need to download the kernel-headers package to compile a > new version of the kernel? No, just download the debianized kernel-s

Re: Quickie Kernel question

2000-08-15 Thread John Reinke
Nope. You can do this: apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 That will install a bzipped file in /usr/src which you can unzip with tar Ixvf Believe me - been there, done that, SEVERAL times in the last week. john On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Tim Jump wrote: > My apologies if this is an rtfm situatio

Re: xfs servers

2000-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try the package 'xfstt' instead of 'xfs-tt' im not sure what the difference is but ive used xfstt on about 20 different systems(all potato) with complete success, be sure to add fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype after(or before) installation. nate On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: bschr

Re: Arghh! Can't compile the kernel!

2000-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
could be a sign of bad hardware, last week i got similar symtoms from a brand new Abit BE6-II with both a P3-800 and P2-450 in it, swapped mainboards and the problem went away, piece of shit abits every single one ive ever had has failed. linux does stress a system out more then the average OS, so

Quickie Kernel question

2000-08-15 Thread Tim Jump
My apologies if this is an rtfm situation, but I haven't been able to find the answer in my all-too-brief search. Do I need to download the kernel-headers package to compile a new version of the kernel? What the heck is that for, anyway? Thanks in advance... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] Bababooey D

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

2000-08-15 Thread ferret
I had a quick look-through in my Jameco catalog but couldn't spot one. You're basically looking for a two-part ferrous oxide core with a shell that snaps around the cable. I'd expect almost any electrionic component supply store would carry them. On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > sou

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-15 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
> "WY" == Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy >> and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like "can't >> find boot image" off the HDD? WY> When the system started booting, I saw it

still problems w/ horde/imp

2000-08-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm still having problems with horde/imp with postgresql. I was able to configure horde (dpkg-reconfigure horde) and select postgresql as well as manually set imp (/etc/imp/defaults.php3) for pgsql. I also put the corresponding lines in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini for dynamic ex

Re: [Fwd: Installation halted by scsi failure

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ed Burke wrote: >There is an Adaptec 2940 / 2940W SCSI adapter card. > > When the system was started with the CD inserted I got to the > install wizard - if that's the proper terminology. As I > followed the manual and explored some, on my own, I kept coming > back to the same messag

Re: potato froze up

2000-08-15 Thread RedLance
*** ReplyToMsg: Peter Palfrader [Tue 15 Aug 2000 h. 19:26] *** >Peter> I propose four solutions to this problem. >Peter> >Peter> 1. Keep cats out of room. >Peter> 2. Disable the keyboard with a sequence of key-presses, and re-enable by >Peter>pressing a different sequence of key-pre

Re: Raid 1 Problems

2000-08-15 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
> "MK" == Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MK> Hi, I am running potato and a 2.2.16 kernel on our file server. I MK> have two raid 1 devices set up, each 10 gigs big. The problem is that it MK> does not seem to cleanly unmount/update the superblock when I MK> restart/shu

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread Andrew Martin
- Original Message - From: Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:16 PM Subject: Re: ran out of input data > I am on lunch and decided to try and find the drivers.tgz and base2_2.tgz > and I cant find them on the cd. Whe

[Fwd: Installation halted by scsi failure

2000-08-15 Thread Ed Burke
Seems I did it again. I have fixed my notes, so the returned mail shouldn't happen again! --- Begin Message --- The original message was received at Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:52:07 -0700 (PDT) from pm3-114.netgate.net [205.214.163.114] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <

Re: potato froze up

2000-08-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Peter Palfrader wrote: > From: Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linux Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Cause of mysterious lock-ups with 2.2.x kernels discovered! > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry, also dropped the Date line Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:33:20 +0

Re: potato froze up

2000-08-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Mathew! On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote: > I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, > Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a > masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver > remotely (on the other xwindo

Re: Themes in mozilla

2000-08-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Stuart, I just checked my 'dselect' again thinking it was finally updated with mozilla, but all I am seeing is 'build m-14'... Did you do an apt-get or dselect to get your m-17? tnx On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to b

Raid 1 Problems

2000-08-15 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I am running potato and a 2.2.16 kernel on our file server. I have two raid 1 devices set up, each 10 gigs big. The problem is that it does not seem to cleanly unmount/update the superblock when I restart/shutdown (although it says it does). So what happens is each startup it needs to run ch

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 09:00 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: So, with all this in mind, if you can be more specific about what you want to mirror maybe we can be more specific on how to go about doing it. Ok, sure. I should have mentioned this before, but I'm only going to do stable x86, since that's all I have arou

Re: apt-get update for frozen --> 404 not found

2000-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 08:41:49AM +0200, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > short version: > > > > i'm using frozen, and have been updating via > > apt-get update --> now, boom! 404 not found, > > for every line in /etc/apt/sources.list . . . >

potato froze up

2000-08-15 Thread Mathew Johnston
I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver remotely (on the other xwindows box, over the lan). No messages in syslog. I'd like to stop

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > Can anyone tell me how many CDs the official ISOs have for: > > - i386 main + main/non-US ( + contrib ?) > - sources > > Is contrib included as a service on official CDs like it was for > slink? > > I'm having a difficult time deciphering know what vendors are > selling (fro

quick fetchmail help ...

2000-08-15 Thread Captain Larry
hey. if anyone is there i'm helping a friend setup a multi-drop fetchmail stuff while their connectivity is down. what i need is a fetchmail config that will download all their mail from a pop3 account on their mail server and then forward it to their internal nt server (which doesn't have direc

RE: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread guillem . hernandez
> Can anyone tell me how many CDs the official ISOs have for: > > - i386 main + main/non-US ( + contrib ?) > - sources > > Is contrib included as a service on official CDs like it was for > slink? > Taken verbatim from the Release Notes for potato: The Official CD-ROM distribution ships as

xfs servers

2000-08-15 Thread Brian Schramm
I am not able to get the xfs or xfs-xtt packages to work on Potato. They load but when I try to test them with "fslsfonts -server localhost:7100" it fails. Also, my xterm tells me it cannot get the fonts. What do I need to do in order to get this working? Thanks Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation problem

2000-08-15 Thread Jeff Green
That happened to me when I managed to get the /boot (15meg) and /root (300meg) partitions the wrong way around. Jeff "I. Tura" wrote: > > >Every time I went thru it the screen keeps coming back to the same place > >asking me to install BASE system. > > Could you give more detail about th

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:19:27PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:16:16 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me how many CDs the official ISOs have for: > > > > - i386 main + main/non-US ( + contrib ?) > > - sources > > Official sets are main+contrib, which i

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq -> IP Masq in kernel

2000-08-15 Thread John Reinke
I'm not sure about the compile problems, but there are some items you'll need to include in the kernel that you don't have selected below. Look at this howto, and it goes through all the items you'll want to enable while configuring the kernel. http://www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq/howto/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:16:16 Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how many CDs the official ISOs have for: > > - i386 main + main/non-US ( + contrib ?) > - sources > I have a home made 4 CD set of binary i386 main + contrib + non-free I don't know how many CDs sources take. __ E

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-15 Thread jbardin
could this maybe be an issue of low memroy... i cant remember what classifys a machine as low memery but i know htere were lowmem rescue bins out there -Jonbegin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux

Re: installation problem

2000-08-15 Thread I. Tura
>Every time I went thru it the screen keeps coming back to the same place >asking me to install BASE system. Could you give more detail about the quoted paragraph above, please? _ \___||/ \__| els fills

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, John Reinke wrote: > I used 2.2.17pre6, and it handled compiling the modules for > CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD. Also, it sounds like there have been some > security patches and things, so it is recommended to at least use 2.2.16 or > newer. IP Masq howto I read (URL was in a prev

How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Can anyone tell me how many CDs the official ISOs have for: - i386 main + main/non-US ( + contrib ?) - sources Is contrib included as a service on official CDs like it was for slink? The reason I ask is that it's time for me to buy some potato CDs, and I'm having a difficult time deciphering

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread John Reinke
I used 2.2.17pre6, and it handled compiling the modules for CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD. Also, it sounds like there have been some security patches and things, so it is recommended to at least use 2.2.16 or newer. IP Masq howto I read (URL was in a previous message), strongly suggested 2.2.16 or newer

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Stan Kaufman wrote: > John Reinke wrote: > > > > Here's what my problem is (for those just joining): I have IP Masqing set > > up on a potato system, and everything works through it except ftp. The ftp > > clients on machines on the private network connect to external sites,

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread John Reinke
Okay, it looks like things work now. I had a two-fold problem. I'll need to know where to put things so this is all done automatically when I boot, however. The first part is that the modules weren't loading. Jason's suggestion fixed that. If I list them in /etc/modules, will they get loaded autom

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-15 Thread Stan Kaufman
John Reinke wrote: > > Here's what my problem is (for those just joining): I have IP Masqing set > up on a potato system, and everything works through it except ftp. The ftp > clients on machines on the private network connect to external sites, but > never are able to get a listing of the files o

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for > all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it > would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian > servers that are being pu

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I have just turned off telnet, wu-ftpd, and apache. I now lose my router > rapidly--loading some pages does it, apt-getupdate does it, some > webpages do it. My connection was stable for weeks before this. > > I've tried to go

RE: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing D

2000-08-15 Thread m_shapiro
Good luck! I have a 486-33, as well. I had 8MB of memory when I first installed linux and X. It worked, but not real fast. An extra 4MB helped, but I would sure like more. My system uses 72 pin SIMMS, but it wants PARITY memory. I can occaisionally find non-parity memory in 72 pin SIMMS, but

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:10:37PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > > > > Try another method of booting... maybe off the CD if you can. > > I know Debian Potato 2.2 was released yesterdady. Is there a CD image > for SPARC I can download from the Internet? cdimage.debian.org has a list of mirrors --

Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian servers that are being pummelled right now. 8-) I'd like to b

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