Re: Can't reboot or halt from gdm

2002-03-12 Thread Oki DZ
Todd Myhre wrote: I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not seem to work correctly. When I try to halt the system, it simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear in my syslog: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 gdm_child_action: Reboo

Re: apt-get source vs. binary

2002-03-12 Thread Paul Miller
Modify the debian/changelog in your debian source tree so that the version is 2:1.0.6-3, etc... the number in front of the colon will not show up in dselect, etc. This change will keep your version "current." Unfortunately, dselect doesn't provide an indication when a newer debian version is avail

unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread a
i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. how can i read the error message? i'll leave the list soon, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:36:05PM +, pete atkinson wrote: > I would appreciate some tips... > > I have been running SuSE in various releases for the last 3 years and like(d) > to think I had a good grasp of what was going on. > > In an effort to expand my knowledge, I have commandeered a sp

when compile Kernel2.4.18 need Ncursor Library,how to add this library?

2002-03-12 Thread debian2002
HI: same as title~ anyone can help me,,thanks From: Ming Wu

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 17:30, Brian Stults wrote: > Did you install all the dependencies (e.g. aspell, pspell) and a > dictionary? Thanks. That did the trick. op -- http://plusseven.com/gpg/

Re: unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Mar-2002 a wrote: > i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, > but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. > > how can i read the error message? > > i'll leave the list soon, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Advanced Programming in the U

Re: Samba and CUPS

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 23:21, Bill Wohler wrote: > This has been a painful day. I've got printing working nicely now. > However, Samba is another story. > > My Win2k clients could see the new printer during the create printer > phase. However, I'm getting the message "Access denied, unable

Re: when compile Kernel2.4.18 need Ncursor Library,how to add this library?

2002-03-12 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:48, debian2002 wrote: > HI: > same as title~ > anyone can help me,,thanks > apt-get install libncurses5-dev -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular l

Re: unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:43, a wrote: > i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, > but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. > > how can i read the error message? popen is not really your command. use pipe() to create pipe pairs. One for stdout, s

opening a directory for samba, netatalk, www all at once.

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
I'm running this distro http://www.e-smith.org/ on a box for my colleagues. The only feature that I use is the "Ibay", this lets me create a directory that is accessible through samba (windows), netatalk (apple), www and ftp. It will also let me treat user home directories as Ibays. Any package t

Re: lite applications

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 10, 2002, Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:52:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Nicholas Imfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have set up an old 486 laptop with debian. I am looking for an x > > > email client (preferably graph

Re: portsentry: port 162 attack

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff
Thomas Shemanske, 2002-Mar-11 16:46 -0500: > I have a sid system and installed portsentry on it (and several other > woody machines in the department). > > I left it in log-only mode, but immediately after starting it up, I > discovered that a machine of a colleague of mine is > banging away (ev

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 11, 2002, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:28:31 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > In general, I find the MDI paradigm to be frustrating to the extreme, > > and the alternatives provided by GNU/Linux are far superior (IMVAO). > > Then why do you continuou

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes often. I would like a > stable open source alternative to Mozilla. What version of Debian? I'd recommend Testing (Woody) for a desktop, and Galeon as the browser. It simply kicks roya

Re: unix programing question

2002-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:43:14PM +0800, a wrote: > i use popen to run a command and read output from the command, > but the command outputs error message to something else than std out. > > how can i read the error message? Another homework question? Please don't. There's plenty of documentatio

Re: woody upgrade bugs

2002-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:25:13PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... > > should I submit them as bugs? Please do. > not being familiar with bug submission, is anyone interested in this stuff? Check http://bugs.debian.org/ f

Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-12 Thread Kai Hendry
On the user list you mentioned building a kernel the debian way with nvidia stuff. I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18 however building the kernel I got the error: dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.4.18 not in control info make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 29 make[1]: Leaving

best way to install non debian package

2002-03-12 Thread François
Hello, What's the best way to install package which are not(yet) in debian package format or in the current distribution ? For example, I need pilot-link > 0.10.0 to use with palm m125 but have no deb package. In which directory may I install it ?

RE: Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-12 Thread Wayne Brown
Hi Kai, I have just compiled this kernel with the Nvidia modules, I have a geforceII mx and got there after a bit of fiddling. > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Nvidia Debian Kernel > > > > On the user list you mentioned building a kernel the debian way with > nvidia stuff. > > I a

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:01:01AM +0100, François Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > > What's the best way to install package which are not(yet) in debian > package format or in the current distribution ? > > For example, I need pilot-link > 0.10.0 to use with palm m125 > but

Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

2002-03-12 Thread james
Pat Thanks for the e-mail. Unfortunately yours was the only responses I received. In fact I am using this reply as a rather lame excuse to post this question a second time. Needless to say I would be grateful for any pointer to a solution for the acroread/Acrobat problem described below. On 11 M

Re: kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-12 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > I'm compiling for a K7/Athlon/Duron system. As far as I can tell, -all- > modules come up with unresolved symbols. In other words, any module I try to > load comes up with unresolved symbols, whether part of the kernel, or >

Re: kernel compile problem -- unresolved symbols

2002-03-12 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:24:22AM +, Alan James wrote: > This may be a daft question but when you load modules are you using inmod or Sorry I meant "insmod" there of course. Still modprobe is the one to use.

RE: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Sampson
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:37:08 -0800, Bedford, Donald T. wrote: >a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as >anything but easy as >I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than >I ever did w/ >RH. This is why I chose the Debian path instead of re- >installing RH on the

Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Andrew Stephen
Hi My /var and /usr partitions have just run out of space and I was wondering what is the best way to copy them to a new drive that has just been installed. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew

ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ines Rieger
Hi all, is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? THX Ines -- Es ist nichts sicher, ausser dass nichts sicher ist, und nicht einmal das.

Re: Squid - Had to "recreate" the cache...

2002-03-12 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:23:09PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:36:23PM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > >Did squid cache got corrupted? why? what happened? > > check /var/log/squid/squid.out* I found the following error in squid's logs: FATAL: You've ru

Re: Change from SuSE to Debian

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Sampson
Hi Pete, On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:36:05 +, pete atkinson wrote: >I have been running SuSE in various releases for the last 3 >years and like(d) >to think I had a good grasp of what was going on. I'm a fellow SuSEer. Finally got tired of RPM hell so I'm here trying on a Debian coat. So far

Re: What's worng with ALSA???

2002-03-12 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
The onboard SiS 7018 Audio chip is also supported by the Linux kernel (modprobe trident) I don't test it but others says that's it's works well. (Google is your friend) Le 2002.03.12 02:21, Max Koszela a écrit : I've got the SiS 7018 audio-chip, supposedly supported both under the kernel and in

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? Any terminal emulator, from xterm upwards, can run ssh. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > THX > Ines xterm -e ssh -X :-) really, it's hard to me to understand what exactly should do a gui for ssh. maybe you need a way to launch gui apps via ssh? if so, you just need the -X switch. pietro.

Re: What's worng with ALSA???

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:30, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > The onboard SiS 7018 Audio chip is also supported by the Linux kernel > (modprobe trident) > I don't test it but others says that's it's works well. > > (Google is your friend) > > Le 2002.03.12 02:21, Max Koszela a écrit : > > I've got the

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ines Rieger
Hi, > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > > Hi all, > > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > Any terminal emulator, from xterm upwards, can run ssh. > yes, I know that (: . I am searching for a graphical user interface to run ssh. An equivalent program to PuTTY, TeraTerm e

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Timo Benk
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:16:45PM +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? I like mindterm. You can even use it from any Windows machine, it is a java applett. -timo -- gpg key fingerprint = 6832 C8EC D823 4059 0CD1 6FBF 9383 7DBD 109E 98DC pgpPTULWF

RE: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-12 Thread Tony Crawford
Craig Sampson wrote (on 12 Mar 2002 at 19:57): > I may have missed something (sure hope so), but what I'd find > immensely useful is a way of being able to choose, at install (or > other) time what packages I want then save this selection 'list' > to a file so that when I next install Debian on an

Re: Using Alt in xterm

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 14:29:40 -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote: > One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various > keys). The program ran fine on my old redhat system, but on this setup, > Alt-U (or other key) simply registers as U. It works fine in character > mode, though. Any

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be... 1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector<> or equivalent) Real-world idiot fix: My name is 7 characters; give it twenty

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread George Karaolides
Hi Andrew, You need to be root on your machine to do this. Make two partitions on the new drive using cfdisk /dev/ Then make a filesystem on each partition. Stick to the tried-and-tested ext2, or go for one of the new journalling ones like ext3 or reiserfs, if you're running a kernel recent e

Re: Using Alt in xterm

2002-03-12 Thread Andrew M. Davenport
Set eightBitInput to false. You might want to avoid xmodmap, too, if you can. -Andrew On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:29:40PM -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote: > One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various > keys). The program ran fine on my o

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 13:41:29 +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > > > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > > > Any terminal emulator, from xterm upwards, can run ssh. > > > yes, I know that (: . I am searching for a graphical user interface

Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread R. van der Slot
Dear support, I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely clear if I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail server (with Exchange coorporation) and/or Oracle server. I want to setup these server

AltGr dont work !?!

2002-03-12 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi after an upgrade of xf3 to xf4 my AltGr key dont work in x. it do work in console thou. i have a dell latitude laptop. i have no idea what to do? help needed :) martin --

Re: Using Alt in xterm

2002-03-12 Thread Mark J. Tilford
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 14:29:40 -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote: > > One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various > > keys). The program ran fine on my old redhat system, but on this setup, > > Alt-U (or other key) simply registers a

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ines Rieger
Hi, > > yes, I know that (: . I am searching for a graphical user interface to run > > ssh. An equivalent program to PuTTY, TeraTerm etc but for Unix. > > What's the difference with running ssh in a xterm? the buttons and drag an drop felling and so on. My users want to select a file in a file br

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Vincent Lefevre quotation: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 13:41:29 +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > > > > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? > > > > > > Any terminal emulator, from xterm upwards, can run ssh. > > > > > yes, I know that (

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:57:31PM +0800, Craig Sampson wrote: > > Something like 'would you like to import package selections > from floppy (or other) disk' would be just great. > It is there. Recently installed woody on about 20 machines with the following method: 1. On some mac

Re: Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread Juhan Kundla
Ühel ilusal päeval [12.03.2002] kirjutas R. van der Slot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear support, > > I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) > distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely > clear if I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail se

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:24, Craig Dickson wrote: > > What's the difference with running ssh in a xterm? > Not much. Configuration dialog boxes, mostly. I use PuTTY on Win32 > systems, but would drop it if only the cygwin bash window behaved like a > proper xterm. Have you noticed that Cygwin are

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Brett Parker
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:16:45PM +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? Testing onwards has secpanel, which I've used a couple of times and at a guess would do what you're after. Thanks, Brett Parker

Solved: AltGr dont work !?!

2002-03-12 Thread Martin A. Hansen
it worked when i hashed out Option"XkbVariant" "dk" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :/ --m On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:08:17PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > after an upgrade of xf3 to xf4 my AltGr key dont work in x. it do work in > console thou. > > i have a dell latitude laptop. >

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Sampson
>New installation from /var/cache/apt/archives > >> May I do that ? >> >huh, what do you mean? I think what is meant here is that if you have a (fairly massive) bunch of .deb files in your apt cache could you do a completely fresh install of debian using this cache as the source? My guess woul

Re: Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, R. van der Slot wrote: > Dear support, > > I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) > distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely clear > if I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail server (with Exchange > coorpor

Re: mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-12 Thread Roberto Pereyra
You could fix it, download the mozilla binaries from www.mozilla.org The last version support ssl bye Roberto Pereyra Gualeguaychu Argentina GnuPG keyID: BB43E337 http://pgp.mit.edu On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Did I miss a step or is a dependency missing? > > I had mozilla

FYI: Installing the Intel C++ compiler on Debian SID

2002-03-12 Thread Douglas Eck
Hello All, I wanted to play around with the free (as in beer) Intel C++ compiler. It was a bit of work to get it going on Sid. I thought I'd post my experiences to debian-user. These instructions might be invalid in a week. I'm not a glibc pro so I can't say PS Please don't flame me about us

kernel-2.4.17

2002-03-12 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17: My machine: HDD1 in hda HDD2 in hdb The machine boots with lilo on hda. I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb. After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the kernel 2.4.17 on the disket 1.44 Mb, but I forgot to include a module

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread François
And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during the tar ? François On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:33:55 +0200 (EET) George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > You need to be root on your machine to do this. > > Make two partitions on the new dr

making my own dist. ? ?

2002-03-12 Thread Adam craig
Hello, I've 3 servers to install - not the same hardware but the software needs to be the same. I have installed the first server and got everything working the way I want it to. My problem is that I need to use interbase with php4 and I can't get it to work with php4.1.x - the most recent vers

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Dale Hair
gftp has the option of using SSH & SSH2, haven't tried it. On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 08:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi, > > > > yes, I know that (: . I am searching for a graphical user interface to run > > > ssh. An equivalent program to PuTTY, TeraTerm etc but for Unix. > > > > What's the difference

Re: Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-12 Thread Jonathan Ard
Hi, Kai, > > I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18 Actually, I think you want to use "apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18". You are downloading the source to the kernel source package, which, as you say later, gives you files you don't need. If you just apt-get install the kernel-source, it wi

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > >Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. > > > > You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be... Luck has nothing to do with it > >1. No array bounds checki

Re: new installation from /var/cache/apt/archives

2002-03-12 Thread François
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:09:24 +0800 "Craig Sampson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >New installation from /var/cache/apt/archives > > > >> May I do that ? > >> > >huh, what do you mean? > > I think what is meant here is that if you have a (fairly > massive) bunch of .deb files in your apt cache cou

Re: best way to install non debian package

2002-03-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:02:15AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:01:01AM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > > > What's the best way to install package which are not(yet) in debian > > package format or in the current distribution ? > > > > For e

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

2002-03-12 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:47, David Roundy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:51:30PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > Personally, I would very much prefer to keep my system as free as > > possible. I'd much prefer to use gnucash over some other alternative, > > but so far I've found it severe

Re: Using Alt in xterm

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:10:02 -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote: > Actually, that's my entire .xmodmap; I had never used it before and > somebody suggested setting up the file like that. I did, because this is my config on my Powerbook and it works very well. But this is the configuration of the Alt

Re: Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Mar-2002 R. van der Slot wrote: > Dear support, > > I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) > distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely clear > if I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail server (with Exchange > coorporation) an

Re: fatal server error: no screens found (SOLVED)

2002-03-12 Thread timothy bauscher
Nermind, problem solved. Thank you for your help, (==timothy==) = I copied the file to the /etc/X11/ directory, renamed it, and made gdm my default display manager by running: dpkg-reconfigure gdm Now, X starts via gdm. I had xdm as the default dm but it kep

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 15:16:41 +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > > > yes, I know that (: . I am searching for a graphical user > > > interface to run ssh. An equivalent program to PuTTY, TeraTerm > > > etc but for Unix. > > > > What's the difference with running ssh in a xterm? > > the buttons and dra

Re: TrueType

2002-03-12 Thread Simon Hepburn
Oki DZ wrote: > It seems that TrueType fonts are always displayed more jagged compared > to X fonts. Is that the case? Not normally. What do you mean by X fonts - postscript ? Where did you get your truetype fonts from ? There are 3 methods of displaying truetype in X4 -freetype backend -xtt ba

RE: Re Root symlink to /boot/vmlinuz

2002-03-12 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| > me thinks you would like make-kpkg (kernel-package) | > | | IIRC, kernel-package asks if you want the symlinks. I may be wrong, it's | been a while since I've needed a new kernel :) | Last I ran it (a couple of days ago) out of woody, it didn't ask about symlinks. It just does them as if the

Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-12 Thread hanasaki
I have both installed. - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use? dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf. Pump is nice in that it only requireds on place to specifiy that the interface will be dhcp (/etc/network/int

RE: Debian as server?

2002-03-12 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
> I was wandering on the internet in search for the perfect server(s) > distribution of Linux. My eye felt on Debian, only it's not completely clear > I can use Debian as PROXY, File/print, mail server (with Exchange > orporation) and/or Oracle server. I had earlier setup a Debian Potato as a p

RE: Missing nsupdate

2002-03-12 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I guess that file is moved to dnsutils in the newer versions. I can see this in bind package in the earlier releases. Next time onwards, you can search for the contents of packages in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. Select option 1, which allows to search for a file across all packages. -R

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Ross Burton quotation: > Have you noticed that Cygwin are shipping rxvt as a package? That makes > everything far, far saner. I knew it was there, but I thought it required XFree86/Cygwin. I am pleasantly surprised to find that it does not, and simply appears in its own top-level Win32 f

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-12 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 09:24, stan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes > > often. I would like a stable open source > > alternative to Mozilla. > >=20 > I've become a BIG fan of galeon, myselg. >=20 Me too, and i

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

2002-03-12 Thread Eamon Roque
Am Die, 2002-03-12 um 09.12 schrieb Karsten M. Self: > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes often. I would like a > > stable open source alternative to Mozilla. > > What version of Debian? I'd recommend Testing (Woody)

problem with dialup connection

2002-03-12 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello, I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work. Your help would be appreciated. I cant get net connection from netscape, when using Debian, due to 'host unreachable'. Running netscape from windows shows that provider is ok. The ppp link through my exter

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 08:33, George Karaolides wrote: > And transfer the data using tar: > > tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt I would use rsync for this. It is faster and just all around better(IMHO). > Unmount the partition > > umount /mnt > > Mount the other one and do the same thin

Re: CUPS auto-banner

2002-03-12 Thread Angus D Madden
David Wright, Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:20:34PM -0800: > > Forgive my density, but the CUPS manuals are singularly impenetratable. > > How to I confiure a CUPS server to automatically print a banner with > every job? > > Just to be clear, I don't want my users to have to type > -o job-sheets=s

Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Jonathan Ard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ok, so I am having some major issues with Window Maker. When I start it > up, it tells me it can't load the Applications Menu, and that I should > check the output in the terminal to see what the problem is. You've resolved this

Re: kernel-2.4.17

2002-03-12 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote: > hello, > I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17: > My machine: HDD1 in hda > HDD2 in hdb > > The machine boots with lilo on hda. > I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb. > > After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the > kern

Re: making my own dist. ? ?

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Adam craig wrote: > Hello, > > I've 3 servers to install - not the same hardware but the software needs to > be the same. > I have installed the first server and got everything working the way I want > it to. > My problem is that I need to use interbase

Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 09, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 1. Does your current kernel support Reiser? If so, then you > >can put the destination disk in the current disk and copy. > > Well in the computer that my system is currently installed, yes, I have > Reiser support.

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:42, François Chenais wrote: > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > the tar ? > > François Go into single user mode telinit 1 and then tar. I actually use cp -a which seems to preserve all the required attributes. I have done

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2002-03-12 Thread Peggysfamily

Re: Wine

2002-03-12 Thread csj
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:30:03 +1030 Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to > > one desktop? I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be > > WM-specific. I am using IceWM. Maybe this ca

Re: making my own dist. ? ?

2002-03-12 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Adam craig exclaim: > My idea was to update the first server direct from the internet, > test, then (apt-move get/move) update the 2 other servers from > the first server. So how can I disable any updates relating to php4 ? There is a way to put a hold on a package (which someone else

Strange messages on all terminals

2002-03-12 Thread Scott Henson
I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>) For some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them. It seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its specifying MAC addresses and a couple of other things which makes me think its displ

Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

2002-03-12 Thread Jim Gettys
> From: christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:29 -0500 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and > Movie players) > - > On Mon, Ma

Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

2002-03-12 Thread christophe barbé
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:32:58AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: > > > From: christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:29 -0500 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: DVD players under Linux (wa

in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

2002-03-12 Thread John Kennedy
Good morning, I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17 I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config' and selected 'demand' dial however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only "192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth0" When I ping an address out on the net it won

Re: apt-get source vs. binary

2002-03-12 Thread csj
On 11 Mar 2002 23:46:11 -0500 James Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I install via apt-get source and compile the package, then > install. apt-get -u upgrade wants to replace my compiled version with > the binary package from debian servers, of the same version. Ever time > I install a pa

Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 12, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pat > > Thanks for the e-mail. Unfortunately yours was the only responses I > received. In fact I am using this reply as a rather lame excuse to > post this question a second time. > > Needless to say I would be grateful for any

Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

2002-03-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote: > > > I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway. > > Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch ;-) Journaled filesystems exist to help recover from _filesystem_ errors

Re: lite applications

2002-03-12 Thread Craig
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:42:44PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Mar 10, 2002, Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:52:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Nicholas Imfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have set up an old 486 laptop

OT: interface card to register button presses

2002-03-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, does anyone know a good, simple interface card which gives you the ability to connect a panel with about 100 buttons to your computer and registrates which butten is pressed? Of course it should work with Linux and hopefully an easy to program one. I was asked to make a simple voting simula

Re: truncate utility (not split)

2002-03-12 Thread csj
On 11 Mar 2002 13:25:06 -0800 Caleb Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me that you should be able to do this with dd. You're absolutely right. Reminds me of someone's Linux motto: You want it, you have it. > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:59, csj wrote: > > Is there a utility to truncate files

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:42:37PM +0100, François Chenais wrote: > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > the tar ? That's my main disagreement with George's instructions. Go to single-user mode _before_ you copy /var and /usr to the new drive instead of aft

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:33:55PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > That's it. Note that if /usr and /var were originally part of your root > filesystem, the data will still be there but the new filesystem will be > mounted on the top level directory so you won't see it. After you've > successfu

pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

2002-03-12 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at h

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