FWD: debian's hamm, (x)quake and __errno_location

1999-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
If anyone knows anything about this, I'm stumped. - Forwarded message from Morgan Larch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:48:08 -0500 From: Morgan Larch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: _ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

exim: socket bind () failed

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, sorry to bother you again with another exim-question, I already RTFM, also several howtos but could not find anything (/var/logs/exim/mainlog), everything seems to work, but those messages keep popping up: 1999-02-04 23:43:16 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: Address

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? > Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and > automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful. By default it does save them in a nice

RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to Nils and Jason for the *really* fast replies ... > > Just upgraded to apt_0.1.10 from potato - same problem. Looks like there > are a few others out there seeing the same thing. master{root}~#apt-get update Get file:/debian/debian/ dists/

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Christopher, you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 15:53 (received 05.02.99) about : _Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy._ >Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? Yes, I believe so. Sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but remember to have read it with "

HELP! (Trouble installing token ring card)

1999-02-05 Thread Michael D. Cencula
I recently installed a token ring card in my debian system (in addition to my ethernet card). To do this, I added the line: ibmtr to my /etc/modules file. Afterwards, the system has displayed the following during bootup: tr0: ISA 16/4 Adapter/II found using irq 7, PIOaddr a24, 16K shared RAM.

Kernel 2.2.1.

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Wong
Hmm, I'm having troubles. I've just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel, and everything seems to be okay when compiling. But, when I restart my machine, it complains when it loads my modules. It says that my /lib/modules/2.2.1/modules.dep is empty! That file should have info on my ip_alias, cdrom,

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-05 Thread Jolyon Suthers
>you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 15:53 (received 05.02.99) >about : _Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy._ > >>Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them >Yes, I believe so. Sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but remember to >have read it with "man apt-get". T

Re: Kernel 2.2.1.

1999-02-05 Thread Jolyon Suthers
> I'm having troubles. I've just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel, and everything >seems to be okay when compiling. But, when I restart my machine, it >complains when it loads my modules. It says that my > >/lib/modules/2.2.1/modules.dep is empty! > >That file should have info on my ip_alias, cdrom, and n

ICQ???

1999-02-05 Thread cooking
-- Hi to all ! can someone tell me what and where a goo d ICQ for my Deb box would be :-) Thankyou "CAR'N THE SAINTS" Craig McVean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Re: ICQ???

1999-02-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> -- > Hi to all ! can someone tell me what and where a goo d ICQ for my Deb box > would be :-) Thankyou That depends what you want to get. Many ICQ clones are at http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ Andrew / * Windows? What Windows?* * I may have

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Christopher R. Barry writes: > Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ . > Preferably, if Apt could understand the local directory hierarchy and > automatically put them in their place that would be wonderful. I don't understand wha

Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Eric House
I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves pointer to the right; '5' simulates a click -- that kind of thing. Some apps don't provide keyboard equivalents for all user actions, and my laptop mouse is a

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:49 -0800 (PST), Eric House wrote: >I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of >key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves >pointer to the right; '5' simulates a click -- tha

User names.

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Wong
Hmm, For Debian, user names are limited to 8 characters.. as well as the passwords. How can this be, lengthened? ... as well as long email addreses? ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1999 http://addm.com/

Squid not starting/stopping correctly

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Orr
My new version of squid is not starting or stopping properly. However, it seems to run OK. ii squid 2.1.2-1Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) ii squid-cgi 2.1.2-1Squid cache manager CGI program ii squidclient 2.1.2-1Command line URL extractor th

Re: Meta and Alt keys

1999-02-05 Thread Tim Moore
> Rob Mahurin writes: > On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: >> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X >> | or the console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the >> | useless Win95 Sta

Re: dpkg, apt, ftp

1999-02-05 Thread David B. Teague
John Many thanks. I'm home free now. I would have rtfm'd the man pages as is suggested by the dselect apt methond, only it is a catch 22: I don't have man pages because I can't install, because I dont have the information in the man pages This helps, thanks. All: there should be man page

Re: fetchmail crashes

1999-02-05 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Fetchmail has been crashing on me recently. The error is: > > > fetchmail: reading message 11 of 120 (2244 bytes) . (log message incomplete) > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au> : colon expected after > route > fetchmail: SMTP

mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or gpgp)? I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to compile on my boxes. :(

Compiling a new kernel.

1999-02-05 Thread James R. Lunsford
I'd like to go from 2.0.34 to 2.0.35. I'm moving kind of slow because I'm using the SuSE 3DLabs xserver for my Creative Labs video card, and I've heard that it won't work with kernels above 2.0.34 and I recently heard that it WILL work with 2.0.35. Anyway, I've had to recompile my existing kerne

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread ktb
> Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, I'm trying to use minicom to dial up my isp. It dials and then asks > > for a login and password. After I do this I get the following error: > > > > login: x > > Password:xx > > PPP session from (12.13.120.16) to 207.140.121.113 > > beginning.

Re: User names.

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Wong wrote: > For Debian, user names are limited to 8 characters.. as well > as the passwords. How can this be, lengthened? ... as well as long > email addreses? ie: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know how you

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chris Ryan wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Chris Ryan wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Further to this problem: I assumed that netscape is libc5 only, and > > > > There is a libc6 version of NS Communicator on ftp.netscape.com. > > As you go deeper in the path, select the 'unsupport

Severe DOS under 2.2.1

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got up at about 7am, and did some ssh. I went out at 8. About 11pm, my

Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1

1999-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: : Dear all, : : Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine : running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled : a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got : up at about

Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1 (fwd)

1999-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
Dammit, sense of duty wins out over laziness. *sigh* http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Forwarde

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Frost wrote: > I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many > people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to > compile on my boxes. :( If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what > are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides t

Re: fetchmail crashes

1999-02-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Tadeusz Bak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > Fetchmail has been crashing on me recently. The error is: > > > > > > fetchmail: reading message 11 of 120 (2244 bytes) . (log message incomplete) > > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@adam.ist.flinders.ed

Re: New User - Debian?

1999-02-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Leonardo Bermudez wrote: > > Hi > > I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux > yet. > > I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current version > is 2.0. > > Before I download the 2.0 version and install it on my P350 PC, I would > like to know what o

Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB ) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or root access? I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fast en

KDE & Toolbar icons...

1999-02-05 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all! I had to reformat my Linux box because NT screwed up the partitions... I re-installed everything from scratch...But this time, I'm having new problems... With KDE, the KDE Icons (like in the kfm) appear as black blocks or trashy images...I'm using KDE 1.0, off of the Debian Archiv

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Jolyon Suthers
>Hi, >I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB >) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the >event that a hacker has gained user level or root access? > >I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fa

Re: fetchmail crashes

1999-02-05 Thread Alec Smith
That's odd... I've been using Samba for awhile and have not had problems with Fetchmail. Where I have run into trouble is with Sendwhale and the mail gatewaying/queueing system I have setup. For awhile I had one massive mail loop. :( What I have NOT gotten to work is .fetchamilrc Alec On 4 Fe

??? Mysterious recurring problem with X video...

1999-02-05 Thread rich
Hey there everybody, I've decided to try and figure out a problem (with y'alls help!) that has bugged me since the days of Bo - setting up my X video. I've tried reading all of the documentation, but to no avail. Here's my situation: At 8 bpp, I have no problems (except the normal lame-looking co

Re: User names.

1999-02-05 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hmmm ... I didn't know about this limit when I installed and used a ten-character username and an eight or nine-character password. When I log in, I have to use the full username (alphenglor), and my home dir is /home/alphenglor, but files owned by me are shown as alphengl.alphengl (I'm not at a t

Re: fetchmail, why does it do this?

1999-02-05 Thread Ingo Hohmann
At 21:26 04.02.99 +0100, you wrote: > >> (I get some obscure errors, suddenly: >> skipping message 880 not flushed >> reading message 881 of 1261 (3233 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@public.uni-hamburg.de> : colon expected after route >> fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address must conta

Re: Kernel 2.2.1.

1999-02-05 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Wong wrote: > I'm having troubles. I've just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel, and everything > seems to be okay when compiling. But, when I restart my machine, it > complains when it loads my modules. It says that my > > /lib/modules/2.2.1/modules.dep is empty! Most probable

Printing a landscape postscript file. How?

1999-02-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I have a 2 page postscript file, each page is A4 size, but lying on its side, ie landscape mode. When I try and print, it doesn't work properly --- it is printed the wrong way round causing part of it to be chopped off. Ie, it thinks the file contains portrait pages when in reality it contains l

hamm proposed-updates

1999-02-05 Thread Dimitri.p
Hi all, when attempting to install packages from the proposed-updates directory, some of them complain that libc6.1 (2.7.0u) is required but it not available. I have not found any libc6.1 2.7.0u as a package to install. Is there a workaround or should I just move to slink and forget the proposed-

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or > gpgp)? > > I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many > people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to > compile on my boxes

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:09:18AM +0800, ivan wrote: > I tried checking the source code of svgalib - if it's going to remain as > difficult as it seems I may find a simpler project. > > I was hoping that there would be a simple method of getting permission from > the kernel for this operation and

Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?

1999-02-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:55:54PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > I just d/l'd the samba packages from the stated directory and > installed/configured them with dpkg. But it appears that sambaconfig > was removed. What am I supposed to use to configure samba? In the old days we used to edit these

Re: Printing a landscape postscript file. How?

1999-02-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mark Phillips hat gesagt: // Mark Phillips wrote: > I have a 2 page postscript file, each page is A4 size, but lying on > its side, ie landscape mode. When I try and print, it doesn't work > properly --- it is printed the wrong way round causing part of it to > be chopped off. Ie, it thinks the

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Feb 1999q, ktb wrote: > > > > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the minicom > man page > and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with minicom. I have rerun > pppconfig > I put in "binary.net" in the first line, which is my default. Using "chat" as >

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Thu, 04 Feb skrev Steve Lamb: > >I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of > >key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves > >pointer to the right; '5' simulates a click -- that kind of thing. > > X does this already. I'm also interested in

Networking Debian and Win 95

1999-02-05 Thread Peter Ludwig
I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have run into a few major problems. 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address is not being used as the address for network traffic (i.e. squake seems to like 127.0.0.1 and I can't force it to use an

IRC

1999-02-05 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All. I have to set up an IRC server. That's all right. But I also have to let a channel open in this same server, because I want my students to log in this channel as soon as they enter irc (bitchx -c or irc -c ). "Once upon a time", it was done using someth

debian installation on HP netserver LH3

1999-02-05 Thread Philippe BARBELET
How can I install the debian distribution on a HP netserver LH3 whith 3 disks under HP Netraid system ? Thanks. -- Philippe BARBELET R&D IT Manager Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +33 (0)2 99 84 20 91 Lucent Tech

RE: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hi, Probably isn't a goot idea (I really believe that there is a better software solution), but have you considered some removable storing device, like jazz drive from iomega? I only saying this since you have considered having a dedicated hard drive. Paulo. Timothy Hospedales writes: > Hi,

RE: KDE & Toolbar icons...

1999-02-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, There was a problem with this package. I remember you could solve it by installing some kde?-dev_.deb (I believe it was kdesupport0g-dev_980306.deb). A better solution would be to fetch the KDE 1.1 pre2 packages. Take a look at the kde page (www.kde.org). Have fun. Paulo. Bran

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > >Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba > >share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: > > > >But how do I create the private share? Wh

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Graham Ashton
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > > > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or > > gpgp)? I'm not sure. Certainly does pgp2 and pgp3 (whatever that means). > > I'm thinking of switching over

Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread John Gay
Hi, I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB ) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or root access? I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fast e

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Andrew Loughhead
-Original Message- >At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: >>Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba >>share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: >> >>[Public] >> comment = Public Stuff >> path = /home/samba/pub >> public =

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread homega
Jolyon Suthers dixit: > > > The best option that I know about is the Cryptographic File System. When > mounted > you can't tell the difference between it and any other type of file system; > but if you > haven't got it mounted - the data is encrypted (equivilent to PGP I think in > quality) > > Yo

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-02-05 Thread Richard Lyon
Hi Tyson, As a satisfied customer, I would rather wait until there is an official release of Slink. I don't have any burning desire to run the cutting edge, but place more emphasis on a bug free complete distribution. Hopefully we will still be able to pick up the CDROMs in Fitzroy when they b

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:49:00 -0500 (EST), "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Noah> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Noah> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Will they run on hamm systems? >> Noah> The only dependency that isn't satisfied by hamm is the Q

Xemacs & Chinese

1999-02-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I use the chinese support in Xemacs 20.2? What input method do they support?? And how do I turn on this support in xemacs?? Where can I get more info on this?? Thx. Regards, shao.

dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread homega
Hi, I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages: ~# dpkg -l ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader which means the package is installed, but: ~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1 dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+3

Mail && Users

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I have a simple mail question. Is it possible for me to use my local mail server on my debian box for my mail? Here is why I'm asking: I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adduser tells me that wax_man is a bad name, so I created a user called choover. So, if I use fetchmail or what ever to get mail, and se

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:49:43PM +1100, Andrew Loughhead wrote: > Actually I'm not sure if that option changes who > the user is authenticated as, it may just change who their actions are done > as. The latter one. > In any case, without doing strange things, you cannot get the parrallel of > th

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages: > > ~# dpkg -l > > ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader > > which means the package is installed, but: > > ~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1 > dpkg - warning: ignoring request to

How to upgrade sendmail ?

1999-02-05 Thread Ryszard Lach
Hi! Could anyone explain me, how to upgrade in Debian sendmail ? I'm using Debian 2.0 and I would like to upgrade my sendmail to version 8.9. How can I do that having only sendmail's sources? I can't uninstall debianized version of sendmail because of dependency on "mail-transport-agent". How can

RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-05 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ # deb file:/

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread servis
*- On 4 Feb, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:49 -0800 (PST), Eric House wrote: > >>I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of >>key strokes (in X) where a

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:15:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 4 Feb, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a > mouse?" > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:49 -0800 (PST), Eric House wrote: > > > >>I'm looking for

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread homega
E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit: > > You are trying too hard :) The package is elm-me+, the version is > 2.4pl25ME+39-1. You don't need to tell dpkg which version to uninstall, > there can only be one version installed, and dpkg knows which one that > is, so just type: Thanks. > > Dselect and dpkg and

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit: [...] > > > > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. It is very nice of you to > > call dselect a gui :) Then replied Horacio: > > well, a front end, or whatever it is, but I can see it runs dpkg for > installing, removing,... so it's an interface for dpkg?

Re: ppp not working...

1999-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
Kelly Corbin wrote: > Question: > > I have slink installed, and after upgrading my kernel from 2.0.36 to > 2.2.1, my ppp says it is not configured in the kernel or as a module. I > don't know a whole lot about ppp and just use pppconfig to setup my > dialup. When booting, it doesn't say "ppp line

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/5/99 6:05:58 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> Will they run on hamm systems? > >> > > Noah> The only dependency that isn't satisfied by hamm is the Qt package. > You > Noah> need Qt 1.42 from potato. That Qt package will install on a ham

Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they? Thanks a lot Stef

Tracking changes made by installation of software

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
A few days ago I asked about packages that tracked installations of software. What I was looking for is something that will keep a record of all files added, deleted, or changed during software installation, and show you what was changed via a report. Several of you responded with ideas, I thought

my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Marsman
Hey all ... I think I have a question for ya (hopefully it's not completly stupid) I'm running deb w/ the 2.0.34 kernel installed -- I want to recompile the kernel so I can add network support, but I've come accross a problem. I can switch to /usr/src/linux and run 'make config' ... the I run 'm

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they? > They're on KDE's ftp site. Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on pre-2.0 (read: all) versions of Qt. Qt 2.0 is currently in be

Re: KDE & Toolbar icons...

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > With KDE, the KDE Icons (like in the kfm) appear as black blocks or > trashy images...I'm using KDE 1.0, off of the Debian Archive 1 cd > (August 98)... can anyone help? Install kdelibs0g-dev. There was an error made

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
Go to KDE's site and look for the debian/potato dir - they're in there.

Re: my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 5 Feb, Mike Marsman wrote: > Hey all ... I think I have a question for ya (hopefully it's not > completly stupid) > > I'm running deb w/ the 2.0.34 kernel installed -- I want to recompile the > kernel so I can add network support, but I've come accross a problem. > > I can switch to /usr/src

RE: my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
> then the make zImage falls out on me after trying to run 'as86 ...', as86 > being some program that's not on my machine! YOu need bin86 package.

Re: mgetty: AutoPPP Failure

1999-02-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hello Debianites, > > I am struggling to get the AutoPPP feature of mgetty to work. > I want to connect two Debian Maschines running (mostly) Hamm. I have a working configuration. DISCLAIMER: This runs on RedHat 5.1. I'm just about to set one up for Hamm, so it will

RE: dns/bind question

1999-02-05 Thread pat
On 03-Feb-99, Mário Olímpio de Menezes took time to write : > I need to configure this guy so that I have a working dns that be > able to answer correctly requests for its name (paracleto). ... > My problem arose when I tried to install sybase ASE. It work only > with TCP communicatio

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/5/99 6:08:11 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sorry Noah, but the potato qt1g_1.42-1.deb depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), > which is not standard on a Hamm System. You've got at least to use a > Slink-System (which is not available on CD, so let

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the > minicom man page and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with > minicom. You *are* successfully logging in to your isp with minicom. That garbage you get is ppp starting up at the isp. Minicom, of course, d

Re: xterm configuration

1999-02-05 Thread John Bagdanoff
Rafael Thanks for the tip for using shift pgup-pgdn. That helped in retrieving my banking stuff. I still have the problem of getting X to recognize settings I want to change, such as XTerm *ScrollBar, xset settings, starting xscreensaver. It's just like ~/.Xresourses, is ignored. (read belo

KDE: libkde0?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> They're on KDE's ftp site. Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on OK, I did so. I had a look into http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3 There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in /pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg But this directory does no

cti-ifhp question on duplex printing

1999-02-05 Thread Thomas Adams
I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux?

how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages. How can I do this? I ha

inst debian on compaq proliant adaptec 2940 scsi drives

1999-02-05 Thread marc
can someone guide me to the docs to install debian on compaq proliant with adaptec 2940 with scsi drives i do not understand the directions following the F5 key i can see the drives in dos but debian can not find the card or drives thanks

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Curious about something... > > I didn't know there was a qt-1.42.deb available, so yesterday I downloaded the > qt source and compiled my own. I have libc6.2.0.7t - do I need to upgrade to > a new version to get th

Re: KDE: libkde0?

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > OK, I did so. I had a look into > http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3 > There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in > /pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg > But th

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Go to KDE's site and look for the debian/potato dir - they're in there. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1pre2/distribution/deb/potato -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread John Kuhn
Timothy, There are a few encrypted filesystems for Linux. Ones aimed at distributed filesystems (NFS replacements): - "CFS", which has been packaged and is available from non-us.debian.org. - "TCFS", http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/ I used CFS several years ago and it seemed to work well. My only comp

Re: cti-ifhp question on duplex printing

1999-02-05 Thread dpk
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Thomas Adams wrote: I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux? printername :if=/path/to/ifhp -Zduplex Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no > monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via > telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). ssh is much better :-) You want it. > I'd like to mount

RE: how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no > monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via > telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's > filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can upd

$ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -)

1999-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm using this to copy a filesuyem to another partition: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -) When comparing the new and original files, I notice these differences: 1- All soft links have the current time as the date; the date was not preserved: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it boot co

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, > it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: > > 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to > install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then in

Re: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -)

1999-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I'm using this to copy a filesuyem to another partition: > > $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -) Consider using something like find . -depth -xdev -print | cpio -dumpv /mnt Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct > hdd). How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) > But why not just move the floppy over to the flop

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