Re: getting the mouse to work

1996-08-07 Thread Mark Phillips
>When installing gpm, I set my mouse device to /dev/ttys0... Then, I = >pointed everything else that wanted a mouse device to /dev/mouse. = What is the difference between /dev/ttys1, /dev/cua1 and /dev/mouse (a soft link) and when should each be used? Thanks, Mark Phillips. (

Re: Discrepancies between mirror sites

1996-08-07 Thread Mark Phillips
use_timelocal=false This suggestions seems very sensible. Is there an official way to persuade? Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

XServer for ET4000/W32p hangs!!

1996-08-07 Thread Mark Phillips
e system just hung and I had to do a Ctr-Alt-Del to get out. I couldn't work out what the problem was. Any ideas? I include the out.txt file below. Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6001

Re: The "*" character (was: Latex )

1996-08-08 Thread Mark Phillips
>> But the interesting thing is that dpkg -l *tex* actually _works_ when >> run under bash, leading me to think that the bash shell doesn't expand >> the argument first. >> >Are you sure you tried dpkg -l *tex* in a directory where you know there's >a file whose name matches the pattern *tex*, an

The "*" character (was: Latex )

1996-08-08 Thread Mark Phillips
>It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: > > dpkg -l *tex* I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated unde

Re: XServer for ET4000/W32p hangs!!

1996-08-08 Thread Mark Phillips
>On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a friend who I am trying to help install debian 1.1. He has an >> ET4000/W32p graphics card. I installed the appropriate server, went >> through the xbase-configure program to create an

Re: The "*" character (was: Latex )

1996-08-08 Thread Mark Phillips
>Hi Mark -- >You asked: >> because I'd said: >> >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages >> >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: >> > >> > dpkg -l *tex* >> >> I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under >> bash.

Spreadsheet for Debian?

1996-08-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Are there any spreadsheets packaged for Debian? Also, how would I go about finding this information out for myself? (I looked in /binary/misc and couldn't see anything likely.) Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

1996-08-16 Thread Mark Phillips
>On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: > >> Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using >> one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to >> install using dpkg? > >This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then >grabbed the 3

Solved: mouse problem (running both gpm and X)

1996-08-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi - just a little note to say that I solved the problem with getting X to work with gpm still running. You may recall I posted, complaining that I had to kill gpm before I could get X to run. I solved the problem by changing the mouse device over to /dev/ttyS0 (whereas before it was /dev/cua0).

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Mark Phillips
ery: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiate PPP, >then ask 'pppd' to start? Yes. Use minicom to dial in, start ppp, then use ctrl-a q to get out of minicom, and run pppd with the appropriate options. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: time to split the list?

1996-09-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I would not like to see the mailing list exchanged for a news group. My news source is very slow and unreliable. I do not seem to get a lot of the messages. Split the mailing list, but do not get rid of it all together. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Dselect

1996-09-10 Thread Mark Phillips
than the copying and deleting of huge numbers of files unneccessarily. I hope this helps. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
asy would it be to debianize teTeX? Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

NTeX for Debian & generalized packaging

1996-09-25 Thread Mark Phillips
t would be great if somehow NTeX could be packaged for Debian. Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just updated my system to the current frozen, and included in this update was the installation of netscape 4.73. When I now run netscape, it bombs out, complaining of: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `(c' /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line

Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Phillips
d words I believe, so it does not allow the "(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort)" construction to be used here. So somehow we need to find an alternative. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark. P.S. For any replies, please cc a copy directly to me. > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I&

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > > I'm sure that a fix has already been posted, but this works for me > > (replace the code above with this): > > > > for d in /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d ; do > > cd $d; > >

Suggestion: more frequent list archive updates

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am currently not subscribed to debian-user simply because I don't have the disk space to handle all the messages. So what I do is read it via the archives. The problem is that there is a day or two lag between a message being sent and it appearing in the archive. This delay makes interact

Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am a little confused about how the external services thing works. Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind Now when is this file

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:56:11AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your > > computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: > > &g

Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't. So I want to set up my own. But I'm a bit unsure about what links I should put where. Can anyone tell me? Thanks, Mark. P.S. Please cc replies to me as I rea

dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-13 Thread Mark Phillips
My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough memory! Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always b

Re: dselect doesn't work on 8Meg machine anymore?

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:21:03PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his > > 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very > > very slow --- lots

Where is tbackup?

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a backup program called "tbackup". I have been looking for the Debian package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged. It is released und

Tbackup anyone?

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Phillips
A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a backup program called "tbackup". I have been looking for the Debian package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it was quite a good program. I can't think why it would not be packaged. It is released under GP

Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, The following program: #include #include int main(int argv, char **argc){ double x; x=sqrt(5.0); } does not compile. Instead I get the errors: $ gcc thick.c /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt' collect2: ld returned 1 exi

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just solved my own problem. Of course I needed to do $ gcc thick.c -lm It's been a while since I've used C. Sorry for the silly question. Cheers, Mark. Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > The following program: > > > #include > #i

_Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I thought I'd found a gcc compiler error (and still may have). The following program crashes with a segmentation fault. #define N 209677 int main(int argv, char **argc) { int i; double a[N], b[N], c[N], d[N], e[N]; c[0]=0.0; i=1; c[i]=c[i-1]; } If I make

Re: _Very_ strange problem with compiling

2001-03-06 Thread Mark Phillips
gs differently depending on how big the name space is? Anyway, thanks again for your help. Mark. > > As for the slight difference between the two executables, that's because > you were storing symbols in the executable. If you run them through > strip there is no differe

Installing Debian on new HD from within Debian - how?

2000-10-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I have bought a new hard drive and I want to install Debian on it. It should be possible, to mount the new drive in a subdirectory of my existing root partition, and do a new install on this subdirectory. Unfortunately the installation manual doesn't give this as an option. Of course, I could cre

Fresh debian install on LVM partitions using 2.4 kernel: how?

2000-10-11 Thread Mark Phillips
I have bought a new 15Gig disk and want to do a fresh install of Debian on it. But I want to install it using logical partitions installed on top of LVM. I doubt the current dbootstrap install allows for this. To start with the 2.4 kernel is required to get the LVM stuff. I have compiled my own

Can't get new IBM 15G ATA/100 drive to work!

2000-10-13 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk on it I get: FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table Press any key to exit cfdisk And on fdisk I get: Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Buil

Computer unusable -- can't get lilo to work

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Phillips
My computer is currently in an unusable state. I am borrowing my Dad's computer to write this! The story in summary form: 1. Purchased a new 15Gig IBM ATA/100 hard drive. Hooked it up as 1st drive. BIOS detects okay. 2. fdisk complains that there is no known partition table on it. I get fd

Re: Computer unusable -- can't get lilo to work

2000-10-16 Thread Mark Phillips
e the first drive. But this is more a matter of curiosity than anything --- the main thing is that I now have a working debian installation again! Cheers, Mark. On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > My computer is currently in an unusable state. I am borrowing my Dad's >

cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address'

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just done a fresh (mainly) potato installation of debian. I have lprng and magicfilter installed and configured, but when I try to print I get the following: $ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP Laserjet 5L' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 13656 active Unspooler: pid 13662 active Sta

Re: /boot

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > their own partitions, then make / 64MB or less, then it will fall > under the 1024 cyl mark. I have a / partition of about 100MB, which includes /boot. Is this a problem? Why do you say 64MB or less? Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\__

Netscape error: "The security library has experienced an error."

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to download some software from the Australian Tax Office, but when I clicked on the button to download, it gave the error: The security library has experienced an error. You will probably be unable to connect to this site securely. Does anyone know what's wrong? I am using Netsca

Re: Netscape error: "The security library has experienced an error."

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I solved my problem. I needed to configure SSL-v3 differently. Cheers, Mark. Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to download some software from the Australian Tax Office, > but when I clicked on the button to download, it gave the error: > > The security

Re: installing MATLAB

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can > not > get started. I get an error message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it > in /usr/X11R6 but th

wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by C:\etax2000_1.exe not found Now I thought kernel32 was a builtin thing. That's what is in the wine.co

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up > /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: > > /usr/lib/wine > > Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has changed a fair bit > recently so it would be a good idea to install the maintainer

Strange error: "normal or special character expected (got a node)"

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I was doing "man wine" when I the following strange error popped up: /tmp/zmanyQetL5:206: normal or special character expected (got a node) Man didn't seem to crash or anything, it just alerted me to the error. To see the broader context I'll include some surrounding stuff: ---

How do you read a sgml file?

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I'm looking at the wine documentation directory, and half the files seem to be sgml ones. How do you read them? Do you need to run a utility to convert them to latex or something? Thanks, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~

Re: New Installation + Kernel

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Phillips
Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > I want to install a Debian and I'm asking myself what Kernel whould be > the best choice? E.g. anyone tried the 2.4 ? Is it making Problems? I am using 2.4.0-test9 and it seems fine so far. It allows me to use LVM and ReiserFS, both of which

XF86Config for 4Meg S3 Virge/DX

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Phillips
I have just bought a secondhand S3 Virge/DX card (Eagle brand). I've used XF86Setup to get a roughly working XF86Config file, but I think I should be able to do better. Here's what I can get so far: 1024x768 24bits --- seems to work fine 1152x864 24bits --- works, but some "speckle lines" appea

Re: X

2000-10-25 Thread Mark Phillips
chudpi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is the first time I installed Debian on my box to have X. > Although I do have the package (xfree86-common) installed on my system, I > can't start X. The startx command is not recognized. I also can't seem to > find XF86Setup anywhere. > Could anyone h

Should I overdrive my monitor a little bit?

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I want to use the modeline: # 1152x864 @ 70 Hz, 62.4 kHz hsync Modeline "1152x864" 921152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895 but my monitor only has a horizontal frequency range of 30-60. I am thinking that perhaps changing it to 30-63 won't hurt, but the XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO wa

Re: Should I overdrive my monitor a little bit?

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can't you use the Video Timings howto to create a modeline roughly the > same as the one above, but within your monitors specs? That's what I'm looking at now. I was trying to avoid the work, but this seems the only way. Cheers, Mark. -- _/\

Re: Setting up on-board sound hardware, also internal modem

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I don't have an answer to your question, but rather I've got a question. I have onboard cmpci as well, at least I think I do, but all I get in dmesg is: cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 18:27:22 Oct 13 2000 Nothing else! How did you get yours to detect something? And my sound doesn't seem t

Re: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address'

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', > > attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 07:47:26.313 > > Hmm, you know that since Linux 2.2, the f

Re: Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and then boot it using the debian CD. Also, you might get some help from debian-laptop@lists.debian.org mailing list. Hope this helps, Mark. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Mutt: save without prompting --- how? Multi-message save?

2000-10-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I use mutt to read my mail and I have a folder with debian-user in it. When I come to messages of interest to me, I want to be able to easily save them to another folder. I've got it set up so it saves to the right place, but currently in order to save I need to press "s" and then hit return to ac

Strange apt-get behaviour

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Phillips
I was recently trying to download the latest "Evolution" from helix gnome using apt-get, and had some problems. I have the sources.list line: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./ When I did "apt-get update" it happily did so, but doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" wo

Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Phillips
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would someone please give me a reference on the reiserfs? That is a > new fs on me. What advantage does it have over e2fs? Have a look at: http://www.namesys.com/ Basically, reiserfs is a journalling file system which gives better performance (faster

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-29 Thread Mark Phillips
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > PJS> i'd like to learn how to drop packets coming from a > PJS> particular host -- is there a netfilter howto yet? i didn't > PJS> see anything on LDP. > > Have you checked the kernel docs? By kernel docs, do you mean /usr/src/linux/Documen

Re: Inconsistent Emacs behavior in X

2000-10-31 Thread Mark Phillips
Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two machines set up with Woody. When I run X Windows on one I can > use Alt as the Meta key in Emacs, on the other machine I just get a beep and > have to use ESC. I'd like to use Alt as Meta on both. Alt works as Meta on > the console on both. Any i

InterMezzo and Debian

2000-11-01 Thread Mark Phillips
Is anyone using InterMezzo with Debian? It looks like quite a good system --- especially for connecting laptops with desktops. Are there plans to provide a Debian package for InterMezzo? Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/

Re: InterMezzo and Debian

2000-11-02 Thread Mark Phillips
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 01-Nov-2000 Mark Phillips wrote: > > Is anyone using InterMezzo with Debian? It looks like quite a good > > system --- especially for connecting laptops with desktops. > > > > Are there plans to

exmh hangs from the start

2000-11-20 Thread Mark Phillips
When I type "exmh" in an xterm, it just hangs. No window pops up or anything! Any ideas about what's wrong? I haven't created the ~/Mail directory --- I presumed it would do that for me. Cheers, Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/

Upgrade to potato; now "/dev/psaux: No such device"

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just upgraded a machine to potato. All was fine till I tried rebooting, then X crashed, complaining that it couldn't find the mouse. I noticed gpm wasn't running. When I tried running it, it complained about /dev/psaux device not existing. Now the file /dev/psaux exists. Now there are al

Re: Upgrade to potato; now "/dev/psaux: No such device"

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I have sort of solved the problem by doing "modprobe psaux". That is, the mouse is now found and X works again. But the point remains that I shouldn't have to do this manually. Why isn't it loaded automatically? (I am currently using kernel 2.0.36) Cheers, Mark. On Mo

Rescue disk for kernel 2.4.0?

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Phillips
Is there a rescue disk for kernel 2.4.0 yet? If not, is it possible to "roll your own"? How hard is it? Thanks, Mark. _/___/~~ /~~_/~~__/~~__Mark_Phillips /~~_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

ppp doesn't work with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I have recently compiled a 2.4.0-test11 kernel. I am using it with a mainly potato distribution. However, in order to get things working I have needed to upgrade to a number of woody packages. In particular, I have upgraded util-linux, modutils, e2fsprogs and ppp. When I try to use pon to start

SOLVED! Re: ppp doesn't work with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
8AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have recently compiled a 2.4.0-test11 kernel. I am using it with a > > mainly potato distribution. However, in order to get things working I > > have needed to upgrade to a number of woody packages. In particular, > > I have up

Re: apt-get, allow only one connection

2000-11-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there any way to restrict apt-get to download one file at a time > only? When it downloads two files at a time, this means there are two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list corresponding to the two files. The only way I can think of of forcing it to download

E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Permission denied)

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to use masquerading to upgrade debian on a laptop, via a local network. I have made /var/cache/apt/archives a soft link to a directory mounted using nfs. I have mounted it rw and have the no_root_squash option set, so there should be no problems I thought. But when I use apt-get dis

Compiling pcmcia-source using make-kpkg fails

2000-12-01 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just tried compiling pcmcia-source 3.1.22 using make-kpkg but it fails, telling me: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/modules' MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -c cs.c make[4]: MD: Command not found make

RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted

2000-12-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart and got: Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd. Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted I can't work out what's wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark. _/___/~~___

Curious behavior of iptables and masquerading

2000-12-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I noticed that if I run: iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING DROP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT then masquerading works, but if I run the last two commands in the opposite order (so that they appear in the opposite order

printer not responding --- driving me mad!

2000-12-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I'm running a 2.4.0-test11 kernel under debian linux (potato + a little woody). I have a printcap file which has worked before. I understand that what used to be /dev/lp1 in 2.0 kernels is now /dev/lp0 so I have made this change. But neither lprng, nor the standard lpr work. I have unplugg

Printer woes

2000-12-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi again, I earlier sent a message about problems I have been having getting a printer to work under kernel 2.4.0-test11. Well, I since have tried it under a 2.15 kernel on a laptop and got the same problem --- printer not active or something to that effect. I also took the printer home where I

Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted

2000-12-09 Thread Mark Phillips
If I change my /etc/exports file, I think all I should need to do is run /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart. But when I do this, I get the error message: # init.d/nfs-server restart Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd. Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation

Re: Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send;errno = Operation not permitted

2000-12-09 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > sounds like portmap is not running it is required for NFS. Portmap is running. I can do: # ps aux | grep portmap daemon 79 0.0 0.4 1324 564 ?S13:18 0:00 /sbin/portmap # /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart Stopping NFS servers: mountd nf

mutt save-hook stopped working

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have the following in my .muttrc: ### Tell mutt what mailing lists I belong to. lists awad debian-laptop debian-user evolution exmh_users intermezzo-discuss lists linuxsa linux-announce lists linux-lvm wine-users ### Misc global hooks. save-hook ~l +lists/save/%B # if message was sent to

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
> Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to do this easily - there doesn't seem > to be any way to tell apt, "Keep the system up to date with potato, except > for packages foo, bar, and baz, which should be woody." The closest I've > come is: > > - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato >

Help! Panic! Accidentally initialized / partition!!!

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Phillips
My friend has (had) Debian installed on his laptop. I got a call from him this morning saying he can't boot his laptop anymore! I'm over his place now and after using the rescue disk to mount his / partition, I've discovered all that is there is /lost+found and /root/dbootstrap_settings. My frie

Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Yesterday was a bad day. I do a bit of maintenance work for a friend's laptop. Yesterday morning he contacted me about problems he was having booting it. As it turned out he had accidentally used the rescue disk to destroy his system. "Initialize ext2 partition?" Why of course! Fortunately a

Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

2000-12-27 Thread Mark Phillips
> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong. > > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe > > entirely to blame? It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I > > thought were fairly reliable. Hardware could possibly be to blame, > > but

dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend of mine has emailed me in panic, saying that dselect has just deinstalled all the software on his debian laptop. He is currently travelling in the US (he and I are from Australia) and he is in a bit of a panic. I am trying to acertain precisely what happened but I suspect it was som

Re: dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for the reply! > He upgraded something which required a different version of libc > than what everything in the system depends upon. As a result it > deselected that libc and pretty much everything else that depended > upon it. I am guessing then that what he needs to do is to create

make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am trying to use make-kpkg to make a pcmcia-modules package for a laptop. It quits giving the following error: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory and sure enough, I can't find a file called "modversions.h" anywhere on the system!! I

Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Phillips
> Well I'm not sure what you've done, but I am using kernel 2.2.15 > (pre19-1) and I have the modversions.h file in: Yes that's the same version as me (2.2.15pre19-1) > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/include/config/modversions.h > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/include/linux/modversions.h Neither

Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Phillips
> Mark> I am guessing you must have done something which creates this > Mark> config directory and puts modversions.h in the right place. If > Mark> you do > > Mark> So the question is, what do you do which creates this file??? > > Did you try configuring the kernel? I think this is the pr

Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Phillips
work properly. Anyway, I've done that and it's now working. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Mark. > > Cheers, > Corey Popelier > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas > Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > >

Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-05-01 Thread Mark Phillips
> Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to use make-kpkg to make a pcmcia-modules package for a > > laptop. It quits giving the following error: > > > > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19: linux/modversions.h: No such > >

Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

2000-05-01 Thread Mark Phillips
> >>"Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> I think this is the problem. I shouldn't have to do the configuring > Mark> myself because make-kpkg should do it for me. For some reason it > Mark> seems that it doesn'

Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-01 Thread Mark Phillips
> I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a > friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about > keyboard freezes. Actually, I'm not sure from his comments, whether > it is just the keyboard that freezes or the whole computer. An update on the problem.

Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-04 Thread Mark Phillips
> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:38:17PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a > > > friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about > > > keyboard freezes. Actually, I'm

Re: New kernel (2.2.15), now keyboard/machine freezes often

2000-05-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:38:17PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a > > > friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about > > > keyboard freezes. Actually,

2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" or something like that. Now I suspect the p

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with > the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent > attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line > > "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" > > or something like that.

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with > > the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent > > attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line > > > > "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" > > >

Exim changes

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave me: route_list = "* adam.i

Re: Exim changes

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > #disabled#smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim > > -bs > > > > which would suggest that exim is disabled through this mechanis

Re: Exim changes

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I > need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to > send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is > "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave > me: >

Re: Exim changes

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It could be that mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au and > adam.ist.flinders.edu.au are the same machine, and it's simply > using the canonical name in your logs. This would be fairly > normal if they are arranging a transition from one to the other: > both would

Re: balsa 0.6.0-1 crash

2000-02-18 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, > When balsa runs by non root user, it crashes with segmentation fault > this does not happen when root runs balsa. > > I have the latest potato packages. I had what sounds like the same problem. Did you have an earlier version of balsa installed before this? I found that by removing the o

The perfect X text editor

2000-03-01 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, What the world needs is a text editor which has the following: 1. Designed from the start to run under X, preferably using gnome widgets. 2. Designed to be somewhat compatible with emacs --- where this doesn't impinge on utility. 3. Designed to be quick to start. It should do this by only

Re: The perfect X text editor

2000-03-02 Thread Mark Phillips
> You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs > every time aren't you? No. What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it in? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\___

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