Problems booting Debian on an external USB disk on a MacBook

Hi! I am trying to install Debian Lenny on my MacBook, by way of an external USB hard disk and Refit. I have followed the instructions given in http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html and succeeded in booting from the i386 net-install for Lenny Beta 2, created partitions and installed

Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

Hans Vogelsberger: > Perhaps the reason is a difference between your old and your new file > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi. I'm not sure if it's an error in those files, I tried also selecting "se", the Sweden keyboard (which should be identical, but traditionally the Finland keyboard has worked

Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

Orestes Leal: > yeah, happens to me with gdm-2.14, but, does CTRL + ALT + F1 works ? No, that doesn't work either. > I suggest you that start a session from the command line with the > startx command and if this way donÂt work do a 'Xorg -configure and > the CLI and follow the steps suggested, g

No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

Hi! I am having problems after upgrading a machine from Sarge to Etch (the machine was originally a Progeny Debian install, which has since been upgraded). After the upgrade, the keyboard does not respond under X (at least not from GDM, but I can't get to anywhere else without the keyboard). It wo

Computer keeps hanging

Hi! I am having problems with my machine, it keeps hanging. First I thought it was the graphics card, an ATI card using the ATI driver. I upgraded from Sarge to Etch, then switched to an Nvidia card, both with the Nvidia and ATI drivers. Today I managed to capture the crash message, by watching t

Re: Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300

Kelly Clowers: Your mail came out almost unreadable: > On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi!>> The graphics > card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and> I had to buy a new > one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I> hav

Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300

Hi! The graphics card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and I had to buy a new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I have had good experiences with ATI cards and Debian before. :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146 :01

Re: [question] debian where two AMD cpus...

정재영: I want to know whether Debian is proper to my system? Linux does support dual-CPU systems just fine. Moreover, which debian (woody or potato) is proper? Woody is the newest one of the two, Potato is no longer supported. However, I can not find any information about adaptation on debian on

Mach64 framebuffer on a 2.2.25 kernel

Hi! I have an old Pentium 90 that I use as a router/etc machine between my intranet and the cable tv network. It has an integrated Mach64 graphics card, on which I am trying to run a framebuffer. I am using a 2.2.25 kernel, mostly because 2.2 has worked great so far, and 2.4 is bigger (it only

Re: gifs, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

Chris Halls: but on 1.1rc I get the option to export the graphics as JPG, which should be better quality and should actually work. Why not PNG? For navigational buttons, PNG would be the obvious choice. JPEGs have a tendency to distort that kind of images quite a lot. -- \\// Peter - http://www

Infra-red with Casio PAD-2?

Hi! With the (now broken) Casio watch I bought a few years back, I got an infra-red transceiver (since it was one of those watches with built-in calendaring and stuff, which I quickly fell to not use since I got a PDA at about the same time...) Anyway, the only drivers that came with the IR tr

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

Kevin McKinley: > CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ I don't want to update to 3.0r1 cd images, I want an update cd (3.0->current) to be used in *addition* to the current set. Basically something with everything from security.debian.

Update cd image for Woody?

Hello! Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I want to update a non-broadband machine with the security updates without hogging a modem for several hours (expensive!) TIA, -- \\// Peter - http://www

Frame buffer support for GeForce 4 Ti4600?

Hello! Does anyone know how to get frame buffer support to work on a GeForce 4 Ti4600 card? I have recently switched computers, and in my old computer vesafb (in a 2.2 kernel) worked just fine with my old GeForce 2MX, but neither vesafb nor rivafb (in 2.4.20) works with my new card. Does anyone kn

Re: Transition problems Qt2->Qt3

Sorry, wrong list. Didn't notice that I misspelled "devel" into "user" until the second after I hit "send"... :-/ -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Transition problems Qt2->Qt3

Hello! I am trying to recompile a program of mine which uses Qt (package "turqstat"). Since the new version isn't done yet, I am just trying to recompile with GCC 3.2 and libqt3. After fixing the configure.in I get compiling, and get a lot of warnings due to change of include files (I'll have to f

Dosemu

Hello! I have installed Dosemu (1.0.2.1, the version that is included in Debian 3.0), and have some problems getting my Swedish keyboard to work. I have tested some different configuration, and with this: $_rawkeyboard = (0) $_layout = "finnish-latin1" $_keybint = (on) I get Swedish charac

2.4.20 kernel crashes while scanning partition list (fwd)

I am installing Debian Linux on my new Athlon XP PC, and I have problems with the 2.4.20 kernel crashing on boot. I can successfully boot using the 2.4.18 kernel build that is included with the Debian 3.0 install cds. The problems seems to stem from my use of Promise FastTrak133 RAID controller (y

Re: Promise RAID install problems

Meir Kriheli: > The raid device is used via a different node, e.g: > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 Indeed! I did have a look around in /proc but couldn't find any information there, should've of course have looked there. *slaps forehead* Thank you! This seems to work just fine. Now just to figure out what m

Re: Promise RAID install problems

Meir Kriheli on 2002-11-14: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the archives: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg00953.html Thank you! I finally had time to try the installation again (interference from real life)... Quoting the refere

Re: Promise RAID install problems

Meir Kriheli: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the > archives: Thanks! Somehow that didn't show up when I searched for info earlier. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.so

Re: Promise RAID install problems

Eduard Bloch: > Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. I've learned to loathe Highpoint controllers from other machines I've been working with, but perhaps support has been improved since (that was in 2000). > Thanks for reminding me, I have just updated the Woody Preload

Re: Promise RAID install problems

nate: Thanks for your reply. > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ > it looks to only support raid0, Too bad, the only reason I use RAID is to do mirroring. Anyway, I

Promise RAID install problems

Hi! I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use for mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine. When I try to boot the install cd (using the bf24 flavour), the installer claims that it does n

Netscape icon in Gnome

Hi! Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with the Gnome packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). It also was automatically added to the panel on first run. Now, however, when I upgraded to the latest testing sources, the icon disappeared. Do I need to install another pa

stopped working in X

Hi! After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it does some really weird things in several programs (most notably ncurses program and the bash shell). In my Xmodmap (

Changing bug origin

Hi! Is it possible to change the submitter address on bug reports? I have several open reports submitted under obsolete addresses that I would like to update my address for. Please Cc me, I do not subscribe to this list. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsol

IDE problems

Hi! I just found my machine had crashed with some weird hard-disk related messages. When hard-disk has actually crashed on me, I have gotten other errors than these, and just pressing reset helped. Do the messages indicate a kernel bug, or should I try to get the ahard-disk replaced on warranty?

Problems apt-get'ing

Hi! I'm having a problem with apt-get: # apt-get install gnome-session Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: [...] 27 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/16.1MB of archives.

lockd problems

Hi! Lately, I've gotten Starting NFS common utilities: statd lockdportmap: server localhost not responding, timed out portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockdsvc: Input/output error . when I

Re: Potato inconsistency

Santiago Vila Doncel: > Yes, it has been reported 14 times(!). I almost thought it would be, so I didn't file a bug report myself... > I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. base-files_2.1.12 fixes it. Yup, worked fine with that one! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: MTA

Dave Sherohman: > I use exim and diald. They handle mail for me without any problems, although > exim (by default, at least) wants to send out all mail immediately. That's what I don't want, since I'll be running dial-up. It'd be nice if I could have it call and send/receive mail at pre-deter

MTA

Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connec

Potato inconsistency

Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade: Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is als

apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives

Hi! How come that "apt-get dist-upgrade" "upgrades" packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Ispell module for html files

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira: > Anyone knows about a module of ispell to fix errors in html files? The current version (since 3.1.20-2) of ispell in potato has a patch applied that provides support for spellchecking html files. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Finding left-over libraries

Brian Servis: > Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. That's too bad. > One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for > development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at > build time when you need to link to the headers. Yeah, well, al

Finding left-over libraries

Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages depend on? When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because

Re: LILO boot partition question. Thank you

> But isn't the map installer run when I run the lilo command after > editing my lilo file ??? It should be. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.

Re: LILO boot partition question. Thank you

Robert J. Alexander: > if I try installing a lilo.conf with boot=/dev/sda2 as I would like the > LILO process aborts after writing > > LIL- > > as the prompt. According to the documentation: LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or b

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?

Re: Installing from CD-ROM: problems

Michelle Konzack: > If you run dselect, choose teh accessmetode multicd2 > (or like this, because I do not know exactly). We changed it to apt (setting up with apt-cdrom, but it didn't find all the lists) > +--+ .~. > | Michelle'

Installing from CD-ROM: problems

Hi! A friend of mine is installing Debian from cd-roms (from a machine without Internet connectivity), and since I have never done that myself, I'm a bit at a loss to why it won't work correctly. Here's the problems: * The initial dselect install only installed from the first cd, it seemed not

What replaces netdate in potato?

I noticed that netdate has been removed from potato. What should I use instead? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Getting apt-get to explain things

How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package? I can't find any reasoning why it want to remove one of the packages I have installed, especially since it is not in the main distribution, and does not depend on any package from it. I would like apt-get to explain to me somehow

Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

Peter S Galbraith: > contrib is on the official CDs. Hmmm, okay. > You can fetch the non-free and non-us structure using a tool such > as wget. Yes, but will it then be in a way that can be used in a simple way together with dselect/apt? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

Hi! Since the official cd images only contain the 'main' archive, I would like to create a similar cd, useable by dselect/apt, for the contrib, non-free and non-us parts of Debian, since the machine that Debian is to be installed on does not have a network connection. How do I go about to do this

Sharing apt-gets cache dir

I thought it be a good idea to share the apt-get cache dir between my computers, so that I need not to re-download each package for each machine that I update. I'm exporting it over NFS, however, I cannot get this to work - it refuses to lock: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - o

Re: Pine question

Johann Spies: > I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to > read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: > > [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] What does the string in question look like in "real life"? It might

Re: apt-get fails

Martin Fluch: > Install this package manualy with dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* > and apt-get upgrade should do. That seems to cure the problem, but why did it appear in the first place? # dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.1_all.deb (Reading database ... 51889 files

apt-get fails

Today when I tried running apt-get dist-upgrade, it failed on me... Anyone have ideas? # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: sgmlspm The following NEW packages will be installed:

Re: mixing slink and potato?

Stefan Langerman: > Is it possible to install those packages (preferably with dselect or > apt-get) without updating the whole system to potato? Yes, you can do it directly with apt-get by: * Pointing your sources.list to potato * Running 'apt-get update' * Running 'apt-get install packages' whe

Re: DISPLAY

Brian May: > Check that DISPLAY isn't being set by one of your login scripts. It's not, I checked both /etc/profile and my .bash* files, nothing there sets it. > Are you using screen? It occurs whether I'm using screen or not. > What Debian version are you using slink (stable) or potato (unsta

DISPLAY

For some reason, my Debian installation has started providing me with a DISPLAY variable even in console logins (and when logging in over the serial line...), which renders my scripts that use DISPLAY to check whether to fire up a X program or a console programs non-working. Why? And is there any

Re: cvs

Micha Feigin: > I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. Install the cvs-doc package, or point your browser at http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/html_mono/cvs.html -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Warning: Q < 10.66666667

Sebastian Stark: > what means Q in the last lines ?? I use debian 2.1 I get the same thing, but it works anyway. Some kind of incompatibility. I filed a bug report about it some time ago (#43685), but haven't got any response as of yet. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: a2ps margins (solved)

Dave Thayer: > N.B. this is for US letter size paper. Assuming that you are using european > standard paper sizes in Sweden, you will need to look around for the > corresponding medium commands for A4(?) paper. A4dj worked fine. And, yes, it's a DeskJet clone that I have, an Olivetti JP150W. Th

a2ps margins

How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost column unreadable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

SVGA Ghostscript

Is there any way to get ghostscript to display postscript documents on the console (using SVGALIB or the framebuffer)? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Lynx and APT with http proxy

Richard Clarke: > Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when I > have to use a http proxy with my university. If the proxy is located at someserver.somewhere on port : export http_proxy=http://someserver.somewhere:/ at a prompt, or in your .bashr

Re: Remote printing?

peter karlsson: > But, when I try to print, it says that "Jobs queued, but could not start > daemon", which is strange, because lpd is running. And I have added a line > with its IP number in the "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the machine that has got the > printer. I solved

Remote printing?

Okay, got local printing (with lpr and magicfilter) to work, but I can't seem to get remote printing (from the other Debian box) to work. I ran magicfilterconfig on that one, saying the same thing, except for entering the host name of this machine as the printer device. That seemed okay. But, when

nntp-inews

Hi! I'm looking for an inews program that can post via nntp (for use with uqwk without needing a local news server), but I can't seem to find any. Slackware does have one which I have hacked around a bit in at the moment, but it does have "no monetary gain"-licensing in part, which means that it

How to setup a printer?

What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? I installed 'printtool' (mainly because it's the only Linux program I've ever used before to set up printers, on a RedHat system), but it just complains about "startup encoding not set", and that doesn't help me much. -- \\// peter

Re: console cd player? pleace CC me

Ari Sigurðsson: > Hello, I have debian 2.0 and I am trying to play cd from the console, so > far I have tryed to compile 2 different cd players with no luck. nothing > but errors and warnings. the ones I have tried are. Try installing "workbone" or "cdtool". They are available in the Debian dist

Re: Commercial Debian - For those that requested a link

> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/11071.html Or even http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19991012 -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

> Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of > upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or > conflicts), like dselect does? I don't think so. I was thinking about filing a wishlist bug

Re: APT strangeness

> Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dselect > selections. I don't use dselect any longer... I use apt-get + console-apt -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.

APT strangeness

How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want to remove? # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: ae gimp lynx-ssl

Re: Microsoft posts Linux myths

> I found a Wired article with a link to this Microsoft document, > titled "Linux Myths": > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp Old news :-) Anyway, see http://enlightenment.org/rant.html for a rebuttal. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: how to print RTF ?

> What program can print RTF ? Pathetic Writer (xpw). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: slink --> potato, no rlogin?

> I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem > to have rlogin installed anymore!?! What package is rlogin in? It has moved out of netstd (I think) to its own packages: rsh-client and rsh-server -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: noh

Re: latex french.sty

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > when i compil a file.tex this message happen: "french.sty" file not found > where can i find this one? Are you using \usepackage{french} instead of \usepackage[french]{babel} ? Have you run texconfig? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup

Latest netstd and xinetd

Hi! Is anyone here using xinetd and also having problems with the latest netstd update? I get this: # dpkg --pending --configure Setting up netbase (3.16-3) ... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/inetd: file does not exist dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script r

Re: HTML spell?

> I found a patch to ispell to do this a long time ago. > See http://www.cmc.net/~bem/vile/ispell-html-mode.patch for a copy. Thanks! Works like a charm! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: HTML spell?

> Netscape composer has a spell checker. Just open the page with Netscape > and select File->Edit Page. Yeah, but then if I were to save the file again, it will break the page completely. Besides, I would also have to start X and Netscape, which would take far too long :-/ -- \\// peter - http

HTML spell?

Is there any program like ispell that works with the same dictionaries, but knows HTML and don't try to correct spelling of HTML tags? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: Urgent help

> Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? To create FAT file systems, use mkdosfs from the dosfstools package. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

> kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like > .-, and you'll not have problems > (I haven't, anyway :) One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version installed? Right now, I have two 2.2.12 compilations installed, for instance. How do I do that with m

Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

> Use epochs for your revision= when using make-kpkg: > make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image > (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) Hmm, sounds good. Any way to get it to do that without me having to remember to add that each time? I couldn't find any parameter I could put in the conf

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

> you can use dselect and use "H" on the package. This will hold the package > and prevent "accidental" upgrading. Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel. Plus that I have to go into dselect, which I don'

make-kpkg and apt-get updates

I compiled and installed a kernel with make-kpkg, but now apt-get seems to want to overwrite it with one from the archive. I do not want that to happen, how do I tell apt-get to keep its hands off it? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log

Re: Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X

> I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer > (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely* > distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine. I switched to the VESA framebuffer, and now it works. But does anyone

Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X

Hi! I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely* distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine. I'm running on a PC, and my card is, according to SuperProbe: First v

make-kpkg questions

Hi! Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) (Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I was doing

Re: su username w/o password in potato

> However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this > functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? /etc/pam.d/su: # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.p

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

Salman Ahmed: > But where is this env. var being set from ? It's not even an environment variable, but rather an internal bash variable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: Language of www.debian.org.....

> Stranger - www.debian.org brings up the 'elvish' (Turkish...) version, yet > www.debian.org/index.html brings up the english version.. > er what? An old Apache bug. It is in the process of being fixed. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posti

Re: xinetd problems

> No, there are two different things: > - service_name - tag: service > - service id - attribute tag: id Ah! Now I see. Works fine, thanks! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

Seth R Arnold: > Peter -- even if the paths are correct? I am a little reluctant to play > around with mine, since my system works... Jonas Steverud: > The message said the pathes had to be relative and mine where absolute. > Since they looked ok and I didn't know what to change them too I let t

Re: xinetd problems

> > I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), > Use `id' tag - different in any service definition Well, the problem is that the id number is the port from /etc/services, and there is only one id per port. > This is socket interface limitation (not only xinetd) you can bi

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

B. Szyszka: > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

Jonas Steverud: > (none) login: root > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred My guess is that y

slrn and newsgroup descriptions

How do I get slrn to show the newsgroup descriptions? I have set % if non-zero, show description of newsgroup if available set show_descriptions 1 % column where group descriptions start set group_dsc_start_column 40 in my .slrnrc, but they won't show up when I run slrn. I have descriptions i

xinetd problems

Hi! I'm using xinetd because it can bind services to certain network interfaces. BUT, I'm not able to get it to bind *one* service to *two* interfaces (out of three). How do I do that? I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), nor can I have two "interface" lines, or two a

Re: daemon/initd

> There is also this thingy: > rinetd - Internet redirection server > > I don't know if it can replace inetd or not.. No, it justs allow you to specify that certian ports on your machine should be forwarded to other machine. Quite useful for making machines behind a firewall available outside it

Re: garbled characters in vim

> $: env > LANG=C > LESSCHARSET=latin1 Try setting "LC_ALL=sv_SE.ISO8859-1". That ought to fix it. You might also want to try to set "LANG=sv". This also makes some of the programs speak Swedish, which is quite nice. PS. There is now also a debian-user-swedish list which you might want to subsc

One-time password for PPP dialup

What's the best way to deal with one-time password for dialup (PPP) accounts? I generate new codes for each time I dial-in to work, and as of now I have written a small Perl wrapper that manually edits the PPP password file each time I call, but I was wondering if there's a better way? I've confi

Re: mail and security

> Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than > slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secur

Re: telnetd-ssl

The problem has been found. The telnet daemon was set in inetd.conf to be started as user telnetd, which was something that telnetd-ssl didn't grok. After resetting it to root, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

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