Re: PS/2 mouse mystery

2001-02-12 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I have a PS/2 mouse. My XF86config file is set to /dev/psaux. > My mouse doesn't do anything upon starting X. > > So I tried making a soft link from /dev/psaux to /dev/mouse. Nada. Do you have gpm installed? If yes, you should set Section pointer

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Davies
Thanks for your help, but I've discovered the solution the hard way :) I downgraded, and still had a few problems, but I've resolved them now by reverting to an old kernel. If only I had signed up to the mailing list earlier... I think this has taught me I should have a backup somewhere. Are th

Re: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I have upgraded to testing and am now experiencing problems with > networking (and I was expecting problems with XFree 4.0 and that > part is fine :-) > > What works: > - incoming mail (through fetchmail) > - outgoing ftp > - outgoing ssh > > What doesn't: > - outgoing http connectio

Re: HD dual-boots from one computer; single-boots from another

2001-02-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I've got a 10-GB drive configured to dual boot Windows2000 and Debian Woody. W2K (FAT32, LBA) is on the first partition, which is 6GB. Linux has the rest of the drive in several partitions. I'm using LILO, with Linux configured as the default OS. On a Gateway computer, the d

Re: .deb install

2001-02-12 Thread Zac Epkes
Hehe, yeah it is simple, but its ok, we were all new once. dpkg -i filename.deb Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. This seems like an easy question, but I can't find the answer. How do I > install a .deb file I've downloaded to the local file system? And, how do I > make it appear in dselect? > > Thanks.

partition HELP

2001-02-12 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while attempting to partition a second hard drive. I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict, so if a program exists to restore that p

woody, XF86 4.0.2 upgrade & kde2.0

2001-02-12 Thread techlists
I had stable installed with X (which ever comes with stable), and KDE 2, on my laptop. Everything running fine I upgraded to woody, and then installed x 4.0.2. It unistalled KDM, Why? Does KDM not work with XF86 4.0.2? When I type startx the bare wm comes up, but the mouse no longer worked, so

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hs> That's the page I used in order to get my TT fonts set up, along hs> with the http://home.c2i.net page that it references. Since I'm hs> using XFree86 v4.x.x, I skipped the step regarding xfs-xtt and it hs> still works fine. As I recall, th

problem installing Potato base system on m68k

2001-02-12 Thread Robert W Kiger
I'm trying to install Potato on a Quadra 700 (8 Mb RAM, 80 Mb internal hard drive with A/UX Root partition 47 Mb and A/UX Swap partition 16 Mb) using macinstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz on the Mac partition of my internal hard drive. After I launch Penguin 18, everything goes well until I reach Install

gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread aphro
hi i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory in the titlebar of a gnome-terminal window. redhat systems seem to do this but none of my debian systems do. it's handy when i have 26 terminals open and i want to see exact

named just stops mysteriously

2001-02-12 Thread Jeff Davis
I am using bind package 8.2.2p7-1 (a .deb) Every once in a while named just stops. I look in the syslog and it appears to just stop receiving requests and then display the messages about how I (re)started it up. I have no idea what causes this. Thanks for any help you might provide, Jeff Da

Re: Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Glyn Millington
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there's another sig over four lines long. look out! > > :-) > _ > | > // G l e n n B e c k e r

email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but I would much prefer something like Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) It's not a big deal of cour

'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Schuetz
My machine --running potato-- claimed not to know either nslookup or traceroute. No man pages, either. Are there Debian equivalents to these commands? Thanks. Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My machine --running potato-- claimed not to know either nslookup or > traceroute. No man pages, either. > > Are there Debian equivalents to these commands? Yes, try the following: % apt-cache search nslookup dnsutils - Utilities for Querying DNS Server

RE: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian

2001-02-12 Thread Chad Maine
They are in the dnsutils and traceroute packages respectively. -Original Message- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:42 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 'nslookup', 'traceroute' in debian My machine --running potato-- claimed not to

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Olivier Billet wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm using postgresql and can use psql, but I dont >know how to allow people to connect to the databases. >I mean even users on the local host (my box) cant >connect. It seems that it's a matter of -i switch >before runing the postmaster. -i allo

Mouse moves in emacs20 but doesn't activate menu bar

2001-02-12 Thread Robert Cymbala
With gpm and emacs20 packages, a microsoft mouse on /dev/psaux moves the pointer within emacs (plain, no X windows). But right-click on any menu item (( Buffers/Files/Tools/Edit/Search/Mule/Help )) doesn't activate menu. Should it, could it? Or is the only way to get tmm menu *Completions* bu

XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-12 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello List, I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.log (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II)

Re: wheelmouse and Netscape 4.76

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hi Andreas! Everything is fine, you just have to pust that stuff into .Xresources, which Debian uses instead of .Xdefaults. Works fine over here. Diego Biurrun Andreas Donath wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a problem to get the wheel mouse cooperating > with my netscape (V4.76). The Pointer Sectio

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
I already put my name into /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, to no effect... There is apparently no commandline option to achieve what I want. Diego Biurrun P.S.: Please CC me on any responses, I am not currently subscribed to the list. Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 12-Feb-2001 Diego Biurrun wrote: >

exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Joel Ståbis
Hi. It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail exim just accepts the first 100 of them. The log-file says: 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 messages received in one connection but the rest of the mails never gets delive

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:39:11PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is > currently 2.4.0-test11 (2.4.0 was a bit wobbly for me - haven't d/loaded > 2.4.1 yet) and I'm getting the follwing error in /var/log/XFre86.0.lo

Re: How to set DPI when running KDM? SOLVED

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Alan Chandler wrote: > >> The only problem is that I'm running KDM, which will still run my X > >> server with -dpi 75. I have been looking into the files in > >> /etc/X11/kdm, but couldn't find a place to specify the different > >> resolution. > the file you refer to with the line like the abov

Benefits of ipmasq?

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, sorry for my ignorance, but could someone please explain to me the benefits of ipmasq? Background information: Although I should have been learning yesterday, I upgraded my old little slink-based router to potato. The upgrade actually worked fine, except that the networking broke, becau

Re: partition HELP

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict,

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Joel_St=E5bis?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail >exim just accepts the first 100 of them. > >The log-file says: > >2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 >messages received in

Re: some mutt stuff

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:45:51PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: | On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: | | Let me know if you want to see my newsig.sh script also and I will | send it. I'd like to see it. Thanks, -D

Re: libggi

2001-02-12 Thread Martin Albert
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Pollywog wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:56:51 +0100 (MET), Roberto Diaz said: > > example but I find I havent ggi.h nowhere :? > libggi2-dev but I got it from "woody" It's actually just the same. (but i'm working on this) To have more output targets you may install

Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

2001-02-12 Thread Martin Albert
On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > list, but now I'm fairly certain it's a Debian-specific problem, since > I've succesfully build the debian source with modified matrox mga driver > using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use > 'debian/rules build', which is ra

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | hi | | | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory | in the titlebar of a gnome-terminal window. redhat systems | seem to do this but none of my d

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: | Hello! | | I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into | homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with | | | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | | | but I would much prefer something lik

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Colin Watson writes: >> 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 >> messages received in one connection >> >> but the rest of the mails never gets delivered. >> >> Does anyone know what exim does with the rest of the mails? I use procmail to >> put all mails i

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 at 22:15:20 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: [No need to Cc: me, I read the list ...] > And there's also a line in exim.conf that should be changed: > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 > > a bigger number there could help... Otherwise, wxim will only accept > 100 mes

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:13:35PM -0500): > specified in a file in /etc (that gets read on boot). I know that if > you change the name of localhost in /etc/hosts and reboot your > greeting will show the new host name. no, not true. you have to change /etc/hostname for that. > BTW

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Todd V . Rovito
To fix this problem 1) /usr/sbin/exim -q (this will deliver all your mails) 2) set smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 in your exim.conf file. This will allow you accept as many emails as you want. Thus spake Joel Ståbis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > > It seems that whenever I recieve more t

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Matta
This seems to be an issue with ifconfig in the latest nettools package of Sid(unstable), this can be fixed if you have a debian cd, like potato, i had this happen today, and just untared the base package into my tmp dir, and replaced the ifconfig binary. This should be fixed eventually. -c -

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Diego Biurrun wrote: > Hello! > > I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into > homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with > > > Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > but I would much prefer something like > > > Linux versi

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-12 Thread Geordie Birch
said Stan Brown, on Feb 7, > Where can I find this? Preferably a .deb you can find ksh93 at http://www.research.att.com/sw/download (this site seems to cause konqueror to crash.) it compiled for me on an unstable box. geordie. -- debconf: package "debconf" is not installed or does not use deb

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
D-Man wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > | Hello! > | > | I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into > | homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with > | > | > | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > | > | > | but

Re: Network problem

2001-02-12 Thread Wil Reichert
I was staring at the same problem this morning trying to recall exactly which packages I'd installed in the last couple of days. I figured it would be easy to back out if I could ask dpkg to give me the date the packages had been installed on. I read through the man page but was unable to find an

wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
g'day, can anyone point me to resources for copying audio cd's under debian? i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero could read. Cheers, John

Solved: Re: unresolved symbols in kernel compile

2001-02-12 Thread Duncan Watson
Hi all, It turns out I just needed to sleep and reboot the machine with new kernel. All went well. Overly paranoid. /Duncan On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:02:25PM -0500, Duncan Watson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a newcomer to debian, but I am already a big fan. Apt-get is great > and this list is a

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): > i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need > some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero > could read. cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=8 fs=8M -v -dao -eject defpregap=1 -audio *.wav check

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > | hi > | > | > | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host > | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory > | in the titlebar of a g

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:09 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): >> i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need >> some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero >> could read. > >cdrecord dev=0,2,0 speed=8 f

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:25:44PM +1100): > thanks, that worked a treat and it makes sense. can i ask what the > fs=8M parameter was doing? without intending to be offensive, i think RTFM is the right response. i myself learn a lot just from man pages and i really just don

RE: net-tools_1.58-1

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> Known bug, mentioned on debian-devel-announce this morning. You can > downgrade to the version of net-tools in testing (if you still have a > network interface ...) I have dual boot system, so that saved me. :)

Re: Xfree4 is off the screen

2001-02-12 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > im running Xfree86 and the screen is just too large looking the virtual > screen that's wider than the monitor. but unlike having the virtual screen > i can't scroll offscreen. i've tried to use the line "ViewPort 0 0" in > subsection "display" subsection but the s

eth0 detected by kernel, ifconfig, ifup/ifdown can't configure it. lo (localhost) also has same problem.

2001-02-12 Thread Troy Telford
I apologize if this is in HTML; Outlook express is all I have @ the moment.   I've been working on this for a few hours now... I need some help!  I can get neither eth0 nor my localhost (lo) interfaces to work!  They were working fine earlier.I made a simple change to my filesystem - I needed

no netscape

2001-02-12 Thread Joe Paxton
I recently installed 'potato' on my iMac and got X up and working - just one problem. I click on the Netscape icon on the taskbar and nothing happens. I installed the Netscape-pseudo package using dselect (which I am assuming installs everything that you need as far as Netscape goes)but

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Epting
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Needless to say this is *EXTREMELY* stupid behaviour of ifconfig > > and completely breaks your system. > > Okay, for those of you who have iproute installed, you can still get things > up an

sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! I have installed sgmltools-2 but I am always getting this error: # sgml2latex --style=dookbook.dtd libggi-api.sgml Processing file libggi-api.sgml DTD check - Error: this sgml-tools package supports Linuxdoc DTD only. If you wish to convert DocBook or other DTD files, then please i

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread mike polniak
Joel Ståbis wrote: > Hi. > > It seems that whenever I recieve more than 100 mails at a time with fetchmail > exim just accepts the first 100 of them. > > The log-file says: > > 2001-02-13 00:07:32 14SS4C-0007Jf-01 no immediate delivery: more than 100 > messages received in one connection > > bu

Re: no netscape

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:41PM -0500, Joe Paxton wrote: > I recently installed 'potato' on my iMac and got X up and working - just one > problem. I click on the Netscape icon on the taskbar and nothing > happens. I installed the Netscape-pseudo package using dselect (which I am > assuming

magicfilter install problems

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, For at least a few weeks, I have been attempting to install an updated magicfilter deb (using unstable). When I do, it unpacks fine, but then something strange happens. It starts running lots and lots of instances of "send-mail". In fact, it just keeps starting new processes until I am a

Re: X-Problems

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Yes we can have gpm and X in a same bed for Debian too. Following scheme works. Run gpm with following. (/etc/gpm.conf) Set gpm to read your real mouse device like /dev/psaux. Set gpm repeater mode to ms3 which is default. Set-up X Read mouse from /dev/gpmdata or /dev/mouse which is link to

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:26:01AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed sgmltools-2 but I am always getting this error: > > # sgml2latex --style=dookbook.dtd libggi-api.sgml > Processing file libggi-api.sgml > DTD check - Error: this sgml-tools package supports Linuxdoc DTD onl

Re: cdwriter configuration problems

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Please fold likne in 72. Need to compile SCSI CDrom support. I think. Read CD-WRITING HOWTO for detail. Osamu On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:20:49PM -0600, Bernard and Jennifer Cohen wrote: > > I have been having trouble getting my cdwriter to work using xcdroast. I got > it to the point of w

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > I have docbook installed too.. :? > > Make sure you have jade installed. Then if you want to convert to tex, you > can just say sgmltools -b tex libggi-api.sgml. You'll need jadetex to process > the result. > > I just have xdvi open all the time and use sgmltools -b dvi . > Thank y

Re: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Brian Stults
Michael Epting wrote: > > This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading, > but not entirely absorbing, the above. This evening when I booted it, I > of course could not bring up eth0, which is a Proxim Symphony PCMCIA card. > Since I couldn't bring up networking, I cou

Re: Mouse ...

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I used to use one and have GENEUS mouse in my jank box. If my memory is correct. It works as MS if power was turned on with some button clicked, otherwise it is mouse system mouse. Try both. You might get luckey. I use logitech 3 button PS2. Workg great. Osamu On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03

Re: sgmltools

2001-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
That figure is in the unstable version of sgmltools-2, but it's in the wrong location. I plan to submit a bug report. Cheers, Mike On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:46:05AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Thank you very much it seems to work.. (I had jade installed also) I still > get som

Re: PS/2 mouse mystery

2001-02-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Turning off gpm is oneway but there is a better way. Read from /dev/gpmdata and read with intellimouse or ms mode if you are using default /etc/gpm.conf. There areadvantage to do this. No matter what happens with mouse, you do not need to restart X but simply restart gpm which get everything in

.deb creation

2001-02-12 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Can someone point me to a doc or howto on how to create .deb files?   Leonard Leblanc

Fixed

2001-02-12 Thread DanSV
I fixed my problem with X. I contacted libranet, and they gave me a setup util for use with potato. I forgot the url, but I'm sure if you folks e-mail them, they will give it out (if not, please tell me). (in case you were wondering about their distro, the support is sometimes just plain igno

oddness with locales

2001-02-12 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Somehow my locale settings (which I don't really understand the relevance of, yet) got changed ... I believe through my use of a package in unstable, the "Debian Chinese Panel." I noticed I was getting a lot of Perl / locale warnings etc on apt-getting packages, so I started looking into the

iptables rules and open ports

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I have stand alone workstation withour any network, so I am trying to keep all ports close. I run kernel 2.4 with iptables. Recent scaning (by www.dslreports.com) shows that ports 13,22,37 and 9 are open. Any recomendation on how to close them? Thanks. My iptables rulles: -

HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Machine: linux-2.0.33, Debian slink, upgraded to latest stable (potato?) I have an IBM 30 GB hd and it shows up as a 4GB in fdisk. Does someone know if this is a kernel issue or something else? In the bios I put it as LBA. Although this might not be a Debian specific problem, I'm running Deb

Re: apt-get: 93 Protocol error

2001-02-12 Thread Mike McNally
Well, that didn't work. I presume you meant put it in apt.conf? I did that, and I tried the http line changing the sources.list acordingly. Then, or actually first, I referred to the man apt.conf and the apt/examples/\ configure-index wherein it was stated that the line should look like this:

Re: HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:42:02AM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: > re, > > Machine: linux-2.0.33, Debian slink, upgraded to latest stable (potato?) > > I have an IBM 30 GB hd and it shows up as a 4GB in fdisk. I had a similar provlem from my 45. add a testing line in sources.list and then do apt-g

Re: iptables rules and open ports

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Schepman
Vadim, I would turn off the services that are using those ports (if you don't need them). For instance, port 22 is going to be your ssh daemon listening for connections. If you have a standalone workstation, I can't imagine why you would need ssh running. I'm not sure what the other ports are.

install java

2001-02-12 Thread Tino Ionescu
The Blackdown JVM has some bugs , that is you can't use the debugger so I install IBM's JVM1.3 , which is cool by the way , via the rpm -> alien. It installed OK , witout problems but now the system doesn't know that there is a JVM !! . For example if I try to compile from Emacs , the result is

net-tools_1.58-1

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I am having problem with net-tools_1.58-1, so I was wondering, if it is my problem, or package update problem. If I update to net-tools_1.58-1, then ifconfig doesn't work. Here is what happens: --- debian:/win/files/unstable# apt-get upgrade -u Reading Package Lists... Don

Fwd: Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
(This might get on the list more than one time. I don't know what's wrong with my submission to this list as I get replies from some .jp domain, not being descriptive whatsoever). I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. But th

Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console

2001-02-12 Thread will trillich
Andre Berger wrote: > > On 2001-02-10 10:51 +0100, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:18:34AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > > Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or > > > just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This cause

Re: install java

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
Tino Ionescu wrote: > > The Blackdown JVM has some bugs , that is you can't use the debugger so I > install IBM's JVM1.3 , which is cool by the way , via the rpm -> alien. > It installed OK , witout problems but now the system doesn't know that there > is a JVM !! . > For example if I try to com

Re: Fwd: Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-12 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
> I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. > 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. > But the original openssh site says : 2.3.0p1 > Can someone enlighten me on this? debian:/usr/local# ssh -V SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL

Re: pppoe stop working after upgrading to Kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le dim, 11 fév 2001 21:51:08, Chun Kit Edwin Lau a écrit : > yes i think i do have the patched pppd from rrr... waterloo? but it > seems > like I am getting error from ppp.log saying: > > Jan 30 14:25:33 Mercury pppd[473]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 > Jan 30 14:25:33 Mercury pppd[473]: Coul

Bad errors during upgrade

2001-02-12 Thread Craig McPherson
Debian Testing on i386 Here's the problem... Preparing to replace debconf 0.5.59 (using debconf_0.5.59_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... Setting up debconf (0.5.59) ... Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Bareword "our" not allowed

Re: Fwd: Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
Vadim Kutsyy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:51:36AM -0500: > > I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. > > 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. > > But the original openssh site says : 2.3.0p1 > > Can someone enlighten me on this? > > debian:/usr/local

RE: 3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

2001-02-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if you get such an error it normally means the module is allready loaded ... -Original Message- From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:43 PM To: Krzys Majewski Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

OT: Apache - how to enable suEXEC wrapper in binary apache install

2001-02-12 Thread Petr Danek
Hi debianers, i tried to use User and Group directives within Virtual Host. Apache doesnt want to start because of suExec error. Suexec exists in /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec so i think that apache doesnt know about it. Any hints will be helpfull. Thanks Petr

OT: Apache - how to enable suEXEC wrapper in binary apache install

2001-02-12 Thread Petr Danek
Hi debianers, i tried to use User and Group directives within Virtual Host. Apache doesnt want to start because of suExec error. Suexec exist in /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec so i think that apache doesnt know about it. Any hints will be helpfull. Thanks Petr

.deb install

2001-02-12 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. This seems like an easy question, but I can't find the answer. How do I install a .deb file I've downloaded to the local file system? And, how do I make it appear in dselect? Thanks. Robin

autofs example

2001-02-12 Thread Robin Rowe
I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically, instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at the docs for autofs but found it confusing. How do I do it? Thanks. Robin

Re: TTL

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:14:44PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: [ snip ] > ps: look at TTL, retry, refresh, expire, negative TTL, and then join > in into our chant to paul vixie: "make it intuitive in bind 10! make > it intuitive in bind 10"! Or just say "to hell with BIND; it's buggy and insecure" and

Re: .deb install

2001-02-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. This seems like an easy question, but I can't find the answer. How do I > install a .deb file I've downloaded to the local file system? And, how do I > make it appear in dselect? dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb dselect will know abuout it also... "dpkg

Re: install java

2001-02-12 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You gotta do what you gotta do. I installed the Sun JDK via rpm -> alien. Then, I linked /usr/local/bin/java to /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/java and the javac's. It has worked relatively well except for the fact that the Sun JDK resided in /usr/java/*.

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom George wrote: > I compiled 2.4.1 and tried to sign on the internet. pppd sent a string > that caused the connection to fail. I reloaced 2.2.12 and signed on > with no difficulty in order to send this message. Any ideas? The following configuration works perfectly (for

Re: autofs example

2001-02-12 Thread Hanno Böttcher
I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit /etc/fstab. Every startup it's read and the Filesystems are mounted, it's not difficult to do this for help see man fstab. Sears Hanno - Original Message - From: Robin Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Sent: Mond

X-Problems

2001-02-12 Thread andreas
Hallo Debian Support, I've got a Problem here!My X-Server just won't work with Debian!I can't fix it!I have allround Hardware here but doesn't work! My Hardware: 1.Intel 740 PCI 2.Soundblaster 16 PnP 3.Voodoo II 4.Haupauge PCI 5.Logitech Mouse M-BE58 (First/Pilot Wheel Mouse) 6.4,2 GB IDE 7.Epson

Re: alsa sound

2001-02-12 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:03:09PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > This isn't the problem. I have now got emu10k1 loaded [by putting a Excuse me, but then I don't understand your problem. If emu10k1 is loaded sound should work. > and perhaps I should put one of the alsa modules instead, like > >

WARNING: do not upgrade net-tools

2001-02-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
It seems the new version of net-tools in unstable is completely and utterly broken to the point where it is no longer possibile to configure any network interface: fog:~# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad f

Promise ATA 100

2001-02-12 Thread Scott Miels
currently im running a duron 800 on a Asus A7v mainboard with a IBM ATA 100 hdd i am having trouble with the ata support and the hdd naming of "HDE"   ive tried a recompile with 2.4.0 kernel to no avail does anyone have any ideas? would a web install somewhat bypass this problem?

Re: X-Problems

2001-02-12 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, andreas wrote: > I can't complete any Install. within Debian.I checked any Config. (about > one week!) I'm no Newbie,but > whats the Point?An old XFconfig Package? > No compatible Hardware (Shure,I'm not thinking in that way...It's just > Standard Hardware) > > Do You have

Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Needless to say this is *EXTREMELY* stupid behaviour of ifconfig > and completely breaks your system. Okay, for those of you who have iproute installed, you can still get things up and running using the ip tool. Like this: ip addr add 127.0.0.1 dev lo ip link

RE: X-Problems

2001-02-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i guess i have to comment on this one, when you run gpm with X your mouse will NOT work i allways do a gpm -k before starting X i'm also aware this is an issue wich can be resolved but i thought it'd be worth mentioning greetings, joris -Original Message- From: virtanen [mailt

Site position in search engines

2001-02-12 Thread sitepromotion
Dear Webmaster of http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9801/msg01190.html WHERE ARE YOU? It's all very well having a fantastic web site to tempt your customers to do business with you, but if they can't find you, what's the point of all that effort? We've tried to find your site usi

cdrecord with YAHAMA CRW8824S

2001-02-12 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear Debian-Community, I'd like to burn CD-ISO-Images of Debian 2.2r2 with the Re-Writer YAHAMA CRW8824S on CD-R-medium. After cdrecord dev=0,6,0 Speed=4 -v -eject binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso the system answers me:: The type of the first track is used for the toc type. Currently only form 1 track

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