Re: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the inetd super server ? Pat On

x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread SallyPrkr
Dear All I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got installed it up to text mode. I have tried to get the x-server going with XF86 config. My card is a SiS6326 card with 8mb and keeps coming up with X11TransSocketunixconnect:can't connect:errno=111 Can you help me so I can get the

RE: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Martin Marconcini
Indeed. You need either a properly reverse zone nameserver or add the entries to hosts file. Martin. -Original Message- From: Patrick Colbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:57 AM To: Jason P. Holland; 'Debian User list' Subject: Re: telnetd slow to

Re: x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Millard
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: x-server crash Dear All I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got installed it up to text mode. I have tried to get the x-server

Has no one gotten LDAP authentication working?

2001-04-05 Thread Mullins, Ron
Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian? Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you don't have to be my friend...I won't come to your house and drink your beer if you respond.

Re: vim tab space

2001-04-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Eric G. Miller say On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Hi, This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs thread from debian-devel two months ago. In vim, what is the setting to use tab for

Insert module at startup

2001-04-05 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to insmod the netatalk module at startup. I'd be grateful to know how to do this. alias net-pf-5 appletalk in /etc/modules.conf doesn't seem to be the debian way... Regards Rory

Re: apache+cgi+php+ssi

2001-04-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, We have a problem with ftp transfers, when I try to upload or download information to a web site a lot of information the transfer breakdown just say connection closed. I'm use wu_ftp as my ftp server on my linux box and as client I try with gftp and ncftp and nothing. I'm trying to upload a

connecting adsl on startup

2001-04-05 Thread f1k
I installed the pppoe 2.8 debian package and configured it with adsl-setup. I can connect to my ISP with adsl-start. Now I want to have the connection starting at boot time. There are two ways: 1. I put the following script in /etc/init.d #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/adsl-start and made a symlink to it

Re: vim tab space

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Once upon a time, I heard Eric G. Miller say On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Hi, This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs thread from debian-devel two months ago. In vim,

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2001-04-05 Thread Denis Kosygin
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DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK. With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without upgraded XFree86? System

suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-) cheers! jc

networking - slip attachments

2001-04-05 Thread Ted Gervais
Hello All.. I have another question on networking and this time it has to do with installing a slip link using 'slattach'. I can sit on a command line and type: 'slattach -s 38400 -p slip /dev/ptypf ifconfig sl0 44.135.34.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 44.135.34.255 route add -net

Re: Insert module at startup

2001-04-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RCL I'd like to insmod the netatalk module at startup. RCL I'd be grateful to know how to do this. Just add 'netatalk' to /etc/modules. RCL alias net-pf-5 appletalk in /etc/modules.conf doesn't seem to RCL be the debian way... That line doesn't

Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Greco wrote: Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK. With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without

Re: x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread D. Hoyem
During installation did the installation program identify your video card and set up x for you? If so then to startx just type startx --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got installed it up to text mode. I have tried to get the x-server going

can not access cd drive

2001-04-05 Thread eric
Dear experts: not only music can not access ( canot scan) but also regular iso9660 disk cannot be access at all( wrong fs type), but it did can record cd, it seem it recognize the drive as scsi but not ide please help sincere and thanks in advance eric

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:47:16AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi *, Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Mike McGuire
I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real player from command line? Not for streaming realaudio files (*.ra). Most *.ram

Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Garbett
There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill himself: http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are there any recommended package upgrades to prevent these latest rounds of

Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread William Leese
I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables i compiled from source. I've tried editing /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu but any changes i

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
With an ATX computer (almost all new computers are ATX and have ATX power supplies, ATX cases, and ATX mainboards) the power button is connected to the mainboard instead of the power supply. This gives the operating system the ability to do things like sync the disks before the power actually

Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables i compiled from source. I've tried editing

Re: Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Tyrin Price
* Shawn Garbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05Apr01 13:17 -0400]: There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill himself: http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are there any

Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Alan Chen
Try this http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ Basically, you need to add a .menu file to your home directory. There may also be documentation in /usr/doc/menu of your system. --- William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike McGuire wrote: I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real player from command line? Not for streaming realaudio

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-) some creative use of banner might be a fun

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:31:21AM -0600, jh wrote: | Hello all. I am setting up an AMD Athlon box and have a question about the | cpu fan. There is no brand name info on the fan box but the unit itself | says it is an ARX. My question concerns how the heatsink side mounts to the | processor.

Re: fetchmail Hangs on First and Only 1st Try

2001-04-05 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, John Bacalle wrote: RE: fetchmail 5.3.3 ; InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 ; ATT Worldnet I have an odd problem fetching mail on the _first try_, and fetchmail hanging at the sign-off stage of the process. Try disabling all sort of auto detection and telling fetchmail exactly

i have a problem with making a .deb file

2001-04-05 Thread Christian SPENER
i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new maintainer guide. it is easy cause the programm is a kdevelop programm, so it uses automake conf etc. everything workes, only the binary goes to /bin not to /usr/bin when i look into into the deb file, under CONTENTS there are

Virtuel desktop and resolution change

2001-04-05 Thread Kresten Kjeldgaard
Hi i hope somebody can help me with an annoying problem Im running SID and enlightenment + gnome on XFree86 4.02. And i would like to be able to change the resolution without getting a virtuel desktop that's larger than the resolution (its annoying how it slides arround when the mouse gets to

Linux Virus

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Garbett
Whoops, using a Microsoft Windows box with Netscape here at work, ugh. Had to fight the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] box just to give me the correct URL: http://www.msnbc.com/news/554789.asp Tyrin Price wrote: * Shawn Garbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05Apr01 13:17 -0400]:There's a new virus in town. Here's

Dselect ing

2001-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- ---BeginMessage--- Hi there. Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work anymore for me but I have no idea were to start looking for clues, so I just post the output, with a few comments. I can provide further information if necessary. -- I already selected some packages and went for

Re: Problems with syslog

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:50:58AM +0200, Ilja Kamps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having all syslog messages on my console, this is rather annoying, it happend after I switched to single user mode, in wich I killed syslog and a few other programs so I could umount and fsck /var/, after

getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system unusuable? Anyone have a nice little tar ball or perhaps a good guide for getting them again? I

RE: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Martin Marconcini
no effect. You will have to hold down the power button for 5 seconds to Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX motherboards. Regards, Martin.

Re: Linux Virus

2001-04-05 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
http://www.securityfocus.com/ there's a link on the main page regarding latest linux worm and http://www.sans.org/y2k/adore.htm -thx, robt Shawn Garbett wrote: Whoops, using a Microsoft Windows box with Netscape here at work, ugh. Had to fight the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] box just to give me

Re: First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:26:31AM -, Ari SigurĂ°sson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: computer won't boot after some hard disk failure, I can mount and see files and I'm booting with disk and trying to run lilo again but I get, First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature It's not

Sawfish WM Config crashes

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, When I try to configure Sawfish in Gnome Control Center, the window hangs. I can click on 'Appearance' and nothing shows in the config window, and then if I click on another option 'Meta' for example, the window stops responding and I have to kill it. Currently I have sawfish-gnome

Re: Errors writing to /tmp

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote: The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains /tmp was almost full. You could be running out of inodes, also. What does df tell you

Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
Setting DefaultColorDepth to 32 seems to solve the problem. Thanks Erik. Erik Steffl said on April 5, 2001 at 09:57 (-0700) Carl Greco wrote: Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK.

Bag'o'tools for saving RealAudio streams

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:04:16AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:56:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you run real player, is there any way of

[OT] greek character in xfig?

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. Anybody know how to generate a greek character (specifically, a lower-case lambda) in xfig? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:47:53AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file file.txt which contains

Re: can not access cd drive

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:09:06AM -0600, eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear experts: not only music can not access ( canot scan) but also regular iso9660 disk cannot be access at all( wrong fs type), but it did can record cd, it seem it recognize the drive as scsi but not ide Check

Re: SMTP transaction error

2001-04-05 Thread Brett Carlane
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed 04 Apr: reading message 1 of 4 (2238 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 Sebastiaan wrote: fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.web.de fetchmail: Query status=10 fetchmail:

Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin Stokes
I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to ya'll. However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, and instead a graphical login was presented.This is nice and all, but

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-05 Thread Roberto Diaz
People need to express their views in other situations--when a site decides to *use* mail-abuse.org and block mail from dynamic sites. Is Debian doing anything like this? Could you please tell me if we have some mailing list ready to organize some kind of struggle against this kind of

Re: [OT] greek character in xfig?

2001-04-05 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Try Text, Select Text Font from the choices at the botoom, and from the choices select Greek. The letter l should give you the lower case lambda. Hope this helps. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post.

RE: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
= Original Message From Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm [EMAIL PROTECTED] = I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system unusuable? Anyone have

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: Also, the chair in front of the Linux machine is uncomfortable . . . I laughed out loud when I read this. I thought you were going to ask the list to address an ergonomics situation . . . -- steve

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to ya'll. However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, and instead a

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS

2001-04-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Martin Marconcini wrote: Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX motherboards. I once read it was 5 seconds, but I've never actually timed it myself.

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Kevin Stokes wrote: I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to ya'll. However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, and instead a graphical login was presented.

su will su only to root

2001-04-05 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
Hi, Does anyone know why su on my machine will su to root fine, yet will not su to any other id. It'll prompt for the password and return but whoami or id shows that I'm running with the original id. Even if I'm root I can't su to any other id! Does PAM has anything to do with it? TIA, -- Aaron

RE: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
= Original Message From Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com = on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:19:58PM -0500, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: Martin Marconcini wrote: Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX motherboards. I once read it was 5 seconds, but I've never actually timed it myself. Heh, a nitpickfest. Some bioses have

Re: Has no one gotten LDAP authentication working?

2001-04-05 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Mullins,, * Mullins, Ron wrote: Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian? Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you don't have to be my friend...I won't come to your

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Patrick Mauro wrote: Get this, when I hold my power button for five seconds, it shuts down. But when I release the button, it turns on again (and starts into the BIOS stuff) That is strange. I have trouble believing that this is the intended behavior. Could the switch itself be bad?

Blackbox submenu (was Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu)

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry to shift away from the original topic, but does anyone know what happened to the 'Blackbox' submenu in the default blackbox menu in unstable? -Rob

Re: i have a problem with making a .deb file

2001-04-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Christian SPENER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CS i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new CS maintainer guide. (Note that questions about building packages might be better asked on the debian-mentors list, which is more aimed towards helping beginning or prospective

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
Martin Marconcini wrote: Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX motherboards. I once read it was 5 seconds, but I've never actually timed it myself. Heh, I just hold the power button in 'til it works ;-) Hall

Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
We are planning to by a server with 3 scsi drives and a dpt 2100s raid controller. I am quite confused about how I should set the thing up to get Debian running. Will Potato's boot disks recognise the raid controller? If I use the three drives in a Raid5 array can I boot off it? Should I have a

Re: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Patrick Colbeck wrote: Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive for $400 and a handful of tapes. Or a CDW or CDRW system. But I'd prefer tape. $400 USD cost more than my computer cost Completely

partition

2001-04-05 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, J have hard disk of 4Mb with two partitions: C (hdc1) of 2 Mb and D (hdc5) of 2 Mb. On C there is windoz and D is free. potato2.2r0 is on an other hard disk ( hda). I want to install potato2.2r2 on the partition D of the 4Mb hard disk. My lilo.conf contains: ... image=/vmlinuz

RE: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
= Original Message From Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com = on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive for $400 and a handful of tapes. Or a CDW or CDRW system. But

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Giulio Morgan
Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amazon has a book listed, Debian GNU Linux Bible, as not yet published but availability expected in Febuary 2001. Does anyone have any knowledge about when this is to be published and what if any version of Debian distro will accompany book. Thanks.

RE: partition

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
= Original Message From Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hello, J have hard disk of 4Mb with two partitions: C (hdc1) of 2 Mb and D (hdc5) of 2 Mb. On C there is windoz and D is free. potato2.2r0 is on an other hard disk ( hda). I want to install potato2.2r2 on the partition D of the 4Mb

RE: Blackbox submenu (was Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2001 Rob VanFleet wrote: Sorry to shift away from the original topic, but does anyone know what happened to the 'Blackbox' submenu in the default blackbox menu in unstable? I have not heard of it disappearing. Sean Blackbox maintainer for Debian

unresolved symbols

2001-04-05 Thread William Staniewicz
Here is what I get when I do: localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2 Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol unload_mpu401_R5febf284 /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol probe_mpu401_Rcd91465c

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-05 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: I would agree that everything looks right.What happens if you type ifup eth0 or in the worst case try and bring it up manually ? ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.6 up You should get a more specific error message. The thing is you either have rolled over a

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is your data worth to you? A great deal that is why I can't take 2 weeks off to spend time getting packages and breaking them up and putting them on floppies. Karsten's point was that if your data is worth something to you, then

Alsa under Debian has me baffled

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn P. Garbett
Under RedHat I just had to compile the thing. Sure I could do that under Debian as well, but I'm trying to go the package route. I downloaded the Alsa packages. I ran the command 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV audio' I run alsaconf (don't know what those values from 4-128 mean that it wants) It gets to

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:16:25PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: = Original Message From Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com = on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - OK, you don't have a

Re: Blackbox submenu (was Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:37:32PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I have not heard of it disappearing. Whoops, must have been a fluke on my end, purged it and reinstalled and I've got it back now. -Rob

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:21:08PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amazon has a book listed, Debian GNU Linux Bible, as not yet published but availability expected in Febuary 2001. Does anyone have any knowledge about when this is to be published and

Re: unresolved symbols

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:48:12PM +, William Staniewicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here is what I get when I do: localhostnl:/home/wstan# insmod opl3sa2 Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/opl3sa2.o: unresolved symbol unload_mpu401_R5febf284

Re: partition

2001-04-05 Thread Robin Gerard
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:30:22PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: = Original Message From Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hello, J have hard disk of 4Mb with two partitions: C (hdc1) of 2 Mb and D (hdc5) of 2 Mb. On C there is windoz and D is free. potato2.2r0 is on an

Re: unresolved symbols

2001-04-05 Thread William Staniewicz
localhostnl:/home/wstan# lsmod Module Size Used by bsd_comp3672 0 (autoclean) lockd 41720 0 (autoclean) (unused) sunrpc 55452 0 (autoclean) [lockd] serial 19640 1 (autoclean) opl3 10972

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so while [ : ]; do date; done wouldn't be helpful. . :-)

Resource Conflict

2001-04-05 Thread SuperPenguin
It would bemuch more pleasant if Debian automatically fixes allresource conflicting problems.These problems prevent many beginners from using Debian. Please take this issue into considerationinfuturereleases. JT

Re: Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:17:48PM -0400, Shawn Garbett wrote: There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill himself: http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote: = Original Message From Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com = on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip I wish I could say that. I'm a student I don't have extra cash.

Re: Resource Conflict

2001-04-05 Thread Tyrin Price
* SuperPenguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05Apr01 19:19 -0400]: It would be much more pleasant if Debian automatically fixes all resource conflicting problems. These problems prevent many beginners from using Debian. Please take this issue into consideration in future releases. JT No OS

Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, Alan Chen wrote: --- William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables i compiled

Re: su will su only to root

2001-04-05 Thread elysium
I get these same results on my Sun box, if I am su'ing to users who are not allowed to log in to my box (+:x:/bin/true last line in my /etc/passwd). I can not su to any users but those listed above that line. I can't log in as those users using any method. Can you log in to those users from

.forward with cyrus?

2001-04-05 Thread aphro
hi im tryin to get vacation working. however my system seems to be ignoring the .forward . mail is delivered straight to cyrus. my configuration is probably far from standard. i use debian 2.2r2 and sendmail 8.9.3 on the destination system. cyrus from debian is used as is

Re: cd music can not play, need help

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mircea Luca wrote: Price, Tim wrote: I'm not Jeff either, but have you considered catting you /dev/sndstat? This often contains a clue as to what is misconfigured! Good luck -tim Dear Tim or any linux -debian expert: I tried

Re: unresolved symbols

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, William Staniewicz wrote: localhostnl:/home/wstan# lsmod Module Size Used by bsd_comp3672 0 (autoclean) lockd 41720 0 (autoclean) (unused) sunrpc 55452 0 (autoclean) [lockd] serial

(OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions (maybe things you've done in the same situation) on what to do with some old hardware that I'd like to donate or find a good linux home for. Worst case scenario, I'd probably just have to throw it out, but I'd rather reuse/recycle it (ahhh, the good old days of

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-05 Thread Mircea Luca
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: I would agree that everything looks right.What happens if you type ifup eth0 or in the worst case try and bring it up manually ? ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.6 up You should get a more specific error message. The thing

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

2001-04-05 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040401 08:58]: Joe Nahmias wrote: So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success. After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin Stokes
Thanks for the guidance on getting rid of the automatic gnome-login. I'm not exactly sure what you want this program for, but you seem to want to use telnet as a client in which case you'd want 'telnet' package, rather than 'telnetd'; the 'd' at the end of telnet lets you know it's a daemon, in

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick Mauro
I would have been inclined to agree with the bios idea, but I haven't changed my bios settings at all, and it works find under windows. On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:05:20AM -0500, Matthew Bryant Baxa wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:26PM -0700, Dumb wrote: I don't really have an answer, but

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Karsten M. Self wrote: $400 USD cost more than my computer cost Completely irrelevant. I wish I could say that. I'm a student I don't have extra cash. This and your other responses are largely irrelevant. Bordering on tiresome. System administration, like economics, is about

Re: networking - slip attachments

2001-04-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:52:42PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: Hello All.. I have another question on networking and this time it has to do with installing a slip link using 'slattach'. I can sit on a command line and type: 'slattach -s 38400 -p slip /dev/ptypf ifconfig sl0

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