Re: modem permissions

2000-01-17 Thread Shaul Karl
Isn't the device should be writable to the dialout group? [01:59:27 /tmp]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 17 01:30 /dev/ttyS2 [02:00:56 /tmp]$ > > --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [pid 17274] read(9, "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]"..., 64) = 64 > [pid 17274] write(17, "335\r\n", 5) = 5 > [pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left > {299, 98}) > [pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0

Re: ppp hangup question

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like my modem connection to hang up > as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Hmm. Do you maybe have "knocking on the line" enabled? (Sorry, don't know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone tries to call you if you already

Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm planning on reinstalling Debian on my system today (I kind of messed a lot of stuff up, I could fix it, but I decided I'd rather just reinstall). In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want.

Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. Thanks, Camer

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Marquardt) wrote: >* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [pid 17274] read(9, "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]"..., 64) = 64 >> [pid 17274] write(17, "335\r\n", 5) = 5 >> [pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], >> left {299, 98}) >> [pid 172

Re: Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I > want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want. If I > want to use LILO, do I just choose 'Make bootable form hard disk' at the > last step of Debian 2.1 Slink, or do I have to do something else.

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything > bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card servi

Re: ssh2

2000-01-17 Thread Louis Larry
Got it, thank's! I added deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free to my sources.list, then did apt-get update, apt-get install ssh2 Louis. On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > You have to have apt point to nonus site ie mirror.

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:50:23PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 > Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed > emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't s

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Sean Johnson
I don't use emacs either, and have always removed it with no problems. Sean Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 > Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed > emacs. I don't use it, becaus

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Matheson writes: > I was wondering if I needed emacs. You don't. Each profile installs someone's best guess at what might be needed for that task. A bunch of other stuff is 'standard' because it is believed that a Unix user would expect it to be present. > I don't use it, because I'm sa

Re: How to auto-login

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 Fish Smith wrote: I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is "user", user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the m

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Where can I change this setting? /sbin/kbdrate -r 30.0 -d 250 worked for me. do it on the console though, or else it will only affect X it seems. can anyone tell me why there is a /etc/pam.d/kbdrate file that seems to do nothing? any user can use k

CD-cataloguing program

2000-01-17 Thread Arcady Genkin
Could somebody recommend a good cd-cataloguing program? It would be nice if it could handle data and audio cds, as well as read mp3 tags. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man i

libungif3g-dev broken?

2000-01-17 Thread Pollywog
Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew

Re: libungif3g-dev broken?

2000-01-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I get errors with that too. -Aaron Pollywog wrote: > Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? > It seems to be broken. > > -- > Andrew > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread osirus
In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato libgtk, I'm getting the following: dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Could someone please c

compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some header files (I think, I know little of C). I don't know what packages I n

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything > > bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > > The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial > will store

roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread David Pilz
this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunn

I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X server? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different > machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the > `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some > header

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and > getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network > information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I > should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that > linux doesn't suppor

Re: I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the > installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the > default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X s

Re: I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Thanks man, that worked perfectly. Cameron Matheson >On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the >> installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the >> default x

MTS or Escape Communications ADSL

2000-01-17 Thread Peter Good
Has anyone had any experience with either of these ADSL providers and linux? Any info would be muchly appreciated Peter Good. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: failed ppp setup

2000-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:28:31PM -0500, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in > working, but I can't get ppp to start. > > Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from > another linux computer using minicom) an

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread John Krueger
Looking around the web for a friend with RR cable, I stumbled upon this page: http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ it may be of help to you. John - Original Message - From: David Pilz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:35 PM Subject: roadrunner cable > this ma

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:47:45PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: [snip] > > Yes, you need to use g++ to compile these programs. They are C++, not > C. So you need to have the relevant C++ development debs. Looks like > you also need

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot > > tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest > > PCMCIA. > > FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled > in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, whi

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 09:24:15PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: > > Do you have any package names ? g++, libc6, libstdc++2.10-dev, libc6-dev, libstdc++2.10, xlib6g-dev. There should be a README, INSTALL and possibly other files that came with the program to tell you what you need to compile it.

ntpdate and burstmode

2000-01-17 Thread David J. Kanter
I would like to use ntpdate in burstmode to set my sysclock when I log on to the Internet via a PPP connection. How can I do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation beyond the fact that burstmode exists. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ldconfig and libwine.so

2000-01-17 Thread Roy Pluschke
I am running the latest potatoe updated as of today. I have un-installed wine but now get the following warning message when running ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libwine.so ... more ... skipping. How do I get rid of this -- when I run "ldconfig -p" I see no mention of libwine i

Re: help -- UDMA install....

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: >I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto hi

Re: ipfwadm

2000-01-17 Thread didier ayllon
non - Original Message - From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: didier ayllon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-User Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: Re: ipfwadm > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, didier ayllon wrote: > > > when i try to do : > > > > ipfwadm -A -f > > > > Th

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread lehman
> Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with > > the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a > > hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the > > card after bootup seems to b

gdm, startx ... (URGENT)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
After upgrading Xfree to 3.3.6, some problems arose: - gdm no longer works (/etc/init.d/gdm starts does nothing) - startx as user says "X: you are not authorised to run the X server" Any idea? Thanx, Alberto

hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Since the BIOS clock in my PC at home is lagging behind more than 10 minutes per week, I looked into the correction mechanism of hwclock. I am able to set the BIOS clock with hwclock --set --date, and get the expected result if I try hwclock --show. The hwclock is called in a script from

Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Reinstalled gdm: it works. However, xhost + tells: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. Why? On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > >

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote: >Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual >problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure >this out within 10 minutes of sending my post. Turns out that the >environment variable FLAGS_CLASS=-green was bein

Re: Viewing powerpoint files

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: >There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create >powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone >tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? Not that particular program, but I've successfully run Word in WINE n

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
> I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the > latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the > pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is > significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9

XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Phil
I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modeline in the "screen" section of the XF86config file.   I

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-17 Thread Ailton Santos
Friend, I downloaded the image-files rescue and drivers disks and a new rescue and driver disk was created using rawrite2. But, when I´ve the prompt 'boot:', I don´t know the correct command to mount root fs. When I try "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the system display a warning

fdformat?

2000-01-17 Thread Wayne
Hello, I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the following error message: floppy drive state now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c timeout_message=floppy starts: 881369470 f80369470 090369470 ""' ""

First it works, now it doesn't : (

2000-01-17 Thread John Gay
I got my scanner to work just by pointing apt-get to unstable and installing sane 1.0.1 at first. I've been installing quite a few other things, and now my scanner doesn't work any more. I tried installing the latest sane from Debian, as well as the new gimp, and xsane. My scanner is an AGFA 1236

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to > share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. > > what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it > from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to

Re: broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato > libgtk, I'm getting the following: > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned

Emacs not aware of Japanese fonts?

2000-01-17 Thread Roland Mas
Hi there, I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain. The toggle-input-method command works, since I find myself in the situation where I can start typing phonetically. I find the same behaviour as I had way back when I had compiled and installed Emacs on my Red Hat machine

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've fixed the problem in X

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:35:47PM -0800, David Pilz wrote: > i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use > on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they > e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was > wondering if an

root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow

inn package changes permissions?

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check others' experience. Whenever apt-get (or formerly dpkg) upgrades inn, I find that permissions in /var/lib/news and sometimes /var/log/news are changed. Some of the files are now owned by root, rather than news, meaning innd running as news can't

How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, I have a scsi tape drive and want to use it to backup. From the output of dmesg, i know that the tape drive is detected. However, I don't know the device file name of the drive. The output of "dmesg" command : scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S6

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: >> The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything >> bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > >The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial >will store and reload seri

ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the time), but when for example someone tries to ping from within the dos box it doesn

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
aphro wrote: > > its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or > is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the > binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the "Ille

xterm permission problems after upgrading to 3.3.6

2000-01-17 Thread Attila Megyeri
On a potato system after upgarding xterm to 3.3.6 I am unable to start xterm as a regular user (starting as root works). The "~/.xsession-errors" file says: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied The xterm binary is: -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Jan 15 03:53 /usr/bin/X11/x

Remote access

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hardware: ISDN Teles 16.3 card Goal: I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1 Can anybody tell me how I could do that. The other comp

Re: XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. > However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the > resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at > correct resolution mode. > So I want to reorder the modeline in the "scr

Project Management

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread ulla . russell
Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. When I comment out the if structure that tests for the existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, there are no problems. That is, I can source the file without any problems. However the problem seems still to be elsewhere. When I

Re: External Serial Modem in Debian

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get external > > PnP modems working? > > "External PnP? The phrase makes no sense. If it's an external it should > just work. What have you tried and what happened? Give exact details. No,

Re: Re: ssh2

2000-01-17 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Louis Larry, > I added > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main > non-US/contrib non-US/non-free interesting! I have: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free (unstable/non-US) while you have "unstable" and the 'non-US' s

Re: Graphics tablet & pen + psaux mouse

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's > possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another > solution to it. > > The tablet & pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered) > pen and a tablet wi

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 > SetKbdSettings - succeeded > > Wher

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Todd Suess
Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless you use chattr and remove the attribute first. Regards, Todd At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a w

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ashley Clark
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Now

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Now I'm trying to remo

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I tried to do a lsattr, when it reached fonts I got: lsattr: No such device While reading flags on ./fonts Ron On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type > i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file un

dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Rele

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > > weird permissions: > > > > c---r- 1 8224

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the filesystem nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron > ron >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory ron >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had ron >

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Try lsattr and chattr... Regards, Onno At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had >weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 1

Problem searching list archives

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the page http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists If I take H

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Rademaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Subject: root should be able to do anything... right??? Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked would be insane. > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file,

Vplay

2000-01-17 Thread Derek Cassidy
I'm looking for the vplay sound player and cant seem to locate it anywhere on the net. where do I find it??? Derek

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. > > When I comment out the if structure that tests for the > existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, > there are no problems. That is, I can source the file > without any problems. > > However the

Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-17 Thread Fraser Campbell
I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type "Whole Disk". The hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB for /tmp. When I reboot t

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remov

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-17 Thread Shaul Karl
I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time after the system is shutdown? In any case, there are hw K scripts: [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw* /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh [18:22:27 /tmp]$ Note that your system

Re: scsi tape device

2000-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Ryan: I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' <=> 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'. Check the man page for correct options... They should have root:tape ownership and be owner:group RW. Put any users that need acces in group 'tape' De

Re: How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Wilson: I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0 (rewinds after each operation) and /dev/nst0 (does NOT rewind after each operation - you or your program/script must do the rewind). You can use 'mt -f /dev/[n]st0 OPERATION' to manipulate a tape (do man mt for a description of the OP

Re: Printing woes

2000-01-17 Thread Howard Mann
Howard Mann wrote: > > Hi All, > > When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or > Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the > right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is > thus printed. > > This does not occur when I print an A

Re: ssh encryption

2000-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
hypnos wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between > client/server is started before any exchange of data > takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the > username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when > using the -l option to ssh client. The machine public keys are exc

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Ronald Tin
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 02:02:30PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux > server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work > properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the > time), but

I forgot my password

2000-01-17 Thread BUDDYG246
I forgot my password how can I get it back

I hate off-topic posts (including this one :) [was Re: Acer machines]

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : well i read from multiple sources that their UP->SMP upgrade tool worked : about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100% : successful *if* you had compaq hardware.. : : there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP su

Krash binaries?

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Does anyone know of a place that might have DEBs or RPMs of the Krash version of KDE? I'm not having much luck finding any. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?ref

Source code to DEB?

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a .tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch the program. Typing the command doesn't work an

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux > server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work > properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the > time), but whe

startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Fredrik Appelberg
Hi again! Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting, so that I won't have to do su & modprobe manually every time. So started looking for rc

Re: Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 04:17:10PM +, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one > exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). > > The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type "Whole Disk". The > hard drive

Re: How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Liu Chung Him
I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the kernel ?? Thank You! Wilson On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Wilson: > > I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: : On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux : server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work : properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the : time), but when for example

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 17 Jan, 2000 à 12:57:43PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 20

Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Maurizi) wrote: > Reinstalled gdm: it works. > However, xhost + tells: > >_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 >xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" > > and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. > Why? >From

icewm problems !

2000-01-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All moved to potato icewm-1.0 and found strange problems: i cannot swith to another workplace! Any keyboard (Ctrl-Alt--> etc) or mouse command will swith to next workplace but icewm immediately switch it back to workplace "1". i run mostly potato stuff on intel. Any ideas/advices? thank

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