How do I recreate the file /var/lib/dpkg/available ?

2002-10-30 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
I "accidentally" deleted the files /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/available.old (they were huge), now I need to recreate them again, becasue I can't install anything without them, even 'dpkg -l' turns up with nothing. I've looked into the different man pages of dpkg and apt, but hav

System-Native LDAP authentication client on Debian 2.2 ?

2002-04-17 Thread ade
Hi, Please, could someone help me to find the response to the following qestion regarding LDAP ? Does Linux Debian 2.2 accepts a system-native LDAP authentication client ? The aim is to authenticate SUN Solaris and several Linux Distributions(especially Debian 2.2) stations with iPlanet Dir

Make users belong to indivdiual groups.

2002-04-07 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
I have 60-70 users on my system, all have been added with the useradd -m command, which I realize now made them belong to the same group 'users', had I used the command adduser instead then they would have ended up belongig to individual groups, which is what I need... My problem commes from the f

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each > > spammer on one line instead of 4. > > FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file: > > SPAM=SPAM > SPAMMERS=$HOME/procmail/spammers > > #

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

2001-10-17 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
#this is to boot W95 from a slave/second harddrive, with GRUB title WIN95 boot menu map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 GnuPG v1.0.6 Fingerprint:67E6 1D18 B2C4 4F8A 3DA3 5C6D 849F 9F5F 26FA 477D Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics/www.astro.uio.no

Re: kernel compile problem

2001-09-17 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
ritten by Bruce Evans. It's a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries). Klaus Ade GnuPG v1.0.6 http://www.astro.uio.no/~klaus

Re: sound

2001-08-17 Thread Ade Talabi
Bob Koss, What is extreme programming? Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [16/08/01 at 19:50]: > -- > > Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Training, Mentoring, Contract Development > Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design, C++, Java > www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming > >

Re: screen (as in program screen) question

2001-08-16 Thread Ade Talabi
Henry House, xvt -bg white -fg black -vb -name 'Here We Go' Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [16/08/01 at 00:19]: > > Sorry for not explaining better. The usual trick for setting the xterm title > (above) does not work in screen. I know it can be done, though, since Vim > still

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-16 Thread Ade Talabi
Stig Brautaset, Isn't 20 cents too much? You meant £0.02... Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [15/08/01 at 18:19]: > Just my £0.2... > > Stig > -- > www.brautaset.org -- "All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Ade Talabi
dman, I use mutt too, to manage my 1000+ daily messages. The sw is great! dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [15/08/01 at 14:49]: > > Anyways, I used to use elm mainly because it was simpler than pine and > those were the only console mailers I knew of. Somebody introduced me > to mutt on

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1003

2001-08-14 Thread Ade Talabi
Martin F. Krafft, I got about 50 as well. This is what is called the .vacation file, which is an autoresponder, to all mails sent to the guy while on vacation. He should be unsubscribed by the moderator. Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [14/08/01 at 05:49]: > also sprach har

Re: dosemu

2001-08-13 Thread Ade Talabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED], It's a dos emulatoryou use like dos... I have a feeling this is not the answer you want. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [13/08/01 at 08:40]: > How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ? > > Thsnks > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam > > "Quality can Never b

Re: ifconfig remove eth0:1

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
Rory Campbell-Lange, have you thought of editing the eth0-config file? Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [03/08/01 at 14:05]: > > Anyway, this question is how one removes the eth0:1 entry. I've tried > ifconfig del eth0:1 > and > ifconfig eth0:1 del > both unsuccess

Re: paths(newbie)

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
Karsten M. Self, You forgot "...but I certainly do appreciate the answer." Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) said thusly on [02/08/01 at 22:05]: > > I don't understand the question. > > -- ======== |

Re: Ethernet

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
That is not good, for a free product. That NAT and proxy question threw me. It is ZA, so I guess it must be a proxy one, he does no transalation whatsoever, just a program that causes loads of headache Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [03/08/01 at 11:25]: > > > On Fri

Re: DNS [subtopic: Re: Internet Connection Sharing, was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
machine A with a local 192.168.1.x ip# > - > - machine A will need to have ip_forward turned on and other > options ... and you'd need to do ip_masq too > > - see the IP_Masquerate-HOWTO and the Firewall-HOWTO > ======

Re: Is there a similar list of this nature for Red Hat Linux?

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
Sam Varghese, Thank you. Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [02/08/01 at 19:25]: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:10:26PM +0100, Ade Talabi wrote: > > > > Is there a similar list of this nature for Red Hat Linux? > > > > Thank you and Good evening... &

Re: Ethernet

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
Sebastiaan, Machine A is the gateway, which also runs zonealarm. I hate that name... Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [02/08/01 at 21:35]: > Hello, > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ade Talabi wrote: > > > Sebastiaan, > > > > My machine A is win 98, I

Re: Dual processors machines and process management

2001-08-03 Thread Ade Talabi
ultiple CPUs > > any hint appreciated. > > > thanx. > > > ==== | Ade Talabi| Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | ::SELLFOTO:: | Web Page: http://www.net-africa.com|

Re: Ethernet

2001-08-02 Thread Ade Talabi
Sebastiaan, My machine A is win 98, I can use netscape on my debian (machineB) to surf the web, if I then use perl on B, I can not get to the internet. Why is that? Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [02/08/01 at 10:45]: > - route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > > Then, on machine A d

Is there a similar list of this nature for Red Hat Linux?

2001-08-02 Thread Ade Talabi
Is there a similar list of this nature for Red Hat Linux? Thank you and Good evening... "Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." (H. Ross Perot)

Re: X won't allow display export...

2001-07-31 Thread Ade Talabi
Aaron Traas, What about DISPLAY=:0.0? Aaron Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [31/07/01 at 16:25]: > > and the following on the box I was trying to export the display from: > > export DISPLAY=10.1.1.33:0.0 > The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conserva

Re: Lucent 56k modem

2001-07-31 Thread Ade Talabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Try www.google.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [31/07/01 at 00:35]: > I know the Lucent 56k modem built into my Gateway Solo 5300cs is supported > under Linux, but I can't seem to find any information on how to set it up. > Can anyone tell me, or poi

Re: WinAlert! Problems with ZONEALARM

2001-07-31 Thread Ade Talabi
John Galt, The IP 192.168.0.2 was already made trusted in ZA. John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [30/07/01 at 23:35]: > > Make your Debian box a trusted machine in ZA. > > > You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend you

Re: WinAlert! Problems with ZONEALARM

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
Shriram Shrikumar, I think it can see my debian as par of the intranet, for I can ping the windows box from debian and vice-versa. Zonealarm is set to medium... local addresses are as follows: windows: 192.168.0.1 debian: 192.168.0.2 Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [30/07/

Re: PPP hangup

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Sounds like authentication problem... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [30/07/01 at 00:05]: > Hi, I'm having a problem with PPP. I set up my connection to NetZero using > pppconfig, and then type pon NetZero to connect. After it's done connecting, > it pa

WinAlert! Problems with ZONEALARM

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
start from? Ade.

Re: mp3 players?

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED], He can go to the moon and back with that...and still have laods of tracks left... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [29/07/01 at 08:05]: > On 28 Jul, Michael Perry wrote: > > Why limit yourself to a measly 20G? ;-) There are 48G laptop drives > available n

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
Israel Evans, The connection is definetly a problem.. Israel Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [28/07/01 at 00:54]: > Hello, > > I bet your connection might be a problem. If you get stuck on Getting. You > might want to try using a different mirror to download from. I don't know > h

Re: Shared Libs

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED], go to www.google.com and type it in... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [28/07/01 at 00:24]: > Does anyone know of a good site that has a supply of Linux shared libraries? > I'm specifically looking for libm.so.5. > > Thanks, > Deven "Where the hell is th

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
Jaimos F. Skriletz, You should not have an opinion on Debian till you see it at work. Jaimos F. Skriletz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [27/07/01 at 23:44]: > > to understand why I've been told its so great, for my opinion of now is not > that high, > > Jaimos F. Skriletz > "When I wake u

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-30 Thread Ade Talabi
Jaimos F. Skriletz, You need to do a checksum on your download, wether you are retrieveing a binary file as text. Welcome to Debian & Linux 3 days is a short time to spend in this kingdom, Gandolf. Jaimos F. Skriletz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [27/07/01 at 23:44]: > > To whom it may c

Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

2001-03-28 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager coded in c++ than blackbox. Thanks. Klaus

Re: Books

2001-03-14 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I use this list as my "book". Found answers to all my problems simply by using the search function. It's quick, and right to the point, and very cheap. Klaus On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, C Mead wrote: > Hi all, > > Just switched from RH but I'm not new to linux so i don't really need a > install guide. W

Re: dpkg perl-base problem

2000-11-02 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I think what you need to do is upgrade the perl-base that you alredy have installed. Had the same problem when instaling, read the different versionnumbers very carefully. Klaus On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jesper Abrahamsen wrote: > I am trying to instal the perl-base package, but it > gives me the fol

Re: Modem problem

2000-11-01 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, RAKOTONIAINA Solofoarisoa wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 potato official i386 on my > computer. When using the PPP, it couldn't view my modem which is an internal > modem installed on the port COM4. Under MS-Windows98, the connection works > p

Re: En snabb fråga...

2000-10-29 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, V.Micic wrote: > Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har > letat men inte hittat... > Tack i Förhand > Her hentet jeg mine: sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/ISO-images Klaus

tasksel

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would lik

tasksel says:NO TASK PACKAGES FOUND ON THIS SYSTEM.DID YOU UPDATE YOUR AVAILABLE FILE?

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and the a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would

tasksel says:NO TASK PACKAGES FOUND ON THIS SYSTEM.DID YOU UPDATE YOUR AVAILABLE FILE?

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
I`m running 2.2 on my portable BAD-ASS-COMPAQ LTE 5150, which dosent boot of the cdrom, or support hotswaping the floppy and cdrom. So I`ve installed the base from floppy, and the a whole lot of packages by hand from the cdrom. I have X up and running. But I`m fed up installing by hand, and I would