o my X installation at all.
But you upgraded your box, right?
> Anybody know what's wrong? I have no idea where the server socket directory
> is.
Set the group ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix to root. Worked for me...
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coms.com: 07080 81
tage.
I've seen the question/answer in the exim FAQ[1], but haven't the first idea
about what ought to go in the script it mentions.
Thanks.
[1] http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#SEC182
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I'm not on the debian list at the moment, but have just been searching
the archives. I noticed your messages which looked like they would solve
my (exact same) problem [potato + 2.2.13 + all updates];
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>/lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid paramete
On Monday 07 June, Pedro Bastos wrote:
> hello everybody :) where can i find wterm in .deb format ?
> cause i tried to install it in .tar.gz format, and the compile process
> just failed.
not sure, but it compiled fine for me on slink. what were the errors
(don't reply to me, I might not under
On Sunday 30 May, Roy Coates wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
> an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
>
> The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
> as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been selec
On Tuesday 25 May, David B.Teague wrote:
> > Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book "Running Linux, 2/e"
> >Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and
> >detail information ?
>
> Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about
> command syntax. No structure of Debian
On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote:
> The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the
> route commands and it should go away.
if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's
called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local
int
On Thursday 20 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> GA> but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to
> GA> recompile GIMP to make it work?
>
> Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for
> libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such.
okay, I did, and
On Wednesday 19 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> GA> I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to
> GA> work properly.
>
> Try the gtk-engines-* packages available at
>
> deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable
> main
brilliant - it works a
I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to work
properly. "plain" themes work fine but "pixmap" themes don't. I tried
using the BeOS theme by copying /usr/local/share/themes/BeOS/gtk/gtkrc
to ~/.gtkrc, but this is what happens when I fire up a GTK app;
Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/
I'd like to check the versions of some of the modules (e.g. the Tulip
NIC driver) used on the slink installation floppies - can anybody tell
me which files to dig around in, and on which disk?
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I just installed mod_perl and ePerl from slink today, and am having
problems configuring ePerl (Apache is also from slink).
I have added the following to access.conf;
PerlModule Apache::ePerl
Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::ePerl
On Tuesday 04 May, Tommy Malloy wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if I could tell the following to everyone to type
> "command keyword" or "command string", and a list of applications
> related to that keyword or string would be provided.
try this;
% apropos foo
where foo is your command or string.
On Thursday 22 April, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
> | drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card?
>
> It might, but you'd be better off getting a copy
Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and
buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on!
I've been reading on dejanews that you need the 2.2 kernel to get a
recent driver for the U2W...
Thanks.
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On Thursday 22 April, Angus Claydon wrote:
> Could anyone who's online just now let me know what the proc line should
> look like in /etc/fstab ?. Unfortunately I messed it up
> and none of modules are loading correctly.
like this;
proc/proc proc defaults
very quick question - am I right in thinking that if I install slink on a
sparc I won't be limited to 2GB files as I am on a 32bit intel box?
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Graham
On Tuesday 20 April, Richard Harran wrote:
> I am currently running kernel 2.0.36 in my slink system. Would there be
> any advantages to upgrading my kernel? If so what version would be a
> good (stable) version to which to upgrade? Are there any good reasons
> not to upgrade?
I'm no expert, b
On Thursday 15 April, Alec Smith wrote:
> I'm running kernel 2.2.5 with smbfsx installed from the deb... I get the
> attached error... Any tips would be appreciated.
you need to recompile smbmount with 2.2.x kernels. I've never done it, but
have read that it needs doing.
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piled by make-kpkg and bundled up into the .deb.
when you do "dpkg --install kernel-image.blah-blah.deb" dpkg handles
installing the new kernel for you. it also asks if you'd like to install it
with lilo, according to your current /etc/lilo.conf. very nice, and very
quick.
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Graham Ashton
Futures Testbed, Futures Lab, BT
On Wednesday 14 April, Pollywog wrote:
> If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the
> same way as it is done with other distributions or is there some
> obscure Debian way to do this?
you can do it the standard way (and I did it this way for months), or
you can follow th
I'm running exim on my mail server, which is fully DNS registered, and
has proper connectivity to the outside world. I'll call it
server.domain1.com
One of my mates wants me to set it up so that mail sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gets directed to his workstation (which doesn't have an
MX record), w
On Wednesday 31 March, Armin Wegner wrote:
> there are a lot of nice libraries in /usr, but where are the
> documentations for the c/c++ libraries?
humbug% dpkg --list "*" | grep libc | grep doc
pn glibc-doc(no description available)
un glibcdoc (no description a
On Wednesday 31 March, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Graham Ashton wrote:
>
> > not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.
> >
> > xdpyinfo tells me;
> >
> > class:TrueColor
>
> flying runs only in 8bpp . startx -- -bpp 8
oh damn. thanks for the info.
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Graham
when I try and run any of the pool type games in the flying package, I
get an error message;
not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.
xdpyinfo tells me;
class:TrueColor
depth:16 planes
available colormap entries:64 per subfield
red, green, blue masks:0x
On Friday 26 March, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> > (and putting me in the audio group didn't work).
> >
> > anybody got any ideas why that is?
>
> Did you logout/login again after you added yourself to the audio group?
I don't think so - I tried using the newgrp command instead. It works
fine now
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
> OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound
> options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I
> can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created
> this, and how do I fix it?
coo
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
> I've run the install script from the awedrv package, configured the kernel
> (make menuconfig),
sorry - didn't notice that bit when I first read it. still, it sounds like
you've missed the audio section out. try it again, and look for the audio
section.
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
> Could someone please tell me either what I might be doing wrong, or how
> I could do the 'configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option'
> thing.
have you done either "make config", "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" before
the "make dep; make cl
On Friday 19 March, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having
> > updated my kernel to 2.2.3.
>
> When I did it I just moved the /usr/include/{linux,asm} directories out
> of the way and then made symlinks to the appropriate kernel headers an
On Sunday 21 March, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > ShadowGate:/root# smbmount //dahouse/c_on_dahouse /dahouse -U BW07442 -P
> > shadowgate.com -I 192.168.0.10
> > mount error: Operation not supported by device Please look at
> > smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
> >
> > I
I've just installed a fresh slink box, and selected the "Basic" profile
during installation.
I can't deliver mail locally (exim is installed), and there are no files
in /var/spool/mail.
Sending an email to a valid user has no effect - it just sits in the
mailq, frozen.
What can be wrong with it?
I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having
updated my kernel to 2.2.3.
vmware needs to compile a module during the installation process, and it
takes one look at the version.h file that I have in /usr/include/linux
and barfs (wrong kernel version - version.h still reckons
On Friday 19 March, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> > is there a debian package for the rexec daemon anywhere?
>
> /usr/sbin/in.rexecd is in "netstd".
d'oh! thanks a lot.
[sheepishly exits stage left]
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Graham
is there a debian package for the rexec daemon anywhere? I've found the
client, but the server doesn't come with it.
thanks.
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Graham
I just upgraded to CPAN 1.48 on my slink box (fully up to date), and now
the CPAN shell won't work. It says this;
cpan> i /Zlib/
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined s
I've just got sound going under 2.2.3, SoundBlaster 64 [OEM] (how happy
am I?!!)
My little mixer controller complained that it couldn't access
/dev/mixer, the permissions on which were 660. It's owned root,audio. I
put myself in the audio group, but it didn't fix it. If I do "newgrp
audio" I'm ask
I've been unable to find the UCD snmp stuff in .deb format. Does it
exist?
I've seen the CMU package, but need to get the UCD code instead to make
it work with php.
I know UCD snmp is really easy to compile from source (that's what I've
done), but I like to stick to debian packages where I can...
On Thursday 04 March, Richard Lyon wrote:
> > I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
> > keep getting empty gif files.
>
> Your right! It's actually the transfig package as a whole which appears to
> have no support for the generation of gif.
that's bizarre. it
On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the
> same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my
> mail box straight away.
I've got the same problem. Strange, isn't it.
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Graham
I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
keep getting empty gif files. Here's a sample attempt;
shandy% cat data
0.3 1.2
0.5 1.34
0.7 1.6
shandy% graph -T fig < data > file.fig
shandy% file file.fig
file.fig: FIG image text, version 3.2
shandy%
So f
On Saturday 20 February, Paulo Silva wrote:
> I have promissed to write yesterday, but I completly forgot. Here goes
> my awe64 setup information.
[snip]
that's a very clear description - thanks a lot for the info. I'll try it
later on today (maybe tomorrow if I'm too busy), and let you know ho
On Friday 19 February, rich wrote:
> > From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure
> > everything is working.
I think I'll join in with this thread rather than starting a new one, as
my hardware and proble
is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd?
the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do
IP address based virtual hosting instead. :(
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Graham
On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote:
> However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error
> message below.
>
> Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation?
> Any clues ??
I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site
I've got vim installed on both hamm and slink boxes, versions 5.0 and
5.3 of vim respectively, and use both from the same remote rxvt session.
When I switch line numbering on in 5.0, everything looks fine. When I
switch it on in 5.3, the line numbers themselves are underlined. It's
really annoying
I've just started fiddling with mysql (from the standard .deb files) on
my hamm box, and am having problems with permissions/privileges. I can't
create databases with mysqladmin.
I can't even connect to the mysql privilege tables to alter the
permissions, as I don't seem to have the permissions!
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:46:56AM +, Graham Ashton wrote:
>
> look in section 7.2 of the mysql manual, and scroll down until you find
> 'TEXT' at the left hand side of the page.
sorry about that folks - I replied to the wrong list - wasn't thinking
straight. now
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Chris Chabot wrote:
> While developing several sites based on a PHP (3.0.6/Apache-1.3.4) engine, ive
> stumbled across a max. size limit for TEXT fields while inserting them in the
> MySql (3.22.15) database. The max size was 65535, which sounds awfully mu
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:03:56PM +, Graham Ashton wrote:
> exim is receiving mail perfectly happily for all mails addressed to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> what it isn't doing at the moment, is accepting mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
sorry for replying to
I've got a bit of a problem with my exim config at the moment, and the
exim web site's DNS is refusing to resolve so I can't get to the right
part of the manual. Apologies for posting it here, but I'm in a bit of
a rush to fix the problem...
exim is receiving mail perfectly happily for all mails a
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote:
>
> > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or
> > gpgp)?
I'm not sure. Certainly does pgp2 and pgp3 (whatever that means).
> > I'm thinking of switching over
On 3 Feb, Jay Barbee wrote:
>>for a in file1 file2 file3; do \
>> echo -n $a >> seperate_file; \
>> echo -n ":::" >> seperate_file; \
>> wc -l $a >> seperate_file; \
>>done
>
> How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and
> pass each file to this script.
replac
On 2 Feb, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> The stuff you downloaded from ftp.gnome.org was old (however those debs
> are frozen in slink). However, libglib and libgtk 1.1.13 is new. GNOME is
> rapidly evolving alpha software.
> [snip]
thanks to those who replied. I think I'll see what happens if I do
I've downloaded libgnome0_0.30-1_i386.deb from ftp.gnome.org, and have
just tried installing it on my hamm box. I got a load of dependency
problems with dpkg, even for things that are installed. I installed
libglib1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb
libgtk1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb
without any problem. W
I've finally decided to bite the bullet, and install GNOME. I'm running
hamm, without any packages from slink or potato installed.
I've downloaded the .deb files for the basic gnome system from
ftp.gnome.org, and thought I'd try and work out how to install them
with dpkg.
The problem is, it's con
On 27 Jan, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Take a look at /etc/apache/httpd.conf - you'll notice a whole section on
> modules. Uncomment the lines you want.
smashing, thanks. It's still not working, but I suspect I need to
revisit the manual to work that one out...
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Graham
I just tried setting up SSI on apache on my hamm box, but found to my
dismay that very few modules are compiled in by default;
humbug:root> apache -l
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
I notice that the shared object one is there though, so I thought that
maybe all the others would be
I'm having trouble mounting CDs in my Toshiba SCSI CD drive. As soon as
I put a CD in (data or audio), the little green light on the front
flashes about 10 times, and then lights up permanently. The LED only
goes out when I eject the disk.
When I attempt to mount a (perfectly good) CD, I get;
h
On 11 Jan, Person, Roderick wrote:
> I assume that this is part of wmakerconf, which I have got to yet.
no, it's on the attributes menu (the one you get when you right click
an application's title bar). I don't know when it was introduced, but it
was certainly in there by 0.20.3.
>> it has become
On 15 Dec, Brian Morgan wrote:
> 1.I posted a samba question earlier. Has anyone had a chance to look at
> that yet?
didn't see it, sorry.
> 2.Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an
> error: "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" I've had this problem in t
On 15 Dec, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I've currently reached the stage where I've recompiled my kernel
>> having applied the latest awe-drv patch, and am trying to get the
>> module to load. I've been following the sbawe32 HOWTO to the
On 15 Dec, David S. Zelinsky wrote:
> A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got
> X configured with the VGA16 server.
I have a Dell Lattitude CPi 266XT (or whatever it's called), with a
neomagic chipset. I downloaded the XBF server from Red Hat's site which
com
On 14 Dec, Kent West wrote:
> At 02:07 PM 12/14/1998 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its
>>own IP address.
>
> Yep, it's possible. Desirable? Depends. If you're the only one printing to
> it, sure. If others are printing to it a
On 14 Dec, Ben Collins wrote:
> Execute this command:
>
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert --local --add --rename --divert
> /etc/cron.daily/cfengine /etc/cron.daily/cfengine.norun
wow. how cool is debian?
thanks a lot.
[scuttles off to see what else dpkg-divert can do...]
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Graham
I've just installed a new hamm system, and am getting mail messages
about cfengine's cron job;
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Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:44:51 +
/etc/cron.daily/cfengine:
cf:alice:/etc/
On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
> But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc
> could not sort mail anymore.
oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and
.procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically).
my fetchmail is done slightl
On 12 Dec, Tun Yang wrote: *** Opt graphics libtiff3g-de 3.4beta037-
3.4beta037- tiff development files [libc6]
> Hi... I was trying to install WindowMaker 0.20.3 that I got from
> www.windowmaker.org
>
> Alright... so I don't think I can build any X program at this point... but I
> can't find an
On 12 Dec, Zack Brown wrote:
> I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to
> start, giving an error. I ran "apacheconfig", and got the following output
> (essentially the same error):
> I don't know why it should have trouble finding my hostname. It's right
> there
On 11 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all
> working, where are the good window managers, etc.
I had problems getting xbase configured, but my previous experience
with Red Hat meant I knew how to frig it. I have a security problem
o put it, I'm not sure. A full reading of
the man page might be in order. You may be able to fix it by setting the
$LOGNAME or $USER environment variables in the script that calls
fetchmail, but that would be a bit of a fudge, and I wouldn't recommend
it.
hope that helps. I've not tried any of that though. read the man page
before you do!
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Graham Ashton
nce.
P.S. not really sure what I'm doing with dpkg yet, as I've just switched
from using Red Hat (which may explain a few things).
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vers page;
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
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