Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-23 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi Did you recompiled the kernel? I think you might miss out some option in ppp part in the kernel. Edwin Lau On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:37:38 John Hasler wrote: > Tiarnan O Corrain writes: > > for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. > > ... > > Any suggestions? > > Put 'kd

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-23 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:59:47PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Brian Stults wrote: > > > > As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot > > be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to > > install a package. After waiting for a long time, I t

Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hello !   I am an 'old' redhat user but a new debian one (i installed 2.1 today) I recompiled kernel to 2.2.18 (which is good enough for my hardware). Since 2.0.x does not support my Intel NIC out of the box. During the installation i didn't configure networking (thinking it was going to be

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-23 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone > > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd > > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until > > you reboot .. > > Not quite

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread hogan
vi /etc/network/interfaces - Original Message - From: Martin Marconcini To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!) Now the question is: In red hat i had linuxconf. In debian i t

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hey thanks :) - Original Message - From: hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Marconcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:48 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!) > vi /etc/network/interfaces > > - Original Message

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
ops.. i don't even have /etc/networks :(( where else it could be? m. - Original Message - From: hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Marconcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:48 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a tech

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread hogan
Not networks, network (no s) > ops.. i don't even have /etc/networks :(( > > vi /etc/network/interfaces

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-23 Thread Brian May
> "William" == William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying William> to "make" them go away. They don't consume any CPU time, William> or any other resources other than the slot in the process William> table and

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Neither.!! :( (i assure you!) Remember i did not configure network while installing the OS. - Original Message - From: hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Marconcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:00 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an e

RE: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
apt-get install linuxconf -Original Message- From: Martin Marconcini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!) ops.. i don't even have /etc/networ

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Oggg.. there is a problem.. I can't configure my gateway since i don't know where from (sorry.. i am damn newbie on debian) :( - Original Message - From: #KUNDAN KUMAR# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Martin Marconcini' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User (E-mail) Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread hogan
> Neither.!! :( > > (i assure you!) Remember i did not configure network while installing the > OS. apt-get install netbase

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
And that is what i am trying to do... Get my box able to route to my gateway. But I didn't want to disturb the entire list asking complex questions (is getting worse now) I believe that if i'm instructed to configure lan on debian I will be able to do the rest... since i have newtorking knowledge

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Ok. Lets go again. - Where are the Debian network configuration files? - If you did answer NO when asked to config network while installing what happens to those files? Do they exist? or they are only created when YES is the answer? - If they don't exist, what and where must I create them for the

Re: hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

2001-02-23 Thread Pap Tibor
Hi! Sorry for the hungarian post. On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Cseh Tam?s wrote: > Sajnos nem tudok angolul ?s m?g program nyelveket sem A programnyelvek nem szamitanak, de sajnos angol tudas az jo lenne. Foleg, mivel ez egy angol nyelvu levlista, es csak a veletlennek koszonheto, hogy most magyar nye

Re: hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

2001-02-23 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Pap Tibor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:38:19AM +0100: > Sorry for the hungarian post. Why apologize if you can answer in English? :P -- People using html in email should be shot. A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high

Re: How to install app from source code?

2001-02-23 Thread Glyn Millington
>I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find >the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian >install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from >command line if that would help. If I click on a .tar.gz file the O

ethernet card installation

2001-02-23 Thread Johnny Blade
Hi, I am new to Linux, and have recently installed Debian. In my attempts to get connected to my school's ethernet, I have found that there is no /dev/eth*'s on my system. I have one network card, a Netgear FA310TX. I found this card in a hardware list with the word "Tulip" in parentheses next

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote: >Ok. Lets go again. > >- Where are the Debian network configuration files? /etc/network/* >- If you did answer NO when asked to config network while installing what >happens to those files? Do they exist? or they are only created when YES is >the ans

Re: ethernet card installation

2001-02-23 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Johnny Blade wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to Linux, and have recently installed Debian. > In my attempts to get connected to my school's >ethernet, I have found that there is no /dev/eth*'s on >my system. > >I have one network card, a Netgear FA310TX. I found >this card in a hardw

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Phil Brutsche wrote: I'll be honest: I wouldn't trust any of that "Enterprise" stuff to run on any distribution other than the one it was built for: RedHat 6.x. Thanks to all for the answers. Maybe I'll try to debianize the rpms and/or adopt the installscript later. But this way seems really

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Robert L. Harris wrote: On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it why that "-noliste

Re: Senior Project

2001-02-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:20:03 +0100 (CET) > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > The only thing with which I notice slow processor is when I ssh or telnet > > to it and read mail on it. So, if you do not need this, the machine serves >

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 Mis-configuring 3c509b NIC

2001-02-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, maybe plug and play has improved in 2.4.1? Does the card work? What do you see e with 3c509utils? Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mike Kuhar wrote: > I can start up kernel 2.2.17 and the 3c509b Nic has the proper address and > intr, > 0210 and 03. However, when I startup kernel 2

Re: sound in gnome-sawfish

2001-02-23 Thread Steve R. Hastings
The Gnome environment uses EsounD, the sound daemon originally written for the Enlightenment window manager. The actual name of the daemon is esd. esd will work great with a Sound Blaster Live! card. When you said "enable sound server startup" you were saying yes to esd, but esd did not work

Re: Woody mouse and net are dead

2001-02-23 Thread Steve R. Hastings
It was the kernel. I'm running 2.4.1 now and that fixed it. After I got the system into a known working state (by re-installing from the unofficial Woody CDs) I built a new kernel. I figured out that I have a problem with building 2.2.18pre21 now; I used to be able to build it but no longer

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: > >> > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone >> > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd >> > processes die on their own eventually many times they wil

problem with ldconfig

2001-02-23 Thread Christophe Preaud
Hi, I have accidentally lost ldconfig: I have installed libc6 (2.2.2-1 version) from unstable distribution, and then downgraded to libc6 (2.1.3-13 from stable distribution). In fact, I try to downgrade, because I got an error message telling me that ldconfig does not exist any more(?!?). I have t

Faxgetty, Mgetty and data calls are driving me potty!

2001-02-23 Thread Barry Samuels
I've spent hours and hours trying to set up Hylafax/Faxgetty to auto detect fax/data calls and respond appropriately. I have had partial success in that I can now get it to distinguish between fax and data calls and accept the fax or start a getty for a data call. Part of my original problem was

Re: ldap & debian

2001-02-23 Thread Frank Copeland
On 23 Feb 01 00:50:46 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to >authenticate with an openldap server. > >I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring >debian to use ldap fo

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer > and xcdroast. So, I recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi > support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. xcdroast > still complains. No need to recompile your kernel... [cut and pasted] Linuxnewbie.org has a short article on setting up a CD-RW d

Re: easy sound config ?

2001-02-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > what url did you find sndconfig on? > > > > Thank you > > > I _think_ this is the one I used: > > http://www.dicea.unifi.it/ftp/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/s/sndconfig/ > > This has the right version anyway -- sndconfig_0.57-5_i386.deb> I'm pretty sure I used "apt-get" for my copy, although I p

Re: scsi emulation

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
In xconfig, I selected generic scsi support, scsi emulation, and scsi CDROM. Mike On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:17:26AM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Hi! > > Obviously you lack some module.. what scsi modules did you compile? > > > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scs

Re: ethernet card installation

2001-02-23 Thread Johnny Blade
--- John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:32:09 -0700 (MST) > Subject: Re: ethernet card installation > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Johnny Blade wrote: > > >I am new to Linux, and have recently installed > Debian. > > In my attempts to get connected to my school's > >etherne

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, > Martin Marconcini wrote: > I am an 'old' redhat user but a new debian one (i installed > 2.1 today) I recompiled kernel to 2.2.18 (which is good enough for my > hardware). Looks like the other posters aren't getting the fact, that you've still running slink (Debian 2.1 which is over two

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:20:12PM -0800, Richard Taylor wrote: > I've never had a problem with it... that surprises me. Surprised me too. It seemed to be working fine. A friend suggested printer settings saying he had the same problem. I wasn't trying to print mind you, but neither was he

Re: ethernet card installation

2001-02-23 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, John Galt wrote: > >to my aliases file in /etc/modutils. The line I added > >was "alias eth0 tulip". This didn't seem to have any > >effect. There was no /dev/eth*'s after I rebooted. > > If modprobe/insmod works, just add tulip to /etc/modules and you'll have > the card up. Getting it t

emu won't work in kernel?

2001-02-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
This might be obvious to everyone else, but I just rolled a custom kernel, and since I almost always have music going, I built the emu module (SB Live!) into the kernel. Sound wouldn't work, as the open on /dev/dsp would come back with "no such device". As soon as I went back to loading it as a

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:18:40AM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote: > > >Ok. Lets go again. > > > >- Where are the Debian network configuration files? > > /etc/network/* look close at his original mail, he installed debian 2.1, slink. thats why he does not

(linux)how do allow pings (and stuff)

2001-02-23 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I have too much security on my machine :-) I want other machines on the network to be able to ping me (and later, to be able to connect via sockets to a server on another machine on the net work). Currently, if I try and ping my machine from another host I get: ping: socket: Permission d

Need /dev/usb

2001-02-23 Thread Tom George
I am running potato 2.2.12 but I have compiled a 2.4.1 kernel as I would like to use my printer (Epson Stylus Color 860) on a usb port. I configured the 2.4.1 kernel for a usb printer but there is no /dev/usb and MAKEDEV wont make one. How can I add the usb driver without unnecessarily comprom

C++ man pages. (was: Re: Missing C Lib man pages)

2001-02-23 Thread Xucaen
--- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to install the manpages-dev package > (apt-get install manpages-dev). > You might also consider the glibc-doc package > since it gives you a broader > perspective for libc. Hi all, This is propaply a really dumb question, but is the libg++ (or

man

2001-02-23 Thread Nic Ferrier
I've just installed debian (potato) on an IMac (which went rather well all things considered). I've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2-pre4 (a PPC kernel release) and everything seemed to be going well. However, I've just noticed that man doesn't find the man pages. All the pages seem to be installed

OT: Debian or Redhat: Distribution Wars

2001-02-23 Thread Xucaen
I felt the urge to share this with all of you.. I think cartoon says it all. :-) http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990301 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices! http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: man

2001-02-23 Thread Xucaen
Hi, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but my very first time installing debian on an intel, I failed to install any man pages, and everytime I used man, it couldn't find anything.. Is it possible that man didn't get installed on your Imac? xucaen --- Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've

apt-get strangeness

2001-02-23 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I've noticed a strange problem with apt-get: it downloads packages twice. Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm using Woody, and I've noticed this error for some weeks now. It seems to have been reported in bug report #79277, but it's still causing a lot of excess traffic up until today...

Re: man

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:19:12PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: > I've just installed debian (potato) on an IMac (which went rather well > all things considered). > > I've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2-pre4 (a PPC kernel release) and > everything seemed to be going well. > > However, I've just notic

Looking for missing pamlibs....

2001-02-23 Thread hanasaki
what package will provide a lib to resolve the below? /bin/rm -f exim gcc -o exim accept.o child.o daemon.o dbfn.o debug.o deliver.o direct.o directory.o dns.o drtables.o exim.o expand.o filter.o globals.o header.o host.o log.o match.o moan.o os.o parse.o queue.o readconf.o retry.o rewrite.o rout

Re: Need /dev/usb

2001-02-23 Thread Joris Mocka
Hi Tom, > How can I add the usb driver without > unnecessarily compromising my stable 2.2.12 system? ...just take 2.2.18 it contains usb support and works fine with potato did you compile in the uhci modules (if you have a board with intel chips)? have a look at your /lib/modules/2.4.1/usb/ di

Re: Looking for missing pamlibs....

2001-02-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:48:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what package will provide a lib to resolve the below? > > auths/auths.a(call_pam.o): In function `auth_call_pam': > call_pam.o(.text+0x16e): undefined reference to `pam_start' Rule of thumb, when compiling stuff from sources, mak

Re: Looking for missing pamlibs....

2001-02-23 Thread hanasaki
Acutally, I found it just the way you suggest and it is installed.. checking the filesystem for all files that are like "libpam0g-dev" yeilds the following without a .so in the bunch :( ls -R / | grep -i libpam0g-dev libpam0g-dev libpam0g-dev /usr/share/doc/libpam0g-dev: /usr/share/doc/libpam0g-de

I have Problem on my SparcStation 10

2001-02-23 Thread usuario cualquiera
Hi, I would like you help me. I install debian for sparc on sun machine(sparc satation 10), so everything go well but when i shutdown its, its never get start again, this kind the machine have its own systems and did not reconize linux systems. its presente a prompt like this: ok? o boot : Wh

Re: Looking for missing pamlibs....

2001-02-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:10:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Acutally, I found it just the way you suggest and it is installed.. > checking the filesystem for all files that are like "libpam0g-dev" yeilds > the following without a .so in the bunch :( > > ls -R / | grep -i libpam0g-dev No

RE: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Viktor: Thanks a lot. At last someone who read the entire message!!! Tonight i will give it a try. THanks a lot!!! Hope the apt-get works. It should upgrade the entire system??? It won't change the kernel i suppose? Will I have to reboot? Sorry for the newbie questios, but redhat is far more ea

RE: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
At last!!! Thanks. I will give it a try! Regards, Martin -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!) On Fri

[q] apt-get source ..

2001-02-23 Thread Matthias Wieser
When I download something, is the directory that will be created, contain already the newest version of the drivers? Reason behind the question: I try to compile Ghostscript with the stp driver of the gimp-print project. I have not been able to compile the things, i downloaded with apt-get source

Re: sound in gnome-sawfish

2001-02-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Steven, thank you very much for your help. Currently I am already a member of the audio group: $ groups myself $ myself: myself dialout audio dip Remember that I can play music CD normally. The problem is with the system sounds. Any other idea? Thank again! Marcelo On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at

1/2 fixed Re: Looking for missing pamlibs....

2001-02-23 Thread hanasaki
I bit more reading reveals that I needed the following export EXTRALIBS="-lpam -ldl" It now builds and runs fine. I still have the problem of netscape reporting an error in imap commands from the imapd server. Exiting NS and running it again fixes the problem but this is way too cumbersone...

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-02-23 Thread Brian Stults
William T Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: > > > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone > > > > Not quite true... zombies don't ever die: they're already dead. > > While the description of zombie processes is accurate, I think another > li

kernel install - modules? no kerneld?

2001-02-23 Thread Bruce Elliott
New to the Debian distribution, like it so far. Small problem with modules and such right now. I just finished compiling & installing my own kernel using the kernel package. Perhaps there were some path dependencies the packaging util was looking for, but there were no error messages I noticed.

3COM & TEAC

2001-02-23 Thread Mitch Okada
Hi Debian User, For the first time, I installed Debian 2.2 on my IBM PC: Cyrix 200Mz, 64Meg RAM CD-ROM: TEAC 56E Netword Card: 3COM 3C905-T (Fast Etherlink XL Adapter) This is my first Linux installation. During the installation, my CD-ROM (Teac 56E) was not recognized and thus the d

*.gz

2001-02-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is gzipped? Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz Thanks in advance for the help! Marcelo

Re: *.gz

2001-02-23 Thread Terry Warner
Heya, You'll want to gunzip those files, check to make sure its installed (should be a standard install on all linux machines) gunzip README.gz Should work just fine, if its not installed apt-get install gzip Terry On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:32:41PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini babbled: > Hi!

Re: *.gz

2001-02-23 Thread Anthony Fox
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is > gzipped? > Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz zless Anthony

Re: man

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:19:12PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> I've just installed debian (potato) on an IMac (which went rather well >> all things considered). >> >> I've upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2-pre4 (a PPC kernel release) and >> everything seemed t

How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?

2001-02-23 Thread M David Tilson
- Transcript of session follows - 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: list.debian.org: host not found) Tried to cp a file from hda2 (linux) to hda1 (fat16). Now lilo cannot find anything on c: to boot. If I boot DOS6.2 with bootfloppy, c: looks EMPTY. However, l

Re: How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?

2001-02-23 Thread Romain Lerallut
Try "fdisk /dev/hda" the 'p' option prints the partition table info, you might find useful stuff there. HTH Romain On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, M David Tilson wrote: > >- Transcript of session follows - > 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: list.debian.org: host > not fou

Re: *.gz

2001-02-23 Thread RAccess
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is > gzipped? > Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz > > Thanks in advance for the help! > Marcelo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: C++ man pages. (was: Re: Missing C Lib man pages)

2001-02-23 Thread RAccess
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need to install the manpages-dev package > > (apt-get install manpages-dev). > > You might also consider the glibc-doc package > > since it gives you a broader > > perspective for libc. > > Hi all, This is pro

Re: 3COM & TEAC

2001-02-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Mitch Okada wrote: > > Hi Debian User, > > For the first time, I installed Debian 2.2 on my IBM PC: > Cyrix 200Mz, 64Meg RAM > CD-ROM: TEAC 56E > Netword Card: 3COM 3C905-T (Fast Etherlink XL Adapter) > > This is my first Linux installation. > > During the installation, my CD-ROM (T

Re: kernel install - modules? no kerneld?

2001-02-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Bruce Elliott wrote: > Do I need to add kerneld manually to my init sequence? Shouldn't installing > a kernel package that has that option automatically add it to one of the rc > files? Just wondering if that should be a 'bug' or it's expected. kerneld in 2.2 is built into the kernel itself. no

Re: (linux)how do allow pings (and stuff)

2001-02-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all > > I have too much security on my machine :-) > > I want other machines on the network to be able to ping me (and later, > to be able to connect via sockets to a server on another machine on the > net work). > > Currently, if I try and ping my machine from anoth

Newbie question

2001-02-23 Thread Christian Sudec
Hi 2 all, just one simple question: How do I apply a .dif File ? Especially the OpenSSH-diff to fix the buffer overflow-error. thanx in advance Chris

Re: Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

2001-02-23 Thread Nate Amsden
what kernel are you using? i have been using usb with my visor deluxe for a long time with very little trouble. be sure to follow the directions on http://www.calvin.edu/~rvbijl39/visor/visor-2.html there is a newer FAQ but i used the old one(above) last time and it seems to work fine. nate Chun

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
"Martin Marconcini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >THanks a lot!!! Hope the apt-get works. > >It should upgrade the entire system??? Yes, it should. >It won't change the kernel i suppose? Nope. >Will I have to reboot? Nope - you could 'telinit 1' to drop to single-user mode and 'telinit 2' to bri

RE: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Martin Marconcini
Excellent information. Thank you very much. last question (i hope). How big is it? aprox? (imagine a custom system with networking utilities and developing utilidies (plus internet apps)) no X. Martin. -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Wa

task-c-dev install

2001-02-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I want to install the task-c-dev package. After apt-get install I get: micron:/home/chiappa# apt-get install task-c-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 14:39, Martin Marconcini wrote: > last question (i hope). How big is it? aprox? (imagine a custom system with > networking utilities and developing utilidies (plus internet apps)) no X. ~100MB Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X

OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread William Jensen
Greetings, Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created in windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that are indented across the screen. However when I create a file in linux and then highlight and paste into another file it works fine. I think the file

Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!)

2001-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
This was introduced in Debian 2.2 and you are using 2.1. I would strongly suggest that you upgrade to 2.2r2, since 2.1 is really unsupported and might not even have updates for security issues. Bob On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:07:00AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > ops.. i don't even have /etc/

Re: Newbie question

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
Christian Sudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >just one simple question: How do I apply a .dif File ? Download the source and use 'patch'. >Especially the OpenSSH-diff to fix the buffer overflow-error. It's easier to get the .deb from security.debian.org instead: deb http://security.debian.org/

Re: task-c-dev install

2001-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > task-c-dev: Depends: libc-dev > E: Sorry, broken packages > > >What is libc-dev? It is not listed in the >http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/task-c-dev.html page as a >package relat

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > If the problem is they were created within windows then what is it > I need to strip out of the files? Use perl to do it? You might look at the dos2unix program and its partner unix2dos. -- Carl Fink [E

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread Lance Levsen
> Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created in > windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that are indented > across the screen. However when I create a file in linux and then highlight > and paste into another file it works fine. I think the files t

rpm .spec to ../debian

2001-02-23 Thread csj
Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by build-package and friends? I see far more redhat sources floating around than their debianiazed equivalents.

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread William Jensen
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:53PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > > Greetings, > > > If the problem is they were created within windows then what is it > > I need to strip out of the files? Use perl to do it? > > You might look at the

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread William Jensen
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:56:20PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:53PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > If the problem is they were created within windows then what is it > > > I nee

Sawfish

2001-02-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I added Ximian Gnome to my testing box yesterday, but when I try to use Sawfish as my window manager it justs sits there. It shows the "standard" X background, but nothing else. There are no errors on the screen and sawfish is listed in a "ps aux", but it's sleeping. Anyone else had this pro

Where are the "testing" install floppy images?

2001-02-23 Thread Stan Brown
I decided to try instaling a "testing" machine today. (I need large file support and I thought it might be in that distro). However, when I looked on ftp.debian.org, I could not locate the "install" floppy images. Where can I get them? Or failing tis, whats the best way to install "testing" on a

UK mirror - problem?

2001-02-23 Thread Nic Ferrier
I'm not sure if this is the right place to raise this but I think there may be a problem with the current stable. I've just upgraded a debian stable (i386) and got some very strange config... 24 package were upgraded and apt went into config mode. Normal enough... but what it wanted me to config

RE: Where are the "testing" install floppy images?

2001-02-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2001 Stan Brown wrote: > I decided to try instaling a "testing" machine today. (I need large file > support > and I thought it might be in that distro). > testing does not yet have floppies. Install potato and upgrade.

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach William Jensen (on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 01:35:09PM -0600): > Although...that doesn't explain why it "doesn't" happen if I create the file > in unix first and then highlight/paste to another file. In that instance > it pastes fine. Very strange. But thanks for your knowledge. pasting in

Linksys ISA

2001-02-23 Thread eileen
Hi, I am setting up another Debian box. Does Debian support Linksys ISA network cards? I have 2 in the computer as i am going to build a firewall but Debian did not see them when I first installed it? Thanks Eileen Orbell Software & Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [q] apt-get source ..

2001-02-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Matthias Wieser wrote: > When I download something, is the directory that will be created, > contain already the newest version of the drivers? > > Reason behind the question: I try to compile Ghostscript with the stp > driver of the gimp-print project. > > I have not been able to compile the thin

Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

2001-02-23 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created > in windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that > are indented across the screen. However when I create a file in > linux and then highlight

Re: ethernet card installation

2001-02-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi, > > John Galt wrote: > > > >to my aliases file in /etc/modutils. The line I added > > >was "alias eth0 tulip". This didn't seem to have any > > >effect. There was no /dev/eth*'s after I rebooted. > > > > If modprobe/insmod works, just add tulip to /etc/modules and

Re: Woody mouse and net are dead

2001-02-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: > It was the kernel. I'm running 2.4.1 now and that fixed it. > > After I got the system into a known working state (by re-installing from > the unofficial Woody CDs) I built a new kernel. I figured out that I > have a problem with building 2.2.18pre21 now; I used to b

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

2001-02-23 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:20:39AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert > an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by > build-package and friends? > > I see far more redhat sources floating around than their debianiazed > equival

Re: Newbie question

2001-02-23 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:25:11PM +0100, Christian Sudec wrote: > just one simple question: How do I apply a .dif File ? Especially > the OpenSSH-diff to fix the buffer overflow-error. cat file.diff | patch -p0 See also: diff(1), patch(1), info diff. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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