Re: Sincronizacion horaria mediante ntp

1999-03-17 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. Esta mañana slug.ctv.es estaba caido, por lo que mi sistema ha arrancado con la hora mal. Puede alguien sugerirme otros servidores cercanos. Supongo que en el ntp.conf se pueden poner varios ? En http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.htm puedes encontrar una lista tremenda de

mensaje de syslogd - cannot glue message parts together

1999-03-17 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Cuando recibo un mensaje de correo gradote, en varias ocasiones recibo un mensaje de broadcast de estos que salen por encima de cualquier aplicacion proveniente de syslog que no tiene texto. Si en ese momento miro en tty12 (donde tengo redireccionada la salida de los logs del sistema, veo que

Re: KDE slink

1999-03-17 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:34:15PM +0100, Juanmi Mora dijo: Es cierto, pero la situación del gnome, que está en un directorio de mi disco duro en formato deb, y que no puedo instalar, creo que aún es peor. No puedo instalar por problemas de dependencias... O:-) ¿Y si haces un 'dpkg -i *deb', y

glibc2.1

1999-03-17 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Estoy tratando de recompilar glibc2.1, pero necesita una version de makeinfo, que no se donde se puede conseguir. ¿Sabe alguien? Saludos.

Matrox MGA-G200 AGP

1999-03-17 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Hola a tod*s, vereis, me gustaria saber si existe un paquete .deb (en algun sitio) para el servidor de X de la siguiente tarjeta: Matrox Graphics MGA-G200 AGP Chip: MGA-G200 B8 R1 Memoria: 8 MB Me acabo de instalar slink en mi PC y no he encontrado ningun servidor de X para esta tarjeta. Me han

libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread David Charro Ripa
Yo me he quedado sin interprete de comandos al intentar actualizar esa librería. En realidad al desinstalar la anterior. Estoy intentando arrancar con el rescue y se me ha ocurrido reinstalar esa librería,... pero ¿cómo pongo el dpkg en el disco rescue? ¿O debería ser en el que creo con la imagen

Re: KDE slink

1999-03-17 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Quizás te responda, a modo de FAQ, el artículo sobre Debian 2.1 en http://www.openresources.com On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:54:31AM +0100, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: Si no recuerdo mal, KDE estaba en hamm, pero no lo veo en slink. ¿Es cierto que estaba en hamm? Si lo es,

Re: libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : Lo que yo haga en casos como estas es iniciar el sistema con el disco rescue, Montar la(s) particion(es) y luego ganar una shell (ALt-F2). De esta forma tengo acceso a mi sistema. En este punto puedo usar dpkg (ojo que el root es del rescue) para recomponer el sistema.

OffTopic espejo

1999-03-17 Thread Humberto . Morell
Hola a todos Disculpen por inicializar este tema en la Lista En mi centro estamos fortaleciendo nuestro sitio Web, necesitamos llegar a la comercializacion por Internet, y consideramos oportuno tener un espejo en otro pais por ejemplo España. Por esta razon requiero negociar con un ISP y ya que

Lista de usuarios de C/C++

1999-03-17 Thread David Leal
Hola a todos: Alguen me podr'ia decir donde puedo encontrar un lista de usuarios de C/C++ en castellano. Me he conectado a las news, pero no me responden. Gracias, David -- David R. Leal Valmana| Office: 10.1.02 Tel: (34)-916.24.93.14 | Fax: (34)-916.24.98.49

RE: libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
duro, ¿verdad?. Entonces ¿qué hago para decirle a dpkg que instale en otro sitio? Prueba dpkg --root=punto de montaje -C, p.ejemplo para comprobar el estado de instalacion en punto de montaje. Saludos.

Re: libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread Agustín Martín
David Charro Ripa wrote: Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez escribió: Hola : Lo que yo haga en casos como estas es iniciar el sistema con el disco rescue, Montar la(s) particion(es) y luego ganar una shell (ALt-F2). De esta forma tengo acceso a mi sistema. En este punto

Re: libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread David Charro Ripa
Angel Vicente Perez escribió: duro, ¿verdad?. Entonces ¿qué hago para decirle a dpkg que instale en otro sitio? Prueba dpkg --root=punto de montaje -C, p.ejemplo para comprobar el estado de instalacion en punto de montaje. Ya he arrancado con el rescue y ganado una sesión con alt+F2.

Consulta !!!

1999-03-17 Thread vlal
Hola listeros, Necesito saber donde puedo encontrar paquetes rpm binarios, es decir solo para instalarlos y que los distribuya en los directorios correspondientes, en especial de sendmail version 8.9.3, yo encontre rpm en rpmfind.net, pero estos son fuentes no binarios, les agradeceria si saben

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1999-03-17 Thread Jose Antonio Morillo
Han Solo wrote: Yo tuve el mismo problema con una HP 4L, así que debe ser un bug del controlador de las HP. ¿Solución? Pondría la mano en el fuego a que tienes como demonio de impresión el lprng. efectivamente, así es. Desinstálalo e instala el lpr de toda la vida, ya verás como

Re: libreadlineg2

1999-03-17 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : Angel Vicente Perez escribió: duro, ¿verdad?. Entonces ¿qué hago para decirle a dpkg que instale en otro sitio? Prueba dpkg --root=punto de montaje -C, p.ejemplo para comprobar el estado de instalacion en punto de montaje. Ya he arrancado con el rescue y ganado una

Configuración Xwindows.

1999-03-17 Thread Jesús
Hola soy un estudiante de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieria de Cadiz y tengo un problema con la configu- ración del xwindows. Tengo una tarjeta de video SiS 6215C y no aparece en la lista de tarjetas de video que soporta Linux. ¿ Que tarjeta de video puedo elegir que sea com- patible y me

Re: errores en dmesg

1999-03-17 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:54:06AM +0100, José Illescas Pérez dijo: Hola, ¿alguien sabe que significan estos mensajes de error al hacer un dmesg? Memory: 95668k/98304k available (608k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1644k ^ - que envidia! :^) Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL

Re: Matrox MGA-G200 AGP

1999-03-17 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:29:43AM +0100, Juan C. Amengual dijo: Hola a tod*s, vereis, me gustaria saber si existe un paquete .deb (en algun sitio) para el servidor de X de la siguiente tarjeta: Matrox Graphics MGA-G200 AGP Chip: MGA-G200 B8 R1 Memoria: 8 MB [Servidor X para Matrox

Re: Configuración Xwindows.

1999-03-17 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 04:46:16PM +0100, Jesús Pérez Franco dijo: Hola soy un estudiante de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieria de Cadiz y tengo un problema con la configu- ración del xwindows. Tengo una tarjeta de video SiS 6215C y no aparece en la lista de tarjetas de video que soporta

Procmail.

1999-03-17 Thread Jose Mari Mor Fabregat
La otra vez se estuvo discutiendo (o explicando) sobre procmail. Bueno, me puse a poner en práctica lo dicho e hize lo siquiente: .forward |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #fmor .procmail

login shell

1999-03-17 Thread homega
Hola, estoy un poco liado del modo en que funcionan las shell. Si el login lo hago como usuario horacio, el prompt que obtengo es siempre: $ sin que indique nada más. Yo pensé que sería el bash ya que bash siempre va con el signo $, pero: $ bash homega:~$ y aquí resulta que las opciones que

Las X Windows no hacen caso de LANG

1999-03-17 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hola, Me he actualizado a 2.1 He puesto LANG=es_ES en /etc/profile y todos los programas me van bien en modo terminal pero en un xterm de las X-Windows al hacer 'env' me he dado cuanta que pone LANG=C ?Como lo hago para que 'startx' mire /etc/profile? Best regards, Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art

Conexión compartida

1999-03-17 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Holaaa Susesplico la historia. Resulta que en el curro (una academia de infommatica por aquí cerca) quieren montar un curso de internet (nunca serviré para qué sirve realmente un curso de esos, o cualquier curso.. pero si la gente los pide...), total, que hace falta conectar unos 8 equipos a

Ruta por defecto

1999-03-17 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Esta pregunta no es extrictamente sobre Debian, perdonad por ello. Como se establece la ruta por defecto con los nuevos kernel 2.2.* ? -- Deica logo

Nescessito de ajuda com Modem Pnp

1999-03-17 Thread Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld
Olha eu tenho um modem PNP na com3 com a seguinte configuração: -Marca e Modelo:Davicom 336P Internal FAXModem(Voice) -IRQ: 11 -Endereço:3E8 -UART:16550AN -Vel Maxima: 115 baud Eu configurei o ISAPNP(+nada) e aparece a mensagem com a configuração do had e ---Enabled OK Só que depois o kpp diz

Agradecimentos e uma duvida

1999-03-17 Thread Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld
Olha em primeiro lugar eu quero agradecer muito , graças a ajuda recebida aqui eu consegui fazer o meu modem funcionar . Minha duvida a este respeito é a seguinte o meu sistema ta configurado para uma linha telefonica de discagem por tom mas a linha que eu uso é de discagem por pulso(é uma linha

Re: Agradecimentos e uma duvida

1999-03-17 Thread Lalo Martins
On Mar 17, Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld decided to present us with: Olha em primeiro lugar eu quero agradecer muito , graças a ajuda recebida aqui eu consegui fazer o meu modem funcionar . Minha duvida a este respeito é a seguinte o meu sistema ta configurado para uma linha telefonica de discagem

Re: Printing Problems Con't

1999-03-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Do you mean that nothing at all is printed when you try to print from Netscape? Or do you get partial printouts? I don't know if this will pertain to you, but I had problems printing everything that wasn't plain-text. I installed the gs-aladdin package to replace the default gs package, re-ran

netscape

1999-03-17 Thread eferen
I have been trying for two weeks to get on the Web with netscape but in all versions of Linux I've tried I get the same thing: Netscape cannot find the home page, and also, The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net The IP addresses I've put in manually

win-printer??

1999-03-17 Thread Mark Connolly
Hello all. I have just recently successfully installed Debian 2.0 (Hamm) from the disks in a book bought at Borders. I have run into a problem with my HP Deskjet 722c printer, a printer I am very happy with on the dos/w95 side of my box. Apparently it is a win-printer which I did not know

Re: xfs and fonts

1999-03-17 Thread Pere Camps
Branden, Needless to say, you can have the X server use local fonts AND a font server. xfs is in no way required to have a functional X installation. Thats what I needed. Thanks for the input. :) -- p.

Re: Subject: Potato, sendmail, glibc 2.1, and libdb2

1999-03-17 Thread wb4mle
potato's sendmail and glibc 2.1 seem to get along fine (at least on this box) ! Those of you with problems all seem to have also installed the newer libdb2 I was fortunate in that my socks access died, and I have been unable to download/install libdb2 ;-} I see in the sendmail-8.9.2

Re: netscape

1999-03-17 Thread dyer
eferen wrote: I have been trying for two weeks to get on the Web with netscape but in all versions of Linux I've tried I get the same thing: Netscape cannot find the home page, and also, The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net The IP addresses

apt problem?

1999-03-17 Thread jeb
I've used dselect/apt for a long time to update my debian distribution. For the last several days when I tried to update I get the following message. Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat o_main_binary-i386_Packages is

Downgrading to Slink

1999-03-17 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
Ijust read the Debian Weekly News and saw that more trouble is on the way (in the sense that more modules are going to be broken). Anyway, I'm running potato 2.2.3 and would like to downgrade to the stable version of slink, but do not have the slightest clue on going about and doing it. I would

Re: Newbie having bad problems with EIDE drive

1999-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Leif Steinhour wrote: I've been trying for the last week to get my new (3.2G) IDE hard drive working properly. LILO will not load (for most configurations, I get as far as LI), and I can't seem to edit lilo.conf: when I edit it in rescue mode using the Red Hat 5.0 disks and then restart

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ares wrote: I would definitely try using memory from a different dealer, and failing that, I'd put a decent UPS on the computer. At the moment I'm leaning toward bad memory, but it'll be a little while before I can get my hands on some

Re: kernel panic, no init found

1999-03-17 Thread Paul Miller
Jianming YOU wrote: Hi, Paul, Thank you very much. I followed your suggestion. Here is what I did and what I got: Boot from a floppy, with kernel 2.0.35 login as root mount /dev/hda2 /mnt cd mnt rm vmlinuz ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 vmlinuz ls -l sbin/lilo -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: win-printer??

1999-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
The ghostscript printer compatibility page http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html has probably the best collection of information on printer drivers, but unfortunately doesn't supply any helpful information for the 722c with Linux. Bob On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark Connolly wrote: Hello all.

Re: Kernel 2.2.1 question.

1999-03-17 Thread Paul Miller
Person, Roderick wrote: Paul, Thanks for the reply. I kept getting the message that the kernel could not find bin_fmt-464c so I tried a trick I saw in LJ and placed alias bin_fmt-464c in /etc/conf.modules. No luck. I've compile the kernel 4 times now and still can't get it right. So I

Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files

1999-03-17 Thread Lloyd Blythen
I'm installing Debian gradually; until I get it online I have Windows, in its own partition, set up for Internet use. I use Windows to download Debian packages I'm interested in onto my hard drive, creating a partial mirror of the Debian distribution; I then install those packages by accessing the

Re: iso9660 module in kernel 2.0.34

1999-03-17 Thread Paul Miller
G. Crimp wrote: Hi, Anybody know what an unresolved symbol is ? I've just compiled a This is a function call or variable that the modules wishes to use but cannot find. kernel making iso9660 support a module. I've done this in bo with no problems. In hamm, however, when I try

shirt shop

1999-03-17 Thread Bill Rappe

Re: MIT-SCREENT-SAVER

1999-03-17 Thread Ramiel Givergis
I'll try it, I can't right now since I won't be at school till tommorow. And for your information I was on IRIX at school connecting with xterm via ssh to my home linux/debian box and ssh sets the DISPLAY variable stuff for me. I tried running licq the same way on my friends machine and I did not

Re: win-printer??

1999-03-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark Connolly wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:19:16 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: win-printer?? Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:21:43 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient

[no subject]

1999-03-17 Thread Bill Rappe
NYLON SATIN JACKET one side print ALL COLORS one color full color 25 $50.00 $70.00 50 42.00 60.00 100 38.00 51.00 250 30.00 47.00 500

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread John Hasler
Jay Barbee writes: Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk? What do 'setserial /dev/ttyS2' and 'setserial

Slink install disks / SCSI AHA-294x controller conflict?

1999-03-17 Thread Mike
As a lab exercise for a course that I teach, I have in the past had my students install and configure Debian using floppies to get the base system up and running. These same systems, however, do not boot using the slink disks. The system locks up in the boot sequence after downloading SCSI

Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI

1999-03-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have the above sound card, and when I modprobe es1370 it tells me device or resource busy. I don't have any sound modules compiled into the kernel. I can modprobe es1371, and it doesn't give me errors, but it doesn't say that it has detected the hardware either. I tried the oss stuff, but I

Re: exim user

1999-03-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? It sounds right. That's what I do, and it works for

2.2.3

1999-03-17 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Hell oall I just upgraded my kernel and I have a 3com 900 series card The recofnized the card but.. I still don't any network connectivity is there a driver update for the card that I ma not aware of

Re: exim user

1999-03-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Mar-99 Frozen Rose wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? It sounds right.

Re: Slink install disks / SCSI AHA-294x controller conflict?

1999-03-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've got an unofficial install-disk set for slink, with version 5.1.12 of the aic7xxx driver... slightly newer than the version in slink's diskset. It's at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/;. If that doesn't work, and you know of a particular version of the driver (or Debian

Re: Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debs?

1999-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:28:01PM -0800, Jim Harritt wrote: Is there a source for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debian packages? You can always check http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html for the latest Debian X news. -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian

VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread Tommy Malloy
Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a Linux box? Are LInux users going to be cut off from web based application

Re: VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread dyer
Tommy Malloy wrote: Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a Linux box? Don't you love those guys? Are LInux users

Re: VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a Linux box? Are LInux users going to be cut

Re: Drive test Utility

1999-03-17 Thread Vardhan Varma
Does anyone know of a package or utility that exercises and surface scans hard drives? (IDE in particular) The IDEAL would be if the program could run in background and do a non-destructive surface scan to a mounted drive. I know that's asking a lot, but I'd be happy with anything at

Re: Drive test Utility

1999-03-17 Thread Vardhan Varma
Does anyone know of a package or utility that exercises and surface scans hard drives? (IDE in particular) The IDEAL would be if the program could run in background and do a non-destructive surface scan to a mounted drive. I know that's asking a lot, but I'd be happy with anything at

Debian 2.1

1999-03-17 Thread Seiichi Shoji
こんにちは UNIX初心者です DebianをSUN SSシリーズにインストールしたいのですが Debian CDの購入方法が よく理解できません。教えてください。 よろしくお願いします。

Elm and sun mailtool attachments

1999-03-17 Thread Rich Pawlowicz
I'm using the standard elm+me and metamail packages. Most attachments seem to be handled OK, but recently a Sun user sent me something...when I try to read it I get the following message: This message contains sun mailtool message. Do you want to view it using the '' command (y/n) [y] ?

Re: Why not Debian? (real-time proto with linux!)

1999-03-17 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Also, since we REALLY need the real-time kernel, does anyone know if any .deb's of this are available? (I already downloaded the 2.0.36 modified source for real time linux and built it on top of a RedHat 5.2 install.) There is something called

Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg

1999-03-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Hardware woes/make-kpkg Date: Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:37:26AM +0100 In reply to:Michael Bonetsmueller Quoting Michael Bonetsmueller([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can't find make-kpkg (neither locate nor dpkg -S finds anything), and so I compiled the kernel using the

Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI

1999-03-17 Thread Ian Keith Setford
You must have the experimental selected when you compile your kernel. Then you can select the es1370 from the sound options and that's it. -Ian On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I have the above sound card, and when I modprobe es1370 it tells me device or resource busy. I don't

Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files

1999-03-17 Thread Lloyd Blythen
I think this got lost - apologies if this is its second time around. I'm installing Debian gradually; until I get it online I have Windows, in its own partition, set up for Internet use. I use Windows to download Debian packages I'm interested in onto my hard drive, creating a partial mirror of

samba: Operation not permitted (was: Re: vfat - cp: file: Operation not permitted)

1999-03-17 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Some time ago, there was discussion of the Operation not permitted error on FAT partitions, and someone suggested the `quiet' option. Does such an option exist for Samba? (smbfs) ... It comes from the fact that cp tries to set some permissions on the destination file. That is

RE: Use the source luke

1999-03-17 Thread Shaleh
On 16-Mar-99 Shaun Lipscombe wrote: I really really want to install Gnome, but the only reason I haven't done so yet is because I cannot decide whether to install by source, or by .deb. Normally I wouldn't worry about this, as I used to use another distribution (name not mentioned to

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-17 Thread Christophe Clapp
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:11:06PM -0500, Dan Brosemer wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I made a c program : #include stdio.h main() { int nbr=0; while(1) { printf(%d\n,nbr+=1); mkdir (x); chdir (x); } exit(0); } I hate to ask,

Re: Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files

1999-03-17 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I think this got lost - apologies if this is its second time around. I'm installing Debian gradually; until I get it online I have Windows, in its own partition, set up for Internet use. I use Windows to download Debian packages I'm interested in onto my hard

Re: /bin/sh

1999-03-17 Thread Frozen Rose
When it comes to having a root shell for emergency use, you may look into sash, which is intended to be used even when libc is broken: Package: sash Priority: optional Section: shells Installed-Size: 299 Maintainer: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 2.1-5 Size: 131400

Replacing bash with ash as /bin/sh symlinked shell

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because of recent discussion on here about disaster recovery someone made a suggestion of installing ash and symlinking /bin/sh to it instead of bash. I've done that on both a recent Potato system and an up-to-date Slink system. So far I've not

Kernel Compile Errors

1999-03-17 Thread Jesse Lee
here are the erros I get when I am compiling my kernel. as86 -o -a [bootsect.o] bootsect.s make[1]: as86: command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] error 127 make [zimage] Error 2 then it stops and the zImage is not created. now I am running kernel 2.0.34 I have tried it with kernel

Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel that anyone

Re: Kernel Compile Errors

1999-03-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Jesse Lee wrote: here are the erros I get when I am compiling my kernel. as86 -o -a [bootsect.o] bootsect.s make[1]: as86: command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] error 127 I had the same problem the first time I tried to compile the kernel. You just need to install

Re: Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Mar 1999q, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 19:02:57 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I sometimes get email with docs attached in base64 - presumably some Windows format? No. Email isn't guaranteed to be 8-bit clean in general; thus, binaries need to be encoded to ensure

Re: Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Mar 1999q, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 19:02:57 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I sometimes get email with docs attached in base64 - presumably some Windows format? No. Email isn't guaranteed to be 8-bit clean in general; thus, binaries need to be encoded to ensure

Re: Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-17 Thread homega
Anthony Campbell dixit: Thanks to all for replies. I do have mutt and I just installed all the MIME stuff but it still doesn't read the files in mutt (something to do with mailcap I think). I also installed mpack and tried that on the exported file but that didn't do anything either. Perhaps

Help.Can't log in as root

1999-03-17 Thread Craig McVean
Yes. Most strange I can't log in as root or su I have just upgraded to slink from hamm. Everything went pretty well, for some reason sash became my shell for root? (probably me using dselect - iused the multicd method. well not Knowing sash (well not at all axcept that its pretty powewrful,

Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 14 March 1999, at 16 h 57, the keyboard of Robert Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you who are tracking unstable but are too chicken to install the new glibc 2.1 may have noticed that your ldd has disappeared. May be these chickens are people who have some work to do.

Re: Help.Can't log in as root

1999-03-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Yes. Most strange I can't log in as root or su I have just upgraded to slink from hamm. Everything went pretty well, for some reason sash became my shell for root? (probably me using dselect - iused the multicd method. well not Knowing sash (well not at all axcept that its pretty

Re: Elm and sun mailtool attachments

1999-03-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 20:49:52 -0800, Rich Pawlowicz wrote: So...(1) Obviously, something recognizes that this isn't mime encoded, but is sun-encoded, and (2) There is some way of configuring this something to handle it...but... Look at the emil package; it can convert from

Re: Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 08:28:15 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all who kindly replied on this. I do have mutt but not the mime decode stuff. If you have mutt, you don't need the stand-alone MIME handling packages. Mutt should be able to view the attachment, provided it has a proper

Re: Help.Can't log in as root

1999-03-17 Thread Craig McVean
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:57:27AM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: Yes. Most strange I can't log in as root or su I have just upgraded to slink from hamm. Everything went pretty well, for some reason sash became my shell for root? (probably me using dselect - iused the multicd method.

Re: Help.Can't log in as root

1999-03-17 Thread Vardhan Varma
Yes. Most strange I can't log in as root or su I have just upgraded to su:cannot execute exit no file or directory then it just drops me back to the ansci login prompt?? it seems like a danferous feature can it be remidied ?? Is it same with 'su' and 'su -' ? Boot from

How to edit /etc/init.d/network?

1999-03-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
So that my computer will apply the ipchains commands, the ipforward command in echo, the ifconfig, etc... at boot? NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

sash

1999-03-17 Thread Craig McVean
G'day Raul. i have sash installed as the root shell i typed exit and it through me out of myconsole to a login prompt ( well thats ok as i wanted to logout ) But now i cant login anymore. it tells me its running a restricted shell called exit and drops me back to the login screen again? i can't

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #484

1999-03-17 Thread Franko Luin
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Slink upgrade - problems with X.

1999-03-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just upgraded to slink, and followed the instructions to delete xbase. Lots of problems have resulted. I am very confused by the new X stuff. Startx wasn't installed, but I found it on the CDRom and installed it. To get startx to work I had to make a link from /etc/X11/XF86Config to

emacs20 slink problems

1999-03-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hi folks, I think I am *still* getting bitten by the emacs19/emacs20 stuff. I have purged both packages using dpkg, then removed the /etc/emacs directory by hand (it was not removed by the purge), then tried a fresh emacs20 install. Error: emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs20

ANSWER: Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-17 Thread David B. Teague
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the boot disk. Question: Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab file and a knowledge of where the kernel is

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/16/99 08:07 PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jay Barbee writes: Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Mar 16 16:49:16 torch kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Modem should be in the first serial port. Any ideas how I can get this thing to talk?

Sound Card problems

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I am trying to setup my sound card. What is the kernel setup here? I download the latest Debian updates with Dselect on a weekly basis so I have the current release. Shanta McBain

Netscape problems

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I used dselect to install all the communicator programs and it will not load. I had this problem with the dynamic version in an old installation but the static version seemed to work . In the latest builds there dose not seem to be these two versions. How can I get this product on line?

PCI Modems and Trident cards

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a PCI modem which I cant seem to get Linux to see. There also dose not seem to be a Trident 975 driver for X windows. Do I have to run the PCI module, which I installed with dselect of the Debian website? Will this program detect the modem? Shanta

Re: apt problem?

1999-03-17 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
jeb wrote: I've used dselect/apt for a long time to update my debian distribution. For the last several days when I tried to update I get the following message. Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat

SLink ipfwadm or ipchains?

1999-03-17 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Does SLink use ipfwadm or ipchains for firewalling and NAT? Thanks, Wayne

Re: samba: Operation not permitted (was: Re: vfat - cp: file: Operation not permitted)

1999-03-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JB == Jiri Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JB I ask because I'd like to be able to use `mv' to move files. If it JB can't set permissions on the destination, mv behaves like cp. On FAT partitions, there is no concept of permissions. So Linux uses values determined by the uid, gid and umask

Re: VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tommy Malloy wrote: Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a Linux box? Are LInux users going to be cut off from web

Re: SLink ipfwadm or ipchains?

1999-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does SLink use ipfwadm or ipchains for firewalling and NAT? It's enabled for both. If you run a 2.0.x kernel (the default on slink) then you will need to use ipfwadm. If you upgrade to a 2.2.x kernel, then you will need to use ipchains

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