Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

I have taken a giant leap of faith and gone back to using gnome-session. In the earlier days of gnome, this used to cause load of interesting effects to happen, but now everything seems to work just fine. Try the following in your .xsession file (and dump your .xinitrc file) exec gnome-session

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

Hello, I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of xdm is to start linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is 2, it seems natural to me to make the appropriate links for xdm in that init level (otherwise it would seem to the uni

@home problem Fixed!

Just a quick thank you to all of you who helped mme with getting @Home to work from linux here. Much nicer to use this then windows :) Probablem turned out to be the driver (hadda use the Tulip one) and then the lack of a gateway command in the network file :) Thanks to all :) Jon = "God,

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

> Another thing to consider, this is a volunteer list. People reply when > they can and when they have time. No one is *obliged* to reply to every > single post made to debian-user. Right, but it's a bit disheartening for me when I don't get help from the Debian community when I know I could easily

Re: Encounter with Satan

Glen S Mehn wrote: > > Call me silly, but it's right there in the dpkg list when you install. > Try apt-get install satan and see what happens. ss1:~# apt-get install satan Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok E: Couldn't find package satan Is this related to

Re: Encounter with Satan

Joey Hess wrote: > You meran like this? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/packages/debconf>dpkg --print-avail satan > Package: satan > Priority: optional ... ss1:~# dpkg --print-avail satan Package `satan' is not available. It seems that currently Satan is gone. Oki

Re: Strange file names

John Pearson wrote: > This is a conventional alias for 'test'. As in, > $ if [ -e /usr/bin/[ ] ; \ > then echo [ is present in /usr/bin; \ >else \ > echo [ is missing - your system is a little hosed, dude. ;\ >fi I didn't know that [ was a command. I thought it was part of

modprobe: can't locate module synth0

Hello, Given a message like this - how do I find out what option in the kernel compilation configuration I need to turn on to get the particular module. i.e. is there somewhere (in the linux kernel source tree) a list of module names and what section, etc. of the config they are turned on in. (

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

> Thanks, > Just out of curiosity, when in the boot process are the > scripts in /etc/rc.boot executed? > > Bryan > I don't remember, but I believe /usr/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz, which is quite short, answer this. > > On 16-Nov-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a

Re: Encounter with Satan

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:07:52AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Glen S Mehn wrote: > > > > Call me silly, but it's right there in the dpkg list when you install. > > Try apt-get install satan and see what happens. > > ss1:~# apt-get install satan > Updating package status cache...done > Checking

Designing a LAN

Hello, just a quick question. Do you guys help people design LAN's. If you do I trully need your help. Could you let me know. I need to designa LAN for a computer based training company. This is for my university studies. Thanking you in advance.

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > RH's mailing lists have more people which means more people to > volunteer to answer questions. When I go to newsgroups, it's easy to > spot a good or bad one. In a bad one, you'll see a list of posts with RedHat has tech support _emp

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

On 15-Nov-1999, Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > > server) is safe. > > Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux > systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Deb

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:28:11PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote: > > bam >Anyone got any suggestions how to fix this problem? I have tcpdumped my > bam >side of the connection, and the problem seems to be my computer waiting > bam >ages for remote data. > bam > > bam

(getting closer) Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

> I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to > unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get > a whole list of stuff like this: > depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/SOMETHING.o is not owned by root OK, I think we're getting closer. When I upgrade f

Mutt group reply

When making a group reply within mutt, it automatically removes and address from the To: field or CC: field (assuming the metoo option is unset). However, this only works for my E-Mail address on *this* computer. Often I get mail from other computers (eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and I would like mutt t

Re: Mutt group reply

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 01:11:23PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I give mutt a list of E-Mail addresses that are mine? set alternates=([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) This will take care of the group reply problem you described. -- Eric Gillespie,

never mind on install problems...

Well, I took my debian linux laptop, and compiled a new kernel on it for the desktop computer I was using. Dropped that new kernel into a resc1440.bin floppy image file, a little dd action, and my problem went away. Thanks to all for not telling me how stupid I was to try a little elbow grease be

APT doing strange things...

When I run apt-get update it displays the following: Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages 45625% [1 stable/main 7300] 713B/s 69d 16h28m3s How do I fix this or should I just ignore it? -- Regards, Andrew Clark. CCs of replies to mailing list

diff caches stuff in memory?

Hi, apparently diff caches stuff in memory. I noticed that when I wanted to make a patch with diff -urN clean_dir patched_dir > my_patch The patch came out fine, but then I realized that clean_dir wasn´t really clean, so I made a new clean version *with the same* directory name. The second

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

Hello, On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:37:19PM +, John Stevenson wrote: > I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of > xdm is to start > linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is > 2, it seems Actually, it starts up X *and* th

Re: Mutt group reply

>set alternates=([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks - exactly what I was looking for. Strange it is not mentioned in: /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz however perhaps that has been fixed in unstable. Now to the next problem - do the same thing under PGnus ;-) Not that I

Question about Update site behaviour

I have been working on a new installation today and to my dismay the sources.list file that I have been using for months, is suddenly doing strange things. I have made no adjustments to it but when I ran apt-get update and dselect update I got hits on all the sites listed, but it showed 76% of the

Re: APT doing strange things...

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: > When I run apt-get update it displays the following: > > Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages > 45625% [1 stable/main 7300] 713B/s 69d > 16h28m3s > > How do I fix this or should I just ignore it? Which ver

Latest licq packages seems broken

Hi, I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any error messages, but licq won't run now. When I try to run it I get: "Illegal instruction" Anyone know what might be wrong? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Don't wanna remove diald but apt wants to

I'd like to bring my system up to the current potato level but if I do this, it will remove diald. Observe... Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: diald netstd The following NEW packages will be installed: bootpc cfingerd debconf finger

How unstable is Potato?

Judging from the Debian weekly news recently posted, the main stopping point for freezing Potato is the boot floppies. I'm running a Slink system because I am very new to Linux and UNIX. The only deviation from Slink is I installed an updated Xserver for my ATI AGP Rage+ video card. I have been c

RE: Latest licq packages seems broken

On 17-Nov-1999 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any > error messages, but licq won't run now. > > When I try to run it I get: > > "Illegal instruction" > > Anyone know what might be wrong? The .70 and later packages require Q

sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0

I KNOW I've seen this error before, but damned if I can't find my notes on how I fixed it in the past. Can anyone point me in the right directin? Thanks Jon Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam of course) = "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly __

RE: How unstable is Potato?

I've had little trouble with Potato. The only glitches I ever run into are when some random package in the unstable branch is updated, and several packages with dependencies on it aren't caught up. apt-get will typically "hold" these packages back, until the mess is straightened out. dselect is l

Re: [OT] Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > > > server) is safe. > > > > Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux > > systems? > > Yes it woul

Re: Mutt group reply

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:17:01PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange it is not mentioned in: > > /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz I am running mutt v0.95.3i from slink, and it *is* in /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz, beginning at line 2848. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

Peter Ross wrote: ... > roy (since in the same room as hg (australian joke)) Would you mind telling the joke please... ('cause I don't get it) Oki

Re: Encounter with Satan

Ben Collins wrote: > It's a potato package. I see. It's a reason to upgrade. But, why do I need to...? I'm trying to getting used to slink. BTW, what is the meaning of "unstable" in potato? Crashes periodically? It's OK, but install at your own risk? Oki

hylafax not compatible with new libtiff3g

libtiff3g version 3.5.2.4 in potato does not seem to be compatible with hylafax-server. I get the following errors: Starting HylaFAX daemons: faxq/usr/sbin/faxq: Symbol IFFFaxBlackTable' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking /usr/sbin/faxq: Symbol IFFFaxMainTable' has differe

Re: Mutt group reply

> "Eric" == Eric Gillespie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> I am running mutt v0.95.3i from slink, and it *is* in Eric> /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz, beginning at line 2848. My fault - I was searching for alternatives, not alternates :-( -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Latest licq packages seems broken

On 17 Nov, Pollywog wrote: > > On 17-Nov-1999 Christian Dysthe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any >> error messages, but licq won't run now. >> >> When I try to run it I get: >> >> "Illegal instruction" >> >> Anyone know what might be wron

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

Ben Collins wrote: ... > Please stop trolling for comparisons here. Comparing how Debian works, to > how RedHat works, is like comparing Church and Government. They are two > different things, and have two different philosophies. Agree. If somebody wants to compare things, compare Linux with NT.

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

Salman Ahmed wrote: ... > Although I don't advocate (re)compiling kernels your situation sounds > like one where it might help. Have you tried to compile a kernel from > sources ? Either the 2.0.36 or one of the 2.2.x ones. Another poster to > this thread mentioned this as well. You might want to

perl-5.005 on slink?

After the discussion on upgrading from slink to potato using apt-get source I decided to try it. I could not use apt-get for a long time now because it complained about the absence of perl-5.005 required by postgresql 6.5.2 which I installed by compiling the debian sources and dpkg. So I decided t

quota.group / quota.user

do these files need to be setuid ? i have my homedirectories on a new server mounted on a filesystem with nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota and it doesnt appear to like teh quotas..it spits out an error when trying to set the quotas. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Changing Class C's while online ..

I have a slight issue. I think it can be done, but am not 100% sure, since im 2000 miles away from the machines if the slightest thing goes wrong the nearest g uy is about an hour drive ..so i need to ask before i do :) In the comming weeks(hopefully this week) we have to change over to a new Cla

Re: How unstable is Potato?

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:29:15AM +, John Gay wrote: there shoud be no problem at all. i started this dist-upgrade and went to a pub to have a beer. when i came back i had potato and everything worked ;) Jan

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote: bam >Sometimes pinging the remote host seems to provoke the data transfer bam >to start again (or is this coincidence?) so, it seems its more of a modem connection problem then a network protocol/performance problem..Do you have a shell or ftp access to a mac

Re: APT doing strange things...

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: andrew >Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages andrew >45625% [1 stable/main 7300] 713B/s 69d andrew >16h28m3s andrew > andrew >How do I fix this or should I just ignore it? try another mirror? try to download th

small bug in slink install ?

I just installed 2 new machines today, and yesterday via apt. When prompted for the 'profile' setup, i told it yes, and checked everything in the profiles cept for Chinese support i believe. in both instances when i went to [I]nstall it said samba depended on samba-common and i had to go manually

Potato cdimages

Hello ! i'm running slink 2.1 r3 and now i think it's time to switch to potato where can i download iso images of potato or maybe how can i made these myself to burn the CD with potato ? -- +----------------------+ | Denis J. Cirulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

server reliability tools

What IP server reliability tools are there ? The only one I can find is nsmon. Are there any others ? thanks, paul - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7

Re: Alsa problem - can't locate module sound-slot-0

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:16:40PM +, Randy Edwards wrote: >I've changed my sound around to Alsa and since I use a custom kernel I > went the Alsa source route. I followed the instructions in the > debian/README file religiously and generated my Alsa modules. However, upon > running them

UDP port 1025(Blackjack)

During the process of closing non important ports on my new server i noticed it has port 1025(UDP) and the service is Blackjack according to nmap. Anyone know what this is? i dont see anything in the dpkg list for blackjack and its not on my machine at home, and its not on my main server. tia na

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:20:17PM -0800, aphro wrote: > so, it seems its more of a modem connection problem then a network > protocol/performance problem..Do you have a shell or ftp access to a Nothing seems to make much sense (too me). *If* it was a modem problem, then I would expect ping to ret

Re: Don't wanna remove diald but apt wants to

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:28:16PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > I'd like to bring my system up to the current potato level but if I do > this, it will remove diald. Observe... > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > diald netstd

SMAIL Relaying

Dearest people, I want to know how I can denied relay of mails in SMAIL 3.1. I will appreciate if you people reply. Regards, Jaff, Arif [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] How to block mail relaying in smail (bo distribution)? To: debian-user@li

Dpkg error..

Hi, I have been trying to update my system but I keep getting the following error: /bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt Any advice? Thanks. Felix. President and CEO of MAD...

Re: UDP port 1025(Blackjack)

On 16/11/99 aphro wrote: During the process of closing non important ports on my new server i noticed it has port 1025(UDP) and the service is Blackjack according to nmap. Anyone know what this is? i dont see anything in the dpkg list for blackjack and its not on my machine at home, and its not

Re: Dpkg error..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Felix Guerrero wrote: > I have been trying to update my system but I keep getting the following > error: > > /bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found > E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (127) > E: Failure running

Re: UDP port 1025(Blackjack)

> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> On 16/11/99 aphro wrote: >> During the process of closing non important ports on my new >> server i noticed it has port 1025(UDP) and the service is >> Blackjack according to nmap. Anyone know what this is? i dont

Re: UDP port 1025(Blackjack)

On 17/11/99 Brian May wrote: Try fuser, in the psmisc package. I get: # fuser -n tcp -v 1024 USERPID ACCESS COMMAND 1024/tcp root189 f wdm root 1917 f wdm root 1924 f xconsole s

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 01:15:04PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brad wrote: > > lists >Make sure to check the Linux Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base before > you > lists >buy, so you don't end up with a modem that won't work with Linux. > lists >

Re: scsi boot install

You should report this to the boot-floppies people. Regards, Onno At 02:26 PM 11/16/99 +0100, Marek Andricik wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:38:23AM +0100, Onno wrote: > > Strange, did you try the specific install disks for the > Adaptec SCSI controller??? No, I built new kernel for me to b

Re: scsi boot install: similar problems...

Ok, ok, I looked it up this time at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ [snip] * Rescue Floppy * * Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers * with the aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with * the standard boot-floppies. A kind user has made some * experimen

Re: Printing Problems

Did you check ipchains and /etc/hosts.deny ??? Just a quick thought, Onno At 09:13 AM 11/16/99 -0700, Sean McIlwain wrote: I am still attempting to print to my serial printer using lpr. I tried to following: 1)root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 2)root# route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo 3)rebo

Re: Installation problems...

At 04:23 PM 11/16/99 +, Carlo Contavalli wrote: Hi All! I'm trying to install debian on a dual Pentium machine with a SCSI controller, but after the prompt and after "Loading", without printing any dot, it stops and prints "Boot failed". "Loading Boot failed". The computer has two penti

Re: Beginners How-To use Debian as a LAN

I hope nobody flames me... I'm running Debian servers and Mandrake workstations and in your particular position I would recommend Mandrake 6.1. Regards, Onno At 11:57 AM 11/16/99 -0500, Brian Burnes wrote: Hello: I am a microbiology laboratory manager with limited computer literacy, but I am

Re: Multiple IP Addressing

At 02:57 PM 11/16/99 -0500, Jason Taylor wrote: I am new to the Debian world and am working on a new in house system that has 2 3com 10/100 PCI NIC's in it. I got the system to find the NIC's okay now I am wondering how I configure /etc/init.d/network file to load balance between the NIC's. I add

Re: Beginners How-To use Debian as a LAN

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: > At 11:57 AM 11/16/99 -0500, Brian Burnes wrote: > >Hello: > > > >I am a microbiology laboratory manager with limited computer literacy, but > >I am interested in the capabilities of Debian. I need to create a > >laboratory computer system that is multiuser (with

ISDN router

Hello people ! I have the following problem : I have ISDN card "Teles" , Debian Linux 2.1 and 3 Win9x workstations How can i do such a thing -> ISDN is running on Debian and is shared to all Win9x stations. Probably i don't know how to configure my ISDN card to dial the provider. Maybe if

Re: How unstable is Potato?

John Gay wrote: > So, My main question is, other than the boot floppies, is Potato fairly safe > and > stable for a relative newbie? depends on what is "save and stable" for you. for example i had an uptime on potato of more than two months, on a daily 8 hours usage at work and an average of on

Re: Apache-SSL: Can't get XBitHack to work.

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to enable SSI using the XbitHack option. However, it won't > work either from adding "XbitHack on" to config files or to add it in a > ..htaccess file. > > I have another box running "standard" Apache. No such problems there. >

Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

Hi, just to make sure I'll be doing the right thing to upgrade to Perl5, there's this package: Package: perl Version: 5.004.05-2 Priority: important Section: interpreters Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: perl-5.004, perl-5.004-doc Conflicts: io Provides: io Replaces: io [..

squid question

Hello, I need to configure squid as follows. Squid must use (itself) another proxy. Does anybody know: is it possible? Thank you in advance, -- Serge Gavrilov

xawtv and kde problem

Hi all, kernel 2.2.12, slink, KDE 1.1.2, Miro PCTV, xawtv-2.46, bttv-0.6.4 After several deseases with 2.2.13 + xawtv-3.01 + lm-sensors-2.4.3 card was recognized as a BT848A instead of BT848, so it gives an image like beeing in PAL, receiving SECAM :(; I turn back to my former configuration. But

Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

Hi, just a small hint : somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago because I ran the fast way, just installing. By the way - if anyone has a proper desc

Debian 2.0 booting problem

Hi, I installed debian 2.0 on pc there is the strange problem: Sometimes it boots up well. I have installed only the base system and netwoking code (NIS and Automount) Sometimes the boot process hangs with the following error message: qlogicisp: PCI bios not present eata_dma : No BIOS32 extens

Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: ->I'm guessing it's that the boot disks from Debian are from the ->kernel 2.0.x series. It may report different values to fdisk. ->Actually, it seems that the debian 2.1 fdisk (kernel 2.0.x) are ->reporting physical disk geometry, while the other distro

Re: Sane / Scanner problem

I thought the kernel was recognizing the scanner, but after reading the boot messages more carefully, only the card was being detected. I checked the scanner in windows and it wasn't detected there either. So I dinked around with the hw and got things fixed. Scanner and card are now detected and

Re: Debian 2.0 booting problem

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:25:02PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: > Sometimes it boots up well. I have installed only the base system and > netwoking code (NIS and Automount) > > Sometimes the boot process hangs with the following error message: > > qlogicisp: PCI bios not present > > eata_dma :

Re: Question about Update site behaviour

Previously John Foster wrote: > I have been working on a new installation today and to my dismay the > sources.list file that I have been using for months, is suddenly doing > strange things. I have made no adjustments to it but when I ran apt-get > update and dselect update I got hits on all the s

ISO-8859-15 and Euro currency

Hi, I compiled the following native language support modules in the kernel (2.2.10): CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y and the rest as modules. Then, in ~/.bash_profile I've got: LANGUAGE=es:en LC_ALL=es_ES LANG=spanish MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 export LANGU

pppd Crashes Serial Port

I have had a persistent problem ever since I started using debian a few months ago. When I'm doing something with pppd up and moving data ... netscaping, ftping, lynxing, etc. the mouse locks up (well it doesn't stop entirely but acts like it is swamped. There is a long delay before mouse clicks

RE: Latest licq packages seems broken

On 17-Nov-1999 Christian Dysthe wrote: >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null >> > I do have the libqt2 package installed, and licq 0.70.1a worked fine. I > now tried to downgrade licq to 0.70.1a. I still get the same error! > > I can't even run 0.70.1a that I hav

printer-file for HP-Deskjet 600

Hello, I want to setup my HP600 to print either in normal or in draft mode. The results I got using the files for the HP550 where not really good. Then I tried a few gs-commands, but I didnt succed with "quality-upgrade". One thing for example is that my HP is using lots of inkso the letters are n

ldconfig -D

Hi there, I read something about "ldconfig -D" here and tried it. Now I cant find a manpage on my system and the --help isnt useful for explanation. What does "-D" ? Next question. I got the following output (lots of lines). What do they mean ? ldconfig: warning: /lib/libpthread-0.8.so has inco

Easy way to migrate a Slackware system to debian?

Hello, I have a running slackware system on a computer which lacks a CD so since this is a running linux system i figure that it should be possible to migrate it towards debian is there somewhere a help about this? would it be enough to install apt? -- ciao bboett ===

RE: Latest licq packages seems broken

On 17 Nov, Pollywog wrote: > Did you read the UPGRADE file? There is a small addition you must make to > your licq.conf so that it will be compatible with newer versions; either that, > or just start with a fresh .licq/licq.confIt is a very small change that > you need to make, but without th

Re: ISO-8859-15 and Euro currency

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 15:13:47 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y > CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y > CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y This is used only when interpreting Unicode filenames on some MicroSoft filesystems AFAIK. > LANGUAGE=es:en > LC_ALL=es_ES > LANG=spanish > MM_CHARSET=ISO-885

NIS question: ypserver=localhost in yp.conf on slave NIS?

Hi there, I've a question regarding the use of NIS under Debian. In my LAN I have two NIS servers, a master and a slave. I followed the small NIS HOWTO that comes with the NIS package very closely. However I have a little problem that I seem to have solved by executing a step that is NOT conta

anyone using USB devices?

Hi, I know USB support is not available in 2.2.* kernels and the support is very feasible in the 2.3.x development kernels. But I am just asking how the USB support is getting into 2.3.x kernels. I have a HP USB scanner which I would like to use with 2.3.x kernel, if you all suggest. -gnana

RE: Latest licq packages seems broken

On 17-Nov-1999 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Yes, I did read the upgrade file. Either licq itself or the plug-in > package must have been broken because after I went to Incoming and got > the 0.7.1-2 packages everything works fine again. > > I guess these two packages will be among todays upgrades o

Potato upgrade and Network

Hi: I recently upgraded over the network to potato from slink and then installed linux 2.2.13. I was having the following problem. It would come up with endless messages about 140.228.8.157 sent an invalild ICMP error to a broadcast. Also ypbind would not work when it booted up, but

Postscript, Ghostscript, Unicode, and TT fonts...

This is a somewhat specifc problem, but I didn't get a reply on comp.lang.postscript and maybe somebody on this list can help me out or point me to more specific sources of information. This is the scenario: I'm trying to use unicode truetype fonts with the latest StarOffice on a Linux machine. Th

single-user

Hi, Maybe a stupid question, but how do I boot my debian-linux (slink) in single-user-mode? Thanks in advance, Noella

Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

> As you notice the number of cylinders are shown to be 8693, too large to > make lilo work. Obviously I failed to make the machine boot linux, except > through a boot floppy. Otherwise there are no problems during running. Do take a look at the loadlin package if you want to stop using a boot fl

Re: Question about Update site behaviour

Try writing this deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main in your source.list > Previously John Foster wrote: > > I have been working on a new installation today and to my dismay the > > sources.list file that I have been using for months, is suddenly doing > > strange things. I h

Re: printer-file for HP-Deskjet 600

*- On 18 Nov, Klaus Drews wrote about "printer-file for HP-Deskjet 600" > Hello, > > I want to setup my HP600 to print either in normal or in draft mode. > The results I got using the files for the HP550 where not really good. > Then I tried a few gs-commands, but I didnt succed with "quality-upgr

Solved -- Re: Win NT does 1600x1200, why not X? (FireGL 1000Pro)

Hi Everybody First off, a very big thank you to nate, Brian, and Bryan for all your help. Just 3 more pillars of the Debian community. The Problem With a monitor capabale of achieving (even exceeding) 1600x1200 resolution, a Diamond FireGL 1000Pro with 8MB VRAM would not ex

Re: Question about Update site behaviour

Previously Gerardo Mauricio Sarria wrote: > deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main No, that means you suddenly get a whole new set of packages and doesn't help him at all. Wichert. -- _ / Generally uninteresting s

more qs for cd-snapshot

hi again, well i have a more general question this time: why should I care if the mirror is not completely correct (ie dependencies and all that)? why should the cd-guy care if dependencies are not correctly filled? i would like to create a set of cds that mirrors my mirror, then periodically cr

Re: Question about Update site behaviour

Then I didn't understand, sorry! On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Gerardo Mauricio Sarria wrote: > > deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main > > No, that means you suddenly get a whole new set of packages and doesn't >

Re: Proper place for IPCHAINS rules

To help you a little I have two scripts I use at boot: /etc/init.d/ipchains and /etc/init.d/sysctl Don't ask me why they are not in base, they should be! Or at least script that are similar ;-) They are both security sensitive! To enable them at boot I have done: root# cd /etc/rcS.d root# ln -s

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