Re: Install process

n't remove the modules from within the installation procedure but you can as Alex explains, just edit the modules file. You want to edit /target/etc/modules though, which is the one that will be used by the system itself after rebooting. > Alex Y. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez &l

Re: Install process

possible at least in the proper configuration steps rather than the extract base/kernel steps. In fact even in those, I can't, off the top of my head remember any problem either but I am not so sure. Please try and see if you fail. If so, report it. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[E

Re: Possible new name for "deity"

quot;Asterix", the french comic, then it conveys the idea of power. Luis. --- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

/etc/cron.daily/wn error

e. > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with return code 2 Any pointers? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&quo

Bug in EGCS?

@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@1.2 ... AFAIK, there should be no "^@" in the output but spaces. This works OK. with the old gcc. Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78

C++ Profiler

Hi, is there such a thing in Debian (Linux awaiting packaging)? Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

C++ Garbage Collector

Hi, I was wondering if there is a C++ Garbage Collector in debian (or linux). Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Memory in a process

Hi, I am interested in knowing if there is some way of finding out the memory being used by a process. Currently I am opening /proc/ppi/mem but the info there is only in K. Is there a "raw" way of accessing that info using some kernel interface? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzal

TFTP booting

Hi, I was wondering if someone can give me any pointers as to how to set up a Debian host to act as a server for an NCD X-Terminal that boots through TFTP. Thanks, Luis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PRO

SCSI Drives

Hi, my hard disk is getting too small (or rather debian is growing...) and it's time to get a new SCSI disk. Could people share with me their experiences as to what disks were reliable and fast? TIA, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE

Re: can't locate module char-major-10

--- Begin Message --- By the way, there is something wrong with your mailer as replying to you doesn't work. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

UW SCSI Card

Hi, I am considering to buy one of these beasts and had thought about AHA 2940UW. I was wondering if people had experience with those and/or if there is another suggestiong (Buslogic?) Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

Is there a client that one can use outside the US? Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Administrative Question

System Halted output. After that "It's safe to turn off the computer" to paraphrase a rather awkward operating system for pcs... Hope this helps, Luis.

Getting SLANG backgroud to white

Hi, I was wondering whether there was a way of getting the SLANG based programs to produce a white background rather than some sort of grey. Failing that, how can I get SLANG-based programs not to display colors when in an xterm? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Problems with fdisk

Hi, while moving my debian system to a bigger disk I ran into some weird problem. The new disk is CHS 4956/16/63. If I boot from the old disk and check the partition table, it seems to be OK. but if I boot from the new disk, cfdisk refuses to run and fdisk complains about physical and logical parti

Re: Tecra kernel 2.0.29: PCMCIA unresolved externals

this still gave me unresolved symbols. Also, it looks as though at least one of the symbols is apm related. I thought that apm wasn't part of the standard kernel because of the buggy BIOS around (mine for instance...). Should we file bugs? Thanks in advance, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzale

Running boa using inetd

there some other way of having a small server that can only be accesed from the local host or may be a small selected list of hosts? Thanks in advance, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

slrnpull

some server software locally? Any pointers or other info would be welcome. TIA, Luis -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Mutt and aliases

Hi, I have been trying to get mutt to recognise the aliases but after quitting, even thought it has saved them, it doesn't re-read the file because I can't use them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F

Metamail Error

/metamail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root41272 Apr 30 08:06 /usr/bin/metamail $ Any hints? Thanks in advance, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Playing WAV and other format

Hi, is there any program that will be able to play WAV and possbly other formats? Thanks in advance, Luis -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

PPP + PAP with Debian

of the ppp package as well as for that in Debian-1.2.5 (19, I think but could be mistaken). Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Debian Version for Bo

/etc/debian_version should not have been changed to 1.3. It's not very important but I was surprised it stayed with the old 1.2. Any suggestions? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76

Mutt and Menus

ind a way of doing it. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76

News and News reader

Hi, I have tried to install a news reader but it seems to require that I install a nntp package. Is that so? Is there any way to get a news reader that will connect to a remote server instead of requiring that I run a server locally? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tips

> > Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > >On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote: > > > > > Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it... > > > > Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your > > > > Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these. > > s

Cron scripts error

Hi, after reinstalling the system recently, I have been receving this message from cron everytime it runs: > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > > X-Cron-Env: > X-Cron-Env: > Status: RO > > run-parts

[no subject]

> > Hello > > How to get xterm_color in Debian1.2.2? > I have tried the xterm version with different switches +dc, +cm, but I > do not get any colors with ls -F --color=auto. > > Any Ideas? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shononascii

Hi, I am puzzled by the following: I am trying to prevent metamail to launch an xterm everytime it finds an iso-8859-1 message. (from shownonascii's manual page) If the MM_CHARSET environment variable is set and matches the character set named in the first argument, a new xterm

RE: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

> From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote: > > > Hamish Moffat wrote: > > > > >>>Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either? > > >>>Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal. > > >> > > >> Couldn

Colors in an Xterm

Hi, I have just installed a new debian box and I am missing the diferent colors that ls uses to distinguish the files. This works ok in a virtual console but not in an xterm. Before there used to be a color-xterm package that was needed but it has disappeared. From the manual page for xterm, it wou

CHAP authentification for PPP

Hi, I need to solve some problems with my ppp connection. My ISP uses CHAP but I can't sucessfully login. For some reason my machine decides that the server doesn't want to provide its name before it even had time to do it. So my machine requests to terminate though in the meantime the challenge i

Re: lpr, lprm on remote machines

> > Hello, > > we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote > machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to > remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the > sa

Reading X manual pages

Hi, I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the manual pages for X. The pages are in the system and mandb says it is processing the corresponding directories but I can't read them unless I specifically read the file I want using man -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.gz

Re: Probs with g++ and cout

> > Hello, > > since updating to "rex" I've got some problems with C++. > When I compile this code: > > --8<---8<-8<---8<--8<--- > #include > > int > main() > { > double z = 2.00; > cout << z << " ^2 = " << z * z << endl; > return

shownonascii

Hi, today I upgraded several things to the rex distribution. One of them was metamail. Before I was able to see iso-8859-8 without spawning a new xterm but now it seems, shownonascii always does that. This means that I can't see any non pure ascii characters in the a virtual console. Is there a wa

xconsole stops logging

Hi, I have noticed that xconsolo stops logging any kernel messages when the daily cron scripts get run and the current /var/log/messages file gets renamed to /var/log/messages.0 and a new one gets created. Is this something normal or is there anything I am doing wrong? Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSC

Mailing list archives

There seems to be some problem with the index to this and last month's messages. Are people aware of this? And given that I can't use that, I remember that at some point lprng was recommended as the future "lpr" for debian. Where can I find this? Thanks! Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: What does Debian mean?

Thanks to all who responded to my recent posting. And thanks to those who pointed xring for Internet Callback. It seems this is the thing to use. I haven't had time to try it out but it looks promising. Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTE

What does Debian mean?

Hi, I know this is not terribly important but I was wondering where the name debian came from. Maybe those that have been in the project long could share that with those of us that joined when debian had been underway for a long time already. Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Callback Internet Link

Hi, I was just wondering if there is a way to make a computer connect itself to the internet using PPP. I have a Sporster Vi modem and would like to be able to dial home and have the modem on answering force the debian system to connect itself to the usual ISP so that I can then access it through t

Disk Partition

Hi, I have managed to trash the partition table in my hard disk. It is a portable computer and uses a special partition for suspension (ACER 760iCx). I would like to know if there is some way to mount my ext2 partition because there are some valuable data thaill loose otherwise. The DOS partition i

Re: X-window keys

>Dear Debianites: > >Let me clarify my previous post... (I just thought to go back and > try it for accuracy---maybe next time I'll think to do so *before* > posting :-).) > > > why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X? > >Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs, > X

Dselect + NFS

Hi, I have just had something strange happening to me. I tried to update some packages using dselect with the NFS option. When going into the install option I would get an error from find about not being able to find the directory. The strange thing though is that the directory was correct and the

NFS install - follow up

Hi again, I just noticed I didn't metion that I am running debian 1.1 (beta) and dpkg -s dpkg gives: Package: dpkg Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.2.3elf Replaces: dpkgname Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.

GANN: Student summer job at NEC Research Institute (fwd)

I know this is not Debian-specific, but, still, as it is Linux related, I thought there might be someone out there interested. Please flame me through email so that nobody suffers more because of me! Forwarded message: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Giles) > Subject: Student summer job at NEC Rese

Re: problems with psnfss and (separately) bind

> travis wrote: > The problems I have are with psnfss-5.2-1.deb and the > bind-4.9.3-P1-2.deb during the dselect installation. psnfss-5.2-1.deb > throws out at me the following lines during unpacking: > > Unpacking psnfss (from .../debian/stable/binary/tex/psnfss-5.2-1.deb) ... > dpkg - warn

Can't find library error

Hi, I am expiriencing a problem that I don't know how to solve. masca[~]$ xtet42 & [1] 769 masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' The problem is that the library is there: masca[~]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 10 15:43 /usr/X11R6/lib/li

Checking if the network is up

Hi, just to thank everybody for ansering my query about checking if the network was up. I am using fping to my gateway and it works fine. I have as always also learnt a lot from you all! Thanks, Luis.

Checking if the network is up

Hi, I am trying to write a script to use popclient to download the mail from the office's server. This will run on a portable. I want the script to check whether the network is up before attempting to retrieve any mail, as I am likely to use the notebook in other places and won't be hooked to the n

Re: 1.1 X setup default: bs/del don't work with motif apps.

> > The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a > fresh installation. I'm sure some xmodmap commands (though I'm not > sure which ones, if you can help) would do the trick, but I wonder > what neither of them is usable by default? > > YA. > > I just installed debian on two