Re: URGENT Network Config Pb

2000-10-05 Thread Ray Percival
If you know what your numbers should be ifconfig will let you look at and change them. -- Original Message -- From: Olivier Billet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:40:12 +0200 >Hi everybody !!! > >Here's the problem : I have an Ethernet card a

partition problem

2000-10-05 Thread no body
I am a new user of Debian, and I am having trouble partitioning my drive. When I try to write a partition table the program keeps asking me to turn on the boot option on the swap partition when I turn it on it asks me to change it again. I don't know what to do any help will be greatly appreciated.

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Aaron Brashears
Bash is the default shell. XEN O wrote: > > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - it this righ

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread -dsr-
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:39:34AM -0700, XEN O wrote: > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - i

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% XEN O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xo> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking xo> to change to debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it xo> seems from looking at the list of shells packaged with debian it xo> does not come with the bash shell - it th

RE: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-2000 XEN O wrote: > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - it this right ?? > you proba

offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread David Erdman
hi. maybe a little off topic, but i would like to setup cron to go out and get the newest mozilla tarballs and install so here is the script i wrote. #!bin/bash cd /usr/local rm -rf /usr/local/package wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz t

Re: base list ??

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
Note: list reinstated. Reply-to set to list. Please don't post off-list followups to list mail. On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:34:17PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL P

Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread Alec Smith
I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master zone "home.shadowstar.net" (IN) loaded (

OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
I'm getting a number of messages apparently sent or resent from bounce-debian-user. I've also had some significant procmail recipie problems in recent weeks resulting in inappropriate message rejection, particularly from mailing lists. Have I done something evil to get myself on a "bad addresse

rep/sawfish problem still exists

2000-10-05 Thread Timothy Ritchey
I am running the unstable branch, and every time I update, it insists on loading the newer version of rep, which are conflicting with my sawfish installation from HelixCode that I have installed as well. Would it be better if I just upgraded my sawfish installation to not use the Helix Code version

Re: partition problem

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:53:55PM -0500, no body ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a new user of Debian, and I am having trouble partitioning my > drive. When I try to write a partition table the program keeps asking > me to turn on the boot option on the swap partition when I turn it on > it ask

Re: offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:08:37AM -0700, David Erdman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi. maybe a little off topic, but i would like to setup cron to go out and > get the newest mozilla tarballs and install > so here is the script i wrote. > > #!bin/bash This should be as follows, note leadi

Re: device or resource busy

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:38:53PM -0500, Pat Mahoney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, freeamp crashed with the audio device open (/dev/dsp). Nothing can use > the device. fuser and lsof show nothing active on /dev/dsp. No lock files > in /var/lock/. > > I can't rmmod the sound modules because

Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:38:18PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones > > Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file > /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead > Oct 5 14:31

Re: mozilla & netscape

2000-10-05 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > > > > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds > > witho

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-05 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one? There are a few options. First, you can mount one disk in the directory tree underneath the other. This will allow you to have the data written into that subdirectory stored on one d

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > > takers? > > > > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > > chicken! I kinda like i

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread James Antill
Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could see a person new to computers having some problems > with installing Debian. It isn't the best install in the > world. However, anyone who has a good understanding of > computers (by this I don't mean Start->Programs->MS Word) > should be able t

SiS 530

2000-10-05 Thread Gustavo José Pereira
Hi! I'm trying to configure a machine with a SiS530 video adapter on-board and it's not working! Any help? -- Gustavo José Pereira Divisão de Computação e Informação Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil

Re: Manual for apt

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:18:54AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so > > there's no apt on my machine. i entered, into the nets

Mozilla doesn't run under Woody

2000-10-05 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm running woody and installed the mozilla package (M17-3). However, this is what I get when running it: bash-2.04$ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service I "apt-get upgraded" today so I guess something is broken in woody? Thanks, -- Pedro

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm just over a month into Debian and have hassled the list with lots of my configuration problems. That being said, the conversion from Mandrake to Debian was relatively painless and I actually preferred the very interactive Debian approach; and am slowly discovering that almost all the informati

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you > folks first... > > I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I > come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure

Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-05 Thread mike
I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this in Mandrake before i started using Debian. However. i have been unable to locate mkfontdir since then. If anyone can point me to 'mkfontdir' i'd appreciate it. Then its just a matter running 'ttmkfdir' to create a file c

Re: Sound Blaster

2000-10-05 Thread Jim Lisi
Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Hi > I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live > Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find "modversion.h" > Can anybody tell me what should be done? > > Thank you in advance, > Florenin. > > __

Re: Bind error in /var/log/daemon.log

2000-10-05 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm noticing the following in /var/log/daemon.log for some of my zones Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: Zone "home.shadowstar.net" (file /etc/bind/home.shadowstar.net): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead Oct 5 14:31:08 bugs named[13618]: master

Re: ISP mode connection (Sorry - Unidentified subject!)

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. > So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get > it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my > login? The CONNECT message comes from your modem

Re: Mozilla doesn't run under Woody

2000-10-05 Thread Kevin Krafthefer
I had the same problem; for a kludgey work around that at least gets mozilla "working", try removing (or renaming) your ~/.mozilla directory and rerunning mozilla. If anyone has a better fix please let us know. Mozilla is a HUGE resource hog! Kevin "Pedro I. Sanchez" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ru

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread Christen Welch
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I digress. My point is, Debian isn't difficult, even relative > > to the other 'main' Linux based distros out there, to install. > > That's cute, it's loyal, but

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread mike
There is another way to get Debian potato up and running quickly with a nice GUI install. Just d/l the free 'hail' distro from stormix.com or get their cd and you'll be apt-get'ting in about a half-hour. You can then remove the stormix stuff (admin pkgs) but keep the stormpkg manage

separate alias/redirect files for different domains using sendmail

2000-10-05 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out how to be able to use separate alias/redirect files for different domains (like a .redirect in their home-dir), so I (as admin) don't have to keep updating the aliases, because someone wants an extra email-alias for his/her domain, but I can't find anything ;(( Is

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:02:39PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > > and I was impressed

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in > >> the order of their date something like "locate

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-05 Thread Heather
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, George Wright wrote: > > Are there any card (pcmcia) type modems out there that anyone has had luck > > w/using > > the 2.2.17 kernel? Are any made that aren't so heavily "win"-driven? > > > > [much snippage, another person] > > > > N.B : if you dig in the archives of this

Re: Serial port tunnel...

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:07:13PM +0100, Max Lock wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) > > Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have > /dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it. > the

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > <...> > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread John Travis
> > Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. > > > > On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. > > I suppose that would go with woody. LOL ... who says Debian users aren't funny ;-). jt -- Debian GNU/Linux [Woody] 2.4.0-test8-ReiserFS Storm {Hail} You mean there

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-05 Thread James Antill
Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, > James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christen Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ snip ... ] > > 1. The partioning stuff didn't tell me how to make extended partitions > > (I realise _now_ that

bind and address rewriting

2000-10-05 Thread Thomas Voss
Hi, JLF> Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why do you think you need JLF> to MASQ these packages? When a box from your internal network JLF> do a lookup, it checks with BIND on your boundary/firewall box. and exactly that's the point: There is no bind running on my firewall box. Bind is

ISP nameserver error?

2000-10-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm in the process of refining my small home LAN setup, which is connected to the outside world via a firewall connected to the internet via ADSL. I'm using 192.168.1.x for my box addresses and was in the process of setting up a DNS server when I noticed something odd... % nslookup sdcrtr.nm.org

Re: installing network cards

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Everytime I try to modprobe my linksys network cards or use modconf to > intsall the module into the kernel, it fails. I am using the tulip driver > that comes with the 2.2.17 kernel. I installed the kernel binary. >

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread kmself
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:26:32PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > <...> > > > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is tha

Re: balsa mozilla ...

2000-10-05 Thread Francois Fayard
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:12AM +0200, G.ROBIN wrote: > Merci à tous ceux qui m'ont > aider à installer la debian 2.2. > > Maintenant wvdial me connecte sur mon > provider mais balsa et mozilla ne veulent > rien savoir, on dirait qu'il n'ont aucun rapport > avec wvdial ? je suis obligé d'envoy

RE: ISP nameserver error?

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Oct-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: > I'm in the process of refining my small home LAN setup, which is > connected to the outside world via a firewall connected to the > internet via ADSL. I'm using 192.168.1.x for my box addresses and was > in the process of setting up a DNS server when I noticed

Re: offtopic cron/mozilla question

2000-10-05 Thread Hubert Chan
x27;s part of my script: packagename=mozilla-M18-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz --output-document=$packagefile tar xzf $packagename It will save the file as, for example

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it > > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, > > > > but > > > > it is not! > > > > > > > > An

GeForce problems due to ldconfig

2000-10-05 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I own a GeForce2 GTS card and I've installed the binary drivers from the nvidia site. But each time I run ldconfig (Which happen often when I install packages), my 3d configuration is broken due to the mesa files. Does anyone knows how to fix this ? Francois PS: Please don't flame me becaus

Where has the penguin gone?

2000-10-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The kernel config choices: # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y are supposed to support a penguin graphic during the initial boot. This worked for me under 2.2.12 but not under 2.2.17 Can someone tell me the current conf

Port Forwarding (reverse masquerading)

2000-10-05 Thread fut0n
Hey all.. I have a question about port forwarding using ipmasqadm with the portfw module. I would like my router (masquerading only right now) which is on a dial up (soon to be DSL) to forward any connections to port 80 to a internal machine. I added ip_masq_portfw to /etc/modules and its loaded

modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: alias char-major-14 off I ran update-modules, but still I get the modprobe error. Have I done something incorre

Re: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:04:17AM +, Pollywog wrote: > I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: > > lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 > > I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: > > alias char-major-14 off > > I ran updat

Re: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Oct-2000 Eric G . Miller wrote: >> I ran update-modules, but still I get the modprobe error. >> Have I done something incorrect? > > I dunno, but I have: > > alias char-major-14 soundcore > > You got a sound card? If you don't have sound support, maybe just > comment it out. I have a sou

RE: modprobe errors I cannot fix

2000-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Oct-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error: > > lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14 > > I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this: > > alias char-major-14 off > > I ran update-modules, but still I get

Sound.

2000-10-05 Thread ObeseWhale
I'm using a monster sound mx300 and was capable of doing a make install on the drivers for the au8830 located at linux.aureal.com (I'm using Potato). Unfortunately, XMMS is not playing... I have it set in the XMMS menu to use "OSS", should I be doing something different? Thank you, whalespeed. M

Apache compile error

2000-10-05 Thread ObeseWhale
While trying ./configuring apache I misspelled (whoops!) one of the modules I wanted to load on, so when I did a make it of course game me a no such file or directory error. So, thinking I could fix the problem I deleted the apache source directory and untarred the tarball again. Unfortunately, e

modem performance w/pon vs. wvdial

2000-10-05 Thread John Anderson
I have been experiencing slow and erratic connections using pon and a Best Data external modem. When I tried the modem with Wvdial and manually patched wvdial.conf so that I would have the default initialization string, it seems to be more responsive. Do I need to change the modem initialization

Re: SiS 530

2000-10-05 Thread Art Edwards
What version of XFree86 are you running? I have built systems running SiS cards successfuly by using a fairly current version (3.3.6 or higher). I include a web page from the SFree86 website for reference http://www.XFREE86.org/4.0.1/Status28.html#28 -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq.

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