After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Robert Cymbala
AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind looking for a high-level answer. Just now I did a fresh install of potato (2.2r2) from CD and chose these tasks: [*] Dialup Dialup utilities

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Cymbala wrote: > I don't get it. Why does dselect "want" to install so much, whereas > the operating-system install (from Rescue Disk boot to the "Have Fun!" > message) did not? Dselect installs all standard priority packages by default. The task system does not (in the version of debian y

Re: sources.list

2001-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
will trillich wrote: > i'm just saying -- when smoething breaks, be not surprised, > complain not, frown not. Er, no, file a bug. Partial upgrades from stable are supported by debian; dependancies shoul ensure any mix of stable and unstable packages that are installed work. If they don't, it's a b

sendmail statistics(sendmail.st) not working ?

2001-04-09 Thread aphro
hi ive been playin with mrtg this weekend and found a config where i can graph incoming/outgoing mails but it depends on a sendmail status file, which none of my systems seem to generate except 1(*). i have the StatusFile set in the cf file, i even tried setting it in the mc file and they still

Netscape per ssh

2001-04-09 Thread Andre Berger
I'm trying to export Netscape over ssh from a Server to a 486. It works with gvim, but then I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh Server netscape bash: netscape: command not found What's that? Netscape is as well as on Server as gvim is. Both boxes are running potato. Andre Berger

Setting up debian

2001-04-09 Thread v . demartino
Under debian potato 2.2r2 I've installed the Gimp and sane together with xscanimage and the sane plugins for gimp. Now I'm trying to set my epson 1240U usb scanner. I've followed the instruction given in linux-usb.org. step by step 1) I've issued mknod /usb/dev/scanner0 c 180 48 2) insmod usbcore,

using cdrecord to record regular file, but can not mount

2001-04-09 Thread eric
Dear Linux user; I use cdrecord to record regular file like try.c but then after it down, I can keep can not mount it it keep complain wrong fs type need your help sincere eric

Plug-In Installation Question

2001-04-09 Thread WACoxCo
Would you know how to install plug-ins into my Freehand 8.0 application? Sandra Cox EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: Voodoo2 && Linux

2001-04-09 Thread dim
Hello John! Friday, April 06, 2001, 6:14:34 PM, you wrote: JP> I have a Voodoo2 card, and although there are no accelerated JP> xservers that will work for it AFAIK, the glide-v2 package JP> (along with glide2-base, etc) will allow programs that JP> use opengl to make use of your card (such as kd

Re: Netscape per ssh

2001-04-09 Thread Andre Berger
* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010409 09:24 +0200: > I'm trying to export Netscape over ssh from a Server to a 486. It works > with gvim, but then I get: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh Server netscape > bash: netscape: command not found > What's

How to fix wedged dpkg?

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Thornhill-Cole
After mistakenly trying to install the netsaint package from unstable on a system running stable I have a system that refuses to either install or uninstall the broken netsaint package. I have added unstable lines to sources.list and attempted to reinstall the package, but no luck. I now get the fo

Re: geforce2 'rapid' screen save

2001-04-09 Thread romain lerallut
Begin Original Message i have a geforce2 mx card, an updated sid system w/ xfree4.0.3. i've installed the binary drivers from nvidia as specified by the faq. works great. but after some use in X, it will blank the screen (as if the keyboard was inactive for a while). when i try to esca

Re: Mozilla/WindowMaker: autorise on page load

2001-04-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Dave Carrigan, > It used to do this to me in sawfish, but either a newer version of > sawfish, or the the latest builds of mozilla mean that it's not doing it > any more. I'll tell you something about sawfish that's even more > annoying. I have focus follows mouse and autoraise set to 500ms.

Re: using cdrecord to record regular file, but can not mount

2001-04-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you mean that you did not even made a filesystem? You should be able to read the information back with: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/whateveriwrotetocd If you want to copy some files (or directory's) to a cd, you have to use mkisofs. See 'man cdrecord' for an example how to do this with pipes (th

MBR problem with 486

2001-04-09 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi all, I've installed Debian 2.2 on an old 486 yesterday (which caused some minor problems). Everything turned out fine in the end, except the boot process. It's a Linux-only system, I've partitioned the disk as follows: /dev/hda1: /boot 5MB /dev/hda5: swap 50MB /dev/hda6: / the rest Lilo is used

Setting up a usb scanner

2001-04-09 Thread
Under debian potato 2.2r2 I've installed the Gimp and sane together with xscanimage and the sane plugins for gimp. Now I'm trying to set my epson 1240U usb scanner. I've followed the instruction given in linux-usb.org. step by step 1) I've issued mknod /usb/dev/scanner0 c 180 48 2) insmod usbcore,

make fs on cdrw disk

2001-04-09 Thread eric
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, you mean that you did not even made a filesystem? is that mkfs, if I run mkfs /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/udf-0.9.3# mkfs /dev/hda mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y /dev/hda:

PC soft collection.

2001-04-09 Thread dim
Hello All! I'm looking for programs to be able to kill my windoze and using only Linux. There is a problem with it. I'm living in the region where to get Linux soft is a big problem. :( And I have internet almost only as a mail-service. I don't know what the office,multimedia,design,3D design,

S3 Savage4 GT C86C395

2001-04-09 Thread dim
Hello All! My friend has a problem with subj. When he's starting Xwindows (XFree86 4.0.1) - the screen is looking correct. But when he trying to drag any window - it leaves "footprints" on the screen. When he change page and then change it back - screen looks normal again. Xserver for C86C395 nam

RE: PC soft collection.

2001-04-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Easiest thing to do would be to order an archive cd from cheapbytes or any other archive. There are RedHat powertool cd's and other resources. i'm not aware of exact names but look into it, you'll find something you can use -Original Message- From: dim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maa

Re: "The following packages have been held back..."

2001-04-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I see the message in the subject header when doing apt-get upgrade, followed > by a somewhat long list of packages. Can someone tell me what causes this? > After running the upgrade command, I did an "apt-get install" on one of th

Re: Please help with ADSL

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Devin
Moritz Schulte wrote: > Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I try and ping the remote IP address I get: > > # ping 172.31.16.24 > > PING 172.31.16.24 (172.31.16.24): 56 data bytes > > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted > > ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1 > > How does you

Re: PC soft collection.

2001-04-09 Thread Sebastiaan
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dim wrote: > Hello All! > > I'm looking for programs to be able to kill my windoze and using only > Linux. There is a problem with it. I'm living in the region where to > get Linux soft is a big problem. :( And I have internet almost only as > a mail-service. > I don't k

Re: MBR problem with 486

2001-04-09 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Frederik, * Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed Debian 2.2 on an old 486 yesterday (which caused some minor > problems). Everything turned out fine in the end, except the boot > process. It's a Linux-only system, I've partitioned the disk as follows: > /dev/hda1: /bo

Re: Please help with ADSL

2001-04-09 Thread Nathan
from the IP block i see you are using i assume that you are using Telstra ADSL. I am also using Telstra ADSL and everything works fine, i have set it up on 3 other machines now and they all work great as well so i can't think or what is going wrong. I get the same result as you when i type route -

Re: [Cooker] using cdrecord to record regular file, but can not mount

2001-04-09 Thread Warly
eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Linux user; > > I use cdrecord to record regular file like try.c > but then after it down, I can keep can not mount it > it keep complain wrong fs type > > need your help You must create a special filesystem to put file on a CD, with mkisofs, if you bur

Re: sis900 problem

2001-04-09 Thread francisco m . neto
Hello, » Mark Devin said this and I say that: > I was wondering if you have gotten the sound card on that board to > work? It is Cmedia's CMI8738 audio controller. If I'm not wrong, this is the same chipset from Soundblaster PCI 128. The kernel module for this chipset to work is

Re: UK mirror

2001-04-09 Thread francisco m . neto
» Keith O'Connell disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Hi, > > The "ftp.uk.debian.org" site is jammed. I thought it was me, but it got > mentioned by some others in "uk.comp.os.linux". > > Is there a problem? Is it being fixed? Is there a story? > > Is the UK being isolated because the HMG signed a £

icmplogd errors in syslog.

2001-04-09 Thread Danie Roux
Can anyoen shed light on this? My syslog is full of them: Apr 9 13:24:53 carfax tcplogd: auth connection attempt from +carfax [127.0.0.1] Thanks. Danie

Velopost

2001-04-09 Thread broadcastnews
V E L O P O S T http://www.velopost.com There are times when you are travelling and on the go, that you are reminded to send a message to your associates, friends or relatives. Then you observe that even though your PDA and your cell phone have full email functionality, unfortunately your cont

How do RFPs work?

2001-04-09 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello! I have filed an RFP yesterday with reportbug, and when it asked if I wanted the bug to be sent to the maintainer only, I said yes (because that's the default). Now... I know the bug is in the BTS, but how does it work from now on? It's not automatically sent to debian-devel, I gu

Re[2]: PC soft collection.

2001-04-09 Thread dim
Hello Sebastiaan! Thank You! Monday, April 09, 2001, 4:02:55 PM, you wrote: >> And I can't just go >> to the shop and choose what I want - there is very little Linux soft >> CDs in our shops. Almost nothing. :( S> that is because Linux is free, so they do not make much profit on it. I think it i

Re: OT: Debian for infants

2001-04-09 Thread Scott_Patterson
It's a little off-topic, but, the orginial request was made on this list and several people were interested in it. So, I created it. It's called babytouch and you can get it at http://members.accesstoledo.com/patterson. It's only available as source so you'll need C and SDL development stuff to com

Re: How to compile the debian way?

2001-04-09 Thread Ilya Martynov
HH> Try: HH> apt-get source --build pppoe And it is even better to use 'apt-get build-dep pppoe' because it will automatically install all required development packages to build 'pppoe' -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://mar

Re: [xine-user] subpictures

2001-04-09 Thread Siggi Langauf
Hi Eric, don't know if this was already answered, but... On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, eric wrote: [...] > >> error: couldn't find demuxer for >DROP A FILE ON XINE< It should help if you tell xine what you want to play (just give it an MRL on the command line or press the "DVD" autoscan button before pre

Where is faddrs.h ?

2001-04-09 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am trying to compile a sniffer and the configure script gives this error:- checking for ifaddrs.h... (cached) no Does anyone know what package provides ifaddrs.h ?I am using 2.2.r2 I am using 2.2.r2 Thanks Pat

Re: geforce2 'rapid' screen save

2001-04-09 Thread Stephen Boulet
Just to add another data point, I have the same card but I don't see the same problems as you. I set my resolution to 1280x1024 and my bit depth to 16, if that makes any difference. -- Stephen On Monday 09 April 2001 02:54 am, romain lerallut wrote: > Begin Original Message > > i have

Problems with pop3

2001-04-09 Thread Kevin Pilch-Bisson
Hi All, I am running Woody as my personal machine. This machine is running fetchmail to get my wifes email from our ISP. She then reads her mail on a Windoze box using Outlook Express by retreiving it from my machine via pop3. Ever since last week or so, when I did an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, s

Re: How do RFPs work?

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have filed an RFP yesterday with reportbug, and when it asked if I > wanted the bug to be sent to the maintainer only, I said yes > (because that's the default). Now... I know the bug is in the BTS, > but how does it work from now on? It's not

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as >obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to the >package manager or do I have to mess with Packages.gz files and the >like? You pretty much have to mess with Package

Re: Where can I find openssh?

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ted Rathkopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I just got a machine installed with debian yesterday, and want to >> install openssh on it, but I can't seem to find the openssh package. > >The package 'ssh' contains OpenSSH. > >But, your sources.list seems str

Re: Voodoo2 && Linux

2001-04-09 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 12:17:33PM +0500, dim wrote: > Don't You tell me where can I get more info about these packages && > where from can I get it all? Just use apt-get install glide2-base and device3dfx-source. You can read about how to use them under /usr/share/doc. To be able to fully use th

Gigabit Fiber copper 3C996T: in kernel ?

2001-04-09 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, Has anyone tested this card, or know if its driver is included in the 2.4 kernel ? Thanks Manuel -- --- Manuel Segura ---

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Cymbala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > AFTER SEARCHING through about 18 months of debian-user archives and > not finding a related thread, here's a question that's been on my mind > looking for a high-level answer. I don't know about high-level; I can only make some observations. > Just

Re: Routing problems

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Derrick (Thrawn01) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a debian machine on a network, and has a modem. > > Both of theses links could be up at anytime. when the ppp link is down i > wan't to use a gatway on the network to access. > but when the ppp is up I wan't it to access the ppp first be

Re: Where is faddrs.h ?

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Pat Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to compile a sniffer and the configure script gives this error:- > >checking for ifaddrs.h... (cached) no > >Does anyone know what package provides ifaddrs.h ? >I am using 2.2.r2 It's not in Debian (although http://packages.debian.org/ would have

Re: Problems with pop3

2001-04-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, something says to me that this has to do with passwords. I have read something about this a while ago. You could try to turn off shadow passwords ('shadowconfig'). Greetz, Sebastiaan On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Woody as my personal machine. Th

Re: sources.list

2001-04-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > i'm just saying -- when smoething breaks, be not surprised, > > complain not, frown not. > > Er, no, file a bug. Partial upgrades from stable are supported by > debian; dependancies shoul ensure any mix of stable and unstable > packa

Re: Problems with pop3

2001-04-09 Thread Kevin Pilch-Bisson
Hi, While I wasn't too keen on the idea, I did try it but to no avail... My thinking was that it had something to do with Kerberos. So now I have two questions 1) Has anything related to Kerberos changed in the last few weeks (for woody [1])? 2) Does anyone know if I should make any changes to

Re: Kernel in what package?

2001-04-09 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 08 April 2001 21:58, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Can someone tell me the name of the package containing a precompiled > kernel? > > Until now I've been downloading sources and compiling them myself, but have > been experiencing spontaneous resets with my version of kernel 2.4.2, so > I'd like

Re: Default Window Manager

2001-04-09 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 08 April 2001 21:48, Aaron wrote: > Why shouldn't I be starting X from root? I'll go and add .xinitrc to my > users home directory and see what happens. You can run X as root, it's just that you shouldn't make a habit of it. -- Tim Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iww.org/

Re: kernel compilation in Potato...

2001-04-09 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 08 April 2001 14:01, Marcin Landowski wrote: to get everything you need just fire up "tasksel" and choose "C development", install that, and additionally get "bin86" (if you using intel) and libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev (for make menuconfig) > Hejka > > I've reinstalled my Po

Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Michael A. Miller posts: > > > I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine Sorry, I missed this as you'd threaded it onto an unrelated thread. Try using send, rather than replying and modifying the subject. > Adding a Win 9x partition has

stdio.h missing

2001-04-09 Thread Dieter Schicker
Hi, I'm running potato, kernel version 2.2.18pre21 and guess what: There is no "stdio.h" in the kernel header package. Please, could anybody send it to me? Thanks in advance Dieter

Configuring Exim's plaintext authetication

2001-04-09 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, Can someone tell me how (or where I'm supposed to read) to configure Exim's plaintext authenticator driver to check the user's password against the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow files or use PAM somehow (MD5 is enabled as well) ? (Yes I know plaintext is bad, but I'm planning to tunnel it throug

Re: stdio.h missing

2001-04-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Dieter Schicker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running potato, kernel version 2.2.18pre21 and guess what: There is no > "stdio.h" in the kernel header package. Please, could anybody send it to me? The C library headers come with libc6-dev and gcc (not the kernel

pb ethernet

2001-04-09 Thread Govaere Jan
Bonjour à tous Petit nouveau dans le monde de debian, je cherche comment installer une carte réseau. J'utilisais avant une mandrake où tout était automatique ! Je viens de faire l'install minimale. Merci de votre aide.

RE: pb ethernet

2001-04-09 Thread Govaere Jan
Sorry for my previous message in french !!! Same player, shoot again ... I try an debian install in expert mode but i don't know how to confogure the ethernet card. It's a compaq. Before, i was working on a Mandrake and all was automatic ! Thanks for your help

Re: Where is faddrs.h ?

2001-04-09 Thread Pat Colbeck
It compiles OK without ifaddrs.h however it hangs on startup. The sniffer I am trying to compile is ettercap-0.3.1. I just checked all the build stuff after it wouldnt start up (it nags trying to arp everything on the local LAN). Thanks Pat On Monday 09 April 2001 14:53, Colin Watson wrote: >

Re: Errors writing to /tmp

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:36:00AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > > > > The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains > > > /tmp

Setting up a network printer

2001-04-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello List How do I enable access from another host to my printer? The client gives me the error: "connect: Connection refused", so I assume that the /etc/printcap on this machine is ok, but I'm missing something on the server. According to the printcap-manpage, I have put the ip-adress of the c

Re: Pascal

2001-04-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I feel your pain. Not only is is not open source, it's *quite* expensive, much more so than Windows Delphi. We're talking $1K here, for the *less* expensive version. Also, there's apparently no driver for Postgresql, so there's no connection to a full-featured free database. Needless to say, De

Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Media Contact: Aaron Stenhoff Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGENY LINUX SYSTEMS ROLLS OUT PROGENY DEBIAN Enhanced Version of Debian Available for Download INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - April 9, 2001 - Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. announces the release of the

nis login problems

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to implement NIS and I'm stuck. I've set up the server on our RedHat machine and the client on my Debian box. When I run ypcat I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd andrew.dixon:$1$h7CPc4pd$WilaTSJaZOPgHfvhqwVnJ.:11424:11424::/home/andrew.dixon:/bin/bash ming

Re: Good diet program?

2001-04-09 Thread Justin Miller
On 08 Apr 2001 09:14:12 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Can anyone recomend a good program to record the intake caloories of a > person, that > I can install on my Debian machine? > > -- > Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 843-745-3154 > Charleston SC. > -- > Win

Re: How to compile the debian way?

2001-04-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mark Devin wrote: > > Nathan wrote: > > > goto www.roaringpenguin.com and u can download the rp-pppoe-3.0tar.gz file > > and > > untar it and cd into the directory and type ./go to do the setup. > > I am still having probles with this ADSL on Telstra Bigpond > > I did what you said above. It

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:18:10AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > All that an undelete would involve (as I currently see it) is: > > 1. Have rm move files to a "waste basket" instead of deleting them > outright. > > 2. After files have been in the waste basket a certain length of time, > say 5 day

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:16:25PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: > >= Original Message From "Karsten M. Self" = > >on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> > - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > Media Contact: > Aaron Stenhoff > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? Wichert. -- / Generally uni

Re: nis login problems

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Just figured out that this does actually work. The problem is that I had gdm running on the Linux box and the RedHat server logs you into runlevel 3. I'll start to look into gdm to tell it to deal with NIS but has anyone come across this problem before? thanks, Andy Andrew D Dixon wrote: > H

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Media Contact: > > Aaron Stenhoff > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? Just out of curi

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as >>obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to >>the package manager or do I have to mess with Packages.gz files and >>the l

Re: sendmail statistics(sendmail.st) not working ?

2001-04-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Debian, by default, doesn't include the file because keeping those > stats is a (minor, but unmeasured degradation). > > If you want the stats, simply touch the file as defined in sendmail.cf ok i'll try that! thanks > Offline, could you send me what kind of modiifica

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-09 Thread will trillich
I've seen folks deride the use of alias rm 'rm -i' because it encourages sloppy thinking, and that one time when you're logged in from somewhere unusual and you don't actually have that alias available POOF you'll zap more than you expect (because there'll actually be no '-i' supplied to

Re: nis login problems

2001-04-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Andrew D Dixon wrote: > The problem is that when I try to login with the username andrew.dixon > on my Debian box the login fails. It does fail differently then if > I just give it a garbage login so I do believe that it is accessing the > maps in some way. did you follow the directions noted wh

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 09 Apr 2001 12:17:09 -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > If I understand the question correctly, it seems the canonical answer > is to raise the version number of the locally created package. This > should keep dselect or apt from thinking that the local package is > obsolete. You can change the versi

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Gray wrote: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as > >>obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to > >>the package manager or do

Re: geforce2 'rapid' screen save

2001-04-09 Thread Jason Pepas
just chiming in here i have a geforce2mx, and sometimes after startup the screen blanks for about half a second, then comes back to normal (this is right after I log in at the console). Doesn't seem to cause any problems, just one of those "whoa, that was weird" phenomena. jason [EMAIL PROTECTED

/etc/network/interfaces help please

2001-04-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I need to set my static IP address on startup to x.y.z.141. My router is on x.y.z.1 My network is on x.y.z.0 I'm confused about what I should be writing in the interfaces file. ifup gives the error: "/etc/network/interfaces: too many parameters for iface line" for the line below. iface

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:13:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Media Contact: > > > Aaron Stenhoff > > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Sunday 08 April 2001 18:48, Mark Phillips wrote: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!

C-A-Fx not working in XFree86 4.0.2?

2001-04-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
It seems to me that I saw something about this a few months ago, but 30 mins+ with Google and the Debian mailing list archive search engine netted me zippo :(. I upgraded to the latest testing version a few days ago, and ever since I did I can't use C-A-F{1,2,3...} to switch back to my text consol

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as >>>obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to >>>the package manager or do I have

Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

2001-04-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've seen folks deride the use of > > alias rm 'rm -i' Absolutely. Just train yourself to type -i for rm, mv, cp... > If that is the case, then why not > > mv /bin/rm /bin/e-rad-i-cate and break all the scripts. OTOH there's nothing to

Re: /etc/network/interfaces help please

2001-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to set my static IP address on startup to x.y.z.141. >My router is on x.y.z.1 >My network is on x.y.z.0 > >I'm confused about what I should be writing in the interfaces file. >ifup gives the error: >"/etc/network/interfaces: too many para

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Makholm
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to > any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. And then I didn't write my oppinion on the subject. I have no problem giving Progeny a 100% reduce for sending Debian-relat

RE: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Media Contact: > > Aaron Stenhoff > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? > > Wichert. This is from http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ -

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Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released *vote?*

2001-04-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
<>If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to <>any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. I would appreciate it if you would continue the posts. About the public repository, WOW! Thanks and I wish you continued success. tatah -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TE

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 09 Apr 2001 10:38:36 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I used to put my local debs (kernels etc) into a directory > (/usr/local/src/debian-local/dists/local/local/binary-i386) > and then run this script: > > #!/bin/sh > cd /usr/local/src/debian-local > dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/local/binary-

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:13:42 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to >any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. You desparately need to get your irony/tongue-in-cheek detector adjusted. Greetings Marc -

gdm and NIS

2001-04-09 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to set up NIS to remote login to a server. The server is RedHat 7.0 which logs users into run level 3 and then lets them startx on thier own. The client is Debian (woody) using gdm to log users directly into run level 5. I was wondering if anyone knows how to tell gdm to get i

need help compiling Debian source package: exim

2001-04-09 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, I need some direction as to what to do to resolve the error that the debian/rules script in the source directory is giving me. I've attached the the output in rules-ouput.txt, but here's the last few lines with the error: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/exim-3.12/build-Linux-i386/auth

Re: /etc/network/interfaces help please

2001-04-09 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I need to set my static IP address on startup to x.y.z.141. > My router is on x.y.z.1 > My network is on x.y.z.0 > > I'm confused about what I should be writing in the interfaces file. > ifup gives the error: > "/etc/netw

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 09 Apr 2001 10:38:36 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: (...) > Then I would add this to sources.list: > > deb file:/usr/local/src/debian-local local/ Uuhm, I did this now and it generates a nice Packages.gz, but the debs still show up as obsolete ? (Yes, I did update) -- I did not vote for the

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 09 Apr 2001 20:08:26 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Uuhm, I did this now and it generates a nice Packages.gz, but the debs > still show up as obsolete ? (Yes, I did update) I'm a moron, the deb line in sources.list was commented out. Sorry -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

ISDN help (please! :)

2001-04-09 Thread Matt Thompson
Hello, list, Ok, this ISDN thing is killing me. I want to install a PCI ISDN card in our server here at work so that the server will be directly connected to the internet. Right now it's behind a ISDN router/firewall and therefore certain things don't work correctly (like you can't connect to ma

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 09 Apr 2001 10:38:36 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Then I would add this to sources.list: > > deb file:/usr/local/src/debian-local local/ It works now, except that the line needs to be deb file:/usr/local/src/debian-local local local with the given directory setup. Thanks again and sorry f

Re: sources.list and locally generated debs

2001-04-09 Thread Igor Mozetic
> My locally generated debs, e.g. from kernel compiles, show up as > obsolete in dselect. Is there an easy way to tell their locations to the > package manager or do I have to mess with Packages.gz files and the Generate local Packages.gz of your debs, eg, in my mirror I use: dpkg-scanpackages di

Re: C-A-Fx not working in XFree86 4.0.2?

2001-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > It seems to me that I saw something about this a few months ago, but 30 > mins+ with Google and the Debian mailing list archive search engine > netted me zippo :(. > > I upgraded to the latest testing version a few days ago, and ever since > I did I can't use C-A-F{1,2,

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