Re: potato isos

John Griffiths wrote: At 08:30 PM 5/16/01 -0500, DvB wrote: I was going to burn myself a copy of potato to see how much the install's improved since I last ran it and noticed there are not one, not two, but _three_ freaking iso images (binary-i386-1 thru 3.iso) out there. Are they all really

Re: [users] potato isos

John Griffiths wrote: Thanks :-) Tried Susa once and really didn't like it... Mandrake's my choice for rpm based distros. If Mandrake shipped with apt it would be the ultimate linux distro :-) At the risk of a holy war, Mandrake is like running Debian Testing, stuff doesn't ALWAYS work

Re: Half installed package

on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:34:37AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've tried to install kde2 via dpkg from a CD found in a linux > magazine, but something went wrong (many dependency problems)and all > the packages were unconfigured. So I've deinstalled everything with >

Re: PHP

Hi b3, Apache can exceute php file externsion now. But I still have two problems: 1) I added the lines below into httpd.conf, howvever it ask me to download the *.php3 file instead of running it. AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .php #AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps 2) I hav

xphoon and KDE

How do I get KDE to play nice with xphoon. xphoon displays it's image, but when I close a window exposing more of the background the wallpaper isn't redrawn with the image xphoon wrote. -- | Bryan Andersen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.nerdvest.com | | Buzzwords are like annoying

aptitude holds back packages (while pt-get does not)

since some time ago the aptitude started to act strangely - everytime I do update (u) and then upgrade (g) it holds back huge number of packages (20+). when I run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade no packages (or only two or three) are held back. I can manually set the packages to be u

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Re: Snort config

John Galt wrote: > Expect changes when woody freezes: the file you reference is > snort.debian.conf in testing/unstable...snort.conf is a real snort.conf > (more in line with the upstream...) I see. I've been running on potato (current stable, right?); well, for the machine that directly connected

Re: Disk mirroring

Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > $ ls -la /dev/fd0 /tmp/dev/fd0 > > brw-rw1 root floppy 2, 0 May 14 11:30 /dev/fd0 > > brw-r-1 root floppy 2, 0 May 14 11:30 /tmp/dev/fd0 > > > > :-( > > > > But upstream is working on it. :-) > > Okay... Been in contact with upstream

Re: Disk mirroring

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You might look into the kernel software RAID if you're running kernel > 2.4.x. It supports RAID-1, which is mirroring. Although mounting a Yes, I'm running on 2.4.x. > disk and doing a manual copy would work, in the event your system disk > fails you'd be stuck with a

Re: GRUB

"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > $ info grub > Goto to the FAQ: > > Can GRUB boot my operating system from over 8GB hard disks? > That depends on your BIOS and your operating system. You must make > sure that your drive is accessible in LBA mode. Generally, that is > configurable in BIOS s

Re: Snort config

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote: >John Galt wrote: >> Expect changes when woody freezes: the file you reference is >> snort.debian.conf in testing/unstable...snort.conf is a real snort.conf >> (more in line with the upstream...) > >I see. >I've been running on potato (current stable, right?); we

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

> I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My > predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine > whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes > of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine. If I don't use > my X server, it's fine.

Pakiety .deb

Cześć !!! Mam nadzieję że piszę do odpowiedniej osoby, od kilku dni przeszukuję sieć za wszelkimi informacjami dotyczącymi pakietów Debiana. Sam używam RedHata i nie mam dostępu do żadnej dokumentacji tych pakietów. Poszukuję coś w rodzaju how-to rpm jak jest to w RH lub www *.txt czegokolwi

Re: Half installed package

I've tried to install kde2 via dpkg from a CD found in a linux magazine, but something went wrong (many dependency problems)and all the packages were unconfigured. So I've deinstalled everything with "dpkg -purge *.deb". Using dselect I now find that one of the package I wanted to eliminate (sl

Re: DHCP + ADSL = HELP

Those config options did look suspicious. I'm running 2.4.3, not 2.4.4, but my config file only has 1 CONFIG_NETLINK option. Have you tried moving your .config file somewhere else, and running $ make mrproper menuconfig and comparing the new .config to the old one? Also, did you make sure all of

cups: The requested resource was not found on this server

the cups was working just a minute ago and I was able to print using lp filename I checked the default samba command and tried if it works: lpr -r -P%p %s (I used epson740 instead of %p and filename instead of %s) it didn't print because of printer error (paper jam). from then on (not

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:02:43AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Which would be the best for me to get? > > > > Plextor CD-RW PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer > > Burn-Proof > > Sony CD-RW CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail > > Kit 4mb PC/MAC > > Yamaha CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail

Re: cups: The requested resource was not found on this server

Erik Steffl wrote: > > the cups was working just a minute ago and I was able to print using > lp filename > > I checked the default samba command and tried if it works: > > lpr -r -P%p %s (I used epson740 instead of %p and filename instead of > %s) > > it didn't print because of printer

Re: woody

Karshi Hasanov wrote: > I want to install 'woody' but don't know where to start. Is there the > ISO image > of woody avaible ? You can get .raw images of woody and sip here: ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ Frank

Re: PHP

Try the following: for problem 1): Try deleting the mime types application/x-httpd-php... (or similar) from your applications in your Netscape preferences. It seems to me when netscape is faced with a php script that is sent as source by the server (ie without the correct headers) it adds the mime

Locales missing after upgrading to testing

Hi, this is my other problem after upgrading to testing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "de_DE", LC_ALL = "de_DE", LANG = "de_DE" are supported and install

Removing Helix libgtk1.2

A while back I toyed with the Helix version of Gnome - bad decision. Have since been weeding out the Helix packagaes that cause all kinds of crossed wires in normal debian upgrades. I've found that I still have the Helix libgtk1.2 - but a simple dpkg --purge libgtk1.2 wants to take about 30 (

Re: [offtopic] recommendation on resources (books, websites) on object oriented programming?

Just install perl-5.005-doc and do $> man perltoot Walter Tautz wrote: > > Just wondering if there are any books that explain in detail with > real-world (non-trivial) examples just what the OOP is about and > why it might be a good idea to use it. I have no particular > preference for langua

Re: Locales missing after upgrading to testing

JUH> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale JUH> perl: warning: Setting locale failed. JUH> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: JUH>LANGUAGE = "de_DE", JUH>LC_ALL = "de_DE", JUH>LANG = "de_DE" JUH> are supported and installed on your system. JUH> perl: warning:

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

"Thomas Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I have to switch back to mozilla 0.8.1 to use galeon and > skipstone properly. Galeon 0.10.6 claims to support Mozilla 0.9. But don't expect too much of it, I tried it and it crashed regularly. The crashes seem to be UI related. While the render

Re: Locales missing after upgrading to testing

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:02:39PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > this is my other problem after upgrading to testing. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -V:d_setlocale > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "de_DE", >

Re: Dpkg broken.

Have you tried: # apt-get --fix-broken remove # apt-get --fix-broken install ? Kieren Diment wrote: > > I was trying to install LyX, with dpkg -i lyx*.deb, but was told that > libforms0.89 was not installed. > > So after that I kept making errors, downloading libforms-bin and > installing th

Re: Removing Helix libgtk1.2

Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A while back I toyed with the Helix version of Gnome - bad decision. >Have since been weeding out the Helix packagaes that cause all kinds of >crossed wires in normal debian upgrades. > >I've found that I still have the Helix libgtk1.2 - but a simple >

Upgrade from 2.2.r2 to 2.2r3 ?

Would someone please advise me what's the best way to upgrade from 2.2r2 to 2.2r3. I haven't really had the chance to use the older release properly, and I don't see the economic sense of buying a complete new set of Linux disks. -- "S+M is outta the question, have you got a better suggestion

"automated" install/re-install from status file or package list

Does anybody know of a good way of using an old /var/lib/dpkg/status file to quickly reinstall debian. I would like to be able to do this to reduce the amount of time it takes me to re-build a machine after an attack or for installing all the same packages as another web server instead of choosing

Re: Upgrade from 2.2.r2 to 2.2r3 ?

Put the line deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free into your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade This is for an Australian server, but you get the idea. cheers, Andreas Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > Would someone please advise me

Re: apt-get offline

Hello, Am Dienstag, den 15. Mai 2001 12:28:12 schrieb Joerg Johannes: > > I use apt-get as described in the offline.html guide meaning: I build a > wget script from the output of apt-get -qq --print-uris and so on. Have you looked at the apt-zip-package? > The problem is, there are two other s

Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

Hi All, I search the web for an answer, but came up short. Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang my system and won't let me get my mail. So I telnet into my isp an look for the culprit. The command I use is "retr #" <---"#" is the message number. What command do I use to delete the said

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:38:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Hi All, > I search the web for an answer, but came up short. > Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang > my system and won't let me get my mail. So I > telnet into my isp an look for the culprit. The > command I use is "retr #" <---

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:38:06 Wayne wrote: > I search the web for an answer, but came up short. Search for RFC 1939. It'll tell you all about POP. The command you're looking for is DELE (e.g. "dele 12"). mbf.

Please - make it stop!

Hi, Everytime my isdn (ipppd) connection goes up or down it dumps messages on whatever console I'm logged in on and it's annoying. Tried fiddling with syslog.conf and looked over the /etc/isdn files but can't seem to stop it. or work out what is doing it.. The kdebug level for ipppd is set to

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:38:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Hi All, > I search the web for an answer, but came up short. try a search for pop rfc at www.google.com > Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang > my system and won't let me get my mail. So I > telnet into my isp an look for

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

W> Hi All, W> I search the web for an answer, but came up short. W> Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang W> my system and won't let me get my mail. So I W> telnet into my isp an look for the culprit. The W> command I use is "retr #" <---"#" is the message number. W> What command do I

No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

Hi, I solved some of the problems I've got after upgrading to testing. I have no loopback interface With ifconfig lo does not show up. ifconfig -a gives loLink encap:Local Loopback LOOPBACK MTU:16192 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > "Thomas Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think I have to switch back to mozilla 0.8.1 to use galeon and > > skipstone properly. > > Galeon 0.10.6 claims to support Mozilla 0.9. But don't expect too much > of it, I tried it and

can't compile alsa on sid

Hi all, I've installed alsa-source-0.5 (0.5.9b-3). I'm trying to compile it. I've made a .configure and a make, averything work fine. But I want a .deb so I do ./debian/rules binary-modules and I get the following error : # debian/rules binary-modules cat debian/modules.d/control-0.5.source > deb

Re: shutdown -r now won't work

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It does nothing. Just as if I typed nothing at all. The system doesn't hang; >I'm still able to use it normally. But it doesn't reboot. I'm root too. I >just did a kernel recompile but I've done a couple successful ones recently >and

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

you can always telnet into your isp, if they allow telnet access, use pine or mutt, and actually see if anything is worthwhile. i know i get alot of junkmail and spam. i either filter it out or delete it straight off the isp so i dont have to deal with any crap. On Thu, 17 May 2001, Gordon Hart

Re: "automated" install/re-install from status file or package list

Andreas Hatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anybody know of a good way of using an old /var/lib/dpkg/status >file to quickly reinstall debian. I would like to be able to do this to >reduce the amount of time it takes me to re-build a machine after an >attack or for installing all the same package

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

It seems that galeon requires a patch to be applied over mozilla0.9. I imagine that kitame packages didn't have this patch and this certainly explain the UI related crash. Perhaps kitame will use this patch as blizzard to for RH packages. Christophe On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:09:45 Ulf Rompe wrote: >

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

Hi again, I want to thank everyone for the pointer. I found a gold mine!!! Wayne Martin Feeney wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:38:06 Wayne wrote: > > > I search the web for an answer, but came up short. > > Search for RFC 1939. It'll tell you all about POP. > > The command you're looking for is

Re: Install from single floppy

> "Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Would have taken a lot of floppies . Luckily I have found a packet driver for my Xircom card and am currently ftping all the required files to the Libretto using CUFTP. If anyone else is going to try this be aware that FreeDos doesnt work

libc6, libdb2

Hi there, I use potato r3 with 2.4 kernel Version of libc6 was 2.2-6 (taken from woody some time ago) and libdb2 was 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (from potato r3). Everything was working well. Now I upgraded libc6 to 2.2.3-1 and (because of dependences) libdb2 to 2.7.7-7. After that syslogd don't start and

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:36:02AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which would be the best for me to get? > > Plextor CD-RW PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer Burn-Proof > Sony CD-RW CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail Kit 4mb PC/MAC > Yamaha CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail Kit CRW2100E

Alsa 0.9 fixed yeah!

Hi, I just posted this because I thought it might be useful to someone. I have found that alsa-source 0.9+0beta4-2 doesn't work with the version of libesd-alsa0 found in unstable. However if you recompile from the sources it does work. You probably also need to install libasound2 I.e. apt-get

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:06:35PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: > It seems that galeon requires a patch to be applied over mozilla0.9. > I imagine that kitame packages didn't have this patch and this certainly > explain the UI related crash. > Perhaps kitame will use this patch as blizzard to for

potato or woody?

Hi all. I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and "office-like" activity (and a bit of C++ programming too). TIA, Stefano

Re: Multi-platform software development

Andrzej Swedrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/05/2001 (11:01) : > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I think that well written C code is portable. Many projects deve­ > loped under GPL proove it. No it is not. Count the #ifdefs > > object-oriented general purpose programming >

Re: potato or woody?

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering > if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? > > The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and > "offic

lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: max1617-i2c-0-18 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) In /proc/sys/dev/sensors/max1617-i2c-0-18 i get: temp1 0 4 8 temp2 60 8 0 How do

Re: Locales missing after upgrading to testing

Hi Willi, Hi Ilya! > Try uncommenting the needed locales in /etc/locale.gen. > Then run 'locale-gen' as root. Hope that helps. Thanks. That fixed it. Ciao! juh -- 68 in der CDU http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991222.html

Re: potato or woody?

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering > if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody? > > The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and > "offic

Re: lm_sensors temp readings only 8C

On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:16, mikepolniak wrote: > Just installed lm_sensors for via-pro chipset VT82c596 and ran sensors: > > max1617-i2c-0-18 > Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 > Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter > temp: +8.0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) > > In /proc/sys/dev/sensors/

Re: DHCP + ADSL = HELP

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: [some damn good advice] Thanks for the tips. I'll try that now and let you know what happens. I am now blessing your keyboard... St Aardvark the Carpeted http://www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.

/var/lib/dpkg/status corrupt!

Help! Something happened to my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, and now everytime I try to do anything with apt-get or dselect I get parsing errors, and it just quits. Is there any way to correct this? TIA, jdk

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I have no loopback interface Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line: iface lo inet loopback (you'll probably just have to uncomment an existing line) You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine, Jim

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:35:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i tried applying blizzards patch as i found it in bugzilla but mozilla > then failed to compile. apparently the one in bugzilla is broken, and > im not downloading 30MB of src.rpm crap to see whats in there... Do you mean this patch?

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status corrupt!

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:17:46AM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > Help! Something happened to my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, and now > everytime I try to do anything with apt-get or dselect I get parsing > errors, and it just quits. Is there any way to correct this? It is automatically backed up to /va

Re: Pakiety .deb

On Thu, 17 May 2001, mec wrote: m> Cześć !!! m> Mam nadzieję że piszę do odpowiedniej osoby, od kilku dni przeszukuję sieć za wszelkimi informacjami dotyczącymi pakietów Debiana. Sam używam RedHata i nie mam dostępu do żadnej dokumentacji tych pakietów. Poszukuję coś w rodzaju how-to rpm jak je

More colours on framebuffer console ?

Hi I'm not subscribed to this list, but follows it on a news group because of the e-mail policy of my Isp I have been trying to get more than 16 colours in vim on the console. As a beginner that is way beyond my capabilities. I configured the kernel to use framebuffer (2.4.4 + rivafb) and it looks

PHP spell check

Hi all, I've got a requirement to do spell check in a web page with a HTML form. So far, the best solution seems to be to install pspell (from unstable) and hand craft something to check and make suggestions. My system is potato with Apache/MySQL/PHP4. Dipping into unstable for pspell is one t

samba - swat - problem

Hello, I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato machine. When I try to access swat by typing "http://localhost:901";, the browser says "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:901". So, I don't know how to get around this problem. Any help would be highly apprec

Re: No loopback interface after upgrading to testing

Hallo Jim! Am Don, 17 Mai 2001, schrieb Jim McCloskey: > Edit /etc/networking/interfaces to include a line: > > iface lo inet loopback I have this line there. Seems that on boot it is not automatically configured. > You'll need to bring the interfaces up again with ipup, I imagine, Mh, yes

Re: samba - swat - problem

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:18:36PM +0200, Dieter Schicker wrote: > > Hello, > > I just installed Samba 2.2.0 and Swat on my potato machine. When I try to > access swat by typing "http://localhost:901";, the browser says "The > connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:901". > So

galeon - skipstone?

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:31:14AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > triggered. i have found mozilla 0.9 + galeon 0.10.6 to be the most > stable (and *fast*) combo yet. Have you tried skipstone? It feels slightly faster, I'm uncertain about the relative stability though. Sadly it lacks some eye-cand

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: > > I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My > > predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine > > whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes > > of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's

Re: [users] Re: motherboard info

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:56:06PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Dimitri Maziuk (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:56:47PM -0500): > > In that case I don't see any other option but to go and _carefully_ > > open the fscker. With a flashlight and good eyesight you will find > > whatever info the manufac

rsync - Problem

Hallo !   Ich habe mir die Pseudo-image-Dateien heruntergeladen und möchte nun den rsync - Befehl ausführen. Jedoch gebe ich nicht den richtigen CD-Image rsync - Server an. Ich kann auch nicht das debian-CD - Verzeichnis auf irgend welchen mirror-Seiten finden. Ich bitte um Hilfe.   Danke

What every retailer should know

"Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux" it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out of the redmond circus. the original is at http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/ retail/Linux%20report.doc but because that's about 600% the size of the actu

bootable utility cd

How do you create a bootable linux cd image, similar to the partimage bootcd, but with a custom kernel (especially with the ability to do a mount on a remote filesystem, such as NFS) along with any number of desired utilities (such as partimage, parted, rsync, etc)? I know that partimage uses a ram

Re: What every retailer should know

Linux is less secure "Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows. Damn! How can I protect my Business now? I think I will switch to windows just to be sure my data is

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

also sprach Willi Dyck (on Thu, 17 May 2001 06:37:42PM +0200): > Linux is less secure > > "Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. > Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same > is not true with Microsoft Windows. > > Damn! How can I protect

Filesystem flag toggle ???

If I have mounted /usr as ro, and I want to change it to rw while running, how do I do it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 7:23pm up 5:44, 5 users, load average: 0.

what is portmap?

What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely update-rc.d remove it? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato--- 8:10pm up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.03,

Re: What every retailer should know

MaD dUCK wrote: > "Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux" > > it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out > of the redmond circus. > > the original is at > http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/ > retail/Linux%20report.doc > > but because that

Anacron message

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 suddenly i'm getting the following email from anacron: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: wn:32 { expected after log file name(s) run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 anybody know what i need to do to fix this? - -- )

XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. i was told that installing libglide3 would help - it

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

> has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 > 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? > > it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software > rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. > > i was told that installing libglide3 w

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

also sprach Frank Zimmermann (on Thu, 17 May 2001 05:53:40PM +0100): > not really the lastest news. Suse already respondet at the 11.05. > (sorry only fond a german version: > http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html ) and the OpenSource > Community responded recently to this: > http://perens.co

Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

Hello. I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine, but want to experiment with Debian w

woody upgrade

Newbie here.  Just upgraded potato to woody 2.4.4 kernel for i810 support.  Could anyone tell me where to find out how to get kernel 2.4.4 to go into lilo and how to get X back up and goin.  Either man pages or how-to , possibly some feed back?  ???  Thanks for any help!

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

I've rebuild the package of mozilla from the Takuo Kitame source with the following patch in the upstream/patches/ sub-directory, It compiles well and the bug seems to disapear. The patch is the one posted by Tommi Komulainen in which I have change the path according to what is expected by the debi

What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

Hi, I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for the best way to make it work. Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c filter but it a

Re: what is portmap?

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely >update-rc.d remove it? If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are the 2 main services that need it. Don't use update-rc.d remove, though.

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

At 10:08 AM -0700 5/17/2001, Jim Darrough wrote: I have an Athlon 650 with 128M of memory, Voodoo 3 PCI and a Viewsonic E771 monitor. I would like to add an additional 30g hard drive and set it up as a Debian-only drive, booting from a floppy. Unfortunately I still require Windows on this machine,

Console keyboard mapping

Hi list ! Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to get it back :( It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. What's the alternative ? Thanks for your help Dominique

Re: What every retailer should know

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the article, for me, is this paragraph : """ Limited Developer Tools There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are available are much more difficult to use

tomcat for potato?

Are there any avaliable debs of Jakarta Tomcat for Potato? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __

Re: What every retailer should know

D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > I am a software engineering student. The funniest part of the > article, for me, is this paragraph : > > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > avai

Re: Console keyboard mapping

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost > my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to > get it back :( > > It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. > > What'

debconf problem

Greetings, I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of 2.2 system and apparently screwed something really up. When i try to install some new packages that require debconf i get error (at the end of message), btw. i get same error when trying to install debconf too. I ch

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): > """ > Limited Developer Tools > > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are > available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio. > Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop

Re: galeon - skipstone?

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tommi Komulainen wrote: [...] > Hmm, now how on earth can I get all my cookies and bookmarks shared among > all (mozilla, galeon, skipstone, konqueror, w3m) browsers..? > Import/Export is really not an option anymore :-/ I can't help for cookies. But for bookmarks, I long a

Re: Want to set up Dual Boot (sort of)

Call me a rebel, or whatever, but I prefer not to put lilo in the harddrive boot sector on a machine that will dual (duel :P) boot with MS. I prefer to let MS have its way with the boots sector, an boot Linux with a lilo floppy, backed up by a spare lilo floppy and a rescue disk. Here is why: I

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