Re: where's plperl?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:11:23AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > kinda like mod_perl is encased within the apache http server? > > > > boy have you got MY attention. if you ever find any info on > > this, please let the rest of us know so we can juice up our > > databases! b

xdm USB error

Hello My name is Isao. I have a question about XFree86. I have a G4 (with USB mouse) machine which I installed Debian. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ uname -a Linux kyon3 2.2.17 #1 Tue Jul 18 17:51:27 PDT 2000 ppc unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ kyon3:/proc# more /proc/cpuinfo processor

RE: yet another ppp failure story...

FROM: John Hasler DATE: 12/19/2000 17:41:55 SUBJECT: RE: yet another ppp failure story... W. Crowshaw writes: > Looking at the ppp debug information I have directed to a log file... It was already directed to /var/log/ppp.log. > So what should I do now? Run pppconfig as root

postfix weirdness

I'm using postfix 0.0.20001217.SNAPSHOT-1 from unstable. I've been getting errors like this one in my logs: Dec 19 00:07:37 kite postfix/postdrop[20641]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/384454.20641: Permission denied And: Dec 19 22:31:25 kite postfix-script: warning: not owned

Re: OT: ext2resize

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:38:09AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > just downloaded ext2resize, and am shocked to see how little documentation > there is. the HOWTO gives an artificial example using a file containing a > filesystem. the man page basically says nothing other than: > > SYNO

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:44:17AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > Most of the time I'm the only user at this dial-up machine (progeny, > 2.2.18). I suspect a relation with my habit of short dial-up intervals > and short PPP connections. Try this: 1. empty your queue 2. connect 3. send exactly one

Re: Stupid question

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote: > Okay, stupid question time. > > What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the > mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but > rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

Scott Bronson wrote: > This message does belong on debian-user, but it's certainly not Progeny's > fault. debconf breaks under Perl 5.6. And a few Woody packages are > beginning to require 5.6... No, perl 5.6 is simply a broken package. > > Why the heck isn't debconf written in C? This happen

FreeBSD --> Debian

Hi! I've been using FreeBSD for a long time now and would like to try out Debian. The install looks to be confusing. I'd like to do a network install. I can't find a straight answer in the docs... Can anyone tell me can I install via FTP? Exactly which floppies will I need to get going? Thank

Re: question regarding samba usage

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:39:44PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > I am trying to get access to a home account on another unix host(solaris) > to my linux machine. It works pretty well using the smbmount command > however i would like to have this occur automagically when I login or > perhaps have the

Re: I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

> can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is > also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I > have to look at to fix it? in /etc/profile use export LANG= and then, put your locale (mine is ca_ES, which means Catalonia_Spanish State). so exp

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

On 19/12/2000 at 19:21 -0600, ktb wrote: > Install something like "pmfirewall" or "seawall." I've used > some of the questions you answer. I don't have any urls' handy > but they should be easy to find. After installing your chains http://www.pointman.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: USER / EMAIL limits

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:09:19PM -0500, Fraser McAninch wrote: > I need to limit users to email space of about 30 megs + 10 megs webspace > but I can't find the commands for this although I did read them > somewhere .. any help out there setup disk quotas. if they have thier web space in ~/p

Re: FreeBSD --> Debian

On 19/12/2000 at 23:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD for a long time now and would > like to try out Debian. The install looks to be confusing. > I'd like to do a network install. I can't find a straight answer > in the docs... > I don't know if this will work for you

Re: I can't type any ü, ä or ö in a shell

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:59:08PM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: > > can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less" is > > also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What do I > > have to look at to fix it? > > in /etc/profile > > use > > > export LANG= actually

Re: FreeBSD --> Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > I've been using FreeBSD for a long time now and would > like to try out Debian. The install looks to be confusing. > I'd like to do a network install. I can't find a straight answer > in the docs... > > Can anyone tell me can I install via FTP? Exactly whi

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

you don't have a mouse on /dev/ttyS0 do you? looking at the thousands of errors from gpm makes me think of a conflict of some sort .. nate "W. Crowshaw" wrote: > > > FROM: John Hasler > > DATE: 12/19/2000 17:41:55 > > SUBJECT: RE: yet another ppp failure story... > > > > W. Crowshaw wri

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

and even if you don't have a mouse it may be a good idea to kill gpm just incase /etc/init.d/gpm stop or gpm -k or killall -9 gpm or just remove it :) (i never use it ..) nate "W. Crowshaw" wrote: > > > FROM: John Hasler > > DATE: 12/19/2000 17:41:55 > > SUBJECT: RE: yet another ppp fail

Re: FreeBSD --> Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've been using FreeBSD for a long time now and would > like to try out Debian. The install looks to be confusing. If you think it's confusing now you should have seen it when Debian 2.0 c

Re: FreeBSD --> Debian

Thanks everyone...I've got all the disks and my system is backed up. Let's give it a try :) Eddie On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:38:46 Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've been using FreeBSD fo

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

ktb wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > > system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

At 06:02 PM 19/12/2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody. Is there a free (or low-cost) firewa

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

At Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:21:19 -0600 , ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: >> I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about >> firewalls and Linux. That is an easy thing to do, you are not alone :-) > Install s

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:02:09AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention I tried this too. With the same > results, the output that plog would give me: > Dec 20 00:37:02 anima pppd[220]: Using interface ppp0 > Dec 20 00:37:02 anima pppd[220]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 > De

installing woody

Dear all I've just downloaded and burned the woody's CD images. Should I expect woody to install as potato does (booting from CD-1, and so on)? Should I use apt upgrade-distribution (don't remember now the exact command) from potato instead? Any feedback would be very welcome! **

Info

Does Debian have a Server for Videoconference ? What have i do to make a videoconference using Debian? Thanks for help !! Simone

Problems removing kdebase

Hi Debians! I am running potato. Some days ago I removed xdm, and apt-get tried to remove all the kde-packages with it. Only kdebase was not removed. Now it is impossible to dist-upgrade new files. This is the errormessage: 8

Intel 815 chipset + Hedrick IDE patches + Reiser

Hi, Does anyone know which patches I need to get ATA100 working on 2.2.18 with this chipset (ICH2)? According to http://www.linux-ide.org/ they have a 2.4 backport to this kernel, and the patches support the chipset but they don't say to what level. It's supported - go suck, basically. They don

Exim; local/Internet delivery

There has been a lot of traffic about Exim, so I apologise if this is old hat. I use sendmail (with the 'expensive' option) to deliver local mail immediately and queue Internet mail until my cron job connects to my dial up ISP and then does a sendmail -q Can you do the same with Exim? Incidentally

Re: Postfix delivers more than once

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:28:09PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Anyway, worth checking for something along these lines in your log > files... See if any delivery attempts are marked as failed for some > reason and/or if Postfix makes multiple attempts to send the mail. It's most likely to have happe

Re: Whoops

> "Ivan" == Ivan Milos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ivan> Whoops, for some reason my previous message ended up in the Ivan> subject line as well. Please do not post HTML to Usenet, period. Especially on a UNIX group, most of us are using text-based readers. Ivan> I am currently ru

Re: Load crash from speakers at startup

"Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:55:13AM -0500, David Purton wrote: > >> just recently my speakers have started making a load > crash sound >> at startup around when the sound card is initialised. >> > I had the very same thing happen to me a whil

Debian and Pentium 4

>From Linuxgram Issue No 147 is this piece titled "Most Linux Cuts Won't Install on Pentium 4." Quoting: "In another one of those awkward little moments that we have come to expect from Intel, the chip giant has confirmed that only Red Hat and TurboLinux can be installed on Pentium 4 boxes. The

Re: Problems removing kdebase

Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am running potato. Some days ago I removed xdm, and apt-get tried to >remove all the kde-packages with it. Only kdebase was not removed. Now >it is impossible to dist-upgrade new files. > >This is the errormessage: > >8

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > >From Linuxgram Issue No 147 is this piece titled "Most Linux Cuts Won't > Install on Pentium 4." Quoting: "In another one of those awkward little > moments that we have come to expect from Intel, the chip giant has confirmed > that only Red Hat and TurboLinux can be

Re: Whoops

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:01:21AM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: > Please do not post HTML to Usenet, period. Eh? Usenet?? Last I checked, this was a mailing list. -Rob

Re: Whoops

On Wednesday 20 December 2000 06:29, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:01:21AM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > Please do not post HTML to Usenet, period. > > Eh? Usenet?? > > Last I checked, this was a mailing list. Do not post HTML to a mailing list. Period. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAI

Re: Modules and kernel upgrades

thanks On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Denzil Kelly wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:16:36 -0800 (PST) > From: Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Modules and kernel upgrades > > Yes, I had this problem a few

newbie: scsi

hi, i'm considering adding SCSI to my system, but i seem to be at a loss in choosing the right SCSI controller. so far i'm considering the following: 1. adaptec SCSI card 29160 2. adaptec SCSI card 19160 3. mylex dac1164p u2scsi pci 4. tekram dc-390u3d u160scsi pci afaik all 4 are linux f

Re: installing pine

Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > These issues concern people who are _not_ beginners. Time is money and > taking a lot of time to configure an application is wasteful, when an equal > result can be achieved in much less time with Pine. As I said, if you're used to pine, just use the

Re: Permissions - Newbie Style Question

Quoting Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have three debian based boxes running (two Corel and one potato.) On all > three machines, the default install is to allow everyone on the system to view > every directory, including each other's home directories. This is true when > using telnet or ftp as wel

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ktb wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > > > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > > > system to be secu

RE: installing woody

No you haven't, because there aren't any. No official ones, anyway. Since what you have isn't something produced by Debian, you need to ask whoever produced it how you're supposed to install it. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Origi

Re: installing pine

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:42:19PM -0800, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Only in one respect, that I can see based on my brief exposure, is mutt > better -- mutt is a better _threaded_ mail reader. It looks like a lot of > effort has been put into mutt's threading features. People who want a > threaded ma

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:53:57PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: You can try the following: Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with the --force-depends option. Then do apt-get -f install with your apt-get sources pointing to potato. I did this on a mixed pota

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: Show us your chatscript. My chat script looks like this: 'TIMEOUT' '30' 'ABORT' 'BUSY' 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' 'ABORT' 'NO ANSWER' 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE' 'ABORT' 'RING' 'ABORT' '% User/password invalid' '' 'ATZ' 'OK-+++\c-OK' 'AT &F1 L W2 Q0 V1 E1

Problem connecting to ISP - ethernet address for proxy ARP

Hi all, I don't know if anyone here can solve this problem, but it's worth a shot. At least someone may be able to tell me what the problem is... I'm currently running Debian/GNU Linux PPC on my Powerbook, and I get the following problem when I try to connect to my ISP. It connects, and I can pi

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > > > > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

At 11:30 PM -0800 12/19/00, Nate Amsden wrote: and even if you don't have a mouse it may be a good idea to kill gpm just incase /etc/init.d/gpm stop or gpm -k or killall -9 gpm or just remove it :) (i never use it ..) nate You may be right about the mouse interferring with the connection. I

Re: postfix weirdness

> I'm using postfix 0.0.20001217.SNAPSHOT-1 from unstable. I've been > getting errors like this one in my logs: > > Dec 19 00:07:37 kite postfix/postdrop[20641]: warning: mail_queue_enter: crea > te file maildrop/384454.20641: Permission denied Bug #65083 - workaround is to chmod 02555 /usr/sbin/

Zip Drive Problems

I had a system crash and after a reinstall Problems with the Zip Drive. The Zip Drive 100 was working before the crash. Now when I try to mount the Zip DriveI get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > mount /zip mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /zip [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/clay > mount /zip m

Removal from list

Hi all, I read a few weeks back the many attempts the Professor had made to be removed from this list and through his final frustrations he GOT a little mad. Anyway, I am leaving the country for 3 weeks tomorrow and felt it was better to unsubscribe rather than come back to 3 thousand plus em

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running Woody. I use Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com/) on a

Re: USER / EMAIL limits

Fraser McAninch wrote: > > I need to limit users to email space of about 30 megs + 10 megs webspace > but I can't find the commands for this although I did read them > somewhere .. any help out there I'm not absolutely certain, but I believe you'd need to put /var/spool/mail on a filesystem capp

Re: FreeBSD --> Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone tell me can I install via FTP? Exactly which > floppies will I need to get going? If you don't have a SCSI card or an ISA ethernet adapter, use the IDEPCI floppies. You need rescue, root, and drivers (and only need the driver disk if you're installing the

strange cron messages

now one of my debian servers reports to me this: --- Subject: Cronroot test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /bin/sh: root: command not found /etc/cron.daily/modutils: rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ksymoops/20001216062615.ksyms': No such file or

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

> What happens if you do a flood ping? (assuming this is between 2 local > machines). Normally, you should see a dot flashing on lhs of screen, > with a dot drawn for each error. Perhaps you get no errors for a while > and then the card falls over giving you lines and lines of dots? This isn't bet

Help - cross-compiler for powerpc-linux

I posted this once before but I have suffered a major failure with my mail system. I am a newbie to gnu, linux, and powerpc. I need to generate a cross-toolchain for host=i686-linux and target=powerpc-linux. I have Debian GNU/Linux 'potato' cds for: i386-binaries powerpc-binaries all-sources I d

A very strange X problem

Hi. I have a very stange problem with xf 4.0.x. Now and then X seems to crash in some strange way. The screen stops updating, the keyboard doesn't work, the only thing I can do is to hit the power-button and reboot. This has happend with all versions of xf 4.0.x, under both redhat 6.2/7.0, slackw

Re: A very strange X problem

Joel, I have just recently been getting the same problem. First I thought it was my processors, then I thought it was XF4, then I thought it was enlightenment. It just locks my screen with everything frozen except the mouse, which moves around fine. Maybe this isn't a hardware problem like I ini

Re: A very strange X problem

I forgot to mention that in my post that I can move the mouse around just like you say. I have also thougth of it being a hardware-problem. Just out of curiosity, what gfx-card do you have? I have a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 agp, maybe there is some problem with the tdfx-driver. * Paul Barton ([EMAIL PROT

Re: A very strange X problem

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:10:06 -0500 Paul Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel, I have just recently been getting the same problem. First I thought it > was my processors, then I thought it was XF4, then I thought it was > enlightenment. It just locks my screen with everything frozen except th

Instaling dbi in debian

I have installed Perl 5, it works ;-) I have installed Mysql, it works also Now someone tell me about DBI ? Is there an easy way to install this (apt-get install DBI) Also my book on perl and mysql says about using PPM, but this I guess needs instaling too ;-) Any help getting this up and runn

Re: Oracle

> Eric Langager wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for > teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of > Advancing Computer Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to > teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX pl

RE: Instaling dbi in debian

yes, install cpan and use cpan to install dbi. ppm i believe is for active perls port to windows. cpan is the unix equivalent. Jason > > I have installed Perl 5, it works ;-) > > I have installed Mysql, it works also > > Now someone tell me about DBI ? > > Is there an easy way to install this (

RE: Instaling dbi in debian

http://www.cpan.org cpan is pretty awesome for installing perl modules. Jason > > > OK, can you tell me how to do this, apt-get could not find it, > neither could > dselect ;-( > > Cheers for your help ;-) > > James. > - Original Message - > From: "Jason Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problems with commercial program.

on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:39:10PM +1100, Stewart James -Stootles- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I have having. I am > new to Debian but have been using redhat/mandrake for a few years. > > I recently switched to Debian. (great distro by th

Re: Woody upgrade = no startx

on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:53:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > Yesterday I performed an apt-get -f dist-upgrade on my Woody box. > Everything seemed to be going well. This morning, I closed out my X session > and when I attempted to restart X, I got the fo

Re: Whoops

on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:29:10AM -0600, Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:01:21AM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > Please do not post HTML to Usenet, period. > > Eh? Usenet?? > > Last I checked, this was a mailing list. Both, actually: news:muc.lists.deb

Re: Removal from list

Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So following the instructions provided at the bottom of the debian >email: >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". > >I did just that. But oh dear here is the reply: > >You have not been removed, I couldn't find your n

Re: Whoops

Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:01:21AM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: >> Please do not post HTML to Usenet, period. > >Eh? Usenet?? > >Last I checked, this was a mailing list. Tor was replying to a posting on comp.os.linux.setup; I suppose he copied it here as a s

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

"W. Crowshaw" wrote: > > At 11:30 PM -0800 12/19/00, Nate Amsden wrote: > >you don't have a mouse on /dev/ttyS0 do you? looking at the thousands of > >errors from gpm > >makes me think of a conflict of some sort .. > > > >nate > > Oh, one more thing, I attribute the gpm errors to the fact that I

RE: Instaling dbi in debian

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CPAN is the link to the source. you can either search for perl modules using cpan from the command line, or http://search.cpan.org after compiling and installing cpan, installing a bundle from the command line is as easy as # cpan cpan> install DBI it compile

Re: A very strange X problem

I have been using the 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP for a long time without problems. This new problem just started happening to me on Saturday. Oh, and I'm running cvs enlightenment on unstable Debian. --Paul * Joel St?bis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I forgot to mention that in my post that I can mo

Re: USER / EMAIL limits

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:24:31AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Fraser McAninch wrote: > > > > I need to limit users to email space of about 30 megs + 10 megs webspace > > but I can't find the commands for this although I did read them > > somewhere .. any help out there > > I'm not absolutely

Re: Removal from list

An alternate solution, since I assume you want the mail once you get back from your trip, is to use a filter program to send all mail to this list to /dev/null. procmail, mailagent, and filter can do the job. HTH, -D On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:50AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: question regarding samba usage

Pending further investigation, we now allege that Ethan Benson wrote: > > the smbpasswd crap comes from MS changing win95b, win98, NT4sp4, W2K > etc to send a unsalted password hash instead of the password to the > server, where the hash is compared with the hash stored in the local > password file

Re: exim configuration problem (solved)

Mike scripsit: >Frodo Baggins wrote: >> Hi debianers, >> I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, >> using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. > >Is the time of day when you switch fom one to the other always the same time >of day? If it is, then he

Re: kde2

http://kde.tdyc.com On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:47:18 Dale Kosan wrote: > Hello,have been trying to install kde2 but apt keeps telling me I have > an error in line 28.I put the line in that I seen posted here but no > go.Can someone post the line or point me to the site where I can find > out how to co

Re: Help - cross-compiler for powerpc-linux

You want this: www.emdebian.org in a nutshell: echo deb http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian unstable main >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install task-cross-powerpc -Brad On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:38:55AM -0600, Gentry, Jeff wrote: > I posted this once before but I have suffered a

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

This just happened to a guy on our local LUG list. It was an I/O or interrupt port conflict. He just changed the setting by adding this line in /etc/lilo.conf: append="ether=IRQ,I/O" where IRQ and I/O are your settings. If you run: cat /proc/ioports cat /proc/interrupts You ought to be able

RE: Instaling dbi in debian

apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl. You will have to read up on the DBI. zless /usr/share/doc/libdbd-mysql-perl/README.gz /Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instructor, Network Administrator University of Northwestern Ohio http://www.unoh.edu > -Original Message- > From: james

Re: A very strange X problem

Joel, which kernel are you using? I am currently using 2.2.18pre21 for the DRI for the tdfx module. I was actually using this kernel for 2 weeks before it started to freeze on me, so I assume it's not the kernel's fault. I'm already leaning towards X4 on this one. Something must be wrong with th

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

I use the script here: http://firewall.langistix.com Download the script and read the README/INSTALL file. It's fairly easy to setup. The page is even labeled firewalling for dummies. Jesse On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:02:14 Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have spent much of the day getting more and mo

need feedback on PostgreSQL clients

I am looking for a good GUI client to complement psql. What are good ones to use? I have seen pgAccess, ksql, and kpsql but I would like to know what the Debian community thinks about them. What are their good points and bad points. What would you recommend? As an aside, what would be the bes

Re: A very strange X problem

Enlightenment just segfaulted on me, and this is about 30 minutes after the latest crash which just happened. I am going to switch over to gnome for a few days and see if I can get it to crash. --Paul * Joel St?bis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > > I have a very stange problem with xf 4.0.x

Re: need feedback on PostgreSQL clients

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:45:51 -0800 (PST) Ian Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a good GUI client to complement > psql. What are good ones to use? I have seen > pgAccess, ksql, and kpsql but I would like to know > what the Debian community thinks about them. What are > their

device3dfx-source ?

Hi, I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out for what kind of card the module will work. Does anyone use this kernel-module ? Thanks, Joerg

Re: need feedback on PostgreSQL clients

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Ian Setford wrote: > I am looking for a good GUI client to complement > psql. What are good ones to use? I have seen > pgAccess, ksql, and kpsql but I would like to know > what the Debian community thinks about them. What are > their good points and bad points. What would

Re: device3dfx-source ?

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote: > I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket > mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out for what kind of card the > module will work. Does anyone use this kernel-module ? I know for sure that

Re: installing pine

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > These issues concern people who are _not_ beginners. Time is money and > > taking a lot of time to configure an application is wasteful, when an equal > > result can be achieved in much less time with Pin

Re: device3dfx-source ?

Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote: JH> I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the JH> debian-paket mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out JH> for what kind of card the module will work. Do

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > ... /dev/ttyS0 is the only one > that actually makes my modem dial. This could be because I am > running Debian on Macintosh 7500 PowerPC with 2 serial ports, one for > the printer and the other for the modem. Aha! You are on a Mac? You must have had

Re: Removal from list

Yes Colin I tried that as well. Only 48 hours till I fly too. Im trying though to get off this list as quietly as possible.. At 04:54 PM 12/20/2000 +, you wrote: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So following the instructions provided at the bottom of the debian >email: >To UNSUBS

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > At 5:42 PM -0800 12/19/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > >Show us your chatscript. > > > > My chat script looks like this: > 'TIMEOUT' '30' > 'ABORT' 'BUSY' > 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' > 'ABORT' 'NO ANSWER' > 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE' > 'ABORT' 'RING' > 'ABORT' '% U

exim filter woes

I've set up fetchmail to grab mail from 2 ISP's and send the mail to exim. The mail is then run through my .forward file. After that I've been accessing the mail (which is on my server) from my workstation on another computer. I'm currently trying both balsa (stable version) and Netscape mes

Re: 3c509 is being annoying SOLVED

High, thanks for all your help, it works now. The soundcard was the culprit, it shared the same io. Thanks, Sebastiaan On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I try to get a 3c509 network card working, which has worked before on my > system. After some research I found out that the

Re: device3dfx-source ?

Joerg Huber wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket > mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out for what kind of card the > module will work. Does anyone use this kernel-module ? > > Thanks, > Joerg Not since XFree86-4 was

lilo does not listen?

Hi, I am trying to set up a harddiskless workstation. Almost everything works fine, execpt lilo. I have made a bootfloppy with the following kernel options: append="root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/mnt/nfs ip=192.168.1.2:192.168.1.1:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:lament:eth0:" as decribed in variou

Undeletable file

After running e2fsck on a data partition which had become corrupt I have the following problem. There is a file which I cannot get rid of. I tried rm, chmod, chown on this file as root: all returned "permission denied". ls -l shows total 729822653 drwxr-xr-x2 chrischris

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