"activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-29 Thread DvB
I decided to take the more elegant approach to getting sound working than making /dev/dsp world writeable so I added my user to the audio group. This however didn't seem to work. I decided to worry about it later and recompiled my kernel with scsi support so I could use my CD-R. When I rebooted

RE: lilo, /boot, symlinks

2001-03-29 Thread Malcolm Gray
On 29 March Bud Rogers wrote > > Ack. I've just spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to > get a new > potato install to boot from the hard drive. It has a small /boot > partition at hda1, / at hda2. The install process set up > lilo.conf to > boot /vmlinuz, which is a symlink to the real k

Re: "activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
DvB wrote: > > I decided to take the more elegant approach to getting sound working > than making /dev/dsp world writeable so I added my user to the audio > group. This however didn't seem to work. > I decided to worry about it later and recompiled my kernel with scsi > support so I could use my C

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Debian User wrote: > > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system. > > I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp when my system > boots. However, I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be in rc2.d. > > Does anyone know how to make it not start upo

Re: Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Ross Smith wrote: > But I can't find any mention of turning on shadow passwords. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. its even easier then that! check the manpage on pwconv. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi There TwinSun, Try outupdate-alternatives -f portmap remove The manual way is/etc/init.d/portmap stop Hope that's what yer looking for, Jimmy Richards On 29 Mar 2001 14:41:58 +0900, Debian User wrote: > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > Don't remember the right name, something like etlinux, IIRC it's a Debian > modified for embedded HW and should be working with 2 MB (but i could be > wrong), > try looking at http://www.prosa.it I found one, SmallLinux, but will look up yours. Thanks. Jonathan --

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i remember seeing linux that works in 512k ram. forget what it was called, > but i yahoo'd it under +linux +286 This must be a record. Found others at 2MB. Will follow up. Thanks. Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Dermot Coffey
I can see a script to call it on my system in /etc/rcS.d This directory has scripts that start when booting in any runlevel. Dermot On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:41:58PM +0900, Debian User wrote: > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system. > > I have searched fo

plperl for postgresql7.0.3potato?

2001-03-29 Thread will trillich
any news on the 'perl is embedded within the postgresql engine' front for us potato users? -- % grep tfheen /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian potato main % dpkg -l postgresql\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/F

Re: sed question

2001-03-29 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:42:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need a sed invocation to extract quotes (") from around a string. > > Basicly `cat /etc/bind/named.conf | grep zone | cut -d " " | sed $something' > > to give me a list of zones I run bind for so I can: > for zone in `$sedcsri

Logitech Mouseman+/Logitech Mouseman Wheel

2001-03-29 Thread Andrew Clark
Just wondering if anyone has had success getting a Logitech Mouseman+ (aka Logitech Mouseman Wheel) working under XFree86 v4.0.2, wheel and all? R, AJFC

what plays avi videos on linux?

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
I remember having seen avi files being played on Linux, but I cant remember what application that was. Does anybody know?

job control

2001-03-29 Thread cletus . yokel
- Begin Hush Signed Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This is not a debian question, but it's so generic I'm not sure where else to ask it. How do you free a process from your login? I want to start a commandline program, then logoff and have the program continue to execute. Currently I

kernel 2.4.2 and high load = machine freezes?

2001-03-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I installed kernel 2.4.2 and while it works ok most of the time there were two occasions when computer (almost) froze, load being 100% and almost nothing worked for about an hor or more. both times this high load attack happened I opened xv (the thumbs view) on a directory with large number of

Re: Fw: Ogg Vorgis-Potato

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
On Thursday 29 March 2001 06:55, SoftHome wrote: > I lost the email of the person who sent me this. That was me. > I'm not sure if the quality is really vastly superior to mp3's, or it just > seems that way because of all the politics. There are major improvements to come before 1.0. But most

Re: job control

2001-03-29 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Begin Hush Signed Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > This is not a debian question, but it's so generic I'm not sure where else > to ask it. > > How do you free a process from your login? I want to start a commandline > program, then logoff and have the p

Solved WAS: Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-29 Thread Erik Steffl
thanks a lot to everybody who answered! it's kinda funny because I did not realize that it actually works, it just didn't loos like it's working because gl programs ran in window and didn't look different from the ones that I ran on non-accelerated display. but when I tried xscreensaver on the wh

Re: Logitech Mouseman+/Logitech Mouseman Wheel

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
> Just wondering if anyone has had success getting a Logitech Mouseman+ (aka > Logitech Mouseman Wheel) working under XFree86 v4.0.2, wheel and all? I have a MouseMan Wheel running here with 3.3.6. There's no reason why it shouldn't work with 4.0.2. Your mouse section in the XF86Config should

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i remember seeing linux that works in 512k ram. forget what it was called, > > but i yahoo'd it under +linux +286 > > This must be a record. Found others at 2MB. Will follow up. Thanks. Linux Elks will run on 286's (or 8088's) with 512k of ram,

woody upgrade = no startx

2001-03-29 Thread Nick
I get the error after upgrading startx command not found anyone have a quick fix? thankx -nick

Re: woody upgrade = no startx

2001-03-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Nick, You can try dpkg-reconfigure dpkg-reconfigure debconfthen set priority on 'low'. then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as an example. You'd need to put whatever your xserver is in place of xserver-xfree86. I think that might do it, but not positive. Let me know if you try

nslookup missing

2001-03-29 Thread dko
i have the unstable on my station when i install dnsutils, it says dnsutils doesn't exist anymore and rblcheck host replace it. i installed rblcheck and host but i'm still unable to launch nslookup which package contain nslookup ? KOAN David - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SNAISO communications - 141

RE: Linux Virus

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This article might point out some things http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17938.html -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 5:08 To: Ben Collins Cc: Mark Devin; Debian-user Subject: Re: Linux Virus At 10:00 PM 3/28/2001 -0500

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
> I have a cdrw, I use cdrecord dev=0,0,0 blank=allsome.iso > put in a cdrw disk may with some data in it > after it burn, I can not access it, > wrong fs type when I click desktop's cdrom icon try mount some.iso /mnt -o loop this should mount the iso using loop device if this works, mount /d

Re: job control

2001-03-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:04:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Begin Hush Signed Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > This is not a debian question, but it's so generic I'm not sure where else > to ask it. > > How do you free a process from your login? I want

Re: nslookup missing

2001-03-29 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, my experience with unstable is that almost nothing exists, despite the Contents file. You might try to edit your apt sources list to testing or stable, run apt-get update and try to install dnsutils again. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, dko wrote: > i have the unstable on my statio

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Joey Hess wrote: > > Linux Elks will run on 286's (or 8088's) with 512k of ram, but it's > basically a fork of the kernel for those old machines, and has nothing > like all of linux's capabilities. Will it run Vim at least? Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How hard get high res working?

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm running 1152x864 on a 17 inch right now but am playing around with getting and running a 21 inch. I would probably like 1600x1200 on that but heard XFree has limits around 1200 lines? Is that true and how does one get around it? I'm on a strict potato right now running an ATI card with 8M

Setting ippl mail frequency

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Brashears
I've searched through ippl.conf(5), google, cron.d, and the included documentation, but I just can't figure out how to set the frequency of reports from ippl. It's a really handy tool, and I like the fact that it logs all kinds of activity, and that I can selectively tell it not to log certain kin

Re: md5 passwords

2001-03-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:28:36PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > Okay, I know how to tell pam to use md5 passwords, but has > anybody actually done this after using regular crypt > passwords? I have a number of accounts with existing > passwords in /etc/shadow... what happens to them? I've been > wan

Re: nslookup missing

2001-03-29 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:47:54AM +0200, dko wrote: > i have the unstable on my station > when i install dnsutils, it says dnsutils doesn't exist anymore and rblcheck > host replace it. > i installed rblcheck and host but i'm still unable to launch nslookup Note that replace != provide. You will

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-29 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Jens! I ran sensors-detect. It loaded some modules, but there are no additonal files in /proc and no apropriate device-files. It shows me a line which already was in /etc/modutils/lm-sensors. Am Mit, 28 Mär 2001, schrieb Jens Gecius: > But, first RTFM. Mh, perhaps I should have looked clo

Re: Setting ippl mail frequency

2001-03-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:31:02AM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I've searched through ippl.conf(5), google, cron.d, and the included > documentation, but I just can't figure out how to set the frequency of > reports from ippl. > > It's a really handy tool, and I like the fact that it logs all k

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hallo Jens! > > I ran sensors-detect. It loaded some modules, but there are no > additonal files in /proc and no apropriate device-files. It shows me a > line which already was in /etc/modutils/lm-sensors. > > Am Mit, 28 M?r 20

debian 2.2

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Millard
Hello all I am thinking of changing to debian 2.2 I wonder does it come with something like StarOffice or something similar Many Thanks Peter

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-29 Thread christophe barbe
On jeu, 29 mar 2001 01:04:32 Jason Majors wrote: > True. It's gone, they say that it's not needed, because it's included in > the latest builds. > But if you use > deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ > in your sources.list, you can get version 0.8.0, which has security and is > prett

Re: debian 2.2

2001-03-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:12:21AM +0100, Peter Millard wrote: > > > Hello all > > I am thinking of changing to debian 2.2 I wonder does it come with something > like StarOffice or something similar just download the .bin thing from sun.com/staroffice, install it, works ok -- ,--

Re: job control

2001-03-29 Thread Brian May
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> nohup, I think you can also set up the shell not to kill Erik> children when it exits (start command in background (append Erik> & at the end of command line) or background it while it Erik> works, usually ctrl-z to st

resize partition with parted

2001-03-29 Thread Sascha Dorff
'ello ! I'm going to copy a fresh little debian installation from one 500mb partition to an 2GB partition on another 'puter. So i read the source partition with dd without bs=. On the GNU-pages i've read the following: http://org.gnu.de/software/parted/USER == * if the du

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-29 Thread Jens Gecius
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Jens! > > I ran sensors-detect. It loaded some modules, but there are no > additonal files in /proc and no apropriate device-files. It shows me a > line which already was in /etc/modutils/lm-sensors. > > Am Mit, 28 Mär 2001, schrieb Jens Gec

Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Neil Kenneally
Hi, I'm using a package called 'Electric', which allows me to design and synthesise circuits. Electric can use Java as a macro language and to this end I have installed JDK 1.1.8 and rebuilt Electric to use Java. I don't know if this is normal for the Debian install of JDK but I was seemingly una

Re: alsa driver

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
HI, I'm instead tracking unstable but alsa drivers produce a nice kernel panic when unloading (using 2.4.2). This didn't happened with 2.4.0 or 2.4.2-ac26/28 Fabio Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Hi > > I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato machine with the > 2.4.2 kernel. >

Re: ASLA troubles

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Nic Strong wrote: > > Wondering if someone can help me with my ALSA config (0.5) with 2.2.18 > kernal. > > When running alsaconfig when I it trys to load the module it gives the > following error: > > Loading driver: > Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module >

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and RP> exclusions, let me know. Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with yours. I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-29 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Alson! Am Don, 29 Mär 2001, schrieb Alson van der Meulen: > i don't have much problems using via apollo chipset, did you build > both lm-sensors-source and i2c-source? Mh. I did the following: apt-get install lm-sensors-source There was a folder called lm-sensors in /usr/src/modu

Re: speaker sound for my laptop

2001-03-29 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 28-Mar-2001 Jason Majors wrote: > With mpg123 you can redirect output to the pc speaker (if you like ultra-low > quality playback... :). > mpg123 -o s ... > Don't know about redirection on a system wide level. Funny, I tried that command myself and it didn't work. Maybe it is trying to output

RE: Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 29-Mar-2001 Neil Kenneally wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a package called 'Electric', which allows me to > design and synthesise circuits. Electric can use Java as a > macro language and to this end I have installed JDK 1.1.8 > and rebuilt Electric to use Java. > > I don't know if this is normal

RE: Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-29 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Joey, Do; man pwconvand you can read all about turning on shadow passwords, and you guessed it pwunconcv turns it back off. John -Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:35 PM To: Ross Smith Cc: debian-user@lists.d

run-parts and syslog

2001-03-29 Thread fdaeumling
Hi, I'm a novice, so please forgive my stupid questions ;-) I'm using Debian 2.2.17 (Potato). I've placed some scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d (they were executed automatically by the /etc/ppp/ip-up script). ip-up uses run-parts. I want the shell-scripts (and probably some perl scripts) the oppor

My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread Alberto García
It even prints when I haven´t logged in (at the login window in Gnome). I´ve commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn´t work. Thanks in advance Yope.

Re: My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:53:04PM +0200, Alberto García wrote: > It even prints when I haven´t logged in (at the login window in Gnome). I´ve > commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn´t work. That's wild:) turn of the printer, and do: $ lpq -a And see to it that all printer queues

RE: My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
in my experience this might have something to do with bad printer steering or even simply the parallell cable not being connected properly. if windows does it you just used the wrong driver, on linux that might be the wrong filter or using postscript on a non postscript device greets, joris

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and >RP> exclusions, let me know. > >Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried >to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with >yours. > >I want

Re: UML tools

2001-03-29 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Gopal Narayanan dijo: -| On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Pawe³ Krupa wrote: -| > Where can I find UML tools for Debian? -| -| dia - the diagram editor has UML support. -| Try apt-get install dia Try Together (propietary) www.togethersoft.com Bet

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
>> I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are >> they right? >> >> --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ CW> pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for CW> testing/unstable now and I imagine stable in the future, so you'll have CW> to be more caref

Re: My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:53:04PM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote: > It even prints when I haven?t logged in (at the login window in > Gnome). I?ve commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn?t work. > Thanks in advance Yope. Did you mess up a print attempt at some point? With my old HP DeskJet

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:56:42PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > >> I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are > >> they right? > >> > >> --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ > > CW> pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for > CW> testing/unsta

pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I know nothing about script programming. What is the difference between perl and pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming languages? Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PRO

Re: home network

2001-03-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do I need to [build a home ethernet network] (other than NICs and > > cable, of course)? What is the difference between a hub and switch? > > You don't need a hub or switch if you implement an ethernet with co

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
MC> Hi, MC> I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I know MC> nothing about script programming. What is the difference between perl and MC> pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming languages? Perl is more ancient language then Python. It was created

Power Management

2001-03-29 Thread Shawn Garbett
When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the modules of the current one? Shawn Garbett

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Anyone can do that. I can write a C program and send it to you that > emails me /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You still have to be dumb enough > to execute it. That's not a virus, that's social trickery. Now, if it > emails itself (and r

Installation of third party software under Debian

2001-03-29 Thread Shawn Garbett
I've just downloaded IBM's java for linux, Star Office and VmWare. Three tools I use regularly while doing my work. Not that I choose these, they just fit with the group I work with and I make a living with them. How do I install them in Debian? I noticed a package that was an IBM Java insta

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 29 March 2001 07:16, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I > know nothing about script programming. What is the difference between > perl and pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming > languages? Oh boy, you

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 29 March 2001 07:46, Ilya Martynov wrote: > P.P.S. And nether trust someone who just says that one of this > languages sucks. Sound wisdom, Jeremiah. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Peterson
Ilya Martynov wrote: > > RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and > RP> exclusions, let me know. > > Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried > to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with > yours. You can view my mirr

Re: Power Management

2001-03-29 Thread Matthias Gasser
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:49:46AM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote: > When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at > shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under > Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the > modules of the current o

Re: Power Management

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
> When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at > shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under > Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the > modules of the current one? If you use lilo as boot manager, you can put a line in /etc

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-29 Thread Kent West
christophe barbe wrote: On jeu, 29 mar 2001 01:04:32 Jason Majors wrote: True. It's gone, they say that it's not needed, because it's included in the latest builds. But if you use deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ in your sources.list, you can get version 0.8.0, which has secu

setting up autofs

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
I installed autofs. I want it to automount the floppy, the cdrom and a couple directories on another machine via nfs. I just don't want to type mount and umount everytime I access them (is autofs the right choice for this?). Unfortunately the manpages and the HOWTO aren't written for someone who

Re: How hard get high res working?

2001-03-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Gift wrote: > I'm running 1152x864 on a 17 inch right now but am playing around with > getting and running a 21 inch. I would probably like 1600x1200 on that > but heard XFree has limits around 1200 lines? Is that true and how does > one get around it? > > I'm on a strict potato right now

RE: run-parts and syslog

2001-03-29 Thread Wojciech Milek
> 1. is there an undocumented flag in run-parts, which I can use for this >purpose? I don't thing so > 2. is there an easy way to get messages from shell and perl scripts into >the syslog? man logger NAME logger - make entries in the system log SYNOPSIS logger [-is] [-f fil

old debian with libc5

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Rath
hi, I need an old debian based in libv5, i don't know wich version of debian was the last based on this library. Has somebody a link to an iso-image for downloading? Or a ftp-server with old packages and a bootdisk? thanks, andi

Re: UML tools

2001-03-29 Thread gdj_list
Am Thu, 29 March 2001 schrieb Daniel de los Reyes: > El Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Gopal Narayanan dijo: > -| On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Pawe³ Krupa wrote: > -| > Where can I find UML tools for Debian? > -| > -| dia - the diagram editor has UML support. > -| Try apt-get

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-29 Thread William Leese
> I just did an apt-get update; apt-get install galeon and got zip. Is > galeon non-free or something that would prevent it being in Debian? http://galeon.sourceforge.net/download.html GPL-ed, if i'm not mistaken. a quick look at their site doesn't show anything about the licensing though.

OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
To those concerned www.fsecure.com has a Linux anti-virus solution http://www.fsecure.com/v-descs/lindose.shtml they finally added it to their knowledgebase (wasn't there yesterday), little late for them >> Didn't know about any GPL anti-virus software or other commercial offering

Re: Power Management

2001-03-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:49:46AM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote: > When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at > shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under > Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the > modules of the current o

Re: Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Neil Kenneally
I dumped kaffe and installed IBM's JDK and run time environment. Problem solved :-) Neil -- Neil Kenneally Center for Computational Neuroscience and Evolutionary Robotics. The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.

RE: old debian with libc5

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I think you'll simply need to apt-get libc5 to get this working ... not ? -Original Message- From: Andreas Rath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 17:23 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: old debian with libc5 hi, I need an old debian based in libv5, i don't

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:16:36AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Hi, | I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I know | nothing about script programming. What is the difference between perl and | pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming languages

Re: what plays avi videos on linux?

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Höchenberger
> > "Robert" == Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert> I remember having seen avi files being played on Linux, but > Robert> I cant remember what application that was. Does anybody > Robert> know? > Robert> > > aviplay > > http://divx.euro.ru/ > Or try XMMS wit

Re: Power Management

2001-03-29 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: | add "apm=on" to the kernel's command line So that's the trick! I've been meaning to look into this. It will work just as well if you use grub (like I do). I'll verify it (and enjoy it!) after I get home from work. Thanks, -D

Re: UML tools

2001-03-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Daniel de los Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:25:35AM -0500, Gopal Narayanan dijo: > -| On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Pawe³ Krupa wrote: > -| > Where can I find UML tools for Debian? > -| > -| dia - the diagram editor has UML support. > -| Try apt-get

home network (more info)

2001-03-29 Thread D-Man
I'll probably get the D-Link DSS8+ I found for for $70 (new). It is an 8 port 10/100 switch. An 8-port 10Mbps hub is only $20 less. Also a 5 port 10/100 switch is only $10 less. Does anybody know anything about the D-Link DE-220PCT NIC? It is ISA PnP, but I can't find any information about th

Re: My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > With my old HP DeskJet, if a print job messed up in any way or if I > tried to stop one somehow the thing would go NUTS. It would spit out > page after page, some blank but most with a line or so of gibberish > ASCI characters (as if it was pissing

Re: Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:37:20AM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: | > Does anyone have any ideas? | | Well, try other JRE's, like Blackdown's (www.blackdown.org), or | IBM's (that's the one I use: available at www.ibm.com/java). And, of | course, there is Sun's own JRE/JDK (which I have never used),

Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello, I have two unstable boxes connected via ethernet (bilbo and seneca). When I ssh from seneca to bilbo with ssh -X bilbo and start for example xterm I get the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm channel 0: istate 4 != open channel 0: ostate 64 != open X connection to bilbo:10.0 broken

Re: what plays avi videos on linux?

2001-03-29 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:38:06PM +0200, Richard Höchenberger wrote: > > > "Robert" == Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > aviplay > > > > http://divx.euro.ru/ > > > > Or try XMMS with the AVI-plugin: http://www.xmms.org No thanks.. MPlayer it is, http://mplayer.sourceforge.

Re: old debian with libc5

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I need an old debian based in libv5, i don't know wich version of debian was >the last based on this library. >Has somebody a link to an iso-image for downloading? >Or a ftp-server with old packages and a bootdisk? The last version of Debian completely based on libc5 was

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
MF> Hello, MF> I have two unstable boxes connected via ethernet (bilbo and seneca). MF> When I ssh from seneca to bilbo with MF>ssh -X bilbo MF> [..skip..] MF> Any hints where to start to look for the problem? Try 'ssh -v -X bilbo'. Is should enable debug output from ssh. Probably it wi

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Alexis Roda
D-Man wrote: > > Perl uses lots of operators and allows one to write code that is > _very_ compact, to the point of unreadability and unmaintainability > (IMO). You can write obfuscated programs with any language, even with python. The programmer should use the language (any language, not just per

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm debug1: Received X11 open request. debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: fd 4 IS O_NONBLOCK debug1: channel 0: new [X11 connection from 192.168.0.2 port 1024] debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol. debug1: X11 rejected 0 i1/o16 debug1: chan

retrieve ALL packages from a repository

2001-03-29 Thread MC_Vai
Hi, I need to retrieve all packages from a given repository (for a network installation). I've tried with: % apt-get -d install '(.*)' but it doesn't work because of the broken packages. So my questions are: Is there any way to ma

Mounting CD during installation on a G4 w/ DVD-RAM

2001-03-29 Thread Yannick Cayer
Greetings, I'm trying to install Debian (potato) on a G4 (with a DVD-RAM) I was able to boot from the cd rom, partition the hd, do whatever I needed to do up the the install point where it asked me for the media I wanted to install from: I chose CD but it failed to mount my cd. I really don't un

RE: lilo, /boot, symlinks

2001-03-29 Thread destruss
Hi all: Yes I believe you do need to make the /hda2 partition bootable. Try going into fdisk ( any flavor) and mark your root partition as the boot partition and then lilo will boot depending on how your lilo.config is set up. HTH Dean On 29 Mar 2001, at 16:01, Malcolm Gray wrote: > On 29 Ma

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-29 Thread destruss
Hello again: I'm out of ideas. The time I was in a loop ( I upgraded a package which wiped out another necessary package for installing packages and since that package wasn't on my system it couldn't install any other packages, even the package that was necessary.) I went to geocrawler and did a s

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
MF> Hi! MF> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm MF> debug1: Received X11 open request. MF> debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK MF> [..skip..] MF> debug1: channel 0: input wait_oclose -> closed MF> X connection to bilbo:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). MF> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> Sorry I don't un

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:51:55PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: | Hello, | | I have two unstable boxes connected via ethernet (bilbo and seneca). | | When I ssh from seneca to bilbo with | |ssh -X bilbo | | and start for example xterm I get the result: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm | chan

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi Ilya, > MF> Hi! > MF> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm > MF> debug1: Received X11 open request. > MF> debug1: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK > MF> [..skip..] > MF> debug1: channel 0: input wait_oclose -> closed > MF> X connection to bilbo:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > MF> [EMAIL PROTECT

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