Re: new legacy Yamaha PCI module in 2.2.16 kernel won't link??

2000-06-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
"James D. Freels" wrote: > > Alan Cox sent a message that it needed to be compiled as a module. > This did correct the problem. Now I need the modules parameters to > define the resources. What are they for this card? It's PCI,, you should not need to use any module parameters. Jeff

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:52:22 -0500, "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, > Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian >> on it. I've taken a serious liking to the foll

Re: Which "baud"?

2000-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:24:45PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > My the permissions for /dev/ups -> /dev/ttyS2 are: > > crw-rw 1 root root 4, 66 Jun 4 13:54 /dev/ttyS2 > > > $sudo stty -a < /dev/ttyS2 > > bash: /dev/ttyS2: Permissio

How can I extract zless program from a deb pakage?

2000-06-10 Thread Geengun Guim
Hi all, I've install debian 2.1 just only base. So I can not run zless. How can I find which .deb contain the zless program? Many thanx, Geengun [1]+ Donefind / | grep alias >/var/tmp/find.alias $ cat /var/tmp/find.alias /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_alias.so /usr/lib/apache/1.

INSTALLATION PROBLEMS

2000-06-10 Thread tru triplex
I GET THE MESSAGE AFTER AUTO BOOTING "RAMDISK: COMPRESSED IMAGE FOUND AT BLOCK 0" HOW DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM ALSO I NEED TO ADD A LARGER HARD DRIVE TO MY SYSTEM THAT THE BIOS DOES NOT SUPPORT IT IS A SYSTEMSOFT BIOS AND THE HARDRIVE IS A 4645MB FUJITSU ATA DISKDRIVE ANY AND ALL INFORMATION W

Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS

2000-06-10 Thread Joseph de los Santos
> I GET THE MESSAGE AFTER AUTO BOOTING "RAMDISK: COMPRESSED IMAGE > FOUND AT BLOCK 0" HOW DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM ALSO I NEED TO ADD A > LARGER HARD DRIVE TO MY SYSTEM THAT THE BIOS DOES NOT SUPPORT IT IS A > SYSTEMSOFT BIOS AND THE HARDRIVE IS A 4645MB FUJITSU ATA DISKDRIVE ANY > AND ALL INF

Re: 2.4test1 make zImage error

2000-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jun 2000, Bolan Meek wrote: [snip] > I don't think you're supposed to `make clean` after `make dep`: > you'll be removing some of the work done by `make menuconfig` > and `make dep`. I always go straight to `make zImage` or bzImage` > after `make dep`. > [snip] According to Welsh and Kau

Gnome E-Mail-Client

2000-06-10 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hey there, does anyone of you know of a good and recommendable E-Mail-client for GNOME ? I have tried several ones now but wasn't that satisfied yet ! Something in the vein of kMail...

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I was wrong. The problem was ntpdate. It was trying to poll the internet > > while not connected to it. > > The thing which is puzzling me is: why did the 2.0.36 boot fine and > successfully get past ntpdate? You see, that is why I initially > did

Re: Gnome E-Mail-Client

2000-06-10 Thread Preben Randhol
Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/06/2000 (12:06) : > Hey there, > > does anyone of you know of a good and recommendable E-Mail-client for > GNOME ? I have tried several ones now but wasn't that satisfied yet ! > Something in the vein of kMail... Recommend Mutt (http://www.mutt.

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > > > tell it: > > > > > > /usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real > > > > Thanks for the answer, but it is not working :( > > > > Fortify says: > > > > "/usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real" i

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:32:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > what version of fortify? the debian packages for fortify are broken, > i had to download the most recent version myself, which worked on > 4.72. 4.73 is and never will be supported. Fortify-1.4.5-unix-x86 I don't know whether it i

Re: Fortifying netscape(solved)

2000-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you for all the help. I solved the problem by installing the latest fortify package from woody and it did the job. Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082 898 1528(Johann) 082 255 2388(Hester) "I love them

Memory Problem

2000-06-10 Thread Thomas Wild
Hello Ralph, > Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not > German. Ok, I will do so. > Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs. > > The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf > and re- run "lilo": > > append="mem=128M" > (not

Re: purging X from debian installation

2000-06-10 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:25:19PM -0500, w trillich wrote > i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell. > > i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and > use only ncurses console/telnet/ssh interaction, and > server software -- but when i try to zap the xlib6 packages > (

General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The following is a message that I grabbed from the archives of developers' list, the ones with the power of vote about this or any other resolution. There are ideas here that are worth reading, so I decided to post it. Since it is in public domain, I hope Manoj doesn't mind. Antonio. %%% **

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
servicom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course, when talking about newbies - a lot will probably be coming from >window$ so can't really survive unless they have a fancy graphical >installer/package manager (like gnorpm). Hmm, gnome-apt? :) Usable, though it still needs a lot of improvement from w

Re: General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > The following is a message that I grabbed from the archives of > developers' list, the ones with the power of vote about this or any > other resolution. There are ideas here that are worth reading, so I > decided to post it. Since it is in public domain, I hope Manoj doe

Re: (no subject)

2000-06-10 Thread adam.edgar
The first thing that comes to mind for me is to ask where on the hard drive is your linux partition and where is Windows. Keep in mind lilo has problems when your boot sector is past the 8 gig point. If you put the 5 gigs for linux first this may help. And personally I would advise splitting your W

esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. Did anyone have problems with esound in woody? I just installed a Creative Ensoniq PCI sound card, and it works well, except that when I try to use esound. It plays one second, and then repeats that over and over (until I kill esd)... I saw no bug filed against esound, and nothing in the do

Re: General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-10 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I guess we have all been stewing over this. One unintended result may be that Debian will look as though it is strong-arming people in non-free to accept the GNU-idea of free software. That is, "Change to our licensing agreement or we will dump you from the Debian site." It must be understood that

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:32:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > what version of fortify? the debian packages for fortify are broken, > > i had to download the most recent version myself, which worked on > > 4.72. 4.73 is and nev

Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config file for this. Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: Memory Problem

2000-06-10 Thread Jo Hoffmann
> Hello Ralph, > > > Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not > > German. > Ok, I will do so. > > > Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs. > > > > The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf > > and re- run "lilo": > > > >

Re: General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The following is a message that I grabbed from the archives of >developers' list, the ones with the power of vote about this or any >other resolution. There are ideas here that are worth reading, so I >decided to post it. Since it is in public domain, I

Re: General Resolution. Copied and Pasted Message from Developers Archive

2000-06-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
In reality we are right to be worried, since these two messages are only one side of the opinions. There is the other side also. That is, my intention was to show that there is a heated discussion going on, and that there are two sides. Some times it gets even personal, which is not good. I am n

Re: Memory Problem

2000-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
Thomas Wild said: > > Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs. > > > > The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf > > and re- run "lilo": > > > > append="mem=128M" > > (note the capital "M"!) > > I did. I wrote it under Image . But when I rebo

Re: A BIOS that wants to know the OS I'm using?

2000-06-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, I. Tura wrote: > My fancy new computer has a extra-cool-nice Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Rev 6, and > when you enter into it you have a quite interesting dialogue that says: > > OS: W98/2000 > W95 > Other > Is there any explanation about the sense of

no ppp after update potato

2000-06-10 Thread Hans
Hello again guys, I've been away from this group for a while, sorry if this problem was posted before. I just did a potato update on my notebook and afterwards I couldn't connect to my ISP with pon/poff. pppconfig doesn't recognize my cardmodem anymore which used to be /dev/ttyS1. I reinstalled p

Re: PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at ...

2000-06-10 Thread Curtis Hogg
I had problems with my Linksys tulip card, having a similar error, only in my case the tulip driver told me that my card was on irq 0... do you run windows on your system as well? if so, were you in windows prior to booting into linux? and did you do a soft reset to get there? Windows screws with P

enexpected EOF problem

2000-06-10 Thread Pollywog
Although I have only used vi to edit a file, I keep getting this when I execute it: /etc/iptables.sh: line 247: syntax error: unexpected end of file     I don't see anything there that could be causing the problem. Is there a way to see and remove whatever character is doing this? thanks -- A

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-10 Thread Dietmar
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hi. > > Did anyone have problems with esound in woody? > > I just installed a Creative Ensoniq PCI sound card, and it works well, > except that when I try to use esound. It plays one second, and then > repeats that over and over (until I kill esd)... I saw no bug filed

Finish: Re: Memory Problem

2000-06-10 Thread Thomas Wild
Thanks for yours help. I tested an other RAM and it works. So it seems, that the RAM-Module is defect. Shit happens ! Mit freundlichen Gruessen Thomas Wild | InTeCoFix GbR Kirchhofstrasse 107 Technischer Support: 42327 Wupperta

Re: Gnome E-Mail-Client

2000-06-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 12:05:07PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone of you know of a good and recommendable > E-Mail-client for GNOME ? I have tried several ones now but > wasn't that satisfied yet ! Something in the vein of kMail... http://www.cscmail.net/ --

starting a script at boot time?

2000-06-10 Thread Jay Kelly
Good Morning Group, I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What will I need to do to make this script start and run at bootup?

Re: enexpected EOF problem

2000-06-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:53:31PM +, Pollywog wrote: > Although I have only used vi to edit a file, I keep getting this when I > execute it: > > /etc/iptables.sh: line 247: syntax error: unexpected end of file     Some pieces of software expect a linefeed on the last line and break if there

Linux on Compaq Armada 7750

2000-06-10 Thread Anthony McDowell
Has anyone tried to install Linux on an Armada 7750. Everytime that I try any Linux (SuSE 6.4, Mandrake, Red Hat, Corel, Debian), it always hangs on trying to initialize the PCMCIA. The only way that I have been able to get a "working" install is to not use PCMCIA, but that leaves out my PCMCIA

Re: starting a script at boot time?

2000-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
man update-rc.d On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Good Morning Group, > I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after > booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What > will I need to do to make this script start and run

Hi i i need help plz

2000-06-10 Thread Brent
Hi the problem is with my keyboard for some funny reason my backspace does not work when i am the user "root" , but when i am another user i have no problems. This is all when I run X. You assistanst would be greatly appreciated Brent Clark p.s. Please bare in mind that im not running server

boot disk

2000-06-10 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi I've just recieved an older IBM (pentium 133), which I would like to install Debian on. The problem is that there is no cdrom on it, so I try to create a bootdisk, so I boot the computer and hopefully install it from my local mirror of ftp.debian.org. I've tried to create the disk with mkboot

diald and development kernels

2000-06-10 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone else noticed that Diald does not seem to work with kernel 2.3.99-pre9, or is it just me? -- Andrew

Re: Hi i i need help plz

2000-06-10 Thread adam.edgar
It sounds like a keyboard mapping problem, possibly stemming from user option files that either exist in the home directories of individual users. For example your root profile may have a file called .xinitrc that changes your mapping and normal user don't have this. Look in /root and a normal home

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:04:17 +0200, Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. > I'm > using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I > use gnome > or sawfish with sound-support everything on my

Re: enexpected EOF problem

2000-06-10 Thread Stelios Bounanos
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was rumoured to have said about `` enexpected EOF problem '': > Although I have only used vi to edit a file, I keep getting this when I > execute it: > > /etc/iptables.sh: line 247: syntax error: unexpected end of file     > > I

Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having some problems with my Road Runner Cable modem and getting the DNS to properly work. Hopefully, someone can help me get this straight. Here is my current setup: internet | | debian-wall (Firewall box) | | Hub---(debian-server - DNS server for the network) | | (Multipl

Re: Road Runner && DNS Problems

2000-06-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > internet > | > | > debian-wall (Firewall box) > | > | > Hub---(debian-server - DNS server for the network) > | > | > (Multiple PC's) You have 'debian-wall' set as the default gw route for every machine, and you have

library problems running Apache

2000-06-10 Thread John P. Donaldson
I'm running Debian 2.1 and am trying to install the latest secure version of Apache 1.3.9. It actually installed fine, it's just not starting. When I attempt to start the server, it says it can't open libm.so.5. I'm pretty new to Linux and had no idea how or where to find the library package tha

Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
I just noticed that after the upgrade from slink to potato, sendmail is no longer receiving messages, or something to that extent - i can't send emails to the server. Sending from the server works fine. I imagine this problem could be due to a number of issues, but I thought i'd ask if anyone had

Re: diald and development kernels

2000-06-10 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that Diald does not seem to work with kernel > 2.3.99-pre9, or is it just me? I don't understand what is going on, but it works now. I suspect it has something to do with the ipchains module, but I am using iptables now. -- Andrew

download driver

2000-06-10 Thread Severino Alves
Bom dia.   Estou com dificuldades para instalar/configurar minha faxmodem  WS-5614JS3, HOCKWELL 97 (RCVDL56ACF/SP R6761-21) Gostaria de fazer download do driver de instalação mas não sei onde encontrar. Por favor me informe.     Grato: Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: download driver

2000-06-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Caro Severino, o artigo de introdução 25 de OLinux: http://www.olinux.com.br/introducao/25 possui um link para página com modems compatíveis com Linux. Confira lá! Quoting Severino Alves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Bom dia. > > Estou com dificuldades para instala

Re: boot disk

2000-06-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
You need to download the images and put them on disk using dd. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Allan Andersen wrote: > Hi > > I've just recieved an older IBM (pentium 133), which I > would like to install Debian on. The problem is that > there is no cdrom on it, so I try to create a bootdisk

Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-10 Thread Robert C. Ramsdell
I am trying to install Linux on my old PC: Built by Lektor (a Danish company) Intel Endeavor motherboard w/ Pentium 166 processor 80 MB RAM Adaptec 2940 SCSI Host Adapter (LUN 7) Pioneer DRU124x CD-ROM at LUN 2 (bootable) Seagate ST11200N HD at LUN 0 (brand new, low level format only) No network o

The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the Debian distro! You'll impress your neighbors with your buff pinky muscles, built after hours of banging the living bejeesus out of the enter key to accept the default configurations for a plethora of programs you never use or a

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > You'll visit the debian.org site approximately 3,596,391 times finding > out what package provides a command you need...since apt-get doesn't > have "what-provides" or query options. It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -

Simple C-includes & BIND questions

2000-06-10 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello friends I got Exim working now! Yippie! I'm getting to like debian more everyday. Now, I have an applet that calls some programs on the Linux machine. The thing is that I need to compile those with libc6 as they say "Cannot load libc5" when I try to start them manually. I used them on an ol

Re: Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
Doh! I wrote the previous email before having seen an error message that is surely very important. Sorry about that. Here it is from /var/log/mail.info and from the return receipts: Jun 10 06:33:55 saxa sendmail[8685]: KAE23583: SYSERR(daemon): Cannot exec /usr/sbin/sensible-mda: No such file or

Re: starting a script at boot time?

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Good Morning Group, > > I want to have a firewall script I made to start automatically after > > booting. The file has permission 755 and is in my /etc/init.d folder. What >

Re: Simple C-includes & BIND questions

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Werner
Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello friends > > I got Exim working now! Yippie! I'm getting to like debian more > everyday. > > Now, I have an applet that calls some programs on the Linux machine. The > thing is that I need to compile those with libc6 as they say "Cannot > load libc5" when I try to star

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the > Debian distro! Been there, done that, got the evil grin plastered all over my mug. > You'll impress your neighbors with your buff pinky muscles, built after > h

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:16:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > > > You'll visit the debian.org site approximately 3,596,391 times finding > > out what package provides a command you need...since apt-get doesn't > > have "what-provides" or query options. > > It should, I gra

Re: Simple C-includes & BIND questions

2000-06-10 Thread Sven Burgener
>I believe libc6-dev is what you need to provide those. Remember, the >lib-whatever packages are the runtime items and the lib-whatever-dev are >needed to compile your own stuff. I've stumbled over that one *many* >times. But once you manage to remember that, you're pretty much set. >nslookup i

Re: starting a script at boot time?

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 07:51:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:41:46PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > > Good Morning

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Hans
At 02:16 PM 6/10/00 -0700, John McBride wrote: >Yes, you too can experience the thrill of installing and upgrading the >Debian distro! > Same here: I just had my potato system working, wanted to install latex, apt-get decides to update 63 packages and now pon/poff doesn't work anymore. It just give

Netscape -- recent severe instability

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
Netscape is driving me nuts. I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with Package: navigator-smotif-461 Status: install ok installed Source: netscape4.61 Version: 4.61-11 Recently (within the past week), Netscape has become even more unstable than usual, crashing when cycling through

Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >Netscape is driving me nuts. > >I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with (potato will be 2.2, woody will be 2.3 or 3.0 I guess, despite what /etc/debian_version still says ...) >Package: navigator-smotif-461 >Status: install ok installed >Source: netscape4.

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > You'll ohh and ahhh as apt-get fails on package name lengths that are > > too long! > > Sorry? Details? Never seen this. As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with a

Re: no ppp after update potato

2000-06-10 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just did a potato update on my notebook and afterwards I couldn't > connect to my ISP with pon/poff. pppconfig doesn't recognize my > cardmodem anymore which used to be /dev/ttyS1. I reinstalled pcmcia > support, but to no avail. I notice

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Werner
John McBride wrote: > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm > pulls helix-gnome off the system. I'll review those files. Actual

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John Hasler
Hans writes: > Same here: I just had my potato system working, wanted to install latex, > apt-get decides to update 63 packages and now pon/poff doesn't work > anymore. It just gives me 'pppd not started. None stopped'. Please post copies of /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/chatscripts/provider, and

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Carl Fink wrote: > > It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"? > here's a nasty one: > expectk bash: expectk: command not found root> dpkg -S expectk dpkg: *expectk* not found. web page shows: interpreters/expect5.24 interpreters/swig root> apt-get install expect [candidates : 5.2

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread John McBride
Mike Werner wrote: > > John McBride wrote: > > > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm > > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't > > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm > > pulls helix-gnome off the system

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Werner
John McBride wrote: > Mike Werner wrote: > > > > John McBride wrote: > > > > > Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm > > > without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't > > > simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm >

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:34:03PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > You'll ohh and ahhh as apt-get fails on package name lengths that are > > > too long! > > > > Sorry? Details? Never seen this. > > As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.l

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Carl Fink wrote: >> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"? > >here's a nasty one: > >> expectk >bash: expectk: command not found > >root> dpkg -S expectk >dpkg: *expectk* not found. Ah, here you have a different search facility ;) dpkg -S s

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > Mike Werner wrote: > > > > John McBride wrote: > After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and > typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager. > There's probably more to it, or my insta

rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Jacob I. Stowell
hello i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is a bad idea to issue the following command: rm -R /usr/ i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that, so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake. Hopefully i will make di

Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:24:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Netscape is driving me nuts. > > > >I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with > > (potato will be 2.2, woody will be 2.3 or 3.0 I guess, despite what > /etc/debian_version still says ...) > > >Package

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote: > Mike Werner wrote: [...] > After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and > typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager. > There's probably more to it, or my install has gone bad in som

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and >used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an >E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1 >slink CD has a version of dpkg or something

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:38:35PM -0700, John McBride wrote: >> After running this command (update-rc.d -f gdm remove), rebooting, and >> typing "startx", I get a grey stipple screen with no window manager. >> There's probably more to it, or my install has gone bad in

Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability

2000-06-10 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:24:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Netscape is driving me nuts. > > > >I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with > > (potato will be 2.2, woody will be 2.3 or 3.0 I guess, despite what > /etc/debian_version still says ...) > > >Package

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is >a bad idea to issue the following command: > >rm -R /usr/ > >i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that, >so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake.

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep... I was working with a filesystem I had mounted in /slink, and I issued rm -r /etc, trying to remove the mounted etc... oops... Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but I haven't made a mistake like that again. -Aaron On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jacob I. Stowell

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Aaron! On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but [ ^^ rm -- PP] > I haven't made a mistake like that again. Does not work for me. After 2 days I started using -f with rm all the times. Even more dangerous

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yeahand luckily... /usr is already backed up on cdrom... just need to update the missing files/bins/libs ( i hope it works ? )... and than apply your new apps/patches ?? i like /usr/src to be in a separate partition that is backed up or mirrored... all clients

Re: rm -R /usr/ - undelete....

2000-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... "interactive" mode for rm -i foo is fine...as long as you don't remove too many files ??? think the trick is if "rm -rf /usr" is a directory. rm should query you. if you do "rm /usr/blah"...than just go ahead and don't botheras if "-f" was specified ??? if you do "rm -rf

Re: Sendmail not receiving mail

2000-06-10 Thread Dr. Orange
I reinstalled sendmail and it all works fine now. Thanks, -S-

gpm locks up blackbox

2000-06-10 Thread Dave Bateman
Why would blackbox have a problem with gpm? I removed it and everything works fine, but I'm just curious about the conflict. ( the wm would come up OK, but the rodent wouldn't work.) Later, Dave

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-10 Thread Dave Bateman
Colin Watson wrote: > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and > >used "apt-get update". It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an > >E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1 > >slink CD has

Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Werner
I'm trying to write a shell script that will noninteractively accept a chunk of text on standard input, but haven't been able to figure out how to go about doing so. What I'm trying to do is write a script that will get called by an exim filter. Accroding to the exim docs, when a script is called

Re: Shell script reading stdin?

2000-06-10 Thread Mike Werner
Jim Breton wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from > > within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? > > > Yes, but this may or may not be suitable for whatever you're doing

Licq from KDE2?

2000-06-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, Has anyone had luck getting the latest Licq to work with the latest KDE2 version from kde.tdyc.com ? When I try installing licq-plugin-qt2 it wants to remove all the KDE2 packages, including libqt2.1 (and do libqt2 instead). That licq-plugin-qt2 isn't actually a dependency, from the looks