boot problem after kernel compile

2001-03-22 Thread Gil Elad
Hello, I've just finished recompiling the kernel for the first time ever. Unfortunately, I've probably done something wrong, because I can't reboot the system. The story goes like this: When I tried booting my new kernel everything seemed to be going well, at first. The kernel was uncompressed

netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread ktb
I don't know what is going on here. I've been looking though the archives but can't find what I'm looking for yet. Netscape wouldn't load, java crap I think. To make a long story short even a reboot wouldn't allow me to use Netscape. Decided to reinstall. Purged all communicator and netscape

netscape, vfat, kernel 2.4.x

2001-03-22 Thread Timothy J. Ford
I have a dual boot Pentium III system with Windoze 98 on hda (vfat fs) and Debian unstable on hdb (e2fs). I mount hda with the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /windowsvfatrw,uid=0,gid=100,umask=0 0 0 My wife's email is popped from our ppp down to a file on the vfa

Re: netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread Nick
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:09, ktb wrote: > I don't know what is going on here. I've been looking though the > archives but can't find what I'm looking for yet. > > Netscape wouldn't load, java crap I think. To make a long story short > even a reboot wouldn't allow me to use Netscape. Decided

Re: netscape, vfat, kernel 2.4.x

2001-03-22 Thread Nick
permission related On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:27, Timothy J. Ford wrote: > I have a dual boot Pentium III system with Windoze 98 on hda (vfat fs) > and Debian unstable on hdb (e2fs). I mount hda with the following line > in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /windowsvfatrw,uid=0,gid=

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:10:03PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > > ls -a | grep ".c$" > > This is silly, of course, but if you want to be rigorous about it you > probably should do 'ls -a | grep "\\.c$"' because grep (unlike the shell) > uses proper regex syntax -- in which '.' is a special cha

Re: netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0800, Nick wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:09, ktb wrote: > > I don't know what is going on here. I've been looking though the > > archives but can't find what I'm looking for yet. > > > > Netscape wouldn't load, java crap I think. To make a long story s

Re: netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread Jason Majors
You should have /usr/bin/X11/communicator, which is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/communicator, which is a script that will run netscape or mozilla depending on the situation. I just discovered that this morning and haven't had the time to dig thru to find the binary to run for netscape, but runni

Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread wen
Hi,friends, I just could not find command nslookup in my Debian box. Would you please tell me which package includes nslookup? Thanks in advance! Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 112481039

Re: 2.4 Loopback file system mounts

2001-03-22 Thread idalton
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:55:57PM -, Chris Howells wrote: > From: Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Were there any changes to files that are necessary to support loopback > > mounts in 2.4? I have one iso image that I mount as a drive for Wine, and > > whenever I try to mount it,

Re: Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread Tomaas Ortega
nslookup is part of the package dnsutils if i remember correctly if not just type in apt-cache search nslookup should bring up the package name and what to install - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: Where is nslookup > Hi,

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jonathan Gift
Jim Richardson wrote: > > Take the time and learn graffiti, it's fast, and accurate. Most of the > handwriting recog programs suck, they are either too slow, or It's what I wanted to know, thanks. > the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going > to do is take notes, th

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jonathan Gift
Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > I have a Palm and it's awesome with Linux, provided you get the right tools. > jpilot is very good, and the mail plugin works 95% (you have to manually > delete sent items). Which model and if you use email, then do you have to purchase any add-ins? > minutes), but

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (www.agendacomputing.com and dev.agendacomputing.com). I find it > quite usable for note taking if I use the on-screen keyboard instead > of the hand writing recognition, which needs more work. Ok, thanks. I'll pop on the site and have a look. > > The nice thing about

Re: Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread Robert Waldner
>if not just type in >apt-cache search nslookup >should bring up the package name and what to install > >> I just could not find command nslookup in my Debian box. >> Would you please tell me which package includes nslookup? >> Thanks in advance! A very convenient way to find out what package a gi

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:59:40 +0100, Jonathan Gift writes: >The Palm comes with a keyboard? No, but you can purchase an add-on keyboard, which IMHO is *quite* worth the bucks if you´re gonna type more than the occasional note. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1

Re: Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread wen
effigy> nslookup is part of the package dnsutils if i remember correctly Yes, it is. effigy> if not just type in effigy> apt-cache search nslookup It gives "ptknettools - A selection of Internet service clients written in Perl/Tk". Thanks a lot. Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 1124810

Re: Xfree 4.0.2 + mga + Dualhead config...

2001-03-22 Thread Torsten Kersting
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +, Max Lock wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Can anyone post me a working X4.0.2 XF86Config file, I've put mine Hi, this is my XF86Config-4, remember to change the VertRefresh and HorizSync to your needs. I use startx -- +xinerama to start the X Server hope this

printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Eric R Cheney
Any advice on documentation or where to look for documentation about setting up a printer in debian? I've got an O'Riely book and the debian web page doesn't seem to have a talk about setting up a printer where it's easy to find. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks, Eric Cheney

Backup solution for CD-RW

2001-03-22 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! People on this list wrote about backup-scripts for CD-RWs. I want to setup such a solution for my 2-Box-Home-Network. Is there any preconfigured debian-way to do this? I had a look at some scripts on freahmeat such as bbackup-0.52 burn_baby_burn-0.9.2 cdar cdbackup cdbackup-0.5.2 cddum

Re: Backup solution for CD-RW

2001-03-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jan... unfortunately i do not have any useful comment for you but thanx for the nice list... personally... i like compressed backupsto save space/media... c ya alvin -- my only other comment... todaya secretary type dis some work at home...made a cdrom with (microsoft-base

Re: sending mail.. ANYONE?

2001-03-22 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:54:58PM -0500, Mark Livingstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'm running a small network.. my gateway is 192.168.0.1 (or 24.x.x.x > resolved to blah.com). i also have few clients as 192.168.0.2,3,4 > > question is: how do i send mail to those clients? they all are > co

repost: serial problems..please help

2001-03-22 Thread jdls
Hi, I don't know how to fix this but my computer doesn't seem to have any serial ports.. I have read in the man pages that using setserial without any arguments should display the serial ports that I have but it gives me nothing..using a specific command like setserial /dev/ttyS0 tells me that

Re: Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:08:15AM +0100, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >if not just type in > >apt-cache search nslookup > >should bring up the package name and what to install > > > >> I just could not find command nslookup in my Debian box. > >> Would you please tell me which pack

Re: Why does apt-get want to remove all these packages?

2001-03-22 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:51:37AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I do not understand why does apt-get want to remove many packages. > Will I have to reinstall them? > > apt-get dist-upgrade -sq > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages

Re: Do I still need xfst with XFree86 4?

2001-03-22 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do I still need the TrueType Font server xfst, with XFree86 4? No. Particularly not if your TT fonts are working without them. You *can* use an external font server (I think), but certainly don't *have* to. -- Ka

Re: 2.4 Loopback file system mounts

2001-03-22 Thread christophe barbe
Loop is broken in kernel 2.4.2. Christophe On mer, 21 mar 2001 18:54:50 Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Were there any changes to files that are necessary to support loopback > mounts in 2.4? I have one iso image that I mount as a drive for Wine, and > whenever I try to mount it, it hangs pretty so

debconf & debconf-tiny weird conflict?

2001-03-22 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks like some packages are dependant on debconf-tiny, which coflicts with debconf and therefore debconf is about to be uninstalled. Of course, a lot of packages depend on debconf so they are to be uninstalled as well. bug? where? is this recently introduced problem? I don't remember readi

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi dude just try porsentry, it's a nice scan detector but be carefull: if you use portsentry and nmap your owncomputer, you'll find numerous ports open you don't use the services as portsentry watch many ports by default have fun fred On Thursday 22 March 2001 01:35, Lars Jensen wrote: > How do

printing with CUPS/Samba

2001-03-22 Thread Bernhard Wesely
Hi List, Ich have a problem printing from a Windows machine to a Samba-server running CUPS as printer daemon. The printer connected is a "HP LaserJet 4". CUPS accepts the printjob from the NT machine, and knows what filters to apply. But then CUPS says in the webinterface, that the job was aborted

Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread M G Berberich
Hello, are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of debian-systems. At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and confi

Re: printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Victor
I've the same problem! Coming from RedHat with its magic "printtool" I'm somewhat distressed about setting up a printer under Debian (e.g. epson 640 stylus color, which is surely supported). Please help the both of us Vittorio On Thursday 22 March 2001 07:58, Eric R Cheney wrote: > Any advice on

Re: printing with CUPS/Samba

2001-03-22 Thread Ramin Motakef
"Bernhard Wesely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi List, > > Ich have a problem printing from a Windows machine to a Samba-server running > CUPS as printer daemon. > The printer connected is a "HP LaserJet 4". > CUPS accepts the printjob from the NT machine, and knows what filters to > apply. > B

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-22 Thread Robert Voigt
>:-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i >found >out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux >because >canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software That's sad. But my printer happens to be well supported, even though Canon probably

Not configuring the kernel from scratch!

2001-03-22 Thread Victor
Once I've installed a new-brand potato 2.2r2 from CDs, I'd like to rebuild the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I know that I can dpkg the source kernel from my CDs and then configure and compile it but you know in this case -if you use "make menuconfig" - Debian proposes a very basic standard configuratio

RE: printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
- this is not a personal remark but a vented frustration - I've mentioned this many times before but it doesn't seem to trickle thru into 'that one thing to do'. Debian Linux has some excellent howto's and readme's wich will get you thru 99.5% of all your installation and configuration trouble. It

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Great, let me know if someone gets the D660U or compatible scanners to work with Linux. -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 11:28 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300 >:-( Canon is NOT

Re: Problem reading Windows CDR

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:13:22PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I have a rather large collection of MP3s that I burned onto CDs using my > > step-brother's burner, which is on a Windows box. I burned it on u

Re: printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Victor! Am Don, 22 Mär 2001, schrieb Victor: > I've the same problem! Coming from RedHat with its magic "printtool" > I'm somewhat distressed about setting up a printer under Debian > (e.g. epson 640 stylus color, which is surely supported). Please > help the both of us Vittorio I've done

Re: repost: serial problems..please help

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:52:28AM -0800, jdls wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to fix this but my computer doesn't seem to > have any serial ports.. I have read in the man pages that using > setserial without any arguments should display the serial ports that > I have but it gives me nothing

Re: Not configuring the kernel from scratch!

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:27:47AM +, Victor wrote: > Once I've installed a new-brand potato 2.2r2 from CDs, I'd like to rebuild > the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. > I know that I can dpkg the source kernel from my CDs and > then configure and compile it but you know in this case -if you use "make

RE: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Dave Whiteley
This is of interest to me as well. We have set up a couple of laboratories, and maintain their setup by configuring one machine, then uploading a tar images of the bits of it to a server, and downloading the image to all the other machines. I have modified a Debian rescue disk, so that only two fl

Problem with /dev/dsp

2001-03-22 Thread Alberto García
I try to launch Netscape Communicator from GNOME and displays this error message: /dev/dsp not found. What´s that device used for? How can I "mount" it? Thanks in Advance. Yope

Re: Problem with /dev/dsp

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:49:49PM +0100, Alberto Garc?a wrote: > I try to launch Netscape Communicator from GNOME and displays this error > message: > /dev/dsp not found. > What?s that device used for? How can I "mount" it? > Thanks in Advance. Yope It's the sound device. If no sound driver is lo

Routing problem...

2001-03-22 Thread Mateusz Mazur
Hello. I will be very, very greatfull for your help. I'am newbie and I have big trouble (big for me of course). I would also apologize for my english. I'am from Poland and english isn't my nativ language. Here is some kind of map. It should illustrate my problem. LAN

reiserfs install

2001-03-22 Thread Arnout Engelen
Hello, I'm getting a new harddisk for my laptop soon, and I'd like to try installing Debian on reiserfs on it. I was thinking of doing it like this: - install debian on 'spare' partition (by CD's) - compile kernel 2.2.17 - get pcmcia/airo drivers from floppy and install - download 2.4.2 kernel

Re: Routing problem...

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:19:06PM +0100, Mateusz Mazur wrote: > Hello. > I will be very, very greatfull for your help. I'am newbie and I have big > trouble (big for me of course). I would also apologize for my english. I'am > from Poland and english isn't my nativ language. Here is some kind of ma

cdrom permission problem

2001-03-22 Thread Dale Morris
I installed 2.2 and upgraded to the 2.4 kernel. I configured my sound card in the kernel and it works fine with real audio and XMMS. Problem is when I put a cd in the cdrom drive and execute Gnome CD player, I get the following error message: Error accessing cdrom device Please check to make sure c

RE: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i've posted on this in the past, there is an open-source project that is very good, can't remember the name really. Maybe someone on the list does ? Greetings, Joris -Original Message- From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 12:18 To: M G Berberich Cc:

dselect/dpkg-perl problem: method "value" cannot be located

2001-03-22 Thread Lukas Ruf
Folks, I have troubles with dselect/dpkg since I started an update of my Linux Box running Debian woody. This problem can be focused to the post-installation --configure process: dpkg complains: "Can't locate object method "value" via package "Debconf::Question" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/C

Re: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-03-22 Thread Darryl Röthering
Casper, et. al.: Sorry I got distracted from this thread. If I am understanding this lilo.conf properly, I have a question and would appreciate comments on my rough plan to install, to see if I am missing something or if it should work. TIA for the help. (1) When the lilo.conf points to /dev

Re: netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:52:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > You should have /usr/bin/X11/communicator, which is a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/communicator, which is a script that will run netscape or > mozilla depending on the situation. I just discovered that this morning and > haven't had

security.debian.org

2001-03-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to everyone! Does anyone know what is wrong with http://security.debian.org? Why it is so slow? I am trying to do a dist-upgrade since the last two days and the process almost stops at this site... :( Thanks Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
There is no particular order for installing any windows / linux config. BUT ... (taratatata) If you install Linux first and have installed LILO into the MBR (i believe any) windows installation later on will simply clear the MBR so you'll be unable to boot into Linux but you system will default bo

Re: cdrom permission problem

2001-03-22 Thread Dale Morris
Yes, I've done the adduser (myusername) cdrom. Alson van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:45:57AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > > I installed 2.2 and upgraded to the 2.4 kernel. I configured my sound card > > in the kernel and it works fine with real audio and XMMS. P

Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
(If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). I want to define a function key to run a macro. I can do it within a session: ESC x global-set-key RET eif-indent-buffer RET but I can't get it to work in the initialisation file ~/.emacs: (defalias 'eif-indent-buffer (read-kbd-macro "ESC x mark- whole

Re: Problem reading Windows CDR

2001-03-22 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I have a rather large collection of MP3s that I burned onto CDs using my > > step-brother's burner, which is on a Windows box. I burned it on using > > the DirectCD system. Anyway, I compiled Joliet extensio

RE: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Mullins, Ron
>are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of >debian-systems. > >At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some >resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from >administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and >config

Re: parallel clusters of single cpu boxes

2001-03-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:53:55 Darryl cum veritate scripsit : You might be better off to ask this question in debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org List. Try the package mpich lam pvm etc. Details of how to set up is rather involved, but see the README.Debian files, and if there is anything u

Re: boot problem after kernel compile

2001-03-22 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Although I can't tell you what went wrong, don't reinstall yet. Using a windows machine, head over to tomsrtbt: http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html There is a version to install from windows. With tomsrtbt, you will be able to mount your original root partition and fix the problem. Gil Elad wrote:

Re: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-03-22 Thread Peter Good
Just to throw a spanner clean into the works on this issue, I have Windows 2000 pro and linux dual booting here on my machine. I had debian set up, did the 2000 install, and it never even touched the bootloader. Even to the point of when the install was finished, I even had lilo still intact and fu

RE: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> just try porsentry, it's a nice scan detector > but be carefull: if you use portsentry and nmap your owncomputer, > you'll find > numerous ports open you don't use the services as portsentry > watch many ports > > On Thursday 22 March 2001 01:35, Lars Jensen wrote: > > How do I check if someone i

ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread John Davidson
I am having difficulty getting my modem to communicate correctly with my ISP. The problem is that once connected I do not get a route or gateway that allows access to the Internet. All pings return network unreachable errors. The ppp0 interface shows appropriate local and remote IPs indicating cor

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:31:53AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > just try porsentry, it's a nice scan detector > > but be carefull: if you use portsentry and nmap your owncomputer, > > you'll find > > numerous ports open you don't use the services as portsentry > > watch many ports > > > > O

RE: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread Jason P. Holland
If you manually add a route to the gateway on your subnet of the ip address your assigned, use a x.x.x.1 address, does it work? Jason > > I am having difficulty getting my modem to communicate > correctly with my > ISP. The problem is that once connected I do not get a route > or gateway that > a

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:31:53AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > You may also want to try iplogger. Not only will this show ALL the ports in > use, not just the ones you select in portsentry. Also, portsentry actually > listens on those ports it is monitoring, so if you nmap yourself for >

Re: security.debian.org

2001-03-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:25:06AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Does anyone know what is wrong with http://security.debian.org? Why it is > so slow? I am trying to do a dist-upgrade since the last two days and the > process almost stops at this site... :( Well, it could be that you're i

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Daniel Sand
Re, "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:31:53AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > > You may also want to try iplogger. Not only will this show ALL the ports in > > use, not just the ones you select in portsentry. Also, portsentry actually > > listens on those ports it is

debconf asking Questions

2001-03-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Right now wvdial is messed up in testing and everytime I install something else or do a dist-upgrade it asks me the four configuration questions for the package. How can I get it back to only asking the questions the first time? Thanks! Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:50:07AM +0100, M G Berberich wrote: > At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some > resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from > administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and > configuration has to be done o

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:34PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > What should I put for ? [f9] Now, to tell you where I've read that...

what is 'pool'?

2001-03-22 Thread Ron Peterson
What is 'pool'? The Debian FAQ refers to doc/, project/, tools, etc. but makes no mention of pool/. I've searched the debian-user archive for 'pool', and only found incidental reference to it. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mthol

Re: debian kernel modifications

2001-03-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Debian FAQ item 7.2 says that "The kernel (filesystem) in Debian > GNU/Linux systems supports replacing files even while they're being > used." > > How is this accomplished? When you, say, run a program called fred, the OS finds the inode for the file f

Re: Font point sizes and X resolutions?

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > On Wed Mar 21 22:13:32 2001 Richard C. Cobbe wrote... > > > >Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: > > > >[reformatted for 80 cols] > > > >> How can I set up X properly so that the fonts are displayed in the proper > >> (eg 1/72 inch

Re: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread John Davidson
The default gateway on my subnet uses a x.x.x.2 address, and after I manually added it there was still no joy. John Davidson - Original Message - From: "Jason P. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:36 AM Subject: RE: ppp configuration problem > If you manu

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). > > I want to define a function key to run a macro. > > I can do it within a session: > > ESC x global-set-key RET eif-indent-buffer RET > > but I can't get it to work in the initialisation file ~/

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:10:03PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: ... > Apropos, I have a question: frequently I am in a directory (such as /dev, > for example) which has more stuff in it than I can see in one screenful. > Normally I pipe it through less, but am bothered by the 'one file per > line

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Johan Groth
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). > > I want to define a function key to run a macro. > > I can do it within a session: > > ESC x global-set-key RET eif-indent-buffer RET > > but I can't get it to work in the initialisation file ~/.emacs: > > (defalias 'eif-in

Re: Getting to Gnome

2001-03-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Rick Commo wrote: > > Time to go to the well (debian-user) again! > > A couple of weeks ago I decided that Debian would be my distro of choice. > It's been a struggle but a rewarding one so far. Had a "simple" install > that was sorta broken (WindowMaker was scrawed) but now have it going. Did

Re: G400 DRI

2001-03-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-03-21 21:42:32, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: > Have you looked in your /var/log/XFree86.log to see if > it is enabling DRI? I have a couple of DRI lines: (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) MGA(0): Offscreen memory usage will be limited to 512 lines if the DRI is enabled. > What kernel are

mod_ssl won't load

2001-03-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed libapache-mod-ssl on an up-to-date unstable system this morning. I followed the instructions in libapache-mod-ssl-doc (I think), but mod-ssl won't load. I get this error message: - --- Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:

Re: netscape won't reinstall

2001-03-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
/usr/bin/X11/communicator is not the binary, but is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/communicator, which is a symlink to /usr/lib/netscape/476/communicator/communicator-smotif, which is a symlink to /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper, which is a script which does a bunch of things, including figuring o

Re: G400 DRI

2001-03-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
Sorry, that should have been private mail. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA pgpE185wSOlOt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Viewing html-attachments with mutt

2001-03-22 Thread Bastian Bowe
Hello, I try to view an html-attachment using mutt. After pressing "v" and choosing the file netscape comes up. Netscape says "no such file or directory" or something like that. Sometimes it works. Mutt seems to copy the attached file to /tmp, start netscape and then delete the file before ne

Re: need internal dns (bind), what packages??

2001-03-22 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:40:31PM -0800, Nick wrote: > Doesn't do it. > > Still get the unknown host message from my client machines > Can only reach hosts through IP address directly > > I need something else on my gateway... > > qqq Up-to-date Optional packages in section net

Re: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread John Davidson
Further investigation reveals that I am experiencing a conflict betweent 'interfaces' and 'pppd'. At least this is what prevents the default gateway being added. My ISP does not use PAP or CHAP, so I must use a chatscript with option noauth. However I have an eth0 interface with its own gateway to

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > "Richard C. Cobbe" wrote: > >Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > > > >> (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). > >> > >> I want to define a function key to run a macro. > >> > >> I can do it within a session:

printer problem, sending problem

2001-03-22 Thread Stephan Kulka
My printer is only printing numbers, always the same. I did a strace lpr file and I don't understand the messages, but I think that there is a problem with printing. My other problem is that I am writing this mail from my computer at the university and I don't manage to transfer the file with the

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Richard C. Cobbe" wrote: >Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > >> (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). >> >> I want to define a function key to run a macro. >> >> I can do it within a session: >> >> ESC x global-set-key RET eif-indent-buffer RET >>

Re: Can't configure soundcard module

2001-03-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Tristan wrote: > > I use Sid with kernel2.2.19 and configured my soundcard as a module. When i > use > modconf to install it, it gave me a default value to enter: io=0x220 > irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330, but my soundcard is using irq 7, so i changed > it and then installed it, but i recieved the foll

Japanese fonts

2001-03-22 Thread Dean Posey
Hello, I have a computer at home that myself and my wife use, I would like to set it up for her to be able to log in and email/surf using Japanese fonts. I know it's possible, but I was looking for suggestions from someone using a similiar setup. In the past I've used the jamondo program for Win

Re: what is 'pool'?

2001-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is 'pool'? The Debian FAQ refers to doc/, project/, tools, etc. >but makes no mention of pool/. I've submitted a FAQ update for this. See http://bugs.debian.org/89320>. >I've searched the debian-user archive for 'pool', and only found >incidental ref

Re: Xfree 4.0.2 + mga + Dualhead config...

2001-03-22 Thread Max Lock
It's Fixed! Thanks to Martin Würtele for a copy of a valid XF86Config-4 file I was missing the screen entry in the device sections. (I'm now playing dual-head yippee!) -Thanks Max -- Max Lock, Linux Systems Administrator, TELE2 uk. Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside

Re: Where is nslookup

2001-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:08:15AM +0100, Robert Waldner >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> A very convenient way to find out what package a given file belongs to >> is via http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ("Search Contents of >> Latest Release"). > >An even more

debian Networking not installed

2001-03-22 Thread George . Giles
I used the latest CD's for an install, but seems to be a minimalist install. Where can I find doco on adding networking ?

installing ssh

2001-03-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I want to install ssh in my potato box. However there is a bunch of packages related with ssh in stable. So: 1) What package should I install? 2) I am in Brazil. Should I use the non-us site in order to apt-get the package? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thai Fonts

2001-03-22 Thread hammack
In my Debian Distro's I didn't see any Thai Fonts available - did I miss them? John

prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi I have installed the gdm. But I need, temporaly, to boot into a prompt without running X windows. How can I do it? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp configuration problem

2001-03-22 Thread John Hasler
John Davidson writes: > However I have an eth0 interface with its own gateway to the rest of my > internal network. You almost certainly don't need a default route to your internal network. > All of this is to sya that I can now make it set the route correctly, but > I am still unable to ping any

Re: installing ssh

2001-03-22 Thread Forrest English
i belive apt-get install ssh will install openssh for you, which is what you'll want. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Thu, 22

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