Howto re-configure an already configured package ?

2000-05-05 Thread Alain Papazoglou
Hi, Howto to re-configure an existing package ? and howto to force interactive mode when configuring with dselect? I would like to re-configure dpkg-ftp package due to a proxy... other scripts than dselect ? Thanks -- Alain Papazoglou

Re: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)

2000-05-05 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 03:24:35PM -0400, Paul Kallstrom wrote > Nevermind, I suppose. It looks like the only system filtering that is > functional under exim, is sender based. > Exim has very flexible filtering capabilities, both at the system level and at the user level, which goes far beyond w

Re: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)

2000-05-05 Thread brian moore
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Cherubini Enrico wrote: > Ciao, > Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:56:13PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > = exim.conf == > > message_filter = /etc/exim.filter > > = exim.filter = > > > > # Exim filter > > > >

problem with 2.3.99 kernel

2000-05-05 Thread Pollywog
I booted to the 2.3.99 kernel and I got errors about shm. I could not copy them to a file, so I copied them from 'dmesg'. dmesg does not show all the errors, but the ones I did see are: shmget: shm filesystem not mounted shmget: shm filesystem not mounted shmget: shm filesystem not mounted My /e

storm install problems

2000-05-05 Thread russell simmons
Greetings. I have slink running on a 486, and dual/boot my main box, (windoz/linux). I have a cd of stormlinux that I got in a magazine, and I tried to load it today. When it neared the end of loading the packages, it started printing to my screen, and after completion, it wouldn't boot. Also,

Re: problem with 2.3.99 kernel

2000-05-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: [snip] > shmget: shm filesystem not mounted [snip] Ghhh RTFM! Shared memory is now implemented using a new (minimal) virtual file system, which you need to mount before programs can use shared memory. To do this automatically at system startup just

Re: Howto re-configure an already configured package ?

2000-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
Alain Papazoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Howto to re-configure an existing package ? Depends. If it uses debconf, then dpkg-reconfigure will work (this is also the easiest way to find out whether a package uses debconf or not :)); if not, then you may have luck running the post-installation s

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread Brian May
> "Richard" == Richard Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Win hasn't required an autoexec.bat since '95. -- My Richard> other computer's running Debian. {www.debian.org} I think you need it in order to setup the environment (compilers seem to require this) and/or load doske

can't get smtm to run

2000-05-05 Thread Adam Shand
any body have this problem and no how to solve it? heyzeus(larry)$ smtm ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone. Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at /usr/lib/perl5/Date/Manip.pm line 615 Date::Manip::Date_Init() called at /usr/lib/perl5/Date/Manip.pm line 1315 Date::Manip::Parse

Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread Kevin A Smith
I know the answer to this will be obvious to those on this list, but I wonder what criteria people have used to decide on which distribution to use...where/for what? I have debian on a desktop at home, simply a "users" setup. I now want to setup a laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600) with a development envi

(alsa) snd: card is out of range (0-0)

2000-05-05 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I've been trying to get my sound card going with alsa. It is a SB32 (pro) and is said to be supported. I'm using 2.2.14. Everythsnd: card is out of range (0-0)ing looks good at the compiling and configuration stages, but when I reboot I get isapnp: Card 'Creative SB32 PnP' isapnp: 1 Plu

Apt-get problem

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Kennedy
Hi. I included the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list to download some Japanese debs: deb www.jp.debian.org/debian-jp slink-jp main contrib non-free I was told (by the Japanese instructions I was following) to run the following script before using apt-get: # export http_proxy=http://serv

bugrepporting

2000-05-05 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
i'm trying to help in debian by sending some bug reports so i'm using 'bug' it asked me for the problem and then it checks some dependencies... but after that... it drops me on an editor.. how do i send the bug-report? pls help me any of those who uses 'bug' for bug-reporting

"write" source

2000-05-05 Thread UMUM
Hello... Does anybody know where I can obtain the source code for the "write" program? I would like to modify and compile it according to my own system needs. :-) Thanks! Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 02:13:19PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: Let me begin by saying I don't plan to prolong this thread after saying my piece. Insert smilie here. I don't like the reaction from most sides about this. It bodes ill for Linux -- for free software users in general. Let's start

Re: "write" source

2000-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 03:25:11AM +0700, UMUM wrote: > Hello... > > Does anybody know where I can obtain the source code for the > "write" program? > I would like to modify and compile it according to my own system needs. > :-) > > Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ dlocate -S /usr/bin/write bsdma

Re: problem with 2.3.99 kernel

2000-05-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-May-2000 00:29:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > [snip] >> shmget: shm filesystem not mounted > [snip] > > Ghhh RTFM! I did RTM, but I also read that /var/shm did not always work and that I should try /shm. I will try /var/shm as was suggested in

Re: "write" source

2000-05-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 03:25:11AM +0700, UMUM wrote: > Hello... > > Does anybody know where I can obtain the source code for the > "write" program? > I would like to modify and compile it according to my own system needs. > :-) You might want the talk, talkd or nwrite source. apt-get source [ta

Re: (alsa) snd: card is out of range (0-0)

2000-05-05 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-05-04 22:03:03, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > I've been trying to get my sound card going with alsa. It is a SB32 > (pro) and is said to be supported. I'm using 2.2.14. > > Everythsnd: card is out of range (0-0)ing looks good at the compiling > and configuration stages, but when I r

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread James Ravan
At 12:31 PM 5/4/00 +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: I take an extremely simplistic view. I'd use Windows more if it didn't crash 20 times a day. That's why I use Linux. Simple. Based on my experience with Debian Linux to date, I also take a simplistic view. Windows has worked with all the hardware

RE: problem with 2.3.99 kernel SOLVED

2000-05-05 Thread Pollywog
I know what the problem was. I had to create the mount point /var/shm I know it seems stupid that I could have thought it would be created automatically when I booted the machine, but the Debiandiary information did not say I needed to create it (I don't believe), so I assumed it was done automati

ftp'ing to NT

2000-05-05 Thread zdrysdal
Hiya i am trying to ftp from my slink box to my NT fileserver but i get "Connection Refused". Why is that? thanx Zane

Re: cron & exim message in logs

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
Shane said: > Check the "/etc/cron.d/exim" file. You can > comment it out. OK... That looks like it would stop exim from running the queue every however often. My understanding of the original question, though (as well as something I've been wondering), is: How do I get exim to stop _loggin

Re: ftp'ing to NT

2000-05-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
Because NT doesn't have a ftp daemon installed by default. Download warftpd or something similar, and install a server on your NT box. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hiya > > i am trying to ftp from my slink box to my NT fileserver but i get > "Connection Refu

Re: network start time

2000-05-05 Thread Paul Serice
> Question: how can i manipulate the time when "network" is executed > so that the network is started AFTER the card has been probed for? You really don't want to alter when the network configuration script is executed. Instead, add your network module to /etc/modules. The leading comments

Re: storm install problems

2000-05-05 Thread ktb
My experience with Storm from a magazine is it wouldn't install unless I used the text based installer. Using the graphical installer the installation would stop dead at a certain point. No there is no option to make a boot disk. You have to make one yourself. I would try the text installer if

Re: Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread deja luser
Just try regular debian or maybe the Oreilly/VA/SGI pseudo-potato, if you have too many problems try corel or stormix, both are quite easy, far easier than windows, I goofed with corel for larfs, and I think I clicked like 5 ok boxes and it installed tons of junk that more or less worked, stormi

pointing /dev/hda* to a different lable?

2000-05-05 Thread ktb
I'm sure I've done this before but I can't remember how. I have two partitions on my disk that I would like to swap labels. I have -- /dev/hda2 / and /dev/hda8 /home I would like to make /home /dev/hda2 and / /dev/hda8 and the new mount point. It was one short command that jus

Using ipmasq and vtun

2000-05-05 Thread Clark Rawlins
I have two hosts on the internet that masq connections for a network of computers behind them and I want to setup a vtun tunnel between the two networks. It looks something like this: |------| 192.168.0.0/24 |--eth1--|host1|-eth0-inet-ppp0-|

Re: pointing /dev/hda* to a different lable?

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Why would you want to do this? ktb wrote: > > I'm sure I've done this before but I can't remember how. I have two > partitions on my disk that I would like to swap labels. I have -- > > /dev/hda2 / > > and > > /dev/hda8 /home > > I would like to make /home /dev/hda2 and / /dev/

Re: pointing /dev/hda* to a different lable?

2000-05-05 Thread Clark Rawlins
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:36:54PM -0500, ktb wrote: Kent, you need to change the two lines in your /etc/fstab to something like: /dev/hda2 /home ext2defaults0 2 /dev/hda8 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 If you are using a filesystem o

Re: pointing /dev/hda* to a different lable?

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Okay... yeah. I thought for a moment he wanted to change the device /dev/hda2 to /dev/hda8 and vice versa... duh. I'm going back to sleep now. Clark Rawlins wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:36:54PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Kent, you need to change the two lines in your /etc/fstab to something l

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread Richard Taylor
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software: > > "Richard" == Richard Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard> Win hasn't required an autoexec.bat since '95. -- My > Richard> other computer's running Debian. {www.debian.org} > I think y

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-05 Thread Jo Hoffmann
>> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup >> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from >> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have >> it boot linux from hdc1? >> >

Storm Linux

2000-05-05 Thread Christopher Clark
I bought the Storm Linux box and tried installing on various hardware. The graphical install, randomly, failed writing the packages. I got the text based install to 'work' but the the reboot failed. I finally 'installed' it by installing my Debian slink2.1r1 disc's and 'upgrading' to storm. It w

Re: Using ipmasq and vtun

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 10.0.0.10.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 tun0 not sure, if this is necessary - but it should not hurt. > tun0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:10.0.0.2 P

OT: Repair a harddisk partition

2000-05-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have an old computer that has 800MB windoze partition and 400 MB linux partition. While my sister was using windows today, it crashed and damaged the partition information. In windoze, fdisk cannot detect any partiton table and claims the physical disk

Re: OT: Repair a harddisk partition

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have an old computer that has 800MB windoze partition and > 400 MB linux partition. While my sister was using windows today, > it crashed and damaged the partition information. > boot into the rescue linux system. run "cfdisk -z". if you exactly know your old partitioning, th

Installation Problems

2000-05-05 Thread Carl Kehley
Need some help here. System specs: Athlon 700 FIC motherboard 256MB sdram Seagate ST 27.4g hard drive UDMA66 Diamond Stealth III S 540 video card Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card Realtek 8139 network card Acer 4x4x32 cdrw 36x cdrom (both ide) Attempting to install O'Reilly version of debian 2.1 f

Re: [OT] VBS Script Summary (I love you)

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Nathan E Norman wrote: > The attachment must be opened for infection to occur. > > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:13:12AM +0800, hingwah wrote: > > How the virus work?It can infect immediately when opening the email but > > without open any attachment? > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > Put to

Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-05 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:41:09AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Do you have append apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf? some things changed about > > apm settings lately, IIRC. > > > > My workstation doesn't do power off on shutdown anymore without passing > > apm=power-off to the kernel on boot, for exam

question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Hello all, Recently I just change from using Redhat 6.0 to debian. I'm now using slink 2.1 + a few updates from the frozen directory.. When I try to use the "ps -aux" command,usually the lines is too long and the screen is not large enough to display the whole line.In the times when I use R

Re: [OT] VBS Script Summary (I love you)

2000-05-05 Thread Corey Popelier
It is a VBS script (Visual Basic Script) which on most Windows 95->2000 based machines is executable via. the C:\Windows\wscript.exe program. The VBS extention is associated with this application. Users save the attachment then run it, or run the attachment, and the attachment modifies registry se

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I try to use the "ps -aux" command,usually the lines is too > long and the screen > is not large enough to display the whole line.In the times when I use > Redhat 6.0 I can just > solve it by "COLUMNS=200 ps-aux" (orginally COLUMNS=80),if the lines is > too long > it will wrapped to next

Re:Installing Problems

2000-05-05 Thread Khairul Hapizan
Hello im a new unix user so im so intrested in Debian i've install Debian but actually i dont know how to configure Xwindows im so sorry coz im so new in unix world so i hope i can get a help i have about 3 books about linux but i still need a help how to install Debian properly thanks --

Re: Installing Problems

2000-05-05 Thread Vitux
Khairul Hapizan wrote: > > Hello im a new unix user so im so intrested in Debian > i've install Debian but actually i dont know how to configure Xwindows > im so sorry coz im so new in unix world > so i hope i can get a help i have about 3 books about linux but i still need > a help how to instal

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> Let me begin by saying I don't plan to prolong this thread Jonathan> after saying my piece. Insert smilie here. me too Jonathan> Personally, I agree. The issue brought up was not one of Jonathan> "is Emacs p

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > When I try to use the "ps -aux" command,usually the lines is too > > long and the screen > > is not large enough to display the whole line.In the times when I use > > Redhat 6.0 I can just > > solve it by "COLUMNS=200 ps-aux" (orginally COLUMNS=80),if the lines

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> but why debian no "COLUMNS" and "LINES" enviroment variable? > distributation just differ from the installation and maintain tools is it? > this may be version related. these both variables are set by bash, so it is possible, that the version distributed with debian does not allow you to set the

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
Add the w option to the aux (one w willl use 1 extra line if necessary, 2 w's will use 2 etc.). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 5 May 2000, hingwah wrote: > Hello all, > Recently I just change from using Redhat 6.0 to debian. I'm now > using slink 2.1 + > a few updates from the frozen directory.. >

Problemi /Problems.

2000-05-05 Thread Fernando . Cascella
Egregi Signori, Ho installato su un HD di 4gb Debians. Sullo stesso HD coesiste insieme a linux, windows 98. Il mio problema e che quando faccio il login in linux, il desktop è ok, ma quando entro nei menù, non ci sono scritte, ma solo strisce nere e non posso leggere nulla. Se io faccio partire

Re: Problemi /Problems.

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Egregi Signori, > if you would post in english, then more people could help you. ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

Re: bugrepporting

2000-05-05 Thread Pontus Lidman
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: > i'm trying to help in debian by sending some bug reports so i'm using > 'bug' it asked me for the problem and then it checks some > dependencies... but after that... it drops me on an editor.. how do i > send the bug-report? > > pls help me any

R: Problemi /Problems.

2000-05-05 Thread marco frattola
use english, please .. translating for not-italian speakers i've installed debain on a 4GB HD. on the same disk win98 is installed. my problem is when i log in, the desktop is ok, but when i pull down menus, there is nothing, just black stripes. and i can't read anything. -- sorry, i can't help

Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Stephenson, Paul
Hello, Apologies for the long message; I'm trying to give as much information as possible. After a few crashes with my "official 2.1r2" machine that I put down to hardware (inadequate cooling possibly), it seemed to be fairly stable - until I rebooted into NT. It got to the startup blue screen w

install problem; modules

2000-05-05 Thread David Wilson
I am attempting to install potato and get the following error when setting up the modules to install in the kernel: modprobe: Can't open /target/etc/modules.conf I have done the following: (1) downloaded the contents of /main/disks-i386 to my harddrive; (2) created rescue.bin and roo

Burning Potato CD

2000-05-05 Thread GRAVE Xavier
Hi, Ihave already on my Hard Drive a full Potato distribution under .deb file form. With pseudo-image-kit-2.0 I would like to burn this distribution but I didn't succed in finding the .list files for the potato distribution. Is there anyone somewhere ? xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1 69 15 79

Re: Burning Potato CD

2000-05-05 Thread sharkey
> Ihave already on my Hard Drive a full Potato distribution under .deb file > form. With pseudo-image-kit-2.0 I would like to burn this distribution but > I didn't succed in finding the .list files for the potato distribution. Is > there anyone somewhere ? rsync "129.13.126.5::debian-cd/potato-i38

Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:38:17PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a > > > friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about > > > keyboard freezes. Actually, I'm not sure from his comments, whether > > >

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > but why debian no "COLUMNS" and "LINES" enviroment variable? > > distributation just differ from the installation and maintain tools is it? > > > this may be version related. > these both variables are set by bash, so it is possible, that the version > distributed w

web-based data entry

2000-05-05 Thread Brian J. Stults
I work on a project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The bulk of our work entails collecting historical census data for New York and Chicago and entering it into a database. Until now, we've given our workers floppy disks with simple Excel or comma-delimited databases on th

Re: cron & exim message in logs

2000-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:59:36PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Shane said: > > Check the "/etc/cron.d/exim" file. You can > > comment it out. > > OK... That looks like it would stop exim from running the queue every > however often. My understanding of the original question, though (as we

Re: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Stephenson, Paul wrote: [ snip ] > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=722927, sector=2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector 2 > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software [further OT]

2000-05-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
James Ravan wrote: > > At 12:31 PM 5/4/00 +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > >I take an extremely simplistic view. I'd use Windows more if it didn't > >crash 20 times a day. That's why I use Linux. Simple. > > Based on my experience with Debian Linux to date, I also take a simplistic > view. Windows

potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
I have posted a bug report unique to the current Alpha version of the xlib6g package in potato: _ Package: xlib6g Version: 3.3.6-6 current update of Debian 2.2 potato prerelease As far as I can tell, this bug is unique to Alpha systems. This bug does not happen o

Re: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Clyde Wilson
Check to see if all your cables are plugged in... not just for the drive, but for everything. Check both ends of the cable, sometimes they pull free of the motherboard. On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stephenson, Paul wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies for the long message; I'm trying to give as much information

RE: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Stephenson, Paul
Thanks for your reply Nathan. > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2000 15:35 > > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Stephenson, Paul wrote: > > [ snip ] > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorre

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread David Huggins-Daines
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have posted a bug report unique to the current Alpha version of the > xlib6g package in potato: Not a bug in xlib6g. A bug in ldso (/etc/ld.so.cache was busted, so the dynamic linker couldn't find libraries outside the system search path ... /usr

Re: Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread Kent West
Kevin A Smith wrote: > I know the answer to this will be obvious to those on this list, > but I wonder what criteria people have used to decide on which > distribution to use...where/for what? > > I have debian on a desktop at home, simply a "users" setup. I > now want to setup a laptop (IBM Think

solved: Re: Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-05 Thread kaynjay
Hello all, After nearly deciding to settle for the commercial sound drivers, yet another post from this list (thanks all!) urged me to retry the ALSA drivers. I went back and again compiled the latest source after fully cleaning out my system. What made the difference this time was discovering t

RE: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Stephenson, Paul
Following up to my own message... > From: Stephenson, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2000 16:17 > > > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 05 May 2000 15:35 > > > > These messages plus the noises you describe makes me think > > you have a > > bad disk drive.

RE: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully

2000-05-05 Thread Stephenson, Paul
> From: Clyde Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2000 16:13 > > Check to see if all your cables are plugged in... > not just for the drive, but for everything. > Check both ends of the cable, sometimes they pull > free of the motherboard. Thanks for the suggestion Clyde, but that's n

cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Emilis
Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato unofficial iso files.

Re: install problem; modules

2000-05-05 Thread David Karlin
Hi, On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 09:16:25AM -0400, David Wilson wrote: > I am attempting to install potato and get the following error when setting up > the modules to install in the kernel: > >modprobe: Can't open /target/etc/modules.conf I had the same problem a couple of days ago.

Re: Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I would stick with debian for the Laptop. The eason here is that with a laptop, you probably want maximum configurability. A friend of mine has both regular system and a laptop. He uses Mandrake for the regular system, and debian for his laptop. Seems to work well for him. Bryan > an on a desk

APM was: Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-05 Thread ferret
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:41:09AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > Do you have append apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf? some things changed about > > > apm settings lately, IIRC. > > > > > > My workstation doesn't do power off on shutdown anymore without

glimpse obsoleted in potato?

2000-05-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
Can someone tell me why glimpse was obsoleted in potato/non-free? It's pretty much the only search engine widely available that suits as many purposes as it does, but if there's a DFSG replacement I'd be willing to give it a shot. In the meantime I suppose I'll either have to leave it on hold or do

Re: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Ron Stordahl
I burned them with Adeptec EZ CD creator. You have to rename them to *.iso or it won't do it. Ron - Original Message - From: "Emilis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:15 AM Subject: cd image > Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato > uno

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
David, Thanks this makes sense. However, I had already tried reinstalling ldso before I reported the bug. I see now that the latest version on the servers I normally use (http.us.debian.org, ftp.us.debian.org) show the current version is ldso_1.9.11-8.deb. Where can I get the -8.deb file? >Dat

apt-get

2000-05-05 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
what do i add in my source.list so that i can do 'apt-get source progie' it says -- "E: Sorry, you must put some 'source' uris in your source.list" i just did `apt-get source gnotepad+` and that's the error... my entry on source.list is deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib no

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread David Huggins-Daines
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks this makes sense. However, I had already tried reinstalling > ldso before I reported the bug. I see now that the latest version on > the servers I normally use (http.us.debian.org, ftp.us.debian.org) > show the current version is ldso_1.9.11

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread David Huggins-Daines
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks this makes sense. However, I had already tried reinstalling > ldso before I reported the bug. I see now that the latest version on > the servers I normally use (http.us.debian.org, ftp.us.debian.org) > show the current version is ldso_1.9.11

Linux nfs problems

2000-05-05 Thread Waite, Michael
I am perplexed by this nfs problem that I am experiencing. I have a large network full of all different kinds of nfs clients. The NFS server is running Tru64 UNIX. All the nfs clients that are UNIX and FreeBSD have no problems writing to the nfs mounted directory. BUTthe linux clients get t

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> However,in the source code of ps, it should have some code that to retreive > the COLUMN > variable in the screen...maybe via a function in the glibc library. yes - this is quite sure. > this won't be shell specific as ps can run in all shell..so is there any way > to > set the COLUMN and

Re: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Jay Barbee
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Emilis wrote: > Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato > unofficial iso files. Rename to .iso. Any tool (EZCD, CDR-Win, etc.) should be able to burn it. --Jay Barbee

Re: potato bug in xlib6g 3.3.6-6 for Alpha

2000-05-05 Thread James D. Freels
Wow! Now that is service! Thank you very much!!! >Oh, also I've put it at http://www.debian.org/~dhd/ for the time being >(until the mirorrs are resynced). > >Cheers > >-- >David Huggins-Daines, Senior GNU/Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc. >613.562.1239 desk, 613.223.0225 mobile >[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: apt-get

2000-05-05 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Kreaped Ripping Reaper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what do i add in my source.list so that i can do 'apt-get source progie' > it says -- > "E: Sorry, you must put some 'source' uris in your source.list" > i just did `apt-get source gnotepad+` and that's the error... > my entry on source.list

virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Wayne Sitton
How do I bind 2 ip's to the same nic in Debian I've tried ifconfig eth0:1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up ifconfig eth0:2 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXY up is there something I'm forgeting? Wayne

Re: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Dan Brosemer
CDRWIN will as well. There's a free (as in beer) demo version at www.goldenhawk.com which will only write at 1x, but it will get the job done. -Dan On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:57:10AM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I burned them with Adeptec EZ CD creator. You have to rename them to *.iso > or it

Re: solved: Re: Help, please. PCI128 sound card seen, but not heard

2000-05-05 Thread kvaughan
At 08:45 AM 5/5/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hello all, > >After nearly deciding to settle for the commercial sound drivers, yet >another post from this list (thanks all!) urged me to retry the ALSA >drivers. I went back and again compiled the latest source after fully >cleaning out my system. What made

RE: cd image

2000-05-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
Nero is quite nifty. www.ahead.de. Christian > -Original Message- > From: Emilis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 6:20 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: cd image > > > Maybe offtopic, what win util burns *.raw files ? Used for potato > unofficial is

Re: Which LINUX

2000-05-05 Thread w trillich
Kevin A Smith wrote: > > I know the answer to this will be obvious to those on this list, > but I wonder what criteria people have used to decide on which > distribution to use...where/for what? > > I have debian on a desktop at home, simply a "users" setup. I > now want to setup a laptop (IBM Th

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> How do I bind 2 ip's to the same nic in Debian > enable ip aliasing in the kernel. then do: ifconfig eth0 ip1/mask [foo...] ifconfig eth0:1 ip2/mask [bar...] -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.

RE: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Wayne Sitton
how do I enable ip aliasing? -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:44 PM To: Wayne Sitton Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: virtual ip's > How do I bind 2 ip's to the same nic in Debian > enable ip aliasing in the

install problem creating boot disk

2000-05-05 Thread David Wilson
David Karlin helped me with my last problem (thanks). I can proceed with the installation up to the point of creating a bootable floppy. At this point, I do not want to make Linux bootable from my harddrive. After formating the disk, the install tries to create the boot disk and aborts with an er

Install Linux on Win98 computer

2000-05-05 Thread Jason Dodd
Hello all, Newbie here, I've installed Debian at home and would now like to install Debian on a separate partition on my work computer. Win98 is currently loaded on the first 2 Gb's of the drive, the remaining 1 Gb is currently free space. I believe I can just install Debian and use Load

problem with gmc in most recent potato?

2000-05-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
leko:~>gmc Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog leko:~> upgrading yesterday is the only change that my system has gone though. I also noticed that emacs20 was not happy, its installation scrips has errors and exits. Anyone else have either of these problems? -Aaro

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Jay Barbee
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:52:48PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > how do I enable ip aliasing you need to make you kernel and have CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y in the 'make config'. If you are totally lost view the Kernel HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html --Jay Barbee

RE: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Simon Law
Download the kernel-source package and the kernel-package package. Recompile your kernel with IP aliasing turned on. You can find information about how to recompile your kernel in /usr/doc/kernel-package. Simon On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote: > how do I enable ip aliasing? > > -Ori

network monitoring

2000-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone know of a good tool to do big network monitoring? for about 300-400 systems needs to run on linux/freebsd. we are using nocol now i think but its not robust enough anymore. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:40am up 22 days, 19:42, 1 user,

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