Controladoras SCSI

1999-06-19 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as: Se me plantea una duda con respecto a las controladoras scsi. Vereis, tengo un scaner que usa una AVA-1505AE isa, que todavia no he hecho funcionar en mi Debian, pero ahora voy a comprarme una grabadora scsi con otra controladora scsi, una Advansys 3925/6 pci, oem, y me gustaría

Re: Problema con kde en debian 2.1

1999-06-19 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 17 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 11:24:32 +0200, Manuel Trujillo contaba: ¿Verdad que es una pasada estar malgastando ancho de banda y espacio en el disco duro con mesajes que se han leido, o en su defecto, con toda la paja que ya no sirve? No te lo vas a creer pero yo pensé en

Re: Unas dudas...

1999-06-19 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 17 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 15:25:39 +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a contaba: 2)Que diferencia hay entre y no es valido, que yo sepa, convierte al fichero que le sigue en entrega estandar para el programa. es para... ¿cómo explicarlo? $ cat holas __EOF__

Dependencias de xcdroast

1999-06-19 Thread Hue-Bond
Buenas! Hago un dpkg -I al xcdroast de la Hamm y me aparece esto: Depends: cosas, tix41 (=4.1), cosas, tix41 (=4.1.0.6-2), cosas ¿Cómo es posible que dependa de dos versiones de tix41? ¿Qué pasaría si meto la 4.1.0? ¿Es un bug? La Hamm lleva la la 4.1.0.6-3

XFree86 3.3.3.1

1999-06-19 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hola: Hace unos dias compre una nueva tarjeta de video, con un chip RIVA 128. Para poder instalarla correctamente es necesario cambiar la version de XFree86 de la 3.3.2 a la 3.3.3.1. Para ahorrarme trabajo intentente instalar el paquete que viene incluido en el C.D. de Ret Hat 6.0. Sin embargo

OFF TOPIC: MANUAL PARA BOARD PCI 486

1999-06-19 Thread ZUMBIJUNIOR
HOLA A [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ESTUVE NAVEGANDO LA SECA, LA MECA Y TODO LO QUE QUIERAN Y NO ENCONTRE UN MANUAL DE MANEJO (O DE JUMPER SETTINGS QUE LLAMAN) PARA UNA MAINBOARD CON CHIP BIOS DE AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, SEGUN LA PAGINA DE FABRICANTES QUE IDENTIFICA LA AMIBIOS, LA BOARD FUE FABRICADA POR UNA

OFF TOPIC: MANUAL PARA MAINBOARD 486 PCI

1999-06-19 Thread ZUMBIJUNIOR
HOLA A [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ESTUVE NAVEGANDO LA SECA, LA MECA Y TODO LO QUE QUIERAN Y NO ENCONTRE UN MANUAL DE MANEJO (O DE JUMPER SETTINGS QUE LLAMAN) PARA UNA MAINBOARD CON CHIP BIOS DE AMERICAN MEGATRENDS Y CON CHIPSET UMC 8886BF Y UMC 8881F. EL NUMERO DE BIOS REFERENCE QUE ME APARECE EN

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1

1999-06-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda escribió: Hace unos dias compre una nueva tarjeta de video, con un chip RIVA 128. Para poder instalarla correctamente es necesario cambiar la version de XFree86 de la 3.3.2 a la 3.3.3.1. Para ahorrarme trabajo intentente instalar el paquete que viene incluido

Re: OFF TOPIC: MANUAL PARA MAINBOARD 486 PCI

1999-06-19 Thread Miquel
Tampoco hace falta gritar tanto, hombre! El sáb, jun 19, 1999 at 07:37:24 -0500 ZUMBIJUNIOR va dir: HOLA A [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ESTUVE NAVEGANDO LA SECA, LA MECA Y TODO LO QUE QUIERAN Y NO ENCONTRE UN MANUAL DE MANEJO (O DE JUMPER SETTINGS QUE LLAMAN) PARA UNA MAINBOARD CON CHIP BIOS DE

Re: Socorro en envio de mails

1999-06-19 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Hola lista! Tengo un problema desde hace dos días que no se a qué viene. No puedo mandar mensajes puesto que me dice esto el sendmail: Jun 18 21:29:05 akela sendmail[626]: VAA00608: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=vigu

Re: [Re: OFF TOPIC: MANUAL PARA MAINBOARD 486 PCI]

1999-06-19 Thread ZUMBIJUNIOR
Miquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tampoco hace falta gritar tanto, hombre! Te voy a aclarar algunas cosas que parece que no entendiste: 1. No escribo en esta lista para que personas como tú me critiquen si escribí de una u otra manera. Escribo para solicitar ayuda respecto a un problema que

su: problem establishing PAM_RUSER

1999-06-19 Thread Correcaminos
Como reza el subject, pues que al intentar arrancar PostgreSQL me sale este horror. su: problem establishing PAM_RUSER Todavía no he pillado la onda a la forma de trabajar del 'PAM'. Si alguien puede dar un 'overview' sobre estas herramientas, se lo

Que coño le pasa al LILO

1999-06-19 Thread A.B.G.
Hola compañeros de DEBIAN; TEngo que instalar la Distribucción de DEBIAN en un Ordenador para poder hacer un proyecto del curre, el caso que he comprado la distribucción de Citius Debian GNU/LINUX, la instalo correctamente (Eso creo), pero cuando tengo que reiniciar el Ordenador para empezar a

Re: Que coño le pasa al LILO

1999-06-19 Thread Correcaminos
de A.B.G. el Sat, Jun 19, 1999 a las 11:04:38PM +0200 X-Buscador-Linux: http://search.gulic.org/ El Sat, Jun 19, 1999 a las 11:04:38PM +0200, A.B.G. dijo: Hola compañeros de DEBIAN; TEngo que instalar la Distribucción de DEBIAN en un Ordenador para poder hacer un proyecto del curre,

Re: Ensoniq no tiene sequenciador : el playmidi no tira

1999-06-19 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:51:34PM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: [EMAIL PROTECTED] timidity nuages.mid /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Couldn't open Linux dsp device Truco del almendruco: Una de las pocas ventajas que tiene la SB64 es que trae dos dsp. Tienes que tener

Re: Que coño le pasa al LILO

1999-06-19 Thread budgy
El sáb, 19 jun 1999, A.B.G. escribió: Hola compañeros de DEBIAN; TEngo que instalar la Distribucción de DEBIAN en un Ordenador para poder hacer un proyecto del curre, el caso que he comprado la distribucción de Citius Debian GNU/LINUX, la instalo correctamente (Eso creo), pero cuando

Re: RES: Configurações IDE (fwd)

1999-06-19 Thread Rafael Caetano dos Santos
- Forwarded message from Edson Lima Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:38:22 -0300 (EST) From: Edson Lima Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rafael Caetano dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RES: Configurações IDE Oi Estou interessado em ajudar no esforco de

[Fwd: Traducao dos pacotes da Debian]

1999-06-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi gente, olhe so a nossa iniciativa... Abracos,PH Diego Delgado Lages wrote: Eu coloquei disponível no CVS da linuxlabs um módulo chamado debian-pt que contém (a princípio) o arquivo Packages (tá descompactado) da Debian. Espero que todos colaborem façam como na última vez

OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those Preferences-Navigator-Applications entries, Hartmut. The important things are

Re: Use MD5 to check packages

1999-06-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC Or you could install the debsums package which will also let you create BC .md5sum files for packages that don't have them. How do you do that? There is nothing in the manpage or in /usr/doc/debsums about this. Ciao, Martin

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MJ == Marcus Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MJ They seems to work just fine. Anyone know how to test the glx-g200 MJ driver? The mesa-gl screensavers dont seem to be any faster etc... Anything that is compiled against Mesa will do. But you either have to recompile it against libGL, or

Re: Installing Linux 1.3.1

1999-06-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi friends Hi I'm a beginner in the Linux World and as my first step I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 in a PC 486 / 100 MHz through the floppy drive. My PC lacks of CD-ROM or network connection. Why 1.3? You could get 2.0 Anyway $ I don't know how to use the dselect command ,

Re: vim config question

1999-06-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help. But with the laststatus=2, I now have a bar, but only with the filename displayed. I would like to have as much as those in emacs... If you add set ruler to your .exrc then you'll get the cursor position also. What information

Re: newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
David Brode wrote: 1. I just added an ethernet card to my system (3Com SC509TP) and I understand that I'm supposed to use the driver 3c509. My question is *how* do I get the system to load that driver? (If I were installing linux again I could use dbootstrap, but I have the feeling

Re: newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: newbie: installing new drivers Date: Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 04:54:10PM -0600 In reply to:David Brode Quoting David Brode([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1. I just added an ethernet card to my system (3Com SC509TP) and I understand that I'm supposed to use the driver 3c509. My

Weird ls/dir behavior in vfat partition

1999-06-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I just upgraded a bunch of packages from 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 kernel (Did not install glibc2.1, left it at libc2.0.7 latest version, upgraded all packages needed for 2.2.10 kernel and ones suggested in the kernel readme file.) I just tried to access my windows partition. The root of it (just

ppp connection

1999-06-19 Thread DYang50492
I try to connect to company's intranet using TCP/IP. ( I did it in win98 platform). I tried pppconfig but failed to connect. I have the following info. DNS server name Phone No. User name Password Protocal(CHAP,PAP) Is there anything I am missing in order to connect? I appreciate your help in

dpkg broken...

1999-06-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I was doing some upgrading/system cleanup, when I got this error from dpkg: (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /Files/apt_0.1.9.deb (--install): error reading files list file for package `kernel-source-2.0.34': Input/output error Errors were encountered while processing:

device and driver

1999-06-19 Thread DYang50492
Is there a way in linux that I can find the installed device and driver? So that I can upgrade the old driver once it is available. Thanks Daniel

ATI 3D Rage Pro

1999-06-19 Thread DYang50492
Does anyone know that ATI 3D Rage Pro video card is supported in linux 2.1? Thanks Daniel

Which ISP I should use

1999-06-19 Thread DYang50492
I called AOL and asked for DNS address. They didn't tell me. I am going to pick up another ISP. What is your suggestion on which ISP to use Thanks Daniel

Re: newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-19 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Just run modconf. It is the same program that is used during setup. You might have to play with ios and irqs if first attempts fail. Sergey. On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, David Brode wrote: 1. I just added an ethernet card to my system (3Com SC509TP) and I understand that I'm supposed to use the

Re: Which ISP I should use

1999-06-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
pick up another ISP. What is your suggestion on which ISP to use Thanks Daniel This was in the discussion just a bit ago. Basically, any ISP with dialup access will do. Dump AOL. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov

dpkg not broken....my disk is.

1999-06-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've posted a message earlier about dpkg not installingI found the source of problem. Turned out after the upgrade of almost all vital packages filesystems do not umount at hte poweroff/reboot. Also, the disk is 16.4% non-contigiuos. That was causing problems with certain files, which happened

Re: Which ISP I should use

1999-06-19 Thread Alec Smith
AOL uses their own proprietary client software, so there's probably little chance it'll ever run on anything other than Windows and Mac. At this point, there's not even a way to work around the crappy client to get a direct PPP connection. Personally I use Netcom/MindSpring and ATT Worldnet on

Re: [Q] Virtual hosts and routing...

1999-06-19 Thread David H. Silber
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:17:56AM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: # Set up a virtual interface. # # Usage: #virtualif Interface IP number netmask broadcast [reset] virtualif() { I didn't like that my previous solution, because it only dealt reasonably with one physical interface at a

Linker Error Building New Kernel

1999-06-19 Thread Klaus Pieper
I installed Debian 2.1 and tried to recompile the 2.0.36 sources. During the link phase I got lot's of unresolved references. What is missing? ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o

Re: Install Printer under Linux

1999-06-19 Thread ahmed ebrahim mohamed aboanber
Dear Jaroslaw, many thanks for your interest. Actually debian system is new for me, So could you please let me know step by step how can I install my printer to my PC. First I have kernel with lpr support installed in my system also I have lpr command what after that?. How can I

Re: ATI 3D Rage Pro

1999-06-19 Thread pow
It was Today at 00:23 that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about ATI 3D Rage Pro Does anyone know that ATI 3D Rage Pro video card is supported in linux 2.1? You can use it. I have in a compaq 5170. -- Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit

Bug in slink's dosemu?

1999-06-19 Thread Johann Spies
After upgrading to slink, dosemu is not working. So I removed it again, including all the old configuration files and reinstalled it. When I do a dpkg -L dosemu I see inter alia: /etc /etc/dosemu /etc/dosemu/conf /etc/dosemu/users /var /var/lib /var/lib/dosemu /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first

subscrive it

1999-06-19 Thread Filippo Panessa
subscrive it

Which FTAPE?

1999-06-19 Thread Paul
Thanks to recent help from Nico Galoppo Peter Makholm I have installed the crucial RPM's that I need using Alien. They work great!! Now that I know I will be able to use this system I wish to load my files from tapes. I am confused over whether I should have Ftape selected in the drivers

dhcpcd dies right after being started

1999-06-19 Thread - -
dhcpcd dies right after being started, within ~10 seconds. the error it reports is sendto (init): Operation not permitted what does this error mean? I'm using dhcpcd 0.70, the one that comes with slink (2.1r0), with a 2.0.36 kernel I configured and compiled. I thought it might have been

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1999-06-19 Thread Klaus Pieper
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debian slink 2.1

1999-06-19 Thread Jimmy
I have just set up the base system for Slink. Anyone can help me on setting up X windows and the rest of the packages? Thank you Jimmy

Re: dpkg not broken....my disk is.

1999-06-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Ivanov wrote: Any way to defrag the partition? defrag does not seem to be working, it gives me error message: bad magic number in super block Andrei, this error also got me a while back when I tried out defrag, and as usual, reading the man page turned out to be a good idea :-) To

cannot unlink

1999-06-19 Thread Reine Johansson
When I tried purging the package bc the following thing happened; dpkg: error processing bc (--purge): unable to delete control info file `/var/lib/dpkg/info/bc.postinst': Operation not permitted And then I tried to remove the file manually being root; rm: cannot unlink `bc.postinst':

Re: debian slink 2.1

1999-06-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 06:10:44PM +0800, Jimmy wrote: I have just set up the base system for Slink. Anyone can help me on setting up X windows and the rest of the packages? Read the HOWTO's in /usr/doc/HOWTO/ or possibly /usr/doc/HTML. Look at $ man command name and $ info command name Then

Re: vim config question

1999-06-19 Thread Shao Zhang
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 06:22:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help. But with the laststatus=2, I now have a bar, but only with the filename displayed. I would like to have as much as those in emacs... If you add set ruler to

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-19 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, check out man wvdial, gets you dialing 2 isps easy. Sorry can't help with smail. On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP without re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a spare computer for

slow and stopped

1999-06-19 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, Just re-installed slink, only a couple of hitches. 1. One day after running all day using Wordperfect, playing the odd game of solitair, Netscape (browsing), compiling qt 1.4 kde 1.0, kmail (downloading, reading), it started running slow. I had to reboot before it came good.

any idea when potato will be frozen?

1999-06-19 Thread Shao Zhang
thanks. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | '

Pb with inetd and ftp/tcp

1999-06-19 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
I'm using a debian systems for 3 years or so with no problem at all. But recently I discovered a rather stranger behavior with inetd and particularly with ftp Imagine that an evil person want to crash your machine sending a lot of non-authorized ftp requests like this (shell is zsh) $ while

AnyOne used W.I.S.E. ?

1999-06-19 Thread John Foster
I am trying to set up NASA'S WISE project management system. I have the Linux patched version from the website but am having difficulty installing it, as the Linux patched version was designed for some other distribution and distributed as WISE-1.0e.tar.gz I do not know what Linux it was set up

Re: slow and stopped

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:42:06PM +1000, Colin Tree wrote: Hi, Just re-installed slink, only a couple of hitches. 1.One day after running all day using Wordperfect, playing the odd game of solitair, Netscape (browsing), compiling qt 1.4 kde 1.0, kmail (downloading, reading),

Re: cannot unlink

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:49:55PM +0200, Reine Johansson wrote: When I tried purging the package bc the following thing happened; dpkg: error processing bc (--purge): unable to delete control info file `/var/lib/dpkg/info/bc.postinst': Operation not permitted And then I tried to remove

Re: dpkg not broken....my disk is.

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:54:03AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I've posted a message earlier about dpkg not installingI found the source of problem. Turned out after the upgrade of almost all vital packages filesystems do not umount at hte poweroff/reboot. Also, the disk is 16.4%

Re: Linker Error Building New Kernel

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:11:29AM +0200, Klaus Pieper wrote: I installed Debian 2.1 and tried to recompile the 2.0.36 sources. During the link phase I got lot's of unresolved references. What is missing? ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o

Re: about rc.sysinit

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 04:44:44PM -0400, Alexander S Polyakov wrote: hi all , what is analogue of Red Hat rc.sysinit on Linux/Debian ? thanks . the best, alex. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null RedHat uses BSD-style init, and Debian uses

Re: Symbol for parameter not found - ethernet

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:45:47PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I searched the archives for this, and found the same problem, but no answer. I've lost my network card on a 2.0.36 installation. It's a 3C509B card, and on boot-up I see the error Symbol for parameter io not found. After logging in

Re: kernel panic after some days

1999-06-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:39:11PM +0200, Werner Reisberger wrote: I am running a debian machine (PC PII 350 MHZ, 128 MB RAM) as an Internet server. Today the server crashed the second times after running one week without any problems. The crash was caused by a kernel panic. Nothing has been

qmail

1999-06-19 Thread keyoz
Hi folks! is qmail orphaned. qmail hasn't been updated for a long time. TIA PS. Cc: me (not subscribed) bye -- k e c h i e It's now safe to turn off your computer means computing was unsafe before it appeared. -- m e

ATI Rage Fury

1999-06-19 Thread Matthew McFarlane
can it be done, has anyone? any pointers? Matthew McFarlane - Dyang50492 Does anyone know that ATI 3D Rage Pro video card is supported in linux 2.1? Dyang50492 Thanks Dyang50492 Daniel Dyang50492 -- Dyang50492 Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

fetchmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread Jason Greshes
Hoping someone might know the answer to this... Last week I upgraded my 2.0 debian system up to 2.1. fetchmail is now barfing. The output I get is: X message(s) for jgreshes at pop3.netaxs.com (X octets) reading message 1 of X (X octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address

Re: Which FTAPE?

1999-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:52:13AM -, Paul wrote: Thanks to recent help from Nico Galoppo Peter Makholm I have installed the crucial RPM's that I need using Alien. They work great!! Now that I know I will be able to use this system I wish to load my files from tapes. I am confused over

where is the colored man?

1999-06-19 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi all, from my old slackware days I remember that manual pages paged with /usr/bin/less had color titles, keywords and so on. RedHat still has this. I wonder if it is possible to have a colored man-output with Debian, too. Any ideas? thanks --

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-19 Thread stick
Content-Length: 2937 Lines: 74 Howdy All! This question - though simply stated - does produce an intereting problem. Namely that there exists no *one* place a person can set system-wide environmanet variables. So far we've seen responces that indicate that Bourne-like shells will use

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I had a similar problem with smail. I got around it by using specifying a MDA in .fetchmailrc. Bob On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:06:52AM -0400, Jason Greshes wrote: Hoping someone might know the answer to this... Last week I upgraded my 2.0 debian system up to 2.1. fetchmail is now

Re: ppp connection

1999-06-19 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: I try to connect to company's intranet using TCP/IP. ( I did it in win98 platform). I tried pppconfig but failed to connect. Exactly what happened? Post the output of the 'plog' command. Is there anything I am missing in order to connect? What port is your modem on? -- John

Cannot login as a user.

1999-06-19 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I am setting up my debian at runlevel 5, so that I can startx at boot. However, it only allows root to login. Whenever I login as a user, the login window returns after I login. What did I do wrong? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-19 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:34:52AM +0100, Frankie wrote Incidentally, on the subject of kernel 2.2.10 and make-kpkg, has anyone had a compile problem just after patching to 2.2.10? Normally when I install a patch, I use a modified version of the patch-kernel script, and then I run

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 01:54:56PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:34:52AM +0100, Frankie wrote Incidentally, on the subject of kernel 2.2.10 and make-kpkg, has anyone had a compile problem just after patching to 2.2.10? Normally when I install a patch, I use a

Swapping between floppy and cd-rom module.

1999-06-19 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I have a minor problem swapping floppy and cd-rom module on my Compaq LTE 5200. I can only make either /dev/fd0 or /dev/hdb recognized, but not both at the same time. Sometimes, it takes several boots for the transition to take effect. That is, when I switch from one module to the

dselect, database out of sync?

1999-06-19 Thread Johan Ur Riise
When I run install in deselect, i get messages like these ones (hundreds of them): Skipping deselected package et. Skipping deselected package expect5.24-dev. Version 19971204-3 of f2c already installed, skipping. Version 0.0-17 of fakeroot already installed, skipping. Version 2.5.4a-3 of flex

changing default umask on useradd

1999-06-19 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello everyone ! does anyone know of a way to change the default useradd or adduser behaviour in terms of giving permissions to the new users home directory ? that is, when u add a new user, the permission on his/her new home dir is set at 755. is there any way to make the default settig to

Re: dselect, database out of sync?

1999-06-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jun, Johan Ur Riise wrote about dselect, database out of sync? When I run install in deselect, i get messages like these ones (hundreds of them): Skipping deselected package et. Skipping deselected package expect5.24-dev. Version 19971204-3 of f2c already installed, skipping.

Re: Bug in slink's dosemu?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Johann Spies wrote: [about dosemu problems] don´t know, what´s going wrong. but i wouldn´t bother. i´ve just ´slinked´ dosemu 0.98.7, installed and am on the way of customizing. i recommend that you forget your version and get the new stable one. hafi

hm

1999-06-19 Thread Shurik Dovnar
Hey, All! How do i correctly upgrade my existing slink to current potato? I'll soon have mirror of /debian/dists/potato . Another question. As far as i found to make cd's images from mirror i need to use debian-cd. I found it in hamm. Why do it absent in slink and potato? I think that thing in

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread jason and jill
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: I had a similar problem with smail. I got around it by using specifying a MDA in .fetchmailrc. Bob I tried replacing smail with exim, and got same error message. Tried to designate exim as MDA in fetchmailrc and got: ..exim: neither action

Re: ATI Rage Fury / Rage Pro

1999-06-19 Thread kerkhoff
Which do you mean, Rage Fury or Rage Pro? They are two separate cards, or not? Yep, I have been using mine for 5 months now, since I got it. Actually, what kernel or distribution that you have does not have much to do with wether or not your card is supported. What matters is wether your X

fetchmail doesn't runq

1999-06-19 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I've noticed that I have to manually execute runq after fetchmail finished getting mail. Prior version of fetchmail (the one in slink) did the delivery automatically at the end of the run. Any ideas? Pf -- ---

NetReality on Debian

1999-06-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, has anyone gotten NetReality to run on Debian (potato). If so please let me know how. TIA //\\//\\//\\ Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux //\\//\\//\\

Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-19 Thread Wyn Snow
I have been trying to get all three: Emacs, Netscape Navigator, and Apache all working on an X-windows Linux system. I switched from Red Hat to Debian because Apache was not working on my Red Hat system, and rather than try to muddle my way through learning what was wrong, I figured okay, switch

Re: can anyone access this site?

1999-06-19 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, thanks to everybody for their time and reply. I am still trying to get to the ottom of this. Your replies, and the ones from my ISP -althoguh they do not offer tech support for Linux they were quite friendly and courteous- made me think it is a Java problem or my ISP address problem. I will

uqwk / inews

1999-06-19 Thread peter karlsson
I am trying to upload articles written with a SOUP reader using uqwk and inews from their respective Debian packages, but I fail. inews keep telling me that the groups are invalid. NNTPSERVER is set to the server that inews should deliver to, and so is /etc/news/server, but it doesn't seem to

RealPlayer G2 + potato

1999-06-19 Thread Oz Dror
hi has anyone been able to succsefully run the G2 player on potato. Real G2 crash as soon as it starts playing. -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: fetchmail doesn't runq

1999-06-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jun, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote about fetchmail doesn't runq I've noticed that I have to manually execute runq after fetchmail finished getting mail. Prior version of fetchmail (the one in slink) did the delivery automatically at the end of the run. What is your mta? Exim by

Re: Emacs, Netscape and Apache - together?

1999-06-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Wyn Snow wrote: So what I want to do is get a Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) that will work with Debian Hamm 2.0.34. Since I make web pages for a living, i suspect, you´re trying to run a glibc2.0 netscape on libc5 system. if you have a glibc5 based system, you must download a

apt question

1999-06-19 Thread Omniflux
I'd like apt to look at my cd's before looking at the rest of the sites in my sorces.list, but while I can get it to look at one cd, I can't get it to look at the second (Official Debian CD's) If I use symlinks to repoint the Packages file to Packages.cd on the second CD, it will find the packages

lilo and win98

1999-06-19 Thread Sander Balkenende
hi I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine. my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda1root=/dev/hda1install=/boot/boot.bmap=/boot/mapvga=normaldelay=20image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-onlyother=/dev/hdb1 label=dos

Re: hm

1999-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:40:03PM +0300, Shurik Dovnar wrote: Hey, All! How do i correctly upgrade my existing slink to current potato? I'll soon have mirror of /debian/dists/potato . 1. Edit your /etc/apt/sourceslist to point to potato or unstable instead of stable. 2. Apt-get

RE: fetchmail doesn't runq

1999-06-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
I haven't had problems with my exim/fetchamil setup, even after moving from slink to potato. I do remember that I had to edit my fetchmailrc file at some point though becuase the syntax had changed. If you have an old .fetchmailrc that is being loaded from some directory for instance because you