Projeto de potfiles

1999-08-11 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi gente, parece que já temos um conjunto básico para a Debian em Português (o Manual do Dselect, o de instalacao para as 4 arquiteturas da slink, os boot-floppies quase completo, as notas de lancamento da slink e 4 manuais/tutoriais sendo traduzidos e revisados). A potato

Re: Projeto de potfiles

1999-08-11 Thread Rafael Caetano dos Santos
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: Também pensei que seria interessante que o máximo de programas fossem em português. O máximo de potfiles fossem integrados na potato. Para isso, seria necessário que fosse pesquisado que programas já tem os potfiles, por exemplo, da

Rotatelogs

1999-08-11 Thread Nelson Novaes Neto
Ola, Alguem saberia utilizar o rotatelogs do apache. obrigado []s nelson

get identity of qic tape?

1999-08-11 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to get the identity of a qic tape so it can be used in a shell script? Thanks -Paul

Re: Dabian 2.9.4

1999-08-11 Thread Nathan Duehr
Last time I looked at the LRP project's stuff, they were storing everything on the floppy in a compressed format. Therefore you needed to do some extra work to get the files you're looking for to work with it. There was an HTML page written by one of their developers that helps you get the

Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?

1999-08-11 Thread shaul
Kain is right. The correct switches are xO. As was mentioned in my message, I was trying to follow the packaging tutorial, which says that start quotation To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright |

Why am I getting a segmentation fault?

1999-08-11 Thread Tom
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 mysql.h #include iostream.h MYSQL *mysql; MYSQL_RES *res; MYSQL_ROW row; #define myDb menagerie int main() { if

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
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

What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-11 Thread minxu
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

Re: What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Loll
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_standalone

Re: Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
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

Low Memory Booting

1999-08-11 Thread Jayson Baird
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

Re: What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-11 Thread Ben Collins
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 PROMISC

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-11 Thread Dan Everton
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

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-11 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
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, in favor

FYI - Clinton Executive Order on Internet

1999-08-11 Thread Alan Snider
Received this date from qsl.net, may have implications(?) regarding internet use in future Text of Clinton Executive Order Establishing Working Group to Examine Unlawful Conduct on the Internet To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100

Re: Why am I getting a segmentation fault?

1999-08-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Try something like this: MYSQL sqlHandle; #define SQL_HOSTlocalhost #define SQL_USERlocaluser #define SQL_PASSlocalpass #define SQL_DB localdb int connectSQL() { MYSQL *tmp; tmp = mysql_connect(sqlHandle, SQL_HOST, SQL_USER,

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-11 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
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 and yesterday to

public or private company

1999-08-11 Thread stephen.kevins
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

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-11 Thread John Pearson
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, in

debianized minivend?? [cannot get simple catalog working - Help Plz]

1999-08-11 Thread Shao Zhang
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 get the

loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
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 Bernstein

Debian Lists

1999-08-11 Thread Rahsheen Porter
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

Re: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
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)!

Re[2]: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net 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? sigh Thanks! -- Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at

Re: Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)

1999-08-11 Thread Nathan Duehr
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,

Re: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Nathan Duehr
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,

Netscape crashing problem possible solve

1999-08-11 Thread Geordy Korte
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

Re: Netscape crashing problem possible solve

1999-08-11 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
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 I

Re: Netscape crashing problem possible solve

1999-08-11 Thread Geordy Korte
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 install

Re: scsi hd idle spin down

1999-08-11 Thread Eberhard Burr
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 this,

Wtf? puzzling lock-ups

1999-08-11 Thread Jim
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

Local users denied write via ftp

1999-08-11 Thread Stephen Kelly
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

Mylex DAC960

1999-08-11 Thread Fabrizio Roccato
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

Re: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
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

Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread David Warnock
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

Program Submission

1999-08-11 Thread info
Hi from Icon Shareware, We invite you to submit your shareware programs to our site. We provide for many operating systems IBM Compatable (PC), Be, Linux, Macintosh, Palmpilot and Windows CE If you go to http://www.iconshareware.com/icon/Software/Register/Default.asp you can assign yourself a

Autoloading scsi driver

1999-08-11 Thread Dave Swegen
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.

Ethernet Problem in router

1999-08-11 Thread Emilio Tejedor
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

Re: What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-11 Thread Min Xu
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

Re: public or private company

1999-08-11 Thread Greg Vence
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. -- Build an On-line Store http://www.Countdown9199.com/ Referral: Greg Vence IBO:

Re: What is the reasonable performance of a home 10mbps LAN

1999-08-11 Thread Min Xu
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

RE: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
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

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
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 the

Re: Can't boot from hard disk--solved

1999-08-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
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

Re: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread David Warnock
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 user

Re: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
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

Re: apache virtual hosting

1999-08-11 Thread Bill West
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

Re: Can't boot from hard disk--solved

1999-08-11 Thread Nathan Duehr
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.

spam on debian lists (Re: Program Submission)

1999-08-11 Thread sam
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

Re: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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

Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)

1999-08-11 Thread John Foster
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 ? yes.

Re: Mylex DAC960

1999-08-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
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

dhcp server + slink + kernel-2.2.10

1999-08-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
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

Re: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread David Warnock
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

RE: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups

1999-08-11 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
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 more

network aliasing situation

1999-08-11 Thread Dan DeMond
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.

magicfilter and 1200 dpi

1999-08-11 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
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,

Re: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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 configuration

debian list security; mh question (was Re: spam on debian lists (Re : Program Submission))

1999-08-11 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
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

Re: spam on debian lists (Re: Program Submission)

1999-08-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
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

Re: Hylafax problems

1999-08-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
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,

USB for Linux???

1999-08-11 Thread John Gay
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

Re: USB for Linux???

1999-08-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
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

RE: USB for Linux???

1999-08-11 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
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 like

mutt question...

1999-08-11 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
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

Re: USB for Linux???

1999-08-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
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

Weird swap growth

1999-08-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
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

Screwed up my alternatives

1999-08-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
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

Re: Screwed up my alternatives

1999-08-11 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
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 removed

[SOLVED] Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?

1999-08-11 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
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

dpkg -S

1999-08-11 Thread Patrick Olson
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 I

pppd[256]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) ?

1999-08-11 Thread Christian Soeller
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

Re: Weird swap growth

1999-08-11 Thread William T Wilson
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.

Re: mutt question...

1999-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
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?

Re: dpkg -S

1999-08-11 Thread Bryon Roche
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

WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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]..)

libXmu problems

1999-08-11 Thread Pedro Bastos
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!

Re: dpkg -S

1999-08-11 Thread Patrick Olson
Grab debian/dists/dist/{main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-yourarch.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

Re: Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-11 Thread Frankie Fisher
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't be

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-11 Thread Frankie Fisher
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 and

update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?

1999-08-11 Thread shaul
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