Re: eth0 and ppp0

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I was under the assumption that if I do some creative routing I can do > this... is this a correct assumption or do I have to set up IP-Masq. > yes - it's a routing problem. you definitely do not need masq-ing. "route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 eth0" should to the trick (replace the ip with your

Re: /dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well, the problem is then more serious, related to something that I posted a while ago, but got no response. I will appreciate any help. Next the attachment: Attachment 1: debian_arc:~# insmod sg Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_free_R6

update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
man update-alternatives says: It is often useful for a number of alternatives to be synchronised, so that they are changed as a group; for example, when several versions of the vi(1) editor are installed, the man page referenced by /usr/man/man1/vi.1 should correspond

sawmill problem

2000-04-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
for those following this subject, the new version 0.25.2-2 has just fixed this problem, and sawmill was worth the (minimal thanks to dselect) effort :), I'll stick with it ... thanks for the answers ... jan Jan Pfeifer writes: > hi all, > > I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package

Re: SVGA Text Mode & ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "John" == John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hello, Has anyone been successful at configuring an ATI Charger John> video card to use SVGA text mode? I can get it to work at a John> generic "VGA", but only at 80x25. I have tried ATI mach64, but John> It doesn't recognize the ca

Re: /dev/lp0 does not exist

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Attachment 1: > debian_arc:~# insmod sg > Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o > /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_free_R6ac8ba0b > ... i'm definitely not sure about this, but it may have something to do with the "Set version information on all symbols for modules" kernel

Re: bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Brian J. Stults
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, pl

good IMAP server?

2000-04-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was using UW imapd up until those overflows were discovered. and am on the hunt for a new (good) IMAP server. freshmeat doesnt have a very big listing of imap servers: nini - looks like its under too heavy development, low version number, scary. cyus imap - looks good but it stores mail in a sp

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz and patching

2000-04-24 Thread john
At 20:55 23/04/00 +0100, you wrote: I don't how the source tree becomes /usr/src/kernel-source-xxx either. The official (Linus) kernels unpack into linux (so you'd unpack them into /usr/src/linux, typically). Somehow Debian repackages the process, but I don't know how. I don't think it matters

apt-get

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Mason
i'm using Corel version 1. Can I use apt-get to update the whole install to the latest potato? WHat would the server be and what would the command be? 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 th

Re: bash-related (?) segfault

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> My first suspicion, too, was RAM failure, so I ran memtest86 last week > and (hours later) everything checked out okay. > hmmm ... so it's not the RAM. well ... the computer consists of some more hardware. :) however - you might want to reinstall all packages to make sure, that no files have be

Re: Help with Bounce Queue

2000-04-24 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > bounce:\ > > :lp=:\ > > :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/mailit:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bounce: > > The printcap manpage mentions that if you're using the entry as a bounce > queue, "then the lp prin

Re: Print & Email the same document

2000-04-24 Thread Kent West
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although > > I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that > > it's impossible to print and email a document from one command?

Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread montefin
Gentlepeople, Some guidance please? _If_ tomorrow, I were to sit down at my 486DX, 66, 24Mb RAM, 514Mb HDD computer and attempt a dselect ftp upgrade beyond Slink (Debian 2.1). Which bodes the greater likelihood of a successful upgrade: Frozen, Potato or Woody? Though I have a year's Red Hat ins

Re: kernel building errors

2000-04-24 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Looks like you have just not installed the Libncurses4-dev package. After you've done that, It'll probably work. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DebianUsers Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: kernel buildin

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:38:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Where can I get nptdate? apt-get install ntpdate -- Karsten M. Selfhttp:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. In other words, upgrade to Potato. Apt-get is your best bet for a successful upgrade. You will need more disk space -- enough to hold new versions of e

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > 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..

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-24 Thread Olaf Arnold
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? Yes there is a command: dpkg --get-selections | more --> get a list of package selections, and write it to stdout. -- The most im

fresh debian install (was: /var/lib gone)

2000-04-24 Thread oliver d tali
well. what's the recommended way of installing the newest set of packages available to debian? has somebody somewhere an iso image of the unstable tree or do i have to install potato's diskset and then download each and every package i want from woody separately? i can't do anything automati

need some procmail help

2000-04-24 Thread Mithrandir
Hi all ;)) I have still some problems with procmail, it will not deliver the mail as wanted, does anyone can help please?? as attachment there are my .procmailrc and a file called mail which is a copy off the mail as they arrived to root (and not the user). The user doesn't get any mails anymore :

root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Philip Lehman
My potato workstation suffered from a power failure and it seems like the partition holding the root filesystem was damaged. When I boot, fsck forces a check and reports an error about duplicate blocks (I'm sorry that I can't provide the precise error messages, but there is no way to catch them).

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:04PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: [ snip ] > I'm desperate because the same happens when I boot from a rescue > disk. What can I do about that? Any help will definetly be very > much appreciated... Boot from the rescue disk (and root disk if you use potato) as if you

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want > to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. Not quite ... they are already getting different, but not much. > In other words, upgrade to Potato. > > Ap

Re: <:& > tags

2000-04-24 Thread w trillich
mod_ePerl uses by default, but they can be changed to whatever your fancy gets struck by: and and so on. there's also "wml" which does a nine-pass run over a source file to produce results, typically html... it uses some constructs like <: :> if you've inhereted some files fro

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread montefin
Philip, To follow up on Nathan's reply, and only because when I upgraded Red Hat from 6.0 to 6.1, I earned the dubious title Mr. Fsck-it, here's my 2 cents: It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on IDE boxes, had a recurrent filesystem corruption problem. I was on kern

Re: Problem connecting with ISP

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Sobey
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:19:41PM +0200, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > 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 14:23:36 Jarlsberg pppd[334]: Warning - secre

Re: good IMAP server?

2000-04-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was using UW imapd up until those overflows were discovered. and am on > the hunt for a new (good) IMAP server. freshmeat doesnt have a very big > listing of imap servers: > FYI, I just uploaded 4.7c which fixes those problems (or at least covers

Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-24 Thread Angel M. Hernandez
Hi,   I'm using Linux OS from Corel and I'm having problems trying to access my floppy drive from the Desktop. Please can anyboby help me? Also I would like to buy a instructions book, if there is any, about Debian Linux. Thank you.     Angel Los Angeles, CA.

Re: Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:09:10AM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote: > 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 -

XFree86-4.0 and xauth

2000-04-24 Thread Brian Stults
I upgraded to XFree86-4.0 recently, and now xauth doesn't seem to work. I usually use ssh to work on my unix account at work and to do so, I have a script that looks like this: ssh REMOTEHOST "/usr/openwin/bin/xauth add `grep -e IPADDR /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info | gawk -F = '{print $2}'`:0 . `xa

Apache and PHP

2000-04-24 Thread Yegon
I tried to install a new php 3.0.16-2 package it wants me to install some libs such as libz1 libdb2 2.4.14-7 I cannot find them. How should I proceed, I need a newer php version - at least 3.0.6 to work on my computer. Thanks Yegon

Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-24 Thread Mats Ström
I am trying to get X working on S3 trio3D card. My XFree86 is version 3.3.6 which supports the trio3D. Unfortunately it is very picky about its modelines. There some recommended mode- lines in the manual: Modeline "1024x768" 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync

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