Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Nahmias wrote: >> I am looking for recommendations for software to backup my >> debian (sarge) machine to my cd burner. > > You might like to consider 'partimage'. I tried to use mondo, but it does not work on my testing machine. Does anybody s

Re: printing - from beginning

Sandip P Deshmukh said: > i run debian woody 3.0 and i have a good working hp deskjet 710c connected > to my parellel port. > > what kernel modules do i need to load so that i am able to print? parport parport_pc lp I reccomend enabling the IRQ on your parallel port, the default IRQ on most sy

Re: insmod issues

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:02:13 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * mdevin [Fri, Nov 15 2002, 09:38:11AM]: > > > I compiled the module bcm4400.o against the kernel-headers-2.4.18 > > package (ie. the one for my kernel-source 2.4.18), so I don't understand > > these unresolved symbol errors

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > > cope wi

printing - from beginning

hello all i am completely at loss when it comes to printing. i have tried and tried and tried. and failed! i have read www.linuxprinting.com/howto - no use still. now, here are my questions: i run debian woody 3.0 and i have a good working hp deskjet 710c connected to my parellel port. what k

Re: XFree86

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:56:27AM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? update-rc.d -f gdm remove Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

Sandip P Deshmukh said: > my question - why doesnt debian turn dma on by default? dont we like fast > machines? safety. Theres a lot of systems out there that do not support DMA or the driver is not mature enough. My mom's CTX laptop for example will lock up hard if DMA is turned on. I stopped us

konquerror-embedded w/out kde

i was wondering, is it possible to install konquerror embedded without installing kde? maybe just installing kdelibs and qt... or kde is a definite requirement. i really want to try it but dont want to use KDE(its too big and too slow for my PC), i prefer windowmaker.. thanks in advance! Best

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

heya, On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:14:12AM -0800, nate wrote: > thanks! yes I do believe it was a sizing issue, though at the time > I didn't know of a way to resize at the command line(for automation), > I think imagemagick can probably do this so I will try again, I do yeah, i use imagemagick mys

Re: Javascript and forms

The following works on my Mozilla: function check(radio) { var selected = ""; for (var i=0; i

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:04:43AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chip Rose wrote: > > > > > > Another thing you might want to check is if your hard drive needs dma

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

Phil Edwards wrote: Right Click on the KDE panel (right hand side of the task-bar), move your mouse up to the top of the pop-up menue entry, that says panel. Now select "add," then on this new pop-up menus select "non-KDE-Application." this will bring up a file browser, titled "select an executabl

lilo msg

I get this msg from running lilo - haw can be corrected ? Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 fn 08: 784 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors fn 48: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Craig Dickson declaimed: > It's unfortunate that this happened, but this is unstable, and > developers aren't perfect. I'm actually less disturbed that this > happened than that so many people have posted desperate "please help" > messages about it, That was sort of my point. I looked for a messag

Re: alsa: no device

Run again the snddevices. On 13 Nov 2002, Thaden wrote : » Date: 13 Nov 2002 19:31:27 +0100 » From: Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » Cc: debianliste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » Subject: Re: alsa: no device » Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:31:56 -0600 (CST) » Resent-

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Hi, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 'ln -sf' is a GNU ln extension. It is safer to use 'ln -f -s', >> especially if you traffic on other unices. > > Huh? It's worked perfectly well on every Unix I've ever used. It > even works on SCO.

Re: mutt and Mozilla mail

Matthew Daubenspeck was roused into action on 2002-11-13 22:12 and wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:59:32PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be able to access my mail through the command line. Well I find Mutt should do its jo

Re: Looking for a good LDAP book

Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a good book for someone new to LDAP with a unix/open > source perspective. Also, if it covers some proprietary products as > well that isn't a problem. > > Can anyone make a suggestion? > I read most of:

Debian Woody NFS Install

How can I install Debian Woody via NFS? I have figured out how to install the base system via NFS after loading the network card driver, but after the base system is installed and a reboot is performed, I cannot figure out how to install the rest of the system via NFS. Am I missing something obvio

Re: Older packages

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:36:25 -0500 (EST), Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > >> Searched the Debian site without success. >> >> Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev >> and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. > >ht

Re: Debian on an iBook

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? > > Curtis Someone in my LUG is batt

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'ln -sf' is a GNU ln extension. It is safer to use 'ln -f -s', > especially if you traffic on other unices. Huh? It's worked perfectly well on every Unix I've ever used. It even works on SCO. Next you'll be telling us that we can't do "ls -al" we

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:45:19PM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. > > Sarca

Re: I can't start the x-windows

At 09:35 AM 11/14/02 +0100, you wrote: I've got a Woody installation that works with some problems, but the most important is the x-windows Ive installed the new drivers for nvidia taken from the web, but it wasn't the solution to my problem. When I try to start x, it says me that the

Re: Is my Xserver useing too much memory?

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:53:34AM -0800, Steve Cooper wrote: > start up and shutdown some of the software you run. If the usage in > XFree86 goes up, but doesn't come back down when you run and stop a > particular program, be suspicious, particularly if it's a graphics > program. Ahh, thanks. W

Looking for a good LDAP book

Hi, I'm looking for a good book for someone new to LDAP with a unix/open source perspective. Also, if it covers some proprietary products as well that isn't a problem. Can anyone make a suggestion? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Hi, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:08:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:19:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >The libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-14 package contains a broken >> >libstdc++ library. To work around the problem, provide th

Re: Weird and insecure su problem

Pigeon wrote: > If, however, I enter _no_ password, I get: > : command not found > ' is not an octal number from 000 to 777 > : command not found > : command not found > > and a somewhat mangled prompt; then > whoami > root > > - so I've su'ed to root without entering a password. WHAT? > > Wonde

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

> Right Click on the KDE panel (right hand side of the task-bar), move your > mouse up to the top of the pop-up menue entry, that says panel. Now select > "add," then on this new pop-up menus select "non-KDE-Application." this > will bring up a file browser, titled "select an executable." Now surf

Re: Help with tape tar and backup over the network

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:47, Paul Lewis wrote: > I have a DAT tape drive which works on my RH6 server I would like to > use it to backup my Debian machine. I cannot seem to make the tar > syntax work for me. Does anyone use this type of setup and what rights > need to be setup on the server (host

Re: insmod issues

#include * mdevin [Fri, Nov 15 2002, 09:38:11AM]: > I compiled the module bcm4400.o against the kernel-headers-2.4.18 > package (ie. the one for my kernel-source 2.4.18), so I don't understand > these unresolved symbol errors. Is -DMODVERSIONS passed while compiling? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. --

Re: APT pinning and downgrading

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 08:21, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html > (particularly section 3.10), and came up with the following process to > downgrade from unstable to testing: > > 1) in my /etc/apt/preferences (which didn't exist until I c

Re: e17

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:38:41AM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Someone has apt-get installed e17 under sid ? > Is it working ? > > My system runs fine with e17 build from source and I would not > crash it installing the deb package :-) > But I wo

Re: insmod issues

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:26:10 -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:45:52PM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > I am having an ongoing battle to get my network card to work. It built > > in on my ASUS A7V8X mobo and uses a broadcom 4400 driver which is on the > > CD that came with the motherbo

Re: unsubcribe

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Frederic Lavoie IMAP wrote: > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not get it ... the next one ... are they brothers ... what do you think does this mean? Oh, funny siganture the debians have ..

Re: bash/cron help

On November 14, 2002 04:57 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am having a problem with this script.  It works fine > if I run it from a command line.  If I try and run it > from cron the images that are in ~/bin/Weathermap/images > that get embedded during html2ps do not get embedded. > Also, unless I

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:08:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:19:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > >The libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-14 package contains a broken > >libstdc++ library. To work around the problem, provide the missing > >library by a smbolic link. Execute as r

NFS Install error

I'm installing Debian 3 using the 'compact' floppy set. I'm hung up at the "Install Base System" phase. After several unsuccessful attempts to install the base system from the network (I kept getting download errors and mysterious "dbootstrap has exited with an error" messages), I'm now trying to

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

Vineet Kumar said: > * nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021113 19:07]: >> nate said: > ImageMagick does support MNG, you know. You'll get as good (if not > better) compression, for Free. =) I'll try that too, all these ideas! I knew about png, and had heard of mng, but didn't know what it was. thanks!

Re: trojan code in tcpdump/libpcap

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:45:22PM +, p wrote: > debs (et al.), > > apparently, there's trojan code in > tcpdump & libpcap. > > woody is okay, right? but those apps > in sarge/sid could be effected? No, Debian is apparently safe. (At least, so members of the security team have been saying.)

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:19:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >The libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-14 package contains a broken >libstdc++ library. To work around the problem, provide the missing >library by a smbolic link. Execute as root: > >ln -sf libstdc++-3libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-lib

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021113 19:07]: > nate said: > > > perhaps something to convert to motion jpeg? or mpeg? or avi? > > (would prefer mpeg-1 due to it's portability but i'll take > > anything). > > > well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can > convert a bunch of images

Re: Recieving list mail batched in a daily digest?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:06PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, but you can > subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to I should also point out, having just subscribed to the debian-user-digest this afternoon, that it doesn't cut down

Re: mutt and Mozilla mail

Gianfranco Berardi wrote: I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be able to access my mail through the command line. Well I find Mutt should do its job just fine, but what I also find is Mozilla will seem to get confused with the mailbox in question once I use Mutt

Re: Exim configuration for Laptop

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:48:30PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | I've been wondering how best to configure Exim for use on a Laptop. How | are other Debian users configuring it? My recommendation is to use a smarhost, one way or another. Are you the admin of some mail server on the Internet o

Help with Netgear MA401 wireless card...?

Hi, all. I want to get into Debian, and the most convenient box for me to use is my laptop. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my network card to work with Debian. I dual-boot Debian and NetBSD on the box, and NetBSD uses the card correctly - I am writing this email over 802.11b. However, despite

Re: alsa: no device

> "Thaden" == Thaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Thaden> that doesn't work either. and amixer, for example, gives an Thaden> error message "Mixer attach default error: No such file or Thaden> directory" so i think, that som major problems with alsa are Thaden> resolved, but there still

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:32:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Patrick Lane wrote: > > > Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to > > if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86 > > 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to ge

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Very nice writeup. > > Question, what if you want foo from unstable and it requires a version > of bar in unstable but your existing bar is from testing? What if bar > isn't installed at all and the requirement is going to

Re: HPT370 Questions

On Thursday 14 November 2002 7:15 pm Ellen Mingott wrote: > My HPT370 ATA100/RAID controller is on the motherboard (not PCI). > > 2.2.17 is installed on a disk connected to ide0 -- the ATA33 controller. > > It can't see the other disk which is connected to the HPT370 controller. > > Is there a

RE: Debian on an iBook

You may also want to check out the Debian PPC mailing list. I am on that and there are several folks installing Debian on all flavors of Mac machines and there has been quite a bit of discussion on the iBooks. Good luck Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-40

Re: Debian on an iBook

I'm running an old Power Book G3 Series with OS X and Fink and it works wonderfully. The support from the email list is fantastic. I've only run into a couple of problems and they were resolved within a day thanks to the list. Because of Fink I'm cutting my teeth on Linux with Debian. Insta

Callback ppp

At work they've installed a callback RAS. I've read the PPP documentation and had a look at the callback scripts that are far from being intuitive and easy to use. Is there EITHER any ready-to-use deb program able to to connect from debian 3.0 to my office via a modem? OR Someone able to ex

Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard

At 07:30 AM 11/15/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote: >Thanks for the information. I grabbed source for kernel 2.4.19, >patched it to 2.4.20-pre11, compiled it and installed the resulting >Debian package and everything is working wonderfully, except XFree >4.2.1 which doesn't support the video card (

Re: Debian on an iBook

Yeh, I agree that Fink is over-rated. I've used it and find it frustrating. In fact, for whatever reason, running KDE under fink will eventually just drag my system down to a near stop. I then have to close it and restart it. Here's a site I found. http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/step_step

bash/cron help

I am having a problem with this script. It works fine if I run it from a command line. If I try and run it from cron the images that are in ~/bin/Weathermap/images that get embedded during html2ps do not get embedded. Also, unless I specify the path the working dir appears to be /home/lance and n

RE: Debian on an iBook

Fink is highly over-rated (as is OSX). I am running Debian on a Ti PowerBook. Here are a couple of install guides: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ HTH John -Original Message- From: Jim Hickstein [mailto:jxh@;jxh.com] Sent: Thursd

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> The 10+ duplicate bug reports filed against libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 >> was a bit much, though libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 doesn't have the >> longevity of man-db and the duplicate bugs filed for "man -k" >

trojan code in tcpdump/libpcap

debs (et al.), apparently, there's trojan code in tcpdump & libpcap. woody is okay, right? but those apps in sarge/sid could be effected? (i'm just the curious messenger.) b. att. // INFORMATION ALERT AN EMERGING ISSUE WITH: TROJAN CODE PLANTED IN TCPDUMP AND LIBPCAP SEVERITY: Medium D

Re: Debian on an iBook

I haven't tried this yet, but depending on your motivations you might want to know about Fink (fink.sourceforge.net), which ports Debian's apt system to MacOS X. Would that Fink got as much energy devoted to it as Debian generally --On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:57:18 -0800 Curtis Vaug

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

Nathan E Norman wrote: > I also set up seperate filesystems for directories that could > conceivably be filled up (maliciously or otherwise); these include > /var/log, /usr/local/src, and /opt if you are installing third party > software. And even more obviously, the mail and news spools, if you

Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard

Received Wed 13 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Mike Dresser: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Graham Williams wrote: > > > > I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.0 on an ASUS > > P4B533-VM based machine. > > ... > I've got ... 4 of these boards in Debian machines here, with one that is > t

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Patrick Lane wrote: > Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to > if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86 > 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to > start, which to me is way worse. Hmm. Admittedly, the

Re: woody install on laptop

#include * milti [Thu, Nov 14 2002, 12:14:52PM]: > ive been trying this some more and the problem seems to > be the usb floppy drive. is there anyone who has had this > problem and knows how to surmount it?? For USB installs, visit http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~blochedu/usb-install/ Gruss/Re

Re: perl lint

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > > is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint" > > > type applications? > > > > The -w fla

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Very nice writeup. Question, what if you want foo from unstable and it requires a version of bar in unstable but your existing bar is from testing? What if bar isn't installed at all and the requirement is going to install it? Will apt do the right thing at this point? Thus spake Nathan E No

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there are s

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package > From: Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:43:50 -0800 > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/245335 > > Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:16:32AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just added a volume manager, and now that I can I would like > separate out my filesystem into different chunks (volume; these are > just virtual partitions if you're unfamiliar with the concept). > Currently my system consists of a s

printer.c loading at different location than printer

hi all, i have a usb printer which is located at /dev/usb/lp0. dmesg reports the printer is at /dev/usblp0. obviously, it doesn't work this way. there is no /dev/usblp0 on my system. i haven't a clue how to either relocate the printer or to redirect the module loading. any help would be ap

Debian on an iBook

I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

Edward Guldemond writes: > With software patents, distributing this software could be considered > illegal to distribute in the United States. Fetching it from outside of > the US is fine. Using it in the US is fine, too,... Using it in the US infringes the patent. Importing a copy probably doe

Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

Joe Nahmias wrote: I am looking for recommendations for software to backup my debian (sarge) machine to my cd burner. You might like to consider 'partimage'. It creates a compressed bit-image snapshot of a partition, splitting its output into user-definable sized files (eg you could set 650

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:05, Craig Dickson wrote: > >> Seriously, for your own sake (and this is the generic >> "you", I'm not addressing Paul specifically, as I don't know what he can >> or can't do for himself), why run unstable, which is _intended_ as

Re: Matrox G100 not working with XFree86 4.2.1 'mga' driver

About a minute after sending this email, I got the idea to check my .xinitrc file. Found a typo. How embarrassing. I will go crawl back into my cave now. Please disregard this email. Thanks. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. I'm running testing with all the latest packag

Re: Older packages

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > Searched the Debian site without success. > > Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev > and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. http://archive.debian.org/dists/Debian-2.1/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Older packages

Searched the Debian site without success. Where can I find the packages for release 2.1? I'm after libpam0g-dev and anything needed to satisfy its dependencies. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird and insecure su problem

The story so far: - Accidentally nuke shared libraries; system dies - Unpack base2_1.tgz off original Debian 2.1 install CD; manually copy in enough of this and the rescue disk to get it to boot again - dpkg -i everything in dists/stable/main/binary-i386/base - Fire up dselect and reinstall everyth

Matrox G100 not working with XFree86 4.2.1 'mga' driver

Hello all. I'm running testing with all the latest packages as of Nov 14. I have a Matrox G100 card with four vga ports. It was working great until I rebooted my workstation yesterday. Unfortunately it had an uptime of over 120 days and I don't believe I restarted my X session during that time. In

Re: alsa: no device

Am Don, 2002-11-14 um 07.12 schrieb Jack O'Quin: > Thaden, > [alsaplayer] > > snd_pcm_open: No such file or directory (default) > > /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa.so failed to load > > I could not find a suitable output module on your system. Make sure > > they're in "usr/lib/alsaplayer/output

Re: XFree86 4.2, sarge. Won't run.

Ok, I can't believe I forgot something as simple as that, I really should know better by now. Anyways, I stuck that in my .xinitrc and it works now, so thanks a bunch! -Andrew -- This sig was my last, best, chance to seem eloquent. It failed. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Kent West wrote: > Looks to me

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:22:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I know Brian who complained this in -devel list was rightfully pissed at > the care taken by the uploader and he can deal with this situation > without problem. Most interesting part of Colin's comment is > > This may sound callous, bu

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:05, Craig Dickson wrote: > Seriously, for your own sake (and this is the generic > "you", I'm not addressing Paul specifically, as I don't know what he can > or can't do for himself), why run unstable, which is _intended_ as a > place for leading-edge testing -- "catch it

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Osamu Aoki wrote: > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. Sarcasm, my man, Sarcasm. :) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Craig Dickson wrote: > What's wrong with compiling from source? If you download the Debian > source package, it should have everything you need to build a proper > deb package, so what's the problem? Even if you don't build a deb, you > just install to /usr/local, and as long as you don't break an

Re: dosemu

Jeff Coppock wrote: > I also was able to get the cdrom active. I would suggest > adding that to your doc. I used this link to figure out > how: > http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/README/0.98/README-8.html > However, I have a problem with it. Installing from the > cdrom hangs after a few min

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

on Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just added a volume manager, and now that I can I would like > separate out my filesystem into different chunks (volume; these are > just virtual partitions if you're unfamiliar with the concept). > Currently my system consists of a s

Re: woody install on laptop

cyn wrote: Yes, this has come up before - check the archives of debian-boot and debian-laptop mailing lists (debian user might not hurt, but those two discuss it more). I've never done it personally - I installed from base packages on a dos partition when I had my libretto (funky floppy disk, pc

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Hi, On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there a

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:09:58AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > Just to satisfy my own curiosity: > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:16:32AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > /share (oddly, not discussed in FHS) > > > > What have you got in /share? I've never seen it before...

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

sean finney said: > hiya, > are you sure this wasn't because there was an error in your config file > (like wrong size, etc.)? i've had mpeg_encode segfault > on me a few times, but usually when i gave it incorrect information to > begin with. attached is a really simple example config > that i

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Mark A. Bialik wrote: > ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages > and/or versions of packages they need are only in unstable. > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) What's wro

Re: pam_ldap Invalid credentials

Don Hayward said: > I'm trying to set up ldap for my authentication db. > I get this in auth.log: > > Nov 14 10:12:13 ciscoii sshd[5766]: pam_ldap: error trying to bind > (Invalid credentials) > > I have admin credentials in /etc/ldap/ldap.conf. These credentials work > for Net::LDAP perl methods.

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

Colin Watson said: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those people > who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only people who > should be using unstable. speak for yourself :) I suggested a fix to someone who had this problem and they said it worked f

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:25:45PM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > HI, > > I'm a little confused about the difference between the normal binary-1 CD > and the > binary-1_NONUS cd. The Debian CD faq states that > > "The non-US software cannot be legally stored on servers that are located in > the

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

Paul Mackinney wrote: > Thanks for posting this! It kept my down-time < 5 minutes. > > The moral: when something big goes wrong after an apt-get upgrade, try > again, then try deb-user. If you can still get to it with a b0rked system. Just imagine if your only mail and web clients had been writt

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:26:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > people who should be using unstable. Exatly :-) Where is chroot. I think it is lack of sim

Re: woody install on laptop

Yes, this has come up before - check the archives of debian-boot and debian-laptop mailing lists (debian user might not hurt, but those two discuss it more). I've never done it personally - I installed from base packages on a dos partition when I had my libretto (funky floppy disk, pcmcia - suppor

Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:32, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I am looking for recommendations for software to backup my > > debian (sarge) machine to my cd burner. As this is my home machine, I > > don't think I need the client-server functionality of amanda or some of > > the other

Re: changing GNU Emacs fonts in KDE 2

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:08:51 -0500, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Oops, I logged out and back in, and then it started working. I'm not >> sure why, though. So it looks like unchecking the checkbox did the >> trick. Does anyone have any other

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