On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
[ping output snipped]
> > This has occured with different Deb boxes and different ISPs. Seems to me
> > that it is either a ppp bug or a kernel bug but it has persisted over
> > different versions of both.
>
> It may be your isp. I've seen the problem wh
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 07:20:43PM +0200, Arie wrote:
I just received this message today (Sun Apr 23 16:18:03 PDT 2000),
suggest you check your system clock.
> Dear reader,
>
> I tried to install debian and everything looks oke after installation.
> The program asks to reboot
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:04:49PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
BTW, no need to cc: me, filters send it all to the same folder anyway.
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I have be
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > You can read the packages status file for information from
> > /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from
> > your various apt source
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on
> my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for
> me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an ex
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 04:07:26PM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote:
> Is
> > it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the system does boot
> > from it, but once it does, transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard
> > drive (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question?
> Sure! As soon as the floppy go
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and
> would like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the
> family won't even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything
> working
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I
> boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting
> the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee,
> killing the in
Eric Hagglund wrote:
> You can mount your fat partition at startup by
> inserting the text above into two files in the /etc
> directory. These are respectively mtab and fstab.
You should only edit the /etc/fstab file. /etc/mtab is maintained by
the mount program and (normally) contains a list of
Hi David,
1: How about installing LILO with a real short boot delay (say 2 seconds
or something) and Win98 as the default OS? Your family won't even know
it's there. :) Or another option: Boot Debian using Loadlin.
2: Run dselect (as root) and install the packages "man-db" (the actual
man prog
Ron Rademaker wrote:
> The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it
> (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with
> 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M.
Hmmm. Sounds like bad RAM to me. Try the old 32M or RAM from a working
machine and see i
Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a
private network (192.168.0.0).
The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication appears to be
taking place. Ping from either side results in 100% packet loss, and telnet
from either side results in 'No rout
In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source
where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found.
However, in my new potato installation there is no such file.
What I want to know is whether the kernel is compiled with IP: always
defragment set to Y (as di
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:52:27AM -0700, Nick Willson wrote:
>
> Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a
> private network (192.168.0.0).
>
> The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication appears to be
> taking place. Ping from either side res
> Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a
> private network (192.168.0.0).
>
> The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication
> appears to be
> taking place. Ping from either side results in 100% packet loss,
> and telnet
> from either side results
All seems to be fine.
Are you sure you are using cross-over (not straight-thru) cable
between the cards?
Just a shot in the dark. (BTW, the cable going into the DSL modem is
probably a straight-thru one -- in case you were trying it to
interconnect the machines.)
Also, try running setup/diagnost
Hello,
I have a triple-boot machine, Windows 95, Debian, Corel. I had to
reinstall Windows to try to resolve a crashing problem. (My defense: I
need Windows to run GIS software). This wiped out Corel's LILO, which
is fine with me, frankly.
However the Corel boot disk didn't bring up corel. So
computer:# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libpam0g-util lynx newt0.25 ppp-pam rgrep secure-su slrn xproc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bootpc finger fping
I see the archives are still not working... :(
*** FIRST QUESTION ***
I am trying to install Debian with apt from an ftp but I can't get my
network configured.
I am connected to the internet with cable, I have an external cable modem,
and I'm using a regular ethernet card (Realtek, with slac
I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32
from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first
20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian?
I have no way of knowing if the rescue dice will reload Win98 if I start
over and set up Fat16 for the first
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 08:16:54PM -0700, Erik Ryberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a triple-boot machine, Windows 95, Debian, Corel. I had to
> reinstall Windows to try to resolve a crashing problem. (My defense: I
> need Windows to run GIS software). This wiped out Corel's LILO, which
> is fine w
Hi,
I am using xdm to login on my linux box. For installing some X-related stuff,
I had stopped xdm and then restarted it. Since then I am not getting
the xconsole window for all login accounts. Typing xconsole
gives me a window with the message "Couldn't open console". Tried the
same thing as ro
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:50:25PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> Maury Merkin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the wvdial tip. I've successfully been using pon and poff so far
> > (like three hours) but I'll keep this note around for future reference.
> >
> > And, yes, I know all about the "m
Bob Kuo wrote:
>
> Dear PowerMac users,
> I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not found
> all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that
> almost all of the other PowerMacintoshes were supported, but 8100s were not
> listed as one of th
David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would
> like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't
> even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working properly.)
> I created a boot floppy
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:48:20AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using xdm to login on my linux box. For installing some X-related
> stuff, I had stopped xdm and then restarted it. Since then I am not
> getting the xconsole window for all login accounts. Typing xconsole
> gives me a wi
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:25:19AM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> Bob Kuo wrote:
> >
> > Dear PowerMac users,
> > I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not
> > found
> > all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that
> > almost all of the ot
appreciate the tip. i hadn't known that.
still NO EFFECT, though. is there some directive i have
to enable or disable to get this to work?
Matt Carothers wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:
>
> > the entire listing for startup.pl is:
> >
# BEGIN { use Apache(); } # <--tr
On Son, 23 Apr 2000, Jan Pfeifer wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't
> run, and keep mumbling
>
> "error--> (invalid-function (macro . #))"
>
> to me, each time I run :)
>
> if I run it with the "--interp" option it seems to run, but without
Hello,
The following strange behavior happened to me twice
in a short while:
The keyboard would just lock, but everything would
continue to work
just fine like nothing happened. When I quit X, I'd
usually be back in
tty1, but this does not happen. The screen just
blanks.
I use Debain Sli
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stan Kaufman wrote:
> In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source
> where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found.
> However, in my new potato installation there is no such file.
It appears if you compile a kernel using the ker
I am trying to install Debian 2.1 as sole OS, and
the latest snag is when trying to install from dselect it asks " enter block
device name [/dev/cdrom] " but I can cant find any reference to any block device
name in any of the documentation . I have a ATAPI CDROM ON HDC,
SO What is the synta
hi,
untill someone with real knowledge help you, you may try using one of
the Vesa modes (I suppose ATI Charger supports it). But to use this
you will have to set the Console/Frame Buffers/Vesa VGA support for
the kernel. And then select one of the vesa modes listed in the
/usr/src/linux/Documenta
is it the linux mailing list
Hello,
i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.*
are
directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed
when the
system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff...
Thank you for your answer,
Mat
mathieu wrote:
> Hello,
> i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.*
> are
> directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed
> when the
> system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff...
> Thank you for your answer,
Move your script to /et
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:29:06AM +0100, Ian Morton wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 2.1 as sole OS, and the latest snag is
> when trying to install from dselect it asks " enter block device name
> [/dev/cdrom] " but I can cant find any reference to any block device
> name in any of the docu
i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you
know
where i can find an example of
something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script..
thank you
Mat
>
>
> Move your script to /etc/init.d, complete it with a start and stop part.
> Then hook it into the
mathieu wrote:
> i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you
> know
> where i can find an example of
Maybe take a look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d? Just a
rough guess, there may be tons of them...
Regards,
Joey
--
A mathematician is a machin
Hallo,
does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the
installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after
the installation?
Happy easter,
Sven
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:47:17AM +, mathieu wrote:
> i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you
> know
> where i can find an example of
> something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script..
> thank you
> Mat
/etc/init.d/skeleton is an example
Sven Garbade wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the
> installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after
> the installation?
You can pause & resume the installation in order to install reiserfs
on the system.
Regards,
Joey
potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am
using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and
the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found
that the ps -el
still shows the sh ( which corresponded to the tty
line I opened earlier befo
Hi all!
I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at
boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I
need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a
better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was
After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed
leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I
manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -c
"/usr/sbin/fetch" ) I get: shell-init: could not get current directory:
> In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source
> where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found.
yes
> However, in my new potato installation there is no such file.
ooops ... i verified it ... there is in fact no such file. i guess, you
have to install
Sven Burgener wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at
> boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do
> I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a
> better way of doing
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:26:44PM +0530, vipin Aravind wrote
> potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am
> using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and
> the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found
> that the ps -el
>still
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:06:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote
> Hi all!
>
> I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services
> at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which
> shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate
> runlevel-dir
> how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which
> services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to
> remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a
> better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was a general
> system-wide config-file
> > does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the
> > installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after
> > the installation?
>
> You can pause & resume the installation in order to install reiserfs
> on the system.
>
i did it this way:
on my already running s
Hi All ;))
Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good
mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine?
Thanks a lot
Mithrandir
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All ;))
>
> Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good
> mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine?
apt-get install procmail
Regards,
Joey
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Hello!
I've just installed potato, re-compiled the kernel, and now (some of)
my modules will not auto-load. I can load them with modprobe and/or
insmod. I have to load the driver for my Initio SCSI card, SB AWE32
sound card and RTL8019-based NIC by hand. The question is: why? And of
course: how do
Hi there,
I'm trying to dial in to my ISP but whatever I try nothing seems to
work. I'm using the pon script, pap-authentification, and here is a
typical logfile:
Apr 24 14:23:11 Jarlsberg pppd[334]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Apr 24 14:23:12 Jarlsberg chat[335]: abort on (BUSY)
Apr 24 14:
We are looking for Linux programmers. Your site was recommended? I would
appreciate your recommendations?
Deborah Grenier
Director of HR & Administration
301-490-4007 x 26
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a couple of questions regarding the maintenence of the Debain
wxWindows package.
1) Is it actively maintained and who is the maintainer ?
2) wxWindows-2.1.15 has been released and was wondering if a Debian
package is in the pipeline.
3) I have a linking problem with an existing wx applicatio
Try deleting your $(HOME)/.lyx dir. It may have been corrupted during the
crash.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees
> two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I
I installed a 3dfx voodoo 3 3000 video card last week, and ran xf86config to set
it up. Did startx, it failed. DUH: didn't change the xserver from svga. I
couldn't download the correct server because my isp was down. So, I reconfigured
xf86config back to my original (matrox mystique) card and sta
Brendan Simon wrote:
> There was a bug in my makefile. The object files weren't being included
> during the link. However the same errors still occur.
> Brendan.
>
> > I have installed wxgtk-2.1 and tried to compile a program I had working
> > with wxWindowsGtk 2.0.
> > After some changes to my
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nick Willson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: RE: Trouble with toy network
> > Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over
a
> > private network (192.168.0.0).
I managed to get the program to link by adding "-lgtkmm -lgdkmm" after the
`wx-config --libs` argument.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the wxgtk-2.1 package or C librariy
dependencies.
What needs to be done to get this to work out of the box ?
Brendan.
Brendan Simon wrote:
> I have a co
It compiles and links but does not run. I get the following errors:
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType'
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType'
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GtkWindow' to `GtkWindowType'
Gtk-WARNING **: inv
I have a new lexmark 5700 printer and have tried to configure it with lpr.
But it does not work.
It seemes like there is no filter for that printer :(
I got a mail from Lexmark which said that there is some people who have
written patches for ghostscript which will make it work.
But i dont have the
"Grenier, Deborah" wrote:
>We are looking for Linux programmers. Your site was recommended? I would
>appreciate your recommendations?
Linux is an operating system, not a language, so your specification is too
vague. Do you want (do you know if you want) C programmers, Web designers,
OO sp
Hi. I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages every day
(large share from this list ;-))
I would like to have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail
messages on a per mailbox bases.
Did not find anything matching in the Mail-packages list on
www.debian.org.
Any suggestio
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:54:00PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Hi. I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages every day
> (large share from this list ;-))
> I would like to have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail
> messages on a per mailbox bases.
> Did not fi
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:33:29 +1000, Brendan Simon wrote:
> I managed to get the program to link by adding "-lgtkmm -lgdkmm" after the
> `wx-config --libs` argument.
> I'm not sure if this is a problem with the wxgtk-2.1 package or C librariy
> dependencies.
> What needs to be done to get this t
Take a look at http://pusa.uv.es/~ulisses/debian
Comments/suggestions wanted
Thanks
Ulisses
Debian/GNU Linux: a dream come true
-
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers."P
Monday, April 24, 2000, 5:55:15 AM, mithrandir007 wrote:
> Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good
> mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine?
Exim.
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hi there!! i juz bought this cd of debian recently & have tried installing...
oh ya.. i am also trying to co-exist with my windows95. Anyway... it seems my
video card Creative GeForce Pro 32mb cant work wif linux properly? not
supported i guess? how can i make it supported?? Please... even my s
Well, I know what you're talking about with the agent sticking around. I don't
have any
solution for you but this certainly sounds like something that's needed.
Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> >That's what ssh-agent is for. You run ssh-agent and it will out
--- Forwarded Message
Date:Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:21:51 -0400
From:"Grenier, Deborah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Oliver Elphick'"
Subject: RE: Linux programmers
Thank you for asking for clarification. We are looking for software
engineers with C or C+ experience. Preferably with
I just did a dist upgrade. How when I try to restart apache I'm getting
this:
[Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten --
Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: could not call shmget
My web server is d
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Brian Boonstra wrote:
> I'd like to compile some binaries capable of running on slink, but
> my only available platform is woody. What is generally involved in doing
> this? I've tried to search the mailing list archive, but the engine seems to
>
> be broken (mo
Where can I get nptdate?
Chris Mason
Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
USA Fax (561) 382-7771
Take a virtual tour of the island
http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide
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-Original Message---
Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently
installed on my 'puter?
Tia,
Maury
> Where can I get nptdate?
>
it is a normal debian package called "ntpdate" - at least in potato. ;-)
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> Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently
> installed on my 'puter?
>
dpkg --get-selections
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote:
> Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently
> installed on my 'puter?
dpkg --get-selections
--Jay Barbee
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
> Many months ago I learned somewhere that you have to use 'apt-cdrom'
> in order to add CD's to your sources.list, and that worked.
> But now Pann McCuaig sais he manually added a line for a CD
> to sources.list:
>deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
>
Ignite Projeck Acid wrote:
> hi there!! i juz bought this cd of debian recently & have tried installing.
>.. oh ya.. i am also trying to co-exist with my windows95. Anyway... it
>seems my video card Creative GeForce Pro 32mb cant work wif linux proper
You may need to ask on X newsgr
My computer is regularly segfaulting. It runs fine for a while, but
then when I try to execute an xterm, or netscape, or ncftp (for example)
I get segfaults. I shutdown X, and try to reboot (using ctrl-alt-del),
but that won't work either. I try to "su" to root to execute reboot
directly, but t
> My computer is regularly segfaulting.
as you say, that really nothing has changed, it
sounds like a hardware (RAM) failure. :-(
run some memtest. we had a thread about that some days ago.
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Hey,
Just wondering how much longer until potato is stable.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
> Just wondering how much longer until potato is stable.
>
you'd better not ask, because somebody may feel hurt ... ;-)
look at http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/ for up-to-date info.
when the graph is at zero, potato will be released ...
however - i installed it yesterday. it mainly works.
When I try echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 (or lp1,2,3) I get something like
device doesn't exist. But it is there? Where is the problem? Any ideas?
Thanx
> When I try echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 (or lp1,2,3) I get something like
> device doesn't exist. But it is there? Where is the problem? Any ideas?
>
the special file is always there - it's installed with linux itself.
you must compile printer support in the kernel or load the right modules.
all ker
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:33:42AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>
> I just did a dist upgrade. How when I try to restart apache I'm getting
> this:
> [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten --
> Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
> [Mon Apr 24 10:32:
hi!
i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents
of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am
i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the
only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can
somebody tell me the normal subtre
Hi. We're using a LaserJet 1100 here as the network printer. It's
being served up by a 486 running woody, with gs-aladdin 5.5,
magicfilter, and lprng.
The quality is okayish for text, but any grayscale or colour graphics
have really bad (looks like 150dpi) dithering. I've temporarily tried
the Win
> i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents
> of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am
> i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the
> only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can
> somebody tell me the normal s
Jan Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't
> run, and keep mumbling
>
> "error--> (invalid-function (macro . #))"
>
> to me, each time I run :)
It's a bug in one of the rep library packages
(librep8_0.11.2-1_i386.deb and/or rep_
Philip C Mendelsohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On one of my other machines, I need to have Netscape Navigator installed,
> so I can have a browser that does RSA secure https:// browsing (for some
> online banking.)
>
> I am very much in the learning curve of dselect and apt-get, and alien
> do
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents
> > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am
> > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the
> > only option to fix
Hi all,
To start off I have a local network at home with 2 computers (one win98
and the other of cource Debian)... I also have a dial-up set up for the
Debian box. Both are configured correctly if used seperately.
Is there a way to run both interfaces (eth0 and ppp0) at the same time
without usi
> > try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once
> > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro.
>
> Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work.
> Probably.
>
ooops - yes. stupid me ... :-(
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Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me
I am attempting to build kernal 2.2.12 onto a machine
that currentlyhas 2.0.36. I downloaded the proper
kernel from kernel.org and then
began the proper steps. When I get to running make
menuconfig (I don't
have KDE on this machine since my 'net connection for
downloading it is
worse than a 2400
The "who" command displays user james as being logged in like this:
pat tty3 Apr 24 09:52
james0Apr 19 20:24
User pat is logged in but james logged out sometime on april 19. Apparently
though something went wrong and the system stil lists him as logged in since
april 19.
Jam
Hi !
We need to equalize our traffic via three channel. So we had to
apply the diffserv patches to be able to do what Kuznetsov written
down in the iproute2 docs. But the ds-8 patch wasn't working. After
that we tried the 7th patch which has been working (while patching
the kernel). But when w
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