Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Macan, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: On Thu, 6 May 1999, Adriano Freitas wrote: Em nenhum momento eu falei que a RedHat (conectiva) é boa ou ruim. O que eu não aguento mais escutar é a associação que a mídia está fazendo de Linux com RedHat. Antigamente, fazia-se a seguinte

Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-13 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Mas, se voce for ler uma entrevista dos donos da RH, eles disserem que querem associar o nome RH ao Linux assim como lamina de barbear e' Gillette. Entao e' culpa da RH sim! Quanto a Conectiva, nao sei qual a politica

Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-13 Thread Clovis Sena
Srs, com todo respeito, vcs falam demais!! Ta na hora de vcs decidirem se vao ficar ai metendo o pau ou vao mesmo arregassar as mangas e fazer algo diferente. Esta lenga-lenga de meter o pau nos outros nao leva a nada !!! Se eles estao no topo deve ser por competencia! Facam o mesmo !!! t+

Re: Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-13 Thread Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld
Pelo amor de Deus até quando essa insanidade de qual é a melhor distribuição vai continuar ?? ? Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld Nós gatos já nascemos pobres, porém já nascemos

Re: Hawking PN102TX--Help!!

1999-05-13 Thread tjm
If this helps, according to the Hawking web site, http://www.hawkingtech.com, their PCI nics use the tulip.c driver. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-13 Thread Rob
Rob, I'm curious-- did you upgrade the linker as well? when i upgraded that in slink, i think that is what broke my system somehow. it happened to me twice. that is why i ended up giving up and going all the way with potato... was sick of having to manually re-link 30 or 40 .so files. no

Re: Communicator 4.5 and LDAP

1999-05-13 Thread Rob
I switched from communicator 4.05 to 4.5 and now I can't access the LDAP server in our company. All searchez return an unknown LDAP error 0xFF when trying to access the LDAP server. Going back to 4.05 fixes the problem. Is there anyone aware of any changes to the LDAP support in Comm

Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-13 Thread Rob
Just to add to this excellent explanation by Ray, in the Unix world it is still pretty common to see files compressed with the Unix compress utility, in which case you might see file names like: And while we're mentioning the unix world, you should note that the 'z' switch to tar (ie tar xvfz

2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread MR
OK, I appreciate all the help I received about my original problem. I have determined that one of the ethernet cards (Asante ISA) does not like working in linux. So I yanked it out and replaced it. Now I have 2 Intel EtherExpress 16 cards in the machine. Now, one is at io 0x300, irq 11 and the

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You'll need to pass params to your kernel. If you're booting with lilo you'll need to edit add: append = ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 If I got the eth0, eth1 right... MR wrote: OK, I appreciate all the help I received about my original problem. I have determined that one of the

Re: pppd

1999-05-13 Thread John Hasler
wtb writes: How can I convince pppd (and pon) that defaultroute is enabled. They both return the error 'defaultroute is disabled' even though I think I have it edited into all support files. By turning off your other defaultroute, which probably points to your ethernet. You almost certainly

Re: netdate - ntp - chrony ?

1999-05-13 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: I would really like to know the difference between netdate and ntp/chrony. And if you choose a time server to use with netdate, shouldn't it be just as accurate as if you used ntp? No, though it may be quite accurate enough for your purposes. The protocol used by

Local archives

1999-05-13 Thread William Lacy
I hope that I have the right list, anyway if not please let me know and I'll repost. Here is my question: I have a few packages that I have imported with alien or downloaded from non-free, etc., that I installed on my system with dpkg. this is really no big deal because I have always kept

Re: programming X

1999-05-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
Assuming you have the X devel package as others have suggested, you may also need to tell the compiler where to find the headers: -I/usr/X11R6/include #include X11/Xlib.h should then work. Xlib is beastly and nasty, so if you aren't very familiar with C (especially if you're easily

Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of these errors: - unable to open display - cannot connect to X server I can run startx just fine. I don't get display errors there at all. But if I type xhost, xtv, or any other x application from the command line I

apt dselect security fixes

1999-05-13 Thread Judith Bush
Someone give me a clue please. Weekly news says new rsync to fix security hole, linked to email which says uploaded to UK. Subject: Uploaded rsync 2.3.1-0.slink.1 (source i386) to uk greycat:~# more /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb

Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
You start with foo.tar.gz gunzip foo.tar.gz Now you have a file called foo.tar which should be much larger than foo.tar.gz was. tar -xvf foo.tar Now all the files are extracted from foo.tar As others have said, you can do this all in

Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:20:16PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Collins M. Ben wrote: That is incorrect, slink supports UltraSPARC, and as does potato. That is odd, I was told that there was only a SPARC port and that an UltraSPARC (64-bit) port was in its infancy.

Re: sorting this mail

1999-05-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: sorting this mail Date: Wed, May 12, 1999 at 09:01:47AM -0500 In reply to:tf Quoting tf([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hey all I don't suppose the list manager would consider putting somthing like [deb] in the subject line, would he (you)? Sure would help me sort this

Re: pppd

1999-05-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: pppd Date: Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:27:51PM + In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I convince pppd (and pon) that defaultroute is enabled. They both return the error 'defaultroute is disabled' even though I think I

Re: Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Wierd PPP Problems Date: Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:26:36PM -0500 In reply to:John Hasler Quoting John Hasler([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Chris Hoover writes: I'm having some strange problems with ppp on my dial out server. Everything has been working fine for quite some

Re: printout being chopped off...

1999-05-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: printout being chopped off... Date: Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:00:10AM -0700 In reply to:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Quoting Sudhakar Chandrasekharan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wayne Topa proclaimed: I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it

Re: netdate - ntp - chrony ?

1999-05-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: netdate - ntp - chrony ? Date: Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:25:58PM -0500 In reply to:Christian Dysthe Quoting Christian Dysthe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I want a simple task performed. ntp does it, but is not really made for a dial-up system like mine. chrony does it

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm and then try to run those programs after you get into X. HTH,.

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread MR
/etc/lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 ran liloconfig and let it install a boot block using the current lilo config.

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm and then try to run

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-13 Thread add|ct|on
i think its safe to say dont touch your linker if you upgrade slink. a lot of people commented to me that they'd done so when slink broke in an upgrade. quite interesting. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Andrew Chung
Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of these errors: - unable to open display - cannot connect to X server It means just that - it can't connect to the x server. You need to run the programs either in xterm (or equivalent) or set the DISPLAY env

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: i think its safe to say dont touch your linker if you upgrade slink. a lot of people commented to me that they'd done so when slink broke in an upgrade. quite interesting. What exactly is the linker, ldso ? If you upgrade slink's ldso to potato and *then

Emacs and the ALT key.

1999-05-13 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Ok... I can't remember if this started when I installed 2.2, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with anything... I remember using xmodmap

Backups Sharing

1999-05-13 Thread Allen B. Riddell
I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now. What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky

RE: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-13 Thread Shaleh
On 12-May-99 André Bell wrote: Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its

Re: Emacs and the ALT key.

1999-05-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with anything... Probably the Windows key (if you have one) is bound to the Meta keysym, which

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about Re: Display issues On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last

Re: Wordperfect

1999-05-13 Thread Matt Kokidko
I've tried the suggestion of changing the color from 24 to others. X will only boot with 24 or 8.

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. I dislike having xdm start when I start the machine, so I removed the

Re: LPRng spooling and small HDDs

1999-05-13 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote Hi! I finally got my SMB printer server to work. Sorry for all the e-mails trying to figure out what was wrong. In true fact, the spooling stopped because the system ran out of disk space. Apparently, the server gets the file without problems, but when

Re: Broken Select in dselect (typos removed)

1999-05-13 Thread Kent West
Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi All. This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the Select option, the program just quits with the message: dselect:

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Messinger
MR wrote: /etc/lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 ran liloconfig and let it install a boot block using

HP 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I can get a HP7200i CD-R-drive (still new) at a very reasonable price. I have checked the Hardware-Howto, but did not get much information on CD-RW-drives. Can anybody comment on the usability of this drive with Linux? Thanks in advance Johann

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
Just to make sure I understand, you mean I need to, 1) run startx (which for me launches fvwm) 2) start xterm from within fvwm 3) open the hidden file $HOME/.xinitrc and edit the xterm line 4) then try to run the X programs from within fvwm? I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it

Video4Linux: RadioTrack /dev Device?

1999-05-13 Thread Clint Dimick
I'm trying to get my AIMS RadioTrack card working and have recompiled my kernel to include support for this device; however, some programs have made reference to a /dev/radio device file. After searching through the /usr/include/linux/videodev.h include file, I'm under the assumption I need to do

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread MR
/etc/lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 ran liloconfig and let it install a boot block using the current

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 12 May 1999, André Bell wrote: Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of these errors: - unable to open display - cannot connect to X server You get those errors because X is not running. Hmmm, (since you don't want a window manager running)

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread flip
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:29:14PM -0500, André Bell wrote: I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it takes so long to load on a 486, let alone launch another program within fvwm. I waited a half an hour for a game to load -- don't want to do that again... Is there a way to launch x

re: hp 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Check read this, UDF enables you to read those CDRW disks you make in Windows. In order to burn CDR disks in linux, you need to recompile your kernel. DISABLE IDE Atapi CD-rom support, and ENABLE scsi emulation and scsi generic support. This will make your IDE burner appear to cdrecord, etc as

help please

1999-05-13 Thread B Koteswara rao
hi i have installed sendmail version 8.9.3. when i run sendmail its giving warning like: hash map Alias0: unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/mail/aliases.db: Group writable directory dbm map Alias0: unsafe map file /usr/local/etc/mail/aliases: No such file or directory WARNING: cannot open alias

Re: I'm still in tears: SB64 still not there

1999-05-13 Thread William Lacy
I have a SB64 and I know it can be a hassle to set up so here is a copy of my isapnp.conf file... I don't like carrying a lot of baggage so I just deleted the extra junk in this file instead of uncommenting the good stuff. I think its pretty wise to stick with the kernel that you have for the

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I just thought of something. Maybe Potato works better on the 2.2.x kernels than it does on 2.0.x kernels ?? I cannot upgrade to the newer kernels yet, because I would lose ipfwadm and I am not familiar with ipchains. Isnt there a wrapper for this?

Glade for Slink

1999-05-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I installed slink in a friend house and he wants glade that I showed for him running in my potato system at school. But gnome-stage-slink (and now slink dist) doesnt have glade, only potato. What I can do? We want glade to develope a school project at home (we have only

Free Builder

1999-05-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Is there any intention to package Free Builder for Debian? Now that we have a reasonable java plataform (with jdk, awt, xemacs, and others). Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, MR wrote /etc/lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 ran liloconfig and let it install a boot block using

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread Jens Ritter
MR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 [...] I moved my append line to the top and tried yours also and it still does not pick up the second card. I know the card works as it was pulled from another system so it shouldn't be the hardware.

Re: Remove occurences of X from file

1999-05-13 Thread Jens Ritter
Stefan Baums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all. I use Emacs/MULE and write the following document: Hall=F6 KuryLowicz where (this is the important bit!) the L of this

re: hp 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Check read this, UDF enables you to read those CDRW disks you make in Windows. In order to burn CDR disks in linux, you need to recompile your kernel. DISABLE IDE Atapi CD-rom support, and ENABLE scsi emulation and scsi generic support. This will

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi Alexander, excuse me for going over this again, but I fear something is going awfully wrong. Alexander Schwartz dixit: ~ On Wed, 12 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~ ~ ~ I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~ ~ need to switch that to executable using chmod

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
J Horacio MG wrote: Hi Alexander, and to my surprise, it only installed modules/fs/ and modules/net ... what happened to the rest of the modules? This is not doing much sense, but just in case you can help me with it, I send you again the .config file I'm using. TIA Horacio

Re: HP 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try suse.com and look at there hardware support.

Re: apt dselect security fixes

1999-05-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Judith Bush wrote: Weekly news says new rsync to fix security hole, linked to email which says uploaded to UK. Subject: Uploaded rsync 2.3.1-0.slink.1 (source i386) to uk greycat:~# more /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb

Re: Sparc Ultra5 (170)

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:36:10PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: The current sparc port runs on UltraSPARC's. That's not to say that it is a 64bit user space. It is only a 32 bit user space, but runs none the less. This is the same as the current

Re: Partition Type A0 ??

1999-05-13 Thread Rune Linding Raun
its a a0 but depending on the version of your fdisk/cfdisk... it may not know it by name On 13-May-99 chris burgess wrote: my Extensa had the same, and seems to operate fine with or without. it's for the suspend software to dump its inner thoughts to when susp'd, and at least on my box the 40Mb

remote execution

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hi, What is the safest way to execute a command as root on a remote computer? What I'm trying to do is run a script on computer B when computer A brings up a PPP link. This script has to be run as root. Currently, I'm using ssh with a /root/.shosts file on B, but this seems a little dangerous.

Re: Debian with 2.2.x kernel?

1999-05-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jake Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am using Slink with 2.2.5 I got from the proposed-updates dir.So far no problems.I used the Dial-up install option when I first installed my system.I compiled it the Debian way according to the Book- make -kpkg. etc On the other hand, I compiled

HP8100I

1999-05-13 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
How do I configure it so I can burn some CDs on Linux? Regards, Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager SBN

lpq:cannot open connection to `lp@localhost' - Connection refused

1999-05-13 Thread Jan Krupa
I have two printer installed on my Debian2.0 machine (the name of it say A): local lp and remote p22 which is installed on other debian2.0 machine (say B). When I print from machine A using p22 printer to printer on machine B it seems work fine but after the printing is finished the lpq command

Re: What group does Apache run as?

1999-05-13 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: I'm trying to install Jitterbug, which is a bug tracking system, and I ned to be able to figure out which group apache runs as. You don't find out what group apache runs as, you TELL IT in the /etc/apache/httpd.conf file on the line that begins

re: hp 7200i

1999-05-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
DISABLE IDE Atapi CD-rom support, and ENABLE scsi emulation and scsi generic support. This will make your IDE burner appear to cdrecord, etc as a scsi drive on /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, or something like that. How will this affect my usage of a normal IDE Atapi CD-rom? Is it a question of

[Fwd: Re: My CDR is not recognized at boot]

1999-05-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, If this can help somebody like mee... Original Message Subject: Re: My CDR is not recognized at boot Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:52:13 +0200 From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG To: Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] References:

drawing flow charts program recommandation

1999-05-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, What programs will you guys recommand me to use to draw some flow charts in linux? xfig? gimp? anything else?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

printcap

1999-05-13 Thread Rob
Heyas Having a problem with my printer, its a Canon BJC-255SP, and I'm running it with the 'bj200-filter' from the magicfilter package. No matter which way I do it, the printer always cuts off the final line of text on each page. /etc/printcap contains 'pl#66', but fiddling with the number has

Re: Backups Sharing

1999-05-13 Thread Carl Mummert
One solution: As root: # cd / # find . -xdev | afio -o -Z filename.afio xdev tells find not to go across a mount boundry, so you may have to list several root s for find, i.e. # find . /root /other/dir /somewhere/else -xdev | afio -o -Z filename.afio Of course, there a many ways to do this,

Gnome

1999-05-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just installed Debian first time yesterday. Must say its a great system when installed even it it gets very hairy during dselect. The plan was a very basic installation that would dual boot with NT. When that worked I would put the applications on and when that worked, I planned to

I've got myself a hanky. (Was: SB 64 still not there)

1999-05-13 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Thanks all you guys for the help with the configuration of my SB AWE 64. I owe you all. I am some steps closer to a working solution now, but we're not there yet. First I rewrote the isapnp.conf file with all the suggestions incorporated. After the isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf initialisation I got the

Re: I've got myself a hanky. (Was: SB 64 still not there)

1999-05-13 Thread Hans van den Boogert
OKay, okay, that was of course HANKIE what I meant. - H

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sorry, I should have read your email more closely. You did say How do I get the eexpress module to recognize both cards and set the first to eth0 and the second to eth1? Using append= in lilo would only apply if the devices you're trying to configure are compiled into the kernel, not as a module.

Help w/dpkg (no /etc/init.d file)

1999-05-13 Thread sgore
While configuring my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts, I (stupidly) removed the /etc/init.d entries for a couple of packages (instead of just update-rc.d [-n] [-f] name remove). Now, dpkg can't remove, install, configure, purge, or even force any operation on those packages. Is there any way to fix

Backups

1999-05-13 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm trying to backup some of the machines that we have arround here. We have one machine with a tape. My first attempt was to backup just the machine with the tape (wich is a critical one since it has all the users home's ) with taper, but taper kept segfaulting so nothing was achieved.

Re: 2 network cards revisited (fwd)

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Rati
I've come in late on this message, so I'm not sure I'm catching it all, but you should be able to assign your two network cards eth0 and eth1 in your /etc/conf.modules. In there, you should see something like: alias eth0 whatever module you have for nic (eexpress in this case) options eth0

Dumbterminal on network

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Rati
I'm creating a network in my home and have a dumb terminal I'm not sure hwo to network. I want to make it able to login to the router I have and telnet out. What would be best would be a straight telnet machine without logining into the router, but I don't think that is possible. All it has on

Re: Emacs and the ALT key.

1999-05-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I posted a lengthy description of how to deal with this back in August (the problem was introduced with hamm). I'll repost the content here: This problem has come up so many times since hamm started getting used that it almost merits its own HOWTO. What's happened is that you've upgraded X and

Re: Help w/dpkg (no /etc/init.d file)

1999-05-13 Thread shaleh
While configuring my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts, I (stupidly) removed the /etc/init.d entries for a couple of packages (instead of just update-rc.d [-n] [-f] name remove). Now, dpkg can't remove, install, configure, purge, or even force any operation on those packages. Is there any way to

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Michael Beattie wrote: On Tue, 11 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I just thought of something. Maybe Potato works better on the 2.2.x kernels than it does on 2.0.x kernels ?? I cannot upgrade to the newer kernels yet, because I would lose ipfwadm and I am not familiar with

Re: Help w/dpkg (no /etc/init.d file)

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 May, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Help w/dpkg (no /etc/init.d file) While configuring my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts, I (stupidly) removed the /etc/init.d entries for a couple of packages (instead of just update-rc.d [-n] [-f] name remove). Now, dpkg can't remove, install,

Re: I've got myself a hanky. (Was: SB 64 still not there)

1999-05-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Thanks all you guys for the help with the configuration of my SB AWE 64. I owe you all. I am some steps closer to a working solution now, but we're not there yet. [...] # cat chiquita.au /dev/audio Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

New to list - is there a FAQ?

1999-05-13 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Hi, I just joined the list. Any docs I should read before posting? Is there a list-specific FAQ? (I've seen the Debian-FAQ.) I have had experience with various Linux distros for a couple of years, and just switched from RedHat to Debian (because of the awful network init scripts

2 ethernet cards - solution found

1999-05-13 Thread MR
Yesterday, I ran into the page at http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 It tells how to get two ethernet cards working either as a module or compiled into the kernel. So, using this information, I was able to get two eexpress modules loaded, one for each card. Now both

Re: CD/R disks for backup?

1999-05-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Received any answers about this? Bill White wrote: Does anyone use CD/R disks for backup? I have some questions. 1.) How do you make sure that mkisofs doesn't make a file system which is bigger than the disk? 2.) If your partition is 1000Mb and it is mostly full, you have to

tn3270 client

1999-05-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Morning all. I've looked around on debian.org and my CDs, trying to locate a tn3270 client. Nothing came up, so does anyone know where can I find one? I remember seeing it somewhere...but it was a long time ago. Andrew

sshd

1999-05-13 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh installed. However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot sequence for 5 minutes if there is no network?

Re: sshd

1999-05-13 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh installed. However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot

Re: sshd

1999-05-13 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Collins M. Ben wrote: On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh installed. However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to the network...is there

Re: New to list - is there a FAQ?

1999-05-13 Thread shaleh
Hi, I just joined the list. Any docs I should read before posting? Is there a list-specific FAQ? (I've seen the Debian-FAQ.) I have had experience with various Linux distros for a couple of years, and just switched from RedHat to Debian (because of the awful network init

Re: wmakerconf 1.99.4 seg faults

1999-05-13 Thread John Leget
Problem solved, i removed all files in ~GNUstep/Defaults and added them back one at a time and finally narrowed it down to the theme i had set up. It appears that the jpg background image i was using had a premature end ie was incomplete, id never had any problems, but opening it up in xv

Re: Dumbterminal on network

1999-05-13 Thread Kevin Lee
Robert, If it is a cisco router you will see a RJ45 console port on the back of it. The 7000, 7500 series if I remember correctly will have a RS-232. This is actually a serial connection that runs a 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. Cisco also supplies an adapter for the

Re: Dumbterminal on network

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Rati
I wish I had a Cisco router. My router is just going to be a 386 PS/2 or a P166 depending on if I can get the 386 PS/2 to work. I need to find a way to jack the dumbterminal into that router. :) Rob On Thu, 13 May 1999, Kevin Lee

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-13 Thread Rob Browning
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But if you're not ready for potato then NIS will provide a ready-made solution. It's pretty straightforward. I'd be glad to offer assistance. As for a comparison, well, they're different. NIS has been around a long time, LDAP is newer. Thanks to

Debian on Armada 6500

1999-05-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi! I am trying to install Debian on a Compaq Armada 6500 using FTP and this far, I haven't had too much luck. The base system installed OK, but I can't seem to get networking to run (I was planning to use my Slackware router as a gateway). The builtin Xircom CreditCard isn't recognized at all

compiling X from the debian sources doesn't work.

1999-05-13 Thread Frankie
Hi, I recently bought the cheapbytes debian 2.1 CD's. Because the computer that I am using at the moment is a P-60, there is a strong urgency to tweak every last bit of speed out of my system. I decided to recompile my x-server and libraries in order to eek a bit more speed out of X, by using

RE: tn3270 client

1999-05-13 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
-- From: Andrei Ivanov[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Morning all. I've looked around on debian.org and my CDs, trying to locate a tn3270 client. Nothing came up, so does anyone know where can I find one? I remember seeing it somewhere...but it was a long time ago. Andrew I use

Re: sound card trouble.

1999-05-13 Thread Kent West
Edson Santos wrote: On my Opti930 sound card the device manager shows a yellow exclamation mark by the Opti930 Sound/OPL3 Device. In the device status it says that it has a (code 10). I have changed the IRQ and DMA I have had trouble for a long time please could you advise me. And could

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