Re: MRTG & Debian

2001-09-28 Thread Casper Gielen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:15:40PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Does anyone have any example scripts for using MRTG to track Debian > (processor, traffic, etc)? > > Much appreciated. > Take a look at mrtgutils -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [..] and 2000

Screensaver in KDE problem.

2001-09-28 Thread igor
I have a problem with my screen saver in kde. When I go to KDE's control center. When I enable my screensavers, they are all just blank black screens. No preview, no options are working. When I go to lock the screen, no screen saver there either. At one point in time it was working, but not anymore

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Fri Sep 28, dman wrote: > Check out the frame buffer stuff. I found it to be really cool. How do I get this frame buffer stuff to work? I compiled the kernel with support for frame buffer, but obviously something else need to be configured for it to start? Where should I look? TIA Jesper

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Rick Pasotto wrote: > The upgrade (from 5.8) removed vim-rt and I kept the old config files. You need the new vimrc. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED

'vt320': unknown terminal type.

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I just did apt-get install ssh and enabled ssh server... I'm trying to connect to the debian machine from a win box using tera term, it connects fine, but if i do a clear, or try to run mc or pine or mutt i get 'vt320': unknown terminal type. and other errors related to that... I've t

Re: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:31:52PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Eileen Orbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > It looks like my problem lies pretty deep because > > #which ldconfig > > returns nothing and a search also turns up empty. Is it time to > > reinstall? > > First make sur

Re: setup exim for remote outgoing mail

2001-09-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:23:15PM -0400, matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > here's my situation... > i have my debian box behind a NAT device (LRP on an old 486) > i've set up some family with a free isp that blocks port 25 traffic Inbound, outbound, or both? > this isp does not provide a SMTP s

Portforwarding

2001-09-28 Thread Jan Tammen
Hello, I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to have no effect: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT --to client_ip: ... and so on, and then: iptables -A FORWARD

RE: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread shock
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Eileen Orbell wrote: > > It looks like my problem lies pretty deep because > #which ldconfig > returns nothing and a search also turns up empty. Is it time to > reinstall? # locate ldconfig | grep bin /sbin/ldconfig then edit your .bashrc (or whatever you're using) and add

Re: hdparm or ide howto

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:00:38AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > Good day all. > > Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments > that describe Linux (E)IDE support? It seems to me > that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti- > fying the newer technologies such as ATA and > UDMA would

Win2k, Samba, cups and printers

2001-09-28 Thread Ryan Hagan
Greetings, I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having. Here's the scenario: I've installed my Epson Stylus Color 880 using CUPS. I can print fine from the linux box. When I setup the printer in

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: | * On Fri Sep 28, dman wrote: | > Check out the frame buffer stuff. I found it to be really cool. | | How do I get this frame buffer stuff to work? I compiled the kernel with | support for frame buffer, but obviously something else

Re: Win2k, Samba, cups and printers

2001-09-28 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0400, Ryan Hagan wrote: | Greetings, | | I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing | through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having. | | Here's the scenario: I've installed my Epson Stylus Color 880 using | C

Re: problems with Konqueror

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Boxman
On Friday 28 September 2001 12:11 pm, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > I'm currently running Debian testing with kernel 2.2.17. > > Today I decided to give a shot for unstable's Konqueror. Well, it > started ok - it fetched couple of other packages too (kdelibs3, > kdebase-libs, libkonq3 etc.) but when it sta

Re: Portforwarding

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Boxman
On Friday 28 September 2001 02:28 pm, Jan Tammen wrote: > Hello, > I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a > client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to > have no effect: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT

Re: 'vt320': unknown terminal type.

2001-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 13:16:04 -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > I'm trying to connect to the debian machine from a win box using tera > term, it connects fine, but if i do a clear, or try to run mc or pine or > mutt i get 'vt320': unknown terminal type. and other errors related to > that... The

Re: Win2k, Samba, cups and printers

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Boxman
On Friday 28 September 2001 02:37 pm, Ryan Hagan wrote: > Greetings, > > I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing > through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having. > That's interesting. I don't know if I cheated or not, but I just installed Epso

Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

2001-09-28 Thread Helmut Trinkl
Mentioned link should be http://newbiedoc.sorceforge.net/ ^ Sorry for typo. Helmut

Re: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:31:52PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Eileen Orbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > It looks like my problem lies pretty deep because > > > #which ldconfig > > > returns nothing and a search al

Re: apt-get problem with testing

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: apt-get problem with testing On Tuesday Sep 25 09:36 Markus Grunwald wrote: > ** Hi ! > ** > ** my youngest dist-upgrade gave me the following error: > ** > ** Entpacke Ersatz-xlibs ... > ** dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von > ** /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: libc6 upgrade question On Tuesday Sep 25 13:07 Gerald Richter wrote: > ** Hello Debusers! > ** > ** I'm running a potato 2.2.19-pre17 > ** installed reiserfs-patch... OK > ** kernel compiled OK > ** installing reiserfsprogs caused a dependency-problem requiring

Re: no ` (Backtick) witch iso8859-15 (Euro) Fonts ?

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: no ` (Backtick) witch iso8859-15 (Euro) Fonts ? On Wednesday Sep 26 09:02 Markus Grunwald wrote: > ** Hi ! > ** > ** I followd the instructions on > ** http://channel.debian.de/faq/DebianDE-13.html > ** to get the Euro symbol working. > ** > ** Well, that wor

Re: libgimp-dev missing header?

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: libgimp-dev missing header? On Wednesday Sep 26 15:55 Tzvetan Ivanov wrote: > ** I tried to grep stdplugins-intl.h from Contents-i386.gz but there > ** was no file called stdplugins-intl.h? Where can I get this file > ** and why is it not included in Ximian's libg

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: horrible harddrive performance On Tuesday Sep 25 13:08 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > ** Actually we finally got DMA enabled under 2.2.19, but it refuses to > enable > ** under 2.4.9. That's bad! Why this? Have no such problem with kernel 2.4.8. Do you ha

Re: No Gnome panel

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: No Gnome panel On Tuesday Sep 25 00:02 Rodin Fadul wrote: > ** /dev/dsp: Permission denied. /dev/dsp is an audio device. I mean running the gnome-panel without Gnome is possible. But it is a part of Gnome. And Gnome needs audio support. Maybe you should install

Re: setup exim for remote outgoing mail

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: setup exim for remote outgoing mail On Friday Sep 28 01:23 matt wrote: > ** can you give me some step-by-step setup instructions for doing this, or a > ** working version of exim.conf? > ** any info/links/help would be GREAT! There are soo much things to think

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: apt-get help On Friday Sep 28 17:22 shock wrote: > ** i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have > ** a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few > ** days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it.

Re: Portforwarding

2001-09-28 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Jan Tammen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-28 19:30): > I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a > client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to > have no effect: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT --to > cl

Re: hdparm or ide howto

2001-09-28 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Greg Wiley wrote: > Good day all. > > Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments > that describe Linux (E)IDE support? It seems to me > that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti- > fying the newer technologies such as ATA and > UDMA would be a significant HOWTO asset. > > This is

Laptop and ZipDrives

2001-09-28 Thread Mirza Maruf A
Hello to whom it may concern, My name is Maruf Mirza and I am a beginner Linux user. Well I have install just the base Debian Image in my old laptop which is an AST Ascentia 910N (x486/75 DX with only 8 meg) model. Well Debian flavor of linux is running great but with some minor issues. That i

Re: Getting Sound to work

2001-09-28 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello again! Sorry that I didn't write for so long but I had the flu. So, I've finally looked up what this chip is and I've seen... it's an ISA card chip. So, you probably have to set the resources for this card before you can load the sb module. Maybe, you can do this by switching the "PNP OS ins

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Pedro António Neves
On Friday 28 September 2001 16:39, Matthias Richter wrote: > > (How) did you configure your soundcard? I can't see any sound modules > in your output of lsmod. tvmixer is used by the soundcore-module here: It was built in the kernel ... > So try to compile sound support as modules. I did, and

Re: Laptop and ZipDrives

2001-09-28 Thread Pedro António Neves
On Friday 28 September 2001 20:52, Mirza Maruf A wrote: > ... so I thought if I > could have use my parallel port zip drive to install extra packages but I > do not know how to get my parallel port to work. I have done some research > but found no document that addressed my particular issue. Zip

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Taking this to debian-user, as suggested. > > I have compiled a program here that is looking for X libraries in > > /usr/lib... I don't want to make symlinks for all of these, that's just > > plain ugly. What else can I do, put them in ld.so.preload or something? > > You could tell us a bit more.

Re: (not-debian-)programs not finding libraries on Debian system...

2001-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:16:44PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: Sorry for CC'ing, not sure you are subscribed to debian-user, and I'm taking this off debian-devel. (As suggested.) > > I have compiled a program here that is looking for X libraries in > > /usr/lib... > > On a Red Hat system b

connect to ntp server

2001-09-28 Thread Titus Barik
I want to connect to an NTP server to sync my desktop clock in Debian (Woody). Is ntpdate the preferred way to do this? Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AIM: TBarik ICQ: 1604453

Re: connect to ntp server

2001-09-28 Thread John Patton
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:22:05PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > I want to connect to an NTP server to sync my desktop clock in Debian > (Woody). Is ntpdate the preferred way to do this? Generally, ntpd is prefered, but there is overhead involved. When running ntpd, you always have the ntp daemon ru

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:22:08AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like > that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html > and found out that in the reviews

Re: Xscreensaver CPU Usage

2001-09-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:04:38PM -0400, Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was wondering if anyone else uses the xmatrix xscreensaver, and has noticed > a major increase in cpu usage at times when its running: > > This is from a top command > > 4196 keerf 18 10 1556 1556 1224

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:30:23AM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very > little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations, > read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong. How is the > image not de

Re: Portforwarding

2001-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jan Tammen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010928 11:28]: > Hello, > I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a > client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to > have no effect: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT --to >

not sure how to retrive my mail

2001-09-28 Thread j.dales
please could you put me on the right track to be able to retrive my mail. very new to this. i used to go onto the ntl icon and double click and the computor would ask if i wanted to retrive my mail. i phoned ntl support line who corrected some problems for me now i can only get onto the inte

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Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Tim Moss
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:54:49 +0100 "Pedro Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001 16:39, Matthias Richter wrote: > > > > > (How) did you configure your soundcard? I can't see any sound > modules > > in your output of lsmod. tvmixer is used by the soundcore-module > here: >

Need help recovering system

2001-09-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I was having some hardware problems with my drives, and it seems to have damaged my setup (which is weird, because I thought I had a normal shutdown just before the problem). My boot floppy is from a couple generations back (2.4.7, I think) from my current kernel 2.4.9. I'm running woody. I t

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-28 Thread David
On Thursday 27 September 2001 4:41 pm, Vittorio wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it > requires to download som

Re: Using netscape to access weird ports

2001-09-28 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another > port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For > some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors > saying that access to

Re: not sure how to retrive my mail

2001-09-28 Thread ktb
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:07:19PM +0100, j.dales wrote: > please could you put me on the right track to be able to retrive my mail. > very new to this. i used to go onto the ntl icon and double click and the > computor would ask if i wanted to retrive my mail. i phoned ntl support line > who co

W3C Patent Policy Comments to Close 30 Sept (RAND Fee-based standards)

2001-09-28 Thread Adam Warner
Dear Debian-user mailing list, Please visit the document below and related links and let others know if you are concerned about this issue. I have prepared a document discussing the W3C's Patent Policy Framework that is available on my web site at: http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/draft.

Re: Need help recovering system

2001-09-28 Thread Ben Hartshorne
msg.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +0100, Pedro Ant?nio Neves wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001 16:39, Matthias Richter wrote: > > > > > (How) did you configure your soundcard? I can't see any sound modules > > in your output of lsmod. tvmixer is used by the soundcore-module here: > > It was

Re: Xscreensaver CPU Usage

2001-09-28 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:36:21AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:04:38PM -0400, Terry Warner wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone else uses the xmatrix xscreensaver, and has > > noticed a major increase in cpu usage at times when its running: > Depending on your CPU, it co

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Pedro António Neves
On Friday 28 September 2001 22:10, you wrote: > > It might help to try to isolate where the problems lies. Is it with > sound coming out of the TV tuner or going into the soundcard? If you > have a walkman or other device that you know outputs sound properly, try > hooking that to the soundcard

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:29:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Not needed, I'll settle for Essential: yes :) good idea :) it would also be nice for vim to have a higher alternatives precedence than nvi. i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in nvi rather than v

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:22:54 +1000, Craig Sanders writes: >i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in >nvi rather than vim. yuk! I'm doing base-installs every time, and, quite often, find that I'm in elvis (or -tiny, whatever). Which is ..unusable to me. Is this rea

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:20:57AM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > Not so fast. Do you have 2 processors? AFAIK Linux SMP machines don't > completely support APM. Investigate further. :-) Not so fast. Now default 2.4 kernels have compiled apm as a module, it needs to be activated. For S

Re: strange '\' characters

2001-09-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-09-28 22:53 +0200: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:53:14PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > * Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-09-28 18:43 +0200: > > > A couple of days ago, a very strange thing started happening. Every > > > now and then (I have tri

Re: connect to ntp server

2001-09-28 Thread John Hasler
John Patton writes: > Generally, ntpd is prefered, but there is overhead involved. When running > ntpd, you always have the ntp daemon running, for example, which amounts > to over 4mb's on my machine. Try chrony. It uses about 400k. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, W

Multihead

2001-09-28 Thread Steve Calderoni
Title: Multihead Just installed a Debian sid box. I am running Gnome and Sawfish. How do I get to video cards set up for a multihead under X. Thanks

cupsys + gimp-print problems

2001-09-28 Thread Ron Farrer
I installed cupsys and the gimp-print drivers for it. Whle trying to setup my printer (Epson Stylus Color 900) I choose the correct driver: Epson Stylus Color 900, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.99-b1 (en) However my printer doesn't print. It either spits out blank pages, or prints one character on each p

Re: Debian From Scratch: How Low Can You Go?

2001-09-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > > smaller than this. It's only barely a Debian system, though. :) > > Hello: > > Currently, I am maintaining three Linux distros: > - Debian GNU/Linux (for system servers) > - Linux Mandrake (for "ordinary users") > - LinuxRouter (for sy

ide tuning ( results regarding: hdparm or ide howto)

2001-09-28 Thread Greg Wiley
Thanks to those who pointed to resources. They gave me a great start and I have solved some of the problems I had resigned myself to live with since switching to IDE. I am now investigating the kernel's support for my particular chipset and think I can get an additional siginificant bump in susta

RE: Debian From Scratch: How Low Can You Go?

2001-09-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Is there is a possibility for using the Debian > distribution for creating Linux routers? > > - How low can anyone go? > - Has someone tried to use the debian distribution > for diskless linux routers (< 5 Mbytes). > - Any URL, documentation, or does this idea not > sound at all? > so l

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than > > moving things to a different partition and/or disk. I know I can do > > it with a few commands like tar, gz and cp, but perhaps somebody > > can tell me about other ways to do it that I should consider. > > Thanks in advanc

Re: cupsys + gimp-print problems

2001-09-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Ron Farrer wrote on Fri Sep 28, 2001 um 04:07:22PM: > I installed cupsys and the gimp-print drivers for it. Whle trying to > setup my printer (Epson Stylus Color 900) I choose the correct driver: > > Epson Stylus Color 900, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.99-b1 (en) I have a ESC680. A similar pro

Re: bug reporting about conflicts in sid

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:41:09AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > After getting sid successfully installed, I ran dselect to install the > rest of the packages I wanted. There are a few complaints about > recomended packages not being available, but the only real headake was > with olvwm. Apparent

Re: floppy - permissions? Can't write to floppy!

2001-09-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
In the end I found out that the nature of the difficulty is fundamentally mechanichal (Hardware) - I tried to re-install Debian and could not create a boot floppy. Thanks for the tip on www.basiclinux.net - want to take those courses. Sincerely - Mr. Jan Hearthstone. --- [EMAIL PROT

sources.list

2001-09-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hello, Could someone please copy me an updated sources.list that I should use for installing and upgrading packages. I have just installed a new base system and I would like to have a stable source list. Thanks all.. Eileen Orbell ISA Major Capitol College Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.or

Radeon VIVO, input device

2001-09-28 Thread NORMAND Jacques
does anyone knows about a linux driver for the input device of the radeon card. I've just managed to have X work on it (Xfree 4.1.0) and now it would be great to be able to watch tv as I do with win progs. Maybe with XawTV or another apps, I am not interested in mpeg2 capturing. Just a visualisati

Re: sources.list

2001-09-28 Thread Charles Baker
man apt-spy apt-spy will find the fastest mirrors. The man page will cover all the options. If you don't have apt-spy, check the debian website for the list of mirrors. You should have a sources.list in /etc/apt...modify it to use a mirror near you and then run `apt-get update` and `apt-get instal

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. this happens any time i try to install any package with apt-get

Re: Fw: Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

2001-09-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Given the current interest in downgrading libc6, to enable unstable > Konqueror, Mozilla or Galeon to function correctly, I thought I would > post the simplest method of downgrade. > > # apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 > > This of course assumes you have testing listed in your apt.sources: > > deb

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
Colin Watson wrote: > (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them > run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it, my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges: $ ll /usr/lib/man-db total 220 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:5

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first > tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is > the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run > apt-get again to install the other pack

no single sid package updated in the last 3 days?

2001-09-28 Thread Mario J . Barchéin Molina
Hi all. It seems that in the last 3 days no sid package has been updated. When I run apt-get update it just bypasses all the sources without retrienving any new "Packages" file. Does anybody why this is happening? Maybe a policy change or similar? Jusk wondering... It was usual to have n

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Keith Willoughby
Pedro António Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there: > > I posted a message on this list about xawtv and Xfree 4.0. > Following some solutions given by people on this list, I've managed > to get xawtv working just fine... except for one thing: the sound. > > When I try to change volume (w

RE: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Henson
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:22:08AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > > Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like > > that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at > > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html > > and found out that in t

Re: no single sid package updated in the last 3 days?

2001-09-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:00:28AM +0200, Mario J. Barch?in Molina wrote: > Hi all. > > It seems that in the last 3 days no sid package has been updated. > When I run apt-get update it just bypasses all the sources without > retrienving any new "Packages" file. > > Does anybody why this i

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run apt-get again to install the oth

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Tommi Jensen
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:22:22PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote: > 1) Buy DNS & BIND, 4th edition, and read it cover to cover the DNS-HOWTO is also quite alright for newcomers to DNS > 2) Use BIND9 instead of BIND, as that provides "views." Views allow you to > present one set of DNS entries to "the

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > I usually do it this way: > As root, run dselect. When you get the menu, do an [U]pdate. Then do > [S]elect and search for the perl and perl-base packages. When the > package name is high-lighted, type "=". You can then quit dselect and > try runnin

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:36:14AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:22:54 +1000, Craig Sanders writes: | >i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in | >nvi rather than vim. yuk! | | I'm doing base-installs every time, and, quite often, find that

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Mark Lanett
First, off, my guess is that you are using NAT. That is, you have 1 public IP address and several machines at home which share that IP using NAT (provided by a SOHO dsl/cable router box). In this case your home machines will never be visible to the public world. You don't need to provide DNS for t

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-28 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:09:35AM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: | dman said: | > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:23:05PM -0400, dman wrote: | | > | Is there anything I can do other than wait for a fix? | > | > Never mind. The wheels are turning a bit slowly. I just installed | > the prev. version fro

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-28 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Daniel Toffetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, in fact, I need two different classes of backup: one is for a few > documents, scripts and programs, which tar.gz'd amounts to less than ... > The other one is a backup of the system, including /etc, /home and a > few other things like dpkg selec

Re: cupsys + gimp-print problems

2001-09-28 Thread Ron Farrer
Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This version of cupsys-driver-gimpprint is fucked. Get 4.1.7 from the > pool and please report success to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That did the trick. Thanks! Now, if anyone tries a newer version that works, please let me know. For now the package is on hold...

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Boxman
On Friday 28 September 2001 11:53 pm, Mark Lanett wrote: > From: "Daniel Toffetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Backups in general: > rsync --verbose --archive --delete SRC DST > e.g. rsync ... ~ /backups > > Filesystem-level backups: > /etc/fstab: /dev/hda4 /backups > mount /backups > rsync --o

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