your a fag you nigger bitch, debian really blows. I
use slackware.
* "Andri" == Andri Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andri> admin packages to an ancient and very slow 486. Is there a way
Andri> to make debian automatically install all of the admin packages
Andri> without me having to answer yes/no to different applications as
Andri> they install?
No, not yet.
* "Stephen" == Stephen Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stephen> However, since that episode I cannot upload to my home
Stephen> directory. I can login and recieve files fine, but cannot
Stephen> upload. I get permission denied messages. Now, I have checked
Stephen> all the permissions in my home
* "Samuel" == Samuel R Scarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Samuel> 2) the fact that no '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is subscribed to
Samuel> the list?
You are not required to be subscribe to post to the list. It is more
trouble than it is worth - I am on three such lists.
Ciao,
Martin
* "shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
shaul> Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic
shaul> entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where
shaul> should I look ?
a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed?
b) run update-menus with verbose and deb
Hello,
Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?
If this is not an obvious error, where should I look ?
[12:21:20 shaul]$ cat .menu/mosaic
?package(mosaic):needs=X11 section=Apps/Net title="Mosaic" \
command="/usr/bin/X11/Mosaic -geometry 627x468"
[0
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:44:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote:
> > > > In the past few days (today
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 02:49:51PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> (I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice)
>
> A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around
> these things --
>
> When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won
> Grab debian/dists//{main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-.gz .
> It may be in a slightly different place, but that should be what you need.
Thanks for the info (and the quick reply). I grabbed
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz
I think it has all three (main,contrib,non-
hello everybody. trying to compile wmfinder, i get this:
checking for main in -lXmu... no
configure: error: It seems libXmu is missing !
any help to fix that ? :)
thank you!
Package: bash
Version: 2.02.1-1.5
Hi all,
The current bash/libreadline dependencies in potato are formed in an
conflicts/pre-depends loop that causes APT to remove bash, install
libreadlineg2 and then try to reinstall bash (which fails because bash
needs bash to install [remove actually]..) Newer
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 02:26:57PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote:
> As such, it seems that dpkg -S only works on packages that are already
> installed. Is there something I can use to determine which package needs
> to be installed when a program complains about a particular file?
Grab debian/dists//
Subject: mutt question...
Date: Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 10:03:15PM +0200
In reply to:Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Quoting Peter Palfrader aka Weasel([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> this may be a stupid question however I cuold not find the answer:
>
> How do I set my From: address in mutt?
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is
> 64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk.
That should be plenty for 'normal' use. If you have a particularly high
intensity server you may need more.
Fellow debian users,
I just upgraded my laptop (Dell Inspiron 3.5K) from 2.0 to 2.1.
Upgrade went smoothly apart from one problem. Previously my ppp
setup worked like a charm. Now I get the following error when
calling pon :
Aug 12 09:28:58 csnote pppd[256]: pppd 2.3.5 started by csoelle, uid 1
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> 02:29am ~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/top
> procps: /usr/bin/top
> 02:29am ~$ dpkg -S /bin/ps
> procps: /bin/ps
I have a question about using dpkg -S. Today, when I tried to install the
software for my UPS, it complained that it couldn't find
"libncurses.so.3.0" so
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> > Could someone give me the options I should use to force it to 10 MBits ?
> Use the driver as a module, don't use a driver compiled directly into the
> kernel (Or use lilo to pass options to the driver but I won't describe that
> here) Then use the line
>
> rtl8139 opti
I screwd it up too. My solution was
# update-alternative --auto netscape
hope this help
Chanop
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> a few days ago I had all kinds of Netscape trouble. I decided to remove
> evey trace of it and resinstall. I even rem
Hi,
a few days ago I had all kinds of Netscape trouble. I decided to remove
evey trace of it and resinstall. I even removed to netscape file in
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. After I had re-sintalled the only way I can
start Netscape is to do:
/usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real
W
Hi,
I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is
64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk.
Lately I have my swap getting dangerously full while I still have a lot
of free memory. Even when I close almost all programs the swap file
stays filled
Hello,
Yeterday I have gotten the PC-Direct 9/99 (Ziff-Davis)
and there is a Linux CD attached.
It is DLD 6.0.1 with Kernel 2.2.3 which supports USB, Irda, PCMCIA,
IPv6. SPX, ...
It was installed in less then 40 minutes inclusive KDE 1.1.1
Webmistress Michelle
from Strasbourg
At 19:01 11.
this may be a stupid question however I cuold not find the answer:
How do I set my From: address in mutt?
If I use the my_hdr From: thingie, my fcc-hooks don't work any more.
my fcc hooks look like this:
fcc-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OUT.10.people.baron.dieter
changing the sendmail variabl
On 11-Aug-99 John Gay wrote:
> Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is? I've been to the
> site listed on www.linux.org, but the page says that the person who started
> it
> has left to pursue other things now that he's graduated. I've got an Agfa
> 1212U
> USB scanner that I'd
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 19:01:31 +0100, John Gay wrote:
> Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is?
If you use the latest stable kernel (2.2.11), possibly with Alan Cox'
patches (-ac3), the kernel has USB driver support, but it's marked as
experimental. You may want to check www
Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is? I've been to the
site listed on www.linux.org, but the page says that the person who started it
has left to pursue other things now that he's graduated. I've got an Agfa 1212U
USB scanner that I'd like to get working. I bought it in the
Hmmm, my system doesn't have either faxrunq or faxspool and hylafax
works just fine. There is a faxq which must be running and this is
started at boot time by /etc/init.d/hylafax, which is symlinked to
/etc/rc*.d/S20hylafax. This also starts hfaxd.
Bob
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:46:00PM +0200,
I France it will be no problem,
Everybody know the price for spaming ist 1000 UD$
and if I send him a Lawer, he has no chance and MUST pay.
I think, Debian MUST do that TOO
Webmistress Michelle
Michelle's Internet Service
Strasbourg - France
At 02:24 17.06.1999 -0300, you wrote
>
Oops -- that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was me (Samuel Scarano) --
there's no such thing as tumbolia.debian.org -- I'm surprised the list
server accepted that! What happened was, I sent the message using mh
(from my laptop, which is (and was) connected via the t1 we have at my
job), which tries to send ma
David Warnock wrote:
> Jens,
>
> I am sorry that I seem to have upset you by posting to the list. I have
> spent some hours time attempting to find a solution before posting
> although this does not extend to looking into the source or the packages
> but in testing a number of different configurat
Hi all,
I just wanted to install my new LaserJet 4000 printer with
magicfilter, and found that there isn't a filter for a 1200 dpi
printer. Is there a way to modify an existing filter (I'm thinking of
the psonly600-filter, which works with the LJ 4000) to get the 1200
dpi capability?
BTW, apsfilt
Hi all,
I'm setting up a machine here to take over the job of our firewall
temporarily. The firewall has two network cards but the new machine has
only one. I recompiled the 2.2.10 kernel with ip-aliasing support, and
the network will be one electrically when we make the switch.
On 11-Aug-99 Jim wrote:
> Hi. As the subject suggests, I get strange freeze-ups on my machine. Yes,
> it's definitely frozen... I can't ping it from my lan, and nothing
> responds... no keybd, no mouse, no nothing.
>
> This occurs once every couple of weeks. So far I have not been able to
> get
Jens,
I am sorry that I seem to have upset you by posting to the list. I have
spent some hours time attempting to find a solution before posting
although this does not extend to looking into the source or the packages
but in testing a number of different configuration files and working
throught th
Hi,
I need to set a slink box running 2.2.10 to serve dhcp for one of
its network cards. It'll be a masquerade box.
Where can I get a working dhcpd package for slink+2.2.10?
Can someone help me sending some config samples?
Thanks
[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes
Installing Debian on a system with a DAC960 is not easy. I've done it
several times, *by hand*, using the Debian rescue disk only to get a shell
prompt. Let me repeat that it is very difficult, and I wouldn't be able
to walk you through it. It works wonderfully once installed, however.
I would
Max Lawson wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanx for your answer.
>
> I'll try your tip. I can't access right now the box I'm puttind
> debian on.
>
> A question. You're talking about a Canon Installation manual.
> I would like to know if you're refering to the manual shipped with
> the printer
Upgrading the kernel is not necessary. This problem is the maintainers fault
(he's
been very busy, the fix will come... users who demand a stable system should
install
only stable distributions or be prepared to fend for themselves as I do) for
compiling
the executable such that they will only w
What's the deal with spam? I mean, on the mailing list signup page,
there's a message about an automatic $1000 fee for spam; does SPI ever
actually collect on this?
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
[blah,blah,blah]
>as it is not our intention to spam but to let individuals know about
>ad
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> problematic for certain machines. The case that is sited most often
> is the IBM Tecra laptop, so the problem is often referred to as the
> "tecra problem." Since I wasn't installing on a laptop of any kind, I
Actually, IBM doesn't make the Tecra's. To
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:36:17PM -0700, Robert Jones wrote:
>
> What version of Apache were you using on Red Hat? Since 1.3, you need to
> explicitly define IP addresses you want to have named-based virtual hosts on
> with the 'NameVirtualHost' directive -- if you were on 1.2, and upgraded to
>
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote:
:
: > The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
: > this up automagically... (:
:
: this works for all routes or just for 127.0.0.0?
:
: I'm process of upgrading
Jim,
> I had a problem with samba 2.0.5a. It required that I upgrade
> to a 2.2.x kernel. There was another problem that showed up on
> the list about bad passwords. As you seem to have remade the
> smbpasswd file, maybe try a 2.2.x kernel. The error I had in the
> logs was a "cannot become us
My booting problem has been solved. In case anyone else has a similar
problem, here is what was wrong, how I fixed things, and what I would
do differently if I were to start over again.
To recap, the problem was that after installing slink, I could boot
from the boot floppy, but not from the hard
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change
> > in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper
> > circumstances.
>
> Was there? Hmm..
>
Yeah
> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded our server from slink to potato (I wanted the new
> exim amoungst other things).
>
> Now we cannot connect to samba.
>
> I have checked my smb.conf with the testparams, it all looks OK (and of
> course it was working with the previous version of samba that came wi
Hi,
I also got a funny report from ping:
ping -l 10 192.168.14.2 | more
PING 192.168.14.2 (192.168.14.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.14.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=2270.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.14.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2279.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.14.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128
Greetings,
Actually, Debian created SPI to handle the legal stuff... SPI is a
non-profit organization. See the following URL for a news release.
http://www.spi-inc.org/news/1999/19990602b
Enjoy -- Greg.
--
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http://www.Countdown9199.com/
Referral: Greg Vence IBO: 2712303
> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:18:22PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:E4:2C:8D
> > > inet addr:192.168.14.1 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > > UP BROADCAST
Hi list:
I have an extrange problem which I'll explain shortly.
A few weeks ago, our old router (a 486 running Debian 1.something) died.
It was the HD. We decided to install a newer pentium with Debian 2.1.
The installation went very well. I managed to read the routing tables of the
old router usin
I have finally got my scsi card hooked up to my scanner, but I have one
question: How do I make sure the three modules needed are loaded
automatically by the kernel? When accessing the scanner the sg.o and
scsi_mod.o modules are autoloaded. The advansys.o module I still have to
insert by hand. What
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Hi,
I have just upgraded our server from slink to potato (I wanted the new
exim amoungst other things).
Now we cannot connect to samba.
I have checked my smb.conf with the testparams, it all looks OK (and of
course it was working with the previous version of samba that came with
slink). I have r
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote:
> The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
> this up automagically... (:
this works for all routes or just for 127.0.0.0?
I'm process of upgrading a 2.0.35 to a 2.2.10 and I would like to know how
to set the apropriate route
I will install debian on a computer with only this Mylex DAC960 Raid
Controller (no other disks...). The official resc. disk does not work, so
i have recompiled a
new kernel with patch from www.dandelion.com, created the devices and
substitute the kernel in the rescue-disk... lilo and fdisk seems t
Hi all,
This is a stupid problem that I am positive is staring me in the face.
I have ProFTPD Version 1.2.0pre1 running on a linux 2.2 box. I was
uploading fine to my home directory on that machine until today. I managed
in a fit of thoughtlessness to changes the ownerships and groups of all the
u
Hi. As the subject suggests, I get strange freeze-ups on my machine. Yes,
it's definitely frozen... I can't ping it from my lan, and nothing
responds... no keybd, no mouse, no nothing.
This occurs once every couple of weeks. So far I have not been able to
get more than 21 days of uptime, since i
Peter Palfrader aka Weasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all?
> The reason that the fans to keep the disks cool are too loud for me to
> have my box running during the night (my box is in my room). :)
I bet you don't want to hear th
> > Instead of installing the libc6 version which crashes constantly I
> > installed the libc5 version and some of the old libs with apt-get
>
> What are those old libs?
The old libc5 libs. Here are this libs that I had to install
apt-get install libXpm.so.4
apt-get install xpm4.7
apt-get inst
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:40:58AM +0200, Geordy Korte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After looking a couple of weeks at the threads here in the list about
> netscape 4.61 crashing with potato I have come up with a solve that
> actualy works.
>
> Instead of installing the libc6 version which crashes constantly
Hi,
After looking a couple of weeks at the threads here in the list about
netscape 4.61 crashing with potato I have come up with a solve that
actualy works.
Instead of installing the libc6 version which crashes constantly I
installed the libc5 version and some of the old libs with apt-get
I hav
If I've been interpreting the traffic about the 2.2 kernels correctly
here...
The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
this up automagically... (:
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> A thousand pardons if this a faq, but why does, in /etc/init.d/network, th
Only 6 days ago on the list...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 21:59:26 -0400, Timothy Burt wrote:
> Could it be some other motherboard problem? Or even the cpu?
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 lists a whole list of problems that have
resulted in signal11 and related unpredicatable behaviours.
On Tue,
"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
> Because you don't need it with 2.2.x kernel. Comment it out.
Oh darn. When am I going to learn to read the docs _before_ posting to the
list?
Thanks!
--
Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck
at--> The Hill
Because you don't need it with 2.2.x kernel. Comment it out.
--
Eric G. Miller
Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
I have 3 systems to which I receive mail: A, B, and C. A forwards mail
to B using a .forward file. System C is my home system and I fetchmail
from B usingwait for it...fetchmail. My problem is that it seems
like the To fields are being messed with somehow and not showing who the mail
was really
A thousand pardons if this a faq, but why does, in /etc/init.d/network, the
line:
route add -net 127.0.0.0
fail? The message is:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
I have yet to detect an ill side-effects from this. The system is a potato
with 2.2.9.
--
Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.ho
Hi,
Is there anywhere I can download a debianized minivend. I just cannot
get it
to work.
Thanks.
Shao.
> **message to minivend-users from Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> **
>
> Hi,
> I installed minivend, everything went fine except I cannot ge
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:32:26PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote
> > But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is
> > upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment
> > tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated
> > before,
I would like to know if you are a public company on any of
of the public stock exchanges. And are you partnering with any
companies.
stephen kevins
Dan Everton wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote:
> > Dan Everton wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote:
> > > > > In the past few days (today
Try something like this:
MYSQL sqlHandle;
#define SQL_HOST"localhost"
#define SQL_USER"localuser"
#define SQL_PASS"localpass"
#define SQL_DB "localdb"
int connectSQL()
{
MYSQL *tmp;
tmp = mysql_connect(&sqlHandle, SQL_HOST, SQL
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Examine Unlawful Conduct on the Internet
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Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100
> "BS" == Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BS> But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next
BS> time xdm is upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the
BS> package managment tools over writing what the system
BS> administrator sets has been debated before
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> If you are running potato, upgrade netscape-base-4 to version 4.61-18.
> That fixed it for me.
>
> Bob
That's the version of netscape-base-4 that I have. It didn't fix it
initially, but after restarting X, I've had no problems. Looks
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:18:22PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:E4:2C:8D
> > inet addr:192.168.14.1 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMI
Okay, when follwing the Debian installation tips,
they didn't help. I've created a Minix and Swap
partition and now I need to know how to boot so I can
use those partitions I have made. also when
activating the partition, how do write it:
Activate swap partition: (1) or (/dev/hda1)
any help on thi
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 10:45:43AM -0500, Colin McMillen wrote:
| I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through
| Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem
| to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
|
| [EMAIL PROT
Adam Krell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to
> work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86-
> unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz
>
> from this location:
> /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/navi
> gator_stan
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:E4:2C:8D
> inet addr:192.168.14.1 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:968323 errors:0 dropp
Hi, there:
I have just bought another new computer and built a home LAN using two 10mbps
NE2000-pci cards and a hub. It turns to be that the transfer speed between the
two computer varies dramatically.
Sometimes, it can reach 8mbps for few seconds, and then it slows to about
600kbps or even l
> But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is
> upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment
> tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated
> before, in favor of the system administrator(Recall the /usr/doc/*.gz
> issue
I'm wondering why I am getting a segmentation fault when selecting the db.
I connect fine to the server. Any help would be great,
==
#include
#include
MYSQL *mysql;
MYSQL_RES *res;
MYSQL_ROW row;
#define myDb "menagerie"
int main()
{
if (!mysql_connect(mysql,"h
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