Re: excersize

2000-12-22 Thread Sebastiaan
High, what is wrong with apt? Can you not adapt the sources.list file to the new distribution and do a apt-get update and then upgrade? I realize that this is not a real answer to your question, but often it helps. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, green_botanik wrote: > Is it possible

PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with debian, and I have hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() This is a valid function in both php3 and php4, so what am I missing? T

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know anything about /etc/rc.x, but the "Debian way" is to put scripts is /etc/init.d from which links should be created with update-rc.d. This will put a symlink in /etc/rc2.d which will be executed when runlevel 2 is entered, which is after the boot process and probably a better place. A

networked filesystems

2000-12-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello all, I have just configured a simple network with one harddiskless computer that boots from a floppy and mounts a remote root through nfs. Now my questions: - which other alternatives are there? I have heard that nfs has a big overlay. I have also heard about nbd. - is it true, or can you c

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each&every user. Of course this means you´d have to add each user on the exchange-box and on the firewall. Look at th

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: ... > the seleciton list back in to dpkg (dpkg --set-selections), but if you > want the system to be identical to the one you had before, running > dpkg --set-selections and initialing the install process (e.g. by running > dselect

Re: PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:53:12PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with debian, and I have > hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() > >

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-22 Thread W. Crowshaw
At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: 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

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I'm used to other distros having a 'play' command to play sounds from the > > command line. Does Debian have a similar tool, or am I just missing the > > package with the play command? > > Install the sox package \begin{shamel

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread John Foster
Thanks guys for all of the pointers. I am really not a newbie and have covered all of the areas responded to. I do not find a mouse driver in my /lib/modules/kernel-2.2.13/misc or any of the other dirs here. There should be a driver ps2mouse.o or the like created when the kernel is compiled and in

RE: PHP4 problem

2000-12-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> > Greetings, > > I am trying to test eZtrade (http://trade.ez.no) with > debian, and I have > > hit a snag. When the site tries to come up, I get this message: > > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() > > > > This is a valid function in both php3 and php4, s

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't but

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread D-Man
Maybe there isn't a separate mouse driver file but it is in some other file instead? -D On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:31:45PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > Thanks guys for all of the pointers. I am really not a newbie and have > covered all of the areas responded to. I do not find a mouse driver in >

[no subject]

2000-12-22 Thread Xavier Alfaro
Hello, How do I download a ISO CDROM (image file) and a boot floppy for the entire OS to use with  ARM units.

Re: xdm error (pid 257): server unexpectedly died Help please

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/21/00 4:20:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > When I try to startx, I get error message: > > > > X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/SF86_S3 failed > > _X11TransSocketUNIX COnnecty: Can't connect: errno - 111 >

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:27:08AM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a > > script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming from the sox > > package. With for CD-quality s

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc > 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody > that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to > install) on potato. Seems to work

the experimental mutt package

2000-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental. Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload it to woody. README.Debian says: ~~ ~ NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE ~ ~ There is no supp

printing problems

2000-12-22 Thread Caste
Hi,I have just installed Potato Debian (first contact with linux), and I havesome printing problems.Initially the BSD system didn’t run properly, but it ran, this took me totest cups 1.1.4, and it didn’t run as I expected, and I decided to uninstallcups, and install BSD Line Printer Spoolin

Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....

2000-12-22 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:10:38PM -0800 wrote Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does the get/set-selections procedure work with apt-get, or does apt do its > own thing? I.e.: I had indeed configured dselect to use apt - I just ran dselect to make sure that some (for me) vital packages wer

Re: Merry Christmas

2000-12-22 Thread Ignasi Tura
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:24:08PM +0100, J. Reilink wrote: > Alex Horsnell wrote: > > > > To everyone on the list, > > > > Thank you for all your help and advise this year, I hope you all have a > > _VERY_ > > Merry Christmas and a brilliant Millennium!! > > > > I look forward to further help

Merry.....

2000-12-22 Thread Dale Kosan
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a great New Year

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have the > following problems : > Most of the time I get errors like : > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > Sometimes

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have > > the following problems : > > Most of the time I get errors like : > > > > hdb: irq timeo

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Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain > > > packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. > > Is gnucash_1.4.8 new enough for you?

Re: Starup script - how can I make it start later? (Firestarter)

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
D-Man wrote: > > I haven't done this yet, but I have a feeling that when I finish > installing Debian I will be playing with the rc?.d scripts. > > The scripts are actually symlinks to the real scripts. The symlinks > have a name like > > [KS][0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z]+ > > The symlinks that start wit

Re: What is the file name of the ps2 mouse driver?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
Hmm... can't help you with the module issue, as I always just build the ps/2 driver directly into the kernel, since it's more of an 'always on' type thing than an 'on demand' one. My problem with gpm/X was the exact reverse of yours - The mouse in X was frozen while gpm was running. I solved that

Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread John Travis
I'm sure there is a cl method for dumping your X session to a file. I know this sounds stupid but taking a screenshot with something like the Gimp or Ksnapshot doesn't quite work (I'm trying to get a screenshot while playing mpeg2 streams). The video just appears as a bright blue box :-). An

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:36:09PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain > > > > packages? I'd like to install th

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I'm sure there is a cl method for dumping your X session to a file. I > > know this sounds stupid but taking a screenshot with something like > the > Gimp or Ksnapshot doesn't quite work (I'm trying to get a screenshot > while playing mpeg2 streams). The video just appears as a bright blue

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-22 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, W. Crowshaw wrote: > At 11:04 AM -0800 12/20/00, Dwight Johnson wrote: > >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: > >> 'TIMEOU

backingup /home/foo/.* files

2000-12-22 Thread q
debs, now that kernel panics effect of my mission-critical box about every 20th boot, i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by: tar cvzf .tar.gz *). i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.* (hidden) files, like .muttrc aside from doing a separa

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Ken Weingold wrote: > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the > other liked browsers have it? Also, anyone know why it was tak

Loading SB16 modules...

2000-12-22 Thread Stefan Srdic
I have a Creative Vibra 16x (Sound Blaster 16) that I'm trying to configure so that I can listen to music in Debian. Where do I find the proper kernel modules for my card and how do I load them in Debian? I know which IRQ, DMA 8 and DMA 16 plus I/O that the card uses but do not no which module

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

2000-12-22 Thread John Travis
> > "import", which is part of the ImageMagick package will do it. A > command like this: > > import -window root screenshot.jpg > > You can even add a delay in case you want to move a window or bring > one to the "front", etc, etc. For more help, the usual "man import" > will tell you all you nee

Re: web and perl and mysql

2000-12-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:45:35AM -0800, james (home) wrote: > does anyone know how to get a mysql database, queried by PERL on to the web. > > I would appreciate some help. > > I am trying to create a table in a web page which has 3 static fileds, and 3 > input fields. > > Its basically a list

Re: stale apt-get mirrors?

2000-12-22 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:05:02AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > will trillich writes: > > wt> what's the lag on various debian mirror sites? > wt> % apt-get update > wt> % apt-get upgrade > > wt> % apt-setup /pick a different mirror/ > > wt> i'd just swi

Re: irq timeouts - CDROM

2000-12-22 Thread Gary Mulder
Most Pentium based systems have two EIDE buses. Normally if you have one hard drive and one CDROM drive you'll have each as the master device on each bus. This would result in the devices /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. This is optimal as the EIDE protocol only allows one device at a time to be active on

Living behind a SOCKS firewall

2000-12-22 Thread Stan Brown
i have a Debina machine that I have set up at hoem, and am fixing to move to work. At work I live behind a SOCKS firewall that will allow me to use HTTP and FTP by using the SOCKS proxy. Xan I set teh debian machine up to allow apt-get'ing things this way

Re: configuring network card solved.

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
I just want to say upfront that I have nothing but good intentions. If my words sound harsh or unfriendle, it is not meant to be so... --- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "xucaen" == Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > If you are going to give advice to newbies, > make sur

XFree / Font error

2000-12-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
Running Debian Woody and XFree86 v4.0.1 and trying to get TrueType fonts under X. I've followed the instructions fully, I believe, but still no TT fonts. I finally ran across this error: Could not init font path element unix/:7101, removing from list! in /var/log/xdm.log. Any ideas how to fix th

Gnome-name-service function???

2000-12-22 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Anyone know what the gnome-name-service does? THere's no info on my onboard documentation. It's part of the gnome-bin.deb packages Killing seems to be without ill affect on my stand alone laptop, MarvS = 4:41pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 42

moving from two disks to one?

2000-12-22 Thread Ron Farrer
hello; I currently have two 2GB scsi drives and now have a single 23.2GB scsi drive. What would be the easiest way to move the data off the two 2GB drives to the new one? Reinstall is out of the question, I need the setup to stay as-is. The partitioning on the new drive will be different (for obv

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:00 PM 12/22/00 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:24:16 +0100, Michael Steiner writes: Well, the quickfix would be a virtusertable containing something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each&every user. Its just another damn thing for the admins to u

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread CaT
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 04:24:16PM +0100, Michael Steiner wrote: > In which way should it be done ? > Installing an MTA (which one?)on the Debian-box or to transfer all > traffic directly to the internal net by forwarding(how to do this ?). Give sendmail a mailertable entry. From memory (will prol

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