RE: Oracle8iR2 install problem on Debian potato

2000-11-27 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I just did an Oracle8iR2 install with Red Hat 6.2. According to the OTN website http://otn.oracle.com, there are no requirements for the Java Runtime Engine v1.1.8, which should be included with your installation materials (Join the OTN it's free, and you can download

Re: Kernel source upgrade while maintaining configuration?

2000-11-27 Thread Erik Steffl
it is possible, you put the old config somewhere (I forgot this part:-) and then you execute make oldconfig (IIRC), sorry, I dodn't remember it exactly but I bet you can find it in some docs (probably the ones that come with kernel, or check howtos at linuxdoc.org) erik Ringo De

Re: nameservers in bind

2000-11-27 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:35:48 +0100 (CET), Leen Besselink said: If I'm not mistaken it's supposed to be done this way: www IN NS www-dns www-dns IN A 12.12.12.12 That is how I did it. -- Andrew

Re: No keyboard activity in KDM2.

2000-11-27 Thread David Z. Maze
Ringo De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RDS BTW, what are the semantics of the different run levels under Debian. RDS KDE2 seems to launch KDM even in runlevel 2. There are no predefined semantics. The local administrator is welcome to change the /etc/rc?.d symlinks by hand to get whatever

konqueror can't handle html ?

2000-11-27 Thread Lehel Bernadt
When I click on a html file in konqueror or try to use it as a browser, I get an error dialog saying: There appears to be a misconfiguration. You have associated konqueror with text/html, but it can't handle this file type. Hmmm ?

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:12:05PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Would someone indicate the exact structure of the lines in .muttrc to be added that handle the server, username, and password for mail server? Are you sure you want .muttrc and not .fetchmailrc? fetchmailrc's syntax is

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I think you want to stick to the package system. If you use apt-get, change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to unstable, then make an apt-get update then a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the

Re: password, username in .muttrc

2000-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The truth is that I am not sure. I supposed that it was in .muttrc, that's probably the reason why I could not see anything in the documentation. Does it mean that mutt uses fetchmail to fetch the messages? Philipp Schulte wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:12:05PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez

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2000-11-27 Thread Jodi Pullen
Please remove me from all your mailing lists. Thank you Jodi Pullen LAN Admin

cvs - howto? (aviplay)

2000-11-27 Thread Michael Mertins
Hi I'm very interested in the development of avifile. Now I heard it's going on and is updated by 'cvs'. How can I use it on my Debianbox? Do I need a package to get it all started? Btw: Is anyone going to build deb-packages of avifile? --Michael -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Jeffrey A Schoolcraft
* Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the dependencies) Then fidle around until you get it running, you might need to update some other X related packages. after I did this, I

Port 12345?

2000-11-27 Thread Svante Signell
Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? (my guess is w9x) I'm getting portscanned every now and the on this specific port. Other (known) ports are 31337UDP Back Orifice, 20034 NetBus Pro etc. but which one is corresponding to 12345? Ports being attacked the last

xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 config error

2000-11-27 Thread Russ Pitman
An apt-get upgrade two nights ago included xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 that failed to install at the configure stage. Just now a replacement download failed again. The error shows: -- Unpacking replacement xserver-xfree86 ... Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-8) ... sh: -c: line 1: unexpected

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-27 Thread Michael Smith
Netbus Ganabus back door Netbus back door Netbus Picture back door. Check it out: http://www.snort.org/Database/portsearch.asp Svante Signell wrote: Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? (my guess is w9x) I'm getting portscanned every now and the on this

Re: lprng/samba/win98 problem, at a loss to know what to do

2000-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
I had a similar problem with my Lexmark Optra E312 and discovered that the Lexmark Windows driver sent the job as PJL, which the ps600 filter rejects. Since the Optra can process PJL, I edited the filter to add that (using the information from another filter which did PJL). Before I got that

Re: DESTROY

2000-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Ghost wrote: I've lately been noticing this 'DESTROY' message coming up when I apt-get a package. I am not sure what it is or what it means. Can anyone give me a hint as to what this means? 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 246kB of

help (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread dude
As i was saying this, is the output i get when i try -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:15 -0500 From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux NVdriver cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas

Re: your mail

2000-11-27 Thread iehrenwald
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jodi Pullen wrote: Please remove me from all your mailing lists. See that little blip of info at the bottom of _EVERY_ message on the list? Follow its nice, helpful instructions and the world will be a happy shiny neato good place. Ian - Tremble you

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

2000-11-27 Thread ktb
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:54:00PM +0100, Ringo De Smet wrote: Hello, I once needed the listmaster intervention to subscribe myself. I tried to unsubscribe myself temporarily but neither through mail or web is it possible to unsubscribe myself. Question to the listmasters: does the

Re: your mail

2000-11-27 Thread ktb
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0800, Jodi Pullen wrote: Please remove me from all your mailing lists. Follow the directions at the end of the the email. kent -- The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-27 Thread iwrigb
snip I've got a problem with my new computer, which has a Promise Ultra 100 harddisk-controller built in. My debian 2.2 Distribution doesn't recognize it, so I can't use the harddrive. I've got some kernel Patches for Red-Hat which were snip Take a look at www.linuxnewbie.org and look

Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:24:44PM -0600, dude wrote: nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 I don't know what conversation this is supposed to be part of, but it looks to me like you're trying to compile a kernel module without the kernel headers?

sound volume

2000-11-27 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I recently got sound working on my machine and I was wondering how to turn up the volume? thanks, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: I can burn CDs, but can't mount any CDs.

2000-11-27 Thread John Travis
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:54:09 -0500, you wrote: As per the instructions of the CD-Writing HOWTO, I disabled IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM support from my kernel, and instead selected SCSI emulation support in the kernel, and a few other related options which I can't remember offhand. Well this is why your

Re: sound volume

2000-11-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Well...there's volume knob on back of some soundcards :) Install a mixer app for X...or tehre's a volume controller in xmms. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near

Re: Emacs shell with ^]]0m !!!

2000-11-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:17:27PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: :You can try installing the mule packages (mule2-bin, mule2-plain, :mule2-support). It looks like mule (Multilingual enhancements to Emacs) :detects DOS files (i.e. files with carriage returns) and hides the carriage :returns. This

problem with rblsmtpd and start-stop-daemon

2000-11-27 Thread iain-list
Hi I recently installed rblsmtpd using the debian source package. I modified my /etc/init.d/qmail script to use rblsmtpd. I am having a problem where if someone connects to the smtp port I get the following error: Nov 27 17:18:03 spoke ippl: smtp connection attempt from dev.serve.com

Re: I can burn CDs, but can't mount any CDs.

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
John Travis wrote: [In response to a previous poster who said:] I have no problems burning CDs, its just that now I can't mount any CDs - data or audio. /dev/cdrom is the correct symlink to my CD-ROM device (not CD-RW), and this was all working before I changed the kernel to be able to burn

Re: cvs - howto? (aviplay)

2000-11-27 Thread Terry Hancock
Michael Mertins wrote: I'm very interested in the development of avifile. Now I heard it's going on and is updated by 'cvs'. How can I use it on my Debianbox? Do I need a package to get it all started? Btw: Is anyone going to build deb-packages of avifile? CVS = Concurrent Versioning System

need X4 help?

2000-11-27 Thread dude
One thing that was just made clear to me is that if you just upgraed to X4.01 YOU NEED TO RUN DEXTER TO GET IT CONFIGURED CORRECTLY i spent a whole week trying to figure how to get XF4.01 running and ten i read the DOCs and it says RUN DEXTER!

performa 6214cd

2000-11-27 Thread Oleg Kokorin
Hello I have MAC Performa 6214CD, it has 603 (not 603e) is there any chance to be supported by Debian PowerPC port? or it maybe will works with m68k port? please help Oleg Kokorin _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: more apache/perl problems, premature end of script (SOLVED)

2000-11-27 Thread Herbert Ho
thanks to everyone who's helped out on this. especially Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pointing me to perl.apache.org. wow. =) in any case. for posterity. in a stock apache-perl install on a potato, you have to add something like the following to access.conf: Files ~ \.pl$ SetHandler

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:02:53PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: I've noticed the same situation here. Either X 4 is really memory hungry (and this makes Linux swap a lot) or there are some very bad memory leaks that should be audited. Guess what? After quitting gnapster

resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread Oleg Kokorin
Hello folloving giving instruction I formatted floppy disk using usual format command on my PC then I writed image of resque.bin using rawrite into this disk then I inserted this disk into MAC IIsi and powered it up MAC ejects my disk out and want not to boot from it. please help where I was

Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Eric G Miller writes: Hmm, I saw a big memory leak with Sawfish a while back that also showed up under X. I ditched Sawfish and went back to IceWm and the problem went away. I don't think this is a gtk bug, but rather some other general programming errors, but the memory happens to show

Re: Q: Why 24 depth/not 32?

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:07:27PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I've set up XF86Config to run at 32 bits, which my ATI XpertPlay 98 accepts in W98SE. Only when I use xwininfo I see that I'm still running at 24 depth. Since I know my card accepts this, is it Blackbox, or does it default

Re: Emacs shell with ^]]0m !!!

2000-11-27 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:17:27PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: :You can try installing the mule packages (mule2-bin, mule2-plain, :mule2-support). It looks like mule (Multilingual enhancements to Emacs) :detects DOS files (i.e. files with

Re: Further to CDROM prob.'s

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
I replaced cdplay with cdcd. cdcd is actually very nice console cd player. That's about all you can do until the software gets fixed. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:34:03PM -0700, Yobb wrote: Ah! Further to my Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:34:49 -0700 email regarding my CDROM problems the full error

SOLVED Re: Emacs shell with ^]]0m !!!

2000-11-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:34:32AM +, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: :Looks like ansi escape stuff. If you have colour enabled in ls, or in your :prompt you'll get it. Spot on! Thanks I can now reproduce this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls / Audio cdrom homelost+found ramfs trash

Re: need X4 help?

2000-11-27 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:52:24 -0600 (CST), dude said: One thing that was just made clear to me is that if you just upgraed to X4.01 YOU NEED TO RUN DEXTER TO GET IT CONFIGURED CORRECTLY i spent a whole week trying to figure how to get XF4.01 running and ten i read the DOCs

error log

2000-11-27 Thread ????
Hi,All. What mean is the bellow error,and How can I resolv this problem. I have not ever been restored such IP(127.255.255.0) Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 28 10:01:00 www2 sendmail[9584]: gethostbyaddr(127.255.255.0) failed: 1 Katsumi.

Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, so I tried to run memproof on gnapster, and nothing happened... Also tried gcalc, gnome-terminal, gtkcookie, gtkfind, gtkgraph, and same thing: nothing happened (as if the program had been started, but quit immediately). Sme for xosview, xfig... But it did work with wterm. So... IS there

monitor resolution only low w/ Storm/Debian

2000-11-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I installed the latest Storm version of Debian, and one nice thing is that it has such easy setup. But, re:video modes, I told it my monitor (NEC GFx3) and video card by name, but with anything bigger than 600x400 is just gibberish. Windows liked it all fine at 800x600, and I think even

kernel 2.2.17 and PPPoE: PROBLEM SOLVED

2000-11-27 Thread Stan Kaufman
In case I'm not the only one who has run into this problem, here's what happened and what fixed things. On my potato firewall box, I ran a custom 2.2.15 kernel with the stock PPPoE package (Roaring Penguin v 1.0-1) from the Debian archive with good results. The only problem was that for unclear

konquerer not displaying html?

2000-11-27 Thread Wari Wahab
Hi there, I've just downloaded konquerer to see how well this thing loads up html, but wasn't able to. Here is the error I get: There appears to be a misconfiguration. You have associated konqueror with text/html but it can't handle this file type. So in light of this annoying message, I then did

Re: DESTROY

2000-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Blunier wrote: I get the same thing. I installed potato, but I'm in the process of upgrading to woody. No debconf, but debconf-tiny0.2.80.17. perl-5.005.03-7.1, and perl-5.6.0-3 You really should install debconf proper to replace the seriously out of date debconf-tiny. Anyway, it turns

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Oleg, I think you might find a lot more help for your specific hardware here: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe go WAY down that page until you see the check box for: debian-powerpc I know that macs boot in a completely different way and I don't own one so I can't really

Re: kernel 2.2.17 and PPPoE: PROBLEM SOLVED

2000-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
Of course, it is not necessary to upgrade to woody in order to use kernel 2.2.17. The woody kernel-source package will work fine, as well as the tarball from linux.kernel.org. Bob On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Stan Kaufman wrote: In case I'm not the only one who has run into this

Sound in Gnome

2000-11-27 Thread Arlen Carlson
In order to make more space on my hard drive I recently created a new partition and copied /home over to this using the following: tar cSpf - . | (cd /home2 ; tar xvSpf - ) Now, running off my new partition as home, I've come across an error that I attribute to this change (as far as I can tell

Re: Prob. with memprof (was: Re: top tells me X is using 80 Mb!)

2000-11-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:02:22AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Ok, so I tried to run memproof on gnapster, and nothing happened... Also tried gcalc, gnome-terminal, gtkcookie, gtkfind, gtkgraph, and same thing: nothing happened (as if the program had been started, but quit

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread hansen
I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? What did work was using BootX 1.2.2 which is a Mac program that launches linux. You need the kernel, ie the file called 'linux', and root.bin That will launch the debian

XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-27 Thread lbredeso
Okay, I'm having a bit of an X upgrade problem. I've already been running unofficial debs of 4.0.1, but thought getting the official ones would be wise. I'm running debian woody. Everything goes fine until the 'xutils' package. Here's the error message I get: Unpacking replacement xutils

NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about make ing your kernel. Do you know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be able

Fw: NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about make ing your kernel. Do you know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just

Re: How to set up ISA SCSI card.

2000-11-27 Thread Michael Smith
Hi I have an AVA1505, which is similar. What you do is set the jumpers. The module you should use is the aha152x module. The problem with both of these cards is that they don't have on-board BIOS's and therefore do not auto-probe when the module is installed, so you have to set up the module

Buen servidor para apt

2000-11-27 Thread Ariel Manzur
Hola.. Estoy usando un cablemodem (fibertel) en Buenos Aires, alguien puede recomendarme un servidor bueno para usar con el apt? como siempre, no hay mirror para Argentina, y de los demas paices cercanos los servers son _lentisimos_. Alguna sugerencia? Gracias.. Ariel.

apt-mirrors?

2000-11-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to find the list of mirrors useable by apt-get. I want to point to a specific mirror server so my cache server will actually cache the downloaded packages. Anyone know the url of the list? Robert :wq! ---

NVIDIA Re: help (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Oops. Sorry. I forgot to tell you about make ing your kernel. Do you know how to compile/make your own kernel? If not then I have to tell you that your dealing with a fragile area of your OS. If you already have one's source installed (under /usr/src/linux), hopefully you should just be

Good (but cheap) dual port LAN card

2000-11-27 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Anyone know of any good, but cheap, dual port LAN card? Thanks, Brandt Dusthimer

Java and XWindows questions

2000-11-27 Thread Gary Mueller
Hi, I'm running Debian Linux 2.2.14-timesys with the RT extensions. I've downloaded Java JDK1.3 for Linux. Documentation says it was tested on RedHat Linux (no mention of Debian). When I try on run javac (the Java compiler), I get an error saying the library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 could

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