Re: To ja takie rozne

2001-04-30 Thread Seweryn Lipkowski
Korzystając z okazji chciałbym się przywitać ze wszystkimi. Cześć! Artur Gorniak wrote: a) deb http://ftp.pwr.wroc.pl/debian woody main contrib non-free b) deb http://grey.debian.pl/debian dists/stable/ Miłe :-) chcialbym tutaj uslyszec czy warto na ftpie umiescic iso CD Mi się przyda.

Re: To ja takie rozne

2001-04-30 Thread Piotr Bucki
Seweryn Lipkowski wrote: Korzystając z okazji chciałbym się przywitać ze wszystkimi. Cześć! To ja rowniez witam wsystkich. -- Piotr Bucki e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slrn

2001-04-30 Thread Marek Rogozinski
Witam wszystkich. Tak w ramach ozywiania listy;) Po ktoryms tam z kolei apt-get dist-upgrade (unstable) slrn zaczal mi ucinac linie na polskich literkach. Ktos moze sie z tym spotkal i wie co jest temu winne? Raczej nie slrn (inne wersje tez maja problemy) i raczej nie konfigi slrna.

Re: [OT] pogoda

2001-04-30 Thread Bartek Golenko
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Artur Gorniak wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:55:26PM +0200, Bartek Golenko wrote: Coz... W takim razie trzeba bedzie zatrudnic procmaila i formaila zeby mi same dodaly ten header ;) nie wystarczy odpowiedni hook do mutta? ;- Moze by i wystarczyl, gdybym uzywal mutta

jaula chroot para la shell

2001-04-30 Thread javi
Hola!! Necesito crear cuentas du usuario con acceso restringido en nuestras Debian 2.1, como puedo hacerlo?, los usuarios solo verian su home y los comandos que el admin quisiera que los usuarios vieran. He buscado en Internet pero no encuentro nada que me sirva, solo he visto cosas como la

Perdon

2001-04-30 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: [...] A esta lista de cosas, perdón por decirlo de esta forma Antonio, añadiría si no está el absteberse de reenviar el mensaje original al que se contesta, [...] Tienes razón pero no suelo hacerlo de esa forma. Casi siempre dejo unas

Re: MUTT

2001-04-30 Thread elias
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:38:40PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muchisimas gracias, por su ayuda me vino barbaro pero una cosa que aún no entiendo es por que no veo los tildes, cuando por ejemplo alguien escribe con kmail?. Y como se hace para que mutt muestre solamente los cabezales

Re: Sobre el hasta luego y fin de los mensajes absurdos

2001-04-30 Thread elias
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:02:59PM +0200, JUAN CARLOS AMENGUAL ARGUDO wrote: Hola, después de mucho pensarlo me decido a escribir. Llevo en esta lista desde hace más de 5 años. Además de las clases y de la investigación, he pasado por Ham, Bo, Slink y, ahora Potato (en cuanto tenga algo de

Re: Debian como servidor novell netware

2001-04-30 Thread Ferran Pegueroles
Yo he hecho funcionar un debian como servidor novell con el paquete mars_nwe (si no esta en debian lo buscas en google) . Las limitaciones del paquete son que emulan una novell 3.xx, i no tienes NDS, pero qualquir cliente novell se te puede conectar. Si quieres nds tienes que ir a la web de

Re: Sobre el hasta luego y fin de los mensajes absurdos

2001-04-30 Thread marmolejo
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:02:59PM +0200, JUAN CARLOS AMENGUAL ARGUDO wrote: 1) Los mensajes de hasta luego u hola. Soy el primer abanderado de la educación, pero me parece innecesario enviar mails comunicando la despedida o el regreso a la lista. 2) Los mensajes anunciando virus en

gnome-hint y

2001-04-30 Thread Bladecoder
Hola, Tengo instalada la Woody que actualizo semanalmente, esto me da quebraderos de cabeza de vez en cuando pero tambien se aprende bastante intentando solucionar los problemas que tienen algunos paquetes. Hace un par de semanas despues de la actualizacion rutinaria dejaron de funcionar la

Re: Instalacion sin CD-ROM

2001-04-30 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El 27 Apr 2001 13:34:35 +0300, Albert Einstein escribió: Tengo un PC sin CD-ROM, pero con disquetera y tarjeta ethernet+conexion a red ilimitada...Como siempre que he instalado Debian ha sido via CD, no tengo ni idea de como hacerlo ahora. Me imagino q debo arrancar con el RESCUE e

Re: Armar cds propios

2001-04-30 Thread Sergio Valdivielso Gomez
El dom, 29 abr 2001 00:43:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Estoy bajandome un montón de paquetes para el potato, y luego de esto quisiera armar un cd, van a ser kde2, ximian gnome, actualizaciones para el kernel 2.4, xfree 4.0.2, avifile, non-free, etc. El tema es como se arman los cds para que

GDM

2001-04-30 Thread \[crow\]
Me gustaria saber como se puede configurar GDM para que de la lista de sesiones que yo quiera. Gracias

Re: Postgres en /var

2001-04-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
No pensais que es un poco raro que en potato postgres instale su $HOME y todos sus ficheros a partir del directorio /var ? Muy al contrario, es normal y completamente correcto. ¿Dónde te gustaría? Lugares que podrías sugerir: /usr - No, no va ahí. Según los estándares de Unix, y más

Re: Problemas al actualizar a Ximian GNOME 1.4

2001-04-30 Thread Sergio Valdivielso Gomez
El dom, 29 abr 2001 11:34:49 Vd escribió: Ayer estuve toda la mañana bajando los paquetes del gnome 1.4 desde ximian y cuando lo instalé e ejecuté gnome-session me devuelve el siguiente error: gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 cannot open shared

Re: GDM

2001-04-30 Thread JUAN CARLOS AMENGUAL ARGUDO
Mensaje citado por: [crow] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me gustaria saber como se puede configurar GDM para que de la lista de sesiones que yo quiera. Gracias En Potato: vas a /etc/gdm/. Allí encontrarás un directorio llamado Sessions donde dejas los shell scripts que iniciarán las sesiones

Problema con LPRng

2001-04-30 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Tengo un problema con LPRng que no habia observado hasta ahora (no uso mucho la impresora), y que no desde cuando se viene produciendo. Tengo una sola impresora conectada a /dev/lp0, pero en printcap tengo definidas varias colas de impresion, cada una con un filtro de impresion

Re: consulta kernel_ppp - frame buffer

2001-04-30 Thread marmolejo
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:19:31PM -0300, Fabian wrote: Hola, Tengo un par de problemas con la configuracion del kernel en potato2.2, y ya no se donde seguir tocando. El primer problema es que solo me puedo conectar al ISP con el kernel 2.2.17, al intentar utilizar el 2.4.2 o 2.4.3, cuando

Re: Grabación de CDs y módulos

2001-04-30 Thread Manuel Clos
Imobach González Sosa wrote: Para empezar, estaba tratando de copiar cds ''on-the-fly''. Probé con cdrdao... pero me pide dos unidades al estilo dev 0,0,0... y resulta que en mi caso tan sólo la grabadora está emulada como SCSI (tengo puesto en el lilo.conf un append hdd=ide-scsi). Una forma

vmware

2001-04-30 Thread TALLO
quien de ustedes usan vmware ??? para que sirve se que es un emulador de windows y eso alguien lo tiene como para decirme sus funciones me vaje la version 2.0.2 for linux y estoy tratando de crackearlo ya que es demasiad caro algunop de la lista ya lo hizo

APT, KDE y ratn. Please help me!

2001-04-30 Thread Carlos Martinez
Hola, listeros. Antes de empezar quiero pedir mil perdones por la longitud de este mensaje, pero son las dudas que no he sabido solventar hasta el momento con la instalacin de Debian (y eso que me he puesto la doc en espaol, que si no...). 1.- Tengo los CD's de la 2.2 r2 (3) con los que he

Re: vmware

2001-04-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
quien de ustedes usan vmware ??? para que sirve se que es un emulador de windows y eso alguien lo tiene como para decirme sus funciones me vaje la version 2.0.2 for linux y estoy tratando de crackearlo ya que es demasiad caro algunop de la lista ya lo hizo Hola, Yo he utilizado VMWare -

Re: vmware

2001-04-30 Thread Enzo Dari
TALLO wrote: quien de ustedes usan vmware ??? para que sirve se que es un emulador de windows y eso alguien lo tiene como para decirme sus funciones me vaje la version 2.0.2 for linux y estoy tratando de crackearlo ya que es demasiad caro algunop de la lista ya lo hizo ... Visita:

Error al compilar fuentes liblcms-1.07

2001-04-30 Thread Fermín Manzanedo
Hola gente, estoy intentando instalar el avifile para ver pelis en formato divX. Me he bajado todo lo necesario del ftp de escomposlinux, pero al intentar instalar una de las bibliotecas (liblcms-1.07, de la que dependen otras dos) me aparecía un error (el mismo que aparece ahora). Me puse en

Re: voodoo 5 (correção)

2001-04-30 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
Em Dom 29 Abr 2001 21:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: O endereço dos pacotes do XF86 4.0.1 para potato é http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha/ Desculpem. - Victor Maida Oi, Só para dar um *pequeno toque*. Eu tenho isso

Problemas com o modem

2001-04-30 Thread HSO.suporte
Estou migrando do SUSE para o Debian e tive problemas com o modem (PnP) eu já configurei ele com o isapnp corretamente agora falta user o setserial. O problema é que o sistema tá tentanto configurar ele sozinho e errado o vejam o log abaixo ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Mensagens de erro

2001-04-30 Thread Joao C. Ribeiro
Srs.: Estou com o seguinte problema: Tenho um servidor Linux debian, deu uma queda de energia e o servidor caiu junto com o nobreak, na volta do servidor nao consigo mais logar com telnet, da a seguinte mensagem all ports in use Alguem ja se deparou com este

Re: Problemas com o modem

2001-04-30 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:20:12AM -0300, HSO.suporte wrote: Estou migrando do SUSE para o Debian e tive problemas com o modem (PnP) eu já configurei ele com o isapnp corretamente agora falta user o setserial. O problema é que o sistema tá tentanto configurar ele sozinho e errado o vejam o log

RE: historico

2001-04-30 Thread Carlos Laviola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-Apr-2001 cosmo wrote: Carlos Laviola Por acaso essa lista tem historico ?!?! lists.debian.org Mais especificamente, http://lists.debian.org/#debian- Obrigado !! Oops, me confundi, é

ntsysv

2001-04-30 Thread cosmo
All Estou seguindo uma dica que veio da lista Dicas-L referente a um software de otimizacao a acesso a disco chamado hdparm. O teste que foi feito foi no conectiva. No final da mensagem dizia que para ativar o comando hdparm permanentemente, utilize, em sistemas Conectiva Linux e outros

Re: ntsysv

2001-04-30 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
Em Seg 30 Abr 2001 14:05, cosmo escreveu: All Estou seguindo uma dica que veio da lista Dicas-L referente a um software de otimizacao a acesso a disco chamado hdparm. O teste que foi feito foi no conectiva. No final da mensagem dizia que para ativar o comando hdparm permanentemente,

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I know you said you wanted a GUI email program, but you should really try mutt. It takes a few hours to learn, and you'll probably need to get some sort of fetchmail setup working (although I hear mutt can get POP3 mail on its own). I've tried a number of other email tools, both GUI and text,

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave. What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and use that instead of

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
it's a 4 gig drive do you really think having a 4 gig swap disk is worth it on a system with 32 meg ram? No, but I don't think it would do any harm, *if* you're not going to use the rest of the disk anyway. and do I have to format the whole drive as swap? Yes: mkswap -v1 /dev/hdx

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
I got the following error: mkswap: warning: truncuating swap area to 2097144kB mkswap: will not try to make swapdevice on '%s' and I could not set the whole disk as a swap device. This is upon deleting all partitions in the device, and typing 'mkswap /dev/hdb' Renai On Monday 30 April 2001

Re: help with IP Masquerading, 2.4 kernel

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
Turn on forwarding: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgphUNIWDB0hH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: help with IP Masquerading, 2.4 kernel

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
Oh yeah, instead, you can edit /etc/network/options and change: ip_forward=no to ip_foward=yes Then, either run /etc/init.d/networking restart, or reboot the system. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp6ccRNFlCig.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I guess I look like a fool now... Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time. I looked at the manpage, and it actually DOES hurt to have too much swap space: Note that before 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for each page, while it now allocates two bytes, so that tak?

reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? how is this done? I think I saw something about resierfs-boot floppies a while back. regards, Renai

Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Rahul Agarwal
Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installationinstruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMCEZCard10/100 PCI (SMC1211Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont have a gui installed. I found a driver name at linuxdoc.com for 1211 series but dont

Re: Getting StarOffice to print

2001-04-30 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:30:39AM +1000, Mark wrote: Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: --- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gs, lprng, apsfilter etc on my potato system and it works. I can print from Abiword, Netscape and the command line. However, nothing happens when I try to print

Re: eximconfig

2001-04-30 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:25:28AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:04:59PM -0500, ktb wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:24:33AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:12:40PM -0500, ktb wrote: You can also cheat and put something similar in your

xemacs21-gtk and X cut paste

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is it possible to use the standard X cut and paste using xemacs21-gtk? I can paste OK, copying to another application is the problem. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Oki DZ
Renai LeMay wrote: I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? how is this done? I think I saw something about

CD drive not recognised

2001-04-30 Thread Barry Kirsten
Can somebody please help? I'm a Linux newbie doing a first-time setup of Potato. I changed my bios to allow CDROM boot and was able to begin installation from the CD. The machine will now boot from the hard disk, rescue disk etc. and I am now at the apt configuration stage, but Linux apparently

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
the problem being, I have the following partitions: /dev/hda swap /mnt/win (fat32) / (ext2) /doc (reiserfs) /dev/hdb going to be a FreeBSD installation. so can that be done? It seems to me - not easily :) But is there a way of doing it before installing?

Re: help required with X configuration and mouse

2001-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
The answer may be as simple as this: COM1 = /dev/ttyS0, not ttyS1. Another thing to look for is a symbolic link from /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0 (if you refer to the mouse as /dev/mouse in XF86Config). If that isn't the problem, send the pointer part of /etc/X11/XF86Config to the list for comment.

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Renai LeMay wrote: I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Oki DZ
Ethan Benson wrote: not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you WILL need to fsck it, There is no fsck for reiserfs; or, it's not recommended, to be exact. BTW, one might wonder why the kernel corrupts the filesystem. If it's due to the bugs on the kernel, then I

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:23:07PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Ethan Benson wrote: not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you WILL need to fsck it, There is no fsck for reiserfs; or, it's not recommended, to be exact. there is one, its just so broken its hardly worth

Re: regarding swap space

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:18:04PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with Debian unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave.

Re: Getting StarOffice to print

2001-04-30 Thread algemon
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:26:27AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:30:39AM +1000, Mark wrote: Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: --- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gs, lprng, apsfilter etc on my potato system and it works. I can print from Abiword, Netscape

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:27AM -0400, Rahul Agarwal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
On 2001-04-21, Benjamin Black wrote: hi everyone. a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 that was uploaded a few days ago into my boot sector, and lilo did not complain; i am now running that image. Hi. I am seeing the

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Renai LeMay wrote: I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. It is fast,

Problems with CD-Burner after upgrading to Kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-30 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I recently upgraded to kernel 2.4.3 with the packages of Adrian Bunk. BTW: Thanks for this possibility! With the new kernel I get the following message from my CD-Burner. Apr 30 08:46:34 debian kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Of course there is no

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
I've been running reiserfs with 2.4.3 on a /doc partition which basically houses my mp3s - so it's constantly being accessed - for a couple of weeks, with no difficulties. That's not exactly heavy useage though. On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Rahul Agarwal wrote: Hello, I am new to Unix/Linux. I installed debian linux according to the installation instruction at debian.org. But my ethernet card(SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI (SMC1211 Series)) was not recognized. Also I dont have a gui installed. I found a driver

Linux style dialup automatically

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear fellow Debianers, I have just come to Debian 3 weeks ago, and still struggle to set up my previous dialup conf using another linux version. Here is what I want: Every time I log on to my isp (from anywhere in my box, could be root, or other users) I want my email downloaded, and sorted to

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:26:26PM +1000, Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very impressed with it's performance. A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? Install, perhaps. Convert to.

Re: Newbie needs help

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
Since you say 'I dont know anything about linux/unix' I would also recommend a very well-balanced Linux intro book by Michael Kofler, entitled _Linux_. It's on its second edition and is published by Addison-Wesley. bookpool.com should carry it, along with many other retailers. When I've

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:02:17PM +1000, Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Renai LeMay

What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) in order to do this? I run potato 2.2r3 stable, and at isnstall time I mostly skipped

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Renai LeMay
Real men don't backup. They upload their files to an ftp server :) On Monday 30 April 2001 17:07, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:02:17PM +1000, Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM

switching kernels

2001-04-30 Thread omicron
hello How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to reboot the machine ? Thanks in advance --omicron -- ** omicron Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sridhar N) www:omicron.symonds.net pubkeys:omicron.symonds.net/pubkeys C O G

Re: Power control question

2001-04-30 Thread Joel
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:23:53PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hello, Joel Mayes wrote: Just a quick question, how do i configure my Debian testing box so that the poweroff command actualy powers down my computer ? I'm using the standard 2.2.18pre21 kernel that come with debian.

Re: switching kernels

2001-04-30 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
omicron wrote: hello How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to reboot the machine ? short answer: you can't. long answer: you can't. i'm afraid it's the only thing you have to reboot for! sorry for you surely wonderful uptime... pietro.

Re: Help: Partition OK but packages all screwed up

2001-04-30 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, Try to reinstall the packages which give problems with: apt-get install -f and apt-get install --reinstall packages... You can get a list of installed packages with: dpkg -l '*'| grep '^i'| cut -f 3 -d ' ' installed.packages Gabor

Re: How to upgrade?

2001-04-30 Thread V.Suresh
Thank you very much for that. But until I get apt-get working, I won't be able to do this. Apt-get always exits with error Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status file (1) The packages list or status file could not be opened or parsed. The status file is physically present

Re: apt-get problems

2001-04-30 Thread V.Suresh
The status files are there under /var/lib/dpkg/, and there are also a methlock and lock file. I don't know why it is there. I tried removing it, still no use. the locks comeback. May be that's not the prob. Somebody please help me. You know how tough life could get without apt-get in a

Re: Getting StarOffice to print

2001-04-30 Thread Mark
algemon wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:26:27AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:30:39AM +1000, Mark wrote: Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: --- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gs, lprng, apsfilter etc on my potato system and it works. I can print

Downloading of Debian

2001-04-30 Thread Quek Choon Huat
Hi, I am very new to Linux. Is there anyone who can tell me which exactly to download for installation. Thnks and Rgds

Re: What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, Viktor Lakics wrote: I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) in order to do this? Well, patching the kernel is virtually

Re: Partitioning prior to dual boot installation of Debian and Windows ME

2001-04-30 Thread Abner Gershon
Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be overlooking something but it does not appear possible to make more than one primary partition on a single physical hard drive with this application. I have downloaded the floppy disk images of rescue as

Getting the mail command to work

2001-04-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
Does anyone know what needs to be done in order to get the mail command to work? Right now I'm trying to do: mail -s test from command line [EMAIL PROTECTED] I I have postfix installed.

Re: Wheel mouse

2001-04-30 Thread Jan Outhuis,,,
you have to change your 'pointer' entry in Xmodmap too: pointer 1 2 3 4 5, or something similar, depending on your wanted button mapping. Read man Xmodmap. Greetings, Jan Outhuis Andreas Tscharner wrote: Hello World, As fas as I know,XFree86 4.0.x supports wheel mice. I have one, and

Re: Partitioning prior to dual boot installation of Debian and Windows ME

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: Just to clarify I tried again to use DOS fdisk as found on Windows ME StartUp floppy. I may be overlooking something but it does not appear possible to make more than one primary partition on a single physical hard drive with this application. I

Re: Getting the mail command to work

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:27:33AM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: Does anyone know what needs to be done in order to get the mail command to work? Right now I'm trying to do: mail -s test from command line [EMAIL PROTECTED] I I have postfix installed. if it doesn't work then

Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files. These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get these recovery mails in my inbox. Does anybody know how to disable this?

Re: CD drive not recognised

2001-04-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
I changed my bios to allow CDROM boot and was able to begin installation from the CD. The machine will now boot from the hard disk, rescue disk etc. and I am now at the apt configuration stage, but Linux apparently can't recognise the CD drive (although it is mentioned during boot-up). Also I

Re: switching kernels

2001-04-30 Thread patrick q
--- omicron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to reboot the machine ? Thanks in advance --omicron try user-mode Linux, you can run a virtual machine with a different kernel as a process under your current kernel. I haven't

Re: diald trouble

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:17:54PM +0200, Andreas Tscharner wrote: Hello World, I have problems setting up a working diald. It is started up at boot time and when a request is coming, diald starts the (standard [of course the phone number is changed) connect script. But the connection is up

Re: Send You A Message

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:11:42PM -0600, John Galt wrote: 1) they're not ... Yes they are, read the list rules. Flat fee of $1000 is charged per message, posting a message signifies acceptance of this. :) -- Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpZyve02QQjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get problems

2001-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:42:11PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update, it exits with error Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) The status file could not be opened or parsed. Help. Some suggestions: Move

Re: apt error : too many open files

2001-04-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:20:05PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: Hi, I am using debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.19 and am having the folling problem : when I log in as root and use dpkg or apt every thing works fine . But if I log in a normal user and su - to root the dpkg or apt gives errors as below.

Re: Downloading of Debian

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:27:00PM +0800, Quek Choon Huat wrote: Hi, I am very new to Linux. Is there anyone who can tell me which exactly to download for installation. Thnks and Rgds Look at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ , in particular the Installation Manuals -- Andrew

Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files. These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get these recovery mails in my inbox. Does anybody know how to disable this?

Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files. These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get these recovery mails in my inbox. Does anybody know how to disable this?

gnome problems

2001-04-30 Thread V.Suresh
I had installed gnome through debian CDs from a local magazine. Now Gnome is working, but many functions are missing and doesn't look like a complete gnome at all. Also, If i click on the properties tab of any gnome item, Gnome segfaults, then restarts. SHould I do a complete reinstall of Gnome,

How boot scripts?

2001-04-30 Thread V.Suresh
I want to do the following things during boot up: 1. insmod -f a modem module 2. setfont /path/to/consolefont/ I Understand that I have to write a script. Okay, written. The script executes fine. Now where do I put the script, and how do I make it run during bootup? --

Re: apt-get problems

2001-04-30 Thread V.Suresh
I got it working. The problem was, I had used alien to convert afterstep.rpm to .deb, had installed it, then dpkg -r it. The conffiles were mentioned in the status list. So I did a dpkg --purge afterstep, and then, viola, apt-get is working again. whew, after a week of desperate attempts,

To use LBA for FAT-16 and 32 partitions?

2001-04-30 Thread Abner Gershon
I am repartitioning my hard drive using cfdisk. I will be configuring a dual boot PC with Debian potatoe and Windows ME. For Windows use is LBA preferred? I apologize if this is somewhat off topic of debian but I would not be faced with this dilema if I wasn't trying to install Debian. Thanks.

How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Mark
For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains the default editor. when I look in /etc/alternatives I see: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 Apr 30 23:12 editor - /bin/ae lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Apr 30 23:12 editor.1.gz - /usr/man/man1/ae.1.gz

Re: Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Mark
Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hello, This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files. These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get these recovery mails in my inbox. Does anybody

Re: What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?

2001-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:26:40AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: Hi All, I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) in order to do

which gcc?

2001-04-30 Thread David Purton
just a quick question, but which gcc should I have installed? gcc gcc-2.95 gcc-3.00 or all of the above? does gcc-2.95 and 3.00 replace gcc? if so - will removing gcc break things? I'm running Woody, but don't do any major building - the odd app from source, a kernel, and a few little

Re: Wheel mouse

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
AT Hello World, AT As fas as I know,XFree86 4.0.x supports wheel mice. I have one, and AT therefore, I have the following input section in /etc/X11/XF86Conifg-4: AT Section InputDevice AT Identifier Logitech MouseMan Plus AT Driver mouse AT Option Protocol

Re: How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Colin Watson
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains the default editor. when I look in /etc/alternatives I see: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 Apr 30 23:12 editor - /bin/ae lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Apr 30 23:12

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-30 Thread PiotR
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:48, Brandon High wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: The IBM SCSI disk I have here has a jumper to delay spin up depending on SCSI ID so that an array of those would

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