Re: Keyboard rate

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:20:20AM -0700, Patrick Draper wrote: > Hi, > > I can't set my keyboard rate. I've read every web page out there on > setting keyboard rates, and I still haven't figured it out yet. man kbdrate -- though it appears you're onto this. > They kbdrate program gives me the s

Re: Modem disconnect me.

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:55:46PM +0200, G0DModE wrote: > Hi! > > I can`t connect to my ISP using pon. > /var/log/ppp.log: > > - CUT - > > Jun 23 18:34:44 g0dmode pppd[249]: Serial connection established. > Jun 23 18:34:45 g0dmode pppd[249]: Using interface ppp0 > Jun 23 18:34:45 g0dmod

Env Variables

2000-06-25 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi i set the environmental variable below to dynamically change my xterm window to title to the current working directory. export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' this works really well when i login in X, but when i login from the console my system beeps every time since \0

Re: kernel panic

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:30:33PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel > 2.2.16 for my potato deskbox; but trying to do the same > thing (approximately 5 times) on my slink lapbox leads > to the infamous "kernel panic." the first re-boot (vi

Re: kernel panic

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:30:33PM -0700, cls--colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > successfully, i've done a compile of source kernel [...] > in case the compile is at issue, here's what i did from > "bt:/usr/src/linux#": > > make menuconfig > make dep > make install > make modules > make modules_inst

Re: Env Variables

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:47:52AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > hi > > i set the environmental variable below to dynamically change my xterm > window to title to the current working directory. > > export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' > > this works really well when i

Re: Unusualproblem with LILO.

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:08:44AM +0200, G0DModE wrote: > Hi! > > My friend has problem with can`t manage. > He says that when he start comp. and lilo prompt appears, he can`t do > anything, because system is writing on the screen this string: > 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01

Re: Capturing terminal contents

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:15:23AM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello the list: > > The simple objective is to, for the most part, copy error messages from x > terminals for submission to the mailing lists. > Examined archives and duly noted references to import, xv, imagemagick, > xgrab, etc and

gap (maths package) versions

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
The Debian version for the GAP (Groups/Algorithms/Proofs) package is 3.4.4, and yet there are two documentation packages which document GAP4. This situation persists even in woody, which even seems to contain library add-ons for GAP4, but the base GAP package is still at 3.4.4. What's going on?

package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
What are the packaging frontends (dselect in particular) supposed to do when 2 sources from sources.list provide different version numbers of the same package? I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. I generate

Package Information

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I have been playing with debian for about a month now and would like to get more information on the packages available. Where can I get information on the available packages and a description of what they do? thanks -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back!

Re: Package Information

2000-06-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can find this in dselect (of course) or you can get the files Packages or Packages.gz (gzipped version) from the a mirror. In these files are all descriptions and what the packages depend on, suggest, recommend etc. Ron Rademaker PS. You can also use dpkg -s for info on On Mon, 26 Jun 2000

Printing very slow

2000-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
For about a week now, printing has been an unpleasant experience. It sometimes take about 5 or more minutes for 1 page to be printed from the spool. I had no problems earlier. My setup: Printer HP5L - lpr - mixed slink/potato. Where do I look for a fix? -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posb

[Q] Search for documentation on how to make .deb files

2000-06-25 Thread Preben Randhol
As there is no search utility on the Debian web pages (I hope there soon will be one), I wonder if somebody can point me in the direction of documentation on how to make .deb files. -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > I agree, we could start xdm in rnlevel 3 and "su someuser startx" in > > runlevel > > 4. > > > Great,I'll keep an eye and try it as soon as it's done.Thanks. > why do you want to wait? ;-) i attached my auto-login script again. now it has the auto-relogin problem nicely solved. if the serve

Re: [Q] Search for documentation on how to make .deb files

2000-06-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Preben! On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > As there is no search utility on the Debian web pages (I hope there soon > will be one), I wonder if somebody can point me in the direction of > documentation on how to make .deb files. Check out the devel section of the website. There you

sources.list & woody source packages

2000-06-25 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all I want to have my sources.list set up so that I can get source packages for woody. I am running potato here and my currents sources.list looks as follows: --- sources.list --- #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 (2609)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/co

Re: [Q] Search for documentation on how to make .deb files

2000-06-25 Thread Preben Randhol
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/06/2000 (15:15) : > Check out the devel section of the website. There you find among other > stuff: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Ah thanks! I installed the maint-guide package now and found a postscript file which I coud print, very n

Setting up read-write access for local CVS

2000-06-25 Thread Preben Randhol
I have installed cvs on my machine and want to use it so that I as a user can check in and out files. I put the repository at /var/cvs and as root I ran cvs init. When I as a user ran: cvs import -m "Created directory structure" Ada95/Touch obliord start I got: cvs import: Sorry, you don't hav

PROBLEMS WITH INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO/100 SERVER ADAPTER BASED IN i960 PROCESSOR

2000-06-25 Thread Javier Framit San Miguel
I have problems installing the INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO/100 SERVER ADAPTER based in i960 PROCESSOR. Intel don´t have the drivers for this adapter and I don´t know where can I find it. PLEASE HELP JAVIER FRAMIT SPAIN. Please answer via EMAIL thanks.

Re: [Q] Search for documentation on how to make .deb files

2000-06-25 Thread ktb
Preben Randhol wrote: > > As there is no search utility on the Debian web pages (I hope there soon > will be one), I wonder if somebody can point me in the direction of > documentation on how to make .deb files. Take a look at -- http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ hth, kent

Re: Package Information

2000-06-25 Thread ktb
Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Group, > I have been playing with debian for about a month now and would like > to get more information on the packages available. Where can I > get information on the available packages and a description of what > they do? > thanks > -- Take a look at -- http://www.de

Re: Env Variables

2000-06-25 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: PD> i set the environmental variable below to dynamically change my xterm PD> window to title to the current working directory. PD> PD> export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' PD> PD> this works really well when i login in X, but

dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-25 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
Hi all! After a system upgrade, my dictd does not work any more. It can connect dict.org but it fail with localhost. The only information I got was: >Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) Can't connect to localhost.2628 I think /etc/dict.conf and dictd.conf are ok. Does anybody have some suggestion? Thanks

Xupgrade hoses it?

2000-06-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did a "dist-upgrade" on my potato box. It appears to have upgraded my XF86 3.3.6 and now when I start X, I get this: bob:/home/nomad>startx X: server socket directory has suspiciou ownership, aborting. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connectio

x not starting. suspicious permissions

2000-06-25 Thread Pat Mahoney
When I try to start X, I get the following message: X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. and nothing else until I stop it with ctrl-c. What exactly is the server socket directory? I recently upgraded X to the latest version in unstable from the unstabel version from

Re: Xupgrade hoses it?

2000-06-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Robert! On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: > X: server socket directory has suspiciou ownership, aborting. Stop the x server. remove /tmp/.X* start the x server. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In

Re: x not starting. suspicious permissions

2000-06-25 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:57:04AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > When I try to start X, I get the following message: > > X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. > > and nothing else until I stop it with ctrl-c. > > What exactly is the server socket directory? > > I recent

Re: Xupgrade hoses it?

2000-06-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Perfect. Thanks. Thus spake Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Robert! > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > X: server socket directory has suspiciou ownership, aborting. > > Stop the x server. > remove /tmp/.X* > start the x server. > > -- > "One disk to rule

Use of typescript

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all I want to post some error messages I am having with ssh and am trying to use script command but I cant get it to work with email. Here is what Im doing. I first creat the email, save it, then cat typescript >>/tmp/mutt-348-8. when I look at the email nothing has changed, but when I look

Re: Use of typescript

2000-06-25 Thread Mike Werner
Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello all > I want to post some error messages I am having with ssh and am > trying to use script command but I cant get it to work with > email. Here is what Im doing. I first creat the email, > save it, then cat typescript >>/tmp/mutt-348-8. > when I look at the email nothing

Re: PROBLEMS WITH INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO/100 SERVER ADAPTER BASED IN i960 PROCESSOR

2000-06-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:18:57PM -0700, Javier Framit San Miguel wrote: > I have problems installing the INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO/100 SERVER ADAPTER > based in i960 PROCESSOR. eepro100 ? -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmond, R.I., USA

Installation of ssh

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I am working on installing ssh. Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I receive an error after using atp-get install ssh. I have attached the error.(Thanks for the help on typescript) Thanks for your help. Jay -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back!

Installing ssh

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, Sorry for the last post. I was unable to attach the file so I will try again. Anyways Im trying to install ssh and I receive an error( see attached). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jay -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powe

Re: Installing ssh

2000-06-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:00:34PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst: db_stop: command not found Weird. iirc that's a debconf function. Not sure why it can't be found. Mebbe upgrade debconf? -- Bob Bernstein at http://www.ruptured-duck.com Esmon

Re: Installing ssh

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok I just tried upgrade debconf and received what looks like the same error. I have attached the error. Thanks Bob for your help. On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:00:34PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst: db_s

getting .deb files after removed from incoming

2000-06-25 Thread Per Marker Mortensen
Hello Newly uploaded files to debian are located at http://incoming.debian.org/. When the files are accepted they are moved to the main-archive. How often does ftp.debian.org sync with this main-archive? I want to install the newly uploaded kernel-image-2.2.17 files, but they have been accepte

Re: make menuconfig burp

2000-06-25 Thread John Galt
you missed the package ncurses5-dev. On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Dave Bateman wrote: > I'm trying to build a kernel and "make menuconfig" gives the following > error: > > debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > level). Then the S scripts start everything that is needed, again > potentially restarting things that were already active on the old > level (although Debian avoids that as a matter of optimization). See. > Why is it this way? W

muttzilla -- bus error -- help building libc5 MZ from sources?

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
I just installed muttzilla, and am finding Netscape terminates with a bus error. The muttzilla docs include a README.Debian which says: This package is compiled against libc6. This has the effect that it only works with a libc6 version of Netscape. The author has this to say: --

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-25 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > for f in $(cd > > From man 1 bash: >Command Substitution >Command substitution allows the output of a command to >replace the command name. There are two

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Sven" == Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: itz> Why is it this way? Well, there's really no way to tell init to itz> execute programs upon _exiting_ a runlevel, or upon a transition itz> from one level to another; the /etc/inittab that defines itz> runlevels is one-dimensional. So

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-25 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:15:01PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > In their manual, SuSE document that upon changing from say runlevel > 2 to 3, first all links matching /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/K* get executed > and then the links matching /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/S*. (Funnily they have > init.d under /sb

Re: sources.list & woody source packages

2000-06-25 Thread Jonas Birme´
Sven Burgener wrote: > > Hi all > > I want to have my sources.list set up so that I can get source packages for > woody. I am running potato here and my currents sources.list looks as follows: > > --- sources.list --- > #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 > (200

Re: Installing ssh

2000-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:00:34PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst: db_stop: command not found > >Weird. iirc that's a debconf function. Not sure why it can't be found. Mebbe >upgrade debconf? One of the bugs against ssh comments

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >The key difference is that $( command list ) is nestable without >quoting, backticks are not. [snip] >The functionality is common in a number of shells other than bash, >though I'm not quite sure which. I believe the Unix posix-compliant >(bastardized korn) and possi

Re: sources.list & woody source packages

2000-06-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:43:17PM +0200, Jonas Birme´ wrote: > Try: > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody non-US/main > non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Thanks, that did the trick. :) -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: muttzilla -- bus error -- help building libc5 MZ from sources?

2000-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >I just installed muttzilla, and am finding Netscape terminates with a >bus error. The muttzilla docs include a README.Debian which says: > >This package is compiled against libc6. This has the effect that it >only works with a libc6 version of Netscape. The au

Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-25 Thread Harald Thingelstad
This frustrating little problem... When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. You have to use kill -9. A simple example: ping 127.0.0.1 this process is meant to run as long as you want, then you ctrl-c it to get your statistics. However, ctrl-c doesn't work. No react

Mouse in deep doo-doo; Debian 2.2 from Libranet

2000-06-25 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello the list: Installed with mouse at /dev/psaux, ran for many days, installed several packagesl including a lng run of helixcode. Mouse began dying and maybe cursor would reappear someplace and maybe move when moving the mouse to and fro. Switched to Win95 and got the same erratic mouse

gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-25 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I'm using X 3.3.6-8 with xserver-svga 3.3.6-8 and tdfx-dri 4.0.00-2 (through alien) and gpm 1.17.8-16.1 with a 3dfx framebuffer at 1024x768-60 on a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 with a PS/2 mouse on /dev/psaux. After X is started, and I switch back to tty1, no textual output occurs (by typing, by program outpu

safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-25 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I'm running potato. Is it safe (read, won't screw up the installation) to change the lines in sources.list to refer to woody as well as potato, so that I use a newer version if it's in woody and an older one if it's only in potato? I'm not significantly concerned about problems with the packages th

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-25 Thread p . b . burton
I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following: Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occu

Re: Setting up read-write access for local CVS

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed cvs on my machine and want to use it so that I as a > user can check in and out files. > > When I as a user ran: > cvs import -m "Created directory structure" Ada95/Touch obliord start > > I got: > > cvs import: Sorry, you don't hav

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are the packaging frontends (dselect in particular) supposed to > do when 2 sources from sources.list provide different version numbers > of the same package? Don't know for sure, but based on experience I'd say they use the latest (and greates?) v

ssh deb not installing correctly

2000-06-25 Thread Daniel Free
I Just reinstalled my machine at home with debian 2.2 (potato) and started apt-get installing all the things i likeon my system, but when i got to ssh it returned the error below. Begin Console Dump 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0

Some apt-get problems

2000-06-25 Thread p . b . burton
I am trying this again with a decent subject line. Sorry about that. Phil > > I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using > apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following: > > Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s) > Reading Package Lis

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "John" == John Anthony Kazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I'm running potato. Is it safe (read, won't screw up the John> installation) to change the lines in sources.list to refer to John> woody as well as potato, so that I use a newer version if it's John> in woody and an older one if

Re: How to rebuild from .deb sources (exim)

2000-06-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I got open ldap and a bunch of other packages and was able to rebuild (except I kept getting complaints about PGP keys at the end; I tried the options to turn off signing, but they didn't seem to take). Crunch time comes when I try to use the perl I put in. Was there any particular gotcha tha

squid errors

2000-06-25 Thread zdrysdal
Hi In my syslog I am getting the following message which seems to appear every minute. Hence i am worried that it may be slowing down my squid server : Jun 26 12:34:53 server squid[13325]: urlParse: URI has whitespace: {http://chann els.real.com/getlatest.glh?PV=6.0.6.99&OS=WIN&L=en-US, en, *&LI

Re: squid errors

2000-06-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Reading the error message, it looks like the url you're hitting has spaces or tabs in it and the server doesn't like that. Robert Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > In my syslog I am getting the following message which seems to appear every > minute. Hence i am worrie

Re: Keyboard rate

2000-06-25 Thread Patrick Draper
--- kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:20:20AM -0700, Patrick Draper wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't set my keyboard rate. I've read every web page out there on > > setting keyboard rates, and I still haven't figured it out yet. > > man kbdrate -- though it appears you're on

Re: ssh deb not installing correctly

2000-06-25 Thread Matthew Sayler
I remember back in '00 when Daniel Free wrote: > I Just reinstalled my machine at home with debian 2.2 (potato) and started > apt-get installing all the things i likeon my system, but when i got to ssh > it returned the error below. > > Begin Console Dump > > 1 packages not fully instal

DPKG ERROR

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Group, I was trying to install ssh and would get an error "E: Sub-Process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). So I thought to upgrade DPKG (oh yeah I was running slink and upgraded to potato when this started to happen). Well after trying tp upgrade dpkg I got the same error message.

looking for fittings

2000-06-25 Thread Li Bang
Dear Sir or Madam, We are Kitchen electrical utensils manfacturer offering high-quality products at competitive price. Now we looking for some fittings for our product: 1.Halogen emission tube, 650W 2.High temperature resistance microlite glass 3.Porcelain inner for

RE: Mouse in deep doo-doo; Debian 2.2 from Libranet

2000-06-25 Thread Bill Barnes
Responding to my own post FWIW to the list. Here is a reply from Libranet support. Certainly like their style. Yes, it sounds like the ps2 port may be the problem (as per your latter email) To change the Linux settings: Because of the freeze when you boot up you will nee

Re: GDM and gdmchooser

2000-06-25 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Scott, Quoth Scott Graves, > How do I invoke the gdmchooser in order to choose which host I wish to login > to? I can't seem to get this feature to work. Last time I tried to do this myself (a few months ago, admittedly), I discovered that the chooser functionality didn't work and had been re

Re: ssh deb not installing correctly

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:42:03AM +1200, Daniel Free wrote > I Just reinstalled my machine at home with debian 2.2 (potato) and started > apt-get installing all the things i likeon my system, but when i got to ssh > it returned the error below. > > Begin Console Dump > > 1 packages not

RE: Capturing terminal contents

2000-06-25 Thread Bill Barnes
> >Don't. > OK >Images suck, are *way* bandwidth and storage intensive, and will piss >off most of us, resulting in zero help at best and killfiling at worst. > And it was too hard, anyway. >Console (xterm) output is plain old ASCII. Cut and paste the text. You >can do so by highlighting (lef

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Olaf" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: itz> I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded itz> packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. itz> I generated the Packages files with dpkg-scanpackages. That went itz> fine, so I added a "deb f

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > It is not this simple; in fact, I think there's an out-and-out bug. > I'll report it when I have some time to waste. It is a bug with whoever typed dpkg-scanpackages because they did it wrong. > deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free > > Th

Re: DPKG ERROR

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 06:32:27PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote > Hello Group, > I was trying to install ssh and would get an error > "E: Sub-Process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). > So I thought to upgrade DPKG (oh yeah I was running slink > and upgraded to potato when this started to happe

Re: squid errors

2000-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:55:43PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hi > > In my syslog I am getting the following message which seems to appear every > minute. Hence i am worried that it may be slowing down my squid server : > > Jun 26 12:34:53 server squid[13325]: urlParse: URI has whitespace:

Trouble with internal network

2000-06-25 Thread Mostly Harmless
I'm trying to get an internal network working so that I can set up IP masquerading for a few Windows boxen (side question: anyone know what IPs to block to prevent @home from probing for home networks?). I've decided to use IP aliasing after struggling with my secondary NIC (an eepro). My main NIC

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free >> >> Then "apt-get update" looks for >> >> /usr/local/src/debs/dists/localdebs/{main,non-free}/binary-i386/Packages >> >> but "apt-

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-25 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I was under the impression, due to the numberous and strong warnings around woody files on the web site, that there were fundamental differences between releases of debian (slink/potato/woody/...). For example, I wouldn't want a package upgrade to wipe out lilo.conf or fstab, or for other such unpl

Re: ssh deb not installing correctly

2000-06-25 Thread Jay Kelly
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:46:47PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:42:03AM +1200, Daniel Free wrote > > I Just reinstalled my machine at home with debian 2.2 (potato) and started > > apt-get installing all the things i likeon my system, but when i got to ssh > > it returned

rman (PolyglotMan) + TkMan are now under the Artistic License.

2000-06-25 Thread Shaul Karl
Based on http://{polyglotman, tkman}.sourceforge.net: As of 22 June 2000 - PolyglotMan (rman) 3.0.9, and TkMan 2.1 are released. They are at long last Open Source, under the Artistic License. rman (3.0.8) is currently in non-free. TkMan has no official deb maintainer. Unofficial deb for TkMan 2.

FIXED: Re: Apache::AutoIndex patch

2000-06-25 Thread Mike Brownlow
w trillich wrote: > speaking of autoindex issues-- i can't get apache to > display the HEADER or README files (above and > below the tabular file listing), and when i posted > my most recent question, someone else piped up and > said they've got the same snag. > > is there a configuration that tur