On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:25:00PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
> I tried doing the configuration with ifconfig
> but I cant connect to hosts rather than the ones that lie in the same
> portion of network, I mean the ones that are attached to the same hub.
> Everything looks fine, as I said, when
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:58:16PM +0100, mark wrote:
> So my best bet wood to put potato back on and just upgrade to woody, as
> i only really want XFree86-4.0.3, gnome 1.2 or 1.4 and mozilla 0-9.1 and
> to be able to run evolution-0.10
Yes, just install potato base system, and when the base inst
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:53:14PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote:
> What is the different between Debian, Openlinux, RH?
> I concern their secuirty, admin
Security is 99% determined by the admin, 1% distribution.
Cheers,
Joost
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0700, G.LeeJ wrote:
> Setting up ssh ( 2.5.2p2-0progeny1)...
^^^
These are progeny debs.
> No override present.
Progeny broke some stuff. Report this to their bug tracking system,
for the benefit of both progeny and yourself.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:48:08PM -0700, peanut butter wrote:
> I'm curious if there is an easy way to keep a constant set of
> software for several machines. Let's say it is believed that one
> machine has the perfect set of software for the local users. If
> I should want to have all other mac
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote:
> I am having a problem and was wondering if someone might be able to help
> me out. I have a quicklaunch applet on my gnome panel. Interestingly,
> when i start xterm or axyftp from the quicklaunch, /root shows up as the
> default home
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:19:20PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> Here's what's in the status file. Do I need to rebuild?
>
> ~$ awk '/^$/{if (p ~ /^ssh/) {print p, s;}} /^Package:/{p=$2}
> /^Status:/{s=$0}' /var/lib/dpkg/status
> ssh-nonfree Status: install ok installed
> ssh Status: deinstall
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:54:01PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> i need to tell tcpd not to look for pointer records, because some
> queries took too long.
man hosts_access
man hosts_options
man tcpd
> Is that posible, and how ?
Better fix your dns instead. Or even /etc/hosts.
Chee
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:35:42PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:35:51AM -0700, Edwin Lau uttered:
> > I have the same problem, just wait for a fix... =(
> >
> Download libpam*.deb from http://incoming.debian.org
> And blame the PAM maintainer.
Yeah, and get your money
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:50:46PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> My question is this: How do I add modules to /lib/modules?
>
> For example, I found that I neglected to include the lp modules and
> want to build and install them in a similar Debian-fashioned way but
> without doing a full ke
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:15:19AM +0200, Martin W?rtele wrote:
> if run cpan and install perl 5.6 on potato it should be installed in
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/. So it should be possible to have the potato perl
> 5.005 with latest 5.6.1 togeather on the same machine without breaking
> dependencie
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:51:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bonjour tout le monde; j'ai un probl?me que je n'arrive pas ? r?soudre:faire
> un telnet sur un ?quipement priv?;je tape telnet 10.x.x.x et il ?cris Trying
> to connect Pourtant j'arrive ? faire un telnet vers une autre machin
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:08:45AM -0400, Stephen Taylor wrote:
> Is 2.4.5 the latest version of the kernel or something else? Where can I
> download it?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
> These don't work:
> boot: linux ide-scsi=hdb
AFAIK that should read "linux hdb=ide-scsi". Correct m
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:43:34PM +0200, Adri wrote:
> I tryied to create a user in Linux named after the NT domain user but linux
> says no dots in usernames while my username on that domain contains a dot.
>
> I saw someone having the same problem on the samba list but no one answered.
>
> Wh
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:36:38PM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
> hello,
> Sorry for this problem of newbie but
> I can send mails to all users except
> to those who are the same domaine that
> me i.e.:
> my addresse : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I send a mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailq indicates that no
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:07:55PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I've got a SCSI-based quad P3 system which starts up just fine off the stock
> 2.2.19pre17 kernel from potato, but refuses to boot the 2.4.5 kernel that
> I've built for it. It dies just after initializing the NET4 subsystem,
> sayi
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Alan Wu wrote:
> I have downloaded ash_0.3.8-13_i386.deb. How can I proceed to install this
> package?
[snip]
> P.S. My machine:
> OS: Windows Advanced Server 2000
> Pentium III
Are you kidding us? You cannot install linux pa
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:20:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andre Alexander Bell wrote:
[..]
> > If you want to _use_ ssh. Install package ssh.
> > If you want to _provide_ ssh...
[..]
Makes sense imho.
> http://bugs.debian.org/39741
> http://bugs.debian.org/71864
>
> Have a look at ppp, for a
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:06:23PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:01:39PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > My guess is that your kernel does not know what a "scsi disk" is.
> >
> > Can you grep for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD in the config for your ke
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:55:36PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> I am confused with the use of apt-get dselect-upgrade : if I want
> to run it, it will propose me to install 61 new packages I
> haven't requested. _How do I get rid of these installation
> candidates ?_
Use dselect.
Update fr
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:15PM -0300, Juan wrote:
> I removed mysql-server and now I'm trying to install it again.
>
> The commands:
> apt-get install mysql-server ===> Sorry, mysql-server is already the
> newest version
> apt-get remove mysql-server ===> E: Couldn't find package mysql-serve
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:12:45PM -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
> I need to install a ethernet card on linux, how can i
> do that?
With a screwdriver. ;-)
Go to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html and read it.
It conveniently also answers the next 12 questions you were going
to ask.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> Package ssh-socks doesn't conflict with anything, but ssh conflicts
> with ssh-socks and ssh-nonfree. Do rules for making packages say that
> conflicts have to be indicated by control-information of both
> packages?
No. Your versi
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:38:46PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote:
> [...]
> > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with
>
> Below is stderr from this command:
> $ ssh-socks -v -C -f [EMAIL PR
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> > Or even crawling? The '-v' option to ssh is your friend, and together with
> > the manpages, there's suddenly a whole cosy circle of friends. ;-)
>
> But there's no manpage for "ssh-socks":
> # man ssh-socks
>
> No manual entr
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:51:03AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote:
> How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now
> all
> I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys.
I have:
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/pager
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Jun 27 21:4
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:32:47AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> And, as I said, it even records a disc fine. It also plays audio CDs
> to the sound card, and cdda2wav and cdparanoia are able to rip CDDA
> from the drive. I just can not mount any disc I place in the drive, I
> get the following erro
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> uncommented the ttytype-line but with no effect, so I inserted
>
> TERM=linux-m
>
> into /etc/environment and am happy.
AFAIK it is even better to put the termtype at the end of the lines
in /etc/inittab that control the getty's
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:04:55AM +0100, Nick wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:24:04 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> > Repeat mantra: dselect reaches where apt can't get.
>
> Well yeah, but like Dominique said, user interface like the proverbial
> cornered rat.
Well who is more afraid, the rat of you,
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:29:54AM -0700, phillip wrote:
> i just started installing debian 2.1, but everytime i go to partition the
> drive, cfdisk gives me this error about a "bad primary partition" Then I
> get a message about how my partition table is either corrupt or my disk is
> 'factory cl
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:59:20PM +0100, Aaron Hess wrote:
> I have recently installed debian on my computer and am
> having big problems installing my SupraExpress Diamond
> 56i V pro modem. Please could someone help me (no
> modem, no linux :(
Since you're not telling WHAT problems, I can hardl
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:45:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:37:29PM +0200):
> > When I sat down with it and took a minute or two to get acquiainted,
> > it turned out to be quite a likeable and most of all very helpful
>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:35:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having problems with dpkg on a potato dist.
> I keep getting
>
> serious warning: files list file for package 'foo' missing, assuming package
> has no file currrently installed.
>
> Also, when I dkpg -i for a couple of pac
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:48:50PM -0500, Patrick Klee wrote:
> I tried to install Potato once before the modem worked fine. What's
> wierd is it works under Windows and not Linux. What now? :-(
Perhaps windows changed the irq/io settings and reprogrammed some nvram,
either on the modem or
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote:
> I have a machine here I would like to run X on. I am not sure of the
> specs of the VGA card, and have no manuals for it. I think I have a
> manual for the monitor (it has no manufacturer marked on it, but I have
> found a single she
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:59PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> but all of a sudden, my hard disk has started to get a *lot* louder when
> ever it accesses.
Phear!
> I was just wondering whether this was a sign that soon I'll need a new
> hard disk or are there other things that can cause this?
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:11:49PM +0200, Nicola Botta wrote:
> at installation, I get
>
> lt28:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.18pre21_lt28.2_i386.deb
[..]
> conflicting packages - not installing kernel-image-2.2.18pre21
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> kernel-image-2.2.18pre21
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:30:10AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Jay Latham uttered:
> > before making the purchase. Any suggestions?
> They are both great. By them both if you can, and start with Learning Perl.
ME TOO !!!
;-)
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:11:58PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.5_custom-2.4.5-1_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.5.
> (Reading database ... 37091 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.5 (from
> kernel
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:50:25PM -0400, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how can i configure my ethernet card to work in a network.
Read the Ethernet-HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org
> I just install it, and i can see the eth0 when i run ifconfig, but i cannot
> ping even to the hub.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:13:05PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2001 20:46, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > Can you think of anything unusual in your configuration? Maybe your
> > version of kernel-package doesn't know how to deal with it.
>
> Good idea.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:13:46PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> My new machine (an IBM Netvista) has an ADI 1885 sound system built
> in. Any ideas how to make it fly? Thanks.
Try google. Generally, it's a much better search engine than debian-user.
For example, when I searched for "adi 1885 li
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote:
> what did you start with when learning C++?
> any suggestions are appreciated.
No suggestions, but you get a free ticket to a gratuitous rant:
Start with a soldering iron and develop a practical feeling for
electronics. The basics are v
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:17:51PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> WTF?
Don't waste your time on it, the site is completely b0rked. Anyone who
posts to debian-user gets a bounce. I tried to attent them, but got
into a network nightmare. They don't have a postmaster, the postmaster
for their upst
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to woody,
> but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however made
> it to /var/cache/apt. What is the best thing to do next?
Redo "apt-get di
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:16:40PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
> Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > If it would have been a permission probelem, I would
> > not have been able to access the other networks. I did
> > as both root and ordina
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Robert Matijasec wrote:
> kernal is 2.2
>
> I used to be able to ping lo and it worked fine, now I
> get:
>
> ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> ping:wrote erdos 64 chars, ret=-1
> etc, etc ...
Did you do anything involving firewalling rules? Perha
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:36:48PM -0500, Lavender, Ben wrote:
> I am having some headaches getting more than one IP address to work properly
> on a machine. I can make it work with neither multiple nics or aliased
> interfaces.
For the sake of simplifying my ascii-art below, lets assume a set of
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:28:17PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> My friend just bought a new HD, and wanted to throw out the old one. So
> what we did was
> - mount an nfs directory from my server (/nfsroot)
> - tar cplf - /root | (cd /nfsroot && tar xpf)
> - threw the HD out
> - started rescue sy
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:07:04PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Just for the record, I don't think there's a problem with the original
> or the packaging. During the upgrade the program makes some
> non-backward compatible changes. It asks and warns you before doing
> so. I just happened to want
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:58:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what a horrible experience.
>
> firstly, i compiled my 2.4.5 kernel with "Athlon/Duron'
> support, and was promptly greeted with "Illegal Instruction"
> on e2fsck when i tried to boot the system. Kind of
> odd considering i have
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:08:53AM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote:
> >
> > But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect.
> >
>
> Why?
Because you should verify what changed in terms of split or renamed
packages and changed dependencies.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:25:26PM +0930, Disembodied Head wrote:
>
> Jeez mate, if you love dselect so much why don't you marry it? =)
Why do so many people act like it's their mother in law, that is the
interesting question.
Dselect seems to catch a lot of flak from certain people. Usually,
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:03:38PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Nonsense. *apt* will only install what it has to in order to upgrade you,
> while dselect can and does gift you with a whole new set of software you may
> not want, since it obeys things like 'Recommends:' that apt has no reason to
> p
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:07:26PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
> be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
> /home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to switch
> all my har
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:22:02AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> >From zless /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz -
> make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
Nope, this does not make any differences to the filenames that are
installed by the package, which is what the original poster was after.
The --revi
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the past week, the picture on my monitor has gotten progressively
> lighter and lighter. I haven't touched the contrast or brightness
> wheels. I checked all the connections to and from the tower and
> monitor. Even opened u
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:50:29PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Lamer writes:
> > I suggest that he should get a replacement soon.
>
> Or get the one he has cleaned. It's possible that dust is absorbing
> moisture and loading down the high voltage.
warning:
* * * * * * * * * * * *
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote:
[sendmail hassles]
Stick with exim, which is debian's default. Much easier to configure,
larger debian userbase, so more likely that you get an answer on
debian-user.
BTW, for smtp to work, your dns must make sense too. Figure that ou
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 08:27:30PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > Other people will say that I'm violently wrong
>
> Actually, I'd say you were on crack. What's a soldering iron going to
> teach you that a breadb
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:09:42PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> The problem seems to be just the size of the fonts. It seems that X is using
> a really big, unscaled bitmap. I've tried changing around the font paths in
> XF86Config... no help. I tried setting up xfs, but X doesn't want to
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:01:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yeah i could try that, e2fsck was the only program i ran
> during that test boot, but im betting most everything
> else will cause the same error. do you have an athlon?
> do you run it with the athlon optimizations? maybe
> its a
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:16:28AM +0800, Lamer wrote:
> Yes, Debian is always conforming to standard, but i hate somebody who
> make a standard which is ourageous, like microsoft. (the kind "IE4.0 HTML"
> is a very good example illustrating it).
>
> However, Microsoft do have good
> products (lik
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Ian Marlier wrote:
> So I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts/ideas why this might have
> happened, and how I might go about fixing it...
You'll need to know what needs fixing first. If you're unlucky,
it is something like an endianness bug in a nic drive
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 10:03:37PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Incorrect. Using --revision-number=custom.1.0 will result in a
> creation of ../kernel-image-2.4.5_custom.1.1_i386.deb . This is a
> different revision of the same debian package kernel-image-2.4.5 . He
> does want as Joost suggests: -
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:09:49PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> 1.) Just to be sure:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
> will overwrite any data on sda1 with zeroes, but leave sda2, sda3 and
> the mbr untouched?
It should, yes.
> 2.) To backup my mbr I do
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/flopyy/mbr.sda bs=51
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:33:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:32:55PM +0200):
> > Good idea, but would need rescue disc wiht xfs-enabled kernel for it, so
> > this one must do it
>
> huh? assuming that you are going to leave your linux parti
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:49:43AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
> I still have two minor problems that I may be able to work out myself. In
> order to get on line with Debian, I must use ppp. Minicom and wvdial
Did you try it with pppconfig, debian's ppp "wizard", yet?
> connect but fail to auth
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:57:27PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> > You are arguing why having root filesystem on $my_pet_fancy_filesystem
> > is generally a bad idea. I agree with you, but it was not the original
> > topic of discussion. :-)
>
> i don't quite understand.
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:08PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when
> using dist-upgrade?
It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it,
the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-)
Don't forget
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:05:33AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> Have you tried running pppconfig to set up your modem? On the redhat
> side look in /etc/lilo.conf for a line starting with password=
> I if is there, comment it out or delete it if you don't want password
> protection. Strange that it asks f
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:42:22PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I know about dselect (always used to use it) but since moving to apt-get
> I'm not sure how the two interact.
Simple. You set dselect's access method to "apt" in dselect.
Then you run "update" in dselect. It makes apt do all th
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:51:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running debian unstabe on a couple of my machines. I have run apt-get
> update and apt-get upgrade yesterday, and on two machines it ran perfectly,
> but
> the third machine which is a server on LAN which had an 32 days of u
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:53:07PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell wrote:
> This is from /var/log/syslog:
>
> Jul 1 11:20:22 julia nmbd[2789]: connect from 192.168.76.4
> Jul 1 11:20:22 julia inetd[2757]: /usr/sbin/tcp: exit status 0x1
> ...
> repeated many times. then:
> Jul 1 11:20:24 julia inetd
[some extra quoting added, because your mailer doesn't and it would
be confusing as to what were your words and what were others' words.]
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:21:07AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote:
>> 2.) It's been a long time since I used minicom, but am I totally wrong in
>> thinking it's a
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:53:18PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> I've had problems with X input... basically, after doing some stuff, the
> keyboard and PS/2 mouse would stop working altogether... (the serial
> mouse still worked...) until I figured out to disable the PS/2 mouse. I
> am now op
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:54:16PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> I've finally got Lilo set up just how I want it, almost. I'd like a boot
> option that sends me straight into single user mode. Yes, I know I can
> just enter "Linux single" at the boot prompt (or something similar... I
> don't quite re
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:59:20AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
> I just installed Debian potato and want to use Netscape. I went to the
> Debian
> website and found two .deb packages, netscape-base-476_4.76-1.deb and
> netscape-base4_4.76-1.deb. These packages installed properly but I don
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:25:21PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Installed are:
>
> xfonts-100dpi
> xfonts-75dpi
> xfonts-base
> xfonts-cryillic
> xfonts-pex
> xfonts-scalable.
What output does "xlsfonts" give you (don't paste in if it's a lot).
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:34:15AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> It does include a References: header.
Indeed the message did, my bad. Someone else pointed out that the
threading worked fine in mutt for him. So perhaps it's just broken on
my side.
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:40:53PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> bah. dselect is one of the most confusing things I have ever
> seen. Much easier to do:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > selections
>
> then edit the file "selections" so that the word "hold" is replaced
> with "installed" for the packa
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> Thanks for the tip though, I guess if I read through the man files again I
> might have picked that up, but I've found that I haven't had to use the
> advanced features of apt much, and really...I prefer tarballs anyways for
> some masochi
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:03:36PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > cd /usr/share/doc/menu. read contents. enjoy.
"man update-menus" is also a good starter.
> The Debian menu system is definitely your friend. However, I lik
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:02:47AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Hai,
>
> Having a hard time figuring this out.
>
> Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the butt, but that seemed to
> scare you people:-)
>
> I got myself a working kernel for the CompraQ proliant 1000 in the form of a
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> xlsfonts gives me -bunches- of output. Standard adobe stuff, b&h, bitstream,
> cronyx, ... KDE, for instance, uses a good font. The applications that suffer
> are gtk apps like gnome-apt, and other random apps, like the menus
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:02:47AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Having a hard time figuring this out.
>
> Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the butt, but that seemed to
> scare you people:-)
Maybe the problem is mostly that your return address bounces..
host hp14.ath.cx
hp14.at
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:12:33AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Sorry if it was posted before, but my DynDNS account just went out and I'm
> afraid I just might have missed something
Don't post with a flaky From: address. Just common courtesy to the
other net.users.
And you're giving us fr
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> It's solved.
> Just tried patching until it worked
> I did not have my kernel patched.why isn't it in the
> kernelsource???
Because 2.2 is stable. Because the new raid code is not completely
interface-c
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:19:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Salve a tutti,
Je hebt een veel betere kans op zinvolle respons als je je vragen
op debian-user in het engels stelt..
> sono seimesi che impazzisco per Linux lo trovo meraviglioso, finalmente
> ho soptto le mani qualcosa che so
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
> Here is my question, how can i connect to a http or
> ftp server using GNU/Linux Debain 2.1 from the prompt?
For ftp, /usr/bin/ftp is the classic tool. For http, try wget
if you know the exact url, or links if you need a text-mode
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in
> such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as
> one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk
> space er
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:18:53PM +0200, Vos wrote:
> I've got a bit of a problem, I've just bought a new motherboard with
> an on-board RAID controller (HighPoint HPT 370) and I wanted to install
> debian potato, but I can't when using RAID :-(. When I boot with the cd
> I can't partition the HD
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
^^^
Where is the '-'?
Never "su", alway "su -". There is a reason for it. It is not to
hassle you with having to change directories.
> Password:
> tim:/home/tim# xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.5
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:17:33AM -0300, Juan wrote:
> Which package should I have to install to avoid that error?
The one that contains the X11 manpages.
man X
man XFree86
You are running a program that wants to connect to an xserver.
It failed with error number 111. Either the DISPLAY
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:06:40PM +0200, tim wrote:
> thanks for the typ. I was allways wondering why the shell is owned by the old
> user after su.
It isn't actually, just all the environment settings remained.
`
> > 1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root):
> >
> > $ su -
> > # e
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:38:53AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
> >^^^
> > Where is the '-'?
&
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:25:08PM +0200, tim wrote:
> tim:~# apt-get install xcdroast
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distri
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:30:12PM +0200, tim wrote:
> On Monday, 2. July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> > If you are the only user that will ever su to run an x app, you can
> > do another pretty lame trick by putting both variable assignments in
> > /root/.bash_profile. It is pretty bad actually, beca
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:51:04AM -0400, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> I have recently recompiled my kernel (obtained from .deb source package,
> 2.2.19-6) to include support for agp
>
> So I added CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_AGP_I810, CONFIG_MTRR, CONFIG_DRM,
> CONFIG_DRM_R128 to my kernel config files,
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:36:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> apt-get remove --purge wvdial minicom
^^
dpkg --purge wvdial minicom
^^
Less typing.
Cheers,
Joost
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