RE: apt-get byte compile problem

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Peter Mickle wrote: A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the install process, I answered yes to a prompt to byte compile the newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade)

RE: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, but what can I do to make dselect usable in

RE: bash-problem

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC? better yet, set root's shell to something like sash.

RE: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away. If not, this is a bug in gdm.

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really think it is a gdm problem. right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, the dir should go away with it.

RE: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X exits. Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't make any difference. Should I file a bug or something? I have Version: 3.3.6-10, and it does when i use startx.

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer

RE: crontab think `root' is a command?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Peter S Galbraith wrote: I'm getting these cron mails under potato: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 06:42:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /bin/sh: root: command not found

RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote: Hi, Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted spool. I haven't found any applets that suit

RE: What are user quotas?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Hammurabi Mendes wrote: what are user quotas? can anyone help me? i couldn't find much information on the manual pages user quotas are limits placed on normal users. Examples are size of home directory, number of processes running at once, amount of memory used, etc.

RE: Debian and OpenBSD -- ssh compatibility?

2000-07-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Jul-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm configuring an OpenBSD firewall in front of my Debian box. Current problem is getting compatible versions of ssh on both boxes. I can ssh FROM OpenBSD to Debian, but not TO OpenBSD from Debian. Error message on attempting OpenBSD connection:

RE: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can anyone verify that this is the case? Add any info? Which should I use on my system? Do I have a choice? Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can I delete my /etc/conf.modules.old file without worry? yep, i have not had one for some time. There is no standard as of yet. When the LSB (Linux Standards Base) gets ratified we may have to revisit this issue. If documentation confuses you, please mail the maintainer and ask for the

RE: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris if you compile a kernel once with all the odd devices as modules you

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is in principle supported, but what

RE: cron editor

2000-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-2000 Erik van der Meulen wrote: Dear list, this seems a silly issue but I cannot get around it. I just installed cron on a new Potato system. If I do a 'crontab -e' I get a strange editor, unlike vim which I get on met 2.1 box. Is there a way to change this behaviour? it reads

RE: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato ( kernel 2.2.16 ) with Slink version KDE. When I start kppp it displays a message which says that I don't have ppp compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module which is wrong (I have ppp as a module). the user who runs ppp should

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: Just makedev lp3? This is the part that I am a little vague on. Isn't there parameters to include with this? How does it know how which piece of hardware it is intended for? Or am I making this harder (in my head) than it really is? And you

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
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. files in /dev are special files. if you ls -l

RE: apt-get

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me where to get documentation on how to use apt-get? I am new to debian and apt. /usr/share/doc/apt. Every package in Debian has docs (some have more than others).

RE: unofficial mirror

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Christopher Thompson wrote: I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend. So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to mirror

RE: find question

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
dir1 and dir2 are web sites themselves. I want to know if anyone has accessed dir1 within the last 60 days. I've been using find like this: $ find dir1 -atime 60 -print Is this the correct command? looks sane, although I think atime is only set on files. Also, some people turn off

RE: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I am looking for a window manager for debian that will not soakup the system resources. Which one would you suggest? I maintain blackbox it was designed to be minimal. Another popular choice is window maker, with all the bells and whistles turned off.

RE: xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote: Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my

RE: wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: hi, I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) mode? no, sorry. console does not work that way. GGI has

RE: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: Hello, I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it categorize the password as

RE: ext3 and availability

2000-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: Hi debs How far is the development of ext3? Today, at linux-conference.ch some guy from RH said he was using ext3 on his notebook right then. Apparently the main developer of both ext2 and ext3 works also for RH. So, I wanted to know whether anyone

RE: Synchronising many machines.

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I am maintaining quite a few machines that run Debian._ I presently only have access to a 56K modem link._ I have some powerpc machines and some intel machines._ I presently try to keep them in sync by doing an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade on one intel machine and one powerpc machine._ I

RE: getting .deb files after removed from incoming

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2000 Per Marker Mortensen wrote: Hello Newly uploaded files to debian are located at http://incoming.debian.org/. When the files are accepted they are moved to the main-archive. How often does ftp.debian.org sync with this main-archive? I want to install the newly

RE: Login Message

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jun-2000 Bill wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me where to change the login message when logging into Debian Box with SSH. ssh login geisha [~] $ ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Sun Jun 25 13:11:48 2000 from silicon.su.valinux.com on pts/5 Linux geisha

RE: network installer uses HTTP instead of FTP to load base2_x.t

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
As I am new to Debian, please let me know if I've overlooked some fundamental Debian design philosophy. nope, we just did not have the time to get everything in we wanted. Sorry for the inconvenience. Of course, you can still install from http.us.debian.org or somesuch, and it is only 1

RE: Freeze on supend in text mode

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Dominique Rousset wrote: Hello, I'm running up-to-date potato (ker. 2.2.15-ide) on a HP vectra VLi8 Cel. 466. I had to enable APM mainly to get the fan control working (and making the machine very quiet) with append = apm=on in the lilo.conf file. I'm using the machine

RE: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: Is there a way in which I can store some data (eg. mysql passwords) safely from other users on a website and retrieve it from php3/4? include the files from your script. The file can be elsewhere, the server just has to be able to get to it.

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Marcin Kurc wrote: I might be wrong but ... If you have users on your server, and they are able to run web pages, one can write a php3/4 script to include the file with passwds for example and make use of it. they have to be able to read certain files, a well configed

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as system users on the webserver, not web visitors. What I need is a way to provide separate mysql databases to all virtualhosts and webserver users, without a possibility for them to

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 07-Jun-2000 Robert Varga wrote: That is not the same problem. When I refer on users, they are meant as system users on the webserver, not web visitors. What I need is a way to provide

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
apache runs as the vhost user. One apache daemon group per v host. Nope. It may be true for ip-based virtual hosts, but surely not for namebased virtual hosts. we ran IP based, I assumed most people did, sorry. Guess you just have to cross your fingers and hope.

RE: PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
try asking on debian-laptop.

RE: a) telnet, b) x window setting

2000-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jun-2000 Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi, concerning telnet: I want to be able to login with a telnet client via ethernet, but I don't want anybody else to be able to login via ISDN and ppp. Is it possible to tell telnetd to serve only those logins coming from the LAN?

RE: Centralizing Logins

2000-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I've managed to get the pam_radius_auth module to work on solaris, linux, and BSD. THe problem is that this module is limited to authentication and that's it. Is there some method of centralized authentication that will pass session data AND accounting data? NIS is no good for us because

RE: Moving partitions around...

2000-06-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Absolute safest thing to do is backup the partition (or maybe only your files). using dpkg --get-selections and a little scripting, you can get a list of every package on your system. pass that data into dpkg --set-selections and you get your old system back. So all you really need to save is

RE: kernel-source

2000-06-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jun-2000 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: What's the difference between kernel-source and the linux-2.*.tar.gz? To compile your own kernel, if you use the linux* one, you use make-kpkg after unpacking. If you use kernel-source, do you unpack it? If yes, how? And then, what next? the

RE: KDE 2.0 Beta

2000-05-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2000 Brent Kopperson wrote: Are there any deb binaries available yet? Brent Kopperson kde.tdyc.com (or is that tydc.com?) it is apt-get'able and everything.

RE: PCMCIA trouble

2000-05-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2000 Gary Hennigan wrote: Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in potato? I just tried installing kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-1.deb pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1.deb and the PCMCIA modules are giving me a lot of unresolved symbols whenever an attempt is

RE: potato upgrade warning

2000-05-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2000 Dean wrote: Hi all: Just finished upgrading to potato and have a warning both at start up and when shutting down: [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab Do I just edit /etc/fstab and put final on the last line? tia Dean unless something ate a bit of

RE: Corrupt apt status and available lists

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-May-2000 Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hi! I have a woody system, and pretty unstable hardware. Yesterday I had a crash when running apt-get upgrade. Since then apt-get update wont work any more, complaining about the status file, and when I try to apt-get updata I get some problems with

RE: XF4.0 deb eta?

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-May-2000 Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Not trying to tick anyone off, but I need the NVIDIA driver for my new video card and it appears to require XF-4.0. I'd rather keep to .debs and not go source or converted .rpm, so I can keep my box clean... Anyone got an eta or a really

RE: wanted: more extensive package info

2000-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-May-2000 Bob Bagwill wrote: IMHO, package pages, e.g. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/bash.html should have a pointer to the package homepage if it exists, and more info about the author(s), development effort, etc. all of this info is in the copyright file linked

RE: Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail rout

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-May-2000 David Henningsson wrote: what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... You're quite

RE: directories-files

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Paul Clark wrote: I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz archive that some of my directories have turned into files. They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fact

RE: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, I just tried to install potato on the PC with i810 based motherboard. The problem is with it's VGA adapter. In the documentation attached to the xserver-svga I've read that it requires the agpgart module, which should be included with the

Re: Problem with installing potato on i810 based PC. (No agpgart

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Where can I get them from? Is it safe to copy the drivers/char/agp directory from the RedHat's 2.2.14 sources into the debian's 2.2.15, and use the make-kpkg? somewhere, there should be a kernel patch. Apply that.

RE: dhcp

2000-05-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
please send the output of: apt-get install dhcp-client (be sure you run the command as the user 'root')

RE: Intel 810e ChipSet - On board Video.

2000-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2000 Ron Stordahl wrote: Anyone successfully using frozen potato with the Intel 810e on board video chipset? Does potato detect it and do the install with ease or will I have to dig out needed modules myself from xfree86.org etc. The 810e looks like a nice way to go for a low

RE: Wanted a free library for computational geometry

2000-05-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-May-2000 Daniele Cruciani wrote: Hi, I'm going to write some programs of computational geometry, so i need a library (probably a set of libs) for data type and algorithms. AFAIK there are 2 library that could hit my need: LEDA (http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA/) for data type and CGAL

RE: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u myname -p passsword ..people can see my password...So it would be good if I can hide what i am doing from other

RE: outdated deb's in dselect

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-May-2000 jerry j jaskierny wrote: i'm having problems with outdated packages and dselect, ala dpkg. for instance, the alsa modules at version 4.1 are pretty old. say i want the updated alsa, for whatever reason. unsupported soundcard, whatever. so i download the source from alsa and

RE: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: Ok Guys, I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a butt. How can I change the screen size without going back into XF86Config. I am looking at 640x480 and would like 800x600. Will this be possible to change without going into

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: Ok Guys, I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a butt. How can I change the screen size without going back

RE: Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 R. Ransbottom wrote: I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it with the message: EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional

RE: Couple questions

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I have two questions: What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? nothing, however there is a difference between 'su user' and 'su - user'. When the dash is used, it means to run that user's initialization files (.bashrc and the

RE: Quick Question

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: When running X, Where do I find NetScape Browser.I tried Mozilla Navigator. Thats not is right? Thank Guys if you have it installed, it will be in the Apps menu, under Net. otherwise you need to type: 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt

RE: dpkg-awk

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 w trillich wrote: Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: `dpkg-awk' works pretty good, and so does `apt-cache', for finding things. I also like to use the web search interface at www.debian.org, under the Packages clicker. i'm using frozen (potato), all updated, upgraded and

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 David S. Bateman wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: Ok Guys, I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had

RE: gpg confusion

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: hi! i'm new with gpg... which one should be really sent as attachment... the revoke.asc or the gpgkey thats bigger than revoke? in general the asc is the item you want to send. www.gnupg.org has a nice doc on how gnupg works.

RE: socket programming

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Brett Fowlkes wrote: I am writing a server that accepts telnet connections. I am using basic sockets to do so and do not use inetd. I cannot figure out how to disable the echoing to screen for the password. I have tried everywhere else, this is my last resort. a) read the

Re: socket programming

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Marek Habersack wrote: ** On May 12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry scribbled: On 12-May-2000 Brett Fowlkes wrote: I am writing a server that accepts telnet connections. I am using basic sockets to do so and do not use inetd. I cannot figure out how to disable the echoing to screen

RE: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Bart Szyszka wrote: Hello, Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released before there are DEBs? most KDE people are not debian users or developers. So they make packages

Re: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Bart Szyszka wrote: Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released before there are DEBs? most KDE people are not debian users or developers. So they make packages for

RE: HOWTO get src via dselect?

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Bolan Meek wrote: Greetings, all: God bless you. I have noticed for some time now that, when 2)Update ing in dselect, that source package list files are hit gotten. Is there a way to get source file packages though dselect? I fail to find any key combination in the help

RE: Compiling New Kernel

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
package dselect version recommended version == == Procps 1.2.9-3 2.0.3 Util-linux 2.9g-6 2.9z I have updated my dselect packages list, and it appears that no newer versions are available. Do I need to

RE: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

2000-05-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-May-2000 Ron Stordahl wrote: 10Base-T RJ45 PCI Network Cards some in an incredible range of prices from 10 bucks up. Is it possible that the only significant difference is the brand name? some cards only send even numbered packets (yes I am serious). Some cards are so cheap we do

RE: php3 package - how to install mysql into it

2000-05-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-May-2000 Chris Mason wrote: I'm installing apache and php3/mysql using dselect, but there is no mysql support present in php after I install the package. Is there a way to configure this? you have to enable the module in /etc/php3 (or some such directory in /etc it may have moved).

RE: efm window manager

2000-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2000 Joseph de los Santos wrote: Hello, I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp site. My

RE: New Package Notification

2000-05-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-May-2000 Cory T. Echols wrote: Is there a program that will notify me when new packages are added to unstable? What I'd really like is something I can run as a cron job that will scan my local apt database and email me with the names and short descriptions of all the packages that were

RE: apt-get

2000-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
the debian mail programs have a register debian system as a test message, or at least did last I checked. Beyond that, people do not want to give much info, maybe name and country. It is an option though. Frankly debian has little concern over who uses the system.

RE: local debian mirror subnets

2000-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
consider mailing the apt maintainer with version, more detailed info, etc.

RE: Wireless

2000-03-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2000 Chris Mason wrote: Anyone have any experience with using Linux as a wireless relay? I want to tap into a wireless network and relay it to another point where I will want a firewall and home network. assuming the card works relaying should work.

RE: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Lying to dpkg eventually causes huge problems and usually a re-install. If you can not install the software from debs, please mail the maintainer or submit bugs. It is very important to debian that all of our software work out of the box for our users. You should never have to see source if you

RE: yawmppp (not a debian package)

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Mar-2000 Roy Pluschke wrote: Has anybody managed to get this working under Debian?? I have tried everything in the included faq but still no luck! having not looked at it I can only offer some ideas. Debian's ppp is called via pon and poff. Other dists use ppp-on, pppon, and various

RE: DSL

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Mar-2000 Mark Beverage wrote: Does Debian currently support or is there a way to import support for an Intel Pro/DSL 2100 internal modem for a PC. in the kernel source there in the Documentation/ directory is a list of supported hardware. If it is there, it works in Linux and thus

RE: mknod -- minor device no.

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Mar-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for my minor device number. dmesg

RE: kernel config question(s)

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why do you think you need this? No box I have running 2.2.14 have I had to deal with this.

RE: font.c ?

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Mar-2000 Mark Bathie wrote: Can anyone tell me what debian package font.c is contained in ? The Debian search page truncates before it prints what I want :( font.c is VERY vague. What exactly are you looking for? a file named font.c is probably in many many X based packages.

RE: neomagic

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Mar-2000 pplaw wrote: debs, i have a neomagic videro card. dpkg shows that i have xserver-neomagic 1.1.0-1-1, but i have no success with it. (if i use the svga xserver, i get really big fonts that don't fit my lapbox screen.) the svga server has all that the neomagic had plus

Re: kernel config question(s)

2000-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Also, the firewall configuration tool at http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html generated a file with lines such as: # Enable always defragging Protection sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag=1 The utility states that the firewall will work on Redhat boxes.

RE: c c and more c

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Mar-2000 Evan Moore wrote: 2 quick questions: 1. has any1 written a wrapper for malloc and free that will provide some usefull output for checking that all memory has been freed? search the web, many partial solutions exist. The only good one i have ever used was purify. It is

RE: pcmcia

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2000 pplaw wrote: debs, how do i get my pcmcia card bus to work on a new e-machine lapbox? here's the boot error message: starting pcmcia services: modules/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/tcic.0: init_module: device or resource busy I don't know the answer. However, what is

RE: Unable to bind port??

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Mar-2000 Mike wrote: I Installed debian Frozen the other day using the base floppies ans downloading the rest. I chose the profiles I wanted, and the install went fine. Then the problems startedgnome was so slow it took at least 5 minutes to start and 3 minutes for any program to

RE: Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Mar-2000 Christian Rishøj wrote: Hi, How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about changing the background and the font types. all needed files are in /etc/X11/xdm. read them and you should figure it out. man pages for xdm and friends will also

RE: is there an HTTP C library?

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Mar-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What C/C++ libraries are available to get web pages from within a C program? Preferably with the ability to do secure queries. ghttp (it is in GNOME but has NO depends other than libc) is a rather clean http client library. It does not support secure

RE: freeing memory after gethostbyname()

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Mar-2000 Evan Moore wrote: I am writting a small network deamon in c, and just dowloaded a copy of lclint, which told me that I have a memory leak, great I say, I look at the code and realize duh, how did i miss that of course i defined a variable hostinfo of type struct hostent then

Re: [OT] C help plz..

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Shao Zhang wrote: Thanks. This is exactly what I want. I have thought about doing it this way, it is just that from memory, there is a libc function that does the equivalent. What was given is the only safe and sane way I have ever seen. Bigger question is why do you have a

RE: kill: not found

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Werner Reisberger wrote: I cannot use many stop scripts any more (e. g. apache) because they couldn't find the kill command anymore. The reason is, that root is running the shell ash on my system (cause I had some big problems with bash). ash seems to have no buildin kill

RE: Xfree vs. AccelX

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Aaron Solochek wrote: Ok, I run accelerated X. Sometimes dselect installs Xfree stuff. My defauly method of dealing with xfree breaking accelX is to reinstall the accel binaries, but I'm sure its easier than that. I asusme there are links someplace which link startx to accel

RE: Communicator 4.72

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, Since there wasn't any deb package(s) that would install Communicator 4.72 without required libc5 stuff. I am going to get the tar ball and install it. Looking into the netscape ftp site and there were several version: .

RE: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: Hello, I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the console. However, if I run XEmacs from

RE: ethernet on laptop

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
You should hear two beeps when you insert a pcmcia card (make sure your speaker is not covered and if possible turn up its volume). A low tone instead of a beep indicates an error. As root type cardctl info (I believe, check the help) will tell you about the cards it sees.

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