I've a little problem: a process (some diff) that just won't die.
I've tried=20
kill -s SIG
with SIG =3D 2,3,6,9,14 and 15 but it is still there.
is it a zombie process? (will show up as zombie, Z, or )
if so you need to kill its parent so init can inherit and destroy the
zombie. zombies a
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 06:29:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded my computer from a 486 to a petiumIII450.
> > I moved the old disk to the new computer in order to move the linux
> > instelation. Linux came up mostly fine exept for
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 02:02:47PM -0500, David Blackman wrote
> For some of the wierd symbols, like card suits and lines and shapes, I
> need to print ths to start it:
> "\033[11m"
>
> and thsi to stop it (so that keys display properly)
> "\033[10m"
>
> Is there a better way?
>
If you use mag
On 25/11/99 richard newton wrote:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
but I've had to comment ou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz'
>> > book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at
>> > www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think.
>>
>> Also packaged for Debian:
>>
>> Slink: http://
I know how to do it with NIS, but I don't want to put my NIS+ servers in
NIS compatibility mode (security reasons). I need NIS+.
On 26 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
> > "Luis" == Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Luis> Has someone successfully install NYS on debi
hello:
i have the following modem:
Arowana Modem 56k Intern PCI Rockwell
and i get the following result with lspci -vv :
---
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International: Unknown
device 2114 (rev 01)
Subsystem: CIS Technology Inc: Unknown device 2114
Control: I/O+ M
I will have to put fake packages in for most of these and see if that stops
the error messages. It seems to be working.
--
Andrew
On 25-Nov-1999 George Bonser wrote:
>
> Tell me about it. I had to go all over the place stamping out things like
> rwhod, rsh-server, rthisd and rthatd.
>
> That n
I had this problem also, and the solution is pretty simple. The problem
is that your /usr/info/dir file has gotten corrupted. Mine got corrupted
because of a crash with my potato system, much like you. The fix for this
is to find someone else's dir file and replce yours with their's. If you
loo
If it's a PCI modem, it's probably a winmodem. From the looks of things
it's a winmodem. I'd return it for two reasons. 1) It's junk and not a
real modem. 2) It'll probably never work on Linux (thank god). I had a
similar problem with a Rockwell modem someone gave me, and it turns out to
be a w
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:03:20PM +, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Where does "bug" get my email address? (hint, no $EMAIL in profile or
> > > > whatever, at least it's not set atm)
> > >
> > > Well this message that I'm responding to has a Message-ID:
> > > which reads Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROT
Jordi writes:
> As you might guess, bug is still using that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> address. Any more clues?
It's reading it from /etc/mailname: vi `which bug` .
If you don't want to change /etc/mailname set the environment variable
EMAIL to what you want 'bug' to use. man bug .
--
John Hasler
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my
| xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X
| environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this.
| Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here an
I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may
people are running into.
I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for
large archives rather than .zip because not all my UNIX users has unzip
installed. Winzip supposedly supports tar and gz also.
I re
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may
> people are running into.
>
> I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for
> large archives rather than .zip because not all my UNIX users has unzip
> insta
I don't think that linux supports NIS+ yet.
I know that you can run linux box as NIS+ client, but I've never heard about
setting up linux as a NIS+ server.
I run NIS+ on Solaris.
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 06:19:54PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:
> I know how to do it with NIS, but
1) tell your user's to Shift-Click the links to download, and/or make
sure Netscape isn't decompressing the files when it downloads them
(probable cause).
2) check that the files aren't being renamed to xxx_tar.gz . For some
reason this happens on some windows boxen. They have to be renamed to
xxx
I used the package name the upstream author (who is also a Debian
developer) wanted. At least the one-liner is okay! :-)
Peter
Shaul Karl wrote:
> Isn't tdlug too cryptic? Searching dselect select screen when all you have is
>
> the subject you are interested in is quite difficult as it is,
Darxus wrote:
>
> I've extracted *many* .tar.gz files with winzip. Are they using a current
> version ? What's the error ?
>
Actually I may have been a little too fast there.
I just tried on my own machine, where I still have some Windows left. I
am using japanese Windows98 and Winzip 6.3. It
Darxus wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
>
> > I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may
> > people are running into.
> >
> > I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for
> > large archives rather than .zip because not all m
Hello,
Pardon my ignorance. Up until now, I have used a command such
as "dpkg -l "*"|grep -i WHATEVER" when I am trying to find out the
package name(s) of things relating to WHATEVER. At the moment, I
am trying to find out what pieces of "imlib" stuff I might be
missing, as I can't compile wm
Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
> (I've just received Eric Miller's reply, so I'll make some comments on
> that as well)
>
> Eric says:
> > 1) tell your user's to Shift-Click the links to download, and/or make
> > sure Netscape isn't decompressing the files when it downloads them
> > (probable cause).
>
Today it's working, my update+upgrade got me 6 updated packages and the
problem seems to have been fixed.. debconf, modutils and shellutils seem
to be the only packages of any importance with this lot (sorry, don't
remember what the other 3 were).
-- Roddy
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Roddy wrote:
=>
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 08:42:07PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote:
> I get a list of a few packages, several names are truncated, and
> most have "no description available". Is there a better way to
> find out what is actually available based on my sources.list file?
Try 'apt-cache search imlib'.
HT
Hi,
Recently, I have a trouble of jdk1.1.7:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] java]$ java echo
Cannot open /proc/05406 for GC
I have to use -green to make it work, although I think it used to be OK with
native-thread.
Do anyone know what is the problem? Can it be related to jserv?
Thanks.
--
Min Xu
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 04:02:27AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> Didn't even try that since I was able to finally get the files with the
> method described above. BTW. How do I create the .tgz rather than the
> .tar.gz? Do I rename it after creating the archive? Can I do it in "one
> shot"? It seem
I'm doing my first Debian 2.1 install on a machine that successfully ran
RH6.0. The machine has two hard drives which the bootup from the rescue
floppy correctly identifies as /dev/hda and /dev/hde. However, the
installation program only presents /dev/hda for partitioning in its
menu. Opening a
The CD-ROM HOWTO has a troubleshooting section which might be helpful.
> I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM.
>
> When I use dmesg I get the following:
>
> hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a
> symbolic
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:39:24 EST, Peter S Galbraith writes:
>You can use a mail client on another machine (e.g. pine), set the
>smarthost and try it. There used to be a web site that could do a test
>for you: http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html They don't do the
>test anymore but have info.
A w
Is there something like Go!zilla for a Debian Linux system ?
I mean some browser plug/in or similar to take charge of FTP clicks
Thank you. Bob Alexander
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 01:09:22PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 09:33:46PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have problems with libapache-mod-python in Slink.
> > I need to use the apache-ssl, but libapache-mod-python depends on apache,
> > so I need
Hi,
I am facing some problems with xterm (3.3.3) on my slink machine. I
run icewm as my window manager. When I invoke xterm from the menu, and
run mc, I do not see the standard blue color. If I invoke xterm from
an rxvt and then run mc, I get to see the colours. The colours are
also missing when I
Hi Gareth,
> > > Has anyone succesfuly install the extensions on a debian box befoe?
> > > If someone has I would appreciate any help and or advice on the subject.
> > I installed it on Solaris. Can you post your error messages and
> > versions?
>
> Its frontpage 98 server extensions version3.0
Thanxs to all of you,
I think I'm gonna try MySQL + Perl
JY
--
Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have
his head knocked off.
-- Bill Conrad
Suppose I must use C++, will it work with lesstiff? How difficult would it
be
comparing to using lesstiff from a C prog?
Try V (http://objectcentral.com/). Works with lesstfif if you want (but
hides details...). Added advantage that it's portable. I thoroughly
recommend this, especiall
Try this one works great for me drag and drop the urls
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
cheers
"Robert J. Alexander" wrote:
> Is there something like Go!zilla for a Debian Linux system ?
> I mean some browser plug/in or similar to take charge of FTP clicks
>
> Thank you. Bob Alexander
>
I seem to be misunderstanding something about configuring smail.
My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I try to send mail to anyone else at doctors.org.uk the mail is
always bounced by my system with the message:
"no valid recipients found"
I think this is saying that it is looking
On Nov 21, 1999 at 10:55:35AM, Brian May wrote:
> > "Matthew" == Matthew W Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Matthew> This has to be a Netscape thing, though, because Mutt
> Matthew> works just fine. I have also set the exim configuration
> Matthew> file to accept localhost.
I have a / partition on /dev/sda1 and have also defined a /dev/sda2
partition in the first /dev/sda cylinders to ensure my kernels are
always below the 1024cyl limit.
The /etc/lilo.conf I have working says:
boot=/dev/sda1
root=/dev/sda1
if I try installing a lilo.conf with boot=/dev/sda2 as I wo
I would have liked to get IP accounting informations ... reading the
docs it says "... compile the kernel with IP accounting on ...".
I have a slink dist with a 2.2.13 kernel and could NOT find the place in
make xconfig to tell that I need IP accounting (searched mostly under
Networking Options) .
Robert J. Alexander:
> if I try installing a lilo.conf with boot=/dev/sda2 as I would like the
> LILO process aborts after writing
>
> LIL-
>
> as the prompt.
According to the documentation:
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or b
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Andrei D. Caraman wrote:
> >>I have 2 computers away 1 Km from each other and one PL (dedicated
> >> telephony line between them) that I can use. What software and hardware I
> >> need
> >> to connect the 2 computers using the PL?
> >
> >Well, what bandwidth would you ne
> But isn't the map installer run when I run the lilo command after
> editing my lilo file ???
It should be.
--
\\//
Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me
personally. Thanks.
Hi,
I am working on a box which has a standard Slink install. I used
to be able to pull up the man page of dpkg by doing 'man dpkg'. Yesterday,
all of a sudden, this command quit working on me, and I cant figure out
why. The man page was still around - located in /usr/share/man/man8, but
m
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
>> WaveLAN (radio Ethernet over unrestricted frequencies) can apparently get
>> 1Mb/s over distances greater than 1Km. No need to pay the telco either...
>>
>
>What is radio Ethernet over unrestricted frequencies? Can you give a URLs for
>more info? Who man
Hi,
Quoting Chris Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> At 05:32 PM 11/25/99 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> >If this is a leased line, they don't have to dial.
>
> As soon as either side goes "off hook" it automatically "rings" to the other
> side. Imagine a big pipe that runs directly from
Is there a place with hints on the right packages to upgrade to install
perl 5.005 on a slink platform ??
Thank you. Bob Alexander
We're using wireless modems (115kbs and 20 mile range) from
http://www.freewave.com/ (Model DGR-115), but I haven't tried
with Linux yet. Our technicians tell me they simply plug into
the serial port so I don't see why they wouldn't work.
--
Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL
Trying the current ALSA packages in Potato with kernel 2.2.13 and a
Trident/Jaton 4DWAVE card. Compile seemed to go ok once I symlinked
the usr/local/src with the kernel files to the usr/src directory that
ALSA package seems to expect.
Compile and dpkg install seems fine but "insmod snd-trident" gi
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have MySQL database and sometimes need to modify few entries there. So far
> I was doing it using SQL language, which is not very convenient in this
> situation. Is there simple SQL database editor to do that?
With a Postgresql database, pg
Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question: Is there a napster compatible
> program under Linux?
Yeah, have a look at old news on slashdot.org
--
Francois Deppierraz student
http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch
ICQ: 176 770 09
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Trying the current ALSA packages in Potato with kernel 2.2.13 and a
> Trident/Jaton 4DWAVE card. Compile seemed to go ok once I symlinked
> the usr/local/src with the kernel files to the usr/src directory that
> ALSA package seems to expect.
> Compi
I made a mesh of dselect -> apt-get -> dpkg:
i use slink with dselect access-method apt,
in sources.list an ftp-source for unstable (potato) packages.
The new enlightenment needed a new libc6, and the new libc6
causes the renewal of practically half my distribution,
which i don't like to do
Have you set up a linux box as NIS+ client? (on debian, red-hat or suse)
from linux I can see NIS+ tables with niscat, but my problem is that I
can't login on the linux client.=(
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
>
> I don't think that linux supports NIS+ yet.
> I know that you can run
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 12:04 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia
I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs
fine except for three things.
1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont pin
Hi all,
I'm learning to use slrn to read newsgroups, but everytime I start
it, I have to download all the message headers/bodies again. I'm not
looking to become a news server for other sites, I just want my local
users (basically just me) to be able to read a few selected NGs.
I want to be able
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:18:48 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
>Why are you using insmod. Try a depmod -a to recalculate the module
>dependencies and then a modprobe snd-trident.
>Then you can be sure that all modules you need will be loaded.
Thanks- this stopped the unresolved symbols. Not sure why reboo
where can i get latest gimp debs?
-gnana
> Yeah, have a look at old news on slashdot.org
http://www.freshmeat.net/search?query=napster
-gnana
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 03:17:35PM +0530, XRDLAB wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing some problems with xterm (3.3.3) on my slink machine. I
> run icewm as my window manager. When I invoke xterm from the menu, and
> run mc, I do not see the standard blue color. If I invoke xterm from
> an rxvt and then r
A few days ago, sudo (potato) stopped working for me. I get the
following error message:
$ sudo ppplog
sudo: unable to lookup via gethostbyname(): Resource
temporarily unavailable
Segmentation fault
I see that a new version of sudo was installed a few days ago. It
works fine on another compute
At 12:22 PM 11/27/99 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Yes. No software extra needed? PPP? just as simple as ethernet.
Right.
--
__ _ _ _ ____
| | | \ | \ | \ / | \\ / /
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:39, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I'm learning to use slrn to read newsgroups, but everytime I start
> it, I have to download all the message headers/bodies again. I'm not
> looking to become a news server for other sites, I just want my local
> users (basically just me) to be ab
Hi!
I have a problem with the LP Daemon.
On my server I'm running slink with proposed-updates. On the other machine runs
potato.
I generated on my server a /etc/printcap by the installation script for
apsfilter (running on both machines).
I added to each printer entry the line
:rs#1:\
On my c
Hi,
I'm really exited because I finally got Debian working after
doing an slink to potato upgrade. What finally did it is I have
put on hold the modutils, pcmcia-cs, and setserial packages
after uninstalling pcmcia-cs (although I think a modutils upgrade
probably won't hurt, but I'm afraid to try
Dear Sir,
Did you ever get your IBM 9504 working correctly with your Virge/DX video
card? If so, would you share your secret with us non-tech types?
Sincerely,
Ken Eichler
VTorres inquired about error messages involved " invalid ICMP
error..." Colin Wilson has given a useful solution. I got this
error too, but I traced this to the nmb daemon ( nmbd ) in the
samba suite. When I run the daemon ( in potato; I believe I did
not get this in slink ) I got this error from
I am trying to recompile the kernel according to KERNEL HOWTO, when I do
make menuconfig it complains that there is no rule. I checked the info
make, it tells me that rule is a file that instructs about changes to be
made. The same happens with xconfig. This is vague for me, I have not
any good und
hello
i need to change the IP and name of one machine
which are the files i need to change?
thanks a lot
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On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I am trying to recompile the kernel according to KERNEL HOWTO, when I do
> make menuconfig it complains that there is no rule. I checked the info
> make, it tells me that rule is a file that instructs about changes
While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
settings such as:
drwx--S---
drwxr-sr-x
I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can
you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great if in the little
docs we could see everything possible at once
Thanks Martin, it is working now
Martin Fluch wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > I am trying to recompile the kernel according to KERNEL HOWTO, when I do
> > make menuconfig it complains that there is no rule. I checked the info
> >
Hi,
I purchased a viking modem. It's Lucent compatible. I don't know if it
works for Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.12. And also, my first modem need be
used as sound card, so would somebody please tell me how how tell kernel
to switch to my new modem even the old modem is still conected to my
linux.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
> settings such as:
> drwx--S---
> drwxr-sr-x
>
> I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can
> you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great
I just upgraded from a 485dx2 using a bus mouse which worked great to a
pentiumIII450.
I move the whole system to the new disk but the mouse doesn't seem to
work.
I tried most protocols (microsoft, m s system (I think, its the second
option) ps/2 and mst others).
When i set it to port /dev/ttyS0 x
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:39:01PM -0500, Tim Ayers wrote:
> I agree with others that 'Learning Perl' is the best book for people
> with little programming experiencing. Be certain to get the second
> edition that has been updated to Perl 5 (which is VERY different from
> Perl 4 that the first edit
I have a Toshiba Satellite 310 with ToPIC 97 PCMCIA controller.
When pcmcia is started (in potato) if my network card (IC-CARD+ ethernet)
is already inserted, it is detected as "anonymous memory".
If I insert the card after starting pcmcia, it is detected correctly.
This started a few months ago
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