RE: Tkrat obsolete?

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2000 Jason Christensen wrote: Does anyone know why tkrat is marked obsolete within dselect? My /etc/apt/sources.list points apt to frozen. this means it had bugs which the maintainer either would not or could not fix in time for potato's release. If you can help, mail the

RE: The IMG library not for Debian?

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2000 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I use Postilion installed from a deb. On the Postilion home page it is recommended to install the IMG library for increased functionality, but I can't find this packaged for for Debian, nad I have problems having it compile on my machine. Does

RE: php3 does not support postgres?

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Mar-2000 Alberto Maurizi wrote: I know the subject is false: php3 DOES support Postgres. But in my (daily upgraded) potato it seems not to. A very simple call to pg_connect returns: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in

RE: libbz2 question

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, It seems that libbz2 does not have a function that similar to fgets or gzgets. Does anyone know how to do it using the libbz2 functions? my understanding is that you do the file reading in your own code (or another libraries) and

RE: Proper way to call window manager

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Christian Rishøj wrote: What is the proper way to call the window manager? Currently, I call wmaker from ~./Xsession (or something). Does Debian have a policy on this? Something with /etc/alternatives? we are creating one. However, regardless of what we do, you can

RE: Suggestion for potato httpd ?

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Igor Mozetic wrote: I'm looking for suggestions for a simple web server to be installed on several machines, just for local use (eg, reading html info/manpages). In slink, there was ncsa, which is gone from potato. What remains: - apache and roxen seem an overkill -

RE: fresh potato installation

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Martin Schulze wrote: Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 85. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. What's up with it? Joey Hess is interested in

RE: package for ps, w, free, top, ....

2000-03-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Mar-2000 Jaume Teixi wrote: What is the package that contains the ps, w, free, top, instructions ? psmisc

RE: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Feb-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have compiled some of recent 'frozen' sources optimized for K6 with PGCC. Anyone is welcome to get 'em. FTP to cg619985-a.adubn.nj.home.com or 24.11.49.110. I would not use them on important or production machines since some stuff might break with

RE: Laptop loses display

2000-01-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jan-2000 a user wrote: I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? Has anyone seen this before? Could it be the terminal setting? If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but never the

RE: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jan-2000 Todd Suess wrote: Just did an apt-get update tonight, and while doing my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, this was the result. tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s | more Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED:

RE: Menu empty?

2000-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: A friend of mine has recently installed Debian (well I did it for him, most of it). Now he's suddenly having trouble with his X Menus: They work fine as Root, but the menu is empty as a user! I couldn't reproduce this here, and have no idea what could cause

RE: dhcp-client trying to configure `lo'(loopback)

2000-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2000 Maciej Kalisiak wrote: I've just recently switched from 'dhcpcd' to 'dhcp-client' (better configuration, lots of docs). I just installed the package, and edited '/etc/dhclient.conf' to add a single option (I have to send a host-name to the server). I startup the client, and

RE: pppd

2000-01-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jan-2000 Marcin Kurc wrote: I'm trying to set up pppd for dial ins. I have some problems tho. It seems not to authenticate users. Here is one example: Jan 25 16:25:00 student pppd[574]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=wbowen password=hidden] Jan 25 16:25:00 student pppd[574]: no PAP

RE: dhcpcd configuration

2000-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: Hello, I have a laptop with PCMCIA networking running Debian. The pcmcia stuff and the networking stuff both work great. I am using dhcpcd to get my 'net configuration as I move the laptop between home and work. dhcpcd works great also, except for

RE: Problems Installing Oracle 8i on Solaris 7 (x86)

2000-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
This is a support channel for Debian GNU/Linux and other Debian related projects / information. If you need Sun help, you will need to look elsewhere. On 18-Jan-2000 Dan Zemke wrote: I continue to get the following statement -- syntax error: '(' unexpected -- when running runInstaller

RE: Staying with Woody

2000-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jan-2000 Todd Suess wrote: What changes will I have to make to my sources.list file in order to continue following the new unstable, since unstable right now seems to not work on most mirrors if I use unstable, do I need to wait a while then change all my unstables to woody, or just

RE: dselect

2000-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jan-2000 David Pilz wrote: I am currently installing slink on my PC, and I am now ready to start installing packages (from cdrom). Problem: after I login and type 'deselect', I get the message: deselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile: permission denied I have no

RE: To which package belong files?

2000-01-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Jan-2000 Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: dpkg -S name of the file It should do the job. this will work UNLESS the file in question was created by a script (say the post inst) and not actually in the deb package itself.

RE: dselect + apt method do not mount /usr ro when removing a pa

2000-01-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Jan-2000 Shaul Karl wrote: Am I correct that dselect apt method does not handle /usr which is mounted ro correctly when it tries to remove a package? you are correct, there are some issues about when parts get run and what not. A co-worker fought this for a while. Eventually he just

RE: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2000 Bob Nielsen wrote: After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as essential which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion. Should I force the removal? it is safe to

RE: anacron jobs for users

2000-01-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jan-2000 Philip Lehman wrote: Is there a way to set up anacron jobs as a non-root user? There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to the user crontab files and I couldn't find any other obvious solution. I have this small backup script for parts of my home directory and I want it to

RE: kernel question

2000-01-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jan-2000 Pollywog wrote: I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way? I have done this before but I suspect there

Re: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why cfengine and not debconf? It seems to me that debconf is a natural for solving these problems. In fact, there's no reason why dbootstrap couldn't ultimately be replaced by a debconf script, leading to a single system for automated (with conf file, network db, whatever) or manual

RE: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Dec-1999 Dennis Schoen wrote: Hello, On Fri, 17 Dec i've posted an ITP for libdbix-cgi-perl libdbix-easy-perl libcgi-extratags-perl with the note that i need a sponsor for the packages. I personally will only sponsor packages that I would be willing to maintain. I suspect

RE: compiling from debian source package

1999-12-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Dec-1999 Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I want to recompile several Debian source packages with pgcc. What do I edit within the debian source tree to change which compiler the build uses, and also which CFLAGS it uses? Is this something that is package specific? For starters, I am

RE: vacation week?

1999-12-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Dec-1999 pplaw wrote: debs, i haven't gotten any threads since last friday. is the list taking the holiday week off or is there a problem on my end? definitately on your end

Re: pentium-optimized debian?

1999-12-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
the main argument is optimizing for pentium ONLY helps the original pentium, not any other chip (including PII, PIII etc) and for the majority of software the optimization is so negligible that it is not worth bloating the archive further with it. (debian is already HUGE) to put it

RE: world time display program

1999-12-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Dec-1999 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: hi, i am lookin for a program that can display current time at: London, NewYork, Paris, Berlin, New Delhi at the same time. Searched freshmeat but cudn't find one. if someone knows of such a program let me know. I am running potato. bbtime (I

RE: Who sets default locale environment?

1999-11-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-99 Pedro Sanchez wrote: After installing a new Potato machine I get the following: $locale LANG=(null) LC_CTYPE=(null) LC_NUMERIC=(null) LC_TIME=(null) LC_COLLATE=(null) LC_MONETARY=(null) LC_MESSAGES=(null) LC_ALL= If not set, locale defaults to none (which is the normal

RE: What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?

1999-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-99 David J. Kanter wrote: I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get a relatively solid Potato build? Unfortunately, upgrading to potato is mostly all or nothing. Lots of

RE: mounting macintosh floppy?

1999-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: how do i mount a mac format floppy? just like any other floppy. If you compiled your own kernel, make sure you enabled Mac support. Then do: mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy as root.

RE: win95files names

1999-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-99 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name without the funny ~1 thing? I have tried mount -t msdos , but this truncates the name to *~1. I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the linux

RE: slink--potato (or apt-get rules!)

1999-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Also, how can I install shadow passwords in potato? I need them because my other machines use them, and I use NIS to share passwords. The users can't log in to the potato machine because there is no /etc/shadow. Would it be enough to create a shadow file that contains nothing but +:

RE: bug 34449 workaround

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Nov-99 Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: Hola~ I'm running into the same problems as reported in bug 34449. Man fails when I'm not root with man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted. Is there a workaround??? Does anyone know if there is a scheduled or already known fix???

RE: netfilter package? Alternatively: How to create custom debia

1999-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Nov-99 Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Hi there, I'd like to create myself a Debian package for the new netfilter tools (since there isn't yet one available to the best of my knowledge.) Which tools do I need and where to look for instructions? I thought that dpkg- dev was the right

RE: HELP: how to tell dselect where to download the .deb???

1999-11-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Nov-99 Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, for apt i was able to make a symbolic link to a place where there is enough place, but since apt isn't working anymore i am trying to make an upgrade using the ftp method unfortunately i do not find any config file where i can tell where to

RE: Cannot umount cdrom

1999-11-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Nov-99 denis miller wrote: I have a cdrom mounted as mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom When I am finished with it as either a local mount or nfs mount I cannot umount it. I get the message it is busy. I cd / to get out of the directory but no go! Somewhere there is a command to

Re: Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:19AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, Restart and Exit as options. The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the

RE: Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Brant Wells wrote: Howdy Y'all I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad 360Cs w/8 megs of ram a 165 meg hard drive. I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help! go

RE: runlevel management and netbase

1999-10-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Oct-99 Ethan Benson wrote: hello, I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to: welcome aboard (-: I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really equivalent to

RE: Voodoo Banshee + Debian = X == null ?

1999-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So, if anyone can solve my doubts and fears concerning the suggested approach of converting the package or has any other solution to this problem, PLEASE, e-mail me! I have heard that a new framebuffer based driver is out for these cards. Might try that. If you need help, ahzz

RE: Motif Software

1999-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-99 Rik Burt wrote: Where can I find the Motif software. I am aware that it is a commercial product but I don't know where to look for it. I am interested because the Netscape pkg that dselect has requires it for certain versions of netscape. It is not in Debian. You must go

RE: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote: ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas? Joey Hess and myself are going. We have one

Re: anacron read out

1999-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote: Ray: You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get dselect say the newest version is installed. (textutils-2.01). Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says id not found. Whatever is missing/not

RE: how's kde2 look?

1999-09-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Sep-99 dyer wrote: Anybody running the kde 2.0 debs for slink at tdyc.com? any regrets, blair witch-like evilness? Why yes, your screen goes to black and white, jumps, and looks grainy. Then your hard drive fills up with similar packages, but lower quality.

RE: where do I find pcmcia Xircom IIps drivers?

1999-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Sep-99 Mark Wright wrote: I've been using the stable Debian distribution with my Toshiba Satellite CDT230, with no problems (well, with few problems) for a few months now. To enable sound and APM, though, I guess need to compile my own kernel. But when I compile the kernel, I don't

RE: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: Ok, top was in the unstable yesterday. Today it is not? I miss top. I liked top. It might not have been the best, nor the prettiest, but I liked it. Does anyone know more about it? It is in procps -- has been for some time.

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
geisha [~] $ dpkg -S top|grep bin xpdf: /usr/bin/pdftops procps: /usr/bin/top snipped and yes, that command actually runs. I maintain a absolutely current potato box so I can compile packages.

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok, seems the new version of procps (which my mirror did not have) does indeed lack top. This fix is on its way to the maintainer. Sorry for the confusion.

RE: APM doesn't really work

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why does the CPU wake up by itself, or so it seems? Could something be going on in the background that wakes it up? As a test, try disabling X screensaver. What may be happening is that xscreensaver is performing some task, which wakes up the CPU. APM functions based on time and idleness,

RE: DOWNGRADING glibc (2.1.x = 2.0.x)

1999-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Hi there, unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc 2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as I'm running out of

RE: ucd snmp

1999-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Avoid fakeroot. It does bad things. Use sudo. dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo

RE: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Sep-99 Marshal Wong wrote: Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! Here ya go. root Description: Binary data

RE: Where are my copy buffers?

1999-09-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-99 David Blackman wrote: I'm want to start writing perl c programs that actually do stuff. What I'm wondering is this: When I'm in X windows, and I highlight something, where does it go (I know to the clipboard), but is that an actual file I can access? In X, cut and paste is

RE: bash prompts question

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to something terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in bash, besides

RE: building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree.

RE: Good books

1999-09-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
O'Reilly has a learning Debian coming out soon. Several other book makers do as well. Look in your local book store.

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
that having been said, there is something flaky about the dhcp/dhclient setup on debian; i cannot understand why it works and then, when the cable co that I connect to has changed my ip or other features, i cannot connect; the purpose of dhcp is to be dynamic, is it not? dhcp works off

RE: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new partition, or move /var over

RE: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Aug-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a system, so, any program doesn't depends on them ? **ASSUMING** all items on your system are packages, go into dselect and use the

RE: ppp with dynamic name server

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Short term: on a system with working dns do a whois on the ISP. Use the name servers listed there. Long term: the new PPPd will handle this. The initial support is there. Read some docs, play around.

Re: ppp with dynamic name server

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
it means you need to setup your ppp dialer ( /etc/ppp/ppp-on ) to use dynamic ip instead of static... No silly. The IP while assigning IPs also gives out DNS via ppp, not dhcp. until recently ppp did not know how to accept this dns info. ppp does all the IP work. The problem is getting

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok let's take it from the top. Boot your machine into X, forget the dhcp thing for now. In a term window, su to root and run dhcp. Then, highlight the text and go to your email window. Click the middle mouse button when you have the cursor where you want the text -- bammo cut and paste X

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: It looks as though there is a new release of xfmail. Is that correct? I recompiled xfmail against gdbm and a few other clean-ups, closed all open bugs, etc. I have been unable to find the maint and upstream is also dead. I am the maintainer now until someone

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have been using xfmail for a while, but find it crashing often on me, ie, serveral times daily. It doesn't give any errors, though, besides the Xfmail crashed... etc dialog. What is the best way of reporting bugs? There is none. Either it works or it

RE: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
*DANGER* 2.2.11 has memory leak issues and other fun nits. Make sure to upgrade any and all boxen running it to the next release as soon as it comes out.

RE: Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The part I miss most is the context-sensitive TAB-completion, like bash can not do this. However a coworker and fellow Debian developer uses zsh and from what I have seen *NO* shell matches it. He has tab complete for apt, dpkg, telnet, and other fun things.

RE: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based card.) I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list

RE: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: Hi all (soory if this comes twice), I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you know

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: Why C/C++? Because I'm too lazy to learn Perl :) So look into Python. All the glory of C++ w/o the mess. Honest, it is worth the week of effort. class Foo: def __init__(self): self.i = 1 self.string = 'hi' f = Foo() print

RE: /dev/mouse: not supported by device

1999-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
/dev/mouse is a symlink (via ln -s) from whatever is your mouse. So if your mouse is on com1 it should look like /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 a ps2 is psaux.

RE: More dhcpcd and pcmcia questions

1999-08-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Aug-99 Bob C. Ruddy wrote: When trying to start dhcpcd from the 'network.opts' file dhcpcd never picks up the network information. When I run /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start it works fine as long as I don't switch networks(see previous post). What happens when I boot the system with 'DHCP=y'

RE: libXpm.so.4

1999-07-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jul-99 erasmo perez wrote: hi! when i try to run netscape 4.61 in xfree86 3.3.4 with debian 2.1 and kernel 2.2.1 i receive the following message: netscape: error in loading shared libraries libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and in fact, i

RE: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
[...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map cp System.map \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.36 test -f System.map chmod 644 \

RE: wallpaper Question

1999-07-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Not to mention another package, but there is a nice app call wallp in potato. It will update your wallpaper for you every so often. The easy way to use this or your program is to add a line in .xinitrc in your home directory. If the file does not exist, make it so it looks like: exec some

RE: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in potato

1999-07-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape 4.61 as packaged in potato dies intermittently around window destroy events. Does anyone know why? We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not 2.1 ).

RE: CRON (another question)

1999-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-99 Daniel Ruoso wrote: Hi, Does anybody knows if there is a way to append (just put at last place without entering any editor) a schedule to crontab thanks.. echo 52 61 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly /etc/crontab will

RE: DHCPCD

1999-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get debian working with DHCP, but something's wrong. The DHCP client loads at boot, and when I run ifconfig the eth0 unspec addr, Bcast and Mask all say '[NONE SET]'. What is RX resp. TX packets? RX == received TX == sent If eth0 is

RE: PCMCIA CD-ROM -- please help!

1999-07-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jul-99 Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, I guess this is an easy question, but can anyone tell me what device it should be to mount a PCMCIA CD-ROM? Thanks! On most laptops it is /dev/hdc. (First ide device, second controller). Otherwise, place the pcmcia card into the laptop during boot

RE: Install Source Packages

1999-07-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jul-99 Klaus Pieper wrote: Hi, How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the

RE: pcmcia support and debian

1999-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jul-99 David Mussington wrote: Hi: I have just purchased a used AST Ascentia 810N notebook pc. This system doesn't have a cd rom drive, so I am forced to use a PCMCIA-enabled one to install Debian. Could anyone tell me if the Debian 2.0 CD (I just bought the official user guide

RE: make menuconfig

1999-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
You need ncurses-dev. In Debian a library exists as libfoo or sometimes just foo. To compile something using that library requires the matching libfoo-dev or foo-dev.

RE: file transfers and the PIII

1999-07-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Jul-99 Jef Elliott wrote: Just joined the list - looks to be a good resource. Hope someone can offer some insight or advice. Are there any known concerns with the PIII chip and Linux? Nope, other than it runs really fast (-: We run Debian on several

RE: Problems changing colour depth.

1999-07-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jul-99 Revenant wrote: I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't use a colour depth of greater than 8. I've tried running startx with the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.

RE: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Wendell Buckner wrote: I hate to be a novice Linux/Unix user but I can't help what I am! Someone...please tell me WHAT PACKAGE CONTAINS X WINDOWS!!! The X Window System is a client server interface. You need client applications (like those you listed) and a server that

RE: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Carl Fink wrote: [This message has also been posted.] I have a system that was installed from a Debian 2.0 CD-ROM, with many packages upgraded to 2.1 or unstable via the web site. One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my .bashrc and .bash_profile files

RE: XDMCP without xdm?

1999-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-99 Stuart Ballard wrote: Is there any way I can allow remote hosts to access my machine via xdmcp without running xdm on the machine itself? (running xdm seems to lock the machine completely on a regular basis). Would running xdm without managing any local displays solve the

RE: QT 2.00

1999-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-99 The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: Hi, I'm trying to ./configure QT 2.00 but it won't seem to work. This is the error I'm getting: The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is currently set to , but it should be set to this directory, which is /usr/local/qt.

RE: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Marcus Johansson wrote: Hi! We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status of both cpu's, and even which cpu the processes are running on. Will the top (the GNU variant I guess) distributed with Debian 2.1 show anything like that? If I have

Re: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Peter Iannarelli wrote: Then explain why xosview version 1.7.1 on potato reports the activity of both CPUs. Because people are always getting better at breaking the rules (-:

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread shaleh
I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like to disable the power button in software so that the machine effectively cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown -h now' would still halt and power-down. Is this possible? I can't find an option similar to

Re: agp graphics cards with slink

1999-06-17 Thread shaleh
many computers bought in the last few mounts have agp graphics cards. the x servers that come with debian slink seem not capable to handle with them. how to work around this problem? (possibly without upgrading to potato) You have three options: 1) recompile X yourself (an option,

Re: how do i modify the kernel for apm / ipmasq

1999-06-15 Thread shaleh
i want to modify the kernel for ip masq and apm how do i go about it? my system is a 486 120 32 mb ram 4 hdd just installed from debain floppys have nothing on it so what do i need to get? Get: source for kernel 2.2.10 and the following packages: kernel-package bin86 gcc ncurses-dev

Re: PPP where for out thou?

1999-06-11 Thread shaleh
I rebuilt my kernel and have lost support for PPP, when I use 'pon' it says the kernel lacks support. I keep rebuilding and using 'make menuconfig' and I choose PPP support under networking. I can't find any other reference to PPP. What am I missing? This is actually

RE: where can i get the source for debian in a format i can read

1999-06-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Jun-99 matthew lamb wrote: where can i get debian source code for the kernal so i can port it to another platform?? There is no debian source code. Debian is based on the Linux kernel. try ftp.us.kernel.org, look in /pub/linux/kernel. What hardware are you porting to?

RE: tcp ip need information

1999-06-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Jun-99 matthew lamb wrote: i would like to know more about the low level end of tcp ip and how the packets are handeled and formated on the transmission medium if you can point me in the right direction i would be grateful. Try the books by W. Richard Stevens. He is one of the key

Re: duh everyone knows the answer to this!

1999-06-10 Thread shaleh
USERS: I'm going through the process of reading piles of DOC, but maybe someone knows of the top of their head--- i'm having the same problem as freefood, getting my modem up and dialing. it's a Megahertz XJ1144 and as far as I can tell it's not a winmodem. So what do i need to do to

Re: Unreal

1999-06-10 Thread shaleh
Wasn't there talk of an Unreal port about the time it was released? What happened? Did anything come of it? Who do we pester for a port? Half-Life would be nice too! I heard talk of a server, never a client.

RE: anacron doesn't send mail anymore

1999-06-09 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Jun-99 Frederic Dumont wrote: I'm using anacron to process cron jobs as soon as my computer starts. It used to send an email at the end with the output of each job. It doesn't anymore. The mail.log shows no sign of it, so it's not related to the mail delivery. Does anyone have a

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