Re: Keymap problem when upgrading xfree86 in slink...

2000-03-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On 26 Mar 2000 19:09:10 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I just noticed... I can startx as root, but not as ordinary user; it seems to have something to do with that problem. > Hi. > I've just reinstalled my system, and something strange happens... > (I'm running slink on

Re: CD Layout question (i386)

2000-03-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> Somewhere in the debian site they advise not to repeat the file structure in the cd, since it will not work smoothly. > > > Qustion still remains what files/directories to put on each cd! > > > Also, should main, contrib and non-free be at the root of the > > cd's, or should it be

Re: problem compiling a module!

2000-03-27 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:38:14PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > I have a realtek 8139 compatible network card, and I downloaded the kernel > 2.2.14 sources. And evrything compiled fine!..except that 'make xconfig' > doesn't allow me to select the realtek 8139 as a module...it appea

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-27 Thread Grendel
** On Mar 26, Antonio Fiol Bonn?n scribbled: > > Well, I do not like writing too much, so I copy & paste... > /etc/not-yet-set/site-start.d Temporary cure is to create ^^^ this directory: mkdir -p /etc/not-yet-set/site-start.d and then 'dpkg --configure --pending' - and then wait for the maintain

Re: problem compiling a module!

2000-03-27 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
Yeap!! It's selected..What can I do? I tried to copile the module by myself with the following line: gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODUKE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -O5 -c rtl8139.c but then the compiler tells me the CAP_NET_ADMIN is undeclared! any other ideas?? On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul J. Ke

[NEWBIE]not installing from which partition?

2000-03-27 Thread Dave Linsalata
Hi all, I'm a newbie to linux and have a quick question about installing debian. The installation manual for intel says that if you have a linux system running already (I have Mandrake), then you can update from that system and just over-write it with debian. BUT, it says "do not do the install f

meta key woes

2000-03-27 Thread Timothy J. Thomas
Using Debian Linux I am trying to map the F1 key to run pon Here's what my /etc/inputrc looks like set meta-flag on set input-meta on set convert-meta off set output-meta on "\e0d": backward-word "\e0c": forward-word "\e[h": beginning-of-line "\e[f": end-of-line "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~":

Re: [NEWBIE]not installing from which partition?

2000-03-27 Thread John Hasler
Dave writes: > Unfortunately, I only have a /boot (100 meg), a swap (100 meg), and a / > (3 gigs). Is it possible to do the install from linux or do I have to > use windows? Why can't you just do a regular install over top of the existing one? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill

Modem problem

2000-03-27 Thread Hilary Hertzoff
I just got a new computer and loaded Debian on it. I've managed to switch modems (it came with a winmodem) and after about a week of struggle managed to get it to log on to my ISP...and now I know why it was so difficult. My modem/computer only seems to be getting the first 10-20 characters of w

Re: problem compiling a module!

2000-03-27 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I've found the solution I edited the file .config (in /usr/src/linux) and added the dollowing line: CONFIG_RTL8139=m Then make modules, etc!! thanks!!

Re: x windows only allows root??

2000-03-27 Thread Lee Malatesta
john smith wrote: > hello, > I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x > windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root > account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login > prompt. has this something to do with

Xfree and glibc trouble after slink -> potato

2000-03-27 Thread Lee Malatesta
I just upgraded from slink to potato. Well, actually the upgrade was from rain (Storm Linux 2000) to potato. Aside from learning the hard way to never run apt-get dist upgrade from an xterm, things went pretty smoothly. After several days of reconstructing my XF86Config (Storm's installer f

Re: printcap problems, please help

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I had a look at your printcap file and compared it to mine. I can't find anything wrong, so let me tell you how I tested my printer: 1) Test hardware + basic devices: ls -l > /dev/lp0 This sends the directory printout to your printer device directly (i.e. without any filtering). Unless you

Potato: NIC Module

2000-03-27 Thread Brian Clark
Greetings, I'm installing from the Potato base floppies (Which isn't going so hot so far), and I was about to configure my network settings when I told me that my card (NIC) wasn't found. This didn't happen when I installed Slink some time ago. My card is a 3Com 3905B-TX 10/100 So, I went

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-27 Thread Adam Shand
> > You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also > > set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above > > that point. > > Is this what is called "chroot"? it's technically not a chroot jail since in a chroot jail even the daemon can't get outside

Re: x windows only allows root??

2000-03-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:53:03 -0500, Lee Malatesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I had that problem, and I just found out that in my .xsession file I was calling a window manager that I don have installed... J. > john smith wrote: >> hello, >> I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-27 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Grendel" == Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Grendel> ** On Mar 26, Antonio Fiol Bonn?n scribbled: >> >> Well, I do not like writing too much, so I copy & paste... >> /etc/not-yet-set/site-start.d Grendel> Temporary cure is to create ^^^ this directory: mkdir -p Grendel> /e

wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What is wrong with the following? Pasted next the output bash-2.01$ wget ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/* --19:41:38-- ftp://ftp.twoguys.org:21/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/* => `.listing' Connecting to ftp.twoguys.org:21

no ssh in frozen?

2000-03-27 Thread Chris R. Martin
I noticed there is no ssh package in frozen.. is it not to be included in the next release? Can the ssh in stable be used with the other packages in frozen? Thanks Chris

Error Compiling kdenetwork-1.1.2

2000-03-27 Thread Bill Caskey
Following is a message I posted to the KDE User listserv a few days ago. Stephan Kulow, developer of the kdenetwork package replied that he didn't know what was causing the compile to terminate but did note that libdl was broken; that I should have libdl.so instead of libdl.a. I'm running slink wit

Re: Xfree and glibc trouble after slink -> potato

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:12:03PM -0500, Lee Malatesta wrote: > 1. kdm won't start on boot. I get an error on the console: > Checking for valid XFree86 configurationUnable to check. > Not starting X display manager. > > after loggin in, startx works just fine. > > 2. I can't start a termina

Re: wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Shao Zhang
You cannot use wildcard in wget. Instead, you should say something like: wget -r -np ftp://ftp.twoguys.org:21/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386 Shao. Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is wrong with the following? Pasted next the output > > bash-2.01$ wget > ftp

Re: wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I just tried, didn't work. Next is the output: bash-2.01$ wget -r -np ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ --20:17:23-- ftp://ftp.us.kde.org:21/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ => `ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distributio

Re: no ssh in frozen?

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:59:16PM -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I noticed there is no ssh package in frozen.. is it not to be included > in the next release? Can the ssh in stable be used with the other > packages in frozen? > It's in non-US: $ dpkg -l ssh Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purg

Re: wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 07:44:18PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What is wrong with the following? Pasted next the output > > bash-2.01$ wget > ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/* > > --19:41:38-- > ftp://ftp.twoguys.org:21/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribu

Re: wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Shao Zhang
What version of wget are you using? Are you actually in the directory that is writable by the user? Mine is 1.5.3 and it works. See output below: [13:32|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % wget -r -np ftp://ftp.us.kde.org:21/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ --13:34:26-- ftp://ftp.us.kde.org

Re: wget question

2000-03-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
You are right, the error was that I had created the directory as root, and was trying to write as user. Now it is working, thanks a lot Antonio. Shao Zhang wrote: > What version of wget are you using? > Are you actually in the directory that is writable by the user? > > Mine is 1.5.3 and it wor

Re: problem compiling a module!

2000-03-27 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 07:22:21PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > > I've found the solution > I edited the file .config (in /usr/src/linux) and added the dollowing > line: > CONFIG_RTL8139=m > > Then make modules, etc!! > thanks!! I'm jumping in a little late here, but I thought t

Potato configuration

2000-03-27 Thread steve doerr
I have a couple of questions about Potato configuration. I just did the apt-get dist-upgrade from slink to potato and told it at every prompt to KEEP my current configuration, yet it ruined my fonts, my x server, my sound, other modules, and kdm. Does anyone know if potato changed important conf

Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Taupter
Hello! First, I'm proud of Debian! I upgraded my Debian system to Potato this weekend, and everything went really fine! Enven my glibc 2.0.7 programs ran (almost all)! Thank you all developers! Go ahead! Make the world better! Second, I'm a bit confused about one point: I compiled gnome, wmak

eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread Brian Clark
Hi, I wrote a little while ago about which module to use for my NIC. Well, Brian Moore provided me with the answer, which, well, worked a little too well I think. I'm using Potato, as I mentioned, and I loaded the module 3c59x for my NIC. I'm at home right now, but I plan to take the box I

Re: Potato configuration

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:14:20AM +, steve doerr wrote: > I have a couple of questions about Potato configuration. I just did > the apt-get dist-upgrade from slink to potato and told it at every > prompt to KEEP my current configuration, yet it ruined my fonts, my x server, > my sound, other

Re: eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:14:32PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > Hi, > > I wrote a little while ago about which module to use for my NIC. Well, > Brian Moore provided me with the answer, which, well, worked a little > too well I think. > > I'm using Potato, as I mentioned, and I loaded the modu

Re: eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread John Hasler
Brian Clark writes: > I have my resolv.conf entries in tact and I have my network settings set > up properly. Do you have a default route pointing to eth0? If so, remove it. > I can ping myself, of course, but I can't reach the outside world. Can you get anywhere using IP numbers? > The line r

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:11:19AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > I compiled gnome, wmaker and a large bunch of X-related software, and I > was using a file in the /etc/X11/ (I can't remember its name, since it > was deleted during the upgrade) to set my default window manager to > /usr/local/bin/gnome-se

ALSA Mixer Trouble

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I just installed the ALSA driver on my system, which appeared to go perfectly (after a lot of sweat, anyway :) ). However, when I run "amixer" to unmute the card, according to the INSTALL instructions and the online FAQ, I get: peregrin:/proc/asound# amixer set Master on Can't access mixer

font.c ?

2000-03-27 Thread Mark Bathie
Can anyone tell me what debian package font.c is contained in ? The Debian search page truncates before it prints what I want :( --  Mark Bathie  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Infrastructure, ITS Phone: +61 7 3365 7236 The University of QLD, Australia  

Re: custom kernel troubles

2000-03-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:45:14 EST, Robert Braddock writes: >> Ok, so now I´ve set it to "", but > >Make sure you unset ARCH in the shell before starting the make at all, not >just set it to "". There's a difference. Other than that, I don't have any >suggestions. Like I said, I had the exact same er

Re: eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread Brian Clark
John Hasler said: >Brian Clark writes: >> I have my resolv.conf entries in tact and I have my network settings set >> up properly. > >Do you have a default route pointing to eth0? If so, remove it. > >> I can ping myself, of course, but I can't reach the outside world. > >Can you get anywhere us

Re: Removing compiled-by-hand packages [WAS:] Potato - update-alternatives and window managers

2000-03-27 Thread Taupter
> ... But, since there are pretty current versions of > gnome in potato you might use those... Surely it woulb be _very_good_ idea, along with communicator and a really _huge_ stuff I have in, but I really afraid about messing my system with broken dependencies and so... Ok, removing almos all the

ethernet adapter or card

2000-03-27 Thread Daniel Yang
Could  anyone tell me what is the difference between Ethernet Adapter, Ethnernet Card, Ethernet Adapter Card? I am kind of think they are actually the same things but not quite sure. Sorry for this stupid question. Thanks Daniel  

Re: custom kernel troubles

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'd suggest using gcc2.7.2 to compile kernels older than 2.2.14. There's a debianized package for it "gcc272". Just change the HOSTCC and CC from gcc to gcc272 in the Makefile. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up (fwd)

2000-03-27 Thread FIOL BONNIN Antonio
I forward you all the maintainer's response. Antonio -- Forwarded message -- Date: 26 Mar 2000 17:00:26 -0600 From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FIOL BONNIN Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up FIOL BONNIN Antonio <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:56:03AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > Eric G . Miller said: > > >You probably don't need proxy arp for anything, so comment out the > >proxyarp line in /etc/ppp/options. But, I'd suspect the default route > >might not be set to ppp0, but instead to eth0 -- check it with

Re: ethernet adapter or card

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:16:00AM -0600, Daniel Yang wrote: > Could anyone tell me what is the difference between Ethernet Adapter, > Ethnernet Card, Ethernet Adapter Card? I am kind of think they are > actually the same things but not quite sure. Sorry for this stupid > question. Thanks Daniel

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Linux User wrote: > Since Perl is an interpreted language No, perl is a compiled language, with a 3 pass compiler. man perlguts\n/compiled code -- see shy jo

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Phoenix Amon wrote: > Hmm. Is that right? The newsletters have been referring to potato as > "a.k.a. release 2.2" since it's been frozen. Eh?? I don't remember doing any such thing. I don't have a full DWN archive here (on a train), but what I do have only refers to "2.2" when talking about certi

Re: Installing old packages

2000-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matheson) wrote: > >I can't get the new version of WindowMaker to work, but I was wondering > >if there was a way to install the old version (the one on the CD of > >Debian Slink). Is this possible? > > How about: > > dpkg --force-downgrade -i oldpackag

I've broken lilo; how to fix?

2000-03-27 Thread Eric House
I couple of weeks ago I was trying to teach lilo about my >8 gig disk via some parameter added to the lilo.conf file. I no longer remember what I did, and have long since removed it. But now lilo will not run. It boots the machine fine, and the machine works great; but I can't change my kernel o

Re: eth0 fighting ppp0 (maybe)

2000-03-27 Thread Brian Clark
Eric G . Miller said: >On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:56:03AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: >> Eric G . Miller said: >> >> >You probably don't need proxy arp for anything, so comment out the >> >proxyarp line in /etc/ppp/options. But, I'd suspect the default route >> >might not be set to ppp0, but ins

Re: Removing compiled-by-hand packages [WAS:] Potato - update-alternatives and window managers

2000-03-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:00:44AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > ... But, since there are pretty current versions of > > gnome in potato you might use those... > > Surely it woulb be _very_good_ idea, along with communicator and a > really _huge_ stuff I have in, but I really afraid about messing my >

Re: ethernet adapter or card

2000-03-27 Thread ktb
I didn't look to see if http://www.webopedia.com/ had the answer to your particular question but a lot of times I find it useful. hth, kent - Original Message - From: Daniel Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: ethernet adapter or card Could any

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian releases do not get a version number until they are released. Huh? Just about any Release file in frozen contains Version: 2.2 Origin: Debian Label: Debian Does that mean that frozen is released? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corpora

Re: C++

2000-03-27 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a C++ program and I really need info on how to overload > operators (especially + and <<) and info on streams. Does anybody know a URL > where this kind of info can be found? > > TIA > Bart > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail

Kernel 2.2.x and Physical Memory

2000-03-27 Thread Brian Clark
Greetings, once again. If I'm not mistaken, I read that the 2.2.x Kernel and later no longer made you add: append="mem=128M" ..to lilo.conf to get it to use more than 64MB of RAM (in my case, 128MB). I have 128MB of physical memory, yet it's only picking up 64 megs using Potato and 2.2.14.

Re: I've broken lilo; how to fix?

2000-03-27 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Eric House wrote: > I couple of weeks ago I was trying to teach lilo about my >8 gig disk > via some parameter added to the lilo.conf file. I no longer remember > what I did, and have long since removed it. But now lilo will not > run. It boots the machine fine, and the m

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Taupter wrote: > > I was poking update-alternatives, but didn't find a way to point my > default window manager to /usr/local/bin/gnome-session. > Yes I did read the man 8 update-alternatives, but it was a bit confusing > to me (as I think it is a bit confusing to anyone but the man writer aka > I

Re: ALSA Mixer Trouble

2000-03-27 Thread Frank Barknecht
Terry Hancock hat gesagt: // Terry Hancock wrote: > However, when I run "amixer" to unmute the card, > according to the INSTALL instructions and the > online FAQ, I get: > > peregrin:/proc/asound# amixer set Master on > Can't access mixer 1/0 > Failed to open mixer device > > # Modules setup f

exim ...

2000-03-27 Thread Tolga KIlicli
I canoot receive mails via exim although I can send... I cannot figure out the problem, everything seems usual... When i send a mail from a different host it is rejected. What is the problem!

Strange kernel crashes

2000-03-27 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! I have installed potato recently (with the 2.2.8 install disks) on my Athlon system (someone might remember the problems I had compiling a new kernel for it; well that hasn't _yet_ happpened). This system has 2.2.14, and I am experiencing a rather lot of crashes. Most of the time, these

Re: x windows only allows root??

2000-03-27 Thread Tony Crawford
john smith wrote (on 26 Mar 00, at 23:27): > hello, > I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x > windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root > account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login > prompt. ha

Realplayer 7 and Esound

2000-03-27 Thread Lepus
I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato with ALSA sound. But it works kind of weird, as when I try to play something on it, I get an error message "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it". If I then wait about five seconds not doing anything, and try

KDE office

2000-03-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anybody know where the binaries for the kde office are, I can't find them in the corresponding /stable/potato/deb/i386 or so, whatever the name is in the kde ftp site.

Zircon irc client under Potato

2000-03-27 Thread Lepus
When trying to run the aforementioned software, I get an error message saying "file not found". All the dependencies (tk8, tcl8) are installed and well, as other packages depending on them run perfectly. I have tried the Zircon version from the stable distribution also, but it has the same problem.

Re: Realplayer 7 and Esound

2000-03-27 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:25:36PM +0200, Lepus wrote: > I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato with ALSA am using woody with oss and i noticed this problem too, interestingly the realplayer doesn't work when i change the preferences i tryed first esd with no succes an

How to extract *.deb's from binary archive in /var/cache?

2000-03-27 Thread Olaf Stetzer
Hello, A little bit more in detail than in the subject: I use my online-machine here in the institute to download packages I need at home by simply installing them via apt/ftp and then take the downloaded files from /var/cache/apt, carry them home on a zip diskette and install them there with ds

Re: ALSA Mixer Trouble

2000-03-27 Thread markm
I don't have much experience with this myself, but have you tried adding --with-debug=detect or --with-debug=full switches to your ./configure line? (assuming you are compiling from the source) This may give you a bit more of an idea of what is going wrong in your various logs. > pretty much lik

ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina
In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in > the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. you are just boring ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

2000-03-27 Thread Luis M. Garcia
""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application > tells me: > gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefine

Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

2000-03-27 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 11:47:08PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > "Luis M. Garcia" wrote: > > > > ""Raphaël\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED], > > wrote: > > > > > > I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed > > > some others package like libgnomeui32. But now,

Re: error executing gnome update for slink 2.1

2000-03-27 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:17:16AM +0200, Renzo Bagnati wrote: > After installing the GNOME update for debian 2.1 (using apt-get as described > in > http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml) and trying to run the gnome > desktop, I got the following errors in the file .xsession-errors: > >

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

2000-03-27 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:42:55AM -0600, Adrian Thompson wrote: > Hello, Windowmaker makes a dir in your home dir called > GNUstep/windowmaker/library. > Under this dir is the dir "Themes" > "gunzip theme.tar.gz | -xvf"IN the theme dir. Your theme will be added. > > -=Adrian=- > > Salman

Re: exim ...

2000-03-27 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Tolga" == Tolga KIlicli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I canoot receive mails via exim although I can send... I cannot > figure out the problem, everything seems usual... > When i send a mail from a different host it is rejected. What > is the problem! Check to make sure

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
Use procmail: RTFM! (M as in /usr/doc/procmail/Quickstart) Ron On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina wrote: > In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in > the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. > _

Re: Realplayer 7 and Esound

2000-03-27 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:25:36PM +0200, Lepus wrote: >> I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato >> with ALSA > am using woody with oss and i noticed this problem too, > interestingly the rea

Re: x windows only allows root??

2000-03-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> hello, > I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x > windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root > account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login > prompt. has this something to do with permissions or s

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

2000-03-27 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
You can also try the theme-converter package. It will convert targballs into debs. Marshal > "Luis" == Luis M Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:42:55AM -0600, Adrian Thompson wrote: >> Hello, Windowmaker makes a dir in your home dir called >> GNUstep

Re: Strange kernel crashes

2000-03-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I suggest you mail this on a kernel mailinglist, there'll probable be more people who are able to help you. In the documentation that comes with the kernel is something about reporting bugs, I suggest you report this as a bug. Ron On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: > Hi! > I

Re: printcap problems, please help

2000-03-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > ALSO, I just noticed that with the Linux 2.2 kernel, > > your first parallel port (~LPT1 in dosspeak) is > > /dev/lp0. However you mentioned Slink, which is based > > on the 2.0 kernel. With that one, I had the first > > printer port as /d

Re: Kernel 2.2.x and Physical Memory

2000-03-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> If I'm not mistaken, I read that the 2.2.x Kernel and later no longer made > you add: > > append="mem=128M" > > ..to lilo.conf to get it to use more than 64MB of RAM (in my case, 128MB). > 2.2.x is not 100% correct - it became superflous with 2.2.10 or something like that - at least on my sys

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina) wrote: >In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in >the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. Please filter on something that doesn't needlessly inconvenience other people. For instance, instal

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:53:07 GMT, Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina wrote: >In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in >the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. Actually it would be a BAD idea. You can easily filter by the header fields present

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:53:07PM +, Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina wrote: > In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to include in > the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or anything similar. No. There are several other fields you can filter on, most notably Sen

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-27 Thread David Z. Maze
Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AOdU> In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to AOdU> include in the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or AOdU> anything similar. Fortunately, every mail to debian-user has a header that looks something like this:

Re: How to extract *.deb's from binary archive in /var/cache?

2000-03-27 Thread David Z. Maze
Olaf Stetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OS> I use my online-machine here in the institute to download packages OS> I need at home by simply installing them via apt/ftp and then take OS> the downloaded files from /var/cache/apt, carry them home on a OS> zip diskette and install them there with dse

MS Proxy

2000-03-27 Thread David Gisborne
I am stuck behind a Microsoft Proxy Server. Is there any way I can access the internet from behind the proxy? Thanks

Potato install

2000-03-27 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm installing a new PC with Debian potato. Unfortunately when I was asked to choose between Simple and Advanced installation I choose Advanced but after seeing the list of possible packages I changed my mind :-). How can I rerun the installation without having to reinstall the whole sys

Re: MS Proxy

2000-03-27 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 09:45:46AM -0500, David Gisborne wrote: > I am stuck behind a Microsoft Proxy Server. Is there any way I can access the > internet from behind the proxy? > Oddly enough, that is exactly what M$ Proxy is designed to do. Its a dog but can be got to work. What problem were

debuser- Debian on Olivetti PCS 42P

2000-03-27 Thread Johan Andersson
Hello, I'm trying to install debian on an old Olivetti computer. It has no network access but a quad speed cd-rom. But this this cd (Panasonic CR-562) uses a strange controllercard and therefore I can't boot of the cd. I have tried floppies but the computer only halts with the message 'Boot fai

Re: Threads under linux

2000-03-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am looking to use threads for programing under linux. Is there any > tutorial on the subject, or can anyone recomand me a book, or pointers to > the library rutines so I have place to start? ( I have previous exprience > with threads under windows, so I don't need somet

Re: x windows only allows root??

2000-03-27 Thread Jonas Anderson
You should check that your filesystem is not full, particularly your /var Jonas Anderson

Re: trouble with ppp connection using pon

2000-03-27 Thread jin
>I\'m having trouble connecting to my internet provider with >storm linux (rain which is slink). I have same problem, but I have Debian Potato PPP 3.8.11, and I have tried several debian-stock-kernels without success. Actually I had working system earlier, but it just suddenly ceased to conn

Re: debuser- Debian on Olivetti PCS 42P

2000-03-27 Thread Terry Hancock
Johan Andersson wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to install debian on an old Olivetti computer. It has no network > access but a quad speed cd-rom. But this this cd (Panasonic CR-562) uses a > strange controllercard and therefore I can't boot of the cd. I have tried > floppies but the computer only

debian install

2000-03-27 Thread Robb Aley Allan
Richard McNally writes: > Debian, > I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source > product. However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the > base system. The product hangs and gives a message like"a problem > occurred when installing Base System..." > Any suggestions? I b

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-27 Thread Grendel
** On Mar 27, john s jacobs anderson scribbled: > >> /etc/not-yet-set/site-start.d > Grendel> Temporary cure is to create ^^^ this directory: mkdir -p > Grendel> /etc/not-yet-set/site-start.d and then 'dpkg --configure > Grendel> --pending' - and then wait for the maintainer to fix the >

Re: Threads under linux

2000-03-27 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Micha On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > I am looking to use threads for programing under linux. Is there any > > tutorial on the subject, or can anyone recomand me a book, or pointers to > > the library rutines so I have place to start? ( I have prev

Re: Error Compiling kdenetwork-1.1.2

2000-03-27 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Bill Caskey wrote: > Following is a message I posted to the KDE User listserv a few days ago. > Stephan Kulow, developer of the kdenetwork package replied that he didn't know > what was causing the compile to terminate but did note that libdl was broken; > that I should have libdl.so instead of li

Need help with cdrecord

2000-03-27 Thread Hausheer, Geoffrey
I know this isn't debian specific, but maybe someone has had a similar problem??? I am having trouble with cdrecord on my laptop. I installed 2.3.99-pre3 (needed to get my USB CDRW to work), and got the drive working okay (an read from it). When I try to record to it, however, I get: shmget: sh

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-27 Thread Ernest Johanson
The proftpd docs say that the daemon does a chroot operation after login to restrict the user to a particular directory. The web site is at www.proftpd.net. I am not sure how this compares to running a program under the chroot command. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological S

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