Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread Stephen Keller
(I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian installed). My setup is as follows: I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with an on-board ATA100 controller. I have two hard drives hooked up: one on th

Re: magicfilter install problems

2001-02-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Do you have exim configured to deliver local mail? Do you have non root account? Exim refuse to deliver to root so you need to have /etc/aliases redirecting root mail to user account. Good luck. Osamu On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > For at least a few

Re: Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread John Griffiths
>I want to install Debian on the standard IDE drive, leaving Win98 on my >ATA100 drive. The problem is that the fdisk program that ran during the >install (which I aborted) only recognized the standard drive. This would >be fine by me (I don't need access to the ATA100 drive while in Debian)

X and Gaming

2001-02-14 Thread Andrew Hydle
I am trying to get Unreal Tournament in X working properly but am having some problems. I am running potato with x 3.3.6, a Voodoo 3 and kernel 2.2.18. I have configured everything properly (As far as the FAQ on loki games site) and I can run the test3dfx script... But every time I start the ga

Re: Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread Scott Miels
im having a similar problem but im wanting to use debian on a ATA100 drive my specs: asus a7v mainboard duron 800 processor ibm ata100 30gb hdd debian just wont recognise the hard drive for a install adding the experimental promise ata100 support under kernel 2.4 didnt seem to make any difference

Re: gateway machine

2001-02-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Install ipmasq package. Done. Additional ipchain script may help firewall setting. Close NNTP port so you will not be taged by ISP. Close ftp, netbios and rpc port at least for script kiddie. You get attacked everyday if you are on network. osamu On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:26:41PM -0600, Jaso

Re: Installing Debian with ATA100

2001-02-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0800, Stephen Keller wrote: > (I apologize if this post is breaking any etiquette or anything -- I > haven't had time to really lurk as I'm excited about trying to get Debian > installed). > > My setup is as follows: > > I'm using an Asus A7V motherboard with

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:20:02AM +0100, c-3 wrote: ^^^ How about putting your name there? > I can't get my sound card to work under linux (SB16). > So far I've recompiled my kernel with sound drivers, what else do I > have to do? Which module did you c

Re: shutting down w/ ctrl+alt+del

2001-02-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:23PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: > > I was wondering if I could change the bindings of > > ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`, > > instead of `shutdown -r now` > > It sure is! > > As root, edit /etc/initt

Re: Disappearing minimized windows

2001-02-14 Thread Guillaume Marceau
Midle click on the background, They minimize to the `windows` submenu, where they appear in square brackets. > From: "schnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:13:00 GMT > NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:13:00 PST > Organization: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Here you have

2001-02-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
DSC Lithuania wrote: > Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft > Outlook > and Netscape both, and I am subscribed to the Linux User list because I am > my company's computer. Which is too bad, since that means that the school FYI I'm on the Gimp list and got two

Error using gcc

2001-02-14 Thread pankaj
Hi, I have installed gcc package on my ARM board running linux. But when I try to compile a basic "Hello World" program, I get following error. /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I tried to find crt1.o (it usually resides in /usr/li

FTP problems

2001-02-14 Thread Yobb
Help. I have a small network at home. I have two NIC cards in my Debian machine, a single NIC in my windows machine and a cross over cable linking the two machines. I can successfully telnet from my windows machine to my Debian machine but i can't ftp from my windows machine to my Debian machine

RE: FTP problems

2001-02-14 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i guess some things got mixed up here, if your not able to telnet from debian to windows this is because there is no telnet service running, if you're running some kind of service (www,ftp) on your windows machine try to telnet to one of these ports, a few ports you could try are 135, 138, 139 ---

Re: FTP problems

2001-02-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, do you have the ftp daemon installed? You can do this with: apt-get install ftpd You can look which ports are opened: nmap localhost and look for the ftp port. If it is there, all should work. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Yobb wrote: > Help. > > I have a small network at home.

Re: SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor > lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > > # ifconfig lo down > lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > > Any help is appreciated. This has nothing to do with your new kernel.

Re: redirecting to diff. machine with ipchains

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:10:34AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > is it possible to redirect incoming traffic onto some other machine's > port, that is not publically accessible (private address), using only > ipchains. I think port-forwarding does what you want to. check /usr/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/IP-

çeviri-teknik destek

2001-02-14 Thread ayse özkal
Sayýn Yetkili, 1995 yýlýnda ÝTÜ Makine Fakültesi Tekstil Mühendisliði Bölümü'nden mezun olduktan sonra 1,5 yýl Pamukkale Üniversitesi Tekstil Mühendisliði Bölümü'nde araþtýrma görevlisi olarak çalýþtým. Yaklaþýk 4 yýldýr Denizli'de bir özel sektör firmasýnda ç

Re: çeviri-teknik destek

2001-02-14 Thread Hanno Böttcher
If possible write in English pls ;) - Original Message - From: ayse özkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:51 AM Subject: çeviri-teknik destek > >Sayýn Yetkili, > > > > > > > >1995 yýlýnda ÝTÜ Makine Fakültesi Tekstil Mühendisliði Bölümü'nden me

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > >You need the modutils in testing/unstable. The version in potato is too > > >old, as the layout of modules in /lib/modules has changed since then. > > >The newer modutils is compiled against a newer glibc, so you might have > > >to build it from source

Re: Potato and kernel 2.4

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a link > explaining the steps one needs to take to install a 2.4 > kernel on a potato system. I suppose that several packages > (e.g. pppd) need to be updated to get a functioning system.. I have rebui

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, David Wright wrote: >... > 2.4 kernels missed the boat for getting into the current stable=potato, > so you're going to have to do the same sort of thing. Debian will not > add new packages to its stable distribution just so that it works with > a kernel that happens to be call

Re: pppd problem with 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom George wrote: > Before compiling the 2.4.1 kernel I used apt-get dist-upgrade to > install all the available upgrades in the stable distribution,. I then > checked against the list in changes and found that I still had only > modutils 2.3.11-13.1. I used apt-get install

Re: PPP and the kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Rino Mardo wrote: >... > someone from this list posted the following which i've used for my potato > using > 2.4.1 kernel. this could help you: I have made something similar at [1]. >... > One addition: This archive works *only* with apt-get. You can't access it > direct vi

Re: kernel 2.4.1 and modules

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.17 to 2.4.1 and when I boot I get errors > that can't initilize /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep directory not found. > Or something like this. I know this is true because all I have are my 2.2.17 > modules. > > I co

Re: Important Package Not Found In Sid!?!

2001-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am trying to do a new installation of sid (a.k.a unstable). I >selected the packages I wanted using dselect and a number of the gnome >packages I selected (including gnome-panel, gnome-core, gnome-session >and gnome-terminal) were dependant upon the package libgnomeui33

Re: problem with sound

2001-02-14 Thread c-3
I didn't compile it as a module, because one told me it would be better to compile it direcect into the kernel. And so I did. I've compiled the '100% compatible SoundBlaster 16 driver' and a driver for OPL/3. So what do I have to do now Christian (Germany) Date sent: Wed, 14 F

RE: X and Gaming

2001-02-14 Thread Quinlan,Sean
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Hydle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 February 2001 06:21 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: X and Gaming > > > I am trying to get Unreal Tournament in X working properly > but am having > some problems. I am running potato with x 3.3.

Re: Debian security

2001-02-14 Thread spamtrap
oliver_willemse: >Hey people, > >I'm looking for documents/howto's for securing my Debian box. For it >concerns many different issues I'm curious if there might be a nice document >for this. > There is such a document at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ This HOWTO is quit

Re: Error using gcc

2001-02-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status [4]<0>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [moritz] $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/crt1.o libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o [4]<0>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [moritz] $ Do you have installed this package? ht

RE: problem with sound

2001-02-14 Thread Pascal THIVENT
Reboot your linux system and just check the boot message to see if the sound card is recognized > -Message d'origine- > De: c-3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: mercredi 14 février 2001 11:21 > À: Philipp Schulte > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Objet: Re: problem with sound > > > I

Re: FTP problems

2001-02-14 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:40:17 -0700 Yobb writes: Y> linking the two machines. I can successfully telnet from my windows Y> machine to my Debian machine but i can't ftp from my windows machine to Y> my Debian machine? Why is this? Have you ever installed FTP daemon program?

Access-like interface for psql/mysql DB

2001-02-14 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I am searching for a MS Access like Database-Interface for PostgreSQL (or mysql) databases. I found some on freshmeat.net but none of them is available as Debian package. Kai. -- mail | [EMAIL PROTECTED] · pgp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · icq: 102024972 | http://www.glorybox.de/

Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread James Green
Hi all, I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk without problem. Basically, I logoff from the Internet overnight and in the morning find the machine showing the early hours as the time. Today at m

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread randhol
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:32:05PM +, James Green wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting > unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk > without problem. You might have a problem with the battery of the BIOS. I thi

RE: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread Jason P Holland
do you have apm installed?? i had it on my laptop, and it would restore the time in gmt, which was about 5 hours off. it took me a while to figure it out. it was kinda a stupid thing. maybe that is it, maybe its not. sure sounds weird if its not. if you think its cron, go into /var/messages a

Cyclades serial card problems high speed pppd

2001-02-14 Thread Smith, Brian N.
All I have a cyclades Z modem card. We are running Debian with kernal 2.2.6 with pppd 2.4.0 I am having difficulty setting the card to 230400. I have tried setserial, however the divisor remains at 0 (problem). The card works fine at 115200 with pppd. However it refuses to dial at 230400. I c

Unidentified subject!

2001-02-14 Thread Eivind Arnesen
Sorry to bother you all with this, but I have simply spent enough (=to much) time on this (browsing newsgroups and the www). I cannot get php working with my apache server. I have tried both php3 and php4, but with no success. I'am currently running Apache/1.3.9 and php3 on Debian 2.2. When I ru

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting James Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting > unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk > without problem. > > Basically, I logoff from the Internet overnight and in the morning find > the machine sh

progeny linux system

2001-02-14 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! this question was posted before by someone at this list, but I didn't see any answer... so this time I will ask :) Does someone at this list has any experience with Progeny Debian GNU/Linux? I would like to hear any comment regarding this distribution. Thanks in advance! Marcelo

apt-get question

2001-02-14 Thread Ameurlain Antoine
Hi, I recently installed a package (aterm) from its debian package file with dpkg -i. Since I have a compiled version of Xfree864.0, I had to force the installation (aterm required "xlibs" which I haven't got). Fine. But now, apt-get refuse to install anything, complaining there's a broken depend

Re: Access-like interface for psql/mysql DB

2001-02-14 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:15:24PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am searching for a MS Access like Database-Interface for PostgreSQL > (or mysql) databases. I found some on freshmeat.net but none of them is > available as Debian package. I'm not sure if this will help you - as it is most de

Can't get php working, please help

2001-02-14 Thread Eivind Arnesen
Sorry to bother you all with this, but I have simply spent enough (=to much) time on this (browsing newsgroups and the www). I cannot get php working with my apache server. I have tried both php3 and php4, but with no success. I'am currently running Apache/1.3.9 and php3 on Debian 2.2. When I r

Ethernet

2001-02-14 Thread Ales Jerman
Hello! I installed Debian2.2 on 486 machine. I installed base system from floppies(11 floppies). The problem is that I can't ping other IP. I can ping only my IP(IP of this machine) but not others. What am I doing wrong? route shows IP of gateway, ifconfig shows my IP. But anyway it doesn't work! T

Re: more info on "Important Package Not Found In Sid!?!"

2001-02-14 Thread Michael Epting
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:00:12PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > I have another thing to add. Take a look at this: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/gnome-core.html > > Notice how it says that gnome core depends on libgnomeui33, > but that it isn't available. What can I do? Do I just have

Re: Can't get php working, please help

2001-02-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:02:19PM +, Eivind Arnesen wrote: > Sorry to bother you all with this, but I have simply > spent enough (=to much) time on this (browsing newsgroups and the www). > > I cannot get php working with my apache server. > I have tried both php3 and php4, but with no succes

Compilation of Postgresql (sid) fails (potato)

2001-02-14 Thread Andre Berger
I get the following error: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/postgresql-7.0.3/src/backend/main' gcc -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -g -g3 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I.. -c -o main.o main.c ld -r -o SUBSYS.o main.o make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/postgresql

Re: Ethernet

2001-02-14 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:12:07 +0100 (CET) Ales Jerman writes: AJ> I installed Debian2.2 on 486 machine. I installed base system from AJ> floppies(11 floppies). The problem is that I can't ping other IP. I can AJ> ping only my IP(IP of this machine) but not others. What am I doing wron

Re:Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-14 Thread msgrantmatt
I downloaded Libranet 1.2.2 ISO from a ftp site from Linux.org (got a T1 at work). I tried to install it and you know what, it's got a debian installer (with Libranet thrown in here and there) for Potato. I completely screwed up my system trying ( installing over RH6.2 don't ask me why, MY other

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread James Green
On 14 Feb 2001 14:38:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:32:05PM +, James Green wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting > > unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an older hard disk > > without pr

Re: Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb

2001-02-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a > kernel-image.deb of the same version. A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options compiled into it than any one person would ever need, therefore it is larger and

Re: progeny linux system

2001-02-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Marcelo Chiapparini" wrote: > Does someone at this list has any experience with Progeny Debian > GNU/Linux? I would like to hear any > comment regarding this distribution. Keeping in mind it's still in beta, I think it's a very slick woody-based system. Very easy to install, very up-to-date pa

Re: Can't get php working, please help

2001-02-14 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Eivind Arnesen schrieb am 14.02.2001: > >Sorry to bother you all with this, but I have simply >spent enough (=to much) time on this (browsing newsgroups and the >www). > >I cannot get php working with my apache server. >I have tried both php3 and php4, but with no success. > >I'am currently running

Cannot bring up lo.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, I have had this error for about 2 days I can't bring the loopback interface. If I type '/etc/init.d/networking restart', I get: Reconfiguring network interfaces: lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor lo:

XENIX Supported?

2001-02-14 Thread Tom Warfield
I am trying to get some info off a XENIX drive and for some reason it just aint working. Now I have heard conflicting reports that the XENIX or SysV file support is only supported by floppies and not hard drives, but then i read where people have simply compiled in the file system and presto they

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hello, On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit > /etc/fstab. uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to access his Windows partition by not mounting it at startup, but rather only

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
mike polniak wrote: > > Jeff Weatherford wrote: > > Bryan Carpenter wrote: > > > > > > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > > > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > > > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > > > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but n

some mutt stuff [II]

2001-02-14 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi folks, just another stupid question about mutt (: (JASQAM) How to save outgoing mails in a different mail folder, for example ~/Mail/outbox/me? I think I should join the mutt-mailing-list if available (-: -- Waehrend in Redmond noch gebootet wird, ICQ# 49564996 wird in Villa Pinguin

Re: Here you have

2001-02-14 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:33:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, DSC Lithuania wrote: > Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft > Outlook > and Netscape both, and I am subscribed to the Linux User list because I am > trying > to set up a Linux system at the place I work.

Resetting installed package list?

2001-02-14 Thread Colin Cashman
When I installed Debian 2.2r0 a couple of weeks ago, I did the smallest install possible - I let dselect install the default initial set of packages. Over the past couple of weeks, I've done very small tailoring to the system: turned off all network services, switched a few programs (for instance

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > > I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit > > /etc/fstab. > > uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to > access his Windows partition

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-14 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
I am using 2.2.18 and have agp, via, dri compiled in the kernel, but leaving mga as a module and i guess I have the same problem as you. X4.02 crashes my machine at 16 and 32bpp. I guess it has to do will drm. When i check the XF86 website, it seems to be that they suggested kernel 2.4.x kernel. I

Re: some mutt stuff [II]

2001-02-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Willi Dyck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > just another stupid question about mutt (: (JASQAM) > How to save outgoing mails in a different mail folder, > for example ~/Mail/outbox/me? Well, I use set record=$HOME/Mail/-`date +%m-%Y`-sent-mail to keep the folder sizes manageable. Cheers, -- Ema

VJ decompression error

2001-02-14 Thread Ker Ruben Ramos
What does "PPP - VJ decompression error" in my debug.log/syslog.log ? how do I fix this?

Re: how stable is woody?

2001-02-14 Thread waynes
I'm running Woody, with KDE 2.0 on my laptop, and I haven't had many problems, except those I created myself. The only problem I had was with XFree86 4.0.2. When I upgraded to woody, it was still using the svga x server. Not the true XF86 4.0.2 method. After I upgraded, I uninstalled XF86 and

Install locks when loading drivers

2001-02-14 Thread Kramer James M.
Title: Install locks when loading drivers I am trying to install Debian 2.2r2 on my computer.  I am booting from the CD.  everything is going smoothly in the install until I select to download the drivers.  The transfer between the CD and hard drive hangs up.  Both lights remain lit on the CD

Wake Up on LAN

2001-02-14 Thread Barthazi Andras
Hi! I should have to write a Backup system at my company, and I need a program can wake up the workstations. I know that I have to send the the "Magic code", do you know a program can solve it for me? And is it true, that I can just wake up a machine that suspended before (not a machine turned off

Re: Cannot bring up lo.

2001-02-14 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:59:55AM +, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > I have had this error for about 2 days > I can't bring the loopback interface. If I type > '/etc/init.d/networking restart', I get: > Reconfiguring network interfaces: lo: unk

Re: some mutt stuff [II]

2001-02-14 Thread Willi Dyck
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:51:23PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Willi Dyck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > just another stupid question about mutt (: (JASQAM) > > How to save outgoing mails in a different mail folder, > > for example ~/Mail/outbox/me? > > Well, I use > > set record=$HOME/Mail/-`

RE: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-14 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I remember reading that kernel 2.4.1(01?) has improved handling of the G400 cards and fixes some (if not all ...) known issues, i'd suggest you'd take a look at this kernel. The 2.4.x kernels really impressed me, if the rest of linux development would have similar level of quality linux would defin

Upgrade from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Grant
Should there be an urgency to upgrade to 2.2r2 if you just using debian 2.2 R0 as a workstation with samba. I am the only Linux workstation on the Lan so I am behind a firewall. I can't program yet execpt for Hello World in Java, C, and HTML (meaning I am very limited). I mainly use Netscape Gft

woody, apache, & jserv

2001-02-14 Thread techlists
I'm running woody on a server, I used dselect to install apache and jserv. Now when apache tries to start up it errors saying: Syntax error on line 120 of /etc/jserv/jserv.conf: Invalid command 'SetHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Line

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hello again, > Well, I too assumed they wanted it at startup. After all, it said: > > I assumed they asked about autofs because they had assumed that's how > it *had* to be done. Uhm, I assumed that since he knew how to mount it explicitly he also knew how to enter it in /etc/fstab *if* he wante

Debian Package

2001-02-14 Thread pankaj
Hi, Debian Package manager (dpkb) deosn't clean up the files after an error occurs, like if dependencies are not found. If this is the case, why should anybody need dpkg. It's very well known that Debian Packages are just archives of some gzipped file. If the package manager doesnt do more than

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Now I've never used automounting at all. What benefit does it confer > > when used with a fixed partition? (I can see the virtues with > > removable disks and remote machines like your NFS mount below.) > > In my opinion it's a question of comfort.

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
Say you have a machine with 8+ disks you share out to users. They may or may not need all 8 disks. You put the automounter on them. If the user CD's into the directory it mounts up, and later unmounts. This makes things simpler if the server or disk goes down for some reason. It wont h

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Frank Trenkamp
Hi, > > In my opinion it's a question of comfort. It saves typing, as you can > > omit su, sudo etc. and the actual mount command. Ok ok, it's for the real > > lazy kind like me .. ;) > > > > On the other hand, if you wanted to remove, say, a floppy before autofs's > > timeout, you do need to unmo

Re: magicfilter install problems

2001-02-14 Thread Brian Stults
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Do you have exim configured to deliver local mail? > Do you have non root account? > > Exim refuse to deliver to root so you need to have > /etc/aliases redirecting root mail to user account. > Good luck. > Thanks for the response. I use sendmail to deliver mail. It does

Re: woody, apache, & jserv

2001-02-14 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 14.02.2001: >I'm running woody on a server, I used dselect to install apache and >jserv. >Now when apache tries to start up it errors saying: > >Syntax error on line 120 of /etc/jserv/jserv.conf: >Invalid command 'SetHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a >module

Re: ProFTPD scoreboard file?

2001-02-14 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:29:23 +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: >Yes, i have seen something like that in /var/log/daemon.log or so. >The package seems to be quite broken anyway. Have you tried to start and >stop the daemon with the init script? It doesn t seem to spit out a PID. No, I'm running it from

Re: VJ decompression error

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ker Ruben Ramos wrote: > What does "PPP - VJ decompression error" in my debug.log/syslog.log ? how do > I fix this? Which Kernel and which version of the Kernel? If kernel 2.4.x and ppp < 2.4 you should upgrade ppp. See [1] where to find this package recompiled for potato. c

Re: Our Friends at M$...

2001-02-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Lest we swallow *any* of the M$ B$, I ran across this: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jon/ms-LIES.jpeg while installing Loose2k (under VMware) -Jon

Re: Overnight clock problems?

2001-02-14 Thread John Hasler
James Green writes: > I leave the machine running overnight. The problem only occurs when I am > NOT connected to the Internet. Sort of rules the battery I guess. Didn't you say that you had ntp installed? It corrects the clock when you are on the Net. Try shutting it down for a while. -- John

Re: Access-like interface for psql/mysql DB

2001-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Kai Weber wrote: > I am searching for a MS Access like Database-Interface for PostgreSQL > (or mysql) databases. I found some on freshmeat.net but none of them is > available as Debian package. Have you looked at pgaccess? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

RE: Can't get php working, please help

2001-02-14 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Have you this (or a similar) line in your httpd.conf? LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so HTH, Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Eivind Arnesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:02 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Can't

Re: Upgrade from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2

2001-02-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Should there be an urgency to upgrade to 2.2r2 if you just using > debian 2.2 R0 as a workstation with samba. I am the only Linux > workstation on the Lan so I am behind a firewall. So? Do

Re: missing debian-user-digest list??

2001-02-14 Thread Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed
Hi, Does anybody have any idea what has happened to this list? I haven't received a single message from this list in over 2 weeks...does anyone have any clue? I did notice a post on this subject last week or so, but haven't heard any responses from anyone. I have even tried re-subscribing under a

Re: apt-cache and search

2001-02-14 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Colin Watson saw fit to inform me that: >Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>If I do apt-cache search I get listing of packages available in >>apt cache. Suppose I want a filename search not package how this can be done. >>I want to find if the file I need is present in any of the package

Re: Unable to install netscape

2001-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
You won't find all you need on the CDs because the netscape executable is in non-free. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include one of the Debian mirrors and specify non-free in addition to main and contrib. It is also a good idea to also include security.debian.org in sources.list. Then do '

kernel /proc filesystem parameters

2001-02-14 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I am searching a way to speed up my laptop p75 and while reading laptop howto I stumbeled upon a topic named "Filesystem Parameters in /proc" which points to www.diverge.org/outrider/199910tfsp.shtml which doesn't work anymore... does anyone know where to get that documentation? I'd really lik

Re: woody, apache, & jserv - SOLVED

2001-02-14 Thread techlists
The problem was actually in Apache. It didn't install completely. I went into the httpd.conf, and all that was in there was just the modules, no other config info. The srm was completely blank. I removed both apache and jserv. The I just installed apache, once it was configured and running,

mysterious 'cursor' block appears

2001-02-14 Thread mike polniak
Well i don't run gpm, but what looks like gpm's white-cursor-block appears in the console screen about 20 minutes after i boot. Its in the bottom middle of the screen in both X and the console. This just started happening and i can't think of anything i've changed that could be rela

mc ignores mouse

2001-02-14 Thread Bernard and Jennifer Cohen
I have a an annoying wierd little problem that has been vexing me sorely. I have lost the use of the mouse in Midnight Commander when using the command line interface (i. e. outside of X). The funny thing is that it works under an X-term or E-term window in X. It happened sometime when I upgraded

hotplug in unstable for kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-14 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyong, Is there anyone try hotplug in unstable for kernel 2.4.1? what is the result? anyone planning to debianize it? thanx Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

dependency problem with libgdk-pixbuf2

2001-02-14 Thread Charles Lewis
Getting the following dependency problem in dselect: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 depends on libgdk-pixbuf2 (= 0.9.0-3) When I look up the package in dselect is shows: EIOM Pri Sect PackageInst.verAvail.ver Description *** Opt libs libgdk-pixbuf2 0.9.0-helix 0.9.0-3 The GdkPixBuf librar

Re: XENIX Supported?

2001-02-14 Thread poobah
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:09:20AM -0600, Tom Warfield wrote: > I am trying to get some info off a XENIX drive and for some reason it just > aint working. Now I have heard conflicting reports that the XENIX or SysV > file support is only supported by floppies and not hard drives, but then i > rea

anybody else having loopback problems?

2001-02-14 Thread Mike McGuire
yay unstable. a few days ago, I started having all kinds of problems with networking- fetchmail wouldn't fetch mail, samba not working, etc.- that I eventually tracked down to the loopback device not getting brought up on boot. did ifconfig and route for lo, and everything's fine for now. (hav

Re: dependency problem with libgdk-pixbuf2

2001-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Charles Lewis wrote: > Getting the following dependency problem in dselect: > > libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 depends on libgdk-pixbuf2 (= 0.9.0-3) > > When I look up the package in dselect is shows: > > EIOM Pri Sect PackageInst.verAvail.ver Description > *** Opt libs l

Re: missing debian-user-digest list??

2001-02-14 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
I also posted regarding the same problem yesterday, but nobody replied. Is List admin listening please ? Thanks a lot. Regards Rajesh Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed saw fit to inform me that: >Hi, > >Does anybody have any idea what has happened to this list? I haven't >received a single message from

Re: Fw: difference b/w comipling kernel and source.deb

2001-02-14 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Bob Hilliard saw fit to inform me that: >"Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a >> kernel-image.deb of the same version. > > A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options >compiled into it than any one per

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