On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:29:09 +0100, "Paul J. Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have
> the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg.
>
> I ran
>
> perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3->new()'
>
> without any proble
Thanks everyone.
Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm
finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I
feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I
asked about leaving it was because I read somewhere that it wa
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> First, thanks to the good folks that helped me get my Debian green card.
>
> I'm in the process of moving a quake2 server over from a Red Hat machine to
> a Debian machine for the better of all humanity.
>
> I realize that there are prob
On 01-Apr-2000 00:02:07 Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
>
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm
> finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I
> feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I
Hi,
(absolute Newbie to Linux):
Using Slink and trying to setup my eth0 for the first time. I am reading
the Ethernet-HOW-TO and have a few ques.
When I did dmesg | more, it did not show any eth'N' messages so my first
installation did not see the card.
I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and fo
C. Falconer writes:
> It is obviously a better thing to use a deb package if available, but
> what damage might I be causing if I install something from source?
None as long as you either install in /usr/local or build your own local
deb.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Hor
Helpp
What is neighor table overflow??
I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a
machine
I changed /etc/network/interface from
xxx.xxx.xxx.17 to xxx.xxx.xxx.16
I had seen this before when I switched a diff machine to a
192.168.100 addr, but I never found a solution
Ale
Hilary Hertzoff writes:
> Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm
> finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I
> feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system.
Removing xdm does not remove X or render it inaccessible. Just lo
I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.1, which is said to be compatible with
my linux 2.0.30. However, when I try to run the setup program:
./setup: error in loading shared libraries
libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system i
Hi Alex,
This is almost always caused by not having a loopback interface. If
you haven't, make sure the first interface you configure is lo.
Neil.
Alex McCool wrote:-
> Helpp
>
> What is neighor table overflow??
>
> I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine
>
> I changed /
Bob, thanks for the help.
I tried it, to little avail.
(session below). I can't tell if
1) just better tool usage is needed,
2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover,
3) the tools are broken (less likely..)
But, how does one probe into the details of:
"subprocess
pre-removal s
I found the easiest way to deactivate XDM on startup was to simply rename
xdm to xdm.d in the dir . Now when the computer starts up,
it stays in the text mode until a user wishes to enter x by typing
. All you have to do is enter the /etc/init.d directory and type
mv xdm , newname being any name.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:42:42PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> > If you're talking about Net::FTP being unable to locate method
> > Net::FTP->requires_firewall(), it was a bug in libnet-perl which
> > has been fixed with version 1.0703-2, now in the archives.
>
> (Good thought, but no: Net::POP3 i
Lehel Bernadt wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an
> > old SUSE last
> > night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came
> > with that
> > distribution.
> >
> > I bo
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:14:19PM -0800, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> ./setup: error in loading shared libraries
> libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system is 1.8.12. Is there a way
> to upgrade without upgrading to a newer ve
hello,
i'm currently running potato (upgraded from slink) and am finding it absolutely
impossibe to get sound working. i've never had this problem w/ my last 2 debian
machines. the only difference being those two had SB AWE64 cards, and this one
has a SB PCI128.
in the past i've always just do
* "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But, when I invoke sensors itself, it tells me that it couldn't access
> /proc file, and I don't have /proc/sensors. Also, the /dev/i2c nodes
> the docs mention seem to be missing.
> What am I doing wrong?
Do you have the modules loaded? On my
> From: Robert Mognet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Let's don't make the operating system 'dumber'. Let's have users
> who are willing to learn.
We're not talking about making the operating system dumber.
We're not talking about the operation system at all.
We're talking about the mailing list.
Su
apt-get install bin86
Sean
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, john smith wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to execute a bash shell or
> whatever shell during "booting or bootstrapping" of the kernel. i.e.
No, it's not. You'll have to boot off a floppy, and go fix whatever you
broke.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:20 -0600, matt garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working.
You're probably really, really close to succeeding. :-)
It -sounds- like all the bits are working, but 'forwarding' is not fully
activated; that your room
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment.
> > Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System.
>
> Of course, you could alw
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, syed huq wrote:
> I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and found pcnet32.o which is what
> the HOW-TO says as being the correct driver for AMD PCNET PCI.
>
> if I do a ifconfig as root, I still do not see the eth0.
> if I do a modprobe eth0, I don't get anything.
eth0 is a s
I'm trying to mirror a subset of the debian files (specifically everything
for sparc in the potato release). In order to minimize the load on the
server I was trying to use rsync. But it seems rsync's include/exclude
facility is either broken, or incorrectly documented. I've tried quite
a number
> "Phil" == Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Phil> Here's the command I'm using now:
Phil> rsync --block-size=8192 --verbose --stats --recursive
Phil> --compress --links --perms --times --timeout 300 --delete
Phil> --delete-excluded --include
Phil> '/dists/potato/ma
dpkg -i
Or, perhaps more useful and simpler:
apt-get install some-package
...which also gets it for you.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:33:21PM +0200, FreeMan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded the swat-package file. But I don't know how to
> install it. I tried it with dselect, but it see
Title: Network Blitz
unsubscribe
I have used Caitoo - found it from freshmeat.
Kari
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am looking for a GUI FTP download software
> with resume broken download fuction
> (like Gozilla under MS Windows),
> Does anybody know which and where?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>
>
>
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can
> find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive.
>
> I have a small project with 3 source code files, and I don't want to compile
> all of the
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> Lehel Bernadt wrote:
> >
> > What kind of boot disk do you have :
> > ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ?
> > What is its configuration ?
> > I understand that you use the same disk for debian & suse. How did you
> > altered
> > the c
I LOVE YOU!
heh, well, no. but seriously.
after installing bin86, the kernel did, indeed compile correctly.
after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support
for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card).
i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and
Hi all,
Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under
slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program:
#define RUN "/tmp/.rem.run"
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
main()
{
open(RUN, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
printf("File created\n");
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Tadeusz Bak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under
> slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program:
>
> #define RUN "/tmp/.rem.run"
> #include
> #include
> #include
> #include
> #include
> main()
> {
> open(R
Anyone know where I can find the latest version of babel (for Greek,
specifically)?
I can only find 3.7j but I know there are more recent ones. I thought it
was part of TeX but I just downloaded the latest version of this and it
isn't there.
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Win
> after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound
> support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card).
>
> i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again
> and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though,
> nothing i did
> "james" == james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
james> so, while i'm here, i have one last thing until this whole
james> setup is perfect. does anyone know about the current
james> support for USB devices? i have an Epson Stylus Color 740
james> w/ USB i'm trying to get to wo
> "Lehel" == Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lehel> The thing that happens is that the file name is deleted
Lehel> from the directory, but its inode is kept until the program
Lehel> closes the descriptor.
Yes. Now for some really weird behaviour, try the same thing progr
Hi!
I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig,
(for example the connection named: MYISP),
Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection
(not under GNOME)?
Thanks!
Alex
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:38:02PM -0500, Phoenix Amon wrote:
> > Why would you want to close X? You can also switch to a
> > virtual terminal
> > from X at any time using --F1 to F6 (there are six virtual
> > terminals at default).
> Well, for instance... if what you want to do from the terminal
Try something like this with your IP No's in /etc/init.d/network
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
#ethernet card
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
route -add net 192.168.1.0
route -add net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROAD
I have mirrored the whole directory at
http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/
to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from
my official cds.
What command will upgrade it, shoud I run "apt-get upgrade xfree" or so
from within the directory wher
"Phoenix Amon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Hillary. I'm about a week newer to Linux that you are... I know your
>bewilderment well. :)
>
>> 1. Is there a way to exit X without halting the computer? The methods
>> I've tried have either shut down the computer correctly or
>> brought me back
>>
> Have a look in /var/log/xdm.log and see if you can find out why xdm
> isn't restarting the X server (or perhaps you've deliberately set it
> that way somewhere in /etc/X11/xdm?).
Thanks, Colin, but I can't. I zapped both XDM and KDM to dust. :) And actually
even if it was broken (it was a strai
Alex Kwan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig,
> (for example the connection named: MYISP),
> Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection
> (not under GNOME)?
>
pon MYISP
poff
note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'defau
Alex writes:
> I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example
> the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the
> ppp dialup connection
Type 'pon' to establish the connection and 'poff' to shut it down. 'plog'
will show you the status.
> not under
Hi all
I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box,
can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the
computer is started.
Thanks in advance
Bill
*
The Mind is like a parachute;
How do you make the serial ports in 2.1 go faster than 38,400? The arg
spd_vhi doesn't work any more, (setserial claims its depreciated, and
it doesn't work,) but the docs claim that that is the way to do it.
Thanks,
John
--
John Conover[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.j
dyer writes:
> pon MYISP
Which is what I should have written in my previous response.
> note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the
> connection and only need to issue the command: pon
Not 'default', 'provider'.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancin
I'm using the woody release of Debian and have had a problem the last part
of this month.
I've had IRQ problems and problems with the kernel not recognising how much
mem i have in the machine.
I've been thinking i've had harware problems and been trying to find the
fault. Now i've noticed that it
> > note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the
> > connection and only need to issue the command: pon
>
> Not 'default', 'provider'.
> --
>
whoops! Need more coffee!
dyer
Bill writes:
> I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can
> someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the
> computer is started.
Run pppconfig and set up the connection named 'provider' (that's the
default). Then go to /etc/ppp and rename the file n
John writes:
> How do you make the serial ports in 2.1 go faster than 38,400?
By telling them to. Speeds to 115200 are supported.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Than you, works well
- Original Message -
From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: auto dial on startup
> Bill writes:
> > I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can
> > someone please tell me how to get i
Hi! Debian Friends,
Thank you all the help of yours, the ppp dial-out now work!
Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0
(non .deb packages) on Potato.
I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0
(following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back
> > to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'll go through Debian the
> > email will indeed arrive just fi
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have mirrored the whole directory at
>http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/
>to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from
>my official cds.
>What command will upgrade it, shoud I run "apt-get u
Hello,
I am running the lastest version of Potato and I have the
following problem. All my programs have right key configurations,
except Emacs, when in Xterm. My END key doesn't work in Emacs in
XTERM, but works fine when I am in console or in X. Any idea?
Thank you,
--
Rodrigo Castro
"Alex Kwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0
>(non .deb packages) on Potato.
>
>I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0
>(following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid that if I
>follow the instruction of X
Hello,
Before anything else, I'd like to thank the people who have helped
me before. This has been really nice... And so far, support here in
this list has been really efficient. Thank you all.
Ok - now, to my little problem:
I have a Pentium II 400Mh with 64Mb RAM; my motherboard an
Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions:
1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot
time, my screen shows the following message:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd
versions 2.2.0 an
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions:
>
>1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot
>time, my screen shows the following message:
>SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
>
>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should
> do, but they have no right to be heard.
>
> If you have the right to refuse to listen to me on my terms, I have the
> right to refuse to listen to you o
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[attribution lost]
>> after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound
>> support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card).
>>
>> i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again
>> and selected s
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i absolutely can NOT do w/o sound and afraid i'll have to wipe out this
>drive in favor of Corel this weekend (damn it! why can't debian adopt
>corel's "sound_setup" program. it works so nicely!),
What's the licence like? If it's free, then maybe we could integrate it.
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:12:51 +1200, Hunter H Marshall wrote:
> My mutt claims no handler for image/jeg. There is no entry for image/jpeg
> in /etc/mailcap. ok. But gnome control center mimetypes has extensive
> mime.type/mailcap info and in particular has an eeyes entry for image/jpeg.
This is
I'm trying to get AT&T @home cable modem service working on my system.
>From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as
installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for
me.
I installed Debian's dhcp-client package. It runs, looks as though it's
tryi
José María Pongilioni López writes:
> I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I
> workaround this?
Don't. You should use /dev/ttyS1 directly: /dev/modem is a bad idea (and
it isn't a device file: it's just a link to /dev/ttyS1).
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler
1. [snip]
> 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem,
> /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI
> 64,
> and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I
> workaround this?
Those devices, some of htem, are just sym
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote:
> I'm trying to get AT&T @home cable modem service working on my system.
> >From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as
> installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for
> me.
> ...
Sor
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> ...and you should see "(policy ACCEPT)" for the three 'chains'. If
> that's okay, do:
>
> ipchains -M -L
>
> ...and see if the MASQ entry is still present -- dunno why yet, but
> we're experiencing that entry's disappearance from tim
Hey people -
I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs
doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number
of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of files, but I
can't decide what to set... It's somewhere under:
Emacs/Programming/
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bob, thanks for the help.
>
> I tried it, to little avail.
>
> (session below). I can't tell if
> 1) just better tool usage is needed,
> 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover,
> 3) the tools are broken (less likely..)
>
> But, how d
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> >hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost
> >Win95 partition)
> >
> >hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system
> >
> > LILO was set up to automatically boot Win95. The onl
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:32:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Yes, but you have not "the right" (what loaded words!) to close the bug
> reports. Feel free to ignore them, but don't close them without a better
> reason.
I would close such bugs if I need further information (and can't reprod
At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Bob, thanks for the help.
- again!
> But, how does one probe into the details of:
> "subprocess pre-removal script returned error
exit status"?
You can look at the prerm script with
`less
/var
Whenever trying to apt-get install any packages, I now get:
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt exited unexpectedly
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
This happened when I was installing the lynx package. Any help
much appreciated, using frozen recent with
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote:
> I executed "ipchains -P forward ACCEPT" for the three default chains
> (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have "(policy ACCEPT)"
> for all three chains.
> ...
Problem solved, all of my roommates and I are connected!
Th
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report.
> It may, for example, be the case that user is unaware that their usual
> mail system uses the DUL or whatever. Randomly closed bugreports will
> just annoy people
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:00:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report.
> Did you bother to read my close message? Obviously not. I did in fact
> include an explan
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:03:14AM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Hey people -
>
> I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that
> emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a
> number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds
Greetings,
I have been following the directions in the manual
I bought meticulously, but cannot get the base system installed. First, the disk
was purchased from Linux Central along with the book. Next, the directory
structure implied by the text in the book is not even close to that on the
How do I force the machine to renew it's DHCP IP allocation? I've changed
parameters on the DHCP server and I want the machine to reflect those changes.
Also, how do I get a Linux machine to be a DHCP server?
Chris Mason
Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 26
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> >Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Bob, thanks for the help.
> >- again!
> > > But, how does one probe into the details of:
> > >"subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit s
Greetings
Has anyone tried to get Oracle 8i running on potato? I am having a
segmentation fault problem with certain binaries: svrmgrl, sqlplus,
sqlldr, imp, exp, dbv, to mention a few, immediately seg fault upon
execution yet a couple of others (lsnrctl, tkprof) work fine. I
initially tried with
I'm running an up-to-the-minute potato box. Today I compiled a custom 2.2.14
using dkpg-make. It installs and boots fine, except for errors produced by
some things that were modules in the standard kernel (nic driver, NLSs,...)
and are not modules anymore (either built in or not compiled at all).
> > 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition,
> > since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented?
>
> Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag
> it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have
> to do some more w
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