Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: > >how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) > > > >here's how i do it: > > > ># mount /dev/hdc /bt > > > >(where /bt is a directory

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: > what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying > to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only > directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind > enough to tel

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread Art Lemasters
I'll do that if no more reasonable solution is found, Bob. It's appearing to me that such is likely. Thank you for the reply and possible best solution. Art On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:31:28AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I never could get the permissions configured correctly on the Debian >

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
I'm on a PC so things might be different: Debian 2.1 r 2 dselect will try to mount my cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt. The install process creates this. The path my dselect defaults to is /debian/dists/stable. All of this is default. I'm not sure why you aren't getting these defaults... On W

Re: making deb file from source.

2000-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Giardini) wrote: >how do i make a deb file after having used the apt-get source filename >and the dpkg-source -x file.dsc? Change into the directory apt-get source or dpkg-source created for the package and run 'debuild'. At least, that's the way I prefer to do it. There a

Re: Sound

2000-01-27 Thread Martin Bishop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just looking through the list archives and saw mention of a sound > program called AU Real which worked well. But no other mention of it and > cant find it at freashmeat. Where is it? > Thanks > Peter I got it from http://linux.aureal.com Maybe it's st

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread dkphoto
This is really getting off the track. I'm getting advice on how to mount a CD and as far as I can tell, I am not having any trouble mounting a CD. I am having trouble determining what path dselect is asking for ON the CD. AFTER the CD is mounted, dselect asks me for the path to the folder / fi

Spanish and French accents and tildes

2000-01-27 Thread Sr. Marta Toro
I had configured my Dell Latitude LM laptop to be able to type the accents by striking the ' key and the the appropriate vowel. The ' would not type until the next character was hit. Similar process ocurred with the ~ followed by the n. The hard drive had to be reconfigured and I have not been a

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
this is what i got: bebo:/var/lib# ls -l | grep major drwxr-xr-x 6 majordom majordom 1024 Apr 20 1999 majordomo bebo:/var/lib/majordomo# ls -l total 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 majordom majordom 1024 Mar 29 1998 archives drwxrwsr-x 2 majordom majordom 1024 Mar 29 1998 digests drwxr-xr-x

Compiling egcs from Debian source pkg

2000-01-27 Thread Shaun Cloherty
I'm running Debian (slink) on an Alpha, and attempting to recompile the egcs compiler suite from the Debian source package; egcs_1.1.2-0slink2.diff.gz egcs_1.1.2-0slink2.dsc egcs_1.1.2.orig.tar.gz after unpacking the source, I ran # dpkg-source -us -uc -b in the source directory, but the build

Help with bootp

2000-01-27 Thread Brian Schramm
I am having a problem with bootp on a fully updated Slink system. I try to access it from my Xterminal and my Xterminal says it is not getting any ip address. I look (ps aux) at the bootp server and it does not have bootpd running. So I try to start it from the command line and it does not start

Re: Compiling egcs from Debian source pkg

2000-01-27 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Yes, you can either comment out a few lines in debian/rules (anything referring to with_check) or install expect and dejagnu. C On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shaun Cloherty wrote: > I'm running Debian (slink) on an Alpha, and attempting to recompile the egcs > compiler suite from the Debian source pack

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:48:35PM -0500, Jim Kannengieser wrote: > Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went > very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific > socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't > have

can someone please provide list of uri's for apt (potato)

2000-01-27 Thread john smith
hello can someone please provide me a list of uri's for potato for apt to work properly. thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

updatedb not working

2000-01-27 Thread debuser
I'm using potato. Today I tried doing "locate filename" and I got "warning /var/lib/locate/locatedb more than 8 days old". My understanding is that this is supposed to be updated daily via cron in the script /etc/cron.daily/find. I wondered if cron was broken so I tried running the script manual

^A^D to logout ?

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
i was wondering why debian (maybe linux in general, or is it bash?) doesn't allow you to use ^A^D to logout ..it just says to use 'exit' to log out.. im sure i could override this but wanted to ask incase there is something security related to ^A^D ..i use it on my sgi indy and it works great..can

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread paul
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more carefully. On most install cds, the distribution path is: "/debian/dists/stable" If it is not there your on your own. I would suggest exploring the cd and writing down the path when you've found it, then go back to ds

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-27 Thread paul
> > Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went > > very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific > > socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't > > have be able to quote it for a while. However, I can say that

Fatal X problems....

2000-01-27 Thread jimk
Hello again. After upgrading to potato, I have been suffering from severe problems with X. Right now I am faced with one I cannot make go away with the knowledge that I have. When I try to startx, I get the following error message: Fatal server error: could not find default font 'fixed' Any hel

Re: copying passwd files

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Robert Waldner said: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:55:13 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one= > >machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode > > When in doubt always use binary mode, so your files get t

Re: Groups and what not.

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Hans said: > Can someone give me a pointer to some on-line info on group management > (preferably in laymen's terms). For the full scoop, try man group. The simple version, though, will probably be sufficient: /etc/group is the file where groups are defined. Each line is of the form groupname:

Re: ^A^D to logout ?

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
aphro said: > i was wondering why debian (maybe linux in general, or is it > bash?) doesn't allow you to use ^A^D to logout ..it just says to use > 'exit' to log out.. im sure i could override this but wanted to ask incase > there is something security related to ^A^D ..i use it on my sgi indy and

Re: can someone please provide list of uri's for apt (potato)

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:30:33AM +, john smith wrote: > hello > > can someone please provide me a list of uri's for potato for apt to work > properly. Here's what I'm currently using: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread dkphoto
>Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more >carefully. You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry. It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: > It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect > asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term > anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device, > and how do I get its name? (Should I

Re: kernel panics - sometimes

2000-01-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > My system crashes from time to time but I cannot reproduce the crashes. > It may run 2 month without any problems and suddenly a daily cronjob or a > simple shell command seems to cause the crash. Here is what I could write > today from

apt-get warning

2000-01-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all apt-get occasionally gives me the error below when i do an install or and upgrade Global symbol "$idtoelt" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Web.pm line 199, <> chunk 3. debconf: failed to initialize Web frontend debconf: falling back to Gtk fronten

PHP3 + Mysql -> connecting problems

2000-01-27 Thread Jorge Sousa
Hi all, I have php3 installed and running, i also installed the php-mysql packages but whenever I try to access a php3 script with mysql functions the script will fail with the message: "Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/www/projectoX/teste.php3 on li

Fw: Inchon International Airport Information

2000-01-27 Thread han
To whom it may concern Please refer to the attached news information for Inchon International Airport in Korea. This news letter(attached file) should be delivered to personnel who are related to airport business and are interested in our facilities/services. If this is

Re: PHP3 + Mysql -> connecting problems

2000-01-27 Thread Saisanthosh B
> "Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in > /home/www/projectoX/teste.php3 on line 11" add the following line to your .php3 code: dl ("mysql.so"); -- saisanthosh

Re: PHP3 + Mysql -> connecting problems

2000-01-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I think you will need to load the library. try this in your php scripts: dl("mysql.so"); And make sure you have these lines in your /etc/php3/cgi/php3.ini: extension_dir = /usr/lib/php3/cgi extension = mysql.so Shao. Jorge So

PPPOE with slink?

2000-01-27 Thread Marc Sherman
Is it possible to install pppoe on slink? It isn't listed at all on the slink package list, and the potato version requires new potato versions of ppp, libc, etc... I have a slink cd, and I have boot disks for potato, but I can't complete a potato installation (and install pppoe) without connecti

apt-get upgrade -> config: dead keyboard??

2000-01-27 Thread Robb Aley Allan
>From a slink system, recently ran apt-get dist-upgrade, which went fine, then ran apt-get -d upgrade to get the held-back packages. Finally, ran apt-get upgrade to install/config them. They unpacked fine, but when they went to install, auctex and cvs each launched a graphical config screen -- bu

Re: Woody? when did this happen? - when "stable" must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "Daniel" == Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> I don't know why Debian people can't understand that > Daniel> releases/versions also need to be accessible by names that > Daniel> _don't_ change. > > Why refer to in

Re: PHP3 + Mysql -> connecting problems

2000-01-27 Thread Jorge Sousa
BINGO Its working now, Thank you very much Shao. Have fun... Jorge - Original Message - From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:52 AM Subject: Re: PHP3 + Mysql -> connecting problems > Hi, > I think you will

Licq 0.75.x packages working yet?

2000-01-27 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I tried apt-getting Licq 0.75.x a couple days ago and it wouldn't run. I'm pretty sure I've heard of people here having similar experiences. Does anyone know if it has been fixed yet? The Debian unstable tree has 0.75.2 while 0.75.3 is out. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 Gig

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-27 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I would suggest using xf86config as opposed to XF86Setup Is there anything in between? I find xf86config unbearable because it forces you to set everything up all over again where XF86Setup can use the existing setup. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://

RE: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For reference... The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) noun {Computing} a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when noot

xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ _

Is there deb containing gated ?

2000-01-27 Thread Alex V. Toropov
I'd like to have a look at gated routing daemon, but I can't find any .deb package with it. Am I blind ? Or I need to compile it from tar ball ? TIA, Alex

Re: licq question

2000-01-27 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:50:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought > I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options > dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get > a

Re: Groups and what not.

2000-01-27 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:51:56PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > So, to create a group named 'stooges', all you need to do is add > > stooges:x:5000:larry,moe,curly If you don't feel like editing /etc/group (since if you screw something up it could be Bad), you can use adduser, like so: add

Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Because of an upgrade of our computer network I must run the primary and secondary DNS one 1 server with two NIC's for a while... Has anyone experiance with this? My guess would be to run named twice and point to two config dirs and edit the named.conf seperatly to run each named on the right

upgrading perl

2000-01-27 Thread Bart Jason Himel
Has anyone out there successfully upgraded perl from version 5.004 to 5.005? It won't let me install 5.005 without its version of perl-base, but I can't seem to replace perl-base because 5.004 depends on it, and I can't remove perl-5.004 because too many things depend on this. If anyone can tell

wishx

2000-01-27 Thread Brian May
Hello, For a frozen potato: I have a non-Debian package that requires wishx. So far, I have found wishx in tclx76 (tclx80 doesn't seem to exist). However, tclx76 won't install, as its dependancies cannot be satisfied. Neither tcl76 or tk42 can be found (by apt-get). How should I run this applic

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
is there a point to this ? just because you have a secondary DNS registered with internic doesnt mean you have to have one, i ran w/o a secondary DNS for 40+ domains for well over a year. the only reason i can see for 2 name servers is incase 1 goes out the other is still there, if they are on th

problem with lilo.conf

2000-01-27 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, I have installed debian to coexist with windows 98 but I can no longer boot windows. my lilo.conf only shows linux.it automatically boots linux and the windows partition is no where to be found. worse, I even forgot to label my windows partition. is there a way this can be fixed?

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is there a point to this ? Yes >just because you have a secondary DNS >registered with internic doesnt mean you have to have one, i ran w/o a >secondary DNS for 40+ domains for well over a year. That means that 50% of the people

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:02:01 PST, aphro writes: >is there a point to this ? just because you have a secondary DNS >registered with internic doesnt mean you have to have one, i ran w/o a >secondary DNS for 40+ domains for well over a year. there can be some reasons for this: - some customers are

dselect selects strange packets

2000-01-27 Thread Gunter Kuhnle
Hallo, after having tried to install kde via dselect (by adding the appropriate entry from ftp.kde.org to the apt/sources.list), dselect seemed to deselect several packages (among them: bsdmainutils, cron ...). Now, every time I use dselect, it tells conflicts because of the uninstalled packages.

Re: kernel panics - sometimes

2000-01-27 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:55:22PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > 1) Upgrade from hamm to potato (you might need to go to slink first). The >bug fixes along are worth it. Could I use apt to do this? Is there somewhere a howto for doing this? > 2) Use a newer kernel. 2.2.9 is about 6 months o

Majordomo-Problems II

2000-01-27 Thread Gunter Kuhnle
Hallo, having installed Majordomo, it runs perfectly until I try to subscribe to a mailing list. Doing "echo subscribe natp_ms|mail majordomo", I get an error message saying "Couldn't append key file : No such file or directory" The documentation does not say anyithing on this 'key file', but I a

Re: kernel panics - sometimes

2000-01-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote: > [...] > > I tried to compile 2.2.14 but it failed with many error messages in > console.c. Isn't it possible to run hamm with newer kernels. Last time > I read on this list Debian is kernel independent (someone asked why his > potato uses a 2.0.39 k

startup/shutdown problem

2000-01-27 Thread lorenzo . zampese
During shutdown process, I SOMETIME obtain the following error message : (A) "can't umount /dev/hda3, '/' is busy". When I boot Linux again I obtain : (B) "/dev/hda3 has reached maximum mount count, check forced..." and It seems Linux is scanning my /dev/hda3 partition. At the end : (C)

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread tschmid
> It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that > dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I > didn't get it. First, I need to say that I've never installed Debian on a Mac, so my suggestion could be plain dumb. Well, said suggestion is: "Ju

ISDN and Sparcstation10

2000-01-27 Thread Jonathan Schott
Please Help!!! Has anyone experience with getting ISDN running on a Sparcstation10? I'm using Debian potato with a 2.2.14 Kernel. I think the ISDN-Chipset is an AMD7930 (it is the only with possible Sparc-support). So I compiled Hisax as a module with support fo the AM7930 but when im going to in

Re: less and color

2000-01-27 Thread lorenzo . zampese
I have got the same problem with 'more' and 'less' too. How did you configure 'ls' for displaying colors when piping to 'more' ? Thank you. -- Memo - Header --- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26/01/2

mrtg problems

2000-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
I´m trying to get mrtg to work, the relevant configuration is Target[WatchZwerg.intern.waldner.priv.at]: 2:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MaxBytes[WatchZwerg.intern.waldner.priv.at]: 1250 Title[WatchZwerg.intern.waldner.priv.at]: WatchZwerg (WatchZwerg.intern.waldner.priv.at): eth0 PageTop[WatchZwerg.int

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > For reference... > The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... > daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) > I don't have this dictionary, and I don't know the meaning of these pronunciation symbols. Remember the non-natives. I

Port forwarding

2000-01-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone send me a working example of port forwarding? I just tried to get it going to no avail. I test setup has a firewall connecting 172.26.14.0/24 and 172.26.2.0/24 doing nothing but routing. Now i want it to redirect some ports (I tried 23,25,80) from its own 172.26.2.1 address to 172.26.

Re: problem with lilo.conf

2000-01-27 Thread lorenzo . zampese
If you installed lilo on the mbr, you could modify /etc/lilo.conf adding the win98 partitions. In this moment I don't remember the exact syntax, (I am working on WINNT4.0 now), but you could look for it in "/usr/doc/lilo" or 'man lilo' When you will modify "/etc/lilo.conf", don't forget of running

Timeservers in the Netherlands

2000-01-27 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
I am looking for a couple of good timeservers in the Netherlands for use with netdate. I was using www.surfnet and news.surfnet.nl, but now news.surfnet.nl refuses to tell the time, which is not very social... Wouter -- Linux daria 2.2.14 #2 Wed Jan 26 15:38:00 CET 2000 i586 unknown 11:46am up

Groups and what not 2.

2000-01-27 Thread Hans
>/etc/group is the file where groups are defined. Each line is of the form > >groupname:password:groupID:users > That's it? Even a child could have figured that out. There were two files (/etc/group and /etc/group-) but I edited the first and it worked. There were already a great number of group

Debian 2.0 tetex not OK

2000-01-27 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, I installed debian 2.0 successfully with tetex. When I compile a package with seminar package used, it says seminar.cls not found. But I have installed the tetex-src package and seminar.cls is there in the system. So, what to do? Suresh --

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

2000-01-27 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:44:07PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all! > > I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can > autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had > to click on "If you know that you have Flash installed" link. > Typing "about:pl

Re: Port forwarding

2000-01-27 Thread Fitsch
Fitsch wrote: > > Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > Could anyone send me a working example of port forwarding? I just tried to > > get it going to no avail. > > > > I test setup has a firewall connecting 172.26.14.0/24 and 172.26.2.0/24 > > doing nothing but routing. Now i want it to redirect some por

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote: [OT, but anyway ...] >On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: >> For reference... >> The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... >> daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) > >I don't have this dictionary, >and I don't know the

Re: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Alex, the problem is that I put the "c" and not the share point. Thanks. Quoting Alex McCool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ># smbmount file://sideraco/c /mnt -U Linux -I 222.222.222.2 -D > sideraco -P > >AriaLinux > > > > Your first arg is incorrect it should look like the

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-27 Thread Hans
>and i'd suggest going to fvwm (or even twm *shiver*) to reduce memory >usage even further. Why would you shiver over twm. I dumped all my wm's and now run twm exclusively and I'm happier than ever :^) -- Hans

Re: problem with lilo.conf

2000-01-27 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Could you attach, please, your lilo.conf? a. On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed debian to coexist with windows 98 but I can no longer > boot windows. my lilo.conf only shows linux.it automatically boots linux and > the windows par

Re: Timeservers in the Netherlands

2000-01-27 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I am using ntpdate (potato) and configured it to use: ntp.xs4all.nl and ntp.demon.nl. I used the same hosts for netdate, IIRC. HTH, Remco On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:47, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > I am looking for a couple of good timeservers in the Netherlands for use > with netdate. I was usi

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > > this is probably the best solution because you can take > all the zones and configuration and simply move it to/fro > your (then) only server. > This is refused by some registries. In Hungary, for example, the registries only register domains

Re: dhcpcd configuration

2000-01-27 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, Thanks for all the help. For the moment, I have linked /etc/resolv.conf to /etc/dhcpcd/resolv.conf. It is a kludgy situation and I will probably look into other dhcp client packages, but for now it works. later, joseph -- the "LaterDude" ICQ: 52640402 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ic

Re: sgml-tools, LinuxDoc, and customization

2000-01-27 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, Thanks for all of the replies. Last I check out the LDP ( about a week ago ) they said that all HOWTO's still needed to be in LinuxDoc format instead of DocBook. I have not found any information about customizing LinuxDoc though I have found plenty about DocBook. My intention now is

RE: Fatal X problems....

2000-01-27 Thread Paul Kallstrom
Check and see if "xfstt" is running, (ps x | grep xfstt). If it is, check the /etc/X11/XF86Config file for the proper FontPath statement, either: FontPath "unix:/7101" FontPath "inet/127.0.0.1:7101" This is a possible reason. Paul On 27-Jan-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello again. After up

Re: problem with lilo.conf

2000-01-27 Thread Paul Kallstrom
On 27-Jan-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you installed lilo on the mbr, you could modify /etc/lilo.conf adding > the win98 partitions. > In this moment I don't remember the exact syntax, (I am working on WINNT4.0 > now), > but you could look for it in "/usr/doc/lilo" or 'man lilo' Adding 2 li

Re: problem with lilo.conf

2000-01-27 Thread Saisanthosh B
Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > I have installed debian to coexist with windows 98 but I can no longer > boot windows. my lilo.conf only shows linux.it automatically boots linux and > the windows partition is no where to be found. worse, I even forgot to label > my windows partition. is ther

libz1

2000-01-27 Thread Robyn Manning
I am trying to install libtiff3g, so I can install kde, it requires libz1 but I can't find it anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. Robyn

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To clear up the earlier confusion from above: I now know the SetKbdSettings > stuff is coming from *GNOME* (latest version of GNOME, I'm using "potato" > updated almost daily). It now sets the keyboard every time it starts, thus > the value of AutoRe

RE: Laptop loses display

2000-01-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > > >> I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe > >> > >> After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? > >> Has anyone seen this before? > >> Could it be the terminal setting? > >> If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but > never > >> t

Re: X hangs modem/ppp

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Kurt Swigart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ppp connection quits working when I start X. It doesn't happen all > the time, just about 60%. Stopping X does not make it better. How heavy is the overall system load? > The problem seems to be with the modem (or the serial port), since even

New WindowMaker

2000-01-27 Thread Chris McKillop
Just so people know... If you are currently running WindowMaker from unstable (0.61.1-1) you may have to remove it by hand before upgrading to the newest release (0.61.1-2). The packages wmaker-plain, wmaker-kde, and wmaker-gnome have be phased out and there is now a single binary that s

Booting from an 640MB MO-Disk with LILO?

2000-01-27 Thread reiner
Hi all, I need some help to manage booting from an 640MB MO-Disk (2048 bytes per sector) Here are the steps i have done : >From my potato box installed on an IBM scsi-disk (sda) fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sdb (the option -b 2048 is not in the man-page, i found it on a japanese Webserver) Then i have ma

Re: Problems with GNOME; Using pon as user

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded GNOME last night with apt, and it seems like it installed the > programs that come with GNOME, but when I boot up, the GNOME bar-type thing > isn't there. You mean the panel? Package gnome-panel IIRC. The easiest way to get a worki

Re: libz1

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Robyn Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install libtiff3g, so I can install kde, it requires > libz1 but I can't find it anywhere. AFAIK it's provided by zlib1g Doesn't APT find out on its own? Michel = "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free" -- Linus

Re: libz1

2000-01-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am trying to install libtiff3g, so I can install kde, it requires > libz1 but I can't find it anywhere. That's provided by the zlib1g package. -- -- Phil Brutsche

Re: lm-sensors setup for an Abit BH6 Mobo

2000-01-27 Thread Roy Pluschke
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I'd like to setup lm-sensors for my system which has an Abit BH6 > motherboard. The last time I tried this on my system was when I was > running RedHat-5.2. I remember having a really hard time getting > lm-sensors to work, and in the end my system locked up completely befo

postfix/sendmail

2000-01-27 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone tell me how smooth the update from sendmail to postfix is? Also I wonder if postfix is still considered the best MTA in terms of security. Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhei

Re: lm-sensors setup for an Abit BH6 Mobo

2000-01-27 Thread Roy Pluschke
Roy Pluschke wrote: > > Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > > I'd like to setup lm-sensors for my system which has an Abit BH6 > > motherboard. The last time I tried this on my system was when I was > > running RedHat-5.2. I remember having a really hard time getting > > lm-sensors to work, and in the end m

Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700

2000-01-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I got one of the above printers and reinstalled apsfilter with the Ghostscript escp2 driver but can't print... I get an error in filter "f" or something like that... : Let me cut to the chase... I need a printcap! Has anyone else here got one o

2 identical NICs?

2000-01-27 Thread Marc Sherman
I have two Netgear EA201 NICs in my machine (486 running potato). I have the NE2000 module set up for one of them; how do I set it up for the second? Do I add another ne.o line with different io/irq parameters to the conf.modules file? Thanks, - Marc

Re: less and color

2000-01-27 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> I have got the same problem with 'more' and 'less' too. -> -> How did you configure 'ls' for displaying colors when piping to 'more' ? -> I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an -> alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping -> ls stdout to

Re: 2 identical NICs?

2000-01-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marc Sherman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have two Netgear EA201 NICs in my machine (486 running > potato). I have the NE2000 module set up for one of them; > how do I set it up for the second? Do I add another ne.o > line with different io/irq parameters to the conf.modules > file? The answ

ppp compression problem

2000-01-27 Thread da Bobstopper
i don't know if any of u saw the piles of junk i was getting before in my ppp.log file but after looking at it i noticed a good deal of it was from receiving a protocol 0xfd. i looked it up and found it to be compressed datagrams. i turned off bsd and deflate compression and the problem has gone a

Re: Debian 2.0 tetex not OK

2000-01-27 Thread Paul Huygen
"Suresh Kumar.R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed debian 2.0 successfully with tetex. When I compile a package > with seminar package used, it says seminar.cls not found. But I have > installed the tetex-src package and seminar.cls is there in the system. > > So, what to do? Probably yo

RE: Woody? when did this happen? - when "stable" must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > "Daniel" == Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Daniel> I don't know why Debian people can't understand that > > Daniel> releases/versions also need to be accessible by names that > > Daniel> _don't_ change. > >

Problems with Glibc_21

2000-01-27 Thread Robert Beranek
Hello! I still didn't manage to install glibc 2.1 despite help from Tilman. Is there anyone who can help me. The problem is: can anyone tells me which packages I need to install (exact names, please). Thanks. Robert __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.

Re: Problems with Glibc_21

2000-01-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:12:00AM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: > Hello! > > I still didn't manage to install glibc 2.1 despite help from Tilman. Is > there anyone who can help me. The problem is: can anyone tells me which > packages I need to install (exact names, please). Thanks. Use apt-get. Y

Re: Drivers-EMERGENCY>HELP IMMEDIATELY

2000-01-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
I think you need the 3c59x driver. >From the source file (3c59x.c): I. Board Compatibility This device driver is designed for the 3Com FastEtherLink and FastEtherLink XL, 3Com's PCI to 10/100baseT adapters. It also works with the 10Mbs versions of the FastEtherLink cards. The supported produc

Re: less and color

2000-01-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
more handles colors fine. But you must add the --color option to ls when piping if you want colors. less needs the -r option to handle colors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have got the same problem with 'more' and 'less' too. : How did you configure 'ls' for displaying colors when piping to 'm

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