possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Preston Landers
, Preston Landers

Re: possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Preston Landers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, try backgrounding it and let us know if it works: /sbin/shutdown -h 9m !! Power is Failing !! My god, you're a genius! That works! I'm in heaven! Thank you so very much! A thousand blessings to you and your kine! ---P

/dev/3dfx in Debian?

1999-05-03 Thread Preston Landers
Hello everyone... I'm wondering if anyone has packaged the rpm that creates the 3dfx Voodoo device? I can't get the archive inside the rpm to compile correctly manually. I'm sure someone's solved this problem already, the only question is, who? I can use most Mesa/3dfx programs fine,

search facility for apt?

1999-05-01 Thread Preston Landers
Hello everyone... Just got a simple question here. Is there a facility to do a text search on the list of packages apt has in /var/state/apt/lists? It doesn't seem to be a part of apt-get and I haven't seen too many other utilities. Basicaly, something like show me all the packages that have

apt-get downloading packages question

1999-02-24 Thread Preston Landers
Hey there... Finally got apt-get to download slink packages for me. I don't know exactly how I fixed it. I did two things: download + install slink base manually, and install apt-get 0.3.0. Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get annonyingly gives up the whole

apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-02-13 Thread Preston Landers
Hello all, I'm having problems with using apt-get dist-upgrade to get from Debian 2.0 to 2.1. My system currently has many slink packages installed, but not all of them, and I would like apt-get to just upgrade them all for me. I've got apt 0.1.9 installed and I've edited my

multiple X servers?

1998-12-05 Thread Preston Landers
Hello all, I've got my X server cheerily up an running on display 0. What I would like is for another user to be able to start an X server from the command line on Display 1, and be able to switch back and forth between X servers by hitting Alt-f7 and Alt-f8. I'm using standard debian X related

dpkg-buildpackage

1998-12-04 Thread Preston Landers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: Is it possible when installing a debian package with: dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc , followed by ./configure, make, make install, The correct method is: dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc cd packagename.dsc

re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Preston Landers
Yes, I have noticed this too, only on 2.1.x kernels. Doing 'shutdown -r now' seems to take care of it for me. Subject: Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL On Sun, Oct 25 1998, D'jinnie spake thus: I had this problem right before my hd went bad :( It might be very prudent to run fsck on

Apache/mod_perl packages ... not configured properly?

1998-10-22 Thread Preston Landers
Hello all, After much banging of head against the desk, I am compelled to seek help on the list. My problem is with Apache 1.3.3-3 and mod_perl 1.16-1. I compiled both of them from slink source packages. After ensuring that I had the proper libraries, it went flawlessly. I made sure the

Alien and rpm

1998-10-22 Thread Preston Landers
I would suggest that it is better to convert the rpm packages to deb with alien before using. I have been doing this for months, and I have not have one (obvious) problem yet ... the packages convert without fail and install and run just fine. The reason I suggest doing this instead of

getting a PCI modem to work in Debian 2.0?

1998-09-26 Thread Preston Landers
... nothing lives at that address. Does he need to put something in a config file or compile special PCI support into the kernel? I had no problems with my internel modem, but then again it is an ISA card. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!! sincerely, Preston Landers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #953

1998-09-16 Thread Preston Landers
Subject: Weird fonts problem in X Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:45:30 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! Here's what Netscape

Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-10 Thread Preston Landers
David R Baker wrote: I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as what's on the CD. cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build

Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-09 Thread Preston Landers
:: into it but that didn't work. What can I do? Has anyone else encountered this? Does someone have a valid doc makefile that I can use? Or can otherwise clue me in on what I am missing? Your help is *greatly* appreciated. sincerely, Preston Landers [EMAIL PROTECTED]