Unmounting remote filesystems when halting the system

2000-11-07 Thread Kathy Dusthimer
I suffer from the problem of sometimes having Linux stall when trying to unmount remote file servers (Samba) when I halt my system.  It stalls because the other machine/s have been turned off.  Is there anyway of cancelling/getting past this?   Thanks,   Brandt Dusthimer

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 crashes hard

2000-11-07 Thread Mike
Brad wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 08:10:23PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > > > > I've got an s3 virge card, viewsonic monitor. Come the upgrade to > > XF 4.0 I've got to re-create the XF86Config file -- no biggy, I ran > > xf86config to get a base version, and tweaked it to fit. > > Same he

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > >>problem to load http://localhost. > >> > >>However, links and w3m fails. L

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:47:56AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > I don't know if this is the preferred way to get Helix Gnome > installed, but I typed this at the command prompt and it worked... > > lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh we have been through this before, don't EVER run anything like

Re: HELIX and potato

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:57:12AM +1300, plutoplanet wrote: > I guess so, but is it any more a security risk than running a binary > from helixcode? yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpkjLrRX3r1k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 21:17:21 CST, Phil Brutsche writes: >> The syslog is probably the best place to find how he got into your >> system. But it might have been tampered with. If you think it's a >> fairly recent attack, look around your directories a bit with an `ls >> -lart` to show all recently

Re: Duplex on etherpro-100?

2000-11-07 Thread tjm
"Eric N. Valor" wrote: > > I've got an Intel 82559-based NIC (Etherpro-100). I'm wondering how I can > (or if I can) configure the NIC to be full-duplex instead of autoconfigured. > > Any help would be appreciated. > -- > Eric N. Valor > Webmeister/Inetservices > Lutris Technologies > [EMAIL PRO

Re: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:08:57PM -0600, Chewie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:13:25PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill > > that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near > > future. A friend of min

Re: SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy

2000-11-07 Thread Jack Morgan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:26:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > Trying to get my DSL working, but I can't get my network card to work. If I > say `ifconfig eth0 up`, then it gives me the error: > > SCIOSFLAGS: Resource busy > > What does this mean, and how do I fix it? > > Thanks

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-07 Thread Ben Monnahan
dpkg-preconfigure is looking for /usr/sbin/perl. I created a symlink there to the new perl. I'm not sure if this is the proper thing to do but it worked for me. Ben On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:21:04 Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > It seem

Re: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:37:56PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I too will in a near future get access to a DSL service. Excuse my > ignorance, but is a firewall really necessary if I only got one > computer? In the firewall HOWTO one can read that Well, I'll say this. I'm on a dial-up and I've

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-07 Thread Ben Monnahan
Make that /usr/bin/perl On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:30:49 Ben Monnahan wrote: > dpkg-preconfigure is looking for /usr/sbin/perl. I created a symlink > there > to the new perl. I'm not sure if this is the proper thing to do but it > worked for me. > > Ben > > > On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:21:04 Gordon

Screenblanking of console

2000-11-07 Thread Peter Good
Ok I'm at a loss, I know this was discussed some time ago on the list. But cgi.debian.org and lists.debian.org are so damm slow tonight, I can't search for an answer. Question is, How do I stop the screen from blanking in console mode. Peter.

Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread dconley1
Just to fill you in on my situation. The other day, I had a friend set up one of my computers with Debian. He set it up as my firewall/router, since its main function is just that. I'm mostly a Hardware person, I could probably build a computer blind folded and I'm only familiar with the many M$

HELP:woody problems: no sessions after gdm/corrupted xmodmap??

2000-11-07 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! made an dist-upgrade yesterday, and now typing in the login at gdm, the login is accepted, but returns immediately to gdm, all keys i was used to get through alt-sequences are away... real strange BTW i am starting x from startx-script... and i had to do an ldconfig to get the xterm wor

Re: Q: CD Rom permissions from root??

2000-11-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > I just tried loading Words from root and got a no permission error. Now I'm > using the same fstab, whith slight modifications , I was using in Mandrake, > so I assume Deban handles things differently. Or is it teh /dev/hdb or > /de

Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
I am an emacs user trying out vim. On the console the font highlighting looks good. But on X11 I get a white background an then it looks ugly and I can not read most of the syntax highlighting. I have the following in my .vimrc """ Colour support and syntax highlighting "

Re: audio in

2000-11-07 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:54:30PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound > bytes. Well, I can use my audio-in without any additional software. I have a Soundlbaster 1024 and use it with Alsa. If I set the "Capture"-Volume to high

machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I was just running nmap on my Debian 2.2 box and noticed the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/freedman]# nmap -sT osprey Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on osprey (192.168.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 22

Re: exmh(exim) problem

2000-11-07 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:40:44PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I am having problems getting Exmh to enter the correct sender > in my header. It keeps putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In exim.conf I wrote a rewrite script > > ^(root|postmailer|mailer-daemon)@* [

HELP:woody:lost X completely: no default font 'fixed'.....

2000-11-07 Thread Bruno Boettcher
just made an update just in case the problem solved from itself... its getting worse.. the server stops with: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' just above i have the mesg: Warning: 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc". Entry deleted

Re: How to install woody

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
>Pardon me for being dense, folks, but due to some advice that I >received from this list I decided to try Woody out. Now: where are >the install floppy images. I tried >ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/disks-i386 >and a couple of the mirror sites just to check, and well, came up >dr

Réf. : Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-07 Thread Yves . Pocchiola
I have found 2 drivers for my Sound Card at the indicated adresses ( one proposed by the manufacturer and one more advanced version proposed at source -forge ). Unfortunatly compilation fails on Debian 2.2 for the two drivers. Source-forge indicates that its version has been validated on red-hat

Re: Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:19:16AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am an emacs user trying out vim. On the console the font > highlighting looks good. > > But on X11 I get a white background an then it looks ugly and I can > not read most of the syntax highlighting. > > I have the following in my

[Fwd: Re: I messed up Xfree86]

2000-11-07 Thread John
? you do know about virtual desktop,viewport settings etc right ? I currently run at 1280*1024 but with a desktop viewport of 800x600 ( on 17" monitor ) just upgraded to V5 and had a go at 1600*whatsit?, but it gives me more desktop space to scroll around then i know what to do with. and i just CTR

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Andre Berger
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > > >>problem to load http://

subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly help me in understanding why I cannot configure two ethernet cards using the same subnet but different IP's on one mashine? In this case I would like to setup a linux server for a smb-win32 and a nfs-nfs connection (in all 3 mashines) Any short comment is appreciated Robert

setting line breaks higher

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Which file is responseble for breaking lines in the bash(xterm)? I have looked for a sample.bashrc or anything simular (some distributions provide a sample file for a variaty of programs where you only have to remove the comments), but I cannot find anything simular on my deb2.2. Afterall - which

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Damien
> 1. I'm not going to beg for all the newbie commands I should know, so I'm > just going to ask for a URL that will set me in the right direction. Could > someone please point me to one? i started on the dos2linux howto about 5 years ago. it's a good place to start. > 2. I've read about 200 di

Re: Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Damien
> I am an emacs user trying out vim. On the console the font > highlighting looks good. > > But on X11 I get a white background an then it looks ugly and I can > not read most of the syntax highlighting. am i right in assuming it opens another window, too? if so, that setting can be configured b

Re: machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-07 Thread Damien
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/freedman]# nmap -sT osprey > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) > Interesting ports on osprey (192.168.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 22 opentcpssh > 25 opentcp

Re: Screenblanking of console

2000-11-07 Thread Damien
> Ok I'm at a loss, I know this was discussed some time ago on the list. > But cgi.debian.org and lists.debian.org are so damm slow tonight, I > can't search for an answer. Question is, How do I stop the screen from > blanking in console mode. man setterm -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Hein Meling
Hi, A few weeks ago I upgraded to woody, and have been updating things since then. Recently, my xfree86 v3.3.6-11 (Mach64) server was thrown out and replaced with xfree86 v4.0.1, which I think is good. But now I have a problem with my keyboard. I've been trying to configure things both manually, a

execution of shell scripts from cdrom

2000-11-07 Thread Danny Lathouwers
Dear community,   I wanted to execute a shell script from /cdrom and it fails with the following message: bash: ./scriptname: Permission denied. The script is executable and is run as root, so should work. Copying the script to ~ works but i really need to run it from /cdrom. Does this have a

OT: How to burn Linuxcare BBC ?

2000-11-07 Thread Petr Danek
hi everybody, i downloaded iso image of BBC from Linuxcare. I tried to burn file lnx-gold.iso as iso/jolliet image with Cequadrat software. But i doesnt seems to be bootable. thanks Petr

Re: Réf. : Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Vo ice PCI

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Sobey
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:51:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have found 2 drivers for my Sound Card at the indicated adresses ( one > proposed by the manufacturer and one more advanced version proposed at source > -forge ). Unfortunatly compilation fails on Debian 2.2 for the two driv

Réf. : Re: Réf. : Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI

2000-11-07 Thread Yves . Pocchiola
I used make install20 as indicated in the documentation. Alan Sobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/11/2000 10:45:09 Pour :debian-user@lists.debian.org cc : (ccc : Yves Pocchiola/ALCATEL-SPACE) Objet : Re: Réf. : Re: Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI On Tue, Nov 07, 2000

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
> > However, if you use make-kpkg to create your kernel package, you > should find the *.deb file in the parent directory to the linux > source. > > Good Luck! Oh my dear - what has happened! I thought the inquiry was very clear, this has nothing to do with package installing! Of course I

Re: Upgrading video card: Best of these three?

2000-11-07 Thread Corey Popelier
Well nVidia's drivers and kernel module work great for me. I endorse whatever works for me, regardless of the company :) Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote: > "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 03.11.00: > >

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Of course I installed all neccessary src's, how would I've launched > make xconfig without doing this first? Nobody said otherwise. > The kernel compiled without any errors - but which file is the co

Re: OT: How to burn Linuxcare BBC ?

2000-11-07 Thread Damien
> hi everybody, > i downloaded iso image of BBC from Linuxcare. I tried to burn file > lnx-gold.iso as iso/jolliet image with Cequadrat software. But i doesnt seems > to be bootable. then the software is buggy. cdrecord does it fine. the el torrito bootable cd format is standard, so this is an i

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:11:07AM +0100, R?diger Kuhlmann wrote: > > Okay, are there any .debs for Quake3, or where do I get it? > http://www.quake3arena.com/ Download the Linux demo to /usr/local/src chmod 755 linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh ./linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh Then to run q3demo

script help

2000-11-07 Thread Chris Mason
I need to come up with a bash shell script that deletes all the files in a folder older than N days. I'm not sure how to test for file age so I can't get it done myself, can someone suggest a way? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 US

Re: Q: Log kept what install and when

2000-11-07 Thread Kai Weber
+ Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a log kept by dpkg/apt-get/dselect of what installed and by date? > Check status file reveals whether something is installed only. Good question. I allways check the /usr/share/doc directory by mtime for infos, what has been new installed/updated.

Re: script help

2000-11-07 Thread Mike Quin
"Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to come up with a bash shell script that deletes all the files in a > folder older than N days. I'm not sure how to test for file age so I can't > get it done myself, can someone suggest a way? use find(1) with the mtime flag, e.g. find /tmp -t

Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card supports it. I just want to check if that's so and what difference that makes with 24 bit, sice the number of colors is the same? Thaks, Jonatha

Q: Setting the environment display variable??

2000-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Trying to install Words, I got: ./setup Initializings installation. Please wait... Before running this product, you must set your environment DISPLAY variable. Read up in the FAQ and Running Linux and no mention is made of a display variable... It has to be a basic shell configuration item.

xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas Halahan
Dear deb-users, I want my .bash_profile to be read "globally" whenever I log in from xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequently none of my konsoles (I run KDE2) or xterms (/dev/pts/?) are are login

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > > Of course I installed all neccessary src's, how would I've launched > > make xconfig without doing this first? > > Nobody said otherwise. > > > The kernel compiled without any errors - but which file is the corr

kernel 2.2 w/ USB

2000-11-07 Thread Matthew King
I apologise for simply barging into this mailing list with this sort of request, but I am pushed for time (by my boss, so no surprise there) Tomorrow we get an ADSL line installed. Due to the general cruddiness of UK telecoms, this only comes with a USB connection. This would be fine, except that

update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Bernhard Aichinger
Hi! I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect and during the update procedure dpkg reports that i should convert may Berkeley 1.85 database to 2.0, because the two version are not compatible! This massage was displayed during the installation procedure of perl (update from perl 5.004 to

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Hein Meling
A little follow-up information. I have still not resolved this problem, but have discovered that I can use the "dk" and "de" layout, and I wouldn't get the error message in the log: Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap Any further assistance would be of enormous help. Thanks!

exmh(exim) problem

2000-11-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting Exmh to enter the correct sender in my header. It keeps putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] In exim.conf I wrote a rewrite script ^(root|postmailer|mailer-daemon)@* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr but it did not work. Is there something wrong with the re

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +1100, Damien wrote: > > it's not imperitive. debian is half locked down by default. until you become > competent in linux, chances are you won't stand to lose much. simplest thing to do is make sure this line exists in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://securit

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Andre Berger writes: >> > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a >> > >>problem to load http://localhost. >> > >> >> > >>However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" >> > >>and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";. Exactly the same a

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:07:43PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Dear deb-users, > > I want my .bash_profile to be read "globally" whenever I log in from > xdm. Previously in Redhat I would start X from /dev/tty1 which was a > login shell. However with debian I log in from xdm, and consequent

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi Hein, I am having this very same problem except that I normally use the swedish keyboard layout, which is not working now, so I am very curious about some solution on this. Helgi Oern Hein Meling wrote: > > A little follow-up information. I have still not resolved this problem, > but have

Re: execution of shell scripts from cdrom

2000-11-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Danny Lathouwers wrote: > Dear community, > > I wanted to execute a shell script from /cdrom and it fails with the > following message: > bash: ./scriptname: Permission denied. > The script is executable and is run as root, so should work. > Copying the s

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-07 Thread makoto sugimoto
# bye

Re: machine compromise??? port 3086 open on 2.2

2000-11-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just running nmap on my Debian 2.2 box and noticed the following > output: [strange services running?] > The sj3 service on port 3086 flicked into existence on this one scan but > was never in existence before or after. I didn't even know what

Problem with fbi/convert

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I tried to watch a pdf file in console mode using fbi, but that didn't work. I traced it down to a problem with convert, as i tried to convert the pdf file to another format (this is what fbi does too). Output from convert image.pdf image2.pbm:

plpgsql function

2000-11-07 Thread Lamas Osvaldo
Hello!! I'm an Argentine programmer,so please ,excuse me if my english is very poor. I have a lot of questions.I was working whith "Store Procedures",more exactly with plpgsql language. I need to know if it is posible,where can I found a complete reference of this language. One of my problems is

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Madness and not what I want. It's not just doing it on my home machine > > (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my > > work machine which I installed entirely over the internet. > > interesting, replacing it wit

RE: DSL & Firewall

2000-11-07 Thread mike
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:32:29 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > > On 06-Nov-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > >Why cant I just set my "/etc/hosts.deny" > > file to "ALL: PARANOID", comment out the "telnet" "ftp" and > > "http" lines out of my "/etc/inetd.conf" file? Wouldn't > > that be

XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread mheyes
Hi, I upgraded XFree86 yesterday to 4.0.1 and had several problems in WindowMaker with the color mapping, ie can't find "black", "white" etc and I'd like to go back to 3.3.6 for awhile until things settle down. I downgraded xserver-common, removed the new xserver for 4.0.1, and reinstalled the 3.3

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread David Teague
On 6 Nov 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TB> Hi, > TB> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > MS> The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have [snip -- non-deb kernel compile sequence -- ] > David M. answers: > It's far easier and cleane

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai Robert Wilhelm, I think we have a communication problem here, so let's at both sides try to be more explicit and maybe a little more informative:) On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:18:26PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: ... > Ok, I think I got it. Debian seems to provide a combined > kernel-compi

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, David Teague wrote: > > You say that installing the kernel package will "... prompt you to > run lilo..." Do I assume correctly: I have to modify /etc/lilo.conf, > that is, the installation does not do this for me? (It has been a >

To setup display for NeoMagic 256XL on Sony VAIO PCG-XG29

2000-11-07 Thread jimmy sandhar
Hi all, Does anybody know or have done this before, setting up display for Sony VAIO PCG-XG29. Please let me know if so. Thanks and Regards, Uday _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. S

system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi, How do i generate new System.map file? Do I need this file whenever I generate new kernels and modules? -gnana

Re: Exec CGI

2000-11-07 Thread halfdan
Well there is a slight change in the apache and cgiwrap packages, apache believes that user web is placed in ~/www and cgiwrap reads ~/public_html. The easiest way to fix this was to make apache use ~/public_html instead, because changing cgiwtrap would require a recompile. -- Best Regards / V

Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-07 Thread A.E. Roy
Where on the disks can I find LyX, assuming that they are there? Roy __ Denne eposten er sendt ved hjelp av http://www.Organizer.net - Norges ledende webbaserte kommunikasjonsløsning.

rc.boot

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Knights
Hi all, I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to my new Debian box and would normally add a line in rc.local for redhat or boot.local for SuSe to start sshd at boot, I presume there is an equally easy way to

RE: update with dselect and dpkg fails

2000-11-07 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Without wanting to be patronising, are you aware of apt-get? > -Original Message- > From: Bernhard Aichinger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi! > I tryed to update my installed packages with dselect

Re: dpkg problem

2000-11-07 Thread Kaleb Daark
I have experienced similar results when the package archives are incomplete and/or corrupted. Deleting the first .deb and then downloading it again has fixed things, even though the files are exactly the same size etc. In other instances retrying the exactly same command has rectified the "error"!

T-Online Software for Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Manegold
Hi All! Is there a software to access the german T-Online (formerly BTX) under Linux? I know how to use PPP (Internet) via T-Online and Linux, but the official decoder supplied by the Telekom is Windows. It's however needed for doing the telebanking stuff more securely, since it is a closed system

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Andre Berger writes: > > >> > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > >> > >>problem to load http://localhost. > >> > >> > >> > >>However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not > >>

debian CD's

2000-11-07 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm planning on burning a Debian install CD and I noticed that there are two images, binary-1.iso and binary-2.iso. Has the install grown to 2 CD's or is the second optional packages? thanks, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @ya

Re: Newbie sound help

2000-11-07 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Peter, Many thanks for your help, I think I'm on the right track now. I did notice that on my potato CD's there are some packages called alsa* (Advanced Linux Soound Architecture?). For example, alsa-base, alsaconf, alsautils. From the little I've read, they seem to be backward compatible with OS

Re: Keyboard problems with xfree86 4.0.1

2000-11-07 Thread Hein Meling
Hi Helgi, Currently I use the "dk" keyboard layout with some defects. I've had a look at the various files in /usr/lib/X11/xkb, but haven't "really" found anything different between "dk" and "no" versions of any files. So I don't understand why I get the error message in the log. Anyway, I just ha

problems downsizing 30GB hd to 4.3GB hd, really BIOS question

2000-11-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi This is probablya BIOS question but the Debian community seems to be very knowledgable so I give it a try. (I sent this question to Intel but they have not responded). The problem: Problems downsizing primary master IDE HD from 30.7Gb to 4.3Gb. I have used my AL440LX motherboard with an PII

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Thomas Halahan
Thanks Ethan, I tried to put > #! /bin/bash --login as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? however the following > if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then > eval env "$(cat /etc/environment)" > fi wo

Re: system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gnanasekaran Thoppae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do i generate new System.map file? It gets generated during the Linux build process. > Do I need this file whenever I generate new kernels and modules? It is better to have a correct System.map under /boot for the current Linux. The kernel

Re: system.map

2000-11-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Gnanasekaran Thoppae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gt> How do i generate new System.map file? Do I need this file gt> whenever I generate new kernels and modules? The simplest thing to do is to use the kernel-package tool to build yourself a new kernel package, then install it using "dpkg -

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > Thanks Ethan, > > I tried to put > > > #! /bin/bash --login > > as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should > this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? im not sure that trick wor

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Date sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:54:02 -0500 From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages? Send reply to: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:56:11AM

Re: debian CD's

2000-11-07 Thread gordzilla
Andy, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I'm planning on burning a Debian install CD and I noticed that there are two > images, binary-1.iso and binary-2.iso. Has the install grown to 2 CD's or > is the second optional packages? If you are planning to just do a base install

Email questions

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Hi, Is there a way that I can copy the archives of mail I have received using a Windoze client into a linux mail prog? I have no intentions of using the Windows client, which BTW is Pegasus, much anymore, and would not like to loose my old mails. Thanks. ---

Re: Vim's background colour

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Tandy
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:19:16AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am an emacs user trying out vim. On the console the font > highlighting looks good. > > But on X11 I get a white background an then it looks ugly and I can > not read most of the syntax highlighting. > > I have the following in my

Re: ISDN (solved)

2000-11-07 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
Hi all, I figured out what mistake I was making while loading Hisax module. My card is type 18 and I need not do anything except "type=18" entry in modconf when loading HiSax. But I have learnt a lot in the process of finding a solution and that's why I like to be with linux! :) Thanks. -gnana

Re: [debian-user] GeForce2 w/ XFree86 4.0.1 [ a little new ]

2000-11-07 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
Hi! >--[Andy Bastien]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >--[Rüdiger Kuhlmann] > > I have a GeForce2 MX, but I still don't get 3D running. At first, kdm > > crashes unless there is also an libGL.so.1 pointing to the _old_ libGL.so. > You might have a conflict among your libraries somewhere. Go through > all

Re: tnt2 vanta and dell 21"

2000-11-07 Thread Anders Lennartsson
It seems Andy responded to a question by Anders Lennartsson: >There are those who would have you believe that Anders Lennartsson wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative >> TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. snip >> The problem is for instance th

Re: rc.boot

2000-11-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Knights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have recently installed debian for the 1st time after using redhat and >then SuSe for a few years. I have just installed ssh to my new Debian box >and would normally add a line in rc.local for redhat or boot.local for S

enlightenment and licq

2000-11-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When using the dockapp from licq in Enlightenement, E creates a button for it, and there is no way for me to customize it. I just want to get a sticky/transparent flower on my desktop... Alt-click brings up the licq menu, not the E menu unfortunately... anyone know any work around? Shao. --

Re: smtp error

2000-11-07 Thread cls-colo spgs
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:20:33PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700, cls-colo spgs wrote: > > debs, > > > > one of my potatoes has a smtp error: > > > > $ fetchmail > > fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused > > 25 messages

info su installazione di Debian

2000-11-07 Thread Pietro Greco
potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l' installazione di debian poichè ho grossi problemi grazie e arrivederci

RE: Q: Default bpp resolution 32 in Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Nov-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading > (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card > supports it. > > I just want to check if that's so and what difference that makes with 24 > bit, si

RE: Q: Setting the environment display variable??

2000-11-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Nov-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to install Words, I got: > > ./setup > Initializings installation. Please wait... > Before running this product, you must set > your environment DISPLAY variable. > > Read up in the FAQ and Running Linux and no mention is made of a display >

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-07 Thread Denis Kosygin
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:53:59PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > I tried to put > > > #! /bin/bash --login > > as the header to my ~/.xsessions file but this did not work. should=20 > > this behave differently to the /etc/X11/Xsession global config? >

Re: Some Newbie Questions

2000-11-07 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:27:16AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, here are my Questions: > > 1. I'm not going to beg for all the newbie commands I should know, so I'm > just going to ask for a URL that will set me in the right direction. Could > someone please point me to one? > Chec

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