How to populate data from and *.xls file into my postgresql d atabase Date:

2000-09-27 Thread Martin Kuria
I have entered my data in and excel spreadsheet file, now I would like to populate this data in my postgresql database, I have tried to use COPY command to populate the data to my postgresql database but still it does not work what should do or use?? Or help me to write the Copy command or give

RE: does the new edition have support for sis 530 video chipset

2000-09-27 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
I have the SiS 530 and it works fine. I think it's 622 in the list given by xf86setup :-) Use the SVGA server (I downloaded some native drivers but had problems) As for winmodems, don't expect any success. There's a site out there that has a few drivers but I don't have the URL (it was given

How to populate data from and *.xls file into my postgresql d atabase Date:

2000-09-27 Thread Martin Kuria
I have entered my data in and excel spreadsheet file, now I would like to populate this data in my postgresql database, I have tried to use COPY command to populate the data to my postgresql database but still it does not work what should do or use?? Or help me to write the Copy command or give

kde problems. Where is setGroup_K11KConfigBasePCc defined?

2000-09-27 Thread Douglas Eck
I did a woody deselect update just to keep on top of things. Alas, it broke my kde2. Libraries again. Anyone know where setGroup__11KConfigBasePCc is set? KDE dies on ksmserver unable to resolve that symbol. Thanks. Doug Eck

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-27 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi, Did you compile the kernel with the appropriate support? I did not compile a new kernel at all. I used the CD-Distribution from Linuxland. The Debian Linux Guide refers to this (and it is distributed with the CD-Set) so it should not be necessary to compile a kernel, should it?

Re: optimizing the hard drive? (fwd)

2000-09-27 Thread mike
Haven't done this, but from what i've read you will need the new IDE66 controller card and cables plus the IDE patch for the kernel. On 26 Sep 2000 20:17:31 -0700, Krzys Majewski said: ObeseWhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: okay here goes... UDMA66 is simply a bandwidth limit on your

Re: Debian newbie.

2000-09-27 Thread Shaul Karl
I am very new to Debian systems. I've been running RH-based systems for a couple of years, so I'm not a linux newbie. However, I have about a dozen questions which I'm _sure_ are faq's. Where does a guy like me go to get a good Debian-newbie faq? I've checked http://www.debian.org/doc,

pppd vs ipppd

2000-09-27 Thread Gareth Bowker
We've got ISDN at home with a debian box as the gateway running pppd. This is working well, but I noticed a package called ipppd, specifically for isdn. Currently we use the on-demand and auto-terminate features seeing as we have to pay a phone bill in the UK :( over a single isdn channel. What

Re: isdn Problem (newbie)

2000-09-27 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi Shaul, first of all: thanks for your continuing help. I do not know. Does the config file shows support for ISDN? on my system a grep ISDN /boot/config-2.2.17 shows: CONFIG_ISDN=m CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y CONFIG_ISDN_TTY_FAX=y

Help with System Crashes

2000-09-27 Thread Martin Pfeilsticker
Hello I have a strange problem with one of my PCs: It crashes for no obvious reasons, at least one time a day. The system is completly frozen, ie no ping, no Magic-Key, no CTRL-AL-DEL, only a HARD-Reset is working. Logfiles in /var/log show nothing unusal. Since this computer is acting as my

Re: exim or smail?

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does Debian install exim by default? I've always had slight difficulties with configuring it, whereas smail always works for me faultlessly. What difficulties have you had? I've never had any problems, and the configuration is lovely. With regard to

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a good guess. In technical terms the load average is simply the average number of processes in the runnable state over a period of time. You could take an instantaneous measurement of the number of processes in the runnable state, but it

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found /proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average load values. You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the first line, which is an up to the time vmstat

Re: optimizing the hard drive?

2000-09-27 Thread Brent Buchholz
On 26 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Krzys Majewski wrote: How can I optimize hard drive access? Please tell me I don't have to try one million random combinations of the various flags to hdparm. Or is the kernel doing the right thing already?

Re: TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:

2000-09-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: 1) They're replying to the list, rather than to the x-envelope sender... whats the difference between my.netvigatr.com errors and these virus warnings? Well, NOTHING is going to send anything to any x- header address. They MIGHT send something to an Errors-To:

Re: libc6 problem after apt-get

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Joel Gautschi wrote: I dit an apt-get remove and apt-get install of libc6, still not working. the following thing worked for me (tk told me the whole thing on #debian): For those unfortunate who managed to do the upgrade and now wish to downgrade,

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Krzys Majewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the first line, which is an up to the time vmstat was started figure, the last field in each line is the percentage of time the CPU is idle. I can't speak for how accurate it is, but it

Re: libc6 problem after apt-get

2000-09-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:54:37PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Joel Gautschi wrote: I dit an apt-get remove and apt-get install of libc6, still not working. the following thing worked for me (tk told me the whole thing on #debian): For those

windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Grün
I have installed debian 2.2 with X_4.0.1 (the original X-server refused to connect because of some errno=111). My problem is, that all the windows are fixed on the upper panel on the left-above corner (that is: the window title is not visible). I cannot resize the window, nor can I make a window

Mail notifying for console?

2000-09-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I'm looking for a mail notifying program for console that can handle several folders/files. I don't need pop etc. only a program that can check local files. The program from does not work properly. Thanks in advance -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ i too once

Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Ron Farrer
Mike Leone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a news blurb on slashdot recently, about someone working on a new package manager, to unify .rpm and .deb formats. Don't recall that it was being touted as a new package manager JUST for Debian, however. No it is not a package manager to unify

Re: Mail notifying for console?

2000-09-27 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:20:29PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm looking for a mail notifying program for console that can handle several folders/files. I don't need pop etc. only a program that can check local files. The program from does not work properly. If you are using bash, it might

Tarbal -- .deb ??Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Haight Ashbury
Is there a way to compile a source code and make a .deb from it ? I think it would then be easier to remove an elder programme. No it is not a package manager to unify rpms and debs. It is an 'apt-get' LIKE tool for some Rat Hat PAY service. A previous poster was VERY correct: rpms are very

woody dist-upgrade lost printer or spooler

2000-09-27 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi All: This is my second instance of the woody upgrade. The first time worked without a hitch. Included KDE2. Now get 2 messages from 'printtool' This message displayed when program opens: Enscript does not appear to be installed. This occurs when selecting a printer in Configure Filter

Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: I seem to recall talk of a new package system for debian. The only things I remember are that it would understand rpm's as well as others, and I think its name started with the letter h. Can anyone help me with a URL? Or am I

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-27 Thread dochawk
cc: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED], hawk Subject: Re: ppp install failing (loopback?) In-Reply-To: Message from hawk hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu of Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:06:07 EDT. [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:

Re: Debian newbie

2000-09-27 Thread Scott_Patterson
I am very new to Debian systems. I've been running RH-based systems for a couple of years, so I'm not a linux newbie. However, I have about a dozen questions which I'm _sure_ are faq's. Where does a guy like me go to get a good Debian-newbie faq? I've checked http://www.debian.org/doc, but

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Kent West
Brent Buchholz wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Kent West wrote: I know dmesg will show the boot-up messages generated (by the kernel?); however, this apparently doesn't show the errors generated by modules being loaded. These messages go by too fast to catch, and then I haven't been able to

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Hawk writes: It seems that for some reason, it doesn't get an OK back from the modem in response to its AT. Right. However, it m must be getting one earlier after ATZ, or it wouldn't get this far. No. It's getting no response to the ATZ. Add this line at the front of

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know dmesg will show the boot-up messages generated (by the kernel?); however, this apparently doesn't show the errors generated by modules being loaded. These messages go by too fast to catch, and then I haven't been able to

Re: pppd vs ipppd

2000-09-27 Thread Shaul Karl
We've got ISDN at home with a debian box as the gateway running pppd. This is working well, but I noticed a package called ipppd, specifically for isdn. Currently we use the on-demand and auto-terminate features seeing as we have to pay a phone bill in the UK :( over a single isdn channel.

libc5 / libc6

2000-09-27 Thread Liam Ward
Hi, I am having problems with mp3enc (not a Debian package - commercial product) which wants libc5 libraries: ldd mp3enc31 libm.so.5 = not found libc.so.5 = not found I am not mad enough to mess with libc versions lightly :-) I decided to see if asking APT to install the

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I tried this all over again (I have backups of my libc6 etc) and this is what I got even when I upgraded libdb2 and libdb2-dev: lilypad:/home/pollywog/temp#restart postfix Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix. Starting mail transport agent: Postfixpostconf: /usr/lib/libdb.so.3: no version

reboot problem

2000-09-27 Thread kunen
I just upgraded slink to potato, with no serious problem, although some things weren't exactly right, so I tried to reboot. Problem : It hangs on reboot. It's a linux-only system, and it got into lilo OK, but then it seemed to spend a long(!) time probing for things which aren't there. In

Re: Tarbal -- .deb ??Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Haight Ashbury writes: Is there a way to compile a source code and make a .deb from it ? Of course! How do you think we developers produce packages? All our tools are packaged. Install and read packaging-manual. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

reboot problem

2000-09-27 Thread kunen
I just upgraded slink to potato, with no serious problem, although some things weren't exactly right, so I tried to reboot. Problem : It hangs on reboot. It's a linux-only system, and it got into lilo OK, but then it seemed to spend a long(!) time probing for things which aren't there. In

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Bernd Worsch
In case your feeling lonely your quite right, the messages seem to be nowhere in the logs. Which is quite unsatisfactory. Thanx for posting this, i wondered where to find them quite a while already. How about filing this as a bug :) Cheers Bernd --

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: I think something REALLY is broken and it isn't just me,... It appears that a number of things need to be recompiled, including most MTA's. Stay away from woody until further notice (unless you want to help debug it). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Printing on an HP LaserJet IIIp

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hey Debs, I'm trying to set up my HP LaserJet IIIp printer and I can't quite get it to work. I'm using printtool on my Potato box. (I'm not sure if this is bad because printtool is in the unstable distribution right now, but it seems to work OK.) Right now I can succesfully perform the test

Re: Printing on an HP LaserJet IIIp

2000-09-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Try magicfilter + lprng with HP filter. Work as a charm. Hey Debs, I'm trying to set up my HP LaserJet IIIp printer and I can't quite get it to work. I'm using printtool on my Potato box. (I'm not sure if this is bad because printtool is in the unstable distribution right

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package that is breaking everything for everybody. However, I haven't had any

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know dmesg will show the boot-up messages generated (by the kernel?); however, this apparently doesn't show the errors generated by modules being loaded. These messages go by too

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms ehm, you can scroll on the linux console with shift+page_down/page_up. You can only do this up until you switch to a different console, for any reason. Once that happens, all history on the first one is gone. For example, if you use XDM or GDM

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread Robb Kidd
Bernd Worsch wrote: In case your feeling lonely your quite right, the messages seem to be nowhere in the logs. Which is quite unsatisfactory. It's to do with what goes on in /etc/init.d/modutils. I'm not savvy enough to tell you where to do it, but if you've a mind to, start figuring out

Re: Printing on an HP LaserJet IIIp

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Problem solved! I used magicfilter with the filter for the LaserJet III and the thing works. Let's hear it for the command line. Andy Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hey Debs, I'm trying to set up my HP LaserJet IIIp printer and I can't quite get it to work. I'm using printtool on my

Partition question

2000-09-27 Thread David A. Rogers
I've been using Mandrake, but want to try using Debian. Mandrake puts the kernel in /boot. So it was nice to make /boot one partition and / in another. I tried installing 2.2 but couldn't figure out how to make the installer do that. Any suggestions? dar -- Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

update off apache failed, but no notice

2000-09-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
I just updated apache to: 1.3.9-13.1 (testing distro) the restart failed, because my changes were incompatible with the new version. apt-get install was running in non-interactive mode, and I got no message that told me that it had failed. Is this always like this? Would be nice to get an email

Re: lp module in Debian 2.2

2000-09-27 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Seung-woo Nam wrote: Hi everyone: I installed Debian 2.2 recently and the process went pretty smoothly except for lp module for printer support. The installation of the module fails even though I have a printer connected to the parallel port and I

3c509 troubles

2000-09-27 Thread Helpdesk
Greetings all, I just installed the latest version of debian and am having problems with my nic. The 3c5x9setup program tells me that it can't find a nic at 0x300. This is a 3c509b-tp card that worked fine under NT. I used 3c5x9cfg to verify that the i/o address is 300h (i also tried 310h with

Re: reboot problem

2000-09-27 Thread cls-colo spgs
you may need a scsi-free kernel. now, where to ftp one from debian.org, i can't tell you at the moment. (i've got to be somewhere soon, so i can't do the research. maybe someone else can be of more assistance.) hth. bentley taylor. // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded slink to

Exim

2000-09-27 Thread Jake Griesbach
Hi, Sorry if this message is a repeat, I'm not suscribed to this mailing list. After doing an unstable upgrade this morning, I found that Exim isn't working anymore (Exim bug #72588). There seems to be a problem with libdb2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailq mailq: /usr/lib/libdb.so.2: no version

zope-siteaccess

2000-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I did a fresh install of zope-2.2.1 and zope-siteaccess_2.0.0b3 from wood. Zope 2.2.1 is working fine but siteaccess is broken. I can't add a SiteRoot to any folder. The error I get is: - Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

RE: Exim

2000-09-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Sep-2000 Jake Griesbach wrote: Hi, Sorry if this message is a repeat, I'm not suscribed to this mailing list. After doing an unstable upgrade this morning, I found that Exim isn't working anymore (Exim bug #72588). There seems to be a problem with libdb2: yep, db2 is borked.

Re: Which netscape version works?

2000-09-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Neil L. Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using the meta packages is the way to go. But, the meta package is navigator, not netscape. No, on the contrary, the meta package is netscape-smotif-475, but it doesn't include navigator, only communicator: $ apt-cache show netscape-smotif-475 Package:

Postfix question

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I just migrated from Exim to Postfix (but I kept my Exim stuff just in case) and it works well, but I have one small problem that I also had with Exim. Sometimes a connection is attempted by some MTA that does not have a hostname in the DNS, or it has a hostname that does not resolve to its

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I won't stay away from Woody, because I almost never upgrade anything that might break the system, only packages that won't do any damage if they don't work. I would submit a bug report, but the developers probably already know what is going on. The one time I depart from my practice of not

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-2000 Bryan Walton wrote: Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package that is breaking everything for

Reconfiguring network from dhcp?

2000-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
I have a box, currently getting IP, etc from DHCP. I'd like to change to a static IP. I know I can hack the parts together, but out of curiosity, is there a tool to reconfigure eth0 to a static IP? Robert :wq! ---

list down?

2000-09-27 Thread William Jensen
I haven't seen anything my way since about midnight on 9/26. Is down? Or is this perhaps a side effect of the problems with apt-get upgrade recently? Wm

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread C. Falconer
At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found /proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average load values. You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the first

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
Hi Andrew, Rather mysterious. Nothing has broken. Restarted exim (in a deliberate attempt to break it - if the problem was really there), and is continued to work. Even rebooted (I would much rather have it break when I am expecting it). Everything still works. And /sbin/ldconfig

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-27 Thread Josh Huber
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:24:37AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: I *hate* the user interface for info. man is so much easier. Is there a better way to use info other than the command line info command. The gnome-help-browser is OK but I can't do searches with it. Yeah, I reccommend you try

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread montefin
Hi, I'm in a somewhat similar situation to Bryan (below), except I didn't upgrade. My last woody upgrade was about a week and a half ago. Luckily, I posted the 'Paranoid's Question' to this list yesterday (9/26 at 18:54 MDT) just before attempting another upgrade. The cautionary replies I

Q: on Debian Bug-Tracking system

2000-09-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Would someone know if the bugs listed on debian.org/Bugs are the 'current' outstanding bugs or just of all the bugs ever posted? In working up a course outline for an up-coming class, I found a bunch of 'inconsistencies' in the doc packages (doc-base, dhelp, dwww). I decides to report them

OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread William Jensen
Warning: Ignorant question coming... I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is sent to the domain when I'm rebooted into windows and playing games? Wm

RE: Postfix question

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
Will putting these hosts in the /etc/postfix/access list suffice? I just thought of that, but it's too simple ;) -- Andrew On 27-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote: I just migrated from Exim to Postfix (but I kept my Exim stuff just in case) and it works well, but I have one small problem that I also had

Re: libc5 / libc6

2000-09-27 Thread Barry Samuels
Liam Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to see if asking APT to install the libc5 package in simulate mode would suggest the removal of libc6 and it doesn't, which suggests I could simply install the libc5 package. However, I'm too scared to do it without checking that I'm not going

Re: Multiple netscapes; multiple x servers; a question

2000-09-27 Thread Barry Samuels
Douglas Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife and I use the same debian box. We don't want to log in and out, and so I've been logging in as her in KDE, doing an xhost + mymachine and then using telnet/ssh to log in as me. snip Two possible solutions: 1) Netscape 4.75 works and all is

Re: X resources (was Re: Netscape big menu)

2000-09-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:28:58AM +1100, David Fisher wrote: For less ugly Netscape fonts and proper size scaling, the best solution I've found is to install the mozilla-fonts package at http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts, I have installed the rpm for these fonts using

Re: succesor to dpkg

2000-09-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: It was called HPML and it's fairly dead. There is a CVS, but nothing more than a skeleton and a spec document. I think Wichert is working on something else. Yes, and he's gonna propose the non .deb people should use that too (as it's better then deb and

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is sent to the domain when I'm rebooted into windows and playing games? This depends on the sending

SUSCRIBE

2000-09-27 Thread Ed Desmar
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IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:51:10PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: I don't know if it's sophisticated enough for what you want to do, but setting up port forwarding using ssh is very easy. If all you want to do is something like secure mail transfer, then it'll take you mere seconds to set up, and

Re: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:59:25PM +0200, Ulrich Grün wrote: I have installed debian 2.2 with X_4.0.1 (the original X-server refused to connect because of some errno=111). Which one ? (It dowsn't matter anymore, anyway ...) My problem is, that all the windows are fixed on the upper panel on

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:03:51PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Warning: Ignorant question coming... I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is sent to the domain when I'm rebooted

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
I don't know why your system was unaffected. Did you also upgrade libc6-dev? -- Andrew On 27-Sep-2000 Bryan Walton wrote: Hi Andrew, Rather mysterious. Nothing has broken. Restarted exim (in a deliberate attempt to break it - if the problem was really there), and is continued to

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that, and then shut down your server just to play 'how-many-ways-can-regedit-fsck-my-shell*'? But not everyone can afford to have a second computer to play games on :} That said, there's

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-27 Thread hawk
Subject: Re: ppp install failing (loopback?) In-Reply-To: Message from David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:43:13 BST. [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I thought I sent

compiling software

2000-09-27 Thread john gennard
On previous occasions, I've asked for and received specific help on this topic. Now I must absorb the principles involved and thoroughly understand environment variables and permissions. Whilst I've gained some knowledge, it's fragmented and I just don't have a feeling for the overall picture.

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
The gods must be looking out for me, at least temporarily. Here is what dpkg --status libc6 libc6-dev shows: Both packages: 2.1.94-1 HALLELUJAH (Knock on wood(y)) -Bryan WaltoN On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:51:06PM +, Pollywog wrote: I don't know why your system was unaffected. Did

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list. There was a warning about the db2 problem (not that it stopped me from upgrading). 8^( Today there have been messages on debian-devel about several programs that have exhibited problems are in the process of being

installation problems

2000-09-27 Thread Chris Kuck
I am installing debian for the first time and I have reached istalling the base system without a hitch. it tells me when i install the base system that the next thing to do is to install the base system. This will repeat at lest for 20 - 30 times (any more than that I thin k I would have gone

Re: OT what happens to mail when...

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
The number of games available for Debian just keeps on growing. There are also wine, VMware and Win4Lin. On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:09:53PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote: obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that, and

potato (libc6 is getting to me)

2000-09-27 Thread Claudette Woodgate
Well I figured I have nothing to lose. I messed up my woody install *real* bad by trying to fix libc6. I'm going to install potato and be happy. Now, on ftp.debian.org : in /debian-cd/2.2_rev0/i386, there is 3 ISO images. Binary-i386-1.iso, binary-i386-2.iso and binary-i386-3.iso. I suppose I

I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
Well, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention and I had every unnecessary port closed... or so I thought. I was still running the portmapper. So when I ssh'd home today and nmapped myself, a couple of mysterious processes popped up. To begin with: I nmapped my box and saw, much to my dismay:

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
Use lsof -i | grep port to find out exactly what binary is running on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a netstat -an and see what is connected to your mystery port. Find out where your attacker is coming from. Robert Thus

Potato file structure

2000-09-27 Thread csj
I am trying to put together my own unofficial Potato CDR. I don't want to use the pseudo-image script because it makes use of a program (rsync) I am totally unfamiliar with. I have had limited success with the CDRW I had already burned. Basically it lets me install the base system (kernel,

RE: potato (libc6 is getting to me)

2000-09-27 Thread Pollywog
You don't need to reinstall Linux, if that is what you intend to do. Just install the stable potato libc6 and friends and you will be fine. This information will show you which files you need to grab: http://togo.dhs.org/woody-libc-downgrade.html All I did was to copy ldconfig from my other

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 at 07:48:01 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: At 04:39 PM 9/27/00 +0100, you wrote: You could try 'vmstat 1', which will poll every second. Ignoring the first line, which is an up to the time vmstat was started figure, the last field in each line is the percentage of time the CPU

Screensavers in window maker...

2000-09-27 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I just upgraded my Debian box from 2.1 to 2.2 and I use windowmaker as window manager, but since I upgraded I have none screensaver options froms the windowmaker's main menu. Someone knows how can I install all the screensaver that I used to before my upgrade? TIA Rogelio

Re: Paranoid's Question

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
montefin wrote: Why hasn't woody done something really bad yet? Have I just been lucky for over two months playing 'apt-get upgrade roulette'? Or, am I in pain and just don't know it? It seems you have not yet attempted the latest libc upgrade. :-) -- see shy jo

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Pollywog wrote: It first broke Postfix here. Details, please? I've been sitting comfy with the new libc since I use postfix and I'd only heard of it breaking exim and sendmail. What breakage are you seeing? My postfix is working fine. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#72595: i2c: i2c (using make-kpkg modules-image) wants to write to /lib/modules/2.2.18pre11

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Richard A Nelson wrote: Version: N/A Severity: grave Never, EVER, EVER*** file a grave bug report without a version number. -- see shy jo

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve do the lsof and netstat thing and am curious try: egrep -i failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal port|blocked|denied|passwd\ /var/log/messages* try: last, w, who, tooo check the binaries tooo... top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... have

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Pollywog wrote: It first broke Postfix here. Details, please? I've been sitting comfy with the new libc since I use postfix and I'd only heard of it breaking exim and sendmail. What breakage are you seeing? My postfix is working fine. So the details are postfix cannot

no /dev/audio?

2000-09-27 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, testing for sound (via saytime), i get a no-deivce error; yet, i see audio in /dev. Script started on Wed Sep 27 17:28:28 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ saytime opening /dev/audio: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ ¦less atibm audio ^ audio1 bpcd cdrom [snip] Script done on

Re: kde2 for potato

2000-09-27 Thread Jesse Goerz
KDE2 is only available for woody, however, just add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and you should be able to get what you need. ---add this to /etc/apt/sources.list--- deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free # You may have to add this as well for some of the

Re: Print to windows Printer?

2000-09-27 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me? I've used pbm2ppa to print to an attached HP820Cse windows only printer. -- Thank you, Joe

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Use lsof -i | grep port to find out exactly what binary is running on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a netstat -an

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Phil Brutsche wrote: * Try to find a way to track who is connecting to your computer at 7:35 in the morning with a packet sniffer - either with another computer on the same hub or on your computer with a tcpdump binary you prepared yourself. I suspect it's much ado about nothing. I'll

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