Re: strange permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
>on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:18:08AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:03:19AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: >> > ?---rwS--- 28781 14368285154294967295 Sep 29 1997 beta_test.frm >> > >> > ive never seen this before! the permissions (and fil

Re: PPPD dying unexpectadly

2001-01-15 Thread Mircea Luca
> warfride wrote: > > I'm trying to connect to the internet on my potato(2.2r0) box. > > I use an onboard PCTEL modem and it's driver (yes it's a winmodem, but > it has a driver and it worked on RedHat) > > I've used WvDial to manage the connection, but have used various > others ie, Gnomes one,

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:26:18PM -0500, jake wrote: > I'm only a beginner but I understand that python is an excellent tool > for what you seek. it comes with tkinter which is cross platform gui > toolkit. Python is also rediculously easy to get and install on any > platform. > Python also has

Re: Backup techniques

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Alexander Steinert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to know which programs and strategies you (would) use to backup > *one* debian box. In one case I have available a CD-Burner as backup > device and in the other case a 640MB MO drive.

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:39:54PM +0100, Andreas Gartus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Everybody! > > I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using > Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the > app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( > Does an

Re: strange permissions

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:05:06PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:18:08AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:03:19AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > >> > ?---rwS--- 28781 1436828515429

debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread Tristan
I use win2k on a non-network computer with only 1 HD (8gigs), and i want to also install debian. I still need windows for a few things, but would use debian more often. I want to install both on my hd, and be able to boot up debian without needing a floppy. I've installed linux with win95 before, b

Sound Blaster 16 PCI

2001-01-15 Thread Joshua Kruck
I have been trying for a few weeks to get my Sound Blaster 16 PCI card to work. I had it working under 2.2.17. I am now having no luck getting it to work using 2.2.18pre21. I have been trying to get OSS to install, as this is what I had done before. It keeps telling me that i dont have the kernel s

**NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Kristian Rink
> P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > and ask thm for open drivers. I agree whole-heartedly with you on that, since even being quite happy with the performance of their TNT / GeForce stuff, t

Re: Network settings and ppp

2001-01-15 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Elizabeth R. Chichester wrote: > Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I was > thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through > eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything > set up. Specifically,

Re: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread Mircea Luca
Tristan wrote: > > I use win2k on a non-network computer with only 1 HD (8gigs), and i want to > also install debian. I still need windows for a few things, but would use > debian more often. I want to install both on my hd, and be able to boot up > debian without needing a floppy. > I've installe

Re: Installing Debian on PowerEdge 4300 with PERC 2 (Megaraid) controller (Partial Success)

2001-01-15 Thread William Cooper
Hi all, thanks for responding people. I did eventually get it to install and work right... kinda. I reconfigured that raid controller to raid 0 and it works like a charm. The downside is I lost all redunancy and oviously this cannot be used as a production server. To get it working I used the

potato libc6 and libc6-dev update broke stuff

2001-01-15 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have noticed that after upgrading potatos libc6 and libc6-dev package a few days ago I cannot compile nor openssl nor openssh on that machine, but I have compiled it from the same packages a day before the update. Can I fix this in any way? Thx in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONA

installing very new packages?

2001-01-15 Thread Erik Reuter
I am new to Debian (coming from Mandrake) and I don't yet know how to do things the "Debian Way" so please excuse my ignorance and naive questions. I have tried to read the documentation but the packaging system is difficult for me to understand with all the different programs out there (apt, dsele

'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie: drw-r-Sr-- -Rob

Re: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread romain lerallut
Hi, I've used debian and win2k on the same computer w/o any problem: I was able to boot with a standard-issue lilo , and no need for the win2k bootloader neither. Bye Romain PS in case you encounter a problem here is a patch: "format c:" :-) Begin Original Message From: "Tristan" <

RE: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Fernando Carvajal
it's the suid bit but the file have no execution permission see http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/Archives/Units/1998/Autumn/85321_Systems_Admin istration/Old_Stuff/1997_Website/Communication/Mailing_lists/1997/WWW_Archiv e/March/msg00061.html Regards -Mensaje original- De: Rob VanFleet [m

Re: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:21:01AM +0100, Fernando Carvajal wrote: > it's the suid bit but the file have no execution permission Why would that exist on a directory one just untarred? I noticed this right after I untarred a tar.gz and was subsequently unable to cd into it, for why I don't know.

Re: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what > does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie: > > drw-r-Sr-- It means the s bit is set, but the x bit is *not* set. Not used very much...

Re: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:34:04AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Why would that exist on a directory one just untarred? Ugh, never mind about the above, I wasn't thinking. Any clues as to why I would not be able to cd into the directory though? > I noticed this > right after I untarred a tar.gz an

trn posting problem

2001-01-15 Thread blair . kelly
I am using Debian 2.2r2 (potato) and am having a problem posting with trn (trn_3.6-13_i386) that apt-get installed. I am using trn while connected to my ISP (in other words, I am reading news off of my ISP's news server). I attempt to post via : : End of newsgroup misc.test : : What next? f [M

Re: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:34:04AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Why would that exist on a directory one just untarred? > Ugh, never mind about the above, I wasn't thinking. > > Any clues as to why I would not be able to cd into the directory though? You need the 'x' bit se

re: Re: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Taylor
-- Original Email -- >Bye >Romain > >PS in case you encounter a problem here is a patch: "format c:" :-) Wouldn't that be d:? ... Ok... where did I put my damnable cigarettes!

Re: Potato and Kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Stefan Nobis
Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable > are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2 > system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able): > > deb http://www.snobis.de/debian extras/ke

RE: NVidia, Open Your Eyes (and Sources!) (was: Re: Nvidia + 2. 4)

2001-01-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
wouldn't dell be creating 'some' drivers ? they include redhat in 'some' installs so ... worth checking out ? cya J.L. -Original Message- From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:49 AM To: DebianList Subject: NVidia, Open Your Eyes (and Sources!) (

Depending package

2001-01-15 Thread Davide Sandini
Hi, from control file: netscape-base-475.deb depends on: netscape-base-4 however I can't find such file in all debian-mirrors I search for. Any Idea? -- Davide Sandini Ind:Via Mure 4 , 36070 Tezze di Arzignano (Vicenza) ITALY E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+39 082053

Re: ftp problems

2001-01-15 Thread Davide Sandini
ktb wrote: > > I'm having trouble using ftp or ncftp from my debian box. It is > behind a firewall but I can ftp from my freebsd box and from the > firewall box. I ran "ncftp -D ftp.gnu.org" and get the following - Hi, i have (I think similar) problem with ftp uploading .zip or .jpg files Outpu

RE: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
look up some decent how-to, this proved to be a real p.i.t.a with me installation the win2k bootloader was allready installed and gave lilo a really hard time i've read on this list that grub is much nicer J.L. -Original Message- From: romain lerallut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon

Re: GDM dont work

2001-01-15 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi all, thanks for trying to help, and sorry for the late answer. Yes gdm was working fine before. And now it is displaying a pretty image and i can type a user name and its pass normaly and then gdm tries to start a win manager but then instead of having wmaker working, it goes back to the gdm

Slackware --> Debian (?)

2001-01-15 Thread clemsurf
I have an old copy of Slackware installed. It uses kernel 2.0.27. Snce I have not had a lot of time to investigate Linux I am still somewhat of a novice. (Having a relatively good command of the language I never use "newbie"). I do, however, want to know if it is possible, or even desireable, t

MAIL environment variable.

2001-01-15 Thread Jools Smyth
previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed something as this no longer works. i can ofcourse i could put something into .bashrc but i want a

Re: NVidia, Open Your Eyes (and Sources!) (was: Re: Nvidia + 2.4)

2001-01-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > and ask thm for open drivers. > > Of course they are aware of Open Source, but a friendly

Re: telnet ...Connection refused

2001-01-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Debian User wrote: > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in > /etc/hosts.deny, Adding a

Re: Slackware --> Debian (?)

2001-01-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:03:25AM -0600, clemsurf wrote: > I have an old copy of Slackware installed. It uses kernel 2.0.27. > > Snce I have not had a lot of time to investigate Linux I am still > somewhat of a novice. (Having a relatively good command of the language > I never use "newbie").

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At > present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions, > commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser dip. > Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user get

pppd error

2001-01-15 Thread rafael sá
Jan 10 22:13:57 xonadinho kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled Jan 10 22:13:57 xonadinho kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Jan 10 22:13:57 xonadinho kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Jan 10 22:16:45 xonadinho mcedit: /dev/gpmctl: Connection r

Re: Potato and Kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread fm
Stefan Nobis wrote: > > Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from > > unstable > > are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2 > > system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able): > > > >

Re: bad superblock

2001-01-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> installed under sid=unstable the new kernel with the >> latest lilo now i can't boot the normal way, it stops >> when mounting my root partition, with an superblock >> error, and the option to maintain with the root >> password, or strg+d to boot normal way. with strg+d >> it reboots, and with t

Re: NVidia, Open Your Eyes (and Sources!) (was: Re: Nvidia + 2.4)

2001-01-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:26:05PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > > and ask thm for

(newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread c-3
Hi! Can anybody help me how to change my display resolution? Right now I just have 640*480 with (I think) 16bpp, but I would like to have 1024*768 with at least 16bpp. Is it right that I just have to change something in the etc/XF86Conf ? I didn't change the values so far, because I don't want so

Re: MAIL environment variable.

2001-01-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jools Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the > MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail > spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed > something as this no longer works. Start a login

Re: proper, debian location of latex files

2001-01-15 Thread Giulio Morgan
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giulio Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained from CTAN? > > Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in addition to the > > /usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained from sou

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Can anybody help me how to change my display resolution? > Right now I just have 640*480 with (I think) 16bpp, but I would like > to have 1024*768 with at least 16bpp. 1) make a backup copy of XF86Config, just in case; 2) install (if you didn't yet) xserver-svga, and make it your default x serve

Re: bad superblock

2001-01-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
>> installed under sid=unstable the new kernel with the latest >> lilo now i can't boot the normal way, it stops when mounting >> my root partition, with an superblock error, and the option >> to maintain with the root password, or strg+d to boot normal >> way. with strg+d it reboots, and with the

apache-php-mysql

2001-01-15 Thread Dominic Blythe
anyone know of a .deb for this lot that includes php4? ie apache with php4 compiled in, php4 and mysql? pls copy reply direct, ta. __ Dominic Blythe Programmer

cannot create image using make

2001-01-15 Thread Karel Rous
I've tried to create iso image od debian disk using that make-pseudo-image ~/debian/make-pseudo-image ~/debian/binary-i386-1_NONUS.list ftp://rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/debian ( I tested other sites as well... ) but after downloading 646,000,000 it wrote me following Generating file list

Re: cannot create image using make

2001-01-15 Thread Lamer
after doing that, do a rsync to the debian genuine CD image. - Original Message - From: "Karel Rous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:12 PM Subject: cannot create image using make > I've tried to create iso image od debian disk using that > make-pseudo-image

radius-livingston 2.1

2001-01-15 Thread Florian Steurer
hey! I need some help with radius-livingston 2.1, hope I'm not in the wrong list, couldn't find the right list a livingston.com. Anyway, that's the problem: I run radius 2.1, the users were in the -file and the password was in plain-text. Now I use the "Crypt-Password" check item - that means I'm a

Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
Help! That said, here's the scenario: I've been back and forth btwn distros a bit in the last few months. I've finally settled on Debian for now, and I really need to get sound up and working. I have previously used sndconfig in RedHat, so I pointed my sources.list to unstable and installed snd

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-15 Thread cls/cs
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0800, Michael Madden wrote: > When I used dpkg to install the new modutils package, > it gave me the option of installing a new /etc/modules > file. If you choose yes, it gives you a basic > /etc/modules files just with comments. You'll > need to put in a line

security updates?

2001-01-15 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, doing an apt-get -u dist-upgrade appears libc6*, locales as new packages in security.debian.org but no advice was mailed nor published in security.debian.org. So are they real or someone has hacked security.debian.org ? -- __ Felipe Alva

Re: Depending package

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:02:59PM +0100, Davide Sandini wrote: > Hi, > from control file: > netscape-base-475.deb > depends on: > netscape-base-4 > however I can't find such file in all debian-mirrors I search for. > Any Idea? > Take a look at - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages If you use

Re: telnet ...Connection refused

2001-01-15 Thread irvine
>Mine is this: > >smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs Thanks alot Michael. I actually inserted that line myself - hence the mistake :-). Your suggestion was spot on. Thanks a million. T:Irvine

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:59:09PM +0100, c-3 wrote: > Hi! > > Can anybody help me how to change my display resolution? > Right now I just have 640*480 with (I think) 16bpp, but I would like > to have 1024*768 with at least 16bpp. > Is it right that I just have to change something in the etc/XF86

Re: security updates?

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:13:13PM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > doing an apt-get -u dist-upgrade appears libc6*, locales as new > packages in security.debian.org but no advice was mailed nor published > in security.debian.org. > > So are they real or someone has hacked secu

raid

2001-01-15 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I trying to setup software raid on a debian system. I using kernel 2.2.18 but the newest raid patch at www.kernel.org seams to be to for 2.2.11. Can this patch be used for 2.2.18 ??? If so how does one apply the patch ?? (I never patched the kernel before). Knud

Re: raid

2001-01-15 Thread Lamer
the command should be cat [patchfile] | patch -p[patch degree] - Original Message - From: "Knud S鷨ensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: raid > Hi > > I trying to setup software raid on a debian system. > > I using kernel 2.2.18 > but the newest

Re: raid

2001-01-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi > > I trying to setup software raid on a debian system. > > I using kernel 2.2.18 > but the newest raid patch at www.kernel.org > seams to be to for 2.2.11. > Can this patch be used for 2

How to get a Netmeeting conection through a "firewall"

2001-01-15 Thread Michael Bürkle
hello, i have to get a netmeeting connection out of our internal network (192.168.0.0/24) through a masqerading gateway or vice versa. when our employees try to connect over the microsoft messenger service it transmits the private IP which obviously won't work. our "network administrator" is some

Re: radius-livingston 2.1

2001-01-15 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:30:50PM +0100, Florian Steurer wrote: > hey! > I need some help with radius-livingston 2.1, hope I'm not in the wrong > list, couldn't find the right list a livingston.com. Anyway, that's the > problem: I run radius 2.1, the users were in the -file and the > password was

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-15 Thread Francisco M . Neto
» Jonathan D. Proulx disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:15:30PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > :but if you kill the netscape process, then it > :isn't still running somewhere on your machine and > :deleting the lock file is perfectly valid. > :isn't it? > :comments anyone? > > Perf

Re: Running fetchmail as daemon - mail goes to postmaster

2001-01-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:43:19 -0600 > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I couldn't get that to work when I used 'on this system', nor can I see > > those as allowed 'noise' words in the documentation. What works for me > > is just plain old: > > > > u

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread Francisco M . Neto
» mike said this and I say that: > On at 11:39 on Sun 14 Jan, Stefan Srdic wrote: > > mike wrote: > > > > > Well i use es1371 also, but lsmod only shows es1371. In > any case you > > > can try modprobe es1371 and it will automatically load any dependencies. > > > Its been working

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread Justin B Rye
Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > 1) make a backup copy of XF86Config, just in case; This can be a riskier step than it sounds - let me share a tale of an obscure gotcha. It goes like this: 1) gather a collection of interesting XF86-related files to study 2) put them in a directory called ~/XF86Config 3)

Re: audio filesystem

2001-01-15 Thread Francisco M . Neto
» Angel said this and I say that: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. > > probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. > > iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. > > Of course the audio CDs ar not iso9660, they are

Re: Additional PHP Modules?

2001-01-15 Thread Cam Turner
Hi again, I think I sent this before in HTML, and thus didn't get any responses.. Sorry.. New email client that has since been re-configured :) I'm still curious as I'd prefer not to have to compile all of PHP myself... Can anyone help me? Previous message -- Hello All, Quick Questi

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread John Carline
Kristian Rink wrote: > > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > > and ask thm for open drivers. > > I agree whole-heartedly with you on that, since even being quite happy with > the performanc

RE: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am in the course of building a dual p3 system. What I've got now is a TYAN 1832 dual processor board, specs are at http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tiger100_p.html. It uses the Intel 440BX AGPset, and is the same board that VALinux uses in their dual processor system, specs

Re: raid

2001-01-15 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi! Phil Brutsche schrieb: > > RAID patches for 2.2.18 are at http://www.linux-raid.org. > Better try ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.18-B0 This is the newest patch for the stable release of 2.2.18-kernel. Bye, Norman. -- -- Norman Schmidt U

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing > > distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I > > have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is > > really wrong. > > You wouldn'

Subject: Can't find /etc/X11/*

2001-01-15 Thread Tom Schuetz
I'm trying to configure X11, but can't find /etc/X11, even though xf86config says it's writing its configuration to that directory. Also, once the X-server is started, how do I safely shut it down from a command line? When I hit ^alt-DEL, it just brings me back to the XDM login; I can get othe

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Terry Warner
Has anyone stopped to think that maybe nvidia can't open source their drivers? I know for a fact they can't because of certain things, that if anyone has paid attention to game boards or interviews, restrict them from open sourcing their code. I personally would love to see their 4.0 drivers re

Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hi all! I'm using an nvidia card and I have a problem with compiling OpenGL apps with it: cc -o origami origami.o -L../libglut -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/home/romain/OpenGL/opengl_for_x/glut/libglut -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lm origami.o: In function `display': origami.o(.text+0x6

tdyc.kde.com down

2001-01-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Has anyone heard of what happened to this site or an ETA of return? tia -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux w

Re: Subject: Can't find /etc/X11/*

2001-01-15 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:37:41AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I'm trying to configure X11, but can't find /etc/X11, even though xf86config > says it's writing its configuration to that directory. > What do you mean you can't find /etc/X11 ? $ cd /etc/X11 should take you there. If you can't

Re: 'S' permissions -- in home dir?

2001-01-15 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:11:53AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what > does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie: > > drw-r-Sr-- I have a related question: How come almost every file in my home directory has s or S permissions set? Even

AArghl ! windows + apache + asp

2001-01-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Gasp Gasp ...   I'm close to chocking by nervous convulsions   Trying to install Apache:ASP on a Windows 2000 system have to do it ... will install on Debian tonight (like a breeze i suspect) http://www.apache-asp.org   Why DOES it NOT work on windows 2000 ?   Does anyone know about some i

Re: Subject: Can't find /etc/X11/*

2001-01-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:37:41AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > > I'm trying to configure X11, but can't find /etc/X11, even though > > xf86config says it's writing its configuration to that directory. > > > > What do you mean you can't find /etc/X11 ? > $ cd

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-15 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:07:12PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # X: The "xhost localhost" thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do > I > # need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're > # logged into X as my user? >

Re: OT: Any Linux-based PhotoID software?

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My university creates ID cards for students using a small camera > attached to a Windows box running PhotoCard software. I am getting > mighty tired of trying to keep this Winblows box running. Does anyone > have any leads on high-quality photo imaging/idcar

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Tom" == Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? > Tom> Thanks! > > grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is > still manual, but I could be mi

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not grub, but GAG is Great !!! > > http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm > > Works off a "floppy" where you can try it over and over > before you actually write it to your HD. Same thing for grub, plus there is a Debian package fo

asian and cyrillic fonts with netscape

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, which packages and/or magic incantations are needed to be able to read asian and russian web pages with netscape. I know for the former there are the netscape-{ja|ko|zh}-resource-476 packages available, but is it sufficient to install them? And what about russian? Thanks for your answers,

Re: Cross-Platform Development?

2001-01-15 Thread Scott Patterson
>I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using >Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the >app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( >Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can >you recommend a language or a toolkit? (I

Re: Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Casey Webster
Are you using the nvidia openGL libs? if so, your problem is likely that you are using nvidia libs, and mesa headers. There should be some headers in the nvidia_glx download, you should use those instead of the current headers and the problem should clear up. If there are no headers in that tarb

Re: Will 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.17' work OK?

2001-01-15 Thread Zach Loafman
Brad Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The kernel-image-* packages all seem to be compiled for uniprocessor > support.. At this point I just compile the kernel myself (I have an SMP > system), but if there are any SMP versions I'm not seeing, could someone > point me to them? Compiling the k

Re: apache-php-mysql

2001-01-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
php4 is a seperate deb from apache, just 'apt-get install php4-mysql' to get the mysql version, it will handle the dependancies for you. -Rob On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:42:08PM -, Dominic Blythe wrote: > anyone know of a .deb for this lot that includes php4? > > ie apache with php4 compiled

Re: gtv, mozilla, and X questions

2001-01-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I think the correct syntax is 'xhost +localhost'. However, > > if that doesn't work, maybe 'xhost +127.0.0.1'. > > I tried both localhost and +localhost -- both of them used to work for > me in X 3, but neither of them work for me in X 4. > > xhost +127.0.0.1 didn't work either. Tried all thos

Re: How to get a Netmeeting conection through a "firewall"

2001-01-15 Thread Tom Marshall
Your best bet is to convince your "network administrator" to use masq modules for these things. I believe netmeeting uses H.323. I remember seeing an H.323 module at http://ipmasq.cjb.net/. I just wrote a microsoft messenger module yesterday (what a coincidence!) You should be able to login with

Need Tips/Tricks & Doc locations re: compiling for SMP performance.

2001-01-15 Thread John Foster
I want to see if compiling applications for SMP will help speed up some applications. I am seeking locations of Docs, How-Tos, mailing lists, & news groups where this subject is paramount. I am especially interested in info regarding any special commands for using apt-get with sources that will yie

Re: running sshd on startup

2001-01-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting John S. J. Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Could somebody tell me what I need to frob to get sshd to run > automatically when I restart my computer? There's a file, > /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run, which seems to be installed by one of the > ssh debs[1], and it also seems to prevent automati

Re: Compiling OpenGL apps for Nvidia

2001-01-15 Thread Romain Lerallut
well I kinda fixed it, by adding #undef GL_EXT_polygon_offset at the top of my program. And it works. ??? I didn't look too hard for SGI-issued headers, since I got that fixed, but I'm interested by the "real" ones :-) if anyone comes across them... Thanks for your help, Romain Case

win4lin and 2.4.0 kernel

2001-01-15 Thread Brian Stults
Has anyone had any luck getting win4lin to work with the 2.4.0 kernel? I've got 2.4.0 working properly, but now I'd like to use win4lin and they only have kernel patches available for up to 2.2.17. Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany

Re: tdyc.kde.com down

2001-01-15 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
It appears that the http service is down, but the ftp service is still up: deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1apps On Monday 15 January 2001 12:43, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone heard of what happened to this site or an ETA of return? > > tia --

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:35:42AM -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Help! > > That said, here's the scenario: I've been back and forth > btwn distros a bit in the last few months. I've finally > settled on Debian for now, and I really need to get sound > up and working. I have previously used sndc

Permissions 101

2001-01-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
I'm trying to understand the suid bit. So I created a little script to list a file that I don't as a normal user have permission to read, namely /var/log/user.log. Here's the data, starting with the permissions on user.log: $ ls -l /var/log/user.log -rw-r-1 root adm 2838 Jan 1

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Scott Patterson
>Has anyone stopped to think that maybe nvidia can't open >source their drivers? I know for a fact they can't because >of certain things, that if anyone has paid attention to >game boards or interviews, restrict them from open sourcing >their code. I'm curious as what prevents them from "openin

Re: trying to install ALSA

2001-01-15 Thread David A. Rogers
James, No, the symlink is ok. AFAIK, there are a number of files that ALSA wants/needs that only exist after you have built the kernel once. If there is any other way to create these, I'd like to hear it. See my Debian University document for more information: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debi

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread Kristian Rink
And Terry Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave word to the following thoughts: -|Has anyone stopped to think that maybe nvidia can't open source their drivers? I know for a fact they can't because of certain things, that if anyone has paid attention to game boards or interviews, restrict them from open

Debian Boot Floppy & /boot w/ initrd image on hard disk

2001-01-15 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I've been trying to create a bootable CD-ROM from my /boot directory on my hard drive. That directory contains a custom kernel (with LVM support), an initrd image which is simlilar to the debian root floppy but with LVM user tools and a full glibc 2.1.3 added, so that I can create volume group

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