Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-28 Thread CaT
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need for it. I've gotten it working fine without it and I'd really rather not need gnome to run sawfish. Will

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-28 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:38:02PM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > I had a problem with Plextor drive a while ago. > Your problem sounds vaguely familiar. > Try switching DMA off for the plextor drive. > In my case that was the solution. Hello Alexander, when would I have to do that? The SCSI

raw files

2001-05-28 Thread Darren Walsh
I've been trying to install debian woody. I first tried the disk's but it lacked the old "base" file and when trying to install it was looking for a RELEASE file under a certain directory which of course I didnt have. I then tried downloading the iso's. They are in some strange "raw" format. I t

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-28 Thread Amardeep Singh
better try XFree86 -configure On Mon, 28 May 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > why do I get this? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xfree86 --configure > bash: xfree86: command not found > > why is that? > Is there a package that doesn't automatically gets updated when I run apt-get > install xfree86-common

Re: installing galeon from rpms

2001-05-28 Thread christophe barbé
Thank you Alex for your comment. I've finally found a ftp location and the whole is apt-getable now. You can add the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe ./ It's important to notice that packages are build against sid (aka unstable). If pot

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-28 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:38:02PM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > I had a problem with Plextor drive a while ago. > Your problem sounds vaguely familiar. > Try switching DMA off for the plextor drive. > In my case that was the solution. Correction, it does seem to work. I will further investi

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-28 Thread christophe barbé
As alex as mentionned I've packaged galeon. To quote my last mail : I've finally found a ftp location and the whole is apt-getable now. You can add the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe ./ It's important to notice that packages are buil

Re: ximian 1.4 and woody

2001-05-28 Thread christophe barbé
I understand that you want to keep ximian but I would like to convinced you that is far from being a good thing. They provided a quite less uptodate gnome 1.4. With ximian you are sticky to mozilla 0.8.1 and IIRC psm isn't working. As you noticed you get dependencies problems. They have strange h

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:13:30AM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > > Hello! > > > > A silly theoretical question: in a ssh thread above, one got the answer > > *not* > > to enable root user access to a station, it wou

Re: "The following packages have been kept back"

2001-05-28 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > aalib1: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed > >

Re: Local DNS?

2001-05-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:07:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > what I would I need to run a DNS on a local network? I don't need > something full blown like an ISP would have, rather, I just need something > that will tie names to local IPs like 10.x.x.x. > > If anyo

permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Dragos Delcea
hello, I'm trying to get used to debian (I'm new to it) Here is a simple question: why the user's home have those strange permisions?...in redhdat I used to have 0700 for each user's directory...now (debian 2.2rev3) I have something like 2755 (I cannot remember exactly). why is that? it means that

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karsten > I've seen mysterious (and bad) things happen on systems which had (very) > commonly known root passwords and for which root ssh logins were > allowed. That's simply idiotic, and we had the wiped disks to prove it. yup inhouse security is more prevelent than from the outside

laplink to 286 pc?

2001-05-28 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I have an old 286 w/ msdos and a laptop w/ linux. I would like to transfer the 286's hard disk to the laptop using the parallel port. Does anyone know a way of doing this? I was thinking to use laplink on the 286 side, but I don't think there's a laplink for linux (despite various

Re: Sound Blaster 16 PnP

2001-05-28 Thread sherab
Hi, Apart from alsa-config you need alsa-driver-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 alsa-lib-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 alsa-utils-0.5.10.tar.bz2 and install them in the same order. check out the ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/ for newer versions. regards, sherab On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:32:07PM -0700, Reza wrote:

ghostscript support for Epson 1290

2001-05-28 Thread robert
Hello, I am using ghostscript to drive an Epson Stylus Photo 1290. Of all drivers I have tried, -sDEVICE=stcolor yields the best results, but the output looks more like 360 dpi than the 720 dpi the printer claims to support. When I try the option -r720 or -r720x720 the printer runns amok (text out

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-28 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: > >Just to clarify only ebrowsing.desktop, crypto.desktop and > > nsplugin.desktop > > are loaded. > >The rest fail with 'The diagnostics is:' where there is unfortunately no > > diagnostic information. > > Hmmm, I'd start looking closely at the sys

Re: permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0300, Dragos Delcea wrote: > hello, > I'm trying to get used to debian (I'm new to it) > Here is a simple question: > why the user's home have those strange permisions?...in redhdat I used > to have > 0700 for each user's directory...now (debian 2.2rev3) I have s

Re: How can I change the menu in the Gnome panel?

2001-05-28 Thread Preben Randhol
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/05/2001 (10:31) : > Right-click on the foot, then select "Properties". Confusingly, > there's a similiar "Global menu" pane in the "Panel" control center > applet ("Menu" tab); this appears to control the menu you get when you > right-click on an other

Re: permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Dragos Delcea
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0300, Dragos Delcea wrote: > > hello, > > I'm trying to get used to debian (I'm new to it) > > Here is a simple question: > > why the user's home have those strange permisions?...in redhdat I used > > to have > > 0700 for each user's dire

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and > >Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need for it. I've >gotten it working fine without it and I'd really rather n

Re: Sawfish (was: Upgrading to Testing)

2001-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >|> sawfish >|> is a GNOME package and so depends on the entire world, so hang on a >|> second while I unravel what's going on ... > >but but but but . > >S

Mouse and X problems

2001-05-28 Thread james
Hello I am trying to to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 rev 2 non US on to Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 (system outline below). So far I have managed to successfully install the basic Debian system. But I need to recompile the kernel to take advantage the systemy?s dual processors on try

Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-28 Thread Cliff Rowley
Whilst trying to compile and install the CVS version of KMail (apparently with IMAP support) last night, I installed the Qt2 and kde dev packages. The only problem is that the install removed Qt2-gl and now I cant get it back. I am just told that Qt2 is the latest version. If I try to remove Qt2

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Brian May
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On my own boxen, root passwords were changed from defaults, and >> root ssh denied. I actually stood down my system administrator >> telling him he had no need for a root password on the box -- he >> could administer the bo

Re: laplink to 286 pc?

2001-05-28 Thread Dada
For the connection via parallel port you should use plip on the linux box and the related software on the dos box. It works great and speed is fairly good. Have a look at the rich plip documentation to learn how to do the job. Vittorio On Mon, 28 May 2001, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > Date: Mon, 2

Re: Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-28 Thread Casper Gielen
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:57:34AM +0100, Cliff Rowley wrote: > Whilst trying to compile and install the CVS version of KMail (apparently > with IMAP support) last night, I installed the Qt2 and kde dev > packages. The only problem is that the install removed Qt2-gl and now I > cant get it back.

wrong version in version.h in the potato?

2001-05-28 Thread Gudleik Rasch-Halvorsen
Hello! How come the file /usr/include/linux/version.h says: #define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.15"? I'm not exactly sure what UTS_RELEASE means, but... when I tried to compile the NVidia GeForce kernel driver (0.9.4), I was told that the driver was build for 2.2.15, while I was running 2.2.17 (which is d

Re: downgrading with apt

2001-05-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:50:50PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded > packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg > works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade > your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it > even

Re: raw files

2001-05-28 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:34:05PM +1000, Darren Walsh wrote: > I've been trying to install debian woody. I first tried the disk's but it > lacked the old "base" file and when trying to install it was looking for a > RELEASE file under a certain directory which of course I didnt have. I then > t

Re: Mouse and X problems

2001-05-28 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:24:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 rev 2 non US on to Compaq > Professional Workstation 5000 (system outline below). > > So far I have managed to successfully install the basic Debian system. But I > nee

Re: woody testing

2001-05-28 Thread Bart Martens
> You do know woody is unstable right? If you don't know that you should > spend some time looking at the docs at the debian site. It looks like you haven't been spending much time looking at the docs yourself lately... I think you missed a release shift. http://www.debian.org/releases/ says Woo

Re: woody testing

2001-05-28 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:08:19PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > You do know woody is unstable right? If you don't know that you should > > spend some time looking at the docs at the debian site. > > It looks like you haven't been spending much time looking at the docs > yourself lately... I thi

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-28 Thread CaT
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:11:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and > > > >Erm. Why does it need to? gnome-libs is an option and not a need

Re: apt-utils

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:09:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > So believe it or not, it does work for most of us. If you can get a log of > that with DEBCONF_DEBUG set, I would of course like to see it. I'll likely be doing at least one fresh install within the next 2-3 weeks. How would I best captu

Re: dpkg stopping with an error

2001-05-28 Thread J.F.Gratton
Colin, thanks for the answer. You actually answered other questions I'd thought to leave for another post :) I'll try that once I get my system fully operational (right now I've tons of other problems to solve before getting to libgnomeprint11. The joys of reinstalling . Thanks again. Jeff

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-28 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Mark, I use linuxfreemail.com since it's pop'able. I think yahoo mail is also pop'able but you have to give up your dirtiest family secrets and second born to make an account. You will either have to use a gui'd browser to send mail with them, or just use your normal ISP's smtp server.

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:18:17PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > (Just a thought: perhaps a better solution would be to store these > passwords on a computer file, but GPG encrypt them?) If you've got a PalmPilot, etc., there's a wonderful utility called STRIP (Secure Tool for Remembering Important Pa

Re: Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-28 Thread Cliff Rowley
Oooh! Thankye :) Cliff Rowley The reader this message encounters not failing to understand is cursed. - while (!asleep) { code(); }

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-28 Thread Eugene Tyurin
I don't recall yahoo.com asking for my family secrets. It's been awhile, but I recall the procedure being relatively painless (and it's not like they can check if I really live at 100 Wall St., NY while earning less than $5000/year). You have to accept their spam email in order to use pop/smtp

Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-28 Thread Charles Lewis
I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card. My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with: /dev/agpart VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset) Direct Rendering Manager ATI Rage 128 The relevant portions of XF86Config-4: Section "Module" Loa

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-28 Thread Philipp Bliedung
thanks, that did it. Philipp Amardeep Singh wrote: > better try > XFree86 -configure > > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > why do I get this? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ xfree86 --configure > > bash: xfree86: command not found > > > > why is that? > > Is there a package that doe

Re: Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-28 Thread Steve Gran
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Charles Lewis wrote: > > I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card. > > My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with: > /dev/agpart >VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset) > Direct Rendering Manager >ATI Rage 128 > >

cd audio problems under 2.2.19?

2001-05-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Under kernel 2.2.16 I can play CD audio normally; however, under 2.2.19 I get 14:58 tty1 $ cdir unknown cd - 64:30 in 6 tracks 10:11.62 1 15:17.00 2 9:59.08 3 8:19.55 4 3:39.12 5 17:01.40 6 14:58 tty1 $ cdplay sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl) re

KDE Font Problems

2001-05-28 Thread David Nusinow
Hi all, I'm having a strang problem with my fonts in KDE. I can only select fonts in the "Type1" folder for KDE apps, but not for Gtk apps. I can also select all my fonts in other accounts that use KDE. Does anyone know where KDE stores its font list, and where it may have been overrid

web management question

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi...   I need some advice on how to manage my web server I work for a school and would like to setup web pages for students   I have apache installed and proftpd   How would I manage the server so that students could have write access to their web folder... for example   jimmy would

Compiling Xemacs 2..4.3

2001-05-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Maybe I'm just trying the impossible! I'm trying to compile a version of Xemacs2.4.3 on a Debian 2.2r3 box. During configure I get warnings that the version of GTK I'm running (1.2.7-1) is not supported. Has anyone else out there managed to compile this on a Potato box - and how? Don't wan't t

Re: web management question

2001-05-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:39:07PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi... > > I need some advice on how to manage my web server > I work for a school and would like to setup web pages for students > > I have apache installed and proftpd > > How would I manage the serv

Re: web management question

2001-05-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:39:07PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi... > > I need some advice on how to manage my web server > I work for a school and would like to setup web pages for students > > I have apache installed and proftpd > > How would I manage the server so that students c

RE: web management question

2001-05-28 Thread techlists
I would recommend changing from proftp to ncftp, it has a conf file that has a default to lock users into their home directory.  I would also recommend using webmin for server administration.  This can be found at http://www.webmin.com.   Wayne -Original Message-From: Mike Egglesto

Re: web management question

2001-05-28 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
Hey, Mike. You'll want to use the "mod_userdir" module of apache to set up the user's web directory..AND you'll need to create a web directory in the user's home directory in which they can ftp files to their hearts delight! Assuming your student will access their home pages by using "~" method,

RE: web management question

2001-05-28 Thread Steve Barr
I have a similar set-up at my school, except it's for staff not students... Make sure the following line in uncommented in /etc/apache/httpd.conf: LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_userdir.so That causes Apache to look at a directory under the users home dir named public_h

Re: Rage128 and DRI

2001-05-28 Thread mikepolniak
Charles Lewis wrote: > I've tried and tried, but I can't get DRI to work for my Rage128 AGP card. > > My kernel (2.4.4) has been enabled with: > /dev/agpart >VIA chipset support (I have Abit KT7A-Raid, KT133 chipset) > Direct Rendering Manager >ATI Rage 128 > > The relevant portions of

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi brian yes ... if one is forced, by ones forgetfullyness or really good passwds... i'd write it down and ENCRYPT that file... the assumption is you never forget the passwd or the pass phrase on the ONE machine... and keep a copy of it on another machine so that if you lose the disk/file...you

exim

2001-05-28 Thread Wayne Sitton
I've installed Exim(which I've never used before)and it seems to be working fine. My question is, How do I add other domains for Exim to accept mail for? In the exim.conf after local_domains, it has the original 3 (localhost:mydomain.com:mail.mydomain.com), but when I add any other domains, with

Re: exim

2001-05-28 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Wayne Sitton wrote: WS> I've installed Exim(which I've never used before)and it seems to be working WS> fine. My question is, How do I add other domains for Exim to accept mail WS> for? In the exim.conf after local_domains, it has the original 3 WS> (localhost:mydomain.com:m

ISDN

2001-05-28 Thread Howard Baker
I am trying to set up an account for a provider (btinternet) which uses CHAP authentication. Although dial-in is successful the connection to the server is not established. The key line in /var/log/messages seems to be: LCP: Timeout sending Config-Requests Connection is then terminated locally.

Re: cd audio problems under 2.2.19?

2001-05-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:02:03PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > Hello, > > Under kernel 2.2.16 I can play CD audio normally; however, under > 2.2.19 I get > > 14:58 tty1 $ cdir > unknown cd - 64:30 in 6 tracks > 10:11.62 1 > 15:17.00 2 > 9:59.08 3 > 8:19.55 4 > 3:39.12 5 > 17:01.40

Re: ISDN

2001-05-28 Thread Alexander Feder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 29. May 2001 00:13, Howard Baker wrote: > I am trying to set up an account for a provider (btinternet) which uses > CHAP authentication. Although dial-in is successful the connection to the > server is not established. The key line in /va

linksys lne100tx v4

2001-05-28 Thread Denzil Kelly
Has anyone had any success getting this card to install. I'm having trouble getting the drivers to compile. The errors I'm getting when I run make are: gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o pci-skeleton.o pci-skeleton.c pci-skeleton.c:89: linux/mo

Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Andy Davidson
I just installed Debian potato (2.2r0, I think; got the CDs from CheapBytes) onto my PC and want to use ssh to connect to other machines. But I can't find the package to install it. I gather from the web site that it is non-USA, but how does one find and install it using apt-get? When I try, I get

[mrz.pct@home.com: XF86 4.x?]

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from MRZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: MRZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XF86 4.x? Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:34:59 -0700 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. I understand you're the maintainer of the XFree86 packages on Debian? I just wanted to ask y

Re: linksys lne100tx v4

2001-05-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:54:28PM -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting this card to > install. I'm having trouble getting the drivers to > compile. The errors I'm getting when I run make are: > > gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -O6 -I/usr/src/linux

Re: Book opinions?

2001-05-28 Thread Abner Gershon
I received in the mail a copy of the "Debian GNU/Linux Bible" just a few days ago. I haven't had much of a chance to read it yet but it seems kind of superficial, despite being nearly 600 pages. I also have been in the process of installing Debian and related applications. One thing the version of

woody/sid questions (was: Re: ximian 1.4 and woody)

2001-05-28 Thread vester
okay...so you have me convinced. i just got rid of all the ximian packages, deleted the ximian server from sources-list and added sid instead...the oddyssey started there... to install new packages i had to go through a lot of upgrading, which was a bit tricky especially with the perl perl-modul

woody/sid

2001-05-28 Thread vester
oh...of course i forgot something: -i have also problems with gtk themes...i had AquaGraphite installed...after the upgrade it is still there, but i just get the standard gtk theme...is there any vital gtk package that i might have to install? thanks, vester

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just installed Debian potato (2.2r0, I think; got the CDs from >CheapBytes) onto my PC and want to use ssh to connect to other machines. >But I can't find the package to install it. I gather from the web site >that it is non-USA, but how does one find an

MSN access with wvdial not working.

2001-05-28 Thread Abner Gershon
So as not to turn this into a why I should be using another internet access provider forum let me explain that I recently purchased a Dell computer that came with a free year of MSN dial up access so that is what I am using for now. I configured wvdial with my correct user name and password and pho

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Balbir Thomas
You may need to have "Non-free" in your /etc/apt/source.list as in deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free or similar such t

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
Make sure that you have the non-us lines in /etc/apt/sources.list uncommented then run apt-get update and then do apt-get ssh. Also it might be a good idea to tr another mirror. On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:10:55PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: > I just installed Debian potato (2.2r0, I think; got

Re: MSN access with wvdial not working.

2001-05-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010528 21:07]: > So as not to turn this into a why I should be using > another internet access provider forum let me explain > that I recently purchased a Dell computer that came > with a free year of MSN dial up access so that is what > I am using for now. I co

Re-installing debian

2001-05-28 Thread Martin KC Lam
Hi, My first posting here. I have been messing with stuffs like Qt and KDE2. Things cannot compile ( with linker problems about -ljpeg, -lqutil and others) At this point I am stuck and I happened to install libc6-2.2.1-1 to "correct" things. And after that things just broke up. ldconfig is miss

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > You may need to have "Non-free" in your /etc/apt/source.list as in you don't, ssh is not non-free. non-US yes, non-free no -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpf1ZXcROb52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Andy Davidson
I tried inserting the lines into /etc/apt/sources.list and then did  sulu:/etc/apt# dselect update which gave me: Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages [49.3kB] Get:2 http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release [89B]  Get:3 http://non-us.debian.org

Re: MSN access with wvdial not working.

2001-05-28 Thread John Hasler
Hall Stevenson writes: > I believe MSN uses a proprietary or "extended" form of either PAP or CHAP > authentication so you may not be able to get it to work at all. It's MSCHAP80, and the Debian pppd is patched for it, IIRC. Read /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.MSCHAP80.gz for more details, but it shou

Re: linksys lne100tx v4

2001-05-28 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:54:28PM -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote: | Has anyone had any success getting this card to | install. I have a LinkSys LNE100TX, Revision 2. My card's chip was manufactured by Lite-On however I think all the LNE100TX revisions are "tulip" clones. I simply added alias et

Re: Re-installing debian

2001-05-28 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:50:23AM +0800, Martin KC Lam wrote: > Hi, > > My first posting here. > I have been messing with stuffs like Qt and KDE2. > Things cannot compile ( with linker problems about -ljpeg, -lqutil and > others) > > At this point I am stuck and I happened to install libc6-2.2.1

sending to user@yahoo.com generates traffic to me on port 1192

2001-05-28 Thread hanasaki
I am using eximm to send an email to someone @yahoo.com Yahoo is trying to contact my machine on port TCP 1192 Anyone have any idea what is going on? Thank you May 28 20:42:03 portal kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 216.136.129.1

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:54:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just installed Debian potato > > Put these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib > non-US/non-free > deb-src http://n

config X

2001-05-28 Thread Chris
How do I get my screen smaller?  I just upgraded to 2.4.4-686 kernel and xfree86 ver 4.0.3.  Finally got X screen to come up but its all large icons and ..  Tried to get  it to use the i810  cqard but it crashes.  Would send mail through balsa but could not read screen!  Too large for screen

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
There is a version of SSh in non-free also. The client/server created by the ssh.com people. I would suggest the openSSH version and of course as far as that goes you are dead on. Also I don't know how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato but that would give you SSH2. O

downloading source code

2001-05-28 Thread burningclown
All, The Debian FAQ suggests the command 'apt-get source ' to download source code for a particular package. When I try this, apt-get advises me that I need source lines in my sources.list file. What would be the source line(s), say, for testing? I can't seem to find this info anywhere. Thx,

Internal Error in pkgMinimumizeUpgrade

2001-05-28 Thread Martin KC Lam
Hi, anyone has idea on the following error? progeny:/# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies...E: Internal Error in pkgMinimizeUpgrade E: Unable to minimize the upgrade set i run the command after downgrading from libc6_2.2.3-3

woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread Wayne Sitton
I had php-nuke up and running on Debian stable with php4. Because of another program I wanted to run, I had to upgrade to woody first it un-installed my php4, in dselect when I tried to re-install it it complains about the version of apache-commons...?(why?) so, I installed php3, but when I go to

Re: downloading source code

2001-05-28 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:04:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > The Debian FAQ suggests the command 'apt-get source ' to download > source code for a particular package. > > When I try this, apt-get advises me that I need source lines in my > sources.list file. > > What would be

Re: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:43 PM 5/28/01 -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: >I had php-nuke up and running on Debian stable with php4. > >Because of another program I wanted to run, I had to upgrade to woody > >first it un-installed my php4, in dselect when I tried to re-install it >it complains about the version of apache-com

"Held Back"

2001-05-28 Thread Jim Darrough
What does it mean when you run apt-get install, download several files, and then during the install, some of the files are listed as "held back"? Thanks, Jim Darrough

RE: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread techlists
The package i have installed is php3-mysql 3.0.18-12 Wayne -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:42 AM To: Wayne Sitton Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke At 10:43 PM 5/28/01 -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: >I had php-n

RE: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:59 PM 5/28/01 -0500, techlists wrote: >The package i have installed is php3-mysql 3.0.18-12 > >Wayne > d'oh.. i find that one always worth checking... i guess its not a mime-type issue then either... I'd double check your nuke config file for the mysql password, thats how i get that part

RE: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread techlists
Checked it, I even added a new user gave it all permissions, and changed to the new user in the config.php,no luck! Wayne -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:57 AM To: techlists Cc: debian-user Subject: RE: woddy +PHP+ php-nu

Re: Hard drive errors in kernel output

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:36:31PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I enabled DMA in my kernel (w/ the VIA82 support), and now it works (my > hard drive writes are about six times faster), but now I get weird errors in > the kernel output: > > Partition check: > hda:hda: dma_intr: s

RE: woddy +PHP+ php-nuke

2001-05-28 Thread techlists
Looking in the mysql.err logfile it has this 010528 22:46:20 mysqld started Can't initialize Innobase as 'innobase_data_file_path' is not set /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections could this be a problem? Wayne -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: T

install problem

2001-05-28 Thread Suleyman
After booting with boot floppy installer attempts to mount cdrom to find progeny distro. This is the error that I get repeatedly & will continue till I ctrl C or something like that Error- " /linuxrc.real: /cdrom/live/bin/mdetect: not found " Any ideas? Thanks Suleyman

RE: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Ming Tan
I'm new to debian also, I've never used the dselect, but I was able to install ssh by doing the following: go to: http://packages.debian.org/stable/non-us/ssh.html and download the ssh_1.2.3-9.3.deb package (click on Go To Download Page). You may also need other packages that are "depends". After

Re: linksys lne100tx v4

2001-05-28 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Denzil Kelly wrote: >Has anyone had any success getting this card to >install. I'm having trouble getting the drivers to >compile. The errors I'm getting when I run make are: > >gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes >-O6 -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o pci-skele

BUG in ld.so?

2001-05-28 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Run Debian 2.2-r3 (potato) ; when I run ldd I got this message $ldd XFCom_i810 BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! ldd -version show 1.9.11 Any ideas? Regards Steve = S.KIEU _