Re: Help with NIC configuration.

2001-08-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Have you tried running "modconf" from the command line? Mike Quoting Debian Baby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to install Woody from the ISO images, but am having trouble > configuring my network card (which is connected to my cable modem). > > When I installed Potato, the installation

Re: Help with NIC configuration.

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 16 Aug 2001 00:45:20 -0400, Debian Baby wrote: > I am trying to install Woody from the ISO images, but am having trouble > configuring my network card (which is connected to my cable modem). > > When I installed Potato, the installation process had a dialog that prompted > me to select and conf

Help with NIC configuration.

2001-08-15 Thread Debian Baby
I am trying to install Woody from the ISO images, but am having trouble configuring my network card (which is connected to my cable modem). When I installed Potato, the installation process had a dialog that prompted me to select and configure extra kernel modules - so I was able to get the ne2k-p

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 19:48:49 -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Reames) writes: > > > I seriously doubt Linux or Open Source will be ever outlawed. No > > matter what MS does. Too many companies rely on it (whether they > > admit it or not). Hotmail is still full of FreeBSD machine

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
dman wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | (snip)> In potato it is called "sawmill". Sawmill is the original name, but some company politely requested the name be changed because it was too similar to the name of one of their products. One reason

extra wide text fields in konqueror

2001-08-15 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i can't understand why the text entry fields in konqueror's html renderings (eg, a search field) are three times the width of the text it enters. is this a konq/khtml issue/problem or a font issue/problem? thanks, -c [ Structural Informatics Group ] [ Dept. of Biological Structure ] [ Universi

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Herbert Xu wrote: >On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:11:04PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > >>I tried the -386 kernel package. I no longer get "cramfs: wrong magic". >> > >Please give 2.4.8 a go. > I tried kernel-image-2.4.8-386_2.4.8-1.deb. I get same result as with 2.4.7-386 kernel. The boot hangs at

exim

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
Under Sid, exim is failing with "IPv6 socket creation failed: Invalid argument" when started via /etc/init.d/exim start or from command line as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:log]$ exim -d -bd -q5m Exim version 3.32 debug level 1 uid=0 gid=0 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 2.7

Re: booting into xdm

2001-08-15 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:20:21PM -0700, bob parker wrote: > I'm very new to Debian (Potato r3) and very impressed > with the stability. My install defaulted to booting > into xdm which I do not want as I prefer using the > command line for a lot of work. > > I got around this by mv'ing /etc/init

Re: booting into xdm

2001-08-15 Thread San Segkhoonthod
> Also how may I get back to the > command line when using xdm? All the way back, not > just using virtual terminals under X. Press Ctrl+Atl+F1 to get back console #1, Alt+F7 to back to X. san On 15 Aug 2001 20:20:21 -0700, bob parker wrote: > I'm very new to Debian (Potato r3) and very impressed

booting into xdm

2001-08-15 Thread bob parker
I'm very new to Debian (Potato r3) and very impressed with the stability. My install defaulted to booting into xdm which I do not want as I prefer using the command line for a lot of work. I got around this by mv'ing /etc/init.d/xdm to ...xdm.bak. Very much a kludge I think. What is the better wa

Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-15 Thread Jor-el
Colin, Thanks for the reply (again). I discovered that the NNTPSERVER variable was NOT being honoured (what a relief to be able to use the British spelling of 'honour' again!). In fact, even though pretty much everything you said matched the docs, the programs were refusing to cooperate.

Re: dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade

2001-08-15 Thread Randy Reames
Meanwhile, behind the facade of an innocent looking bookstore Nick Croft wrote: > Just completed the 3 day marathon dist-upgrade. > All broken packages fixed. Everything working fine! > EXCEPT > In xmms, and Enlightenment menus, there is a prob with the font which > renders each character as a squa

Re: ppp 2.4

2001-08-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ppp 2.4 Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:13:29PM -0700 In reply to:Eric Whitestone Quoting Eric Whitestone([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok, this may be a dumb question. Is there a ppp-2.4 debian package? I > upgraded to kernel 2.4.8 and someone told me i need ppp 2.4. I checked a

Re: dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade

2001-08-15 Thread Nick Croft
..PS upgraded to unstable

dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade

2001-08-15 Thread Nick Croft
Just completed the 3 day marathon dist-upgrade. All broken packages fixed. Everything working fine! EXCEPT In xmms, and Enlightenment menus, there is a prob with the font which renders each character as a square, made of dots. I know that all the font packages were updated, and update-font-alias w

RE: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
> >To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the > >original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how to run > >netscape as root, and wouldn't have had to trouble the list at all. For the record, I am coding a personal website, the output from which I need to view/test

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: (sn ip) > "for firewall duties"... there should NOT be ppp config setup... > as ppp is insecure ( login/passwd in clear text ) and anybody > can login from anywhere... ?? (snip) PAP and CHAP are okay, aren't they? -- Mark

Re: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?

2001-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrew if you wanna know if you were cracked/hacked... its too late if you did not save the state of your machine before you went live - if you can compare your binaries to the live cdrom install than you can still check if the binaries were replaced... - lots

Re: gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:29:46PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > running X 4.1, and that didn't seem to do the trick. I tried > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > as well, which it at least accepted, but didn't work. Seems to move the > pointer up when I scroll up (but not down when scroll down

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick you should copy the entire /etc directory its typically 50K in etc.tgz format .. put it on floppy ! sicne there are other files ( /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow that you already missed that you might wnt to keep...else you'd have to ask everybody to recreate their passwds and us

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-15 Thread adcarlson
I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8 months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks. Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago) and found it more difficult for

Re: galeon on woody?

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:13:37AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | the new Galeon rocks. To the max. | | How can I install galeon on woody? I seem to remember a line for | /etc/apt/sources.list; but I cannot find it on the list archives. I no longer have the apt line from my sources.list because

major xdm install problems

2001-08-15 Thread R1nso13
when installing xdm_4.0.3-4i386.deb using dpkg_1.9.16.deb i get the following error message: "Error: /usr/x11R6/lib/x11/xdm symbolic link does not exitst. Either the package didin't ship w/ a symbolic link (a bug in the backage), or dpkg failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg). Ple

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | | (snip) | | > I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various | > other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, | > afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found tha

Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a > somewhat more normal font for the menus? I use Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-a

Re: gnome/mouseroller

2001-08-15 Thread Jeff Maxson
running X 4.1, and that didn't seem to do the trick. I tried Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" as well, which it at least accepted, but didn't work. Seems to move the pointer up when I scroll up (but not down when scroll down), and doesn't do anything to the screens (scrolling netscape, for example)

Quota command not working

2001-08-15 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi all, System: Debian 2.2r3, kernel 2.2.19. Quota support is basically working because users can't exceed the hard limit. Also the command 'repquota' displays correct settings for all users. However the command 'quota' issued by user or 'quota -u user' issued by root always results in: Disk quo

Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?

2001-08-15 Thread stevencooper
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:49:41PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First, learn CGI, JSP, or similar technologies I would also consider using Python with mod_python, assuming you have an Apache server. Python is a great languange for munging text

xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I've just been experimenting with xfstt on my two machines (home and work), each running debian linux 2.2r3 (kernel 2.2.17pre19) to be able to use truetype fonts. At home, it worked fine until today. At the office, emacs' menus showed up in a bizarre, bar-code font that made emacs i

Re: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who answered - I believe what actually happened was heat-related more than anything else. The air conditioning in our house died while we were at work, making the computer area beastly hot. I came home, tried to reboot, and the BIOS didn't see two of the four IDE drives (including the

Re: Upgrading kernel with dpkg.

2001-08-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* A. Didit Mifanto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010815 17:43]: > Hello dpkg-er : > > I'm currently using potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and want to upgrade > to newest > kernel in potato stable package (2.2.19) and may be kernel 2.4 if possible. > > As comparison, in RedHat, I can upgrade kernel

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Reames) writes: > I seriously doubt Linux or Open Source will be ever outlawed. No > matter what MS does. Too many companies rely on it (whether they > admit it or not). Hotmail is still full of FreeBSD machines. > Besides even Hollywood, one of the biggest industries in

Re: Upgrading kernel with dpkg.

2001-08-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 cd /usr/src/ make menuconfig; or make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.whateveryouwant kernel_image cd ../ dpkg -i kernel*19.deb For more info, read all about kernel-package; make-kpkg - Original Message - From: "A. Didit Mifanto" <

ddd/kdb dep: gdb 5.0 ?

2001-08-15 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i did a woody install the other day and ddd and kdb both demand gdb 5.0, but the 'current' woody package is 4.18. i overrode the deps and things installed (dselect from the install script). is this something the gdb package maintainer should be notified about, or the ddd/kdb ones or none of the a

Upgrading kernel with dpkg.

2001-08-15 Thread A . Didit Mifanto
Hello dpkg-er : I'm currently using potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and want to upgrade to newest kernel in potato stable package (2.2.19) and may be kernel 2.4 if possible. As comparison, in RedHat, I can upgrade kernel full handled by rpm tool (needn't to compile) without any modules d

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-15 Thread Randy Reames
Meanwhile, behind the facade of an innocent looking bookstore Allen Linkenhoker wrote: > Matt, regarding the potential outlawing of Linux: > > They can take my install CD when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. > > (with no apologies whatsoever to the NRA and Charlton Heston ;>) > > Given t

Re: revtex problem

2001-08-15 Thread Jeff Maxson
can't help you, but I can say that the revtex on debian is still 3, not the latest RevTeX 4 (latex2e finally). Yeah, it's still pseudo-beta, but it works great for me, and they accept manuscripts written with it as compuscripts now. Why hasn't that hit unstable/testing yet, anyway? On Wed, 15 A

Re: ppp 2.4

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Eric Whitestone wrote: >Ok, this may be a dumb question. Is there a ppp-2.4 debian package? I >upgraded to kernel 2.4.8 and someone told me i need ppp 2.4. I checked at I assume that this is potato using the Bunk packages? Sid's ppp is 2.4.1. >debian.com for ppp packages, a

ppp 2.4

2001-08-15 Thread Eric Whitestone
Ok, this may be a dumb question. Is there a ppp-2.4 debian package? I upgraded to kernel 2.4.8 and someone told me i need ppp 2.4. I checked at debian.com for ppp packages, and the latest one i saw there was ppp 2.3.11-1.4. If there is a ppp 2.4, does anyone know where to get it? Thanks!

IMP 2.3

2001-08-15 Thread megglestone
Hi.. Has anyone had success installing imp 2.3 on Potato? If so.. how did it go? Any hints? thanks Mike

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-15 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 06:41 pm, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:13:50AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > | When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using > | X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to > | root on the remote box X is re

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:13:50AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: | | When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using | X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to | root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Probably

Re: xv alternatives

2001-08-15 Thread Henry House
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:10:46AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > feh doesn't work here. It produces the thumbprints of the images but > there is no way of enlarging them, either with the keys or the mouse. Strange...have you tried fiddling with the options? There is a thubnail mode which is spe

Re: screen (as in program screen) question

2001-08-15 Thread Henry House
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 04:47:50AM -0500, will trillich wrote: [snip] > $ echo "\e]0;Here We Go^V^Ga-carolling" > a-carolling > > and your xterm/rxvt title bar will now be entitled "Here We Go" > (unless it's overwritten by another instance, such as a command > prompt as mentioned belo

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2001-08-15 Thread Serge Rey
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Re: eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread petong
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:49, Andrew Agno wrote: > Nathan E Norman writes: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:14:17PM -0700, petong wrote: > > > This machine is set up as a dual boot. If I boot back into > > > windoze, the card works fine, which is what is really > > > confusing... > > > >

Re: Getting off the list

2001-08-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I think there is a problem with the list-manager-software. I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list at home (I am writing from work and do not wish to unsubscribe) for a week now, to no avail so maybe Mike is having the same problem? Seems odd though, because I left out of town for a

ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-15 Thread Svante Signell
When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Is the solution to be found with the X server or ssh/sshd? X11Forwarding is ena

Re: Account Migration from Novell to Linux

2001-08-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Em 15 Aug 2001 11:47:46 -0500, Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On 14 Aug 2001 08:03:31 -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I have a Novell server with 6000 accounts and more than 100 Win98 > > clients. > > I want to migrate to Li

Getting off the list

2001-08-15 Thread Ian Perry
Mike send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line Do not put it in the body of the text. See the last line of this email Ian > -Original Message- > From: Michael Hambe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:52 PM >

Re: eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Nathan E Norman writes: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:14:17PM -0700, petong wrote: > > This machine is set up as a dual boot. If I boot back into > > windoze, the card works fine, which is what is really > > confusing... > Does your BIOS have a "PnP OS?" setting? If yes, change it. Change it

RE: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
Thanks, I've got it sussed now. Bartman > -Original Message- > From: Adam Bower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2001 6:42 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig > > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on W

RE: Installation off CD

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Koss
> > Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it > installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I don't know what to > do because > if I restart the PC then when booting off the hard disk, on the > command line > it just comes up and says > > LI > > thats it! whats wrong, can

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
Well, you failed to follow my expressed wishes, but I certainly will follow yours... followups to list only... On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:50:26PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > >> Telnet is a security >> hazard because everything goes over in the clear,

Re: eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:14:17PM -0700, petong wrote: > This machine is set up as a dual boot. If I boot back into windoze, the card > works fine, which is what is really confusing... Does your BIOS have a "PnP OS?" setting? If yes, change it. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan

Installation off CD

2001-08-15 Thread bboy boy
To whom it may concern, Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I don't know what to do because if I restart the PC then when booting off the hard disk, on the command line it just comes up and says LI thats it! whats w

galeon on woody?

2001-08-15 Thread Alan E Davis
the new Galeon rocks. To the max. How can I install galeon on woody? I seem to remember a line for /etc/apt/sources.list; but I cannot find it on the list archives. Thanks. Alan Davis

Re: Module Errors not in Dmesg

2001-08-15 Thread Kent West
Trandahl, Steve wrote: I am having trouble with some of my modules at during boot-up. I can see the error messages fly by, but when I use dmesg, I don't see the errors. How can I find out what these errors and/or warning messages are once Debian has booted? Thanks in advance! Steve Trandahl

Re: eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread petong
This machine is set up as a dual boot. If I boot back into windoze, the card works fine, which is what is really confusing... On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:04, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello petong, > > If you can, try another network card. Looks like its bios may be fried > - I don't like the loo

Re: eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello petong, If you can, try another network card. Looks like its bios may be fried - I don't like the look of all those ff's and it looks like it may be mis-reporting itself - the product code, revision and date aren't right, the ram, Rx/Tx split and transceiver settings have all changed. If y

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:43:34PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >I don't think this is really true, at least not in GNU/Linux land. > >mutt and gnus support Mail-Followup-To: ... what else is there? :) > > Simply put, a whole world of MUAs (look at my headers for example, Note the smiley :) >

Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?

2001-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
"Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked out Webmin, but I would like to write my own simple > interface specifically for my needs. Any help or referrals to info > would be appreciated since I don't even know where to begin First, learn CGI, JSP, or similar technologies

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
Craig Dickson wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Back to newbie type questions. I am not clear enough on the ... Back to first principles... First, there is X Windows. This provides you with a graphical display ... That was great! At least it's now in the archives but maybe it should be in an FAQ

Re: Problem with PPP

2001-08-15 Thread John Hasler
Eric writes: > I am running Debian 2.2, and this was working fine but stopped working > for some reason. I am pretty sure it was working after i upgraded my > kernel to 2.4.8. Did you upgrade the ppp package? If not, do so. 2.4 kernels require 2.4 versions of ppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:59:40 CDT, Nathan E Norman writes: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:22:10PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >>Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether >> >>they've replied to one copy of the message when they've encountered the >> >>other one). If ther

Re: The unwanted fish...

2001-08-15 Thread Wayne Sitton
Yeah, this question shows up every now and then. It's a Gnome easter egg. It's just a kind of joke. Every so often it just shows up. It never hurts anything, it's just for fun. Wayne On Wednesday 15 August 2001 16:08, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > I know that this question was posted some ti

Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?

2001-08-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Try Webmin. (Web Administration) >>> "Lance Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/15/01 10:54AM >>> Does anyone know of some good resources I can read to learn how to create a simple web interface that will allow me to change settings in configuration files on my Debian system? I checked out Webmin,

RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags

2001-08-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
> Subject: RE: OT -- Microsoft's Smart Tags > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:07:59 +0100 (BST) > From: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Suppose you create a web page, and you make a word or phrase > highlighted because it's a tag for one of your own URLs (i.e. > _you_ want the reader to be able to

Re: XFree 4.1.0

2001-08-15 Thread Sven Gaerner
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha /etc/apt/sources.list entries deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf410_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf410_potato/all/ Withing xf410_potato/ you'll find a READ.THIS file with some information which packages are also needed... On We

Problem with PPP

2001-08-15 Thread Eric Whitestone
Ok, when I do a 'pon', my modem dials and connects, but as soon as it connects it disconnects. I did a 'plog' to check and see if taht would tell me what the problem was. 'Plog' is giving me this:   asphault pppd[747]: Serial connection established asphault pppd[747]: Couldn't attach tty to p

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Scott wrote: > Back to newbie type questions. I am not clear enough on the > relationship between window managers and desktop environments. I just > found http://www.windowmaker.org/ which makes me think I am running > GNUStep with WindowMaker. There is a GNUStep directory in /root. Is

Re: TCPQuota. possible bug?

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 21:06:26 +0100, Nick Avenell wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:00:08 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > > >On 15 Aug 2001 14:03:11 +0100, Nick Avenell wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:50:04 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > >> > >> >On 14 Aug 2001 22:58:09 +0100, Nick

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:50:26PM -0600, John Galt wrote: [ note; please don't Cc: me on list mails; I read the list. This request is pretty clearly laid out in my headers; I'm putting it here as well so you have less of an excuse to ignore it ] [ jeopardy style quoting undone, reply after the

Re: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Additional information: - cat /proc/mounts returns an input/output error after a long wait. - ps gives the following message before returning its output: nujoma:~# ps Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.19pre17 not parseable as a System.map

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:22:10PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > >>Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether > >>they've replied to one copy of the message when they've encountered the > >>other one). If there's a Mail-Followup-To: header or a 'Mail-Copies-To: > >>nob

Re: Perl 5.6

2001-08-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jason Price wrote: > > I am currently running a stable distribution of debian, but want to get > Perl 5.6 installed. I noticed it is not in the stable distribution. > What would be the safest/best/easiest way to get it installed? I'm a > pretty new linux user, so be ge

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
Craig Dickson wrote: dman wrote: I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found that Sawfish is the best of them. I second all of the above, e

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
Because Stevenson failed to attribute, I can't figure out who >> > > > is, but that person wasn't being helpful. A one line answer is appropriate sometimes, when that one line actually aids the person in question to do what they asked. Otherwise, they're just wasting breath. However, I too am g

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
>>Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether >>they've replied to one copy of the message when they've encountered the >>other one). If there's a Mail-Followup-To: header or a 'Mail-Copies-To: >>nobody', it's a good idea to honour it. s/Mail.*/Reply-To/ Most MUAs will o

Re: Snort

2001-08-15 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:30:55AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 15 Aug 2001 15:15:00 +1000, Craig W wrote: > > > putatively stable package. Maybe the maintainer of the package > has some more insight. Robert van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is > listed. Give him an email. Don't cou

Re: Unresolved dependencies

2001-08-15 Thread Günther
> Given that nothing deity-related shows up in stable, I must conclude > that you have a testing or unstable version of console-apt. Problems > like this are a fact of life in unstable and occasionally leak into > testing also. If you're looking at stable sources now after > installing some unsta

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Nobody ever did the reverse, when I set my mail-copies-to to my email, so > why should the courtesy be one-sided? I guess I'll reset the header, but > I doubt it'll do any good. My e-mail is weird at the moment, so I have Mail-Followup-

Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > I use and love ssh. But that's not what I'm wanting to accomplish. > Still need to figure out how to write a simple web interface like Webmin, > but on a MUCH smaller scale. There has to be a "how to update config > files using a

Re: Unresolved dependencies

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:09:30PM +0200, Marcus Günther wrote: > When I type "apt-get -f install" I get the following: > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-apt: > console-apt depends on deity-curses; however; > Package deity-curses is not installed. Step 1: Try `apt-

Re: TCPQuota. possible bug?

2001-08-15 Thread Nick Avenell
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:00:08 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >On 15 Aug 2001 14:03:11 +0100, Nick Avenell wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:50:04 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >> >> >On 14 Aug 2001 22:58:09 +0100, Nick Avenell wrote: >> >> I tried to install TCPQuota on my woody bo

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Craig Dickson
dman wrote: > I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various > other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, > afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found that > Sawfish is the best of them. I second all of the above, except that my set of

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread John Galt
Nobody ever did the reverse, when I set my mail-copies-to to my email, so why should the courtesy be one-sided? I guess I'll reset the header, but I doubt it'll do any good. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:35:44AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: >> Paul Scott w

RE: Module Errors not in Dmesg

2001-08-15 Thread Trandahl, Steve
Kent, It appears that X itself is the culprit. I disabled gdm as you suggested, and was able to scroll backward through the history. I didn't even know that you could do that, so I won in two ways. However, once I launched X using "startx", I could no longer scroll back. Thanks for your help

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-08-15 Thread Allen Linkenhoker
Matt, regarding the potential outlawing of Linux: They can take my install CD when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. (with no apologies whatsoever to the NRA and Charlton Heston ;>) Given that we've got the ultimate corporate whore in the Oval Office right now, who knows what could happen

eth0 problems all of a sudden

2001-08-15 Thread petong
Hi list, I am running unstable and yesterday I was attempting to shut down from kdm and my machine froze. Upon rebooting, I had problems with eth0. This is what I used to get on boot: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 3c59x.c:LK1.1.15 6 June 2001 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.

Re: OT Ram upgrade options

2001-08-15 Thread Allen Linkenhoker
David, my post may be a bit late, but here goes: In regards to your question about SDRAM, I would buy as much as I could afford of whatever is cheapest on pricewatch.com. Theoretically, any faster memory should clock back to work with your system, as long as it fits into the slot (Don't buy R

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
dman wrote: (snip) I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE and I have found that Sawfish is the best of them. Sounds good. I have heard a little about S

Re: Problem: Distributed-net on Sparc

2001-08-15 Thread Russell D Cook
Thanks for the push in the right direction. Our lan is behind a firewall. Starting with the info you sent me, and digging further into the docs, I experimented with various settings until I've found one I think is working - at least it's communicating the the keyserver! I used the explicit IP ad

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X > > lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session > > from the same ma

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | | > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | > | > | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | > | lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X sessio

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Paul Scott
dman wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session | from the same machine when it happens? It can happen. If X isn't respo

Re: Unresolved dependencies

2001-08-15 Thread Günther
> > about unresolved dependencies. I already tried the -f option but it didn't > > work either. > > > > How can I solve the dependencies problems? > > all the time just using apt? strange symptom. dist-upgrade? how does > your sources.list look like? give us a typescript or cut'n'paste of your >

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session | from the same machine when it happens? It can happen. If X isn't responding, for some

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X > lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session > from the same machine when it happens? Well, X runs as root so it's able to cause rather

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