PPP interface question

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Michaelson
I've got a pptp connection to my employer. I'd like (for purposes of netfilter rules and routing) to have the connection come up always using the same ppp interface number. Does anyone know of any way to do this, or would it require significant changes to the ppp driver and pppd source code? Thank

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, The Doctor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:42:31AM -0500: > Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so > nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that > croaks with > LI > is there a way to be able to boot windows

lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-20 Thread Kimon Ioannides
Has anyone been able to get the lucent winmodem driver from linmodems.org working on potato (linux 2.2.18pre21)? thanks kimon _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Guilherme Barile
Hello debian users. I am having the following ip masquerading issue: 1) I have four networks in my office 200.189.194.144 (netmask 255.255.255.248) - internet servers 10.0.0.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - internal network 10.0.1.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - other internal network 200.217.207.129 (

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread John Hasler
The Doctor writes: > Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows > partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up > another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot > windows again? Run 'lilo -u /dev/hda3'. This tells lilo to put th

Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
Hi, In a recent attempt to install the Glide3 libraries from unstable, I recently broke my debconf. Apparently, I tried this during the Perl 5.6 package upheaval, which the new debconf relied on, and libglide3 relied on that. Currently, I am just looking to return to a working debconf since

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, John May wrote: > I am using Apache 1.3.17 (compiled from source) on Debian Woody. When I > try to exec some CGI scripts, by typeing in the URL, ex. > http://www.cybergeek.org/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi, I get an an > Internal Server Error with the follow

who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
hey all, want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge. so on either suse or debian, i use xdm to start windowmaker after login and i

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 19 Feb 2001 23:06:59 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also, does alsa work with the new kernel? > > There I realized some problems. Alsa was working erratically and I had > no clue for two weeks or s

oldlibs

2001-02-20 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find then under Debian. Anyone know where I can find them? Thanks, Sebastiaa

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey all, > want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person > finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i > noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge. > > so on ei

Re: APIC error

2001-02-20 Thread Sean
Let me guess, you have an Abit BP6 motherboard . If so, don't worry about it ... the SMP on the BP6 is basically a hack job, which is why these error messages are getting generated. These things used to lock the kernel tight in the early 2.4.x days, but now they're just annoying messages. E

Crypto patching 2.4 kernel

2001-02-20 Thread spamtrap
Hi, I want to compile the 2.4 kernel + crypto patch. apt-getting the kernel-source is no problem, but the international kernel patch isn't yet debianized. What's the best option? -Patching the debianized kernel source. -Patching the non-debianized kernel source. Thanks for reading, Jurgen

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Re: xlibsosmesa3 vs. mesag3

2001-02-20 Thread Sean
With the advent of XFree86 4.x Mesa is getting rolled into X, this being all part of the DRI initiative. This is why your mesag3 pacakges are being replaced ... Sean On Monday 19 February 2001 18:17, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > All of a sudden, I find dselect wanting to replace mesag3 and associa

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Erdmut Pfeifer (on Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:21:09PM +0100): > rxvt has a compile-time option for wtmp/utmp support. Maybe that's > where the distros differ... the same happens when i use xterm. but i just now remembered that i use aterm on suse, and with aterm, no additional utmp login is r

kernel make-config not recognising new drivers

2001-02-20 Thread Pete Meyer
I've got the source for a network card driver, and am trying to compile it into my kernel. I put the code into kernelsource/drivers/net. Unfortunately, make config does not recogise that it's there (neither does make menuconfig). Is there a way I can get the configuration scripts to recognise

Re: rxvt utmp

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
ah! command line option: rxvt(1): -ut|+ut Inhibit/enable writing a utmp entry; resource utmp­Inhibit. woohoo. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- la lune, c'est comme les canards i

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Erdmut Pfeifer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:21:09PM +0100: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on > > suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of > > my account when

Re: Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Whenever you are doing the xf86config (or your other favorite X config), when you get to the last screen where you are supposed to change video modes for color depths, just go ahead and change them. Once you specify the video mode for a color depth, it'll ask you wehther you want the virtual deskto

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread studenten wg
i finally found that out yesterday night (blame me i thought the libs would be installed by default)... now after i compiled it and copied the dll's and stuff i can view the divx movies... BUT the xmps is running in a little messy box and i couldnt figure out whats the matter ( is xmps workin f

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hello Peter, On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:57:24PM +0100, studenten wg wrote: > i finally found that out yesterday night (blame me i thought the libs would > be installed by default)... > > now after i compiled it and copied the dll's and stuff i can view the divx > movies... > BUT the xmps is run

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
oops...guess there was a reason I wasn't using it already ;) rick On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Tal Danzig wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:13:40PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: > > I've been loosely foloowing this thread, and hope you have the best of > > luck locking down. A few places to start with t

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on >suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of >my account when all i did was login once and opened xterms >otherwise... You could try starting 'xterm -ut' or 'rxvt -ut' instea

Re: ssh-client, which terminal emulation?

2001-02-20 Thread Anthony Fox
Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > i want to connect to a remote linux server via ssh using nifty-telnet (mac) > or putty (win32). > Which terminal emulation is the right? Vt102 doesn´t work for me, because > all funktion keys, insert, delete and some others aren´t mapped corre

Why did all my X11 fonts suddenly double in size?

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Gahan
I used to be using the fonts package that came with the XFree86 4 binary distribution, but after upgrading to the most recent XFree86 package in sid (4.0.2-4), X refused to start, on account of not having the "fixed" font. I checked it out, and the font was installed! I've never had that error bef

PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-20 Thread Mohamed Abdulbaset
greetings, i have downloaded the 3 binary CD images for the potato version and write them my self to CD's i went through installation steps till end but my system not rebooting from the harddisk. my computer is Power Mac G3, PLS. Assist me.

Re: Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Anthony Fox
"Guilherme Barile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello debian users. > I am having the following ip masquerading issue: > > 1) I have four networks in my office > > 200.189.194.144 (netmask 255.255.255.248) - internet servers > > 10.0.0.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - internal network > > 10.0.1.x

fonts

2001-02-20 Thread user list
I'm sure this is an old question but gv and ghostview give me the following error when I try to load a file with an .eps graphics file embedded Error: /invalidfontAladdin Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in findfont Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 6 --nostring

Reinstalling unstable broke cookies

2001-02-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dumb subject, but I couldn't come up with anything better. The problem is: I reinstalled Linux a few days ago; the only big change that I made was that I replaced Gnome with KDE. Before, I had a CGI script written in Perl that would set a session co

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: "Eric G. Miller" >On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: >> Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? > >LaTeX is nice, but it is *not* a desktop publishing programming like >Quark. There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel st

rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find it? Vittorio

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
> From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Steve wrote: >> It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as >> good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most >> pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is >> WYSIWY

Tailoring a window manager

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. I'd like that when starting up the window manager, automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? What should I do? If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I configure it? Vittorio

netscape 4.76

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
What files from the www.debian.org stable download should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and running? Vittorio

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: I can execute the CGI scripts from the command line, when I use: $ perl newspro.cgi Also, below is a sample of the errors I get in my Apache error_log file when I run the scripts from a web browser with the #!/usr/bin/perl -w option. BTW, I get these

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Richard Taylor wrote: > > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect > and so forth. > On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? Thanks, Jonathan -- Jonathan // Gift /~~(0) (_|

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I can't speak off the top of my head to the exec problem you're having; the -w problem is clear. -w turns on warnings in perl, which are essentially non-fatal errors regarding programming style and structure. The "Name %s used only once" warning tells you that the given variable appears to be eith

Re: netscape 4.76

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> What files from the www.debian.org stable download > should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and > running? "apt-get install navigator" *should* get all the necessary files/dependencies to install just the browser component. I'm not sure if there's a similar one for the entire "Communicator"

apache-ssl broken in potato?

2001-02-20 Thread aphro
hi a couple weeks ago i installed several apache-ssl servers on potato machines. today when i try i get: fury:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list ; apt-get update ; apt-get install apache-ssl # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file U

Re: Tailoring a window manager

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. > I'd like that when starting up the window manager, > automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? > What should I do? > If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I > configure it? In either .xinitrc or .xsession, add the

ICQ and other applications for Linux???

2001-02-20 Thread Mahalingam, Sivendiran
Does anyone know what protocols ICQ uses to send data out on the internet? I am attempting to use my my linux machine as a router for my cable internet service and was wondering if i would get full internet funtionality on my client machines on the LAN. Thanks. Siva

Re: oldlibs

2001-02-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of > the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know > that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find > then under Debian. Anyone kno

Re: kernel make-config not recognising new drivers

2001-02-20 Thread mike polniak
Pete Meyer wrote: > I've got the source for a network card driver, and am trying to compile it into my kernel. I put the code into kernelsource/drivers/net. Unfortunately, make config does not recogise that it's there (neither does make menuconfig). Is there a way I can get the configuration

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
Unfortunately the problem is, 1. It isn't my script, I downloaded it from another site, and the other users report no problem like I am having and 2. I can't remove the -w option from the Perl line and still have the script work. As soon as I remove -w, the script won't execute and I get an Inter

Debian 2.2 and ISDN

2001-02-20 Thread WauWau
Hi I have loaded Hisax module, but can't dialing my ISP with my S0-PCI ISDN card, I don't understand this error message: Dialing isdn0 is triggered. Somebody can help me?

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:38:07 -0600 (CST) Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're interested in doing backups to CD-R(W), I'd recommend cddump. > There's not a dpkg, but it's easy enough to install. See > http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/cddump.html. Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 2.4.1, too, but I didn't get alsa to build. I used the > male-dpkg modules_image method. alsa-source from woody didn't compile, > the package from sid had a problem that looked like I needed some newer > package m

Re: ICQ and other applications for Linux???

2001-02-20 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > Does anyone know what protocols ICQ uses to send data out on the >internet? I am attempting to use my my linux machine as a router for my >cable internet service and was wondering if i would get full internet >funtionality on my client machines

Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-20 Thread hanasaki
Can someone help? ASUS has rh/caldera on there site... both give unresolved dependancies when the drivers are insmod TIA

Re: rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread mike polniak
Vittorio De Martino wrote: > Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me > where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh -- ~~

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 and Matrox G400

2001-02-20 Thread Rob Hudson
I've got the G450 also. I'm running dual-head. I think I read somewhere that DRI doesn't work under dual-head. Is this true? > On 20010213.2045, Damon Muller said ... > > Quoth Lee Elliott, > > I'm not able to get hardware rendering/GL running on my G400. Kernel is > > currently 2.4.0-test11

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry, but I'm not sure I believe you :) - the -w switch is well documented and never, under any circumstances, affects what goes to STDOUT (or anywhere other than STDERR, which ends up in your log). When you say "the script will run", do you mean that it does so *correctly*, that is, that you get

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Steve Cooper
I wrote a set of Python scripts that have been working pretty well for me. Input is a list of directories for each cdr and exclusions specified as regular expressions in config files. Output is a bunch of tarred and gzipped archives. The script then moves the archives to one or more cdrs via mki

Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
If you run "depmod -ae" it will tell you all modules with dependency problem, and what the symbols are unresolved. My SOYO board with onboard audio using the VIA chipset required APM (Advanced Power Management) built into the kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Can someone help? : ASUS has rh/

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
It's ok that you don't believe me, but I hacked around the script a little bit and was able to get it to run by removing all the comments at the beginning of the script and few extra things that didn't need to be in there. Now the script runs fine. BTW, yes, the script did produce the desired re

sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
I set up an /etc/sudoers file to give user rvf the ability to run anything, but be asked for a password. As the example files shows, I set it up like this: rvf ALL = ALL The problem is that whenever I run a command with sudo, it works but I'm never asked for a password. Would anyone

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Erik van Roode
At 03:59 PM 2/20/01 -0500, John May wrote: Unfortunately the problem is, 1. It isn't my script, I downloaded it from another site, and the other users report no problem like I am having and 2. I can't remove the -w option from the Perl line and still have the script work. As soon as I remove -w

make a raid-1 with 2 disks

2001-02-20 Thread Szabó Dániel
Hello. I've stucked with this scenario. I've read the howtos and the documentation 10-15 times, but it did not help :( All i wanna do (is have some fun), to create a mirror disk system (raid1), so, if one of the disks fail, the other can easily (and _automatically_) boot up. the config is: two PI

matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Pascal Hos
I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When I start it from an xterm the splash screen shows up and it then the program hangs. The strange part is that if I su as myself and then execute matlab, everything works just

pls help: Can't call method "handle_request"

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, i can't get perl "handle_request" to work with nor potato nor testing using perl 5.005. strange thing as handle_request should be compiled in apache-common. any ideas? tia martin

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Richard Taylor wrote: > > > > There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect > > and so forth. > > > > On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? WordPerfect, yes, but Adobe has cancelled the Beta of Frame on

Re: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy > >I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was >considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all >devices. From what i remember (did not u

Re: lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-20 Thread Brendan O'Connor
I'm trying to get it working right now, trying some advice from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a weird error, I'd expect it to work for other people. Make sure to download the source version to compile with the specific kernel version. - Original Message - From: "Kimon Ioannides" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Install perl-5.004 (not -base) When will people learn? -- see shy jo

Re: rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me # where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find # it? There's isn't any rc.local per se, but executables in /etc/rc.boot/ will be run on

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Pascal Hos wrote: > > I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some > difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When I start it from an > xterm the splash screen shows up and it then the program hangs. The strange > part is that if I su as myself and then execute mat

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
Never? That is very odd...I know that sudo can be compiled to or not to timeout after a bit of time...and debian has a timeout (somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes methinks). I'm not sure if this can be changed w/o compiling from the source yourself. But I think it's way nicer to not have to ty

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:10:12PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: > Never? That is very odd...I know that sudo can be compiled to or not to > timeout after a bit of time...and debian has a timeout (somewhere between 5 > and 15 minutes methinks). I'm not sure if this can be changed w/o compiling > f

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
check to see if there's any obvious difference between your .profile and .bashrc (if that's what you're into) that may be causing the problem. rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pascal Hos wrote: > I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some > difficulties getting it to work correc

Image Aquisition Boards / Cameras

2001-02-20 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi all, Please cc a copy of the replies because I am not a subscriber of this list I need to capture a image with a CCD camera in a i386 PC computer. Does anybody know a manufacturer that I can buy the camera and aquisition board to use in my Debian GNU/Linux? Thanks a lot Pedro

fake packages?

2001-02-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey guys. How does this work? lupus:~# apt-get install latex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get knew to grab tetex-bin. Where does it get that information?

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Banners and Logos

2001-02-20 Thread Eric VB
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:14:15AM +0530, Murali Kumar K wrote: > > Dear sir, > > We have launched a Brand New Site www.softlandindia.com > > SoftLandIndia is a virtual freewares and Sharewares directory. The entries > are selected with the average Indian user in mind. The aim is for a better, >

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
try it like this in sudoers: rvf ALL=(ALL) ALL I'm also on testing and not having issues. rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I set up an /etc/sudoers file to give user rvf the ability to run > anything, but be asked for a password. As the example files shows, I > set it up li

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Install perl-5.004 (not -base) I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. > When will people learn? When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the description of the packages. If this is a reoccuring proble

Re: Debian 2.2 and ISDN

2001-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi > > I have loaded Hisax module, but can't dialing my ISP with my S0-PCI ISDN > card, > I don't understand this error message: > Dialing isdn0 is triggered. As far as I can tell this is not an error message, although I might be wrong. In case you have a problem with ISDN, the first thing I w

Re: APIC error

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Bresson
Yep, sure enough, you guessed it. It is a bit of a strange problem. Today i haven't gotten any of the APIC error messages at all. Just shows how unstable the board is i guess. Yesterday i even had the machine lockup once or twice, which was really annoying. This is all kinda strange, it makes

Re: Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Wayne: If, at the color depth you're using, the first resolution in the list is 800x600, but another one is 1024x768, it'll run XWindows in 800x600 with a virtual screen of 1024x768. The biggest resolution in the list becomes the virtual screen size, and the first is default actual size. I'd jus

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > Install perl-5.004 (not -base) > > I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. > > > When will people learn? > > When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the > description of

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Bresson
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Andrew n marshall wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > Install perl-5.004 (not -base) > > I have perl-5.005.03-7 installed, which I would think would be enough. > > > When will people learn? > > When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > > When will people learn? > > > > When there is obvious documentation on the difference, such in the > > description of the packages. If this is a reoccuring problem, then the > > current documentation on the issue should be revaluated. > > Unfortunatly

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Bresson wrote: > I'm all for that. Right now there's so many different versions and perl > packages (dependencies and conflicts) that i can't make heads or tails of > it. No, it's quite simple. In unstable there are two packages: perl-base perl Notice there are no longer versions or any of

Re: Missing Warnings.pm => broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew n marshall wrote: > I think I should have phrased the above as a question: > Since I have 5.005 installed and it still doesn't work, what else can I > try or read? You can trying making use that /usr/bin/perl points to some version of perl which you have the full package, not just a perl-

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... -Rob On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:19:39PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: > try it like this in sudoers: > > rvf ALL=(ALL) ALL > > I'm also on testing and not having issues. > > rick > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > I set up an

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Pascal Hos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some > difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When I start it > from an xterm the splash screen shows up and it then the program > hangs. The strange part is that if I su as myself

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Brian May
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> Pascal Hos wrote: >> I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having >> some difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When >> I start it from an xterm the splash screen shows up and it then >

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:12:09PM -0800, Steve Cooper wrote: > I wrote a set of Python scripts that have been working pretty well for me. > Input > is a list of directories for each cdr and exclusions specified as regular > expressions in config files. Output is a bunch of tarred and gzipped >

Re: fake packages?

2001-02-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey guys. How does this work? > > lupus:~# apt-get install latex > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex > > I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Pascal Hos
Well the same happens when using ssh or rsh or any variant of remote login. The environments are exactly the same when logged in locally or remote. strace matlab hangs on the following statement: bash-2.03$ strace matlab execve("/usr/local/bin/matlab", ["matlab"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 brk(0)

Re: rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To quote Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ># Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to >tell me ># where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I >find ># it? >

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
if you can check out the lines shortly preceding the first read(4, 0xbfffdc0c, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) there may be some useful information there. I don't know nearly enough to do anything with this stuff ;) rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Pascal Hos wrote:

Re: fake packages?

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey guys. How does this work? > >lupus:~# apt-get install latex >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex > >I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get knew

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... The line you're looking for is: rvf ALL=PASSWD: ALL If that doesn't work, something really is odd. - -- -

Re: matlab

2001-02-20 Thread Pascal Hos
Well it seems that the program was just suffering from PMS. When performing another strace matlab 2&> output, it decided to start working. Oh well, I guess Mathworks need to iron out some kinks for their linux version. Thanks for the replies guys, Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Guilherme Barile wrote: > >From a computer in the 10.0.0.x network I can ping the internet (via ADSL) > and any computer on the 10.0.1.x network (vice versa for the computers on > the 10.0.1.x net) BUT, i cannot access the servers connected to NIC2 (eth1) > directly I need some special rule fo

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread csj
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 07:38, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: > > Hi all > > > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the > > mkisofs prog to create the image. Is it possible that i culd > > make an exact copy of my files, i

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > and a line for every terminal i opened on :0 > > why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on > suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of > my account when all i did was login once and opened xt

Re: jre problem

2001-02-20 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:54:10PM +0800, wujf wrote: | | Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread ^^ | Could not create Java VM | Here's your problem. You said you were using jdk 1.1.x, so you need to inclu

Re: rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:59:49PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > That's not true. In fact the stuff in /etc/rc.boot will be run > very, very early in the boot process, and you can't count on > things like NFS or NIS working yet. rc.boot is obsolete in potato. early boot scripts that are

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:39:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... you didn't add yourself to group `sudo' did you? members of this group are never required to authenticate. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpdYSAinUfTa.pgp De

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