kernel error

2001-06-12 Thread harsha
hi, I was trying to download the cdimage of debian 2.2r3 on my friends m/c running potato with kernel 2.2.17 . there was a power failure and there was no backup :( later fsck showed no problem. however when i try to resume the download the following error message gets displayed. i am using

Re: Unable to use ppp with the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:31:52AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas uttered: > Hello, everyone ... > > I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in > order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks > because the architecture of the /lib/modules/2.4.5/ directo

Re: am-utils not working

2001-06-12 Thread Fabbione
Hi Kevin, I had similar problems using kernel 2.4.x with automounter support v4. I solved the problem disabling amd v4 support and downgrading to the older one. Cheers Fabio Kevin Bailey wrote: > > I'm trying to get amd (in am-utils) working but no matter what I > do (things which work o

Upgrade to gcc 2.95.3 on potato ?

2001-06-12 Thread Bo Lorentsen
Hi ... I have been looking for an upgrade of the gcc 2.95.2 compiler in the potato, and I like to know how to upgrade. I found some lines for my sources.list file ("deb http://master.debian.org/~doko gcc/"), but they don't seem to work do i need some more magic spells :-( Another thing, does any

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Haesler
Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers between clients on the LAN that doesn't work. Of course there are better ways to transfer files on the LAN than icq. But it makes it difficult to test things. Is there anything I can do to the proxy server to make this sort o

Debian and RAID

2001-06-12 Thread Jack
Hi,   I want to install debian on a raid-system. Does someone have expirience with the ADAPTEC 2400A RAID-controller? If not, which controller-card should I use and which not?   Thx   Jack

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2001-06-12 Thread sjb
Hi, all - Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both for use in a router. But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which rather complicates things. I've tried the 3c5x9tools package, which doesn't do all that much except let me know that there are 2 different c

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread Tom Massey
Paul Haesler wrote: > > Hi all, > > Look, I'm trying to get icq working on windoze client computers > on the private LAN through a Debian masquerading gateway > (ipchains - kernel 2.2.19). Have you tried using the ip_masq_icq module from ? I used it wit

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-12 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Andrew Perrin heard to yodel: > I run fvwm2 on two slower machines: a P200 with 96MB of RAM and a P90 with > 16M. Works great on both! I've been happy with Windowmaker on a Pentium 120 notebook with 32M RAM. -- I'm not advocating that anyone take up emacs. Not even me: at my age,

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Haesler
> Have you tried using the ip_masq_icq module from > ? I used it with a 2.2.19 > kernel in a similar situation. You need to add something like this to > your firewall script: I looked into that, but that URL doesn't work. You just get an html document

Re: Debian Double Dutch Gnome?

2001-06-12 Thread christophe barbé
I'm experiencing the same problem and would be happy to know how to fix this. Christophe On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:18:07 Mart van de Wege wrote: > Hi Folks, > > First off, apologies for the bad pun :) > A minor question: my computer is being used by a flatmate of mine. She is > unfortunately not fl

Re: your mail

2001-06-12 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all - > > Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both > for use in a router. > > But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which > rather complicates things. > > I've tried the 3c5x9tools package, which doesn't do

I: tftp & batch file

2001-06-12 Thread Minervini Luigi
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Minervini Luigi > Inviato: lunedì 11 giugno 2001 16.08 > A:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Oggetto: tftp & batch file > > Hi, > I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers > configurations (by a Linux batch file

Software development and outsourcing services form Nepal

2001-06-12 Thread Unlimited
Hi :   I would like to introduce our organization to you. Unlimited in located in Kathmandu, Nepal and has been in the business for over 8 years in software development, medical transcription services as well as other data-entry services for clients in Europe and USA.   With over 350 peop

Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread
I'm using exim as my pet MTA and mutt as a mail reader on my laptop. Now, I've set up a .forward file to filter entering messages and it all works great. But I don't know how to tell exim to put the unsent (because there's no dialup connection) mail in a folder like 'unsent-mail' or 'queued-mail

Re: Debian and RAID

2001-06-12 Thread Manuel Segura
hello, here i run 3 compaq servers with "Compaq Smart Array 431" in Proliant 370 It works fine Bye > Jack a écrit : > > Hi, > > I want to install debian on a raid-system. > Does someone have expirience with the ADAPTEC 2400A RAID-controller? > If not, which controller-card should I use and whi

kernel-package question

2001-06-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just compiled a custom kernel with 'kernel-package --revision=3:win4lin1 kernel-image'. the kernel I was compiling was the source of the kernel from which I originally installed the system - 2.2.19-reiserfs. when running 'dpkg-deb --contents kernel...' I see that I have the same '/boot/vml

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 08:35:00AM: > I'm using exim as my pet MTA and mutt as a mail reader on my laptop. > Now, I've set up a .forward file to filter entering messages and it > all works great. > But I don't know how to tell exim to put the unsent (because there's > no dial

Re: Samba: Problem mit check_log_size

2001-06-12 Thread Hubert Palme
> "G" == Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Hubert Palme wrote: >> > "G" == Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> G> I'm not sure if the max log size parameter makes sense when using G> --with-syslog. The parameter should probably be ignore

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread Tom Massey
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:20:18PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote: > > Tom Massey wrote: > > Have you tried using the ip_masq_icq module from > > ? I used it with a 2.2.19 > > kernel in a similar situation. > > I looked into that, but that URL doesn't work.

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:10:30PM -0600, ray p wrote: > The newest drivers work fine here and fix the problem you are having. thanks. I will then have to try those new drivers anyway :) -- Alex Suzuki ..:.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..:.. http://www.cynox.ch GEEK code: GCS d+(-) s a--- C+++ UL

Re: Want Debian, but have questions...

2001-06-12 Thread Frank Zimmermann
John Galt wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Patrick R. Klee wrote: > > >Hi, > > Well, it looks like Red Hat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 don't support my > >hardware, I figure it's the 2.4 vanilla kernel. So, I want Debian. > > If RedHat and Mandrake don't support your hardware, don't expect any >

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Victor
Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. Anyway, Matthias, I did not know of the postpone feature (resembling more to the "draft" folder of graphic

loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2) Has anyone found a workaround for this? -- oivvio polite cell +46 (0)709 30 40 30 / phone +46 (0)8 669 64 18 / fax +46 (0)8 84 00 18 varvsgatan 10A / s-117 29 stockholm / sweden

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Victor wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 12:19:08PM: > Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection > is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and > queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. (as root): mailq | undelivered-time mail-size id <>

Re: loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread Aquila
I have glibc 2.2.3 installed and I can play the Descent 3 demo from loki, as the tribes 2 full version, which also states that glibc 2.1 is a requirement. I think loki is just trying to say that glibc 2.1 is the lowest common denominator... On 12 Jun 2001 12:36:34 +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > >

Mozilla 9.1has toasted my System

2001-06-12 Thread aon . 912198442 . temp
Hi! This weekend I encountered a ugly problem. I decided to install the high-praised Mozilla 9.1. Two weeks ago i installed Mozilla 9.0 with the standard Mozilla installer. And as this has worked pretty fine, I decided to use also the installer that comes with Mozilla 9.1 (wich I downloaded fr

Mozilla 9.1has toasted my System

2001-06-12 Thread aon . 912198442 . temp
Hi! This weekend I encountered a ugly problem. I decided to install the high-praised Mozilla 9.1. Two weeks ago i installed Mozilla 9.0 with the standard Mozilla installer. And as this has worked pretty fine, I decided to use also the installer that comes with Mozilla 9.1 (wich I downloaded fr

I: tftp & batch file

2001-06-12 Thread Minervini Luigi
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Minervini Luigi > Inviato: lunedì 11 giugno 2001 16.08 > A:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Oggetto: tftp & batch file > > Hi, > I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers > configurations (by a Linux batch file

Re: your mail

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:18:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, all - > > Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both > for use in a router. > > But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which > rather complicates things. > > I've tried the 3c5x9tools pack

Re: kernel-package question

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:00:09PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I've just compiled a custom kernel with 'kernel-package > --revision=3:win4lin1 kernel-image'. the kernel I was compiling was the > source of the kernel from which I originally installed the system - > 2.2.19-reiserfs. when r

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote: > Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers > between clients on the LAN that doesn't work. > > Of course there are better ways to transfer files on the LAN than > icq. But it makes it difficult to test things. Is there anyth

Fw: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-12 Thread Frans Schreuder
> > Frans> -edited the raidtab file ( I noticed there beeing a raid > > Frans> directory so I copied it from it's original location in /etc) > > > > > The raidtab file needs to be in /etc. I have noticed the /etc/raid > > directory as well, but AFAIK it is not used. (This could be considered > > a

gnome

2001-06-12 Thread Guilherme Borges
Hi, ich wanted to install the new gnome(from ximian). I installed with dselect the task-ximian-gnome. So far i think I installed all packages. But when I try to start gnome or nautilus i get : >nautilus: error in loading shared libraries: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1: cannot open shared object

Re: loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:36:34PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > > Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and > wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2) > > Has anyone found a workaround for this? There may be other ways to do it, but this works: 1. copy the cd files to

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable (ssh)

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Ruzbacky
Yes, I got the same message with our server. I had to kill all the ssh sessions that "didn't exist". I also had a problem with ssh which asked me to create more pttys, which I did and this also alleviated the problemnot sure why ssh (I think v 1.3) does this (ie creates phantom processes whe

Network problem, box sending tcp flags SWE on SYN.....

2001-06-12 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Hi, I have this problem where my box cannot talk through a pix firewall which allows everything through, but can talk to any box on the local network. On closer investigation with tcpdump it appears that it initiates tcp communication using flags SWE (WE is unknown to me). Local machines tend

Any Clearcase users on Debian?

2001-06-12 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to get Clearcase (huge, expensive code revision system) to work on Debian but I can't get the mvfs module to load. Has anybody tried this before? and succeeded? Please don't tell me to revert to Redhat 6.2 :-( Nico - "It

Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules and make modules_install, then copied everything in /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The kernel boots and all my regular programs run perfectly but dmseg contains nothing to indica

Networking problem (SAMBA???)

2001-06-12 Thread aparra
Hello!! I have a GenuineIntel, Pentium 100. I use this machine as server, with Samba, to serve printer, and files. I have also an other machine (identical) as router and www server. But the problem is that some times the win98 machines stops viewing the network, put I still have IP conexi

Re: Network problem, box sending tcp flags SWE on SYN.....

2001-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem where my box cannot talk through a pix firewall which > allows everything through, but can talk to any box on the local network. On > closer investigation with tcpdump it appears that it initiates tcp

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a > message saying > "Power down." > However, when I hit the power button, the computer just beeps but > still stays on. The only thing I can

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread USM Bish
My personal preference is to use HTML presentation on a browser. Totally platform independent. Opera 5 supports full screen (F11 toggle), and it is *actually* the "full" screen with no browser borders, (unlike IE which still has the browser frame around). This is true for both the Linux and W

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I compiled a 2.2.19 kernel with module support and sound > modules for my sound card selected, ran make modules > and make modules_install, then copied everything in > /usr/src.../arch/i386/boot to /boot. The kernel boots and > all my regular programs run perfectly but dmseg contains > nothing t

Re: Debian and RAID

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I got a system working with an adaptech 2100S. Works ok El Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:49:25AM +0200, Manuel Segura dijo: -| hello, -| here i run 3 compaq servers with "Compaq Smart Array 431" -| in Proliant 370 -| -| It works fine -| -| Bye -| -| > Jack a écrit : -| > -| > Hi, -| > -| > I want t

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Rajkumar S.
On 12 Jun 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > In a similar vane I use the LaTeX "prosper" package which does a very > good job of bringing together texpower, hyperref, ifmslides, in a > simple to use and familiar (LaTeX) environment and provides > plug-n-play glitz just like powerpoint, all presented u

Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Victor
I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop using the LAN at my office. What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? Ciao Vittorio

Re: Not Loading Modules

2001-06-12 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, I had a pci ethernet card identified on /proc/pci I think the kernel autodetects most pci hardware, yet, the corresponding drivers may not be built in the kernel. Of course we must trick this by loading a module. So, by automatically Identifying some hardware doesnt necessarily mean that the

Re: loki games under woody

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
Aquila and Lance, Thanks a lot to both of you. It turned out glibc 2.2 was not the problem. I was installing from iso images I made on an other machine (the machine I'm installing on is a subnote book with no cdrom) and mkisofs had decided to rename some files. oivvio On Tuesday 12 June 2001

[OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine but looks bad when viewing with acroread. Is there some trick to using different fonts to make the screen display look good? I have tried using a couple of postscript fonts as well as the usual tex fonts (ccr). I have als

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-12 Thread stimpy
On (08/06/01 17:29), Vittorio wrote: > I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Me too! I use mutt-alias.el and post.el which are both available from http://www.davep.org/mutt/ post.el is a mail mode for Emacs that contains various functions including automatic line wrapp

RE: Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop > using the LAN at my office. > > What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? > You could install the client software from oracle. I have oracle 8.1.7 and it works fine. I haven't tried any free tools. There

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
Good point. But what about the presentation product in StarOffice which does transitions and everything... I have done a presentation with and many people thought I was using Powerpoint up until I ended the presentation and my GNOME was revealed! (with large tux background image) ;) -matt -

I've got a corrupt filesys. How do I check integrity of all installed packages?

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
OK, here's an other: Last week I played around with hdparm to optimize hd performance. Not only did manage to speed up the hd considerably, I also managed to corrupt my file system. I could still boot after fsck. I can still get up kmail to write you this. Most stuff still works but some services

nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
Hi An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb gave a missing xlibmesa-dev problem. I apt-get install that

Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

2001-06-12 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote: > Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers > between clients on the LAN that doesn't work. I don't think the problem is with the firewall, but with ICQ. ICQ 99 and earlier used a different protocol from ICQ 2000. When clients

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
What version of ghostscript are you using? Some (older) versions use bitmapped fonts for all non-Postscript-standard fonts, which includes the computer modern fonts to which LaTeX defaults. The newest gs (7.something) will embed postscript fonts, which is what you want for this. You should also cha

Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Lewis, James M. wrote: > I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine > but looks bad when viewing with acroread. This is a FAQ here: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{ae} should accomplish what you want. You could also use acrobat readers built-in fonts with \u

Re: Any Clearcase users on Debian?

2001-06-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Any Clearcase users on Debian?; %% Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ndr> I'm trying to get Clearcase (huge, expensive code revision ndr> system) to work on Debian but I can't get the mvfs module to ndr> load. Has anybody tried this before? and succeeded? Please don't

Re: nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony Fox
"Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts > (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc > respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
oops, 10.10.10.0 != 10.10.0.0 according to routing tables, ifconfing should give you an address like 10.10.10.x is this correct? -- Good observation, error on my part. I corrected; omega:/local# cat netset # # emergency network setup ifconfig

RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > What version of ghostscript are you using? Some (older) versions use > bitmapped fonts for all non-Postscript-standard fonts, which > includes the > computer modern fonts to which LaTeX defaults. The newest gs > (7.something) will embed postscript fonts, which is what you want for > this. Yo

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2001-06-12 Thread Helliandro Souto Henrique
Naum consigo fazer com o debian aceite meu mouse. Como faço? O ` X` só funciona com ele, e acaba travando meu micro. E como rodo o gnome , sendo que funciona digitando gnome. ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha se

Re: Debian Double Dutch Gnome?

2001-06-12 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > As my flatmate prefers Gnome over KDE (as do I) this is really bothersome. What am I doing wrong, or is there some bug in localization, and if the latter, how can I help? Work-around that did it for me: edit ~/.gnome/gdm, change

Re: networking broken (ifup, route add)

2001-06-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 12:57 PM 06/12/2001 -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: SO, 1) what's wrong with ifup, 2) how to manually add localhost. try "iface lo inet loopback" (for 127.0.0.1) -- I think this is a /etc/network/interfaces specification, not an actual command: omega:/local# iface lo inet loopback

mutt keybindings: fvwm interfering?

2001-06-12 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
I'm trying to bind my and keys to last-entry and first-entry respectively. xev sees them properly. It all works from the console (though colours don't, but that's not a problem). Is xterm screwing me up? Have I left out a vital piece of information? Is my windowmanager from hell? Baffled, Ai

Re: nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jun 2001, Anthony Fox wrote: > "Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and > > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts > > (ie. make-kpkg modules-image & dpkg-buildpackage -us uc > >

Re: Getting an old boot disk

2001-06-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:46:58PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote: | Hi, its me again, the kid with the 486. The newest boot disk that i can | get to boot on the 486 is from 1.3.1. the installation was good, | except, i found out there were no dhcp utilities shipped with 1.3.1. | That was the whole

Re: Power button doesn't work

2001-06-12 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:27:24AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: | "Derek Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Is it normal that my power button doesn't work? | > After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a | > message saying | > "Power down." | > However, when I hit the power

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Volker Schlecht
> > Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection > > is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and > > queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. > (as root): runq > exim tries to deliver message id. > If no id is supplied all messages in

misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect because the package already has been con

Slow network -- Reverse DNS lookups

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Hi some of my linux servers inside a private range IP lan, are giving slow responses to clients inside the lan connecting to ftp or ssh. Whe had no DNS running. It seems to me this is because proftpd and sshd are doing reverse DNS lookups. So I supose the way to solve this is to set up a dns serve

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run >dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect becaus

Xserver security setting

2001-06-12 Thread Michael Dickey
After upgrading to 2.2r3 I found that X would only start in 800x600 mode. I tried running XF86Setup again (maybe not the right way to go about fixing this?) and successfully got all the way through the setup until it started the Xserver with 1024x768 resolution and saved the config file. I then tri

RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved again]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Matthias Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:28 AM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files > > > Lewis, James M. wrote: > > > I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a docum

Re: misconfiguration

2001-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to > >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure, > >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to ru

Modules issues

2001-06-12 Thread Michael Dickey
After installing the kernel & modules I just compiled I find that when booting there are all sorts of error messages, most including something about modules.conf being more recent than modules.dep. I can only glimpse the messages before they are gone. Everything seems to work fine, though. Is there

X 4.0 on potato - Now get Fatal error

2001-06-12 Thread MRZ
Hi. It seems that I've finally managed to get X 4.03 onto my Debian potato box (ie: all the links/files/directories appear to be present and correct); but configuration must still be wrong. After the install was completed I initially ran "xf86config" but have also tried "xf86cfg" and "X --conf

IBM Java 1.3 - Anyone get to work?

2001-06-12 Thread ChrisHoover
I'm trying to get DB2 to install and run on my Debian box. One of the programs it needs is java. IBM is highly recommending that you install and run their version of java. I have pulled down the .rpm for it and installed it both as a rpm and as a deb (not at the same time). Anyway, no matter wh

Strange symbol in program

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi, Profiling my executable, it shows that a huge part of the time is spent in a function called FF_wac. Running nm -C -p -o myprog |grep FF_wac yields: myprog:08a7c5e0 T FF_wac But nowhere can I find what this function is. It doesn't exist in any of the object files that I link in. Does anyone

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
or use \usepackage{verbatim} ... \verbatiminput{filename.txt} this package also provides the comment environment which is good for big comment blocks. tom

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Thomas Halahan
yes latex rules, spend a bit of time getting your slide (color) template and pdf stuff ok, then save time, get better looking presentation (with less fluff) and have a truely sharable presentation. i have played with texpower with pdflatex and dvipdfm with good results. on the downside its

[palic@billgotchy.de: What's wrong?]

2001-06-12 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's wrong? Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:02:57 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Branden... sorry, I don't know whether write a bugreport or m

Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: xfree86 4.0 Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:59:27PM -0300 In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all. > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the a

Re: your mail

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:18:59AM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, all - > > Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both > for use in a router. > > But they're both insisting on being on

Re: I: tftp & batch file

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: I: tftp & batch file Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:37:45PM +0200 In reply to:Minervini Luigi Quoting Minervini Luigi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Hi, > > I need help to create a tftp server on a Linux machine to download Routers > > configurations (by a Linux batch file)

Re: Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread MRZ
> In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo > > Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi all. > > > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? > > You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the > archives. All these details are 100% in the archives, just look usi

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
Well, I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? -matt -Original Message- From: USM Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Unable to use ppp with the 2.4.5 kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Evrard Nicolas
On 07:41 12.06.2001 Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:31:52AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas uttered: > > Hello, everyone ... > > > > I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in > > order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks > > bec

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch > > >> kernel > > >> 2.4 installed. > > >> > > >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. > > > > In a router, havi

Canon LBP 800

2001-06-12 Thread Blue Rat
Basically, it all boils down to finding the driver for this printer. The page at linuxprinting.org looks pretty discouraging and doesn't offer an actual link to anything but the Canon homepage, where they have drivers for every brand of winbloze under the sun... We've got one of those paperweight m

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Richter
Chapman, Matt wrote on Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 03:28:05PM: > I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something that > would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under Linux > (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? MING[1] is kind of a solut

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

2001-06-12 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry I just discovered, that this thread isn't relayed (?!?) to the usenet newsgroup, so I wasn't aware of theses messages. I'm replying in just one message. > > > > Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his > > > > necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2

no i810 support in xserver-svga_3.3.6-38_i386.deb ?

2001-06-12 Thread Darxus
I'm running Debian Testing with a 2.2.19 kernel. I have an i810 video card, which I have working with xserver-svga_3.3.6-11potato32_i386.deb. X's output from both are in attached files. A diff of the 2 seems to show that i810 support is nolonger present: 37c37 < i810, i810-dc100, i810e,

[Q]: Exim no longer using smarthost?

2001-06-12 Thread Marshall, Hunter
I have somehow dorked my exim config (this is NOT the result of a version change). I am desparate to get back to being able to send out mail (by NOT using Outlook). Today I diddled the exim.conf and the aliases file. Somewhere my mail stopped going out. It appears that exim is trying to connect to

some problems.

2001-06-12 Thread John
using Grub, my linux entry looks like this: title Debian kernel 2.4.5-k6 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-k6 root = /dev/hda2 ro idebus=66 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5-k6 however, when it boots, it does not set idebus to 66, it defaults to 33, and tells me to "add idebus=xx", wh

RE: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-12 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Chapman, Matt so: > I could totally lose window$ (other than work) if I could get something > that would produce Flash (.swf) files like Swish www.swishzone.com under > Linux (my preferred OS). Anyone out there know of such a beast? Tried PHP? Rasmus recently gave a pre

transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-12 Thread Em Huynh
Hi all, I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k and debian. When I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at about 3000k-4000k. Does that seem right for a 100 base t network? I believe both network cards( netgear ) are running at full duplex (

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-12 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:09:51PM -, Em Huynh wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a little network (100baseT w/switch) going with win2k and debian. When > I transfer from my debian box (p3 566 w/ultra 66 hd) it seem to peak at > about 3000k-4000k. > > Does that seem right for a 100 base t network?

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