changing timezone?

i found a file /etc/timezone, and i changed in from GMT-0, to GMT-8, but, date still reports GMT. is there any way to change this the timezone? it's really messing up my e-mail and when i got it. thanks -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "I don't like this air, but that doesn't mean I'm

Re: Network Throughput

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > > box,

Re: changing timezone?

Okay, this sounds like a recent problem i had, timezone doesn't set as you described it in /etc/timezone untill you restart your system, that's how it worked. Anyway, if someone knows a better way, I'll be interressed to know ;-) NiColAs Dérooté ? - Original Message - From: "Forrest Eng

Re: changing timezone?

rebooting doesn't do the trick for me. On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:11:54 +0100, NiColAs Karageuzian said: > Okay, this sounds like a recent problem i had, timezone doesn't set as you > described it in /etc/timezone untill you restart your system, that's how it > worked. > > > Anyway, if someo

Re: Problems with kernel recompiling

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:56:58AM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > David Benfell wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:40:36AM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > > > > > > I want to recompile the kernel. I config and compiling went without any > > > problem (I am trying 2.2.18pre21 static on woody).

Re: Package Config Diffs

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:02:15AM -0500, Fredrick Paul Eisele wrote: > For system administration... In order to reconstruct a system... It > is easy/rivial to get a list of all the instaned packages on a > machine. But, getting a list of the modified configuration files > (presuming any modifie

Re: changing timezone?

Forrest English wrote: >rebooting doesn't do the trick for me. tzconfig -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG:

Re: changing timezone?

Use the "tzconfig" program. There's more than one file that needs to be updated. Reboot shouldn't be required. -- Eric G. Miller

XF86Config for X version4.xx

Hi all, Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. Cheers, Timothy Walsh __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holi

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability > for LaTeX Try the following: Select (in Xemacs) Options, customize, apropos, font-lock and activate font-lock-mode and font-lock-maximum-decoration Set it and s

libtool broken (was Re: Gcc broken. How to fix?)

matthschulz wrote: > > What about removing libtool with --force and then installing it back? Nope. No change. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dpkg --purge libtool (Reading database ... 44436 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libtool ... dpkg - warning: while removing libtool, directory `/

Re: Network Throughput

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:07:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > > machin

Video 4 Linux old in Kernerl 2.2.17?

This eMail was already checked for viruses by TrendMicro InterScan!!! Hi, i have problems with my haupauge tv card, it trashes the text mode screen. I got the info that the driver in the kernel is old, where can i get a deb-package with an actual driver? thanks Haug

Re: Is there a nice graphical front end available for gpg or pgp ?

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:34:04PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: > > I am looking for a graphical front end for gpg and or pgp. Possibly qt or > > gtk > > based. Is geheimnis packaged already ? > > Check out the GnuPG home page at http://www.gnupg.org/, it has a list of many > front-ends available.

Re: Imac CD install problem

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > You may want to subscribe to the debian-powerpc (or is it debian-ppc?) > mailing list and ask questions there. You're much more likely to hit > someone who's knowledgeable about the iMac platform there. yes indeed, though his problem l

Re: Internet for normal users & /usr/local

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:39:35AM -0200, Hammurabi Mendes wrote: > I am doing some configuration now, and installing new programs, but I > would like not to desorganize the system or compromise the system > security, and I have 2 questions: > > Is /usr/local the right place to put executables tha

Re: Problems with kernel recompiling

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > You didn't forget to compile in UNIX socket support? I can hardly think > of a reason not to (embedded system?). Not having UNIX sockets will > break many programs. > Well, I did (don't ask why). Now it is working. One more problem. I am getting an error: ipchain

compiling X apps (Woody)

What packages are need to compile an X app? after a ./configure I get... checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! Thanks, Shaun

apt-get error "kdebase-crypto has no available version"

I get this error after an "apt-get install kdebase-crypto"... Package kdebase-crypto has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:47:15PM -0700, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > > > Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books > > on the list, but nothing definitive... > > can anyone recomend a good system > > administration/network administration book?

Re: Memory leakage

on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:36:38PM -0500, D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:05:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > $ fuser -v bigfile # show process(es) using bigfile > > $ fuser -vk bigfile # kill process(es) using bigfi

Re: debian on a red hat system

on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:54:19PM -0700, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Veit Waltemath wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley wrote: > > > Hi > > > I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would > > > like to be able to insta

Re: X in startup

on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:20:47AM +0530, N. Raghavendra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:23:30AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > > does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the > > command line using startx? > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > after booting up pr

Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx

Timothy Walsh hat gesagt: // Timothy Walsh wrote: > Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring > the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been > abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. I took xf86cfg from xbase-clients for this task, but you can even use XFre

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > >> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > >> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > >> > kernels ne

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

On 03-Jan-01 Nate Duehr wrote: > Would midnight on the 1st work? Just a thought. > > There's no situations I can think of where the first of the month > doesn't exist in most locales, since daylight savings changes > officially > at 2 AM in places that do that. > > (like here... grrr) > > On Tu

nis (yp) and large group files.

We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or it may be a

Re: debian on a red hat system

[EMAIL PROTECTED], >If you can't be helpful, be silent. >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Veit Waltemath wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley wrote: >> > I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I } would like to be able to install debian packages on my system } As I se

XDM startup screen

Howdy, After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better background images available and where can I find them. TIA Koen --- On the

FIXED : Re: libtool broken (was Re: Gcc broken. How to fix?)

Hi all, The only way I could get libtool working again, was to install it from source (bypassing dpkg) and then with that working libtool reinstallation went fine. This suggests that libtool is recursively dependant on itself. This can be proved as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > apt-get remove

Re: XDM startup screen

xbanner Koen Colpaert wrote: > > Howdy, > > After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to > Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey > xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better > background images available and

Restarting Apache as non-root

Hello all [please CC me on replies] Is there a way to restart Apache gracefully as a non-root user? I don't want to write a wrapper suid program and I don't want to execute the shell script (doing the graceful restart) as root. I mean, Apache is already up and running as root (father process),

Re: docbook and pagesize

/ Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | There is a lot of info in the docbook stylesheet docs but you kind of have | to eke it out. Norm gives an example of the driver file in his DocBook book | which is available online (somewhere). http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/ch04.html#AEN

Re: apt-get error "kdebase-crypto has no available version"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I get this error after an "apt-get install kdebase-crypto"... >Package kdebase-crypto has no available version, but exists in the database. >This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and >never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with

Re: nis (yp) and large group files.

Hi, I'm not sure what the limit is (I suspect 256 characters). We had a similar issue with our everybody net group (all the machines on the net work). I think the way around this is a hurd of sub groups which are within the limit and the master group referencing the subgroups rather than the memb

back to stable

Hi I have a problem. I usually run stable, but some hours ago i needed a db front-end. So, I change to unstable and did. apt-get update apt-get install gnome-db apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 The installation failed and now I am left with a broken system. 1) So,

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability > > for LaTeX > > Try the following: > > Select (in Xemacs) Options, customize, apropos, font-lock > > and activate

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ray Percival wrote: > I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online > the website not worth buying. There are a couple of books on the kernel > one has all the source and comments (INAC so I have not looked at it) > I also noticed that O'Reilly has a

Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:32:44AM +, Barry Samuels wrote: > I have tried recording using a number of different Linux > applications (e.g. khdrec, kmedia, krecord, gramofile) for > recording together with different mixers ( e.g. kmix, aumix ) and > various versions of the Emu modules but all t

Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

Hi, I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a line that says "Unexpected response from POP3 server". It keeps on doing this on the second message, no mat

Packages list.

Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is there an easy way to make a custom CD for Debian, or do you have to go through the or

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped > functioning. When I go to check my e-mail, it gives me "Internal > Error" followed by a line about submitting a bug report, then a > line that says "Unexpected respon

su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. How could i make it so that su will use that.. Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand!

Sendmail

Hello people. A wonderfull millenium to you all. I have installed sendmail to function as a internal mail server for my intranet. I think sendmail rejects mail for the internet by default. I do want to reject mail sent to the internet but I want to send a error message to the sender. If someone k

Upgrade to Xfree version4

Hi, How does one upgrade the version 3.3.6 XFree86 with version 4. I am running the woody distro. Thanks, Alan

Re: changing timezone?

Forrest English wrote: > > rebooting doesn't do the trick for me. > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:11:54 +0100, NiColAs Karageuzian said: > > > Okay, this sounds like a recent problem i had, timezone doesn't set as you > > described it in /etc/timezone untill you restart your system, that's how it > >

tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter

__ I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on my hp c3010 harddrive using a tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter. if I use the 1.44 boot disk images (linux 2.2.18) i allways get an error "invalid command interrupt... kernel panic no recovery". However i have discovered that ftp.tekram.com

Re: mouse configuration

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote: > This thread about mouse configuration got me to try to get 'gpm' and X > co-operating again, and I was successful this time. Let me explain my > setup. Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing about "gpm". I can't recall all the com

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. im not sure why su resets that, probably some security reason. i woul

clock-chip autoprobe problems

Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Meanwhile, X will kind of start, but all I get is a blue screen and an immobile pointer. Is there a line I can just insert in a config file? Is my clo

Re: Upgrade to Xfree version4

Alan Langman wrote: > > Hi, > > How does one upgrade the version 3.3.6 XFree86 with version 4. I am > running the woody distro. Until a) glibc2.2 makes it into Woody again or b) Branden builds the debs against glibc2.1, your only hope is to use the debs made for Potato. The 4.0.1 debs for Potat

Re: clock-chip autoprobe problems

Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Using xf86config, when I run the autoprobe for a clock chip line, the screen > blanks, then comes back with an 'autoprobe call failed' error line. Why? Do you know for a fact that you need a clockchip setting? If you don't know this for a fact, you should NOT be probing

Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx

Timothy Walsh wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring > the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been > abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. Try: $ deXter# debian tool $ XFree86 -configure# preferred, non-int

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

> use fetchmail to fetch your mail and deliver it to your local MTA > which delivers it to your local mail spool. then have kmail just use > that instead of using pop3 itself. perhaps not the solution your > looking for but its far better then using MS Outhouse. Why would I need to do that? Is Km

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Bart" == Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Hi, I have to use Windows right now because Kmail has stopped Gulp! What's that "because..." There are dozens of options for retrieving and reading mail in Linux ... not only kmail M

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand! from "man

Fonts in browsers

Why is it that fonts (both truetype and not) show up fine in Netscape 4x and Mozilla, but in Opera or Konqueror, all fonts are the same for each page: a terribly ugly and badly scaled one for large text, and the same Helvetica-ish for regular content text, regardless of what the page specifies? Ap

Re: xinetd, tcpd (tcpwrappers), twist

-> 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 machi

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > Sorry.. i cant describe it better, hope you understand! >

Re: Upgrade to Xfree version4

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:44:25AM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > Until a) glibc2.2 makes it into Woody again or [snip] glibc2.2 is in woody. It got moved in a few days ago. X4 and Perl are apparently holding back a large share of other apps from moving into testing/woody. -Rob

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

Well, it's still doesn't work. I've added an options line in the /etc/modules.conf file specifying io=0x378 dma=3 irq=7. With lp reloaded, I see in the /proc/parport/0 that these options are set and that my printer is being seen. The syslog shows the following: Jan 4 07:36:20 localhost kern

Re: XDM startup screen

To quote Koen Colpaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # After some experimenting with Suse, Slackware and Mandrake I turned to # Debian. After installing and configuring X I was presented with a grey # xdm-display as a loginscreen. I was wondering if there aren't any better # background images available and

Re: back to stable

To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would require lots of new GNOME stuff : # 1) So, How do I return to stable ?? You remove each and every one of those 40 pac

Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?

-> I have a box I've set up at work as a CVS server, to accept CVS and -> SSH connections, mostly from Windows boxes on an internal network. -> Well, I installed Debian 2.2 stable on it and set it up to use DHCP to -> get it's IP, got CVS and SSH working, everything was fine. -> -> However, I was

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

> What's that "because..." > There are dozens of options for retrieving and reading mail in Linux > .. not only kmail > Monolithic (all-in-one) and gui-solutions are sylpheed, xfmail, > pronto...IIRC I've tried tons of these options and when I use them I'd feel like I'd be using more of a workaro

Re: Packages list.

To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # Is there a quick way to rebuild the Packages file under the binary-i386 # tree? In other words, I would like to download the files I want for # Debian to put on one CD, like KDE 2, netscape 4.76? In other words, is # there an easy way to make a custom CD for Deb

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > use fetchmail to fetch your mail and deliver it to your local MTA > > which delivers it to your local mail spool. then have kmail just use > > that instead of using pop3 itself. perhaps not the solution your > > looking for but its

Re: back to stable

"David B. Harris" wrote: > > To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 > > Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would > require lots of new GNOME stuff : > > # 1) So, How do I return to stable ?? > >

Re: back to stable

To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # That what i have tried to but some of the packets # pre or post remove scripts fails! # # So, is the any way to remove a packet without running them. ? Not that I know of, off the top of my head. 'man dpkg' to check for sure. Dave

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books > on the list, but nothing definitive... > can anyone recomend a good system > administration/network administration book? An addition to the other good recommendations you've received. _Unix_Backup_&_Recovery_ b

Re: Parallel Printer Port Problem

G'Day ! Well at least the laptop now sees the printer ... that is probably the hard part.  I think you now have to read the Printing-HOWTO very carefully, and make sure your permissions are correct (always bite me in the past  ;-) Are you able to print anythng on the printer (ASCII text perhaps)

Re: Is there a nice graphical front end available for gpg or pgp ?

-- Start of PGP signed section. > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:34:04PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: > > > I am looking for a graphical front end for gpg and or pgp. Possibly qt or > > > gtk > > > based. Is geheimnis packaged already ? > > > > Check out the GnuPG home page at http://www.gnupg.org/, it

how to remove bad inodes after fsck?

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Re: RES: Modem [Re: hardware]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rodrigo S. de Castro wrote: > > Eu tenho o Speedy (256k) com a Terra e funciona super bem, esqueci de citar que eu uso ISDN. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails

i810 compatible?

Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup -- ++-+ | Marcello Mezzanotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Amiga 1200/18Mb

ALSA with AWE64: help

Hi, I've had sound and MIDI working great on my box for the longest time with just the plain, non-alsa sound stuff (the OSS drivers?), and then I installed a package which also required the alsa-base package. Since then I haven't been able to use MIDI, and I suspect the digital audio I get is sti

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I've created a 200Mb Linux partition to house various downloaded files I intend to make accessible to a number of distros while I continue to test out ideas and learn. Having only dial-up modem access, this will let me save on 'phone charges (i.e. not d/loading the same thing into different distro

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Re: i810 compatible?

Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup You'd be a lot better off to get the Potato XFree86 4.0.1 packages. 3.3.6 and this chip don't play nicely toget

X window too big

thanks for all the help with the mouse and video card configuration. In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So when I open a new w

Re: back to stable

Knud =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"David B. Harris" wrote: >> To quote Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> # apt-get got over 40 packets to install including X windows 4.0 >> >> Not surprising. gnome-db is even now developmental software; it would >> require lots of ne

Re: i810 compatible?

Jon Pennington wrote: > > Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup > > You'd be a lot better off to get the Potato XFree86 4.0.1 packages. > 3.3.

Re: init dying with NFS root

I noticed the same problem. Linux 2.2.13 works, while 2.2.17 or higher does not. I installed 2.2.16 or 2.2.15 (I dont remember), and it works. Good luck Stefano Curtarolo On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tim Bell wrote: > I wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting,

Re: X window too big

> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, > the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the > size of my monitor screen and I have to move around > the whole X screen using the mouse. So > when I open a new window, I have to look around the > other 3/4 of the screen to see

Re: i810 compatible?

Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > Jon Pennington wrote: > > > > Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: > > > > > > Is i810 compatible with xfree potato? > > > 'cause i compiled 2.2.18 kernel (with i810 module (acitved) suport) > > > but x doesnt display a i810 driver in setup > > > > You'd be a lot better off to

Problems compiling alsa for 2.4 kernel

Hello. I've compiled alsa (0.5.10) for my kernel (test13-pre7) without problems. ThenI installed alsa-base, alsaconf and the modules: alsa-modules-2.4.0-test13-pre7_0.5.10-2+p0+2_i386.deb And ran alsaconf. Everything seems to work until alsaconf (or I) try to start alsa: # /etc/init.d/alsa st

Re: formatting new partition

To quote john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # It seems formatting can be done with 'mkfs' - most of the manpage # is (hopefully!) clear, but I have seen no guidance on what block # sizes would be appropriate or what the advantages/disadvantages # of different ones are. 512 and 8192 may well be the e

chroot II: What's wrong?

Hi! First of all: Thanks for your patience and thanks for your pointers for help. chroot() may not be the ultimate solution for running servers safely, but it seems to raise the bar for crackers quite effectively. For those who are interested: I found quite exactly what I was looking for o

Re: Quick questions

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04.01.01 06:49]wrote: > > I was wondering, could you get a base Debian system installed by > downloading from /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/: > > base2_2.tgz > images-1.44/rescue.bin > images-1.44/root.bin > > Then install the rest of the system

[repost] kernel-package problem?

Hello. Some days ago I've posted a message about kernel-packagee not cleaning the modules tree properly. Since then, I've also found a bug filed against alsa-source complaining about the same behavior. The problem is: should make-kpkg run "debian/rules clean" in those dirs or should it run "make

Re: font-lock, xemacs, latex

Giulio Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:06:49AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote: > > > At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability > > for LaTeX >Further investigation led me to add > (if window-system >(require 'font-latex)) > to my

Re: SCSI challenge

Which Advansys card do you have? In any case, this page could help. good luck, Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:50:35 -0800, David S. Bach wrote: >It's really nice to get X up with Debian. It really can be done in

Re: chroot II: What's wrong?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:59:02 +0100, R. M. Lampert wrote: >ROOT # chroot /bin/ /ls -l >chroot: cannot execute /ls: No such file or directory The libraries used by the binaries you want to run in the chroot-ed environment need to be in there as well. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine

FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

Hi, Maybe this is interesting for people with a Logitech Itouch or Cordless keyboard that is equipped with a dozen extra keys for controlling audio and internet related things. I'm using a cordless keyboard, XFree86 4.01 and the sawfish window manager (debian unstable). First step is to configure

woody broke tex?

these things always seem to happen right before a presentation... i have a definition for vectors: \renewcommand{\v}[1]{\ensuremath{{\bf\vec{#1 just recently, i found this produced vectors with a ~ symbol instead of the familiar vector symbol. previously, this macro always gave me n

Need bandwidth usage tool

My provider enforces a bandwidth limitation (5G download, 1G upload) per month above which they will charge me extra. I would like your recommendations as to which program I should run on my potato masquerading box to keep track of upload and download totals. I've looked at both mrtg and iptraf,

Re: FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

# I left the mute key out, as I haven't found a way yet to actually toggle # it on and off (I know you can mute it with amixer set Master mute and # unmute with amixer set Master unmute, but you'd need an extra script to # have it toggling between those values). Here's a quick script to make mute-

Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote: > > When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable. > > Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user.. > > How could i make it so that su will use that.. > > im not sure why su resets that, proba

Re: nis (yp) and large group files.

> We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use > for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong > to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these > files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or > i

Re: Network Throughput

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > > box, some streams have 1

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