Instalación de locale

2000-01-17 Thread Miguel A. Abarca
Hola de nuevo. En primer lugar quisiera preguntaros si existe algún lugar dónde se encuentren archivados todos los mensajes que se generan en esta lista, -para no repetir demasiado las preguntas-. Concretamente sobre este tema se ha hablado no hace mucho: acentos y ñ en Potato, de

Re: Solucionado Sonido. ¿Programa para escuchar MP3?

2000-01-17 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: Hola. Muchísimas gracias a todos por vuestra ayuda y vuestra paciencia. Después de muchos intentos y muchas recompilaciones del kernel, al fin he conseguido dar con el fallo gracias a Agustín Martín Domingo que me dijo que si mi tarjeta era PCI,

Re: Instalación de locale

2000-01-17 Thread David Charro Ripa
Hola de nuevo. En primer lugar quisiera preguntaros si existe algún lugar dónde se encuentren archivados todos los mensajes que se generan en esta lista, -para no repetir demasiado las preguntas-. En http://www.debian.org/ tienes un link Archivos de las listas de distribución que te

Re: Instalación de locale

2000-01-17 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please

Re: Solucionado Sonido. ¿Programa para escuchar MP3?

2000-01-17 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, ene 17, 2000 at 09:52:05 +0100, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: PCI64, aparte de ser PCI. En principio debiera ser posible utilizar síntesis por software con una PCI64, pero no sé como hacerlo (se admiten sugerencias) Instálate timidity. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Imagen tapiz 2.

2000-01-17 Thread Roberto Lopez
Fernando wrote: Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: Hola. Antes de nada, muchas gracias a todos los de la lista Debian por vuestra ayuda tanto en éste como en otros asuntos. Vamos con lo de la imagen tapiz. Por una parte, me dijeron: Yo tengo en mi .xsession

Re: Imagen tapiz 2.

2000-01-17 Thread Fernando
Roberto Lopez wrote: Vamos a ver, que no se si me aclaro o me lio mas. Hasta donde yo se el .xsession es un gestor de arranque defecto de X. Si uno define en .xinitrc el arranque de un Window-Manager especifico con gestion propia (exec fvwm2, p.e.) no se procesa el

Nivel en passwd.

2000-01-17 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. ¿Cómo puedo poner, o bajar, el nivel de seguridad en las passwords? Necesito poner un nivel apto para personas desmemoriadas, que necesitan ponerlo en plan tonto el passwd, y claro... si le digo que me ponga maruja como passwd me dice que too simple ;-) Gracias por todo.

Return Message

2000-01-17 Thread ORAPOST
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos

Re: Instalación de locale

2000-01-17 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:16:33AM -0300, Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos

Re: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread Jordi
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 04:42:51PM +0100, Fernando wrote: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin destruirla ? Existe ext2resize, PERO, esta en versiones de desarrollo y quien sabe

Re: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread Barbie Dominatrix
En los CDs de debian viene una aplicación llamada FIPS.EXE. Lo que tienes que hacer es, básicamente, desfragmentar la partición DOS para que toda la información esté al principio, y duespués ejecutar FIPS para convertir el espacio que te sobra al final en una nueva partición. Yo lo he

Re: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 04:42 PM 2000-01-17 +0100, Fernando wrote: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin destruirla ? Puedes ver: http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh/ext2resize/ De hecho, hay un paquete para

Re: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread PAMIFER
Hola Fernando: Creo recordar que con el FIPS se hacía algo parecido (creo que es con el que arañé 500 MB a mi Win95 para instalar Linux) Fernando wrote: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la

RE: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread jet
puedes utilizar partition magic 4. Con un disco de inicio de partition magic. Te puedes vajar la imagen del disco de inicio para pasarlo a un disket con rawrite de: http://web.jet.es/tomkat/extras/pm4_boot.zip - Original Message - From: Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista Debian Español

Return Message

2000-01-17 Thread ORAPOST
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: export LC_ALL=es_ES# export

Re: Modificar particiones

2000-01-17 Thread Jordi
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:28:32PM +0100, jet wrote: puedes utilizar partition magic 4. Con un disco de inicio de partition magic. Intentamos usar software libre? Para esto tenemos fips, y no es lo que Fernando quiere. Con fips cambias el tamaño de una partición fat. Fernando no tiene este

Mais do mesmo!

2000-01-17 Thread Clovis Sena
O que eu estou pensando agora é criar ou um script do bash ou do perl mesmo que seja executado no logon e quando o X for terminado. Alguma coisa do tipo: 1. Iniciar modo gráfico 2. Conectar Internet 3. Desconectar Internet 4. Desligar o sistema tem

Re: modem permissions

2000-01-17 Thread Shaul Karl
Isn't the device should be writable to the dialout group? [01:59:27 /tmp]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 17 01:30 /dev/ttyS2 [02:00:56 /tmp]$ --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64 [pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5 [pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left {299, 98}) [pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0 [pid

Re: ppp hangup question

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone tries to call you if you already have

Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm planning on reinstalling Debian on my system today (I kind of messed a lot of stuff up, I could fix it, but I decided I'd rather just reinstall). In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I

Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. Thanks,

Re: stable innd is segfaulting

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Marquardt) wrote: * Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64 [pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5 [pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left {299, 98}) [pid 17274]

Re: Lilo Config

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want. If I want to use LILO, do I just choose 'Make bootable form hard disk' at the last step of Debian 2.1 Slink, or do I have to do something else.

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card

Re: ssh2

2000-01-17 Thread Louis Larry
Got it, thank's! I added deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free to my sources.list, then did apt-get update, apt-get install ssh2 Louis. On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: You have to have apt point to nonus site ie

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:50:23PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread Sean Johnson
I don't use emacs either, and have always removed it with no problems. Sean Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm

Re: Emacs

2000-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Matheson writes: I was wondering if I needed emacs. You don't. Each profile installs someone's best guess at what might be needed for that task. A bunch of other stuff is 'standard' because it is believed that a Unix user would expect it to be present. I don't use it, because I'm

Re: How to auto-login

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 Fish Smith wrote: I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is user, user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 16/1/2000 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Where can I change this setting? /sbin/kbdrate -r 30.0 -d 250 worked for me. do it on the console though, or else it will only affect X it seems. can anyone tell me why there is a /etc/pam.d/kbdrate file that seems to do nothing? any user can use

CD-cataloguing program

2000-01-17 Thread Arcady Genkin
Could somebody recommend a good cd-cataloguing program? It would be nice if it could handle data and audio cds, as well as read mp3 tags. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man

libungif3g-dev broken?

2000-01-17 Thread Pollywog
Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew

Re: libungif3g-dev broken?

2000-01-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I get errors with that too. -Aaron Pollywog wrote: Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread osirus
In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato libgtk, I'm getting the following: dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Could someone please

compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some header files (I think, I know little of C). I don't know what packages I

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and

roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread David Pilz
this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support

I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X server? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some header files

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support

Re: I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X

Re: I messed up!

2000-01-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Thanks man, that worked perfectly. Cameron Matheson On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server

MTS or Escape Communications ADSL

2000-01-17 Thread Peter Good
Has anyone had any experience with either of these ADSL providers and linux? Any info would be muchly appreciated Peter Good. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: failed ppp setup

2000-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:28:31PM -0500, John Davis wrote: Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread John Krueger
Looking around the web for a friend with RR cable, I stumbled upon this page: http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ it may be of help to you. John - Original Message - From: David Pilz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:35 PM Subject:

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:47:45PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: [snip] Yes, you need to use g++ to compile these programs. They are C++, not C. So you need to have the relevant C++ development debs. Looks like you also need the

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, which makes

Re: compiling dxpc

2000-01-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 09:24:15PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: Do you have any package names ? g++, libc6, libstdc++2.10-dev, libc6-dev, libstdc++2.10, xlib6g-dev. There should be a README, INSTALL and possibly other files that came with the program to tell you what you need to compile it.

ntpdate and burstmode

2000-01-17 Thread David J. Kanter
I would like to use ntpdate in burstmode to set my sysclock when I log on to the Internet via a PPP connection. How can I do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation beyond the fact that burstmode exists. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ldconfig and libwine.so

2000-01-17 Thread Roy Pluschke
I am running the latest potatoe updated as of today. I have un-installed wine but now get the following warning message when running ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libwine.so ... more ... skipping. How do I get rid of this -- when I run ldconfig -p I see no mention of libwine in

Re: help -- UDMA install....

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto

Re: ipfwadm

2000-01-17 Thread didier ayllon
non - Original Message - From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: didier ayllon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: Re: ipfwadm On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, didier ayllon wrote: when i try to do : ipfwadm

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread lehman
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK

gdm, startx ... (URGENT)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
After upgrading Xfree to 3.3.6, some problems arose: - gdm no longer works (/etc/init.d/gdm starts does nothing) - startx as user says X: you are not authorised to run the X server Any idea? Thanx, Alberto

hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Since the BIOS clock in my PC at home is lagging behind more than 10 minutes per week, I looked into the correction mechanism of hwclock. I am able to set the BIOS clock with hwclock --set --date, and get the expected result if I try hwclock --show. The hwclock is called in a script

Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Reinstalled gdm: it works. However, xhost + tells: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xhost: unable to open display :0.0 and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. Why? On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alberto Maurizi wrote:

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote: Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure this out within 10 minutes of sending my post. Turns out that the environment variable FLAGS_CLASS=-green was being

Re: Viewing powerpoint files

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? Not that particular program, but I've successfully run Word in WINE not

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9

XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Phil
I have install Debian on my PC and startX sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by "Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-plus" , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modelinein the "screen" sectionof the

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-17 Thread Ailton Santos
Friend, I downloaded the image-files rescue and drivers disks and a new rescue and driver disk was created using rawrite2. But, when I´ve the prompt 'boot:', I don´t know the correct command to mount root fs. When I try Install Operating System Kernel and Modules, the system display a warning

fdformat?

2000-01-17 Thread Wayne
Hello, I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the following error message: floppy drive state now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c timeout_message=floppy starts: 881369470 f80369470 090369470 '

First it works, now it doesn't : (

2000-01-17 Thread John Gay
I got my scanner to work just by pointing apt-get to unstable and installing sane 1.0.1 at first. I've been installing quite a few other things, and now my scanner doesn't work any more. I tried installing the latest sane from Debian, as well as the new gimp, and xsane. My scanner is an AGFA

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be

Re: broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato libgtk, I'm getting the following: dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error

Emacs not aware of Japanese fonts?

2000-01-17 Thread Roland Mas
Hi there, I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain. The toggle-input-method command works, since I find myself in the situation where I can start typing phonetically. I find the same behaviour as I had way back when I had compiled and installed Emacs on my Red Hat

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the problem in X by editing

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:35:47PM -0800, David Pilz wrote: i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was wondering if

root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow

inn package changes permissions?

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check others' experience. Whenever apt-get (or formerly dpkg) upgrades inn, I find that permissions in /var/lib/news and sometimes /var/log/news are changed. Some of the files are now owned by root, rather than news, meaning innd running as news can't

How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, I have a scsi tape drive and want to use it to backup. From the output of dmesg, i know that the tape drive is detected. However, I don't know the device file name of the drive. The output of dmesg command : scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev:

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial

ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the time), but when for example someone tries to ping from within the dos box it

Re: Illegal isntruction

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
aphro wrote: its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the Illegal

xterm permission problems after upgrading to 3.3.6

2000-01-17 Thread Attila Megyeri
On a potato system after upgarding xterm to 3.3.6 I am unable to start xterm as a regular user (starting as root works). The ~/.xsession-errors file says: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied The xterm binary is: -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Jan 15 03:53

Remote access

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hardware: ISDN Teles 16.3 card Goal: I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1 Can anybody tell me how I could do that. The other

Re: XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-plus , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modeline

Project Management

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread ulla . russell
Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. When I comment out the if structure that tests for the existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, there are no problems. That is, I can source the file without any problems. However the problem seems still to be elsewhere. When

Re: External Serial Modem in Debian

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get external PnP modems working? External PnP? The phrase makes no sense. If it's an external it should just work. What have you tried and what happened? Give exact details. No, but

Re: Re: ssh2

2000-01-17 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Louis Larry, I added deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free interesting! I have: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free (unstable/non-US) while you have unstable and the 'non-US'

Re: Graphics tablet pen + psaux mouse

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another solution to it. The tablet pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered) pen and a tablet with a

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 SetKbdSettings - succeeded Where is

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Todd Suess
Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless you use chattr and remove the attribute first. Regards, Todd At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ashley Clark
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I tried to do a lsattr, when it reached fonts I got: lsattr: No such device While reading flags on ./fonts Ron On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file

dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49,

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the filesystem nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron ron Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory ron but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had ron

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Try lsattr and chattr... Regards, Onno At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280

Problem searching list archives

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the page http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists If I take

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Rademaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Subject: root should be able to do anything... right??? Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked would be insane. Last week I've send a mail about a weird file,

Vplay

2000-01-17 Thread Derek Cassidy
I'm looking for the vplay sound player and cant seem to locate it anywhere on the net. where do I find it??? Derek

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. When I comment out the if structure that tests for the existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, there are no problems. That is, I can source the file without any problems. However the problem

Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-17 Thread Fraser Campbell
I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type Whole Disk. The hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB for /tmp. When I reboot

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to

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