username?

Hi I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN, through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, c. According to the 'NET HOWTO' those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se, should never be sent out on the Internet. How come my name is set up in mc as

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

Whoops, forgot. All relevant packages are potato, (except for the netscape from proposed-updates) and everything worked fine last week. No configuration changes. Did security updates during the weekend. Suddenly above error message. The setup is Horde, Imp, Php3, Postgresql, Netscape, Imap4,

ssh client for windows

Hi. I've now concluded that my timeout problem was with PuTTY. I'm using SecureCRT now and have left it idle for more than hour without being disconnected. Many thanks to those who responded! -- Who's watching the watchmen? Key fingerprint = E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069

Re: installing Mach 64 Xserver

You can also find the xserver-mach64 package at www.debian.org under Distribution--Debian packages... Just do a search for the pacakge name in stable. You can download the package using Windows and then transfer it to your Linux partition via any means possible. Then just do dpkg --install

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:30:37PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected most of the time you don't need one anyway... Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. To me it seems like you are assuming that

Help: woody libc amd -ldb

I'm developing a gnome app, and with the recent changes to libc in woody, I can no longer compile it. The -ldb library fails to link with the error: /usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -ldb. Is there a work around for this? Thanks, Edgar.

Re: problems with udma66

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded until now. /dev/hda: ... UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4 Should work I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE patches

Re: username?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:09:54PM +0200, guran remberg wrote: I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN, through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, c. According to the 'NET HOWTO' those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se, should never

Re: netscape in bw

switch to either Galeon instead. just my 2cents. What is galeon? A browser? I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but should support mpeg plugins. Something light, for a kiosk. Thanks yes it's a lightweight browser but i'm not sure if it has mpeg support. there is also

Re: problems with udma66

I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE patches applied. If you're using 2.2.17, I assume that's Andre Hedrick's patch... 2.- How come the kernel recognizes 'VT 82C597 Apollo VP3' instead of the more logical 'VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3'? Hedrick could never

Re: Help: woody libc amd -ldb

I'm developing a gnome app, and with the recent changes to libc in woody, I can no longer compile it. The -ldb library fails to link with the error: /usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -ldb. Is there a work around for this? you really should be on debian-devel and/or debian-changes but for the

Building kde2 from source packages

Hi there, Could anyone maybe give me a quick rundown on the procedure used to build kde2 from the source packages. Do I need to have the kde2 sourcetree somewhere? Thank you Alwyn

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

Hello all, You were right, Brian, and Karsten, /var/tmp is NOT wiped on bootup. Sorry, my fault, didn't remember it exactly. Regards, Daniel On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello there,

RE: What's with the Oracle for inux?

Jonathan, I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6) for linux, either enterprise or standard edition. its a pretty sweet deal! kudos to oracle! Jason Hi, I've seen

Re: Creative Live Value !!

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:22:23PM -0700, Debian GNU wrote: Hi All, I am using Creative Live Value !! card and Debian Potato. Earlier I was using RH 6.1, on which, it was giving excellent performance, with drivers downloaded from developer.soundblaster.com, even better performace than in

RE: oracle8i

Juan, I've installed Oracle 8i on a woody box. I didn't use any documentation, I am not sure if there is any, but I just ran the installer off the cd. it worked perfectly. Jason Hi! I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in debian and if there is some

Re: First Install

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote: Hi all. I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS baggage. I recently installed slink from CD onto a amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up to a point). I read docs which indicated the pcmcia works

backup and rebuild strategy

Hi, I'm using a cheap, low-spec PC (running Debian 2.2) as a dial-up server, firewall, proxy webserver, etc. for my main home PC. Now I have it configured as I want it, I'd like to make some backups. The problem is that the only backup device available is a 100MB parallel-port Zip drive. This

Re: GDM background image

Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to an image not a color. As far as images go, xsetroot apparently can only handle bitmaps. I'm wondering how

Disk files

Hi, Is it possible to install Debian to a disk file so that I don't have to re-partition my hard disk. Thanks, Simon J. Bale.

Re: First Install

Thanks Thomas. I am using potato and when i use filesystem i'm asked to Enter the dirctory the Debian mirror is located in. Enter mirror directory. It defaults to /debian and i have placed the pkgs there (on the dos partition). Unfortunatly it then says Mirror not found. The directory does not

Re: Creative Live Value !!

I am using Creative Live Value !! card and Debian Potato. Earlier I was using RH 6.1, on which, it was giving excellent performance, with drivers downloaded from developer.soundblaster.com, even better performace than in Windows 98. I installed the same drivers in Deb, but unfortunately, the

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You can press this even if you are not logged in. Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.allow means that a listed user must be logged in on any of the console tty's for

Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:11:31AM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi Joel, try grub. This bootloader is in development still but for me it works great. With this bootloader you can boot BSD partitions and others like M$ and Linux with reiserfs. You will find this program on the GNU website or

How to read pdf-files

Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat reader for linux. Is there a possibility to read them at the command line? Stephan

Re: How to read pdf-files

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:44:45PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat reader for linux. xpdf will do it and is Free software unlike the proprietary acrobat (which is available for x86 GNU/Linux iirc) Is there a possibility to

Simple sh or alias to list directories

Hello, I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list only the directories in a directory. It should have similar functionality to the ls command. E.g. [tom]$ lsd ~ should list only the directories in my home folder, not the files. Does anyone know of a way to do this

Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come. I want to

Network printer

Hi Can a Linux box controls a network printer? Please email me the solution. Thanks! --- tcp

Re: How to read pdf-files

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:44:45PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat reader for linux. gv, gnome-gv, xpdf or maybe even acroread, which btw. is the Acrobat reader that didn't exist. :- acroread is in non-free, but the others are

ippp0 dials wrong number

Hi, as told in the subject: My ISDN-Card always dials a wrong number. I am in Germany and according to syslog my ippp0 always tries to dial to the netherlands (I am looking forward my next phone bill ;-). My environment is correct (DE). The according lines in the /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 seem to

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

I like my Nvidia Geforce 256. I've always found the drivers easy to install, and it gives very respectable performance now. I've heard from some people that the drivers can be a nightmare if they don't like your system(don't know there). The drivers are also binary only, and slower to update than

Magicfilter's filter files

Hi. Does anybody know which package includes magicfilter's filter files, eg. files in directory /etc/magicfilter? I accidently removed those, and they don't come back by reinstalling magicfilter. Thanks in advance, Petteri Heinonen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel.: +358 (0)50 3363 286 addr.:

Re: How to read pdf-files

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Stephan Kulka wrote: Which program should I use to view a pdf.? AFAIK there is no acrobat reader for linux. Is there a possibility to read them at the command line? Try pdftotext in the xpdf package. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

Greg, Thanks. I'll check it out. Yes, I only really need or want 2d under GNU/Linux. Chris -Original Message- From: Greg Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:06 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards I like my

Re: First Install

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:34:42AM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote: Thanks Thomas. I am using potato and when i use filesystem i'm asked to Enter the dirctory the Debian mirror is located in. Enter mirror directory. It defaults to /debian and i have placed the pkgs there (on the dos

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

I'm using TeraTerm with the TTSSH extension, but I can not get my keyboard map correct. Cant seem to map F5 or the page up. I know its way off topic, but has anybody got a keyboard .cnf file they would like to share ?? Derm. - Original Message - From: Andy Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Magicfilter's filter files

Hello Petteri, Strange, in my /var/lib/dpkg/info/magicfilter.list the filter-files in /etc/magicfilter are listed, so they should have been installed by magicfilter. Have you tried purging your broken magicfilter first? (dpkg --purge magicfilter). Regards, Daniel On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Petteri

Re: What's with the Oracle for inux?

Hi, Very. But for us poor miserable slobs here in 56k land, what's the dl size? No limitations on use, ie 60 days? Thanks. I don't know what version that magazine had, but if you got to http://technet.oracle.com, and register, you can download, or order a free version of Oracle 8i (8.1.6)

System.map problem

Hi everybody, after upgrade to 2.2.17 (from 2.0.36) I have noticed that when I give the ps command I get the following error: {aic7xxx_patch6_func} {rpc_debug} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data. Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version. after

/etc/nologin

hi each system boot ereases /etc/nologin there's a way to solve this ? thanks, jaume.

RE: What's with the Oracle for inux?

The download size is i think 300 megs?? I would order the cd though. It comes in a few weeks, and its a full working, unlimited version. I can't remember anything about the license though, that is probably where they get you. Jason Hi, Very. But for us poor miserable slobs here in 56k

[OT] gcc-warnings

Hello there, I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the gcc-doc. Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks. Regards,

Re: Weird X Problem

xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it... erik

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

Jesse Goerz wrote: 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone know or have a source of information for this? You would use apt-cdrom for this. That designates the CDROMS as removable media to apt to

Re: oracle8i

Hello juan, Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 1:23:48 PM, you wrote: jcz Hi! jcz I would like to know if there is a possibility to install oracle in jcz debian and if there is some jcz documents about it. jcz regards jcz /Juan Carlos There is a possibility. I did so. -- Regards, Ivan

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:36:05PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list only the directories in a directory. It should have similar functionality to the ls command. E.g. [tom]$ lsd ~ should list only the directories in my

Re: /etc/nologin

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: each system boot ereases /etc/nologin there's a way to solve this ? If you consider it a problem you can always modify the script that does it, namely /etc/init.d/rmnologin, it's a conffile so the change will be preserved in upgrades (unless you

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote: I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list only the directories in a directory. It should have similar functionality to the ls command. E.g. [tom]$ lsd ~ Try this one: --snip-- #!/bin/sh if [ $1 ]; then find $1

Re: System.map problem

Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after upgrade to 2.2.17 (from 2.0.36) I have noticed that when I give the ps command I get the following error: {aic7xxx_patch6_func} {rpc_debug} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data. Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an

Re: /etc/nologin

Jaume Teixi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: each system boot ereases /etc/nologin there's a way to solve this ? Remove the init-links for the script rmnologin (with update-rc.d)... moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available,

Re: Network printer

Timothy C. Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can a Linux box controls a network printer? Please email me the solution. Thanks! Sure. :) Have you read the Printing Howto? What is your problem? While configuring magicfilter (a printer filter), you only have to give the Printer's IP address.

Re: Creative Live Value !!

I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*, sound quality is much better than on the Window$9x. H, but just for curiosity I

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Well, that means, that you use an integer, where an pointer is expected. See the following

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: Hello there, I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Hi, this basically means exactly what it says: at that

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast There's some documentation on

Re: DIVX?

Hmm.. I got the xmps from unstable, compiled the avi codec from xmps-0.1.1beta, put it in /usr/lib/xmps/Codecs, got the divxc32.dll, but when I click configure after selecting the avi codec in xmps, nothing happens. How did you get your xmps working? -chris Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building kde2 from source packages

Hello! Compiling takes about 24 hours (with kOffice) on my P1/133 machine, so I did my last install with the packages at kde.tdyc.org, but the packages lead to dependency problems :(. These are the steps I did for installing it before I used the packages and which I will probably do again with

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

it means that an integer value was assigned to pointer variable, pointers are quite often some kinds of integers but not neccessarily so, I guessfollowing code would produce such an error message: int main(void) { void *ptr; int i = 319; ptr = i; /* problem here */ return 0; }

Re: What documentation and what order

David - You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig in and start doing things. Your best place to start would be in /usr/share/doc where you'll find the Debian-specific documentation, as well as documentation for most of your isntalled software. The reason much of the

Re: update 2.0.35 - 2.0.38

Dwight Johnson wrote: Would someone kindly help in understanding all those new files after launching make zImage? They are artifacts of the kernel compile and link. In /usr/src/linux/ a vmlinux exe file, ~1,2 MB large. In /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ a zImage with -rw-.. and 0.5MB

Re: problems with udma66

Francesc Oller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact, I'm using the patch because the other computer I own has an ALI15X3 chipset and AFAIK it's only supported through the patch. Just BTW: This chipset is now supported by Linux 2.2, since 2.2.18pre5. From the 2.2.18pre5-Changelog: o UDMA

Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install

Good Afternoon: Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5. I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and SUN hardware. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. - Mark Mohrmann Video Broadcast

Re: install-mbr vs lilo

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Can anyone explain to me the difference between install-mbr and lilo? the layout of a (pc) hard drive: +---+---+---+-- | partition | few | first partition | second partition | table | wasted|

Re: DIVX?

Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with avifile). Expect to have to muck around w/ it a bit, as avifile's autoconf is a bit...lacking.. Yeah, noticeably.. Two problems I got now are: 1) configure: warning: Could not find jpeg lib! Motion JPEG support is disabled. (I've got

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

* Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello there, I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the gcc-doc. Perhaps

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case! An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a

Re: problems with udma66

Philipp Schulte wrote: I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE patches applied. Stupid Question: Did you try without the patch first? I experianced the problem that I could set my HD to UDMA66 with no patch applied but only to UDMA33 with the patch. So if

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:36:05PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list only the directories in a directory. It should have similar functionality to the ls command. E.g. [tom]$ lsd ~ should list only the directories in

Re: Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install

I'm supposed to get a Sparcstation 2, I've found a lot of information at www.ultralinux.org, and www.sunhelp.org. Both web sites have information about sun systems... Ultralinux.org discusses all of the Linux distributions on Sparc machines, hardware supported, etc. Also, I did a web search

Re: Linux Novice needs help with SPARC install

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Mark Mohrmann wrote: Good Afternoon: Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5. I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and SUN hardware. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. I suggest mailing

Re: System.map problem

On 17 Oct 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote: after upgrade to 2.2.17 (from 2.0.36) I have noticed that when I give the ps command I get the following error: {aic7xxx_patch6_func} {rpc_debug} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data. Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has

path to syntax.vim

Hello, vi searches for the syntax.vim file in /usr/share/vim/syntax/. But my path to that file is different. Where can I change this behaviour? Best regards

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

note that it won't list links to directories, you might want to use -follow see below: panther:~/rrrl total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 esteffl pbidev 512 Oct 17 09:15 dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 esteffl pbidev 3 Oct 17 09:15 dir.link - dir -rw-r--r-- 1 esteffl pbidev14 Oct 17 09:15

Re: Creative Live Value !!

This is what I have in my modules config file for my SB Live with ALSA: # This configures ALSA support for the SoundBlaster LIVE! (emu10k1) alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=1

howto tell cron run last day of month

I run a cron script 27-31 then inside the script i need to check if it this last day of month how to check this ? thanks, jaume.

Corel Linux + Wine

Hello, I successfully installed the documentation for Debian Wine, but I cannot install the actual program. Corel Linux (version 2) keeps giving me file dependency errors. Unfortuanately, I am new at this, and need some advice. Sincerely, CTK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0'

I'm getting these errors when compiling stuff: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined reference to `getpwnam_r@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined reference to `getpwuid_r@@GLIBC_2.0' I upgraded my libc from stable to unstable last night, so I'm guessing that's the problem. How

Re: Creative Live Value !!

Paul D. Smith wrote: This is what I have in my modules config file for my SB Live with ALSA: # This configures ALSA support for the SoundBlaster LIVE! (emu10k1) alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 options

Re: Corel Linux + Wine

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I successfully installed the documentation for Debian Wine, but I cannot install the actual program. Corel Linux (version 2) keeps giving me file dependency errors. Unfortuanately, I am new at this, and need some advice. Sincerely, CTK [EMAIL

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

If you go to the TeraTerm website at http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html you'll find a tgz'ed terminfo file for TeraTerm. This includs a terminfo file and a keyboard.cnf and instructions for setting things up, but I've found that if you just set your terminal type to Linux in

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: I run a cron script 27-31 then inside the script i need to check if it this last day of month how to check this ? --snip-- #!/bin/sh MONTH=`date +%m` DAY=`date +%d` case $MONTH in 2) DAYS=28 ;; 4|6|9|11) DAYS=30

whereis ftape-module??

Hi In 2.0 there used to be a package called ftape-module with the kernel patch for ftape (the one included into the kernel source is very old). As it turned out, 2.2 kernel also was an old driver. I can get the patch from the ftape web page, I just curious, why it did not make in to the stable

Full Automatic Unattended install like RedHat Kickstart

Is there a install format in Debian like Red Hat's kickstart; a text file with all options, prompts, package selection, disk partioning, root passwd, ... etc for a full installation with ANY keyboard interaction. Thanks, Terry Orlowski Get your own FREE E-mail

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

Hello, Carel! You should have received the following message earlier, but somehow it was lost. Here it is again: Carel Fellinger wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: Hello, debian-users! There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be

apt-get: The following packages have been kept back - What does it mean?

Hi, I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-helix-gnome

FTPD configuration

Hello All Where would I change the root directory for FTPD. I also want to add a user that has only access to one directory and cant see anything else. How is this doen? Thanks

Re: problems with udma66

Hi! No chance getting this to work on 2.2 now, try 2.4.0, it should work. I hope to fix 2.2 later ... Vojtech On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded until now. Configuration: Epox EP-MVP3G2

anyone try using pseudo-image kit...keep getting *** Error: getline(): not interactive, use stdio. error

when trying to run ./make-pseudo-image binary-i386-1.list ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org for example seems to occur for other ftp sites... there is a note in the readme about using wget instead of ncftp but it puts too much load on the ftp server. Should I be running as root perhaps? -walter

ftp.us.debian.org unavailable

The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any

Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dpk writes: The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than

Re: path to syntax.vim

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:21:35PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: -|Hello, -| -|vi searches for the syntax.vim file in /usr/share/vim/syntax/. -|But my path to that file is different. Where can I change this -|behaviour? -|Best regards -| Set your environment variable in your .tcshrc or .bashrc file:

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the command ls -d */ on my home directory. Only the sub dirs are displayed. aedes:~$ls -d */ Mail/ page/ nsmail/ bd4v605/free/ tklatex/ HTH alias lsd=ls -d */ should do your job ! USM Bish

Ftpd setup

Hello Guys, I have FTPD installed and was wondering how I change the default directory. Also how can I add users just for the ftp and not to have access to login via ssh or something. I looked for the man pages but there are none installed for it. And help on where the config file are kept and on

Off Topic - 4th Annual Linux Showcase

Any Debianites out there attend the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference in Atlanta GA USA last week? W-O-W !!! Over 1200 registered attendees and exhibitors. Really great show. Lots of information. Lots of big name companies like IBM, HP, SGI, VMWARE, SuSE, RH. (just to name a few).

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it. The online manual is available at http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_manuals/older/home.cfm if you want to check out the specs. It's an old

RE: apt-get: The following packages have been kept back - What

What does kept back mean /exactly/? Can I dpkg --purge task-helix-gnome safely? My understanding is that it isn't needed after it has done it's duty of selecting all gnome packages that depend on it. Am I right? it means that apt wants to update it, but can not due to a depends/conflicts

Re: apt-get: The following packages have been kept back - What does it mean?

Mario Vukelic wrote: Hi, I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have

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Hi, I've a COM21 cablemodem from my cable local company to access Internet... But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, how I need to configure my debian Linux-box? wich are all the files to review? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo

What if Debian crashes?

Hello. Here's a question which might be a little stupid, what do I do if Debian crashes? Until now I have never experienced a crash, freeze, system-/disk-fault in 3 years. I might be lucky, but I never experiment with unstable or 'frozen' distributions or applications. What tools are there to

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