Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly the mode to directories only? PHP Nuke requires me to change all files to 666 (chmod -R 666 *) and to 777 all direcotories in order to use the file

Re: Help with ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Petru NOTINGHER: Hello, I have problems with installing the ATI Rage Fury Pro 123 Video Card under potato. Can anybody tell me which server under XF86 and which chip should I select ? Or e-mail me some configuration files ? Please Help ! Thank you, Petru First you have

Add a new module to kernel?

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Fontenot
If I need a new module (one that I didn't know about when I did my initial Debian install), do I have to build a new kernel to get that module, or can I just install the module now somehow? Specifically, I want to be able to do java development. I did an apt-get of jdk1.1-native and

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: $ chmod a+rwx /basedir $ chmod -R a+rwX /basedir If I could type I'd be dangerous. The first command is not needed. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than

Re: lpr (-#num parameter)

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: ... | -#num The quantity num is the number of copies desired of each file | named. For example, Duh! I just realized what is wrong with this : the shell uses '#' to mean the beginning of a

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:16:41AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: | why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? If you don't have the mount point (or, to paraphrase, point at which the drive is mounted) you can't mount it there. Think of it like trying to bolt a new alternator into your car.

Kernel 2.4.8 and Booting from NT

2001-10-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I was booting from NT with kernel version 2.2.15 without any problem. Just yesterday (I am using woody) I compiled kernel 2.4.8, got a bootdisk. I can boot from the boot disk fine. I did the lilo, dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 mcopy /bootsect.lnx a: Booted to NT,

tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way??? Thanks!

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major upgrades (18 19

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Justin Hahn wrote: Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. Brian, Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out... especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to.

Re: XFree86 version?

2001-10-24 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, MarceI Figuerola Estrada wrote: I need to know which XFree version I have. Does anybody know? I don't know, but if you execute X -version (maybe as root) then it will tell you... Martin

Re: using bootcd with usb cdrw drive

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should try a kernel with a initrd option. With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prompt and the ability to modprobe any module you like, it could help you to debug your problem. So, what i would do : 1) try to recompile the kernel with

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: Using a contrived example: Suppose you wanted to install galeon, which depends on mozilla-browser. So, you did an 'apt-get install galeon', which installs mozilla-browser as well. Then you try galeon for a while, and also check out mozilla. You end up preferring

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:18:43PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: lspci only gives the board numbers. no descriptions show up OK, i think this is because you don't have PCI device name database compiled into the kernel. Try to add it. This is in General Setup section. /dev does not have my

exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi, When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from the Mail Delivery System: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

2001-10-24 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Michael Fontenot wrote: (snip) I suspect that during installation I failed to specify that I wanted java support, so that binfmt_java isn't included in my kernel. If so, is there any way to add it now, or (snip) Try 'modconf' as root. Good luck! -- Mark

char-major-226?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
I recently set my syslog to display on tty8 (the neat things you can learn on this list (-:) and It revealed an error I had previously not noticed: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-226 My box seems to be running just fine without it, but it is true, when I look through

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! That's what i needed! On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly the mode to directories only? PHP Nuke requires me to change all files to

Re: your mail

2001-10-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:50:47AM -, Radulovity Emil wrote: I want to know where can I get Debian Woody ISO images. I want to update my Potato system, I have slow connection and can`t use Internet for this. I looked for ISO images, but didn't find one. Woody is not yet released. Once

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks, but the one with the find should work right? On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: $ chmod a+rwx /basedir $ chmod -R a+rwX /basedir If I could type I'd be dangerous. The first command is not needed.

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Fontenot: If I need a new module (one that I didn't know about when I did my initial Debian install), do I have to build a new kernel to get that module, or can I just install the module now somehow? Specifically, I want to be able to do java development. I did

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
for all your monitor-related configurations, apt-get install get-edid (or is it read-edid ??) then read-edid | parse-edid (or is it get-edid | parse-edid ??) So you'll get what you have to put in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that X will use your monitor (and video card ! it has to be capable of

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Carrigan
Justin Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to. (Myself included.) Not me. I've tried aptitude a couple of times and found the interface so unintuitive that I had to

Re: Keyboard loss

2001-10-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
I experienced the same problem with gpm on several boxes. disable it. that's all i could do. -- I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus. Please help me spread.

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Blars, as a matter of fact it was dselect under woody to automatically select and install the package modutils-2.4.10-3 when I asked for kernel-2.4.10. So, do you mean that there's something wrong under debian woody? Vittorio Blars

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this seems to work fine. My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are the configuration issues.

RE: apt logfile?

2001-10-24 Thread Shaun Crossley
Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? Something that would keep a record of what was done when? Just a simple text file with a format of: timestamp action full-package-name Does anyone else think this could be very useful? It's not what you meant, but sometimes I use ls -ot

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Kurt Lieber
Not a direct answer to your question, but check out http://www.linux-backup.net. They have some great linux backup resources there including several example backup scripts. --kurt On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly the mode to directories only? find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a=rwx -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Charles Bray
- Original Message - From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces Charles Bray wrote: Strangely (to me), if I comment out the auto lo line in

kernel 2.4, isa-pnp and ensoniq soundscape (sscape)-- how?

2001-10-24 Thread James D Strandboge
I have been trying to configure a soundcard for a woody box running kernel 2.4.12-ac3, but have not been able to make any headway. Previously (kernel 2.2) we used isapnptools, but kernel 2.4 wants to use isa-pnp. Currently I can insmod soundcore, sound and isa-pnp, but the next module to load,

Re: Help with ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

2001-10-24 Thread James D Strandboge
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:41:53PM -0400 or thereabouts, Stephen Gran wrote: First you have to double check with ATI - http:www.support.ati.com - to make sure that this is right, but I believe it uses the xserver-mach64 server. Just apt-get install, and change your lines in XF86Config to It is

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Victor Julien wrote: I recently bought a monitor capable of doing 1280x960x100hz, but X uses 85hz. Now i was wondering how i can tell X to use 100hz instead. Yeah, just edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (/etc/X11/XF86Config if you're using a

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Hanasaki, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: lspci only gives the board numbers. no descriptions show up Can't help you on that. I'm still compiling 2.4.13 and won't install until tomorrow. /dev does not have my hdaxx partitions thus i cannot mount them Do you use devfs? If not, then `cd /dev

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the new version of GNU emacs support *console mode* syntax highlighting (I guess it's called font locking in emacs-speak). Yes. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect

Re: Windows software gaaaahhhhh!

2001-10-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm pretty sure that while you're setting up wine, it asks you if you want to use a windoze partition, or just make a wannabe-partition in your home dir. I believe you just specify your windoze partition and it just uses after that. If you just need to access files from the windoze

Re: XFree86 version?

2001-10-24 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- MarceI Figuerola Estrada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-10-24 21:30): I've just intallet Debian Potata 2.2r3 I need to know which XFree version I have. Does anybody know? Potato ships with XFree86 3.3.6. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Victor, Victor Julien wrote: I recently bought a monitor capable of doing 1280x960x100hz, but X uses 85hz. Now i was wondering how i can tell X to use 100hz instead. XFree86 4 queries the monitor to find out which modes it supports. However, your monitor only answers with some

deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-24 Thread list1
Hello all. My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches that I don't use and uninstall. Any recomendations on what

Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13 in my box. I've done it before without problems, but now I want to know if it is safe to load a config file from an older version. make xconfig allows (I guess all other config interfaces do it as well) to load config options from

ldso remove warning

2001-10-24 Thread Greg Wiley
Just slightly confused here. I tried the deborphan package on a testing machine today and was given a list of packages to remove. They included ldso. Now, I was pretty sure ldso is an important package so I checked using dselect. Hey, ldso is in opt/oldlibs. So I go ahead and try the removal

Cybercafe software

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi again ! I've been asked if I know any decent software tailored to tha administrative duties of a cybercafe. Does somebody know something alike, open source and free beer ??? BTW, does the word cybercafe is so much widely used in different languages as I believe ?? Daniel PS: Sort of

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

2001-10-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Michael, I would guess, that binfmt_java is neither compiled in or as module, because it's considered obsolete. The entry in the FAQ you quoted is out-dated only applies, if you wont to execute some Java's class file directly by specifying it on the command line, like this: $ javac

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: Hi, When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from the Mail Delivery System: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients.

More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers of integers. For smaller numbers of integers on algorithms like

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
The Problem with /dev was that somehow devfs crawled into tthe kernel. I swear I didn't to it :) - Took it out and the devices are in fine now. Thanks, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:18:43PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: lspci only gives the board numbers.

Firewall, dhcp, dyndns client on floppy

2001-10-24 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
We have just gotten our ADSL connection at home. We intend to put up our own network with a firewall. It should be able to: be a firewall (naturally), accept dhcp from the adsl-modem, act as a dhcp-server and run a dyndns-client to update our dyndnsaccount. And it needs fitting on a 1.44 MB

Switching to virtual terminals hangs woody.

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
All, Woody is booting fine under kernel 2.4.13 ; howver, when I switch to a virtual terminal, all I get is a blank black scrren. Then everything hangs. I have compiled in pts98 terminals and also virtual terminals - no virtual frame buffers Thanks to all of you that helped with the /dev

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may not be a requirement in your situation, however. Not sure whether this is the best way

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way??? There are

Re: tape backup...

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
Kurt Lieber said: Not a direct answer to your question, but check out http://www.linux-backup.net. They have some great linux backup resources there including several example backup scripts. --kurt On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! I have a 2 gb

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
Charles Bray said: I've searched places like http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#man, but I can't find this man page. My system doesn't know the command man yet, so I can't type man interfaces. No excuses. :-) If you don't have man you can't do squat. Do apt-get install man-db -Peter

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread Rich Puhek
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this seems to work fine. My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Alex de Landgraaf
First, i would like to thank everyone for their opinions, some are very interesting. I'll try to cover them all in one post, forgive me if i don't answer everyone personally :) Okay, lets tackle the hardest first: - Why put a lot of effort to start a project from scratch, when that effort could

What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
I'm new to Debian, and apt. I started out with a set of Potato CDs (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of. The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus: # apt-get install

Re: Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
not sure Just use make xconfig.. it takes 2 mins Let me know how it goes.. my system locks when I switch to virtual terminals Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi all ! I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13

No cursor

2001-10-24 Thread Nate Custer
Hey guys, I just redid my xconfig so that my new wireless mouse will work. It is working fine, my cursor however is not. It works fine when I log into X, but the first time I switch to a console ( ctrl + alt + f1) and then come back, my cursor becomes a big white box, with a small black line in

Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Hutnick
What's up with this? /usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -e Unable to find the

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:36:44PM -0700, Charles Bray wrote: | - Original Message - | From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:57 AM | Subject: Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces | | | Charles Bray wrote: |

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: | On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote: | snip | Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note | that this is non-free software. | | Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would |

Re: Is it a bug?

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:38:16PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: | | Following an update from a working stable Debian installation, | to unstable (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited: | | X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) | | Trying: strings

untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
Hi, maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a directory in it's place: # ls -l [...] lrwxrwxrwx1 root src 7 Oct 25 01:44 linux - v2.4.13 -rw-r--r--1 root src

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Bray wrote: The auto lo remains commented out because of the neighbor table overflow error. I remain unclear about what the auto line is supposed to do that the iface line doesn't do. Maybe when I find the interfaces man page... The only thing the auto does is make ifup bring up the

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: Suppose you wanted to install galeon, which depends on mozilla-browser. So, you did an 'apt-get install galeon', which installs mozilla-browser as well. Then you try galeon for a while, and also check out mozilla. You end up preferring mozilla, and use that as your

Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: | Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a | nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to | output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers

Re: Is it a bug?

2001-10-24 Thread john
Erik, AFAIK most of the 'official' Australian debian mirrors are broken in unstable and testing. I put mirror.aarnet.edu.au _and_ http.us.debian.org in sources.list in order to be sure it works (and then I still have that nasty problem with the dead server on http.us.debian.org)

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 20:12, Alex de Landgraaf wrote: Note: this may be a bit long, but i hope you will read it and give feedback about your opinon on the subject(s) discussed. And sorry for crossposting, just wanting everones 2cents. forgive me :) snip Now, i will halt my

Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

2001-10-24 Thread john
At least the Project can look forward to another $1000 donation, as specified in the conditions of use of this list. Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: (This message addressed to debian-user mailing list) Please allow us to introduce ourselves, Igoework.com is represented by a group that

Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network

2001-10-24 Thread nate
joe golden said: I was looking for advice on pitfalls to avoid. best thing i can reccomend is just to test it out. the biggest drawback to nfs on linux is it seems very unreliable. up until recently i had my /home mounted via nfs to another system on the local lan at home(100mbit 48port

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Mark Carroll wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) I have an AMD K6-II. uname -a identifies it as i586. (snip) That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right?

Re: LILO won't boot after dist-upgrade to testing - HELP!

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Morbo wrote: Hi, I tried to dist-upgrade to woody, but the new LILO will not boot my system anymore. As a precaution I had LILO set up to be able to boot the current kernel (2.4.10), the previous one (2.2.19pre17) and also a copy of my old Potato installation on hda2. Look at thread on

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Ref : Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:35:23 AM You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig' PH What's up with this? You need the include files : apt-get install libncurses5-dev -- Jean-Christophe Boggio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 16:26, Peter Hutnick wrote: (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) Because bandwidth isn't free and Debian is. Thus, they want to minimize the use of their bandwidth as much as possible. If you download all three ISO images, you'll end up using a

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread joel_mayes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Before I do the big download. (well, on this modem it's big enough). Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? I was considering building with the source from unstable, but could just as easily get the raw

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Peter Hutnick wrote: What's up with this? You need libncurses-dev -- Baloo

tiger output - how to interpret, how to resolve?

2001-10-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi. I have installed tiger and am now in the process of going through its warnings. Some of them I do not understand even though I looked at the tigexp output. Two of those I do not understand are the following ones: 1.) # Performing check of files in system mail spool... --WARN-- [kis008w]

LILO, dual booting, and Promise IDE controller

2001-10-24 Thread Bud Rogers
My wife is on her way to being M$ free. We added a second drive and installed potato and KDE on her Gateway W98 machine. She wants to dual boot while she learns her way around Linux and weans herself from Windows. Her Gateway has kind of a weird setup. The onboard IDE controller is

Re: What's apt-get doing to me?

2001-10-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Peter Hutnick wrote: I started out with a set of Potato CDs (why do you have to lie to the website to get ISOs?) and have dorked around with apt-get to the point that I think I have all unstable packages. Sort of. You don't have to lie to it, you could have just gone to

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Rohan Deshpande
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: Hi, When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from the Mail Delivery System: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not

Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
AL maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar AL the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a AL directory in it's place: snip That's normal. After untarring, just mv linux linux-2.x.y for the appropriate x and y, then ln -s linux-2.x.y linux

Cyrus/IMAPD in debian/unstable is -very- out of date.

2001-10-24 Thread Teunis Peters
is currently at 1.5.19-9. Current supported version at Cyrus IMAP source site is 2.0.16. Not only is 1.5 listed as out of date, it's listed as no longer supported at all... (at least as far as I can read) So - just wondering, anyone working on a 2.0 version? It's an LDAP-based email server

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:25:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: Hi, When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from the Mail Delivery System: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that

Re: Why doesn't the kernel make like my libncurses?

2001-10-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:35:23PM -0500, Peter Hutnick wrote: What's up with this? /usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find

Euro symbol for potato/Kde 2.1.2?

2001-10-24 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi. I have an up-to-date debian potato box with KDE 2.1.2. Now, year 2002 approaching, I would like to get the Euro symbol for input and display (under X 3.3.6). I found various explanations about how to get debian testing or unstable to display/accept the Euro symbol but nothing about debian

Fw: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread Shaya Potter
I sent this directly to Ian (damn reply vs. reply all) , its probably usefull for everyone to see as well. - Original Message - From: Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Patrick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:46 PM Subject: Re: More accurate time feedback

Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: AL maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar AL the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a AL directory in it's place: That's normal. After untarring, just mv linux linux-2.x.y for the

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the install for dpkg 1.9.17 will also need debiandoc-sgml (version from stable OK)

Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello all. My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches that I don't use and uninstall. Any recomendations

ATA/100 Raid on an Adaptec 1200a

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Johnston
Does anyone have any information on what driver this card uses (if the linux kernel supports it at all)? Thanks, Brian

Re: diamond viper 770

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Gert-Jan wrote: Hi there what's all this stuff about xfree86 and xf86setup?? What are these? I see http://www.xfree86.org/ for info on XFree86. think it's some kind of program that takes care of the video cards in linux. Does debian contain this program ass well? I heard that suse uses

Re: char-major-226?

2001-10-24 Thread Shaul Karl
[03:09:38 tmp]$ zgrep -C5 226 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.19pre17/Docu mentation/devices.txt.gz 225 charA2232 serial card (alternate devices) 0 = /dev/cuy0 Callout device for ttyY0 1 = /dev/cuy1 Callout device for ttyY1

cups win2000 samba

2001-10-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have cups installed and I am trying to setup a Win2000 machine to print. Samba is configured and working, I have shared drives. I changed the smb.conf file printing = cups printcap name = lpstat (which is not in docs) and when I go to install printer on Win2000 it finds the printer but

Acroread broken?

2001-10-24 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, I have acroread 4.0.5-4 installed but cannot use it. It starts up and shows the licence screen. When I close the licence screen acroread exits with the following message: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. Is that a common problem or just on my machine? Arne

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway. Debian stock kernel comes with almost all concievable modules including PCMCIA. So all you have to do to get PCMCIA activated is to know exact module names to put

Re: exim problems?

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: * Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thus spake Rohan Deshpande: Hi, When I try to send an email to my friend, this is the error I get from the Mail Delivery System: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update)

2001-10-24 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was going along fine and then I received this error: Errors were encountered while processing /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb

Re: your mail [woody ISOs]

2001-10-24 Thread Pete Sheridan
I got them from here: http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/unofficial/woody/i386/ I will say I'm kind of new to Debian, and have _no idea_ if they are supported, infected with viruses (j/k), or where the heck they came from, but I've installed two systems off of them and they're working great

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 vulnerabilities ?

2001-10-24 Thread Petre Daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Heya, I run a potato at home and i will set the computer at work with potato as well.Since that will be a 24h internet connected pc,i am wondering what are the 2.2 release 3 vulnerabilities for the sistem installed from the cds without any online

Re: ldso remove warning

2001-10-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:08:29 -0700, Greg Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just slightly confused here. I tried the deborphan package on a testing machine today and was given a list of packages to remove. They included ldso. Now, I was pretty sure ldso is an important package so I checked

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:39:50 -0300, Daniel Toffetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does somebody know anything about any common format for configuration files? Does any sense to propose this, somebody knows if there are references of this in Linux Standard Base ? Do makes any sense even the sole

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