lists.debian.org/search.html nie działa poprawn ie?

2001-06-23 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hej Szukanie np. experimental;postgresql w debian-user zwraca 3 rezultaty. Szukanie experimental;postgres.* zwraca 0, co w.g mnie nie jest poprawne. Czy to ja robię coś nie tak, czy to wina systemu ? -- Piotrek irc: #Debian.pl

Re: lists.debian.org/ search.html nie działa poprawnie?

2001-06-23 Thread Michal Politowski
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:28:34 +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: Szukanie np. experimental;postgresql w debian-user zwraca 3 rezultaty. Szukanie experimental;postgres.* zwraca 0, co w.g mnie nie jest poprawne. Czy to ja robię coś nie tak, czy to wina systemu ? Wygląda to na feature

Re: lists.debian.org/search.html nie działa poprawn ie?

2001-06-23 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Michal Politowski wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:28:34 +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: Szukanie np. experimental;postgresql w debian-user zwraca 3 rezultaty. Szukanie experimental;postgres.* zwraca 0, co w.g mnie nie jest poprawne. Czy to ja robię coś nie

Re: lists.debian.org/search.html nie działa poprawn ie?

2001-06-23 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Michal Politowski wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:28:34 +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: Szukanie np. experimental;postgresql w debian-user zwraca 3 rezultaty. Szukanie experimental;postgres.* zwraca 0, co

Problemas con la red

2001-06-23 Thread Santiago Pastorino
Estoy teniendo problemas con la red, está funcionando a mi gusto demasiado lenta, me demoró como 4 minutos en copiar mas o menos 7mb. A la máquina de la red accedo con smbmount //pc/c /mnt/pc (esta con windows), y teniendo todo casi igual no se que puedo haber cambiado me funcionaba mucho más

Re: Problemas con la red

2001-06-23 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
hola RX bytes:4127698 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:7118887 (6.7 Mb) eso de los MB lo has añadido tu? o qué versión de ifconfig tienes... gracias! Carles Pina i Estany - #Linux User: 87347 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Pinux URL: http://www.salleURL.edu/~is08139 Debian Woody Kernel 2.4.5

herramienta similar a ignite-ux

2001-06-23 Thread jose maria
El Sáb 23 Jun 2001 04:47, José Luis Fernández Barros escribió: El Jue 21 Jun 2001 23:43, Lluis Vilanova escribió: ... Saludetes. Bueno, ya puestos a hablar de copias de seguridad, quiero pasar mi potato de un disco de 2 a uno de 4Gb (ahora si que tendra espacio mi pequeña patata :D);

Re: Problemas con la red

2001-06-23 Thread imo
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:55:17AM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Saludos. En la versión que tengo yo de ifconfig me aparece algo parecido... net-tools 1.60 ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13) Ejemplo: RX bytes:158 (158.0 b) TX bytes:158 (158.0 b) hola

cdrdao

2001-06-23 Thread imo
Saludos. Dos cosillas ;) 1) Estaba yo tan contento aprendiendo a usar el cdrdao cuando, al intentar escribir en un CD, me salta con un mensaje como: ERROR: Cannot set write parameters mode page. Y se acabó. No escribe en el cd de destino. ¿A alguien le ha pasado? 2) Resulta que quiero hacer

Novato

2001-06-23 Thread Fortino Sosa
Hola a todos, ayer me suscribí a esta lista de usuarios y ya estoy recibiendo los primeros correos. Soy una persona que inicia sus primeros pasos en Linux, y me gustaría saber un par de cosillas, 1) Que canales del IRC puedo accesar para poder chatear con los usuarios de Linux. 2)Como obtengo

La Realtek ha matado mi ratón

2001-06-23 Thread Carlos Valdivia Yagüe
Hola listeros, Tengo un problema con mi tarjeta de red (una Realtek 8139C). Desde que la instalé hace unos meses no me funciona el ratón. He observado que coge siempre la interrupción 12, justo la que ha de utilizar el puerto PS/2. Por lo que he leído no hay manera de cambiar la interrupción de

Re: La Realtek ha matado mi ratón

2001-06-23 Thread aparra
Carlos Valdivia Yagüe wrote: Hola listeros, Tengo un problema con mi tarjeta de red (una Realtek 8139C). Desde que la instalé hace unos meses no me funciona el ratón. He observado que coge siempre la interrupción 12, justo la que ha de utilizar el puerto PS/2. Por lo que he leído no hay

Re: Novato

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Payno
Hola Fortino... decías, el 09:49-23/jun/2001: Hola a todos, Bienvenido,, ;) 1) Que canales del IRC puedo accesar para poder chatear con los usuarios de Linux. Si sabes inglés puedes conectarte al servidor IRC de Debian, irc.debian.org... sino, tienes varios canales en la red IRC-Hispano.

Re: La Realtek ha matado mi ratón

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Payno
Hola Carlos... decías, el 07:11-23/jun/2001: Tengo un problema con mi tarjeta de red (una Realtek 8139C). Desde que la instalé hace unos meses no me funciona el ratón. He observado que coge siempre la interrupción 12, justo la que ha de utilizar el puerto PS/2. prueba a cambiar la tarjeta de

Re: La Realtek ha matado mi ratón

2001-06-23 Thread Carlos Valdivia Yagüe
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:16:36PM +0200, aparra wrote: Yo juraria que la interrupcion de los dispositivos PCI no la fijan ellos, sino mas bien la placa base, has probado a entrar en la configuracion de la BIOS y decir que no use la interrupcion 12 para dispositivos PCI. Si la

Re: cdrdao

2001-06-23 Thread Manuel Clos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ERROR: Cannot set write parameters mode page. Y se acabó. No escribe en el cd de destino. ¿A alguien le ha pasado? Mira en el README. 2) Resulta que quiero hacer copias exactas de CDs de audio... y no me refiero a extraer sólo las pistas y ponerlas en el mismo

modeline

2001-06-23 Thread Raul Benavente
Hola He cambiado de monitor recientemente y el monitor nuevo soporta modos con mejores resoluciones/frecuencias de refresco que los VESA estándar, leyendo el manual de XF86Config he visto que se pueden especificar modos personalizados mediante modeline, he probado con un par de programas que

Re: modeline

2001-06-23 Thread Carlos Valdivia Yagüe
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Raul Benavente wrote: Hola He cambiado de monitor recientemente y el monitor nuevo soporta modos con mejores resoluciones/frecuencias de refresco que los VESA estándar, leyendo el manual de XF86Config he visto que se pueden especificar modos

[no subject]

2001-06-23 Thread Yahoo
Saludos!!! Tengo una pregunta, puedo yo descargar el Linux Debain 2.2r3 de internet a una máquinacon windows98 e instalar desde allí mismo, sin usar CDROM_

ifconfig (era problemas con la red)

2001-06-23 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
hola Ejemplo: RX bytes:158 (158.0 b) TX bytes:158 (158.0 b) correcto, acabo de actualizar y ya me sale :-) muchísimas gracias! hola RX bytes:4127698 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:7118887 (6.7 Mb) eso de los MB lo has añadido tu? o qué versión de ifconfig

[Casi solucionado] Re: cdrdao

2001-06-23 Thread imo
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:59:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saludos. Dos cosillas ;) 1) Estaba yo tan contento aprendiendo a usar el cdrdao cuando, al intentar escribir en un CD, me salta con un mensaje como: ERROR: Cannot set write parameters mode page. Y se acabó. No escribe

Debian y Mac

2001-06-23 Thread Richard Espinoza
Hola listeros, agradesco la ayuda que me facilitaste Miguel Garrido, fue al callo (como decimos en Chile). Ahora bien, ya he particionado mi hermoso disco duro y me lanzare a la aventura de bajar una copia de Debia PMac... Me lei el manualsillo que trae, pero es bastante pobre en la parte de la

Re: [Casi solucionado] Re: cdrdao

2001-06-23 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
hola prueba un cdrdao unlock y c cuenta (no creo que funcione) On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:59:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saludos. Dos cosillas ;) 1) Estaba yo tan contento aprendiendo a usar el cdrdao cuando, al intentar

Re: Herramienta similar a ignite-ux

2001-06-23 Thread Lluis Vilanova
El sáb, 23 de jun de 2001, a las 04:47:18 +0200, José Luis Fernández Barros dijo: El Jue 21 Jun 2001 23:43, Lluis Vilanova escribió: ... Saludetes. Bueno, ya puestos a hablar de copias de seguridad, quiero pasar mi potato de un disco de 2 a uno de 4Gb (ahora si que tendra espacio mi

pregunta sobre xfig

2001-06-23 Thread Mauricio E Ruiz Font
Oigan como le hago para que cuando escriba en el xfig me ponga los acentos, todos los demas progrmas me los ponen menos ese.. -- Mauricio Enrique Ruiz Font UG FAMAT

Re: Problemas con la red

2001-06-23 Thread Santiago Pastorino
El Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:55:17AM +, Carles Pina i Estany contaba: hola RX bytes:4127698 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:7118887 (6.7 Mb) eso de los MB lo has añadido tu? o qué versión de ifconfig tienes... No lo que mandé es la salida de correr ifconfig, la versión es net-tools

Re:

2001-06-23 Thread José Luis Fernández Barros
El Sáb 23 Jun 2001 21:59, Yahoo escribió: Saludos!!! Tengo una pregunta, puedo yo descargar el Linux Debain 2.2r3 de internet a una máquina con windows98 e instalar desde allí mismo, sin usar CDROM_ Lo de bajarte todo es duro... lo mejor son las imágenes de los CD: http://cdimage.debian.org

Re: Novato

2001-06-23 Thread omseoane
Daniel Payno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Fortino... decías, el 09:49-23/jun/2001: Hola a todos, Bienvenido,, ;) 1) Que canales del IRC puedo accesar para poder chatear con los usuarios de Linux. Si sabes inglés puedes conectarte al servidor IRC de Debian, irc.debian.org... sino,

Uma página de comparação da distribuição D ebian

2001-06-23 Thread Fabioa Manoel de Andrade
N a debianplanet tem uma página de comparação das várias distribuições Linux. Para o debian tem uma lista das veersões dos pacotes para potato, woody e sid. http://home.kimo.com.tw/ladislav/debian.htm Fabiano.

Re: Processador de Textos...

2001-06-23 Thread Raphael D Pereira
Cara, foi mal, eu indiquei no meu texto e esqueci... Lá vai... http://biquinho.furg.br/tex-br/ On Fri 22 Jun 2001 23:16, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Raphael D Pereira wrote: Desisti de usar o StarOffice, por causa do problema da hifenização. Tentei consertar

Usando gdm

2001-06-23 Thread Fabioa Manoel de Andrade
Olá pessoal. Como faço para o monitor desligar quando estou na janela de login do gdm? Fabiano.

Programacao com banco de dados e Gtk!

2001-06-23 Thread Emerson Val Silva
Olá amigos. Estou desenvolvendo uma aplicação de banco de dados com QT 3.0 beta, mas meu desejo é de que fosse com GTK. O problema é que não sei como criar aplicações com GTK e Banco de Dados de forma Rápida. Quais são as melhores formas e as formas mais rápidas e práticas de se desenvolver

Re: Gnome - How to install?

2001-06-23 Thread Disembodied Head
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:56:37PM -0400, Wayne wrote: Hi. First let me make an apology to Nick for clicking my send button to soon. Well, I don't have an .xinitrc file. So I looked at the man page for startx. Apparently I'm using the file (xinitrc) in /etc/X11/init. I could see no

Re: Cross compiling (mingw32)

2001-06-23 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: G'day All, I'm trying to cross compile a the display-dhammpada program for a friend who runs a win95 box, I've installed the mingw32 package and the target using '-b i586-mingw32msvc'. I'm getting an error mesage which reads gcc: installation

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: Hi all, I've been getting an irritating recurring syslog entry that I'd like to track down and stifle, but I'm at a loss as to discover what process is causing the entry. The entry is (from logcheck output) this: Jun 22

Re: Potato +sawfish + gnome

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I had similar, not identicial, problems with a similar, not identical, configuration (see the archives for details). I finally got things back by building sawfish-gnome from source. But I've mostly eliminated the Ximian/Helix stuff from my system, and you're probably using it. On Wed, Jun 20,

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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Re: Logging Init output?

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
It is annoying that not all the messages that go to the screen go somewhere else. As one possible reason for this, I'll just tell you what happened when I tried to alter the scripts to write more stuff to a file: it didn't work. The problem is that early in the boot process the file system is

Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Marcus
I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get dist-upgrade do? I read that I should make sure all packages

sawfish 2 step warning

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I just built sawfish and sawfish-gnome from source and installed them on a woody system that had been using Ximian/Helix's sawfish. I ran into a little oddity that blocked installation, and I thought I'd report it (and the work-around) for the benefit of those who follow. The current debian

Re: testing?

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
It's been pretty stable for me. However, the XFree v3 - v4 transition was a bit rough. The scripts might be a little better now, but it's probably safest to anticipate you'll need to intervene manually. On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:41:00PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading to

Re: Hardware

2001-06-23 Thread Vector
http://www.tomshardware.com vector - Original Message - From: Antonio Alberto Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:31 PM Subject: Hardware Hi all ! Where do I find good and free downloads (or on line) of books, manuals,

Re: IP Maquerading: no connection to external network

2001-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: Hello debian users, I've just set up a machine for ip masquerading which will allow all the other machines connected to it access the net, 'least.. theoretically. the current setup: Gateway: external ip 195.38.200.201 internal ip 192.162.0.1

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Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Paul Wright
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:41:52 -0300, Henrique wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: I've been getting an irritating recurring syslog entry that I'd like to track down and stifle, but I'm at a loss as to discover what

What is state of package installed despite dependencies?

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried a brute force approach to getting the unstable package for gtoaster; I downloaded the deb and did a dpkg -i. I figured if there were missing prerequisites, it would not install. I got lots of errors about missing files of the appropriate version, but I seem to be running the new code

Re: Hardware

2001-06-23 Thread patrick q
--- Antonio Alberto Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! Where do I find good and free downloads (or on line) of books, manuals, tutorials or guides about hardware ? In English or Portuguese. I think it would help me in my linux learning. install The Hardware

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Disembodied Head
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote: I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get

Crash.

2001-06-23 Thread Alexey
I have installed Potato. Sometimes my computer hangs up. There appears: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... and so on. When I reboot, e2fsck starts checking something, but fails. I tried to run fsck manually. Sometimes it works, but not always. After all, if I

Re: IP Maquerading: no connection to external network

2001-06-23 Thread Brendon
On Saturday 23 June 2001 08:27, Sebastiaan wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: Hello debian users, I've just set up a machine for ip masquerading which will allow all the other machines connected to it access the net, 'least.. theoretically. the current setup: Gateway:

Modeprobe: Can't locate module ne

2001-06-23 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi all, I want to do a fresh Potato install on an IBM Aptiva 466. I have inserted a Novell/Anthem ne2000 Ethernet adapter and want to install the base system through my LAN. After the third driver disk, I try to load the ne module. This results (after I have tried numerous irq and io settings) in

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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Re: Crash.

2001-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Alexey wrote: I have installed Potato. Sometimes my computer hangs up. There appears: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... and so on. When I reboot, e2fsck starts checking something, but fails. I tried to run fsck manually. Sometimes

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:45:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Paul Wright wrote: From /var/log/ippl/all.log: Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... Destination unreachable due to host down is fine, but due to illegal port isn't...

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Gary Jones
On the Debian User list, many people including Chris Smith wrote: Thanks for the info everyone. I'm having a few problems, however... Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs [snip] cdparanoia to extract the audio from the cd. Okay, I've tried that, but I don't seem to get

Re: Modeprobe: Can't locate module ne

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:15:08PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi all, I want to do a fresh Potato install on an IBM Aptiva 466. I have inserted a Novell/Anthem ne2000 Ethernet adapter and want to install the base system through my LAN. After the third driver disk, I try to load the ne

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Gary Jones wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 2 2000 cdrom - /dev/hdb snip brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 Dec 9 1999 hdb Are you in the group disk? Gruss Matthias

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:31:12PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: I have: /dev# ls -la | more snip lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 2 2000 cdrom - /dev/hdb snip brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 Dec 9 1999 hdb chgrp cdrom /dev/hdb (if thats really a CDROM). adduser yourusername cdrom

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:56:58PM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Gary Jones wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 2 2000 cdrom - /dev/hdb snip brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 Dec 9 1999 hdb Are you in the group disk? he better not be. users

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Paul Wright
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:08:39 -0800, Ethan wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:45:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Paul Wright wrote: From /var/log/ippl/all.log: Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... Destination unreachable due

Re: How to create a local archive of debian ftp ?

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello, On Friday 22 June 2001 09:54, you spoke wisely: Hello, First, thanks for your reply, and sorry for my last message about apt-move, I've didn't see you've answered me in this mailing list thread. How's you're sources.list? My sources.list looks like something like that : deb

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote: I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions: Is apt-get upgrade sufficient, and what does apt-get

*** Configuration file for ifup? ***

2001-06-23 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
Hello list, Does anybody know how ifup knows to run either pump or dhclient to configure via dhcp, even if you have both clients installed? I can't seem to locate any kind of configuration file that specifies this to ifup. Thanks. - Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.

X-i810-unresolved driver-?

2001-06-23 Thread Chris
I tried the same thing as was told jim van zandt that was to goto /var/cache/apt/archives and do a dpkg -i *4.0.3*deb and reinstall to create the xf86config-4 file-the file exists in /etc/X11 but it still will not fire up X. Also tried w/vga driver but screen size is way 2 large-320x200? This

Re: What is state of package installed despite dependencies?

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:29:12AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I tried a brute force approach to getting the unstable package for gtoaster; I downloaded the deb and did a dpkg -i. I figured if there were missing prerequisites, it would not install. Let me guess, you have considerable experience

Re: Crash.

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:13:07PM +0400, Alexey wrote: I have installed Potato. Upgrade the kernel-image that come with it. It is old and if there are any bugs in it, there is a good chance that these are fixed in newer, already available kernels. Sometimes my computer hangs up. There

GRUB 5.96 for potato

2001-06-23 Thread Kent Pirkle
Does anyone know of GBU Grub version 5.96 packages for potato? I've tried to compile from unstable, but I get: dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. and it fails. Thanks!

Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks to all who've helped me in recompiling my kernel. I used kernel-package on one debian box and it worked fine. But now I'm about to do it on another more important box and I'd like to know why I should not do this as root, as I did on first box, and instead use fakeroot or something

Re: *** Configuration file for ifup? ***

2001-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: Hello list, Does anybody know how ifup knows to run either pump or dhclient to configure via dhcp, even if you have both clients installed? I can't seem to locate any kind of configuration file that specifies this to ifup. Hello, the

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread ray p
If you are using kernel-package you have to have root rights to compile it. Using fakeroot lets you do it without being root kind of like sudo. On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:40:34AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: Thanks to all who've helped me in recompiling my kernel. I used kernel-package on one

problem w/non-us in stable?

2001-06-23 Thread Carl Fink
For several days I've been getting this: Fetched 64.4kB in 8s (7382B/s) Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/contrib/binary-i386/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks Ray, Let me rephrase the question. I've never used fakeroot or sudo but realize that they allow root privileges without being root. What I'm wondering, and I know this is very basic, is why it is better to do whatever you're doing as a fake root rather than as the real root? Is it a matter

Re: Modeprobe: Can't locate module ne

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:15:08PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi all, I want to do a fresh Potato install on an IBM Aptiva 466. I have inserted a Novell/Anthem ne2000 Ethernet adapter and want to install the base system through my LAN. Heh, a genuine Novell/Anthem NE2000? I have one

exim configuration

2001-06-23 Thread aparra
Hello! I recenly have put an smal server, with debian 2.2, on internet. I want to use it as a pop3 and smt server for no-local users. If I put host_accept_relay = * I can send mail form any place, me and everybody, so. What is the correct and secure way to do it. I have seen some ISP's that

Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions

2001-06-23 Thread Anthony Fox
Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:54:42PM -0800, Britton wrote: I know for example that meta x is described as \M-x. How is tab described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in the docs. Emacs ships with a postscript reference

Re: *** Configuration file for ifup? ***

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 05:02:44PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: the file is /etc/network/interfaces Or /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, if you're using a pcmcia nic. Personally, I find this a little confusing, but it works. Cheers, Joost

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:40:34AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: Thanks to all who've helped me in recompiling my kernel. I used kernel-package on one debian box and it worked fine. But now I'm about to do it on another more important box and I'd like to know why I should not do this as root, as

Re: *** Configuration file for ifup? ***

2001-06-23 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
That file only specifies which interfaces should be configured via dhcp. It doesn't tell ifup what command to use to actually do the dhcp configuration. - Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. - Original Message - From: Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Slink-Potato, Perl version

2001-06-23 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 23 June 2001 08:44, Joost Kooij wrote: Performing large scale upgrades can be attempted using only apt-get, is in most cases asking for trouble. This is not a shortcoming in apt-get, it just doesn't have all the needed user interfaces to dependends management that dselect does.

nv driver available?

2001-06-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I'd like to use the nv driver for X 3 (not ready to take the plunge and move to 4.x). I'm having trouble finding it - can anyone offer advice? (This is what was available for nvidia cards before X 4) Thanks. --

Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

2001-06-23 Thread Aaron Traas
Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the situation: I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different Tulip variants,

Re: How do I restore the cdrom driver without a cd in the drive?

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's probably easiest to always use the ide-scsi module and ... What does that module do? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

Re: contents of woody iso images?

2001-06-23 Thread Guy Geens
mark == mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mark Hi all, Iam downloading woody and as i only have a crappy 56k mark modem connection, i was wondering what is on the 5 iso images? I mark ave checked at debian.org any cannot see any info for this. I have downloaded those images, and the index files

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: Let me rephrase the question. I've never used fakeroot or sudo but realize that they allow root privileges without being root. What I'm wondering, and I know this is very basic, is why it is better to do whatever you're doing as a

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread ray p
IMO and many will tell me I'm wrong. tools like sudo and fakeroot make sense on a large system where you have to give more than one person root rights for some things but do not want to give them this power for everything. On a system where there is only one person who can do everything root

Re: problem

2001-06-23 Thread Guy Geens
David == David L Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed debial 2.1 and i forgot the root password. Can you tell me please how i can change the root password ? David Boot from your rescue floppy, mount your / partition as /mnt, David and change root's password to * (no password). No: *

Re: *** Configuration file for ifup? ***

2001-06-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: That file only specifies which interfaces should be configured via dhcp. It doesn't tell ifup what command to use to actually do the dhcp configuration. See man 5 interfaces. It claims that it will try to do the right

smbprint on Debian

2001-06-23 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, I want to install smbprint to be able to print to a shared printer on a windows pc. However smbprint doesn't seem to be packaged? No luck with dpkg or http://packages.debian.org/ Anybody knows where I can find a deb package for smbprint or will I have to compile myself? Thanks. --

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for a section Monitor. Usually VertRefresh has values like 60-80, but you can fix it at 85. Note that that does not _set_ it to 85Hz. It only _restricts_ it to 85Hz. As later messages mention, if you have no modelines that

Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

2001-06-23 Thread Aquila
I don't know what could be wrong with your ethernet card, but it can't be Debian's fault, coz the network driver modules are part of the linux kernel. Perhaps you should just compile your own kernel. It could just be a loose cable or something :) I know that the natsemi.o module exists in the

Re: smbprint on Debian

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 06:09:47PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hello, I want to install smbprint to be able to print to a shared printer on a windows pc. However smbprint doesn't seem to be packaged? No luck with dpkg or http://packages.debian.org/ Anybody knows where I can find a deb

Enlightenment larger fonts ???

2001-06-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Debian's == Upgraded to woody from potato. X came up to 4.0.3 and Enlightenment also upgraded. How do I make the fonts *larger* ??? I am displaying at 1600x1200 and most fonts in most themes are way too tiny for these aging eyes of mine ; Tried modifying /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config -- no go.

/dev/null disappeared and cannot recreate

2001-06-23 Thread Tamer Ziady
Hello There; Have you ever seen a situation where the /dev/null could not be recreated? I have a redhat server where the /dev/null has disappeared and when I do mknod /dev/null c 1 3 and then do an ls -l /dev/null and I get file not found. I cannot even touch that file name nothing seams

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I have Debian unstable set up with KDM and KDE2 to dual-boot with a WindowsMe system. My problem is that each time I boot to Debian, I have to readjust my monitor's settings because the screen is all bent out of shape. Any idea why it keeps

Re: What is state of package installed despite dependencies?

2001-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
At 04:10 PM 6/23/01 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:29:12AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I tried a brute force approach to getting the unstable package for gtoaster; I downloaded the deb and did a dpkg -i. I figured if there were missing prerequisites, it would not install. Let me

Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

2001-06-23 Thread Edward Kear
natsemi is included in kernel 2.4.x. If you can upgrade to that, that would be best. You can download the driver for kernel 2.2.x from www.scyld.com/network/ethecard.html read www.scyld.com/network/updates.html for compiling/installation instructions. good luck On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at

integrity check?

2001-06-23 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is there a way to have apt check all the installed packages and look for missing files or modified files? I've found over the course of time some missing libs and such and instead of rebuilding the machine it would be alot easier to find out what I accidently removed, etc. :wq!

Stop apt-get upgrade from messing with fetchmailrc?

2001-06-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
Folks, I have yet another minor question. I thought to be smart to add a line to my pcmcia network startup script to start up fetchmail (in daemon mode) on my laptop whenever I plug in the network card. It works great, it just runs every 15 minutes during the night, downloading all my mail, and

Can't make-kpkg deb of pcmcia-modules with wavelan2 patch

2001-06-23 Thread Ruchira Datta
I have submitted a bug about this, but since I am using an external patch (for wavelan2) I'm not sure I'll get a response. Can anyone please help me? I am using Debian 2.2r3, with many packages from woody. (I will try to give version numbers of all relevant packages from woody, but if I have

Re: /dev/null disappeared and cannot recreate

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:35:45PM -0400, Tamer Ziady wrote: Hello There; Have you ever seen a situation where the /dev/null could not be recreated? I have a redhat server where the /dev/null has disappeared and when I do mknod /dev/null c 1 3 and then do an ls -l /dev/null and I get

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