Re: System.map does not match kernel data

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
[I don't know if you received an answer to this question, so here goes] > "Jonas" == Jonas Steverud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonas> When I run some programs (ps, top, etc) I get Warning: Jonas> /boot/System.map-2.2.10 does not match kernel data. Jonas> Is there some way of fi

Re: ppp and proxy ARP?

1999-09-30 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Z. Lysik writes: > I was looking through my ppp.log and I found this little line: > Sep 29 13:04:27 fire pppd[15499]: Cannot determine ethernet address for > proxy ARP You can ignore it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
(1) Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). First of all : HOSTTYPE=i386-linux I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new 2.2.12 kernel recently. Where is this variable getting set from ? How do I change t

Re: System.map does not match kernel data

1999-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Sep-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: > If you are compiling the kernel by hand, then you need to copy the > System.map from that directory into /boot right after the kernel has been > compiled. I am not sure but it might have to be named with the kernel > version ie /boot/System.map-2.2.12. That is wh

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of > environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). > > First of all : > > HOSTTYPE=i386-linux Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just pent

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: : : (1) : Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of : environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). : : First of all : : : HOSTTYPE=i386-linux : : I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new : 2.2.12 ke

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just Ben> pentiums. You mean for the initial install off of the CDs (or whatever) ? But where is this env. var being set from ? Currently, it is not valid for my system since

Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread David Natkins
Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at ftp.debian.org. One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem.

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> ... but the machine architecture is still "i386", as in Intel Nathan> CISC. Other machine architectures include m68k, powerpc, Nathan> alpha, hp-ppa, etc. Nathan> You don't need to worry about this. Ok, that m

Re: Modem speed with wmppp.app

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Christian" == Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Hi, I am running Debian Potato with wmppp.app as dialer. I Christian> am using a Diamond SupraExpress external modem (great modem Christian> for Linux btw!) to connect to my two ISP's. Christian> I have w

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:54:11PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben> Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just > Ben> pentiums. > > You mean for the initial install off of the CDs (or whatever) ? No I mean when the

Apache segfaulting upon perl module load

1999-09-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'm having a strange problem where apache is segfaulting when I start it. The only time I get the segfault is when DynaLoader.pm loads an ".so" file, for example, DBI.so, resulting from "use DBI" or "use Apache::DBI" in startup.pl. But "use Apache::Status", resulting in loads of Request.so, et al

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is > Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why >

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
David Natkins wrote: > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at ftp.debian.org. > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You can open the package list file with a text editor and fix th

re: dselect

1999-09-30 Thread Kjohn Sasitorn
I thought all my files were up to date and purged my cache (through dselect) and now it won't upgrade any packages because it says it can't find them. Any suggestions on how to remedy this problem?? Thanks. -ks

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-30 Thread Mike Werner
Thanks for the reply, but it's still not working. My /etc/ppp/peers/provider: # This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines # but please do not delete lines or the change the comments or you will # confuse pppconfig. noauth #pppconfig_noauth connect "/usr/sbin/c

Re: One last time: smail problem

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ooooh! Only a guess -- but make a crontab entry that runs every five minutes that runs "runq". Probably it should run as 'mail', but I can't be sure. See what this does. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:39:27AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at t

Re: System.map does not match kernel data

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:02:51PM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: > > When I run some programs (ps, top, etc) I get > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.10 does not match kernel data. > > Is there some way of fixing this/get rid of the message? > > I've compiled the kernel myself and the messages start

Re: Cron: daemon.log grep & mail to root

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
The TrinityOS document has many good ideas in it, including cron stuff -- it is based on slackware, but you should be able to adapt parts of it without too much trouble. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:03:33PM -0700, bwarsing wrote: > Hi, > I'm a newbie, but I need to set up cron to grep the auth at

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
You want the HOSTTYPE to say i386, since your machine IS a 386-compatible chip. :) As for that environment variable, you could parse the output of: $ uname -rm 2.0.36 i686 And build it yourself... :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I n

dynamic IP and exim config (different from LG #43)

1999-09-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I have been tinkering with a different way of setting up exim/fetchmail/mutt so that I can get mail on a dynamically assigned IP but still act like a static email address. I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my ISP assigned email address. I have also set up exim to think that my personal machin

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-30 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:44:21PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but it's still not working. > xanadu:~# ping 38.1.1.1 > PING 38.1.1.1 (38.1.1.1): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > ping: wrote 38.1.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1 > ping: sendto: Operation not permi

Install with floppies and NFS

1999-09-30 Thread Jordan Howarth
OK. I have finally got the laptop and the time. I went to ftp.debian.org to get resc1440.bin, plus associated others, and tried to cp it to floppy BUT ... Have floppies shrunk since this stuff was put onto the site? My floppy in 1.457 Kb but resc1440.bin is 1.475 Kb. How's a guy supposed to do a v

Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them, let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes. But this doesn't work for me. Opening a *.gz file just shows me the compressed form. Is there something special I need

Re: Install with floppies and NFS

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
Are you using rawrite or dd, or just a straight copy? A straight copy will never work, but a rawrite (from dos) or dd (under a unix) will do the job nicely. :) On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 01:37:11PM +1000, Jordan Howarth wrote: > OK. I have finally got the laptop and the time. I went to ftp.debian.org

Re: System.map does not match kernel data

1999-09-30 Thread Dan Everton
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:53:32PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:02:51PM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: > > > > When I run some programs (ps, top, etc) I get > > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.10 does not match kernel data. > > > > Is there some way of fixing this/get rid

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > David Natkins wrote: > > > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at ftp.debian.org. > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > You can open the package list file with a text editor and

apt package listing error.

1999-09-30 Thread Marshal Wong
I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got this message while doing a "[U]date". Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_d

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Salman Ahmed
> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kristopher> The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open Kristopher> compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress Kristopher> them, let you edit, and then recompress if you made Kristoph

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Herbert Ho
don't run apt-get update again. just go on about your business after that (e.g. apt-get upgrade) and you should be fine. i am. =) Herbert Ho On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Johan Ur Riise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > David Natkins wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'm surprised there isn't some kind of automated format checking tool that makes sure there are no syntax errors in the Packages file before it's allowed to be uploaded from Incoming into the dist area. As I understand it that process is automated for unstable and already-available packages, so sh

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: [ snip ] : Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is : Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why : Nathan> waste those milliseconds? : : Would you be willing to explain the technicali

apt-get newbie question

1999-09-30 Thread michael
Hi, I decided to upgrade my slink box to potato tonight, using apt-get (0.3.10) for the first time, but I've gotten stuck: My /etc/apt/sources.list consists of one line: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free I first ran "apt-get update", which seemed to wor

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why Nathan> waste those milliseconds? sa> Would you be willing to explain the technicalities behind that ? Sou

Re: apt-get newbie question

1999-09-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided to upgrade my slink box to potato tonight, using apt-get > (0.3.10) for the first time, but I've gotten stuck: > > My /etc/apt/sources.list consists of one line: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/d

Strange apt-get behaviour...

1999-09-30 Thread umrenic2
Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and not the actual mailing list. Guys, I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get exited with this error message: Read

Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Oki

ppp broken, log says: "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"

1999-09-30 Thread David Karlin
Hello, Upon returning home from a trip, my slink box is no longer able to connect to my ISP. Up until the time I left, it had been working fine. I was even able to telnet (ssh) into the system for the first few days I was away. Fortunately/unfortunately, my win95 system is able to connect as bef

Re: apt package listing error.

1999-09-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:08:15AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got > this message while doing a "[U]date". > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) >

Re: dynamic IP and exim config (different from LG #43)

1999-09-30 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:26:22PM -0700, esoR ocsirF wrote: > I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my ISP assigned email address. I have also set > up exim to think that my personal machine is eou.edu ( If I understand > the setup ). I run fetchmail to retrieve my mail and use mutt to read > it. You're ri

Security & UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Art Lemasters
One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user directory permission looked thusly: drwxr-sr-x 16 user user 1024 Sep 29 18:00 user

Re: Security & UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing > so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user This is fine. Depending on the user this may be helpful or even necessary. Is it a real human or a program tha

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files > with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either > on this list or on some linux NG a while back except that I was paying > attention at that time! zle

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-30 Thread George Bonser
I am kind of catching up on old email so I do not know if this problem got resolved but go into your BIOS and set the IDE controller to PIO Mode 3 or LOWER and it will work. This is a problem with some UDMA drives. I used to get them all the time ... constantly as a matter of fact until I turned o

Re: Best API for g++?

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Try V - free, and portable to MS shite to if you have to do that stuff. http://objectcentral.com/ Good tutorial, helpful mailing list (hosted by debian.org, so you can view the list archives from the debian web site). Martin What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code

Re: Security & UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) > has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing > so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user > directory permission looked thusly: >

Re: Device busy

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Make sure your not in the directory where it's mounted still, e.g. if your current dir is /where/cd_mounted you can't umount the CD as you're in that directory...cd back to ~. Martin From: Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Often, when I want to umount a filesystem (especially the CD-Rom), it

Re: Security & UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Seth R Arnold
Check your /etc/suid.conf file, if you have one. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:20:39PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) > has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing > so, a couple of times. For example, i

su username w/o password in potato

1999-09-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hi, With the 'old' secure-su package, one could su to a user without a password, when set up in /etc/suauth . I was using this quite a lot :) However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? TIA, -Remco

icmplog: destination unreachable - what is it

1999-09-30 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi, For some minutes now i get some strange messages in my syslog: Sep 30 11:10:01 convert icmplog: destination unreachable from COMSRV03.UNI-MUENSTER.DE Sep 30 11:10:31 convert last message repeated 2233 times Sep 30 11:11:31 convert last message repeated 3266 times Sep 30 11:12:31 convert last

Re: Security & UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:20:39PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) > has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing > so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user > directory permissio

Re: Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Oki There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc. Most likely you will want to download t

Re: su username w/o password in potato

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:13:59AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hi, > > With the 'old' secure-su package, one could su to a user without a password, > when set up in /etc/suauth . I was using this quite a lot :) > > However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this > functio

where is /proc/asound?

1999-09-30 Thread rnewton3
Hallo all, I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and ALSA just doesn't work. I don't appear to have a /proc/asound directory and I

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Marcus Johansson
> ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning > apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. Try: # apt-get check That might fix the problem, not sure. /Marcus

fvwm with WM dockable apps

1999-09-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days among so many windows managers. fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, and WM dockable apss does not seem to have a -geometry option. Is there any way to tell fvwm to p

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Johan Ur Riise wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > David Natkins wrote: > > > > > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at > > > ftp.debian.org. > > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > > > You can open t

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
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: Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Oki > > There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc.

Re: su username w/o password in potato

1999-09-30 Thread peter karlsson
> 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: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs" > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > >> On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files >> with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either >> on this list o

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
The first two variables are set by the shell and are determined either at compile time or by the environment it starts up in. Read the man page for your shell. For bash it says the following: HOSTTYPE Automatically set to a string that uniquely describe

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marcin Owsiany ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:24:54PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > > > I guess this kind of kernel packages would be for people quite concerned > > > about security but also quite lazy :) > > > > I guess

daylight savings

1999-09-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Where can I see the settings for daylight savings? That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. We'll have a change in Oct, 3. Where can I see i

info2www not finding icons

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
I have dwww and info2www installed, using apache. The pages returned by info2www don't have any pictures in them. The image files are in /usr/share/doc/info2www (next.gif, prev.gif, up.gif, etc.). The info2www-generated pages have IMG tags that look like . But apache doesn't seem to be able to

Re: Modem speed

1999-09-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Christian: The Cisco AS5200 does contain a bank of modems-- if your Windows machine is getting 42000bps, then they're likely 56K modems. Are the Windows and Linux machines calling on the same phone line? They're calling the same phone number, right? To verify that Linux isn't mis-reporting the

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Marcus Johansson wrote: > Try: > > # apt-get check > > That might fix the problem, not sure. > > /Marcus No, apt-get check doesn't fix it. The file corruption prevents apt-get from doing anything. - Kris

Re: Strange apt-get behaviour...

1999-09-30 Thread Kristopher Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and > not the actual mailing list. > > Guys, > > I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this > afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get >

dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?

1999-09-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting the kernel source and building the kernel myself, but I wanted to be sure that I hadn't done

Re: Callback

1999-09-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting A. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I am a new converter to linux os, ending the misery of windows os. > I managed will till now to install debian linux and managed to have ppp > to > work fine for some connections. My main isp requires a callback > authentication > to connect, and I could

Re: Callback

1999-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
callback is generally accomplished through an extension to ppp. I don't think that the linux pppd daemon has support for this (at least not version 2.3.5 that I'm using). A quick look at the README on the upstream maintainer's site doesn't seem to indicate support for this either: ftp://cs.anu.

gnumeric complains about platform independent libraries

1999-09-30 Thread Kent West
When trying to start gnumeric, I get the following complaints: Could not find platform independent libraries Could not find platform dependent libraries Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:] 'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback Warning! Falling back to string-based exceptions 'import

Re: ppp broken, log says: "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"

1999-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It's more likely that some further authentication is necessary, i.e. PPP itself is not being started automatically upon connect but instead there's some other prompt which must be negotiated. The best way to diagnose this is to use seyon or minicom (or other terminal program) to manually dial th

Re: dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: > I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected > that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other > packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting > the kernel source and building the kernel m

What's this in my daemon.log

1999-09-30 Thread Patrik Magnusson
This has been popping up for a couple of days now. Anyone know what it means? Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26739]: started Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26746]: request_thread: read

pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I expected the network card in the slot to show up when I run ifconfig. It does not. How ca

Re: daylight savings

1999-09-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes ("daylight savings"): > >Hi, > > Where can I see the settings for daylight savings? > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes >from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 >or 2 days till it change

Keyboard Question (IBM Type)

1999-09-30 Thread Jon Hughes
My girlfriend is going to be purchasing a new keyboard to work with her Linux box when we set it up. However, we've had problems with the Keyboard/track pointer thing in the past. Does anyone know if the 104 Key Trackpoint Keyboard from IBM has had any problems with Debian? Thanks http://www.d

apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread David Kanter
Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some files from the "unstable" tree? Here's why: I have Slink and downloaded Netscape 4.61 from the unstable tree. Why? Getting a stable Netscape never seemed to work; not all the necessary files would download, so I opted t

Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:06:34AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some > files from the "unstable" tree? Nope. *some* instability might occur, but that doesn't mean it is bad. Just be sensable on what you're doing and it sho

Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) I've even got autofs automout

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. > > I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. > I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp > tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch

Re: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the sl

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > setup properly.

RE: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.

1999-09-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Sep-99 Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the slot to sh

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > > lookups) recogni

netscape killing my machine

1999-09-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the past few days it has just about halted my machine, on one occasion I needed to hard reboot. I just arrived back from class a few minutes ago and I thought my comptuer was dead, turns out it was just going REALLY slow. According

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open > compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them, > let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes. > > But this doesn't work for me. Opening a *.gz file just shows m

dpkg problem

1999-09-30 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, Recently, i download the libc6_2.1.2-5.deb and install it with dpkg. However, there are some error messages : ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg-deb: error processing lib6_2.1.2-5.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-t

startx libraries errors

1999-09-30 Thread J
--- Begin Message --- When booting I receive the following errors: Starting X display manager: xdm/usr/bin/X11/xdm: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max already running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 debian tty1 After I log in I try the follow

mail not deleted from spool on inc with exmh

1999-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again. My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not alwa

Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: : Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to : update some files from the "unstable" tree? Depends on what "bad" means to you: o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of dependencies for you, so there should be n

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:43:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > > pam_unix.so modules

dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Adam Olejniczak
Hello all I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. so i was using dselect with unstable option and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following errors Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit f

RE: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Jon Hughes
I got this error last night myself and I "fixed" it by commenting out the offending site in the /etc/apt/sources.list, but I'm not sure if that's the best/permanent fix. But it did work for the time being -Original Message- From: Adam Olejniczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adam Olejniczak wrote: > > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit ftp://ft

Re: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Adam Olejniczak wrote: > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main P

PPP Host Configuration

1999-09-30 Thread Ramana Tadepalli
I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a server (http for a start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to run a dial-in server to receive connects on the modem. Please help Ramana

Exim re-writing help

1999-09-30 Thread David Kanter
I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to the Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be re-written to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fvwm with WM dockable apps

1999-09-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Sep, Shao Zhang wrote about "fvwm with WM dockable apps" > Hi, > Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days > among so many windows managers. > Same here. > fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, > and WM dockable apss do

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