When I click on a html file in konqueror or try to use it as a browser, I get
an error dialog saying:
There appears to be a misconfiguration. You have associated konqueror with
text/html, but it can't handle this file type.
Hmmm ?
On 29-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
Description: dpkg -s pacakge
List all files:dpkg -L pacakge
list all packages: dpkg -l
So, does that mean apt-get's cache is shared with dpkg then? I
thought
they were
On 26-Sep-2000 Felix Natter wrote:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Soulier writes:
Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for
On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote:
Running a vanilla identd is a Bad Thing IMHO. It helps attackers
identify
usernames and find out under what UIDs daemons are running (eg. if
sendmail
is running as root).
Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC server wants,
while
On 23-Sep-2000 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
Should I allow packets coming into my port 113?
there was a big discussion about this about half a year ago. maybe you
want to look at the archives.
i reject these packets and it works.
if some server denies you access because of this, you may run
On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote:
Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed?
I cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden.
When I had deb installed on another system I somehow picked up identd and
I was not listed as ~ in name so
On 20-Sep-2000 Tommy Wu wrote:
Hi!
I've a ESS1868 sound card on my box.
But I can install the driver for this. It's always show something
failed.
Here is my syslog for isapnp and sb.
=== cut start ===
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: Card 'ESS ES1868 Plug and Play
On 12-Sep-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
[...]
Sometimes ssh works. Sometimes it doesn't:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ ssh lists
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
...maybe 1 of 4 attempts succeeds.
On the host, in /var/auth.log, I see:
Sep
On 10-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote:
Hey guys. How do I raise the priority of the interrupt that the
soundcard is on so that music doesn't stutter during heavy disk
operations?
Use irqtune from the hwtools package.
On 01-Sep-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote:
[...]
pr I know but it seemed to be a different problem. I did a usermod -G
pr floppy after I had done the audio and that removed me from the audio
pr group. I misunderstood the functionality of usermod -G :-)
A common mistake--that's why I said
On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
Dear debian-users
I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account
on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at.
I
On 26-Aug-2000 Kenward Vaughan wrote:
[...]
I stumbled onto this yesterday for the first time. While the login went OK
(what happens with a mixed--UC and lc--password?)
Nothing strange. Just type the password as you would at a lower case passwd
prompt, and you'll be logged in.
On 25-Aug-2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That gateway is flooding the list with duplicates. Does anyone know who
owns it so we can get ahold of them to tell them to shut down the gateway? I
tried mailing to that
On 23-Aug-2000 Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
Geez, maybe somebody should write a mouse howto or something. (just kidding
isn't that what the XFree86-HOWTO is for?)
There actually is a 3-button-mouse mini-howto.
My mouse problem was that I set it up as microsoft in XF86Setup, and the middle
button
On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do
the following:
Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a
normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of
desired smaller
On 19-Aug-2000 John Bagdanoff wrote:
When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, in console mode
this is not nice.
I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
found how to change it back to using less.
Any ideas?
As root run update-alternatives --config
On 18-Aug-2000 Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
So I installed Debian 2.2. Everything went well but after the installation
I'm at the prompt and I type in startx and I get:
Fatal Server Error:
Cannot open mouse (no such file or directory)
and I don't know what to do! Help!
You should configure
On 19-Aug-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote:
debs,
what's the command for removing user accts?
userdel
On 17-Aug-2000 Paul D. Smith wrote:
I'm sure this has been discussed before (I have an uneasy feeling it may
be a oh no, not this again question); maybe someone can put the
rationale into a file in /usr/share/doc/ somewhere? I tried searching
the list archives (user, x, boot, etc.) with
On 14-Aug-2000 Ron Rademaker wrote:
The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;)
There are xfree 4.0.1 debian packages (very experimental, though) available at
http://www.debian.org/~branden/.
On 12-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote:
(...)
What happens by default when all memory and swap file is exhausted?
I would like to know that. Must it be that system crashes or that
it denies every use of my computer?
At first, nothing. But when a daemon or other running program tries to malloc
some
On 11-Aug-2000 Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
which man page do i need to learn more about the LANG and LC_LANG
variables? is there a comperhensive list of env variables?
- man [1|5|7] locale.
- the Locales chapter in the glibc manual
Usable variables are in /etc/locale.alias and the directory names
On 11-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote:
On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote:
I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this:
Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7,
and Win-98, (and BeOS till
On 11-Aug-2000 cam wrote:
hello,
I've tried unsuccessfully to get my Aureal sound card (8810 chipset) to
work. When I attempt to install the drivers I get the following error:
make install AUCHIP=AU8810
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/au88xx-1.0.5'
mv -f /etc/modules.conf
On 10-Aug-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
Since mutt was the only program that doesn't display these characters
correctly, I searched the mutt mailing list archives. I still don't
understand why unsetting LANG solves my problem, because the correct fix
is to set LC_CTYPE to an appropriate
On 10-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote:
Dear
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape
versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to
'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at
On 09-Aug-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
Hi,
I was having trouble with the display of special characters in mutt when
logged in using ssh, and I found that the LANG environment variable is
the culprit.
When I use mutt from an xterm, special characters like ë, é, § for
example are
On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote:
I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this:
Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7,
and Win-98, (and BeOS till recently):
a) Create a separate partition, (Type of partition msdos or vfat).
On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote:
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and
On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote:
You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped
tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar,
and zip programs are all installed.
Interestingly,
On 03-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote:
Hello,
I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount
points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to
them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an
xterm, or from within an application
On 01-Aug-2000 Matthew D Davis wrote:
Hello all,
I have my system setup to dual boot win2k and Debian 2.3. I would like to be
able to access my large fat32 partition from both OSes. Whenever I mount the
drive from the prompt or out of fstab (options are default,user,
error=read-only)
On 31-Jul-2000 Christopher Clark wrote:
As an ex Rred Hat user, my midnight commander left me in the current working
directory when I F10 out of it. The Debian version dumps me back to
the original directory. Is there any way to convert my Debian potato MC
to the redhat style?
regards
On 30-Jul-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
Hello,
I have used dhelp for a while in a standalone woody box, and all
worked fine. Now I've installed apache and glimpse (to use the
search feature)... And things seemed to stop working:
After installing apache, glimpse, and reinstalling
On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote:
I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog:
modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6
now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this
error to stop? It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute.
Any help would greatly be
On 28-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote:
Yes but what I'm wondering is not why linux users recompile their kernels,
or why windows users can't, but how is it that windows users get away with
not having to? The closest answer I got is that windows kernels have
a bunch of drivers already compiled
On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Debians,
I goofed up a little while ago and connected two SCSI devices with the
same ID. I've cleaned up the mess, but now I have a number of files
in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root!
Typical output of ls -l on that
On 25-Jul-2000 Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
Hi Richard,
The man page say you can send it a SIGHUP signal to have it reread its
configuration file...
I think its... kill -s SIGUP pid where pid is the process id you get by
ps aux | grep inetd
Wouldn't be more simple elegant kill -HUP
On 25-Jul-2000 Sven Burgener wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote:
It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead
of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the GNU part of
the login prompt. :)
Press ^V then ^O then
On 25-Jul-2000 Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . .
IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that
was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into
files. There's about 80M
On 24-Jul-2000 Tomasz Barszczak wrote:
Well, too soon to be happy.
cron runs periodically rmmod -a .
Then when I want to use the modem again serial driver is re-loaded:
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq
On 22-Jul-2000 adam b. wrote:
isapnptools works okay, probably.
I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten
them actually working before giving up.
Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know
free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memory
On 17-Jul-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I am trying to compile a simple X application but I
keep getting the folloeing error:
gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called
under
On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote:
If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one
of those partitions empty,
Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the
earlier generations?
What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh..
The 8 GB limit applies only to
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to
simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote:
So it sounds like there are files containing
pre-defined information for making /dev entries.
I would therefore conclude that it knows that
lp3 would be a printer port and configures
it accordingly.
That helps immensely, thank you
I would presume
On 06-Jul-2000 JOHN G BROPHY wrote:
Hi.
Can you please supply me with a web site address so that I can download a
driver for ESS1688 PLUG AND PLAY.
JOHN BROPHY
These cards are supported by both OSS and
On 15-Jun-2000 Johann Spies wrote:
I have the following file in /lost+found:
br-xr-srw- 1 4462 25959147, 103 Jul 25 2019 #1355791
Can somebody explain the following to me please:
1. The meaning of 'b' in the permissions.
2. The group end owner of the file
3. Why this file
On 12-Jun-2000 Chris Mason wrote:
I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because
apt-get remove exim fails because there are dependent programs. I don't
care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even
apt-get -f remove exim fails. Is
On 05-Jun-2000 Sven Garbade wrote:
Dear List,
I want to port some old DOS-programs to Linux. The programs produce
simple graphics like filled circles, moving rectangles etc. I´ve take a
look in the xscreensaver sources, but I would find it very helpful, if
there´s an overview about the
On 02-Jun-2000 Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
Already several times happened to me the following:
When I use a few memory eating programs like Netscape and dselect
together, by whole computer freezes for a long time (10 minutes or so)
and I don't see another way out then simply turning it of,
Hi folks,
I'm thinking on switching from a dial-up connection to a leased line. Is there
anything special my modem (3com usr 56k ext) has to know to do this (ie. to deal
with the differences between a normal telephone line and the leased one) ?
TIA,
Lehel
On 28-May-2000 Shane Wegner wrote:
Hi,
I am attempting to modify the Debian rescue flopy to be an emergency
recovery for my system. Actually it's root.bin which I am modifying. I am
having problems adding utilities. I need to add the raid tools as well as
restore(8). When I chroot to
On 27-May-2000 Craig McPherson wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:42:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
Update the dpkg package and that error should go away (though methinks
there would be quotes around the string System V ...).
Thanks... but I'm using the latest version of the dpkg
On 25-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote:
I am trying to setup a SoundBlaster16 sound card, I have recomplied the
kernel for sound and pnp support. Now I see the howto is telling me to:
Use pnpdump to capture the possible settings for all your Plug and Play
devices, saving the result to the file
On 21-May-2000 w trillich wrote:
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
* w == w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10
w hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke
w equivalences?
Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-)
Maybe it is a VT100 thing or such.
On 18-May-2000 Nick wrote:
i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH
thankx
Use chsh.
On 18-May-2000 Nick wrote:
i am having a difficult time changing from CEST to PDT/PST
i have tried the following
date --set=Thur May 18 00:00:00 PDT 2000
but get Thur May 18 00:00:00 CEST 2000
can't get rid of it, it is stuck from the install!
thankx for the tips
You have to run
On 16-May-2000 Brad wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote:
No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get
only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of
dependency problems, and screw up your existing
On 15-May-2000 David E. Young wrote:
Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux
user/administrator (mostly RedHat).
I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went
flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an
upgrade to the upcoming
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:
hi
when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
etc. etc.
any ideas?
Read the XFree86 FAQ !
The most possible case is that you've chosen the wrong refresh
On Fri, 05 May 2000, Jason Dodd wrote:
Hello all,
Newbie here, I've installed Debian at home and would now like to install
Debian on a separate partition on my work computer. Win98 is currently
loaded on the first 2 Gb's of the drive, the remaining 1 Gb is currently
free space. I
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Brian May wrote:
For me, the problem with Windows is you have to think when thinking
should not be required. Take for instance, autoexec.bat.
I know a Windows computer, that whenever it starts, it flashes up
with the message Bad command or filename for a few seconds
On Tue, 02 May 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
2. Where can I find out to which device (if it is a device it refers
to) a number like 16:05 in the error message above refers. I have
looked at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, but do not get a
clear answer on this.
16h=22, so look in
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:
of course, since apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade didn't install
everything (or download everything, for that matter) i don't know
why i insist on thinking that apt-get install somepkg would include
the pertinences relating to that package. it does
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Andrew Kae wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog
files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and
recreate them?
Yes, you can delete recreate them, but do not forget to send a SIGHUP to
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
I have almost everything important working now from my switch last week
from RH to potato. While I can't say that it's been painless, I have
learned some things, which, I s'pose is good for the soul, or something.
So, one of my two major remaining
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote:
I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was
wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux
distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning
to customize and modify it, but
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify
depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your
examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies.
Huh...download the source too ?
You can edit the
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, college pc wrote:
Dear, Sir
How are you ...
I have 4 CD's , 2 Binary 2 source of Debian Linux 2.1r2 . I try to install
it.
1- I ask about applications, are they included in these 3 other cd's or not.?
The GNU/Linux operating sytem = the kernel + OS specific
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it.
If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet
range. OK, here is what I got:
Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, john smith wrote:
I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both
as root and user accounts)
$fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or
xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to verify them using
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
What I don't like about apt/dselect is how they treat packages locally
compiled from source tarball. I couldn't find an option to really ignore
dependencies and do what I say.
Specifically, if I want esound-alsa but have compiled the ALSA
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
Why don't you debianize the package or create a fake one that provides the
debian-package equivalent of what you locally installed ?
Ah, I should have known there is a proper way to do this. This had briefly
occured to me, but I've never ever
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, john smith wrote:
hi,
when I try to install qmail after building it I get the error:
green:/tmp/qmail# dpkg -i qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 28966 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking qmail (from qmail_1.03-12_i386.deb) ...
Performing
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Bill wrote:
***
/etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered
but not installed at /etc/suid.conf line 7
***
can someone please tell me how to
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote:
Hi deb's
Anyone know of a good zip-utility that can span disks?
I need to transfer some files (some of which are too big for
one floppy) from my debian-box to my win31-laptop...
thx
Vitux
I'd suggest rar.
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Attila Csosz wrote:
I tried to run mozilla M14 but I got the followin error messages..
./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Running locate: I have..
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Jeff Gordon wrote:
I have a li'l program I wrote, Mail-Penguin, that retrieves mail for us
from our POP box on the web -- it's a home-brewed 'fetchmail', sort of.
Normally it sends informational messages to the screen -- but now I
have it being launched by diald's ip-up
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote:
Hi,
Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can
find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive.
I have a small project with 3 source code files, and I don't want to compile
all of them
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote:
Lehel Bernadt wrote:
What kind of boot disk do you have :
ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ?
What is its configuration ?
I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you
altered
the config to boot
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Tadeusz Bak wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under
slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program:
#define RUN /tmp/.rem.run
#include stdio.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include fcntl.h
#include
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
Hi there,
I was experimenting some new things here and I decided to try to
build binary packages from the source ones (to get benefit from
compiling them with pgcc instead of the regular gcc) and, although I
suceeded to do that with some
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote:
Hello,
I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an
old SUSE last
night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with
that
distribution.
I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh,
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager
i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following
exec windowmanager currently set to wmaker
what do i specify for KDE?
kwm
That's a wrong answer.
You should do
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote:
Can someone explain (or point me to the correct
documentation for) the procedure for making the
Windows key pop up the start menu for the kde, fvwm or
icewm desktops?
To do something useful with the winkeys you must ensure that they are mapped to
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
I have managed to mv files that I did not meant to. Can someone tell me if
the
following is part of /etc/security/access.conf?
[03:49:10 /tmp]$ cat /etc/security/access.conf
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unix_auth.so
accountrequired
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