Re: latex y lyx

2000-01-09 Thread Luis M. García Ruipérez
Pablo Faúndez Hoffmann escribió: He instalado la version de lyx 0.12.0 que viene en non-free de debian (slink), he instalado el tetex-base, tetex-bin y tetex-nonfree pero no puedo visualizar mis archivos *.lyx ni en view dvi ni en view ps. He hecho todas las combinaciones posibles de

Re: OT: Kde

2000-01-09 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, IJAS wrote: Siento el off topic pero soy mi única lista de linux O:-) 1) Como hago para que el wm de Kde sea el que sale por defecto (ahora sale el fwm95). 2) ¿Se puede usar kde sin usar kdm? ¿Como hago para quitar kdm? ¿y luego para arrancar kde? 3) Si entro en kde

pregunta

2000-01-09 Thread Antonio Lopez Rodriguez
como puedo instalar cdwrite en mi hp8100? donde puedo bajarlo gratuitamente?

kernel 2.2.xx

2000-01-09 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Cuando compilo los kernels de la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx despues de compilarlo instalarlo y configurar el lilo al reiniciar con ese kernel carga todos los drivers hasta que en un momento da el mensage de kernel panic y no sale de ahi, tengo que reiniciar la maquina y usar el kernel 2.0.38 que es el

Re: kernel 2.2.xx

2000-01-09 Thread Raul GN
El Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:45:55AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo escribió: Cuando compilo los kernels de la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx despues de compilarlo instalarlo y configurar el lilo al reiniciar con ese kernel carga todos los drivers hasta que en un momento da el mensage de kernel panic y

Diamond MX-300

2000-01-09 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de sonido diamond MX-300 con chipset Aureal Vortex 2. O donde se puede buscar. Gracias. P.D.: Si es para el kernel 2.0.38 mejor pues por ahora la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx no me funcionan

Re: Estar al día: APT por RTB?

2000-01-09 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Alexandre Maneu i Victòria! El día Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:51:24PM +0100 decías: Soy usuario de hamm y conecto por la RTB de forma bastante penosa. Veo como gente con conexiones buenas (es decir, cable y demás) puede tranquilamente hacerse apt-get para estar siempre al día de los

prueba (no leer)

2000-01-09 Thread xxx
1 2 3 probando :D __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: pregunta

2000-01-09 Thread Nestor A. Diaz
Antonio Lopez Rodriguez wrote: como puedo instalar cdwrite en mi hp8100?donde puedo bajarlo gratuitamente? MM. mejor utiliza el cdrecord, yo tengo una grabadora HP8100, con el kernel 2.2.13 lo unico que tiene que hacer es cambiar una linea al codigo del kernel y recompilar

Problemas con Smail

2000-01-09 Thread xxx
Buenas; Tengo la Slink y he instalado el smail que venia como servidor de correo. El caso es que con root parece no haber ningun problema, pero al ejecutar el 'mailq' o 'smail -v -q' con otro usuario me sale esto: mailq: setgroups() failed: Operación no permitida smail: cannot open

Re: Modem ¡estoy desesperado!

2000-01-09 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
IJAS decia: Pues nada que como os he contado en mensajes anteriores mi modem ni se entera Es un modem externo conectado a Stty1 (Com2) existe /dev/modem como enlace a /dev/stty1 es más hasta hace poco (creo que hasta que hice una actualización de la bios) funcionaba perfectamente (en

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-09 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, he estado haciendo más pruebas y ya me imagino lo que está pasando... He recompilado el kernel SIN soporte de frame buffer, y he hecho MAGIC SYSRQ + saK, resultado: 1) Las X se reinician y funcionan... 2) Las consolas virtuales se quedan con exactamente el mismo dibujo (fondo y

Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-09 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, me confirmo a mi mismo y os envio dos chuletas ;-) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:26:06AM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¡¡¡AL FIN HE DESCUBIERTO LO QUE PASA!!! (Me estaba volviendo loco) La combinación ALT + SysRq + Tecla NO FUNCIONA en algunos teclados, Lo he verificado con cinco

Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-09 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:09:32PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: - ¿Como se hace el reporte de bug del kernel? (nunca he hecho ninguno...) !!!A ver si me contestais leches!!! :-( /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS :) Luego miraré los attachments, tienen buena pinta ;) Jordi pgp02CPKsW9tT.pgp

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-09 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¿Que os pareceria que DEL + F1 conmutara a VC1, hiciera un saK, y reiniciara el modo grafico de la VGA? Esto se lo podriamos explicar a cualquier usuario... ¡¡¡TENDRIAMOS UN LINUX SOLIDO COMO UNA PIEDRA!!! ¿Que os parece?

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

2000-01-09 Thread Brad
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the archives, i've posted about this before. The package in question is the navigator only package, not the

RE: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-09 Thread Terry Katz
I have a Latitude CPx (which I'm sure uses a different dock), but I believe when I first installed windows it said it was a 82559-based adapter.. but with the drivers installed it says its a 3com 3c920 adapter .. anyway, I use the 3c59x/905 driver and it works fine try that .. though the

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-09 Thread Jim B
Apologies if this has already been answered. I just subscribed so I may have missed it if so. Anyways, you can create a file in / named forcefsck if you really want to do this: touch /forcefsck See /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh to see why. :)

poff doesn't work... ???

2000-01-09 Thread kaynjay
Hello, I could find nothing in the latest archives, so am throwing this out... I just upgraded to the latest potato, and all seems to be doing well so far except that poff doesn't kill the connection. This is true whether I'm a normal user or as root. The messages I get reflect kill not

Re: apt-get upgrade

2000-01-09 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:55:21PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep, ctrl-c wasn't killing dselect for me this afternoon, I upgraded last night. I was su'ed in, btw. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Bonser wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can

Re: apt-get upgrade

2000-01-09 Thread Bart Szyszka
i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these packages being kept back, i didn't place any of them on hold except for the

Re: apt-get upgrade

2000-01-09 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:32:01PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these packages being kept

Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Pollywog
I also read (on Dalnet #debian) this morning that debconf is broken so it should not be upgraded. -- Andrew

Re: apt-get upgrade

2000-01-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jan-2000 Mike Werner wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:32:01PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf I

RE: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-09 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be

Re: Interesting situation.

2000-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Hans said: Questions: 1) How do you know what device a program pipes it's output to? lsof | grep programname 2) How can you change that? Depends on the program. 3) Can you make global settings, so that e.g. all wav file are send to /dev/audio regardless of what program you use to play it

Possible workaround for bad timestamp on modules.dep

2000-01-09 Thread John Dalbec
I got a good timestamp on modules.dep by renaming /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh to /etc/rcS.d/S20hwclock.sh. Is this safe? I rebooted and nothing appears broken yet. (I have my Hardware Clock on local time (EST) to satisfy another OS.) John

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-09 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
finn : in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific finn : extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever finn : reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. I have compiled 2.2.14 with vendor specific extensions, and all is

Some news

2000-01-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Has anyone seen this story posted on www.linuxtoday.com about pine and debian? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/deb/pine_pico.html Also I just got a catalog from tigerdirect in the mail and they are now selling computer systems with linux pre-loaded. Nowwhere do they say what distro

Re: poff doesn't work... ???

2000-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Kenward writes: The messages I get reflect kill not finding a file (a lock file identifying the process number?) and having nothing to kill. Please post the *exact* messages. I cannot reproduce this. What has changed? File locations with no update of that in a config file? No. poff uses

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-09 Thread Brian May
Fish == Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fish Unlike many others, I don't share the view that linux needs Fish to be made more newbie friendly. Doing that will kill Fish everything that made it great, and turn it into another Fish Windoze. I don't care if the entire world

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Brian May
Joseph == Joseph Heenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed NIS, but I can't prevent the shadow file of being public now:( Anybody on my machine can do ypcat shadow.byname and start cracking those passwords. I thought the hole point of shadow was to let nobody but root

mke2fs -c /dev/hda8 fails!

2000-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'm trying to move around partitions on my system. I have four primary partitions -- one is extended. Here's the fdisk output: calico:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks

Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
Today's potato upgrade has debconf 0.2.67 which fixes the problem. On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:02:40AM -, Pollywog wrote: I also read (on Dalnet #debian) this morning that debconf is broken so it should not be upgraded. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-09 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. But the DB25 is functionally the same as 50-pin SCSI, and conversion between the two is straightforward,

Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13

2000-01-09 Thread aphro
its a bug in the java package, upgrade the package or downgrade the kernel (see the debian-user archives i have a few urls from past mails there) nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Michael Laing wrote: mpl I am running a straight slink system using a custom 2.2.12 kernel. My mpl java development and

Re: Poor networking performance

2000-01-09 Thread aphro
sounds like a driver problem.. i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case. upgrade *both* drivers, grab the latest from nasa's site(forgot the

EZ

2000-01-09 Thread EZ
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where is the command line options for the X server located?

2000-01-09 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello!, I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I may change the display resolution in dots per inch. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

2000-01-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the archives, i've posted about this before. Thanks a lot, Brad! Problem solved by modifying the Index file. -- Arcady Genkin

Re: restricting logins on tty1

2000-01-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 8/1/2000 Jim B wrote: One other quickie: what's the functional difference between /etc/login.access and /etc/security/access.conf? When I place restrictions in the latter, nothing seems to happen, though the files are in exactly the same format. What then is the purpose of the one in

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

2000-01-09 Thread Andrei Popov
--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: having this problem while connecting (trying:-( ) my IMP/HORDE webmail server: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in db_mysql.inc on line 73 Is there dl(mysql.so) in db_mysql.inc? Looks like PHP was

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism broken? For starters:

Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?

2000-01-09 Thread aphro
the file you probably want is /etc/X11/XF86Config nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: jh0u Hello!, jh0u jh0u I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I jh0u may change the display resolution in dots per inch. jh0u jh0u Thank you. jh0u

Access diretories in proftpd

2000-01-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I installed proftpd and want to deny access to anyone logging in the server at the /var and /etc and dont find anything in the configuration file about it. Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique

Re: Poor networking performance

2000-01-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:19:15 PST, George Bonser writes: From Solaris box to Linux box on 10MB ethernet with other people also using the net: ftp output 14850578 bytes received in 17.35 secs (835.9 kB/s) From Linux box to Solaris ftp get linux-2.2.12.tar.gz ftp output 14850578 bytes received in

OT: Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:09:43 -0900, Ethan Benson writes: On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call machine is smarter!!! which reminds me of a user crying: you dumb computer, do what I want, not what I say! *g* rw -- -- +++

problem(s) w/ sound card

2000-01-09 Thread Wyatt Hurlbut
Good morning Dave, or anyone, really, that might like an easy problem to resolve. I'm having a couple problems I'd like to sort out. I've got a 400mhx celery chip, w/64 meg ram, a Sound Blaster Live! card, a modem, hard drive, and other assorted paraphanalia (even a generic Jensen microphone!),

Re: poff doesn't work... ???

2000-01-09 Thread kaynjay
The exact lines are as follows: kaynjay:~# poff /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped. kaynjay:~# plog Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0x7cdd927f] Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

2000-01-09 Thread hypnos
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Steve George wrote: Basically I need fetchmail to look at the username in front of the @ symbol and then deliver the mail tothe correct user, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is john here [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bert here ~/.fetchmailrc: poll pop3.domain.com using

Re: poff not working... ???

2000-01-09 Thread kaynjay
Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin for the shell?? I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? If kill IS somewhere, I

More on my problems with debconf and perl

2000-01-09 Thread John Gay
I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but my problem is much different. When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and 5.005. This completed properly,

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

2000-01-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Steve George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I currently have mail for a domain which is sent to my ISP's POP3 server. I'd like to have multiple users on the domain be delivered to different users on my system but the documentation on fetchmail seems to be saying that this is a bad idea.

bash does not export variables (was Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato)

2000-01-09 Thread Andrei D. Caraman
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 05:34:52PM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: ... when i am logged in as root using bash as my shell things start to break. also, bash doesn't seem to export environment variables. this breaks a lot of scripts. we better get this fixed soon. I suppose you did a `set -a',

How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Fam. Engelen
After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair

cron not running?

2000-01-09 Thread Carl Fink
Today, man informed me that its database was over 8 days old. Investigating, I find that after the Y2K rollover, syslog is full of messages like this: Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Anacron 2.1 started on 2000-01-02 Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Job `cron.daily' locked by

Re: poff not working... ???

2000-01-09 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin for the shell?? I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 9/1/2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: ** what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (but I am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fam. Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN

Two SCSI

2000-01-09 Thread Christopher Clark
I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards, probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas? -- Regards from Chris

Please Help me!!!

2000-01-09 Thread VEVE ROUDY
Hello! There's longtime I'm looking for a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet.

Sound in Debian

2000-01-09 Thread Jeff Flowers
Greetings, I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. Thanks Jeff Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: poff doesn't work... ???

2000-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Kenward writes: /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory You are missing the kill binary, which is in the procps package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: poff not working... ???

2000-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Kenward writes: I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? It should work fine, but your system is broken if you are missing /bin/kill. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: Sound in Debian

2000-01-09 Thread 2
you'll need to recompile your kernel and enable sound support. Read the kernel HOWTO document and the Sound HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO by default i believe). then u'll want to go get some sound software. they'll be in the sound section of your debian installation disk (this will probably

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

2000-01-09 Thread Jeff Flowers
Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? Jeff ~/.fetchmailrc: poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user a there is john here password secret; poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user b there is bert here password blah;

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

2000-01-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andrei Popov wrote: --- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in db_mysql.inc on line 73 Is there dl(mysql.so) in db_mysql.inc? Looks like PHP was unable to locate mysql support

MP3 -- Audio tools

2000-01-09 Thread Randy Edwards
Can anyone give me a suggestion for utilities to convert audio CD songs to/from MP3s; I haven't really played with MP3s seriously and want to create a couple of greatest hits-type CDs. TIA. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any*

Re: poff not working... ???

2000-01-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: poff not working... ??? Date: Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:09:19AM -0800 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... | | There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume

Re: MP3 -- Audio tools

2000-01-09 Thread Robert Waldner
for ripping from audio-cds I can suggest cdparanoia http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/, to encode the wavs you may want to use something like gogo http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html, if you also want to have a nice interface, cddb-integration et al you should have a look at grip

rspfd behaves very badly

2000-01-09 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Hi all, I tried the latest rspfd in potato and crashed triggering a kernel panic too. I had also big troubles removing the package because for some reason it tried to start the daemon before removing it (very stupid thing, I think). Kernel version here is 2.3.35 (yes I know it's a developer's

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:46:34AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run as a normal user. For lack

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try upgrading to the potato nis

Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)

2000-01-09 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to install the latest potato I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at 0x280, and it's IRQ is 5. Howeer this module fails to install when booting from

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-09 Thread Fish Smith
It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, and remove a floppy disk that is currently mounted... I was taught in kindergarten /never/ to remove a disk when the light was on, and I never do it. Removing while it is mounted but not currently being read or written isn't very

Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????

2000-01-09 Thread Stan Brown
First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying to install unstable on a newly upgraded computer :-( In any case, I seem to be having serious problesm with the lates unstable disks. I could not get the base system installed using the

UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread Fish Smith
I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

2000-01-09 Thread Andrei Popov
--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no! Is this some bug? All this stuff was working before I did an update in the server. I do not think this is a bug -- Debian PHP3 package has always been modular. All extra stuff on top of regular PHP is in separate packages like

Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2

2000-01-09 Thread Sven Gaerner
Ron Rademaker wrote: I've found another error, that has to do with my previous question, perhaps this will help someone to supply me with an answer. When the script is finished another error occurs: Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp'

ssh won't compile on fresh potato - what's missing?

2000-01-09 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I just made a fresh potato install a few days ago (thankfully, after that big security problem had been fixed) and because of a broken TP cable I ended up having to install packages manually (the last part of the installation procedure failed). As a result, there seems to be a few

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Peter Schuller
Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's

procps held back.. was Re: poff does not work

2000-01-09 Thread kaynjay
People have suggested the installation of procps to bring /bin/kill back into my system. Sounds good. I ran dpkg -l procps to see what its status was, and found hi returned, so it has been installed (2.0.3-3) but was apparently held back when I upgraded last week. ?? Why was it held back

Re: procps held back

2000-01-09 Thread kaynjay
regarding my query about packages held back in the upgrade, they were flwm kbd kdelibs2g moonlight procps Are there problems with these? Kenward

Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13: workaround

2000-01-09 Thread Michael Laing
Thanks - I took Robert Vargas' suggestion and installed the ibm version. Works OK, but had to fool with the CLASSPATH to get to the debian java repository and still had to keep jdk1.1 to satisfy the improper dependencies of cup and jflex... Anyway - I am running the 2.2.14 kernel and everything

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-09 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding the paranthesis around the string definition? Is it a GCC extension?

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem

Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?

2000-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Jan 2000, matt garman wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a SR9 Number 9 video card. I am trying to setup SVGATextMode for this new card. Anyone have this card and know what Chipset I should uncomment in TextConfig to get the card

Re: Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????

2000-01-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
= Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2109 1818]: Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here? be advised that AFAIK there is a lot of development work being done on base-floppies to make them ready for potato's move to stable. they are changing frequently

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread der.hans
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Peter Schuller wrote: Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg -S /bin/su login: /bin/su ciao, der.hans Thanks! -- #

Re: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-09 Thread Calum Mackay - Computer Systems CTE
Harley, I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition running that was built from floppies. Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and really

Re: diald

2000-01-09 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to configure diald but without success. I have my ppp link working (pon ... poff) but now I whant to try diald. I have installed the package with apt-get install diald, I looked at the manuals (man diald) and I have created the

Re: Poor networking performance

2000-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a : 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the : bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case. While I'm sure that in your case the IDE subsystem is your

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem

Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl

2000-01-09 Thread John Gay
I had a similar problem (or as near as I can tell without the error message). For some reason, perl-5.005 was not installed completely, so I went into /etc/alternatives and changed the link `perl' to point to `perl-5.004' instead of `perl-5.005', everything worked fine after that. In other

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:25PM +, Fish Smith wrote: I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? I'd rather suggest to use such machines as terminals (running NCSA-telnet

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:28PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding the

Re: Please Help me!!!

2000-01-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:26PM +, VEVE ROUDY wrote: Hello! There's longtime I'm looking for a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet. I know about

BitchX irc server list

2000-01-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm struggling to get BitchX to recognise my server list. I've put an ircII.servers file in /etc/irc/, copied it to just /etc/irc/servers/, and even /usr/lib/bitchx/. I still can't get it to use my [shorter] list of servers. The only way so far I've managed to do it is by downloading the source

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