On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:12:05AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote:
>
> --- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Did you know that on the console, you can also use
> > leftalt+cursor{left,right}
> > to change vt's? Going back to X from vc1 is as
> > sim
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
> not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> there?
>
> I am running wo
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:19:00PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:08:58 +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) wrote:
>
> > Dselect has a "select" mode that lets you manage your package selections
> > interactively. The advantage of this
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
> be out of date?
If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available
packages database. Apt normally uses its own available packages database
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:48:56AM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote:
> You have gotten a lot of responses, mostly addressing technical
> aspects and implying a scorn for an admin who doesn't want linux
> on his already hetero network.
Hear, hear. It's "their" network after all.
Though, if you do not
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really
> > plug-n-pray at all!
>
> I'm not sure it was _just_ marketing lies... I think it tried
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
> I am running Debian potato and am having a problem with .bashrc. It
> works fine as root but does not get executed when I log in as a user. The
> default .bashrc contains one alias c
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Armin Joellenbeck wrote:
> >
> > I would like to reinstall all packages with
> > apt-get install "package-name" --reinstall
> >
> > Is there an easier way to reinstall all packages?
> > i.e. Instead of package-name use a text file which
> > specifies a
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
> > > Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without
> > > rebooting?
> >
> > Unblock the process in the kernel, so its pending
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
> Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without
> rebooting?
Unblock the process in the kernel, so its pending signals can be handled.
This is admittedly rather difficult to force from the user side of
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:51:23AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:56:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > > here are some relevant tips from my collection--
> >
> > When all e
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:58:45PM +0400, Alexey wrote:
> I have 128M RAM.
>
> dmesg:
> ...
> Memory: 64364k/66496k available (808k kernel code, 416k reserved, 864k data,
> 44k init)
> ...
>
> Am I right thinking that Linux "sees" 64M only?
> Well, the *free* utility displays total memory at 64M
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:32:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:37:46PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > Nowadays, I just give a blank stare back and start mumbling about how
> > great an application awk is and has been for the past twenty years.
> > T
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
> -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
> ftp.us.debian.org there
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:00:22PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> My suggestion is, use dselect to choose what program to install (dselect will
> check for dependencies) use "apt-get dselect-upgrade --print-uris to get the
> list of package to download with windo~1.
A good idea.
But apt-get wi
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:02:46PM -0400, CM wrote:
> Do I need to have all of the base-*.bin floppies to get the floppy install
> going?
If you want to install the base system from floppies, then yes.
If you can install the base system over the network, then no.
You can find the installation ma
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:12:18PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote:
> Thanks to my HP5l parallel printer, I very close to entering a parallel state
> of consciousness.
>
> My dilema:
>
> The printer prints fine in ASCII text mode.
>
> I am under the assumption that there is something wrong with my /
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote:
> > > [...] having a problem with .bashrc. It works fine as
> > > root but does not get executed wh
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> Joost> dpkg available pack
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:36:56PM -0600, ray p wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my Woody box to see the TLDs served by new.net's
> root servers to do this I added the line "search new.net" to my
> /etc/resolve.conf now I can ping the servers on the new tlds
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:47:33PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote:
> I installed mutt using apt-get and have it up and running. Version is 1.2.5i.
>
> But there does not seem to be any mailcap or mime.types files. Can someone
> point me in the right direction as to what I did wrong or more importantl
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:32:15PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> now i am trying to type up my vita and i can't find a good job title
> for this. i tried "Computertechnischer Berater," but that sounds
> awkward. and i don't want to include any english words, such as
> computer support technician
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:28PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote:
> How can be avoid a message on the screen:
>
> 'isdn_net: ipp0 connected'
> 'isdn_net: local hangup ippp0'
>
> It is very disturbing when I write a mail , this message become in the editor.
Have you tried typing ctrl-L? in many situa
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:44:58PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
> I want to configure my xdm server to show login window in
> linux network clients. What files should I edit in server
> to do that, and in the clients to startx login again xdm server?
Look into /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. You
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> > If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do
> > not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages,
> > put everything on hold first and then unhold the few.
>
> Hm, I yust wanna u
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> Joost Kooij wrote:
> >Don't use dpkg for this directly, use dselect, the proper frontend.
>
> Alright, sir, I believe we're vitiating the goal of this mailing
> list. It would be wonderful if you co
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote:
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is
> there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the
> correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to
> yo
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200):
> > "Rechnerbeschwoerer"
>
> cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me,
> right?
Or you can tak
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:12:54AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this supposed to be
> working? I mean, if I have /etc/hosts like:
>
> 192.168.1.1 host.local.domain host
>
> ip lookup works:
>
> $ host 192.168.1.1
> Name: host.local.dom
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> ...
> > What does it look like when you "strace host 192.168.1.1"? It should
> > be showing access to /etc/hosts, if you have &q
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> In Keyboard HOWTO I found this:
>
> ...
>
> 8.5. Composing symbols
>
> One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes.
>
> o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad,
> followed
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:53:43PM -, Tommy McDaniel wrote:
> I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better
> understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I
> decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could
> get every
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:54:43PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 14. Jul, 2001 schw?zte Joost Kooij so:
>
> > Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having
> > problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please
> > post again.
>
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:21:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to
> ruin my system to learn it was fair enough.
Thanks for the compliment. Don't ruin your system just to try this,
because it is not perfect. Consider what happens if you:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:09:16PM -0700, Gladimir wrote:
> Yea! That's one boot problem out of 5 completely solved!
>
> I ran dpkg --status nfs-common as suggested and found the name of the
> package, which was nfs-common, amazingly enough. I started dselect and went
> right to the select scree
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:29:06PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> See "man 7 man" for more information on the troff man macros.
And in the groff package: roff(7), groff(7) and groff_man(7)
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format?
You want "lame" for that. Look it up on google, also look for
"unoffical sources.list". Lame is not on the debian ftp site,
because there are patent problems.
Better is
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:28:53PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Either use "dpkg --update-avail /path/to/packages/Packages", then deselect
> to decide what packages you want. Inside dselect you can choose to install
> packages. Before they can be installed you'll need to download the
> appropriate debs
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:32:10PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait
> for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit?
Look at the tools in debconf-utils.
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:57:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> - Forwarded message from Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
> From: Diego Luis Kreutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Just one "question".
> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:46:22 -0300 (BRT)
> Messa
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:59:14PM -, Kurt Dresner wrote:
> I can't seem to get my computer to update with dselect. It just fails to
> find about 30% of the .deb files, with the error "Unable to fetch file,
> server said 'debian/pool/blahblahblah: no such file or directory. '
>
> My interne
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:51:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, just need a little help here trying to install realplayer on my
> debian potato box.
>
> I went to the real.com site and downloaded their
> rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin file. But then I did a bit of google
> searching and
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm running potato with Apache and MySQL and have noticed some memory
> problems that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Basically, available memory
> keeps getting used up and not reclaimed. Swap space doesn't seem to get
> used much,
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:31:20PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote:
> When trying to dselect upgrade to woody, I keep running into errors that
> say that GLIBC_2.2 is required, I tried adding things that say they have
> glibc, but it doesn't seem to fix it. Any recommendations?
Do you mean that
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:41:05PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> The easiest way to upgrade to woody is with 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
Also note that the most durable way is to use dselect.
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:01:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
> > Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
> > (/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
> > part of the disk group? Try adding you
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > It naturally want to upgrade your packages if you put in a deb uri
> > that points to all updated packages. No need for the automatic power
> &g
glibc2.2, so it looks like a minor error by the
libc maintainer, and another one to upload it untested to unstable.
Just don't try to upgrade your unstable boxes today.
Cheers,
Joost
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:55:16 +0200
>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:42AM -0400, Evan Flynn wrote:
> I tried the Realtek 8139 driver with no parameters and unfortunetely i got
> the "device busy" error. Please note that I am INSTALLING Debian and
> therefore i can't compile drivers (well maybe) or use kernel 2.4. Well I
> compiled the v
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:45:16AM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to get pppd to try for n times to connect to my
> isp before giving up.
You need to write a chatscript that does that then.
> The problem is that quite often, pppd dials, then noting happens for a
> little while
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:25:12PM +0200, H. Kruppa wrote:
> Hallo!
> Habe 2 CD aus dem Heft "LINUX-Ausgabe 2001" von "CHIP" erworben. Nach der
> Installation von Debian ist mir W98 verschwunden. Habe probiert "lilo.conf"
> in Verzeichnis \etc mit dem "ae-Editor" zu modifizieren (wie im Heft-"CHIP"
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:52:48PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and am trying to compile an X-Windows program but can't
> seem to link it. The library doesn't seem to be in place.
Did you install the relevant *-dev package?
Start dselect, do an update first and next, in the
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:58:30AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the items in the path were
> searched in order. So if your path is "/bin:/usr/bin:./", it will only search
> ./ if it doesn't find the command in /bin or /usr/bin. Which means that there
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -, Kurt Dresner wrote:
> So I managed to get most of the packages updated and everything, thanks to
> everyone who helped me on that one, but now I am getting error messages with
> two packages that come in the flavor of:
>
> dpkg error: trying to overwrite
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:40:03PM +0300, Emil wrote:
> locales depends on glibc_2.2.3-7
That is a broken depends, afaik. Depends: glibc (=2.2.3-7) was
perhaps intended, but it got out differently. Welcome to unstable.
> glibc_2.2.3-7 does not appear to be available
The archive contains a bro
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 07:14:21PM +0500, Alexey Plotnikov wrote:
> Can I get source code dbootstrap file?
Sure, just download the boot-floppies.tar.gz file from the debian archive.
If you want to do serious development on it, be sure to also check out
the debian-boot mailing list archives at htt
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
> On Friday, July 13, 2001 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If you use xdm, the trick is [...]
> > Since programs in your x session are usually descendants of ~/.xsession,
> > they will automatically be run with the right environment
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote:
1 > I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff,
2 > but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly?
You must read the Sound-HOWTO at http://lonuxdoc.org/
1 > ***
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:57:04PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> I just apt-got the kernel-source-2.4.6. I make menuconfiged it and then I
> make-kpkg cleaned it, and ran make-kpkg --revision custom.1 kernel_image.
> About 10 minutes in to the compilation it stops with this message:
>
> install:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-)
>
> #!/bin/sh
[snip]
Even easier:
install package dwww, point browser to:
http://localhost/dwww
Cheers,
Joost
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which file should i use (/vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19), and how can i
> make it work?
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17pre19 of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 $(rdev | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
If you're not sure about
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:41:16PM +1000, Peter Donaldson wrote:
> This might sound like a dumb question. But how do i make a .deb file???
Start with "man dpkg", then install dpkg-dev, read a few manpages, then
go to www.debian.org and find the rest of the information scattered over
the "developer
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> filnames. Well, most times I use vfat foramttd ZIPs and the few
> times I use something else I use
> mount -t hfs /dev/hdd /zip
> (why don't I need a partition number in this case?)
You don't. I did "mke2fs /dev/sda; mount -t ex
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:38PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> I think it means "pick 'safe' settings for your video card and don't
> start up any fancy services so that, maybe, the user can fix what's
> broke". Remember that Windows doesn't know what a "virtual console"
> is and _always_ needs a graphi
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:53:01PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote:
> How do I install hardware? More specifically I have a Hayes Accura v90
> modem. I understand that this is a winmodem??? maybe. I looked at
> linmodem.org and after some searching I found this site
> http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ which I t
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> > I just got an ENCORE PCMCIA Netowrk Card. From their website I d/l the
> > "linux drivers". This consisted of these files:
> >
> > 8390.c, gen1, gen2, and PCNET_CS.c. as well as a readme with the following
> > instructions:
> >
>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:42:24AM -0500, Saul Fabian wrote:
> I have a problem, ?How I can format my hard disk ?
>
> I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but
> I can?t install debian. When I boot the debian
> installation disk, my system gives my this message:
>
> loading linux ...
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:30:57PM +, Victor wrote:
> I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian
> 2.2r3.
>
> Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql
> under postgres user,
No need for that. Just create a valid user with your id,
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a
> Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM.
> What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone?
> Should i use debian? Is it impo
Thanks, Josip.
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> - Forwarded message from Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
> From: Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apt-get package list problem
>
> Sebastiaa
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:53:50PM -0400, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it?
> Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files
> in one directory... (leaving the directory intact)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Path;
rmtre
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety
> consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e.
> move, copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better practice to use CLI
> w/ suid t
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Harvey Werner wrote:
> Did you ever solve this problem?
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html
>
> Or, did you have to reinstall your Linux system?
If only the symlink is nuked, just boot with a rescue floppy, get
a shell, mount the
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:09:20PM +, Victor wrote:
> Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>:
> >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges
> > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things
> > as regular user.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> This should be easy, but I can't get it:
>
> My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be?
On the keyboard connector? ;-)
Cheers,
Joost
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> router:~# locate \* | wc -l
> 68558
> router:~# updatedb
> router:~# locate \* | wc -l
> 91395
>
> Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000
> files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i se
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:56:50PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> is it possible to configure apache to log the total amount of traffic
> (in Mb) that is generated by a virtual host? how would i set that up?
Install the lire package.
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:02:19AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> My data:
> * hostname: boneless
> * local mailaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * command: fetchmail -v -S boneless
> * error message after "... reading message 1 of 2 (25915 octets)":
> - SMTP connect to boneless failed
> - This mess
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:28:54AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been having prblems with fetchmail, getting a "SMTP connect failed"
> message.
> Since I read in the fetchmail FAQ that the problem could be that my SMTP
> port listener is down or inaccessible.
Try:
telnet 127.0.0.1 25
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:17:51AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (if one exists), you want the first line to
> > say:
> > allowed_users=console
> >
> What should one do if it doesn't exists?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:05:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic through one of our
> servers, in and out. i understand that netstat -s gives me interface
> statistics, but there are two problems with it:
>
> (a) it lists packets only. as i underst
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Peter Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would like to know where I can get free software as function
> >
> > http://remindme.arsdigita.com/
>
> Maybe http://www.arsdigita.com/acs-repository/?
Perhaps http://www.openacs.org/
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> Hi Cajus,
> thanks for your hints - but it did not work - what did I do wrong?
You are leaving all of the post you are replying to at the bottom of
your message, without there being an apparent need for any of it.
Please read
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
> For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
> display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
> possibly, the changes to gdm...)
>
> I have tried many different things. Typical is something
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:29:37PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Try "netstat -at | grep xdm" on the pc running xdm. If xdm is not
Correction: as root do "netstat -tap | grep xdm"
Cheers,
Joost
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:26:36AM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
> Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 4) I have installed lpr and magicfilter and that runs fine. However, I
> >understand that CUPS is a modern alternative for the two (am I right?)
>
> I as understand it yes, it also offers
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:57:53PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I am having great problems with configuring my Dell Laptop's sound
> card.
Perhaps it needs plug-n-play to assign resources to it.
> According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive
> I/O Range 0240 - 024F
> 0388-038B
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:09:32PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> Can someone please explain how/where savelog operates from?
grep -r savelog /etc/cron*
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0700, Carl Fenley wrote:
> However, both the cdm640.c and the cmd646.c source files came with the the
> current version of my kernel-source (2.2.12).
^^^
That is not a current version at all. I recommend you
to get a m
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote:
> Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying
> to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system.
> Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect
> now wants to remove f
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> > "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0
> Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for
> Martin> the RAM chip, and badbloc
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I have, in the last few weeks, compiled a lot of kernels (with
> make-kpkg)
> Well, I have installed these kernel-image-blah.deb's, but without
> removing the old ones. dpkg -l shows
>
> ii kernel-image-2. # <-- dpk -l does not show
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:26:21PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
>I don't know of a reference book that would be specifically about NFS
> but you can have a look at "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
> Operating System" by McKusik, Bostic, Karels and Quarterman. Chapter 9
> (about 25
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:11:22PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On potato, I had to re-compile my kernel to get IP aliasing support. I
> used the newbiedocs over at sourceforge, and one of the instructions was
> to do the following:
>
> echo "kernel-image-2.2.19 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
The
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:45:36AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> The real question is: To whom is the message encrypted? Anybody on the
> Internet can access it, but probably only one person can read it. I
> suppose that's one way of keeping the spooks in the dark about who
> your covert contacts ar
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> I have a problem with some perl code. I know this is off-topic, but
> there are numerous knowledgeable people on deb-usr, so forgive me for
> posting this.
>
> Now to my problem.
>
> Given the following variable,
>
> my $BEGINREGEX
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hi,
> assuming that i have a string of the form "123%%%blabla*($(" available
> in the shell script, how can i convert that into an escaped version
> for use with the HTTP protocol? i am not a perl wizard, or else i
> wouldn't ask.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +, Victor wrote:
> perl -MCPAN -eshell
>
> *The bottom line*
> So, now I have that strange, confusing mixture of a perl 5.005 coming
> from a deb package and a perl 5.6.1 compiled from tarballs in CPAN
> under the same /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Obviously t
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote:
Please fix the clock in your windows settings. It is screwing up
the mailbox sorting of many debian-user subscribers.
> Maybe as a Hint for other - still - Windows users: Don't rely on what Win
> tells you. I mean
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> What's happened to the task- packages?
>
> Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages
> are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by
> something new?
The task-* packages in their curr
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