Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:39:46PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have a similar setup to yours and edited /etc/network/interfaces to > > add the address, netmask and broadcast address for my second ethernet > > card. After doing this ru

Re: cdrom issue

2000-12-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Rick wrote: > > Hello, > > I got Unreal Tournament for xmas and am now trying to install it, but the > installer is not working happily with my cdrom (generic ATAPI). I have > gotten it to work successful on my lady's potato distro, and I am running > potato as well. The problem seems to be tha

Re: yet another ppp failure story...

2000-12-29 Thread W. Crowshaw
Thanks for all your help so far. Back from the holidays, I thought I would try again. At your advice, I have done the following things: I have checked to see if my kernel supported ppp. As it turns out, it didn't. But I have fixed that and added ppp support through a module. I have also

Getting Started with Debian: Package Selection Sanity

2000-12-29 Thread David Steinberg
Hi everyone, I've been using Red Hat for a reasonable amount of time, but I'm a total newbie to Debian; I'm just installing potato for the first time today. I'm starting to get familiar with the tools, but I must admit that I'm a little overwhelmed by the number of packages in the distribution.

mmap(0): Illegal seek

2000-12-29 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I received this message in my system check. I was wondering what this illegal seek is. Is this an attempt to exploit ftpd? Looks like my wrappers kept them out, but I was wondering if there was anything else to this... thanks, A. D. Ghost Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 28

Re: mount /dev/fd0 crashes system

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:54:47PM -0500, mino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I updated my system to "woody" and custom built a 2.4.0test12 kernel. > With a floppy in the drive > cd /floppy > ls > never returns any files Right. You have to mount the device first. There are automounter packages whi

Re: [OT] See you next year...

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:50:47PM +, sena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, sorry for this off-topic... :) > > I'll be going in a new-year vacations until 3 January. As someone suggested > in another thread, I'll be using procmail to redirect debian mailing lists > to /dev/null... I hope it wo

Re: mount /dev/fd0 crashes system

2000-12-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:33:56PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > /etc/fstab has a line > > /dev/fd0/floppyauto (plus a couple of numbers which I can't > > remember off the top of my head). > > What I suspect is that you are trying to mount the device with an 'auto' > option w

Re: Getting Started with Debian: Package Selection Sanity

2000-12-29 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:47:48PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've been using Red Hat for a reasonable amount of time, but I'm a total > newbie to Debian; I'm just installing potato for the first time today. welcome to our corner of the universe... > I'm starting to get

Help fetchmail socket error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I've posted with one kind attempt at fixing a problem. My ISP's mail went down then said the problem was fixed. I'm still getting prblems where eveything was ok before. Mostly I'm getting a socket error and expected length problems. I have a selected log of the highlights andadditional details

Re: Getting rid of "xconsole"

2000-12-29 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:43:53PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At some point, an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" made a > change that has "xconsole" starting up along with X-Windows. I > personally don't like the program and don't use it and would > like to get rid of it. Hi, I will assum

Re: update-alternatives for non-root users

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:50:44PM +0100, Holger Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > After having migrated to Debian 2.2, one feature I found particularly > interesting is it's alternative system. Since it can easily be used to > change the default window manager (using it in conjunctio

Re: Primary or extended partition install?

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:18:21PM -0800, Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I'll be booting with lilo from the MBR may I install Potato on an > extended partition or must it be on a primary partition? Either. But first, see: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html --

mutt -- compressed mailboxes, exerimental breaks 'open-hook', etc.

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
Package: mutt Version: 1.3.12-2 Woody. I'd recently added the following lines to my ~/.muttrc to allow use of (and access to) compressed mailboxes. They're now coming up as "unknown commands" on mutt invocation on an update to the latest mutt in Woody. Anyone know the problem or got a fix? Bug t

su: authentication failure

2000-12-29 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I am unable to 'su' to root or any other user (except when being root). /var/log/auth.log tells me this: unix_checkpwd: check pass: user unknown PAM_unix: authentication failure; sebastia(uid=1000) -> root for su service pam_authenticate: Authentication failure I feel I have to tell som

Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Trying to fix up several recent errors in getting mail. One I noticed causing the odd socket error is "message 1 was not the expected length (2749 actual != 2752 expected) Help appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"

ssh1 and ssh2 ???

2000-12-29 Thread Jens Lauterbach
hi I started with the debian package ssh upgraded to ssh2 (the installation removed the ssh package) now I can only run ssh2, but i want to run both ssh1 and ssh2. BUT when i try to apt-get install ssh it tells me that it will remove the ssh2 package, so is the right way to FORCE installation or i

Making new tasks known to tasksel (2)

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi all! I forgot to mention something in my last mail concerning this issue. I didn't run "tasksel" right after "apt-cdrom add". What I did was: 1. apt-cdrom add 2. apt-get update 3. tasksel The question why the new tasks were not available in tasksel still remains. Thanks a lot for your help.

Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hello! How can I switch between KDE and Helix-Gnome when both are installed on the system? Unfortunately, I can not install gdm and kdm at the same time, so I'm not sure what to do. One solution might be to do without an X display manager entirely, but then I'm not sure whether I can still get the

How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Jack O Max
Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Makholm
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? > >$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Upgrade will never install new packages. So packages with changed depends-fields will not be upgraded by this command. Read the manual you can read it there.

Re: Laptop eth0 problems

2000-12-29 Thread dude
part of the problem with hanging is that when cardmgr starts up it may be trying to probe that causes the hang is this is so, check /etc/pcmcia/config.opts On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michelle Murrain wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:10:11 -0500 > From: Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:

Re: ssh1 and ssh2 ???

2000-12-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:39:56 +0100, Jens Lauterbach wrote: > I started with the debian package ssh upgraded to ssh2 (the installation > removed the ssh package) now I can only run ssh2, but i want to run both > ssh1 and ssh2. Why? The "ssh" package is OpenSSH, which supports both the SSH1 and

Re: Locale annoying warning

2000-12-29 Thread Erich Baur
Hi Pedro, ** Pedro I. Sanchez wrote on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0500: ** > Hello, > > I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages > with apt-get I get the following: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale set

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison Date: Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:19:53PM -0600 In reply to:Nathan E Norman Quoting Nathan E Norman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > No, it's a company as demonstrated by the "Micromuse Inc.". `whois > micromuse.com', and a look at http://www.

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:14:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to fix up several recent errors in getting mail. One I noticed > causing the odd socket error is "message 1 was not the expected length > (2749 actual != 2752 expected) > > Help appreciated. Note that I'm by no means

newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread M K Saravanan
hi, I have been using RH linux. after reading several success stories of debian, decided to switch over to deb. I installed Debian2.1. It is not detecting my ethernet card [3Com 3c905c 10/100]. how to activate it? -- mks -- -- *

Re: How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:12:01AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: > Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue > boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? "man mkboot" may be helpful. - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROT

Re: Help fetchmail socket error?

2000-12-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've posted with one kind attempt at fixing a problem. My ISP's mail > went down then said the problem was fixed. I'm still getting prblems > where eveything was ok before. Mostly I'm getting a socket error and > expected length problems. I have a selected log of the highlights > andadditional de

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:15:27PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > > How can I switch between KDE and Helix-Gnome when both are installed on > the system? Unfortunately, I can not install gdm and kdm at the same time, > so I'm not sure what to do. One solution might be to do without an X > display ma

SMI 3D 721 VGA (Lynx3DM) and KDE2 Xserver

2000-12-29 Thread Andreas Abach
Is anyone out there, who managed to get this up working? I have got an asus s8200 notebook. I set up svga-xserver and its working, but when I start KDE2 the xserver is breaking. This happens on potatoe and woody. I didn't find an xserver for the chip, perhaps there is one. Abach -- Dipl.-Ing. An

Re: Help fetchmail socket error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks a lot for getting back to me. > I trust that you've already checked Fetchmail's FAQ here Yes. > R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors. > > Check the MTU value in your PPP interface reported by /sbin/ifconfig. If > it's over 600, change it in your PPP options file. (/etc/ppp

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Thanks for getting back to me. > Note that I'm by no means an expert on mail, but anyhow... > This socket/length error makes me think that something goes wrong > in the local smtp connection (don't know, just guessing:). > If so you could try to shortcircuit it a little with the 'mda' option > set

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:12:36PM +0530, M K Saravanan wrote: > > I have been using RH linux. after reading several success stories of debian, > decided to switch over to deb. I installed Debian2.1. It is not detecting my > ethernet card [3Com 3c905c 10/100]. how to activate it? Personally, I

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-29 Thread Sergio Matos
Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:53:45PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: > > > I'm needing help about sendmail. > > How can I config sendmail to reject mails to outside my domain? > > What exactly is it you're trying to do? If you're trying to prevent > non-local users from submitting ma

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:16:41PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Note that I'm by no means an expert on mail, but anyhow... > > This socket/length error makes me think that something goes wrong > > in the local smtp connection (don't know, just guessing:). > > If so you could try to shortcircuit

Mail only account

2000-12-29 Thread Sergio Matos
How can I create mail only accounts on linux? Thanks for the help, Sérgio Matos

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Florian Reiser
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Apache has been running fine for some time now, and for some reason (I suppose > it was from something being upgraded, but I don't remember seeing anything > apache related) I'm now getting this error whenever attempting to start >

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:45:25PM +, Sergio Matos wrote: [Please trim material not needed for context - there's no need to replicate the entire message to which you're replying] > I want to prevent users from the intranet to send mail to the internet. Presumably this could be done by not al

Re: How-to for potato udma66 support?

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Glenn Murray wrote: > > Let me rephrase the question. How do you use > the udma66 support files contained in the > potato distribution to install on a > computer using a Promise Ultra 66 card? > I can't find any documentation on these > files anywhere, and it's driving me nuts. Get the directory

Re: How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Jack O Max wrote: > > Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue > boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? If you used make-kpkg (see the thread `New course for Debian University), and used dpkg to install the new kernel-image package, dpkg will ask you if you'd like t

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
M K Saravanan wrote: > > hi, > > I have been using RH linux. after reading several success stories of debian, > decided to switch over to deb. I installed Debian2.1. It is not detecting my > ethernet card [3Com 3c905c 10/100]. how to activate it? I hope you can get a copy of Debian 2.2 soon; 2

Re: Mail only account

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Sergio Matos wrote: > > How can I create mail only accounts on linux? > Thanks for the help, > > Sérgio Matos This may not be the proper way to handle it, but I use this. After adding the user, /etc/passwd shows: jpennington:x:1004:102:Jon Pennington,,,:/home/jpennington:/bin/bash I simply

mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread Jack O Max
Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy disk... mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel Which module should I included to fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Jack p.s. I had already enabled the module for MSDO

Re: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:34:38AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: > Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. > > Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy > disk... > > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel > > Which module should I included to fix this prob

Re: PS Help ISP/Fetchmail

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Epting
> > > yes. ("man fetchmail" could explain it better). > > Yes, I add it to the command line. Any way to log that? And see it, so > > not just "fetchmail >Log"? > Not sure, but I would say "fetchmail -vv 2>&1 | tee Log" >From 'man fetchmail': The -L or --logfile option (keyword: set

Re: mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Jack O Max wrote: > > Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. > > Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy > disk... > > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel > > Which module should I included to fix this problem? Try the module `vfat' ;) >From t

DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread gregh
How do ou make the dhcp client only listen on one eth*? Whenever dhcp client is tarted it listens on every network interface on the system, how do I change this? later, greg

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Noah! Thanks a lot for your quick reply! On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choose a > "session" from a menu when you log in. If I understand you

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > In that case, have you tried a different program to get yoyr mail from > your IPS, like mutt's build in pop, or even netscape, just to verify > that it's not fetchmail specific? Good point and first thing I did. It seems they wo

Re: PS Help ISP/Fetchmail

2000-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:46:00AM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > > >From 'man fetchmail': >The -L or --logfile option (keyword: >set logfile) allows you to redirect status messages emit- >ted while detached into a specified logfile (follow the >option with th

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread David A. Rogers
Carel, Thanks for your input. I appreciate knowing what people think of the document. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > > Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian > > University documen

Greek fonts in X - how?

2000-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I installed the Greek X fonts from from Potato but when I use them the characters are still in Latin type. What else needs to be done to make them appear in Greek? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bo

RE: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do ou make the dhcp client only listen on one eth*? Whenever dhcp > client is tarted it listens on every network interface on the system, how > do I change this? > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which eth to listen on. F

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 05:10:48PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choose a > > "session" from a menu when you log in. > > If I understand you right, it is probabl

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:21:30AM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > I understand your comment about fakeroot. However, I didn't include any > documentation on it for a couple of reasons. > > First, I've instructed the reader to read the kernel-package

magneto optical, driver support

2000-12-29 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, Found a pinnacle magneto optical 650. I am looking for a driver. Has anyone seen one? Thanks, Matthieu

Re: putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-29 Thread JoshNarins
From what I've been able to gather, chroot can be secure,   but only if the user can never get root. FreeBSD's jail had a recent problem. Mounting /proc inside the chroot is not a good idea. In a message dated 12/27/00 7:01:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not to dis

Re: Apache Error: srm.conf

2000-12-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:13PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a > module not included in the server configuration > > I'm somewhat leery of removing the offending line, as it seems to be a > security > fix for cross-site

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread D-Man
Are you sure about that? The question was about a 905 series card, not a 590 series card. The 905 series are PCI cards, and I believe the 590 series (or was it 509 series?) are ISA. Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with Linux. I don't know about the 3c905c. I bought

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
D-Man wrote: > > Are you sure about that? The question was about a 905 series card, > not a 590 series card. The 905 series are PCI cards, and I believe > the 590 series (or was it 509 series?) are ISA. Quite sure. The 3c905 and 3c590 are both Cyclone-series cores, I believe that the 905 is ca

blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... Something strange happens with blackbox here (this is sid, but the bb package is not new, I think): The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to wor

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Brian Keck
On the question of /usr/src/linux & symlinks, Linus sent a couple of messages to linux-kernel a few months ago ... Brian Keck --- Forwarded Messages >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 27 17:49:26 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: palladium.transmeta.com: mail set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using

RE: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello... > > Something strange happens with blackbox here (this is sid, but the bb > package is not new, I think): > > The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running > update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't help with your first problem, but: > Also, some applications in the menus are text-based, but won't start > when I click on them; on the console, I get this everytime I try to > run a text-based app from the menus: > >$ Error on option -T: unkn

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: >> The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running >> update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links >> to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to work. >> > you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at > /etc/X11/black

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Colin Watson writes: >> Ok... Now, dlocate -S x-terminal-emulator didn't find >> anything. Running it starts powershell. > It wouldn't: x-terminal-emulator is an alternative (see 'man > update-alternatives') pointing to one of various things like xterm, > rxvt, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > >>> The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running >>> update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links >>> to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to work. >>> > >> you should

Re: 'testing' & dep conflicts

2000-12-29 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:44:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > 1. Why are packages kept back like follows? [ snip ] > First, since you're upgrading from potato to woody (you've changed > distributions), you should use `apt-get

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: >>> you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at >>> /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu. >> >> Er... This is what I have after a fresh install (and after running >> update-menus): >> >> [submenu] (Blackbox) {} >> [exit] (Exit) >> [reconfig] (Reconfigure) >> [resta

apt problems

2000-12-29 Thread Michelle Murrain
The result of a dumb mistake: I wanted to upgrade a particular package from woody, and in the middle, it stopped because it didn't have a newer copy of libc6. I decided at that point that I would forgo the upgrade. However, somehow, part of it got installed somehow, and now I can't install anyt

Re: How-to for potato udma66 support?

2000-12-29 Thread Glenn Murray
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > Get the directory > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66 (this is > from memory) somewhere local, like a CD-ROM or get them from the ftp > site. Then for each of these files: > > - rescue.bin > - root.bin > - driver-1.bin

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu. >>> >>> Er... This is what I have after a fresh install (and after running >>> update-menus): >>> >>> [submenu] (Blackbox) {} >

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Think I left off the menu: [submenu] (Blackbox) {} [config] (Configuration) [submenu] (Styles) {} [stylesdir] (/usr/share/blackbox/styles) [stylesdir] (~/.blackbox/styles) [end] [workspaces] (Workspaces) [end]

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
At 13:49 29-12-00 -0500, you wrote: Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with Linux. 3c905b does not work, they say? Take a look at this: /sbin/lspci -v 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 64)     Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Un

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: > mine: > [submenu] (Blackbox) {} > [config] (Configuration) > [submenu] (Styles) {} > [stylesdir] (/usr/share/blackbox/styles) > [stylesdir] (~/.blackbox/styles) > [end] > [workspaces] (Workspaces) >[end] >> >> This

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Keck wrote: >On the question of /usr/src/linux & symlinks, Linus sent a couple >of messages to linux-kernel a few months ago ... Yes, but these refer to the commonly found link from /usr/include/asm into /usr/src/linux/include; that is the link that should not be there. Linus is saying

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which > eth to > listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc/init.d/dhcp or anything like that - all I have whic

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:55:04PM +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > At 13:49 29-12-00 -0500, you wrote: > >Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with > >Linux. > > 3c905b does not work, they say? Take a look at this: I'm glad it works for you. It was a few years ag

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Dec-2000 Phillip Deackes wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which >> eth to >> listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. > > What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc

Installing Debian over NFS

2000-12-29 Thread Denis Laroche
Hi all, I'm new to Debian and I'm trying to install the current distribution using NFS on a i486 PC that has an Ethernet 3Com 3C509B adapter in an ISA slot. I had RedHat Linux running on the PC before and the NIC was working fine (with Donald Beckers's 3c509.o module). I read through the installa

xinetd, tcpd (tcpwrappers), twist

2000-12-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Greetings friends. Perhaps someone here can help me. (BTW -- a CC would sure be nice, if you reply. :) I am trying to build a short and sweet http redirector using the twist function from hosts_options(5). I did this before, with ftp, and inetd. Trouble is, now I am using a machine with xinetd (Ve

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

2000-12-29 Thread Ralf Batri
On Fre, Dez 29, 2000 at 01:49:50 -0500, D-Man wrote: > Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with > Linux. I don't know about the 3c905c. I bought a much cheaper > LinkSys card instead and have been very happy with it. If definatly using the 3c905b and 3c905c on all of my m

Re: DHCP Client

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > edit /etc/init.d/ script. Each one has an argument for which > > eth to > > listen on. For pump it is -i eth0. > > What is ? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc/init.d/dh

Re: problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-29 Thread Thomas Delany
That looks almost identical to a problem that I have been having with a number of packages in unstable. Unfortunately, no one has been able to help me either. I wish Iknew what was going on.If I get any answer, or figure anything out, I'll let you know. I'd appreciate it if youwould do the same

Re: magneto optical, driver support

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:08:41PM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Found a pinnacle magneto optical 650. I am looking for a driver. Has > anyone seen one? SCSI device? SCSI should be all you need. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evang

Re: problem with perl in unstable

2000-12-29 Thread aperrin
Just as a guess: have you installed perl 5.6.0 on this machine from source? If so, you'll need to provide access to the older 5.005_03 libraries for some of the apt scripts to work. I used some symlinks within the /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 directory to point to libraries in /usr/lib/perl5/5.005, which

Re: blackbox - menus and themes

2000-12-29 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 29 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Thanks a lot! I switched to xterm, which is lighter and better as an > x-terminal-emulator, IMHO. Just a hint: if you can live with a stripped down version of xterm that is easier on RAM, then use rxvt. I use it here and it is al

formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could lateron install an ext2fs with "ext2fs -b2048

qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread Hans-Christian Armingeon
Hi, I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. Does anybody know, where to download them? Please reply to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not on debian-user. Thanks Johnny

Re: Laptop eth0 problems

2000-12-29 Thread Jo Geraerts
Hello, On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michelle Murrain wrote: > The generic tulip failed during the install. Then, in trying their tulip - I > put thier tulip.o into /lib/modules/2.2.17/net, and added the line: Maybe you can get it working with the ne2000 driver. Greetz, Jo

Re: Making new tasks known to tasksel (2)

2000-12-29 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I am not sure whether this has been mentioned before, but running 'Update' from within dselect adds the tasks to tasksel. j Holger Rauch wrote: > > Hi all! > > I forgot to mention something in my last mail concerning this issue. I > didn't run "tasksel" right after "apt-cdrom add". What I did

Re: qt 2.2.3 for debian

2000-12-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 29 December 2000 15:08, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: > Hi, > I searched and searched but didn't find any qt packages for debian. > Does anybody know, where to download them? > > Please reply to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not on > debian-user. http://kde.tdyc.com -- Bud

Tools for creating a movie from a sequence of images?

2000-12-29 Thread Michael A. Miller
Are there any tools (or libraries) in Debian that will allow me to create an animation from a sequence of images? Mike

What /potato/main/disks-i386/ image to burn into CDR

2000-12-29 Thread csj
Having been converted to the Debian download-as-needed way, I am now reluctant to download entire ISO's of irrelevant .debs (either raw or thru the pseudo image kit). Now, what I want to know is: what floppy image from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/ do I need to down

Re: kernel: scsi conflict

2000-12-29 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:46:05AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > But when starting LILO and adding: > linux aha152x=0x340,11 > everything works fine. > > The problem is, I can not use LILO, because the image is supposed to work > on a diskless workstation. When you load this image via tftp as Net

Re: emacs & w3m -- "Cannot open load file: poe"

2000-12-29 Thread kmself
on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:41:45AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:02:11AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > I'm reaquainting myself with emacs after a several years absense. > > > > Discovered there's a w3m mod

Re: formatting mod

2000-12-29 Thread Jon Pennington
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of > 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem? > > Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc), > deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could > lat

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread JD Kitch
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I determine > > the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1, and then for the internal > > machine? > i use 192.168.*.* fo

Re: Home network with Debian

2000-12-29 Thread Pascal Hos
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:37 pm, JD Kitch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:01:25AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:35:33PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > Is that the only file that needs to be changed? How do I > > > determine the IP, netmask, and gateway for eth1,

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