Re: Mail woes after upgrade to potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:38:15PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > 1. eximconfig -i seems to start exim. How do I stop it and restart it? > pstree shows no exim. If exim is being run from inetd it won't be a continually running process but instead will only be started when something actually wants

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-25 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. > > Enlightenment probably. > > I run enlightenment. In an Eterm (or xterm), try > > gnome-panel & > >

Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Lesage
Hi all. I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while now. Here's what happens: Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only one) of my users is also unable to FTP there, getting the same error message as when I try as root. That user is not l

Re: Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

1999-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > I'm trying to configure fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my pop3 > server. > However, something goes wrong when fetchmail tries to send retrieved > messages to my SMTP port. > Fetchmail send a messages like : "SMTP connection failed" > I checked if I can telnet my SMTP port and I c

Re: Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Daniel Lesage wrote: : Hi all. : : I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while : now. Here's what happens: : : Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only : one) of : my users is also unable to FTP there, getti

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-25 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Aaron, On Sunday, October 24, 1999, you wrote: AVC> Hi all - AVC> I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the AVC> Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. AVC> Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread Harlan Crystal
I believe this results from when you upgrade your kernel from the older series to the 2.2.x series. The older kernels had a "Route" command which is used in various startup scripts, but the newer series is "smarter" and no longer requires the route command so it doesn't exist. These error me

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >Hi all, > >Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail >troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? > >Patrick > Also.. when you upgraded exim, you should have seen an install message telling you that the form

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > /etc/resolve.conf Should be `/etc/resolv.conf'. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp52KUvPIhOT.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects > me with the error msg: > > "System bootup in progress -- please wait" rm /etc/nologin Then try to find out why the nologin file was left lying around -- Greg Wooled

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
Olaf Conradi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. > $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# <-- line 34 Split normally returns an array, not a scalar... unless I'm missing something. (I'm no perl guru.) -- Greg Wooledge

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that installing the deb of the kernel-image 2.0.36 will get you to 2.0.36. As for the boot question, i do not know. Perhaps you should wait a bit more ? --- Begin Message --- 1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel t

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 > > systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. > > I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4

Re: Netscape's toolbar is black & white?

1999-10-25 Thread Sean Johnson
I seem to remember this being a known bug with running Netscape in X @ 24-bit color. Supposedly changing the color depth to 32 or 16-bits or less will keep that from happening. I could be wrong, but it might be worth a try. Sean Colin Telmer wrote: > Hi, the toolbar and frame around netscape 4.

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. > What should I do to upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36? If you have apt, apt-get install kernel-image-2.0.36 If you don't have apt, you can download t

dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread Jeff French
Attempting install of slink AMD K-5 PR-166, 49152K ram Install media on CD After [I]nstall begins, a message appears on screen: ... Scanning available packages...Cannot open /var/lib/dpkg /methods/multicd/available: No such file or directory. installation script returned error exit status 1. ...

zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with "make zdisk" it will boot, but when using "make bzdisk" it will not. I had to use the "tecra" rescue and driver disks when installing, and I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560. Or, is there something else going o

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I believe this results from when you upgrade your > kernel from the older series to the 2.2.x series. > The older kernels had a "Route" command which is used > in various startup scripts, but the newer series > i

Error using apt-get install

1999-10-25 Thread David J. Kanter
I messed something up but don't know how to fix it. I installed ntpdate, then accidentally removed it, then tried to re-install it, and this is the error I get: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or directory

Re: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread Ed Samour
> Any info, or pointers to it would be helpful, Hi. Here's some info that may help you. Instead of using make zImage try the following: dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdXX Where XX is the name of your main linux partition. Let me know if that

RE: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Oct-99 John Miskinis wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with "make zdisk" > it will boot, but when using "make bzdisk" it will not. I had to > use the "tecra" rescue and driver disks when installing, and > I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thin

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-25 Thread M.K.Pai
Just my $ 0.02. Use xf86config. I like it more than tha xf86setup. Use the most generic freqs. It always works. The reason I started to use xf86config was that I was using a lousy no-name cheap cheap b/w monitor from an Indian company that had gone out of business. And believe me, I was pleased

Re: x-windows

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
raymond ferrari wrote: > > Like another post to this list recently(Bryan Walton w. response from > Kent West), I have a problem starting x. I have the directory /etc/X11 > and a file for XF86(I did choose to install x during the dselect > process: desktop system) however, when I startx I get a fa

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY. Other than that, it works great for me. On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James

Re: [TEST] Ignore

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Debian is a nonprofit organisation. It costs them (and therefore us) to distribute messages. Therefore, please do not use our mailing lists to test your mail system. Thank you On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:23:54PM -0700, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > You shouldn't be reading this! -- "I already have al

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> I use that for the german mirror - as you see. I think ftp.debian.org should > also work. Nope. ftp.debian.org is in the US. -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.

Re: Dialing modem out when there are messages in message box.

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
X3 /etc/chatscripts/provider (or whatever) change: OK ATDT555-1212 to OK ATX3DT555-1212 (as appropriate) On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 01:28:14PM -0700, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > If your line is beeping due to messages in your message box, what > modem init string due you use to force the m

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:52:59PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at > ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR > FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY. > Could

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: > You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. > > Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. > > Do you (and others): > - - have Java enabled? Yup. > - - have Javascript enabled? Yup. > - - typically

rpm package broken ?

1999-10-25 Thread Darxus
I just did apt-get update apt-get install rpm rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm And got "rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Did a "locate libbz2.so", found nothing. Did a search for packages containing libbz2.so at

pain in the a-- guys monitor problem solved

1999-10-25 Thread jh
I want to thank the list for all the help and advice you have been giving me. I am the one who has been trying to run xf86config to set up x-windows. As you may know I do not have any specs for my monitor, and every time I would run xf86config I would get a scrambled screen. During my probably 50th

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote: > Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. > > $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# <-- line 34 split always splits to an array. Here, you're trying to get the number of elements ge

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
For a count of elements in an array $count = $#array; -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: [[[snip]]] > > - - open a lot of windows using "open in new window" (middle mouse button)? > Nope. > [[[snip]]] > > How many Netscape windows is it useful to have o

Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the web and tried to download from there, but the deb's are not available. What gives?

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
looks like the driver for the card isnt loaded. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: More sound problems...

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
you may not be able to get sound because there is not enough free memory below 16MB for the dma buffer. in more recent 2.2.x kernels you gotta enable the persistant DMA buffers in sound config and it will reserve the memory at boot. it may not solve this problem, but its an idea :) nate

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
to override that delete the links to nologin in /etc/rc2.d althnough its best to see whats hanging the machine at boot. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
some ftp daemons check to see if the user has a valid login shell before allowing a ftp login. check /etc/shells to see if that user's shell is listed. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/

Re: dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
i read a while back(year?) that the multicd support in dselect was rather broken(i've never had a reason to use it) try using plain cdrom as the access point rather the multicd nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator ht

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. > > > > Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. > > > > Do you (and others): > > - - have Java enabled? > Yup. > > - - have Jav

cdrom lost

1999-10-25 Thread koyote
Well- I am running slink (2.1) on a thinkpad laptop. I use a docking station with a scsi card and cdrom to install, and wanted to add a couple of packages. I have done this before without difficulty, but this time I cannot get to the cdrom as scd0 or cdrom on mnt or dev. There is nothing in fs

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Dirk Lother wrote: > I'm looking for a way to access an NT Server with a floppy Linux in > order to save data from broken down NT clients. > > Could you think of a way to do that ? The easiest way would be accessing the hardware; ie: removing the harddisk and mount it on your Linux (Linux can

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Jake Griesbach wrote: > > I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the > first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing > > linux aix7xxx > > to boot. > After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: ... > Kernel panic: V

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. > The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried > running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape > to crash at least once every time I sit

3..2..1..0... boot off

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have successfully installed debian on my Sun Classic using floppies; the base system up 'till now. My question is: how do you configure the keyboard? The keyboard says that it is a model-5. I use the "sunkeymap" (not sure, but it is the US-English one) keyboard setting, but it doesn't work

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
What does restarting inetd do?

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
reloads the inetd.conf file... On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What does restarting inetd do? > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html<[EM

Isn't IP Forwarding the default?

1999-10-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, I am replacing a CISCO router with a Linux box running 2.0.34. I have an Emerging Technologies Card, which connects to the V.35 "modem" my ISP gave. The machine refuses to forward packets accross interfaces. My configuration: Linux earth 2.0.34 #19 Sun Oct 17 17:03:59 IST 1999 i586 unk

re: Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

1999-10-25 Thread alf . krause
I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. I installed it on my Debian 2.1 system. Everything seemed to be fine with installation until I tried to run "./netscape". The first problem I got was that netscape "can

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 23:58:54 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > What gives? They've been renamed to 'libgmp2' and 'libgmp2-dev'. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:58:54PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and > found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried > to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the > web a

Re: rpm package broken ? Hotfix

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Darxus wrote: > > I just did > > apt-get update > apt-get install rpm > rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm > > And got "rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" > > Did a "locate

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > For a count of elements in an array > > $count = $#array; ^ this is the subscript of the last element in array, one less than the length, since there is a 0th element; $count++; # number of elements in array @array; you could als

Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? Have anyone any experience with this?? -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato 200MMX/32MB/1.7Gb/S3Vir

make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the source i can remove it with the dpkg. Have any solution? -- Best reg

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, I THINK it is modutils that is causing the problem. Two machines, >both upgraded yesterday. Now neither one can properly depmod. All modules >report unresolved symbols and refuse to load. > >NOTE this onl

Re: Installing nedit and xmbase-grok

1999-10-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Unfortunately, there was an incompatible API change in the new version of lesstif so all the packages that were compiled with lesstifg will have to be recompiled with the new lesstif1 package. Some maintainers have updated their packages faster than others. If there isn't one already, you should

C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to learn it!) So I need a doc for lammers! Thx the help! Sorry about offtopic! -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato 200MMX/32MB/1.7Gb/S3Vir

getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust resulting in the system clock losing mor

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing t

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Jerry, I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get and compile a 2.2 kernel? Thanks in advance, Patrick

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded > the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to > learn it!) > So I need a doc for lammers! How 'bout "Kerninghan, Ritchie: The C Prog

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:43:22 +0100, "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Jerry, > >I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get >and compile a 2.2 kernel? > Not realy, there is HOWTO's on the basic things about compileing the kernel. Check you /usr/doc/HOWTO

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Many thanks!

apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Suddenly my apache server (Slink) stopped asking for authentication with .htaccess files. Any hint what could be going wrong here? I have no idea since this was working ok. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-C

Re: make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:18:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > Hi again! > > I've a short question: > If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from > the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I > can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from

Software (was Re: trashing Netscape)

1999-10-25 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, John wrote: > Fortunately my car runs without software, i wouldnt go near it otherwise :) Hi John However, unless your car is very old (before early 1970s) your car has a computer, and software, in it that does ignition timing at the very least. On my car, the computer

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread jack
> > > Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other > > > than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): > > > > > > On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: > > Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. > > > - - open the boo

How to force reconfiguring of a package?

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
Hi folks, I have two questions related to Debian package management. 1) My apache server doesn't start up. When I manually try to start it, it complains that it can't figure out the hostname of the local system. Weird, because "hostname" returns the correct name. Anyway, I suspect that something

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to > protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. > However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the insta

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than > /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. It's a warning

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Pollywog
I have had this problem on Potato for at least a week. I was able to eliminate it by recompiling my kernel, but that did not work after my most recent upgrade about three days ago. -- Andrew On 25-Oct-99 Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine y

Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Third time lucky with this one. After uninstalling a perfectly serviceable version of Mutt in order to install Mutt-ja I now find that my mailbox is read only. I`ve RTFM and think that this may have something to do with the -homespool option and setgid but to be honest I`m still a bit of a newbie a

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had > > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine > > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older t

xemacs20 and default font

1999-10-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's "Save Options" option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. I'm very new to xemacs (and emacs too) and I'd

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-25 Thread Harald Weidner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well there is Sinus - http://www.sinusfirewall.org/ The official homepage of the SINUS firewall is http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ikm/SINUS/firewall/ Note that the developers work with Debian themselves, so the firewall

(no subject)

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent Deschaintres
unsubscribe -- __ _"Storm Linux, it's time to close the windows !" / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Laurent DESCHAINTRES, CNRS - LMA - A3 / /__| | | | | |_| |> <31 ch. J. Aiguier 13402 MARSEILLE CEDEX 20 \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On a most recent upgrade, I noticed that there was a question posed by the system on modutils, along with a prompt to say no or hit "enter." ...sorry, but although I remember there was a notice about involved config files being replaced, I did not jot it down. I chose "enter," to make the cha

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
>> On 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: >> > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The >> > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in >> > over two months. >> > >> > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the >> > hardware clock, unsuccessfully.

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils were replaced on this machine (potato) two days ago. /etc/modules.conf.old was made on the 19th (six days ago). Art

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddiskwith LFN

1999-10-25 Thread Joe Block
Michelle Konzack wrote: > > MK>> The other Thing is, how can I get a full FTP-Mirror (SLINK stable + > src) ??? > MK> > MK>Use wget, it had be designed for that. > > Hello, > > wget does download ALL !!! > It is too much !!! > > I like to get only the stable bin+src SLINK for i386 and not more.

Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, Restart and Exit as options. The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the desired menu exists in /etc/X11/blackbox. Bob -- Bob Nielsen

Re: [TEST] Ignore

1999-10-25 Thread Joe Block
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > You shouldn't be reading this! You shouldn't be sending this. When did it become acceptable behavior to use mailing lists that go to hundreds of users as test mail recipients? jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet

ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-25 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with ATI Mach64 card Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x Organization: Summary: Keywords: Hi! This is the second SVGA/PCI card i try on my computer, and the second time I encounter this problem. First of all, gpm stops working. The mouse is on t

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Michael-John Turner wrote: > The primary reason is that the default SNMP configuration for ucd-snmp > 4.0 doesn't supply the network stats MRTG monitors - do an snmpwalk and > you'll see what I mean. I ran into this too. Is there a way to add those stats back in? -- see shy jo

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Benak Istvan wrote: >Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with >64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run >the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? >Have anyone any experience with this?? Not with loading off the network in

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
> What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? > > I have drwxrwsr -x root mail > > Anthony > > -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l /var/spool/mail tot

Re: apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
what does your access.conf show ? depending on your config will depend wether or not htaccess files are read. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
diskless..i assume everything is mounted over nfs ..so what stops you from loadin staroffice over nfs like any other app. (make sure to do a multiuser install with the /net option, then run a workstation install for each user) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Paul wrote: > > > What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? > > > > I have drwxrwsr -x root mail > > > > Anthony > > > > -- > > Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that > similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have >

proxyarp

1999-10-25 Thread esl
Help, please. How do I enable proxyarp on my ethernet interface? I know how to do this in PPP. Thanks. E.LL

Two problems after reinstalling.

1999-10-25 Thread jus10
Hello, I had potato up and running fine but I needed to repartition this drive so I reinstalled. Everything is working well with two small problems that didn't come up the first time. One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time. To move the mouse in X I need to gpm -k. This I did

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. My timezone is set correctly, using tzconfig, so date gives: Mon Oct 25 20:35:42 BST 1999 Unfortunately, cron thinks this means 19:35:42 GMT, and

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 03:37:28PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfu

X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Camiel Coenen
I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze (keyboard stops working as does the touchpad on my laptop). This is very annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button, which in turn is a dangerous way of restarting linux. Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such

passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Vincent Deffontaines
I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be "panoramix2021"... Today by mistake I typed "panoramix", and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually is that a bug? is that supposed to be working that way? how many charactee

Re: Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:19AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no > longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, > Restart and Exit as options. > > The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the

Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. Perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting reports?? YMMV Mark.

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