Re: Debian kernel VMware

2000-04-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl My

Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1

2000-03-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade to 2.1. When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: Sorry, but the following packages are broken.. and halts. When I try to repair the problems using dselect,

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it yet. My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use the branch system.

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things. I'd like to hear about some other ways. I've toyed with the idea of using CVS, archiving /etc and making a local package. Slightly related, I'm also looking for ways to quickly clone a

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, John Krueger wrote: From personal experience with that particular board, I highly recommend spending a few extra dollars and purchase a different motherboard, sound and video card. The PC100 boards use the SiS5xx series chipset, with SiS530 video and a more or less

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can anyone recommend a particular board? Not right off hand

Re: keyboard repeat rate

2000-01-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Attila Csosz wrote: How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? Because when I start X and end my X session I observe the following: when I press some key I must wait a while to get any character on the screen. Then the keyboard echos the characters normally

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

2000-01-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem was the BIOS, so I upgraded that to

Re: read-only file system

1999-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: I can't create dir in /usr/doc area. I get: genome:/usr/doc# mkdir test mkdir: cannot make directory `test': Read-only file system genome:/usr/doc# Probably because /usr was mounted readonly. Try: mount and see if this is true. To change

Re: read-only file system

1999-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: mount /dev/sda11 on /usr type ext2 (ro) To change to read/write see the man page for mount. did it, now i have remounted. I should check fstab file before I down the machine just to make sure it is not mounted with 'ro' again. Actually, I

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: now I tried something else I set my password to a 9 characters one lets say poipoipoi which is 9 charaters you can type poipoipoi followed by anything... you just get in as well... I believe that, by default, the library function crypt() only

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
which is the response I gave earlier today. -- Jean Pierre From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 01:23:52 1999 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: modprobe errors again On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on Where is this bugs page? http://bugs.debian.org/modutils In particular, see Bug#47830. Solution is to add

Re: modprobe errors again

1999-10-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and again I get the modprobe errors below: Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep This is a know bug in the

Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*. -- Jean Pierre

Re: Linux/NT dual booting

1999-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT There's a Linux HOWTO

Re: Remote Login

1999-09-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, j way wrote: Hi, login from ttyS1 is rejected while the same username password are accepted on the main console. Is there some further permission required to enable? You may need to edit the file /etc/login.access. See the man page login.access(5). -- Jean Pierre

Re: lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says no daemon present. I do a lpc up all and it says

Re: cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Davis wrote: I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the same two numbers. What does this mean? This is the output from the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib file. I've fixed this in the potato release of cracklib-runtime so you could try installing

Re: read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Wood wrote: I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be helpful. I went down this route

Re: Basic debian package question

1999-07-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote: The dosemu source packages have orig and diff in their names. How do these packages work together? There are several files that work together to form an overall package. The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian package from the

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of

Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...

1999-06-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? this is not normally a problem, but I am trying

Upgrade of sp and sgml packages breaks validation

1999-06-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
My recent upgrade of potato's sgml and sp packages broke the validation of HTML 4.0 documents. When I try validating a file known to be valid: nsgmls -s -c /usr/lib/sgml/catalog index.html I receive many errors along the line: nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/entities/HTMLsymbol:24:27:E: 402 is

Re: TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 4 Jun 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and worked before. It's the classic problem: In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) ALL: 127.0.0.1

Re: Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I have Debian running on my SONY VAIO and it works like a dream. Only thing I am missing is the APM support. I downloaded the kernel source package, etc. and I am getting ready to compile the kernel with APM support. I would like to keep my system

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on I've been using the potato release for

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was 10baseT but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no trouble. :) Yes, no problems. In fact, I use the card on

Re: PCMCIA broken after apt-get upgrade

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pat O'Brien wrote: I have a Toshiba 2535 laptop, with a minimal Potato - X - Gnome install. I got audio, ppp, and pcmcia going and decided to upgrade the whole kitten caboodle to the latest stuff, so I apt-get updated, and apt-get upgraded. When I rebooted, the kernel no

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-05-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 29 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime? It has been fixed and uploaded to potato. There has since been

Re: web link checker

1999-03-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, but it is in unstable. Cheers. So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html or, a slightly less newer

Re: Linux drivers ?: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD)

1999-03-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Roy, Purna wrote: Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other settings for this ? Check out the following site. It works well for my Dell Inspiron notebook which uses this chip with 8 Mbytes memory, not so well with the version that has 4

Re: debian - NFS - Solaris

1999-02-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, File Server Admin wrote: does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. Problems are: - mailx and elm hang, - tar and make demonstrate

Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but now after doing the

Re: What does this mean?

1999-02-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: I get this message every day. What does it mean? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: root (Anacron) 45375 45375 This is a bug in the

Debian network consultant desired in MA

1999-01-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
support. Anyone interested should email me directly. Thanks, -- Jean Pierre LeJacq CTO Quoin Inc 1208 MASSACHUSETTS AVE STE 3 CAMBRIDGE MA 02138 voice: 617.492.6461 fax: 617.492.6861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' passwords. There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks passwords as the users set them. Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 21 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32 was

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. It needs to have

Re: NFS and Solaris 2.5

1999-01-19 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Matt Delaney wrote: I am running a Debian 2.0 on a i686. It functions as an NFS server to a number of other Debian i686 machines and a SPARC Solaris 2.5 machine. I think the SPARC is crashing the nfsd on the Debian server and it typically occurs when I copy very large

Re: cracklib's cron emails.

1999-01-18 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Sergey Imennov wrote: Hi Sergey, I wasn't able to read the body of your message but I'm guessing your asking about the emails from cracklib cron. This is a known bug that I'm working on fixing. Till then you simply have to rediret the output of the cracklib utilities to

Re: help wanted for kernel install

1999-01-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I cd to linux and I'm in 2.0.36. This seems right to me, but I must still missing something, because make menuconfig produces the following errors: debian:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm

Re: new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...

1998-12-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Seth M. Landsman wrote: So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. I get the error message : [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signature

Re: pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?

1998-11-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia

Re: Unresolved symbols on networking modules

1998-11-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules. The

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have a /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (which I think should probably be a link to

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote: -- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 I'm using

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

1998-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like this: if (x) { x = 0; } But I want it to look like this: if (x) { x = 0; } How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but didn't find

Re: pine warning

1998-09-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: So I finally cobbled pine 4.05 together...except now it keeps giving me a Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection. I don't know which directory it's talking about and what exact permissions it wants... I assume its talking about:

Re: some questions

1998-09-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: The Debian source of pine 4.05 is available in project/experimental, under the source directory. It should compile cleanly in a Debian 2.0 system. I still use pine 3.96, because I consider it more stable. Could you elaborate on what problems

Re: xemacs

1998-09-23 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote: Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue. Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font) but when push tab so indent the line I get this message: External entity html not fount Public identifier

Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm

1998-09-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my /usr/local and /etc and then

new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles

1998-07-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in lockfile management. The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing the daemon instead of the group mail. This causes a problem since I currently have the spool

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Eric House wrote: I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by

Re: Linux NFS question

1998-07-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in linux until 2.1.5? Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the linux box. Is

Re: NFS/Network locking available?

1998-06-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking supported in hamm? If so, how do

Re: 3c905b

1998-05-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 28 May 1998, William D. Rendahl wrote: How do I set up a 3Com 3c905b (Cyclone?) NIC at 100Mbps on Bo? Use the 3c59x driver. The Ethernet-HOWTO and NET-3-HOWTO will help. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: LI when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Roark wrote: I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? There's a problem with your lilo configuration. Take a look

Re: is pam linux specific?

1998-05-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ulisses Alonso wrote: that's the question... No. At least Solaris uses it as well. I believe Sun was the primary developer of pam. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet Problems

1998-05-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 9 May 1998, jscogin wrote: I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0 driver is not loaded and it says

Re: Stupid question for the day

1998-05-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I set one up I did it manually and would like

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good reason to use vipw, instead of just vi /etc/passwd? only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does some checking before saving the file,

Re: Object-Oriented Database

1998-04-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Does anyone know of an object-oriented database that uses the odmg c++ bindings and run under Linux. I have been using poet and o2, but from what I can tell they have no Linux version available. I only know of texas. It is an oo database but uses a model similar to ObjectStore and not the

Re: pgp

1998-04-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based distribution. Go to

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree when running it from the fvwm* menus

Re: dwww and dhttpd??

1998-03-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly more security minded

Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

1998-03-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Tristan Day that's you! wrote: 1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? Yes. 2) Are there different ones to get? what are the differences? Quite a few: RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, ... 3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian

Re: pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols

1998-03-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules however if I insmod the precompiled

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

1998-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they were not needed. I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install, and copied the zImage file to /boot and created a symbolic pointer /vmlinuz

Re: Kernel and auto module loading.

1998-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Thanks, It was in the modules file. I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs I have. There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory. I am beginning to realise that debian linux is not

Re: where is libext2fs.so.2

1998-03-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. e2fslibsg -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS locking among linux and other

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? This is the boot loader providing

Re: Out of PTTY's

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts. Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. You may be using all your available pseudo-tty

Re: diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it if someone would *PLease* take a few

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to

Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type

Re: ethernet card (hamm)

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP,

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

1998-02-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file

Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

1998-02-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of explaining the basics. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? IP:

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port

1998-02-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port:

Re: Using 100Mbit ethernet with Debian 1.3.1??

1998-02-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joergen Haegg wrote: We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system. None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net, ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'. This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905. We've been using the 3c905 at

Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in

Re: CDE

1998-02-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what is

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc

Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of | this. | | What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make | the browser better? | | 2. What features would you add to the browser? I'd like the

Re: Installing Netscape

1998-01-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by a bus error. It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of the buttons don't have images. Which X server are you running? I had problems running the

Re: Network Problem

1998-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Uros Platise wrote: The only work marvin will do is routing between Packet Radio network and home (local) network. After setting the network configuration files I can ping my working machine (called ide) from marvin. And I can also ping marvin from ide. NFS is also

Re: Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Ian Perry wrote: What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ? How is it done ? Look at:

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