libc6 2.2-4

2001-01-26 Thread Tomasz Barszczak
Hi, Does anyone know how can I find package libc6 version 2.2-4? Version 2.2-4 of libc6 is no longer available in unstable. Is there a general way to find older packages? I am investigating a possible break-in. Yes, I know, I should have run tripwire, but I didn't :(. Tomasz.

Re: multi os boot and sys commander

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
Oh yes I did experience that often. When you use Partition Magic to resize a linux partition (or move it), it looks like LILO get broken in the process. To restore LILO, simply boot with your debian cd, choosing the normal kernel. When you are in the installation, select a free virtual console and

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # For example, Why are so many packages from older version of programs. # For example X-chat, wwwoffle ,ncftp and even XFree's packages are from # very old versions of the actual programs. # I believe dpkg is the absolute best in terms of packaging sy

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
You don't need that "&" following the window manager. It can even prevent a window manager from working. Try that with window maker and you'll be bombed straight to the console. Coronya Debianized for now 37 days On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Pollywog wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:22:51 -0800 (PST),

Re: building pine from debs

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
I never liked mutt much either :). I have found that using the packages from Mandrake Cooker works pretty well. Just be sure to grab pine AND openssl. You convert them with alien (alien ) and you install them like you always do with deb. If you're interested: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-

Re: How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-26 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Aldo, I've installed it from the tar.gz without encountering any problems and it's working fine for me. I used the default setup or the files paths but you can customize (as i remember) some of them during the installation process Cheers Fabio "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > I used VMwar

3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Bill Bell
Hello all, I have a dual NIC system using two 3c509 cards. This configuration has been working well under sid with a 2.2.18 kernel (my current system). I have been trying to move up to a 2.4.0 kernel and I am having problems. My problem is when booting with the 2.4.0 kernel, both NIC cards have

Re: Compiling source .debs

2001-01-26 Thread Martin Albert
> >Anyway to get this to work with 'apt-get --compile source '? > >It would be really nice if there were a way to override the default > >compile flags on a system wide basis. Have a look at the simple doings of the pentium-builder pkg. The idea is quite extendable. greetings, martin -- Is t

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:29:09 -0500 (EST) "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for this post. Just downloaded it last night. Scarcely 70 kb. Excellent ! USM Bish > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > -|hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i hav

Re: How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Thanks. I was trying doing this (installing in /usr/local/ directories) but now it says my kernel-headers don't match my kernel. I got kernel-headers-2.2.18-1 and a custom-kernel compiled from kernel-source-2.2.18-1. What do you think? Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Hi Aldo, > I've ins

Re: I'm lost without linux.3dfx.com

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
Install device3dfx sources and tar zxfv it. Then read the doc in /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/debian/README.debian. For your convenience, here are the instructions: mknod /dev/3dfx c 107 0 (set permissions on /dev/3dfx, up to you) apt-get install device3dfx-source ta

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Ok. So, I understand I can make the change and dselect will just get the new versions as updates without any problem? I will install debian in another (workstation) machine. Can I install directly the "woody" version on it? Thanks for your help "David B. Harris" wrote: > > To quote "Dr. Aldo Medi

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Coronya
Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager... [...]. I was typing too fast so I didn't notice that the sentence was missing a word. Oops! ;) Coronya On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Coronya wrote: > System Commander is not a boot manager but if you're considering using it > then beware! I lost a ext2 p

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:57:56AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "David B. Harris" wrote: > > > > To quote "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > For example, Why are so many packages from older version of > > > programs. For example X-chat, wwwoffle ,ncftp and even X

Re: cpqarray issue

2001-01-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Eric" == Eric N Valor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got any bright ideas? Something interesting is that if I do a > "depmod -a", I get a rash of "unresolved symbols" but if I depmod the > modules individually it seems to work fine. I had to manually create the /dev/ida d

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
When I first tried my current PIII 800 with a WD 30Gb and a Seagate 20Gb, both ATA66, I got troubles that yield me to repartition my secondary master (Seagate), using SC. I then switched to PQ, which worked fine until now. Coronya wrote: > > Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager... [..

RE: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Isn't this just a netconfiguration issue ? At install of a debian system you can pass parameters to the module such as the media port (bnc,utp) i think you should read something on that instead. Don't really know where you should configure that. Dive into those How-To's :) Greets, Joris -

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-26 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:07:48PM -0500, Mike McGuire wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple > > > > > resolutions. > > > > > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > > > > > > > > > 2. How can I have

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-26 Thread Martin Würtele
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the > installation. > > If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it > displays just fine. However, if I type it in console mode, or in a

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, is it vital that both cards are loaded at boottime? What happens when you insmod the second card? How does the kernel behave when compiling the cards in? Perhaps you can try to leave the ',eth0' and ',eth1' at the bootline and let the kernel figure it out itself? Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri,

Re: ntpd not setting time

2001-01-26 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, brian moore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 1992 at 01:27:39AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > > it is serving the time fine to others but: > > it wont set my server's time from another time server > > > > I have entered "server... " lines into /etc/ntp.conf > > If your time is too far of

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 January 2001 15:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday I compiled a 2.4 kernel using make-kpkg. All seems to have gone > well. I used the pcmcia features in the kernel, and chose not to > separately compile pcmcia modules. All seems to work well, I boot fine, > start up pcmcia fin

Re: Linuxdoc DTD under Potato?

2001-01-26 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:07:21PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm trying to parse some LDP SMGL source docs on Potato, but am told by > Emacs that DTD LINUXDOC isn't found. Is it generally available for > Potato, and as what? Package sgmltools-2 (installed) claim

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:04:09PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I just tried it and I got an error message > > saying > > > "bad bitmap format file" > > > > > > Heh, don't know... sorry ;-( > > > > I've seen the program "xv" suggested before, >

A little sed

2001-01-26 Thread Hans
Three questions for the expers: - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from tags. I tried sed -e s/\// file.html > file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work. How do I go about it. - Is it possible to overwrite the original fil

Re: A little sed

2001-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Hans wrote: >Three questions for the expers: > >- I need to clean up a bunch of html files from tags. I >tried sed -e s/\// file.html > file.html2, but it only >deletes the first line, not the whole script. The /m modifier doesn't seem >to work. How do I go about it. If it only delet

Mbox mailbox --> postfix?...

2001-01-26 Thread Max Lock
Hi folks, I've got an mbox format mailbox file, which I want to reprocess through postfix. Does anyone know of a lump of perl etc. that's already been written that'll split-up and create the necessary mail files that I can dump into postfix's incoming mail dir? Long shot I know, I've got 211M

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Xucaen wrote: > Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > somewhere else instead of one you made with > > gimp ?? Speaking of gimp, > > how are you telling it what format to use ?? I > > think you have to tell > > gimp to use "jpg" or "bmp" format ... just > > naming it that way *may* not > > d

HELP! Debconf does not work

2001-01-26 Thread Preben Randhol
I installed a new version of debconf on my off-line computer and debconf asked me if I wanted dialog, slang, text etc.. I chose slang, but it appears that there is some perl module missing so that I cannot get that. Why doesn't debconf check this before it give me the choice? Subsequently I cannot

raid problems

2001-01-26 Thread Knud Sørensen
I have a raid1 device for which fsck returns a error. It says that the physical size of the device is 26000k but that the superblock says that the size is 26066k. if I run mkraid --upgrade it tells me that the physical size is 26066k and that the superblock starts at 26000k. What should i do to m

change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread Fernando Carvajal
does anyone know how can i change irq number for a soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard that uses the Alsa emu10k1 driver ? On booting it set IRQ 10 that it's shared with my ethernet card. In modules.conf i set options snd_irq=5; but if i do a cat /proc/interrupts i see IRQ 10 or so it seem. Thank

Re: Console question (2x)

2001-01-26 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello ! Have a look at the file /etc/inittab. There you should find a few lines like these: # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. # # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last # characters of the device (after "tty"). # # Format: # ::: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/

PS to HTML Conversion

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Does anybody know if there is anything avaliable to convert a PS document to HTML? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hi ! Why should it be preferable to track release status? You might accidentally upgrade your mission critical server to a new distribution when you just wished to install the newest security patches. A few details always break or have to be modified by hand. I think it is much safer to track re

Re: change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:09 +0100 "Fernando Carvajal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone know how can i change irq number for a soundblaster Live 1024 > soundcard that uses the Alsa emu10k1 driver ? On booting it set IRQ 10 that > it's shared with my ethernet card. > In modules.conf i set

Upgrade process halted

2001-01-26 Thread Brian Furry
Does anyone have any advice of how to fix a system that: during an upgrade to debian 2.2 the /usr partition becomes full and apt-get stops unpacking software due to the fact that their is no more space left on the /usr partition. Part of the system is upgraded, but about 20 packages still need to

Re: PS to HTML Conversion

2001-01-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:31:17PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Does anybody know if there is anything avaliable to convert a PS document to > HTML? Look at pstoedit. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount

Re: HELP! Debconf does not work

2001-01-26 Thread Robert Waldner
have you tried `dpkg --configure debconf` ? On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:41:41 +0100, Preben Randhol writes: >I installed a new version of debconf on my off-line computer and debconf >asked me if I wanted dialog, slang, text etc.. I chose slang, but it >appears that there is some perl module missing so

Re: PS to HTML Conversion

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 07:43:30AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier dijo: -| On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:31:17PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| > Does anybody know if there is anything avaliable to convert a PS document to HTML? -| -| Look at pstoedit. This is a PS to vector format conversion

netscape 4.76

2001-01-26 Thread Howell Caton
I installed netscape 4.76 using "apt-get install navigator. It installed without error messages, but now when I run "/usr/bin/X11/netscape", I get "no recognized font charset!" What do I do now? Thanks!

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Bill Bell
Hello Sebastiaan, I have the 3c509 driver compiled into the kernel. One of the early problems I had with this system is that if I tried to use a loadable module for these cards, I could not get them both to be reconized. I seem to remember that a 2.2.x kernel read-me (or even 2.0.x) told me to fi

Re: raid problems

2001-01-26 Thread Knud Sørensen
Solved the problem myself. And found a alternative way to set up raid. I have to identical disk hda, hdc. 1) Install debian on hda. hda1/boot hda2/ hda3Swap 2) config raidtab with hdc af failed. md0 for boot md1 for root 3) config fstab and lilo.conf md0 for boot md1 for root 4)

RE: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Bill Bell
Hello Joris, I am sure all the NIC network config paramerters are good under /etc/network/interfaces. You are correct though, I am trying to find the correct option to send in from the lilo.conf append= line to force the the 10baseT media port on, (if there is one :-). This has been the target o

Re: change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread romain lerallut
Hi! I have this card and I chose the IRQ from the PnP menu in my BIOS. Linux can't soft-modify IRQs, AFAIK. Go to the BIOS Setup and then to the PnP menu. (If your BIOS isn't too old, there is one :) somewhere there is an listing of the devices. Check out the one that says "Multimedia Device"

RE: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
let's have a look ... Did you try ... ? http://www.linux.com/links/Documentation/ Also, if i'm correct you would be able to set this parameter with netconf or would at least find the dox when you use man netconf greets, joris -Original Message- From: Bill Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I guess this is the one you really need http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1 -Original Message- From: Bill Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid Hello Jori

Debian - Testing network (FS105/FA311/10T-2)? CMD/SiS IDE?

2001-01-26 Thread hogan
I'm convinced there's something fishy going on with either my Windows98 machine, or some of the network components I'm using.. My network consists of: -Compaq 575e Pentium 75 w/ Win95 + 10Base2/T card -PPro 200 w/ Win98SE + 10/100BaseT FA311 card -P133 w/ Debian Linux 2.2.17 (Testing) + 10/100 RTL

Re: A little sed

2001-01-26 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote: > - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from > tags. I tried sed -e s/\// file.html > > file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole > > script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work. How do I go > > about it. > > - Is it

Re: netscape 4.76

2001-01-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I installed netscape 4.76 using "apt-get install navigator. > It installed without error messages, but now when I run > "/usr/bin/X11/netscape", I get "no recognized font > charset!" What do I do now? Thanks! Did you have any version of Netscape installed before ?? If so, "mv" your existing .

Re: change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > does anyone know how can i change irq number for > > a soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard that uses the > > Alsa emu10k1 driver ? On booting it set IRQ 10 that > > it's shared with my ethernet card. In modules.conf > > i set options snd_irq=5; but if i do a cat /proc/interrupts > > i see IRQ 10

Re: Upgrade process halted

2001-01-26 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Brian Furry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # How do you find out which packages are not mission critical vs which ones # are optional so the non-essential packages could be purged to allow the # upgrade to # finish. There are some semi-automated tools to do this("deborphan" comes to mind), but ther

Re: change IRQ

2001-01-26 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, if you really need to change pci irq's (for example in combination with isa cards), you can try to put the (pci)cards in a different order in your pci slots. You can also look in the bios and try to change irq-channels. (I belive it was IRQ #A and IRQ #B or something). A little of what I know

Re: apt-get install / remove / install looses files

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Loga
See the following article: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/deb/apt.html --- hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >I did an: > >apt-get install squid >messed some things up >apt-get remove squid >rm /etc/squid.conf since it was left behind >apt-get install squid > >/etc/squid.conf was

Does esd run with 2.4.0?

2001-01-26 Thread Richard Black
Has anyone had any success getting esd and 2.40 running? I am getting the following error when esd (tries) to start: #esd error: Invalid argument: in snd_pcm_channel_params Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo. I'm not positive the problem is with esd--

Open ports & security

2001-01-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, A quick question, if you please. I am trying to tighten up security on a box that may be exposed to some security risk. In doing so, I have been trying to get rid of anything that might prove detrimental to security (ftpd, telnetd, and other things). I have been running nmap

Re: Mbox mailbox --> postfix?...

2001-01-26 Thread MaD dUCK
> I've got an mbox format mailbox file, which I want to reprocess through > postfix. Does anyone know of a lump of perl etc. that's already been > written that'll split-up and create the necessary mail files that I can > dump into postfix's incoming mail dir? run something like formail -s sendma

Re: problem playing audio cd's

2001-01-26 Thread Scott Patterson
>Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to >audio and disk ... > >I have already undone this, after reading the post. My problem is I do not >seem to have /dev/cdrom >To get gtcd to play I had to change the device from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. > >Looking through the

Re: poff doesn't exit connection properly (was: Problems with apt-get and pppd)

2001-01-26 Thread Christoph Groth
Frank Preut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is > > that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the connection or > > something because when i try to re-connect with pon nothing happens.. > > that's also the reason why dial o

Re: A little sed

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote: > - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from tags. I > tried sed -e s/\// file.html > file.html2, but it only > deletes the first line, not the whole script. The /m modifier doesn't seem > to work. How do I go about it. Can't say much on

Re: PS to HTML Conversion

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:31:17PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Does anybody know if there is anything avaliable to convert a PS document to > HTML? I just asked this same question a couple days ago. Someone on the local LUG mailing list pointed me at http://www.cyrusp.com/ps2html, but I

Re: Open ports & security

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:28:51AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > But what about 111? Something in my gut says that > remote procedure call can't be all that good. NIS and NFS need sunrpc (aka portmapper) running on the server, but you should be able to shut it off if you're not using either

Re: Mbox mailbox --> postfix?...

2001-01-26 Thread Max Lock
-- MaD dUCK wrote: > > > I've got an mbox format mailbox file, which I want to reprocess through > > postfix. Does anyone know of a lump of perl etc. that's already been > > written that'll split-up and create the necessary mail files that I can > > dump into postfix's incoming mail dir? > > ru

can't access cd-rw after switch to ide-scsi

2001-01-26 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
I'm having an access permission problem with my cd-rw drive. I switched it to ide-scsi (added hdc=ide-scsi to boot parameters) and now I can write to the drive with cdrecord, but only as root. Similarly, I can only rip tracks from the drive as root. I can mount data cd's and read them as a r

help: Removing a package with dselect -- pre-removal fails

2001-01-26 Thread Lukas Ruf
What do I need to do to remove a package that was broken during the installation process ? Below, please find the trials I already run N-times. Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers, Lukas dselect - Install reports: === Removing spong-client ... Stopping spong client programs: spong-clien

Differences between woody and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Florian Nykrin
Hi, has woody shrinked in the last two weeks? When I search for example for the task-kde-packages they aren't availible any more (two weeks ago they were still there). Or is there something wrong with my apt-get? MfG, Florian.

Re: Open ports & security

2001-01-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:28:51AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > machine, and I've come down to just a few open ports left that I have at > least mild concern about. They are: > > 9 discard > 13daytime > 37time > 111 sunrpc > > Now, I know that 9 will just throw away any

Re: help: Removing a package with dselect -- pre-removal fails

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Loga
Read the following at debianhelp.org: http://www.debianhelp.org/article.php?sid=248 --- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >What do I need to do to remove a package that was broken during the >installation process ? Below, please find the trials I already run >N-times. > >Thanks in advance fo

kernel 2.4 woes

2001-01-26 Thread ocorrain
Dear All, Having successfully compiled 2.4 for my desktop PC (a Compaq Deskpro w/ 500 mhz Penium), I decided to do the same for my laptop (compaq armada with 233 mhz mmx). Everything seemed to be going happily until I tried to boot (after editing lilo.conf and running lilo -v), whereupon the compu

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:15:55PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > > If you make a small tst.c and: > > > $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps > > > > lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > > > :lp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=remoteprinter.lincrud:rp=hp:lpr_bounce: > > > \ > > >

compile help: cannot find -ldb

2001-01-26 Thread csj
Using either apt-get source -b foo or dpkg-buildpackage after the fact, I have a number of debian source packages fail on me. In most cases the most conspicuous symptom is the following stderr line: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb What package am I missing? OR is it a ./configure problem? Some b

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:27:41AM -0600, Bill Bell wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a dual NIC system using two 3c509 cards. This configuration has > been working well under sid with a 2.2.18 kernel (my current system). > I have been trying to move up to a 2.4.0 kernel and I am having > problems.

Re: ~New~ installation questions

2001-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting C-Cose Masters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm about to re-install Stormix Hail after several unsuccessful attempts to > install and upgrade the Rain version. I've also invested in VMware, so I will > be > completely formatting my HD, and installing W98 as a Guest OS through VM. As > this will

Re: kernel 2.4 woes

2001-01-26 Thread Tudor Oprea
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > armada with 233 mhz mmx). Everything seemed to be going happily until > I tried to boot (after editing lilo.conf and running lilo -v), > whereupon the computer loaded the kernel, announced 'Ok, booting the > kernel', and stopped dead in its tracks. I

Re: problem playing audio cd's

2001-01-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:53:40PM -0500, Harry Barnes wrote: > > Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to > audio and disk ... Please change this, noone but root should be in group disk! See a prior post of me how to correct this. Use groups audio and cdrom instea

about stable and unstable

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
--- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To quote "Dr. Aldo Medina" > Potato is the > stable distribution, and is > generally meant for servers. When you install I am running stable as my primary operating system. I needed something stable to learn from. and actually I am very happy wi

Re: about stable and unstable

2001-01-26 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I am running stable as my primary operating # system. I needed something stable to learn from. # and actually I am very happy with it so far. # (even tho I have been posting like a mad man! # ;-) Good plan. :) # On that note, is testing available on CD, or

Re: kernel 2.4 woes

2001-01-26 Thread David B . Harris
To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Dear All, # # Having successfully compiled 2.4 for my desktop PC (a Compaq Deskpro # w/ 500 mhz Penium), I decided to do the same for my laptop (compaq # armada with 233 mhz mmx). Everything seemed to be going happily until # I tried to boot (after editing lilo.conf

which is the most "unstable"

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I'm a tad bit confused about the order of precedence on the 3 debian distributions. I understand "potato" == "stable", but what comes next? is it "woody" == "testing" then "sid" == "unstable"? in which order of "stableness" are they? i.e. which comes first? thanks!! xucaen __

Re: which is the most "unstable"

2001-01-26 Thread arthur
Potato is rock solid, woody is good enough for government work, and sid is for the courageous. Arthur H. Johnson II Systems Engineer The Linux Box [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > > I'm a tad bit confused about the order of > precedence on

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
--- Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > uses an .xpm. but so far I haven't found > anything > > that will use a .jpg. how are you doing it? > > xli -- as has already been suggested. > > $ xli -onroot -quiet > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/xli.html that's strange, I d

Re: which is the most "unstable"

2001-01-26 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Potato is rock solid, woody is good enough for government work, and sid is for the courageous. Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-( T. -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-

gnapster question

2001-01-26 Thread Ralf Müller
Hello, I am using gnapster but every time I want to download a file, there comes 'Remotely queued' and then it cancels with cancelled download / [blabla] error / download start timed out Is there any possibility to increase the timeout level to lets say several hours? Because I have a direct con

RE: Open ports & security

2001-01-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Port 111 is the portmap daemon, used by NFS and NIS (anything else?). > It doesn't look like you're using NFS or NIS (if so you'd have other > ports open) so you can probably shut it off. If you do want to keep it > on, it might be worth it to use something like ipchains or iptables to > filter

spellcheck

2001-01-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all! Does exist any spellcheck which work while you are typing? Thanks in advance! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

xfree 3.3.6 and 4.x

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
--- "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Potato is rock solid, woody is good enough > for government work, and sid > > is for the courageous. > > Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-( I'm curious, what has changed between 3.3.6, and 4.x? I'm using 3.3.6 n

Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-26 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Just for yoks (and because I have a nice DSL connection wch allows me to do such things) I was thinking I'd like to download FreeBSD and intall it next to my present Debian install. If anyone knows some good documentation re: how to do this via ftp/how to do it w/o screwin' up my Debian ins

Re: cpqarray issue

2001-01-26 Thread Eric N. Valor
Thanks. I had a sneaky feeling late last night that this is what I'd have to do. The question then remains: Why do I suddenly need to do this? I didn't have to when I loaded 2.2.17. Is this such a special case (having only a Compaq Smart2 SCSI RAID array and not a regular IDE drive)? Ho

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-26 Thread Shell Hung
;; All, ;; ;; Just for yoks (and because I have a nice DSL connection wch allows me to ;; do such things) I was thinking I'd like to download FreeBSD and intall it ;; next to my present Debian install. ;; ;; If anyone knows some good documentation re: how to do this via ftp/how to ;; do it w/o sc

Re: Mbox mailbox --> postfix?...

2001-01-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Max Lock (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:34:06PM +): > > formail -s sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < mailbox > not quite, that'll send the file to one person, I need to pull each > mail from out of the mbox file, and send it to the `to' address in the > mail. formail -s sendmail -t < mailbox

Re: spellcheck

2001-01-26 Thread ktb
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:06:25PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > Does exist any spellcheck which work while you are typing? > Some programs can use "ispell" kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Joseph Dane
Others have already mentioned how one can go about tracking more recent versions of packages. I will add that many people (well, at least one person: me) would much rather have a system which is "known good" than one with the latest versions. I personally have no need for XF4, so I'll wait un

licq/ssl

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel Wagner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Are there anywhere licq packages with ssl compiled in, or do i've to make them self? thx, Daniel - -- @gpg: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9925791/daniel_wagner.asc C63A 06F0 3E2A A039 E830 83A0 C1DA 3479 803F 078F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: xfree 3.3.6 and 4.x

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Xucaen wrote: > > --- "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Potato is rock solid, woody is good enough > > for government work, and sid > > > is for the courageous. > > > > Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-( > > I'm curious, what has changed between

Help! How to "find" ext2fs on disk

2001-01-26 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Some time ago I accidentally wiped my MBR and the partition table. I went and restored it manually which worked more or less. Unfortunately I can't mount sda1 anymore, it seems that the partition did not start at the beginning of the disk. Maybe because Win2k was on it before. fdisk complain

Debian installation screens

2001-01-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm writing a Debian GNU/Linux manual and want to include some screenshots of Debian's 2.2 install. Anyone, already made them? If not, where I can find some or made some? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

pppoe running as user?

2001-01-26 Thread reiner
Hi all, Today i got my brand new ADSL-Toy :-) It works fast and without problems so far, but only root can start the connection via pon dsl (renamend dsl-provider to dsl). Kernel 2.2.18; Debian unstable; pppoe user space I get the following in var/log/ppp.log as root: Jan 26 17:37:39 nathan ppp

RPC services - bind to 1 ip?

2001-01-26 Thread aphro
hi I've been dealing with this for a long time, and was curious if anyone knows if it's possible. I want to force all RPC services to listen only on 1 interface, it is VERY VERY difficult to firewall them as they apparently choose random ports everytime they load which means i have to spend 30

diskless gateway/firewall ?

2001-01-26 Thread Chris Majewski
I'm setting up a gateway/firewall at home. This machine will serve mainly as a node through which I can do remote-wake-ups of my home workstation. (To build remote-wake-up packets you need root access, which may not always be available when I'm away from home.) The firewalling stu

Connecting to a Microsoft Proxy Server

2001-01-26 Thread Miller, Jim
Hello all, I have Debian 2.2 Rev 2 running on an NT run network. The Internet Connection here is via a Microsoft Proxy Server. What is the easiest way to connect to the Microsoft proxy server. I am interested primarily for running apt at this time /

Need help/advise w/sound setup. LONG post!

2001-01-26 Thread John Foster
I have been using OSS commercial grade for several years on our Debian systems. This requires a licensing fee to the end user. I would like to be able to get sound working on our systems using free software, to avoid that expense. If I am able to get it working on our server I think I will develop

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