iptables and masquerading

2001-03-19 Thread Brian May
Hello, with ipchains it was easy to list what connections where being masqueraded (IIRC ipchains -L -M). However, I have not been able to do the same thing with iptables. I see that the connection exists, by using tcpdump, eg: 16:46:57.476303 203.45.74.87.41007 > 192.168.87.130.1809: . ack 1460

Re: on upgrading to testing

2001-03-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:42:59PM -0500, Mark Hurley wrote: > > Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /us

Re: on upgrading to testing

2001-03-19 Thread rob
James D. Freels writes: > expected like libc, gcc, etc. However, there also was the perl > packages which have been reported as very buggy. I can't deal with > that. What is the status of these packages now. I don't remember problems with perl. Please refresh my memory. I can also say th

Re: Unstable, sid woody, what?

2001-03-19 Thread Mike
Jim Richardson wrote: > > Can someone give me a quick crash course on what the relationship > between the names (sid, slink, etc) and the dev_status. > i.e. Is sid the stable tree? woody is testing? I am a little confused > here. Thanks potato - current stable woody - current testing, next to be

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread Morgan Fletcher
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > The root partition is mounted read-only to start with. You need to > load a kernel module to finish booting, but it looks as though the > rescue kernel doesn't match the modules on your hard disk. > > It looks as if you may have overwritten your kernel-image package.

Re: [ISTA] confused on CIPE tunneling, please help

2001-03-19 Thread Keith
U. How is this Syty related? Keith Nick wrote: > > How do I set the follwing up for my network > > Office A > outside ip: 62.xxx.xxx.2 > isp gateway: 62.xxx.xxx.1 > lan interface: 192.168.1.1 > inside ip's: 192.168.1.0/24 > > Office B > outside ip: 64.xxx.xxx.129 > isp gateway 64.xxx.xx

Unstable, sid woody, what?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
Can someone give me a quick crash course on what the relationship between the names (sid, slink, etc) and the dev_status. i.e. Is sid the stable tree? woody is testing? I am a little confused here. Thanks -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock

confused on CIPE tunneling, please help

2001-03-19 Thread Nick
How do I set the follwing up for my network Office A outside ip: 62.xxx.xxx.2 isp gateway: 62.xxx.xxx.1 lan interface: 192.168.1.1 inside ip's: 192.168.1.0/24 Office B outside ip: 64.xxx.xxx.129 isp gateway 64.xxx.xxx.128 lan interface: 192.168.0.1 inside ip's: 192.168.0.0/24 This is an exa

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Seth Arnold
Original Poster: The cache is there so that you can back out failed upgrades. I have seen several times when a new package broke something important an older version of the package did correctly. (Example: Mutt, libiconv, a month ago or so?) This way, you can use dpkg to downgrade to an older pack

Kernel-image-2.4.2-k6 install error

2001-03-19 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, Has anyone tried to install the new 2.4.2 kernel images in unstable? I have and keep getting the error: Setting up kernel-image-2.4.2-k6 (2.4.2-1) ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.2-k6/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/root: Unknown root device

Troubles with Apache and PHP4 installs

2001-03-19 Thread jenny w
Hi! I'm kind of new to Debian. After a bit of trouble, I got things (including Apache) to work the way I expected. Then I decided to install PHP4 and troubles began. The PHP4 package install offered to run apacheconfig. I did this, and then apache wouldn't start. The weird thing is that it giv

MPEG player suggestions?! anyone?

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Livingstone
Looking for a good MPEG player.. so far i've tried XINE and PLAYMPEG and both can't rewing/forward the flick. any other suggestions?

Re: help in getting started

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:41:17AM +0530, Amit Ganpule wrote: > Dear Sir, > I have recently purchased a computer magazine along with that two CDs of > Debian were given, now I bought the magazine for the Linux CDs, but I can't > make head or tail of how to install, run or do anything with the CD

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:26:37PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > (there should only be two file i believe) into your /usr/lib/netscape/plugins > (or /usr/local/netscape/plugins as the case may be). Re-open netscape and > visit a flash site to test (for example : > http://www.odslinux.com/odsl

Re: on upgrading to testing

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:31:25PM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > libc, gcc, etc. However, there also was the perl packages which have > been reported as very buggy. I can't deal with that. What is the > status of these packages now. Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC con

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> Thank you to point me to the man command that I already know (-;. > But you not really answer to my questions. then you may want to try: man apt.conf

Re: FW: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Eric R Cheney
I'm pretty sure the DFE-530TX+ uses the RealTek rtl-8139 driverI have the same card and that is what I use the DFE-530TX (notice no '+') uses the via-rhine module (I think)... I had the DFE-530TX a year ago and used via-rhine I moved to the DFE-530TX+ specifically to get away from via-

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the YOPY > and the Agenda VR3 (for virtual reality??) claim to be the first > Linux-based PDAs. Both seem to be in short physical supply, though > the YOPY mockups show it to b

Re: bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, > Bad hard drive. badblocks shows nothing, and i have another of these 40 gig drives on a different machine that does the exact some thing. kaos:/# fsck /backup Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hdc1 contains a file system

compiling kernel modules

2001-03-19 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings again friends; thanks for the wonderful help with the rxvt-xpm. I am once again a happy X user. New problem tonight. I want to compile kernel modules for kernel version 2.2.18 using my debian unstable systems. I thought my SMP 2.4.2 system was causing problems[1] but I think it turns out

Re: lm-sensors and 2.4 kernels

2001-03-19 Thread Jens Gecius
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got this from the authors: > > "> > > Could you try it with the latest kernel and lm-sensors from CVS? > > There is a chance that this was already solved. > > Also please make sure you (or even your distribution) have applied no > other patches; mkpa

Re: New user missing his true-type fonts

2001-03-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > I did this a few months ago and wrote it down; try this and see if it > helps: > > http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html If you've got the doc-linux-text package installed, you'll find the truetype-debian howto somewhere under /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/

Re: on upgrading to testing

2001-03-19 Thread James D. Freels
The main reason I am considering going with the unstable version is to get the AA fonts in KDE 2.1. I did a "apt-get -d install kde-base" after enabling the unstable tree and hitting an "apt-get update". What I found was most of the development packages as I expected like libc, gcc, etc. However,

Re: audio cd's

2001-03-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:15:46PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: ... > >Just a wild guess: are you using rewritables? > >Rewritables are very picky. > > first time i used plain CD-R, second CD-RW.. anything i can do to make them > happy? Only newer audio-cd-players can read rewritables, and even

Re: kde virus-like menu masher

2001-03-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Nick Croft wrote: > > Debianites, > > Half the attraction of debian is the menu-update system which is activated > by apt-get or relatives. > > I've been happily working away and using either WindowMaker Afterstep or E, > mainly WindowMaker. On another machine I installed kde (kdebase_4%3a2.0.1-

Re: Debian and Trident 9385 VGA Card

2001-03-19 Thread Nate Amsden
"Greene, Sam" wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at > http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html > as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best > resolution I can get is > 640x480. I configure it for 800x600 and 16 bit color with no

Re: Problems runing xawtv

2001-03-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Stan Brown wrote: > > I have build a nice new machine with a WinTV card. Now I want to plat :-) > > Loaded the xawtv package, and when I try to run it I get: > > Script started on Mon Mar 19 20:47:29 2001 > yogi:/etc# xawtv > xawtv: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.6: cannot loa

Re: New user missing his true-type fonts

2001-03-19 Thread Paul D. Smith
I did this a few months ago and wrote it down; try this and see if it helps: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please r

Re: New user missing his true-type fonts

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:37:50PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relatively new Debian user (I converted from Mandrake a month or two > ago) and am having a lot of trouble getting true-type fonts working. I'm > running a straight, recently upgraded (vi

Re: Gnome font size settings?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:18:01PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a new machine with a nice 19" monitor, with failry high > resolutint 1920x1440. However I find the resultant fonts on the Gnome > applications to be too small, for tat matter the icons themeselves are > a bit s

Re: FW: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Carlile wrote: > I have been looking through the archive for references to the card and > driver but all I come up with are posts about how easy it is to get this > card running. People actually suggest this card to newbies because it is so Dlink changed the configurat

Gnome font size settings?

2001-03-19 Thread Stan Brown
I have a new machine with a nice 19" monitor, with failry high resolutint 1920x1440. However I find the resultant fonts on the Gnome applications to be too small, for tat matter the icons themeselves are a bit small at this resolutinn. Short of reducing the resolutin, how can I make the apps have

Re: audio cd's

2001-03-19 Thread John Griffiths
>> #cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v -dao -eject defpregap=1 -audio *.wav > >never used defpregap myself, yet. IIRQ some cdplayers could have >problems with non standard gaps. Have you tried without dao and >defpregap=1? ok i'll try... i thought DAO was needed for audio but i guess thats what -audi

Re: audio cd's

2001-03-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:41:23AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > Hi guys, apologies to those who;ve heard it all before... > > I used cd paranoia to extract a bunch of wav's from an audio cd... > > i now want to put them back onto another cd so i can play it on a stereo > > i used > > #cdrecor

Problems runing xawtv

2001-03-19 Thread Stan Brown
I have build a nice new machine with a WinTV card. Now I want to plat :-) Loaded the xawtv package, and when I try to run it I get: Script started on Mon Mar 19 20:47:29 2001 yogi:/etc# xawtv xawtv: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.6: cannot load shared object file: No such fil

FW: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
I have some more information but I'm still stumped. I found /proc/pci... I don't know why I couldn't find it before. Probably sleep deprivation. My card is listed. Here is the info: Bus 0, defice 11, function 0; Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 16) Vendor id

Re: how to enable reiserfs in 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Charles Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010319 20:05]: > I'm running a custom 2.4.2 kernel and I have a 60GB drive on which I've > successfully run mkreiserfs. However when I go to mount it as type reiserfs > it tells me reiserfs is not supported by the kernel. I've gone through > menuconfig and I can

RE: IDE burning

2001-03-19 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi If that is what you have missed (the bootparam) you can find them in the CD-burning HOWTO. it is a very good document... Edwin On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:18:19 "Price, Tim" wrote: > Hi Frederic, > > I've never used kernel SCSI-emulation, but I believe some paramters have > to > be passe

New user missing his true-type fonts

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi, I'm a relatively new Debian user (I converted from Mandrake a month or two ago) and am having a lot of trouble getting true-type fonts working. I'm running a straight, recently upgraded (via ftp.au.debian.org) version of Potato, and the S3 X Server (3.something, whichever is distributed with P

Re: Can't reach ipchains from 2.4

2001-03-19 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:58:31PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I'm trying to compile in ipchains emulation support in kernel 2.4, but > make > # xconfig has it greyed out and I have no idea what I need to enable to > get to > # it. Can someo

Re: bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
Bad hard drive. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:12:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by that i mean i > run fsck on the drive and there are errors. as soon as the fsck is finished > i run it again and there are errors again. its now

how to enable reiserfs in 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Charles Lewis
I'm running a custom 2.4.2 kernel and I have a 60GB drive on which I've successfully run mkreiserfs. However when I go to mount it as type reiserfs it tells me reiserfs is not supported by the kernel. I've gone through menuconfig and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what the secret is? -- Ch

bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, i have a 40gig IDE drive on a dual800 system running debian 2.2. bios did not detect this drive correctly. however, an fdisk on the /dev/hdb could see the drive, and i made a partition /dev/hdb1 which was all 40 gig ext2. when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by tha

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Rick Rezinas
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > think you can even create a PDF "from scratch" or from nothing. You have > to start with another file. > I have seen software to generate pdf's "on the fly", but they appear to have been templated first. rick > > Regards > Hall > > > -- > To UN

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Mar-01 Hall Stevenson wrote: > Ultimately, if you want to edit anything, you need the original. I > don't think you can even create a PDF "from scratch" or from nothing. > You have to start with another file. Well, in fact you can, if you understand the PDF format (which is far from easy), s

Re: Can't reach ipchains from 2.4

2001-03-19 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm trying to compile in ipchains emulation support in kernel 2.4, but make # xconfig has it greyed out and I have no idea what I need to enable to get to # it. Can someone point me in the right direction? You need to disable all 'iptables' suppo

Re: Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:04:20AM -0500, R. Ransbottom wrote: > I would like to convert all of my > Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 > shadow passwords. If I understand > the docs correctly all that needs doing > is to add md5 to the apropriate lines > in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login

Re: allowing ordinary user (non-root) to run apt-get...dpkg...

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:52:43AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > i suppose there are a number of solutions ... > > adding an appropriate group characteristic to > the executables and the places apt, dpkg write to > under /var and then adding users to the group... that won't do anything useful ever

Re: pam issuing cron login messages to every consol WHY!

2001-03-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:32:27AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have upgreaded to testing and have now got pam sending login messages > to every consol screen for every cron login. What is with this? How do I > get rid of it? It used to mail them to root. Make sure that you have klogd installed,

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Stan" == Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? apt-get install navigator/communicator... netscape-base-476 contains the flash plugin... Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY)

Re: change to md5 passwds

2001-03-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:06:46AM -0600, Kevin Long wrote: > I am switching a system from RH 6.0 to debian. I installed without md5 > passwords, but could not get the RH password files to log me in. > > When I ran john the ripper on the old passwd files it said something to the > effect that it

sigpipe and ssh

2001-03-19 Thread john
Hi all, I get this strange error when attempting to ssh to our name server. The connection comes and goes so fast, but when I do eventually get in (took 5 tries this time, I show the last 3): Mar 20 09:29:28 ns sshd[3879]: Accepted rsa for john from 203.45.165.254 port 40476 Mar 20 09:29:28 ns PA

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-19 Thread csj
On Monday 19 March 2001 16:02, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Friday 16 March 2001 08:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:54:50AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a Linux-based palmtop computer. Is there such > > > > an animal? I have hit a number of project

Re: Installing a new machine with a selected list of package ...

2001-03-19 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi ALL, Yeah, I think the person that kmself was resopnding to left out doing the 'apt-get update' before doing the 'dselect install'. Just to let you know, I made a script that does this if your interested in it. It just makes doing these several commands easier. You know, automate

Re: pam issuing cron login messages to every consol WHY!

2001-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:32:40PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:32:27AM -0600, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I have upgreaded to testing and have now got pam sending login messages > > to every consol screen for every cron login. What is with this?

RE: IDE burning

2001-03-19 Thread Price, Tim
Hi Frederic, I've never used kernel SCSI-emulation, but I believe some paramters have to be passed at boot time (/dev/hdaXX=SCSI or somesuch). Exact details should be in #man lilo and the appropriate kernel SCSI emulation documentation. I'm sitting in front of an NT box at work :(, or I'd tell yo

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:19:16PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Actually, assuming he's looking at a console prompt or in an xterm, you > > could probably find the right letters in the various text that's > > visible. > > And if they're not, you can try t

Re: Can't reach ipchains from 2.4

2001-03-19 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile in ipchains emulation support in kernel 2.4, > but make xconfig has it greyed out and I have no idea what I need to > enable to get to it. Can someone point me in the right direction? I believe, you can't include iptables and

Re: apt-server

2001-03-19 Thread Roberto Rosario
Let's see if this might help: I share the apt/archives directory on the firewall/fileserver via NFS with this entry: file: /etc/exports /var/cache/apt/archives 192.168.0.2(rw,no_root_squash,insecure_locks) and mount this directory on the workstations in this same location that way whene

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:47:55PM -0800, Morgan Fletcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > Boot a standalone floppy or CDR GNU/Linux system and examine your HD. > > I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot if you're running a 2.1.x kernel (TRB > > doesn't handle some instances of

Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:24:17PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Not being conversant in perl, can someone tell me what to do about the > >following error I received after the latest woody updates: <...> > I suspect testing is broken (

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse.

2001-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Hall Stevenson wrote: > Actually, assuming he's looking at a console prompt or in an xterm, you > could probably find the right letters in the various text that's > visible. And if they're not, you can try to run ls, or w, or some other commands, and once you find the letters a, s, c, and i, you'r

audio cd's

2001-03-19 Thread John Griffiths
Hi guys, apologies to those who;ve heard it all before... I used cd paranoia to extract a bunch of wav's from an audio cd... i now want to put them back onto another cd so i can play it on a stereo i used #cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v -dao -eject defpregap=1 -audio *.wav which looked fine, an

kde virus-like menu masher

2001-03-19 Thread Nick Croft
Debianites, Half the attraction of debian is the menu-update system which is activated by apt-get or relatives. I've been happily working away and using either WindowMaker Afterstep or E, mainly WindowMaker. On another machine I installed kde (kdebase_4%3a2.0.1-4) last December, and had no pr

Can't reach ipchains from 2.4

2001-03-19 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I'm trying to compile in ipchains emulation support in kernel 2.4, but make xconfig has it greyed out and I have no idea what I need to enable to get to it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich A man's

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

2001-03-19 Thread Rich Renomeron
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Usuario Universo Online wrote: > Wvdial can only be set to be run as root, isn't that right? > If it isn't so, how should you set permission to run it > without being root? I would suggest installing the sudo package. Using sudo, you can allow certain users acces

Re: lm-sensors and 2.4 kernels

2001-03-19 Thread Lee Elliott
Jens Gecius wrote: > > Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just a quick note to say I just downloaded the latest lm-sensors source > > and still get the same problem during patch generation: > > > > mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux > /tmp/sensors-patch > > > > results in > > >

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Kevin C . Krinke
IMHO, when dealing with the Flash plugin, the optimal method is to go to macromedia.com and download the flash_linux.tar.gz then extract it to a tmp dir and move the *.class and *.so files (there should only be two file i believe) into your /usr/lib/netscape/plugins (or /usr/local/netscape/plugi

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Morgan Fletcher wrote: >I am running "testing", my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't >let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove. > >I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update >&& apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got "

FW: A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
Oops! I typo'd the name of the mod. It's rtl8139.o -Original Message- From: David Carlile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:09 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: FW: A fact & a problem Hey Bob, It sounds like we are trying to install the same module. I h

Debian and Trident 9385 VGA Card

2001-03-19 Thread Greene, Sam
I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best resolution I can get is 640x480. I configure it for 800x600 and 16 bit color with no luck. Sam

FW: A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
Hey Bob, It sounds like we are trying to install the same module. I have the same kernel build as you (2.2.18pre21) if I'm not mistaken. Check the following path: /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o if it's there, try insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o Let me know if that works f

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
> > 'chattr - /sbin/lsmod' listing the appropriate attributes > > which are shows by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly > > +a. > If it would be so, would that really be a problem for root-apps? > Isn't the user root a Superuser so that he's able to do everything even > damaging the

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread Morgan Fletcher
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > Boot a standalone floppy or CDR GNU/Linux system and examine your HD. > I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot if you're running a 2.1.x kernel (TRB > doesn't handle some instances of 2.2.x ext2 filesystems), or the > LinuxCare Bootable Business Card (BBC), which uses a 2.2.x

Re: Why is /etc/inted.conf so empty?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why are so few services listed in /etc/inted.conf? Why are the ones > that are turned off by default not even thre as comments? Supply a directory listing. Note the typo in your subject. Debian doesn't install a bo

Re: A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes: > Is there anyone out there able to explain how come, installing > Debian potato on my desktop, Debian is unable to find my ethernet > Realtek 8139 PCI card while even Red Hat 6.0 was able to? What do you mean with "is unable to find"? Debian doesn't have tools, which

Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:30:28AM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have two questions: <...> > > > 2. I log in at the console, /etc

IDE burning

2001-03-19 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hello, I'm using an IDE mitsumi cr-480te cd burner. I've recompiled my kernel with scsi generic, scsi emulation and scsi cdrom support in the kernel (2.2.17 on potato) When I'm trying to burn using cdrecord or xcdroast (that's the same =), no problem to configure; the cd is burnt, but the data is

Re: any problem with security. and non-us.debian.org?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:44:44AM +0100, G.Angely ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since friday 16 in the morning, the ftp servers non-us.debian.org and > security.debian.org are not accessible. > > There is a reply to a ping (same address: 132.229.131.40), but no access > for ftp ("could not chdir t

Re: Installing a new machine with a selected list of package ...

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:36:19PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I would like to install my new laptop with the same packages as those > installed on my desktop (which is a sid debian). > > So I installed a basic potato debian without selecting any packages, then > after

Re: pam issuing cron login messages to every consol WHY!

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:32:27AM -0600, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have upgreaded to testing and have now got pam sending login messages > to every consol screen for every cron login. What is with this? How do I > get rid of it? It used to mail them to root. Redirect your syslog

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:33:21AM -0800, Morgan Fletcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am running "testing", my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't > let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove. > > I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get updat

Re: migrating a redhat box to dpkg/apt-get?

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:20:00AM -0800, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone taught a redhat box to use .deb packages instead of .rpm's? > I'm helping administer 100+ redhat boxes, and investigating the > possibility of using dpkg/apt-get, rather than rpm, for propagating > loc

How to set up an ODBC manager?

2001-03-19 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm trying to play around with writing a small ODBC client program, just to learn how the technology works. Rather unfortunately, I'm highly unclear on how to set up all of the pieces involved. I've installed the following packages on my Potato system: odbc-postgresql postgresql

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:53:38PM -0800, Corwin Grey wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:20:09PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: > > > > unable to install new version of `./sbin/lsmod': Operation not > > > permitted > > > Try 'lsattr /sbin/lsmod' and if it shows any attributes set then do >

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Actually, Acrobat DOES let one edit and manipulate (unlocked) > > pdf files. Not sure about changing fonts or replacing images, > > but a certain amount of tweaking The way I understand PDF is that it's a "universal" viewing and printing format, not an editable one. The viewer is free and

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Willi Dyck
Output of 'lsattr /sbin/lsmod': /sbin/lsmod Output of 'dpkg --purge modutils': dpkg: error processing modutils (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Still the same problem :-( On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:53:38PM

Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install (SOLVED)

2001-03-19 Thread Charles Lewis
Not sure why, but got the bright idea to kill gpm and try again. Ta-da! Apparently gpm conflicts with mdetect. I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and like Jimmy was puzzled that XF86Config-4 was not generated. Out of whim (because I tried it a few months ago and it worked) I ran dexconf (anoth

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread John Griffiths
>Actually, Acrobat DOES let one edit and manipulate (unlocked) pdf >files. Not sure about changing fonts or replacing images, but a >certain amount of tweaking > >judith lets be careful with words.. the program Acrobat "Exchange" does have a lot of feature creep. But its no substitute to lett

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:20:09PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: > > unable to install new version of `./sbin/lsmod': Operation not permitted Try 'lsattr /sbin/lsmod' and if it shows any attributes set then do 'chattr - /sbin/lsmod' listing the appropriate attributes which are shows by lsattr.

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:43:47AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I concur, and add that if it just *happens* to be an Optiplex GX1, it's > probably a 3Com 3c905B-TX. There is a Linux driver for that, 3c59x by > name. Optiplex GX100. According to one of the Dell discussion forums, it's a 3c920,

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:20:09PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: > Hi group, > > I have several problems installing the latest version of modutils. > > 1.) Output of 'apt-get install modutils': > Preparing to replace modutils 2.3.11-13.1 > (using.../modutils_2.4.2-0.bunk_i386.deb) ... > Remov

Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi group, I have several problems installing the latest version of modutils. 1.) Output of 'apt-get install modutils': Preparing to replace modutils 2.3.11-13.1 (using.../modutils_2.4.2-0.bunk_i386.deb) ... Removing obsoleted files: Unpacking replacement modutils ... dpkg: error

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree > > Looks like they rename a dir and didn't include a readme, so the > installer fails. Gah :/ It's not a package I've used myself... I use that source because the guy also packaged the

Exim, mutt and Eudora-like personalities

2001-03-19 Thread Ryan Claycamp
About five months ago, I asked how to set-up Eudora-like multiple personalities with Mutt and Exim. I received some good help, but still couldn't get it to work. People explained how to use "my_hdr From:", set use_from, and set envelope_from. I kept trying to get it to work, but nothing seemed t

Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel

2001-03-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Yes you will but you still don't need hdparm to set DMA mode. > > Kernel 2.4 is *very* good at doing that automatically, provided you have > your kernel compiled right. I had my kernel compiled with DMA support, passed some command line parameters thr

fb console weirdness

2001-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
For some reason keymaps on vc > 3 are slightly broken here, e.g. mutt doesn't recognize arrow keys, function keys codes sent to mc over ssh/telnet are all wrong... Anyone else is seeing this? If it's not just me, anyone has a fix? It's a framebuffer console (riva tnt) compiled into the kernel (2.4.

FW: FW: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread David Carlile
I don't have a /proc/pci folder. This is a pretty bare machine that I built just to use as a linux test box, so all I have in there is an AGP video card and this PCI D-Link nic card. I haven't used the card under windows, so I can't steal any IRQ info from there. When I run lsmod, it lists: nls_c

Re: Getting rid of Control-M in a file?

2001-03-19 Thread Scott_Patterson
> How do I get rid of Control-M at the end of each line in a dos > text file imported to Debian? Haven't seen this posted yet: tr -d "\r" < infile > outfile It will delete CTRL-M throughout the file though, not just the end of each line. Scott

[OT] http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2694630,00.html

2001-03-19 Thread Walter Tautz
a link that describes an implementation of SOAP ...there is also an article in the March issue of the Linux Journal...it would seem to have something to do with applications serving as envisioned by Microsoft in their .Net technology... I am not entirely clear on the history but it is an open stan

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