Re: modulos de sonido

1999-10-19 Thread Daniel H. Perez
Hola * [991016 01:38] cygar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: Hola, tras haber parcheado y compilado el kernel 2.2.12 (parchee 2.2.11 y 2.2.12) ya que antes usaba 2.2.10. me han traido problemas los modulos de sonido. Eh notado que despues de actualizar modutils /etc/conf.modules paso a ser

Re: undefined reference to `crypt'

1999-10-19 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Cuando a mí me ha pasado eso lo he solucionado poniendo en el Makefile LIBS= -lcrypt Saludos

RE: Quitar los application icon

1999-10-19 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Juan Ignacio Llona [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: lunes 18 de octubre de 1999 20:10 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Quitar los application icon Hola a todos! Existe alguna forma en WindowMaker de que no salgan los

[Off-topic: Books whose keywords include linux Debian]

1999-10-19 Thread Barbwired
Por si a alguien le resulta de utilidad... y perdón por la publicidad que les hago :) Learning Debian Gnu/Linux by Bill McCarty List: $32.95 -- Our Price: $26.36 -- You Save: $6.59 (20%) Subjects: Computer Books:

pnp

1999-10-19 Thread CoMa
Hola, podría alguien darme una aclaración sobre cómo reconocer un dispositivo pnp bajo Debian?. He leído sobre las isapnptools y también sé que los kernels 2.2.* vienen con una opción al respecto (pero no los uso), pero no me queda claro cuál hay que usar y como. Otra: sabe alguien si podría

Tarjeta serie alta velocidad

1999-10-19 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hola: He instalado una tarjeta serie con dos puertos de alta velocidad en mi Debian para conectar un adaptador RDSI externo. Después de comprobar todos los jumpers de la misma y asegurarme de que está configurado uno de los puertos en ttyS2 (COM3) I/O 0x3e8 irq 5 y el otro desactivado,

Notescapes

1999-10-19 Thread TooMany
Buenas Estooo... vereis... tengo un problemilla con el Communicator (léase Notescapes). Resulta que, tanto si me instalo el que viene con la Slink, como el 4.6 ó 4.7, cuando lo ejecuto, me aparecen los iconos del programa en blanco y negro. No me había pasado nunca antes. La resolución que

Algun programa para pasar de CD a MP3 de forma facil????

1999-10-19 Thread AVILA BERMEJO FRANCISCO JOSE
Ricardo Villalba wrote: -Mensaje original- De: Xose Manoel Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org> Fecha: jueves 14 de octubre de 1999 12:02 Asunto: Timifometro >Creo que en la lista participa el programador del Timifmetro

Re: Nuevo documento sobre Server Side Includes

1999-10-19 Thread Paco Brufal
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/ssi_linux.html Muy bueno Paco, esto era justo lo que necesitaba para ponerme manos a la obra con shtml, gracias. Me alegro que le sea util a alguien. Cuando yo quise poner SSI en mi servidor me

Re: Nuevo documento sobre Server Side Includes

1999-10-19 Thread Paco Brufal
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/ssi_linux.html Compañero, una consulta al usar paginas HTML dinamico tengo que crearlas con extension shtml.? En el texto lo pone bien clarito ;) Sipe :) Si

Re: depmod -a despues de reiniciar

1999-10-19 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 18 de octubre de 1999 a la(s) 17:14:15 +0200, Andres Seco Hernandez contaba: ¿Se puede repetir este depmod -a, aunque ya se haya hecho? Sin problema. ¿Qué hace realmente, contado en lenguaje natural comprensible? Crea /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep para

biff

1999-10-19 Thread Fernando
Hola: No consigo hacer funcionar el sistema este de notificación de la llegada de correo. tengo en /etc/inet.conf la siguiente linea: biff dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.comsat (he probado con nobody, con mail y con root y me da lo mismo) en /etc/services esta: # UNIX

Re: Algun programa para pasar de CD a MP3 de forma facil????

1999-10-19 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Con el cdda2wav que viene en la Debian 2.1 puedes pasar las canciones de CD a WAV, y luego con el bladeenc (que puedes bajarte de la red) pasas los ficheros WAV a MP3. Hace poco hice un script que lo hacia automáticamente. Si a alguien le interesa se lo puedo mandar. Virgilio Dios

Re: Necesito ayuda con el exim.

1999-10-19 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Gustavo CR wrote: Ya se que respondo un poco tarde pero mirando la FAQ http://exim.org/FAQ.html de Exim he encontrado algo que hace referencia a tu problema: Pues qué mamones, porque ese fichero no viene ni con el exim ni el exim-docs. Demonios, y a mí que me da miedo el

lilo: 2 particiones

1999-10-19 Thread David Charro Ripa
Quiero arrancar con lilo de dos particiones. En /dev/hda5 tengo debian 2.1 y en /dev/hda1 red hat. He intentado ponerlo en marcha pero no me sale como quiero. Me da el error siguiente mimon:/etc# lilo Added Linux * open /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directory y mi fichero de configuracion

Re: lilo: 2 particiones

1999-10-19 Thread Fernando
David Charro Ripa wrote: Quiero arrancar con lilo de dos particiones. En /dev/hda5 tengo debian 2.1 y en /dev/hda1 red hat. He intentado ponerlo en marcha pero no me sale como quiero. Me da el error siguiente mimon:/etc# lilo Added Linux * open /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directory

Duda en Dump

1999-10-19 Thread Humberto . Morell
Hola a todos Tengo en una pc con un Linux viejo 1.3 pero me dispuse a realizar un Dump sobre tape utilice el /dev/rmt12 como me indica en el man y todo aparentemente funciono de maravillas, pero para mi sorpresa hoy por la mañana no me funcionaba nada, luego de investigar en el Log el sendmail me

Re: lilo: 2 particiones

1999-10-19 Thread David Charro Ripa
He probado poniendo el root antes pero no funciona. Es mas, he dejado el lilo.conf con una opcion solo pero me da el mismo error. Me queda asi el lilo.conf mimon:/etc# more lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15

Re: lilo: 2 particiones

1999-10-19 Thread jvicente
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1469282 Apr 20 1999 vmlinux-2.2.5-15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 617288 Apr 20 1999 vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 ¿COMO? ¿Es posible que haya dos archivos con el mismo nombre? No son iguales . Fijate la z y la x. Para resolverlo podes poner un link a un mismo

Re: Notescapes

1999-10-19 Thread Cristina Amor
At 12:21 19/10/99 +0200, TooMany wrote: Resulta que, tanto si me instalo el que viene con la Slink, como el 4.6 ó 4.7, cuando lo ejecuto, me aparecen los iconos del programa en blanco y negro. No me había pasado nunca antes. La resolución que utilizo es de 24 bits... ¿tengo que darle más? ¿o el

Re: lilo: 2 particiones

1999-10-19 Thread Barbwired
David Charro Ripa decía: solo pero me da el mismo error. Me queda asi el lilo.conf mimon:/etc# more lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=Linux read-only mimon:/etc# lilo open

Como instalar los Thems en KDE?

1999-10-19 Thread Lucky
He bajado algunos temas de escritorio del KDE pero no se como instalarlos, como lo hago? Gracias

RE: Particionar Win 98 con FIPS

1999-10-19 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian España debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: sábado 16 de octubre de 1999 14:53 Asunto: Particionar Win 98 con FIPS ¡Hola! Un amigo mío tiene un problema: Quiere instalar Linux en su máquina que tiene Windows

RE: OFFTOPIC. Re: Iddeo que ha cambiado?

1999-10-19 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Cosme Perea Cuevas writes: El Wed, Oct 13, 1999, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona... No s'e en que sentido estar'a limitada la conexi'on por Alehop. Yo he usado telnet, HTTP, SMTP y CVS sobre ssh (si no recuerdo mal). A velocidades razonables, contra m'aquinas en RedIris y

Re: OffTopic: Divulgação da Debian no Brasil

1999-10-19 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Hélio Alexandre Lopes escreveu: Aproveitando a deixa, estou fazendo uma espécie de apostila Linux/Unix toda baseada em Debian e direcionada a iniciantes. Legal!, vou dar uma olhada nele. Há pouco menos de 3 meses eu tinha começado a escrever um guia documentando a utilização e

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an CGI executed by apache? I want apache to be able to run the following... void main(void) { while (1) { fork() } } Perhaps you can set the ulimit manually

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
Bernhard Rieder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: test.c: --- #include stdlib.h char *template = /tmp/tmpfileXX; int main () { return printf(%s\n, mktemp(template)); } --- As others have noted, you cannot pass a

Re: ?complex args pass to other app w/o changing?

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
zhaoway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: for a call: make CXXFLAGS=-O2 -do-strength-reduce LD=-s i want the wrapper (above fake make prog) to pass the CXXFLAGS=.. et al to the real make prog (say, make_real). How about this: alias make='make CXXFLAGS=-O2 -do-strength-reduce LD=-s' (Put this in

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). OK. I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard and router) have the same

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, John wrote: Are you sure you're not confusing the kernel headers in /usr/include/linux with the actual kernel source tree that is usually placed in /usr/src/linux? I may well be, but what is certain is that /usr/src contains only one

Re: crontab

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: : : On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: : On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: : : : how do i run a program every 10 minutes? : : -gnana : : Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details. : : Since most people hate being told

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote: : Hi! : : Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an : CGI executed by apache? : : I want apache to be able to run the following... : : void main(void) : { : while (1) { : fork() : } : } :

kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hello, I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda But when I tried booting the new kernel, I got VFS: Cannot open root device

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Oct-99 Martin Fluch wrote: By the way, at every boottime a depmod is executet (perhaps you have seen the 'Updating modules...' message at boottime. If you get ever again such an message (and want to get rid of it) just run a depmod -a I had done that, to no avail. I have not

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Nathan, If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do the same thing in C :) The problem is that I have an 'untrusted' user base I everything has to be implemented by the parent process

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Nathan, :Apache United Enterprise? ;) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Don't have that one. Myself: KR C 2nd edition, man pages and looking at tons of .c files. I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some degree I have the same problem :)

Installation problems

1999-10-19 Thread Mark N. Wrigley
Dear Sirs, I am experiencing problems installing Debian version 2.1 (Slink) on my computer. The first time I tried to install the OS everything went fine I had no problems at all. The problems started when I tried to to reload the OS after I made some mistakes loading Gnome. I went through

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Pere Camps
Brian, Perhaps you can set the ulimit manually (don't ask me how to do this from C...). And make Apache use those values for every son with user www-data that it breeds? ... too much work. :-/ This is only read (AFAIK) by /bin/login. It doesn't even work for ssh logins (I could be

Re: Installation problems

1999-10-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, If you must install from floppies, I would use different ones. When I need a floppy for something, I format it under windows 95, check the full format and no label option. After it formats, be SURE to check the number of BAD bytes in the info dialog that appears when the format is done. If

Re: [Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? Well, I have to use NT at work, so of course I'm reading/posting with windows.

Re: slink-potato and missing packages

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:39:37AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages missing (from the ftp site, according to apt). Some of them look rather important (tcpd, etc).

Re: /var/log/ppp.log

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
pplaw writes: tcgetattr: input/output error(5) Often means you have the wrong serial port. connect: ppp0 -- /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 is not a serial port. What do your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider look like? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public

Re: Graphic interface to PostgreSQL

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 06:01:34PM +0100, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi Are there any Graphic interface to PostgreSQL? I haven't seen anything too usefull. There's the Tk PgAccess which is probably the most feature rich, but sorely lacking IMHO. There are a couple GTK or KDE

RE: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
1) dmesg only covers kernel messages. There are other messages that get printed to the screen when the system starts up that don't get shown by dmesg. To see these, I just hold down shift and use PAGE-UP and PAGE-DOWN to scroll through the messages. Probably not the most scientific

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:17:39AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: Hello, I am connecting and disconnecting to the net over a modem line. My ISP gives dynamic IPs. I want to upload the IP that I get from my ISP to a website so that my friends can come to know if I am online. I also want to

RE: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
1) dmesg only covers kernel messages. There are other messages that get printed to the screen when the system starts up that don't get shown by dmesg. To see these, I just hold down shift and use PAGE-UP and PAGE-DOWN to scroll through the messages. Probably not the most scientific

RE: Diamond 770 X Window

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Enjoy! On 18-Oct-99 Joe Block wrote: Does anyone have a working config file for the Diamond Viper 770? I'm running slink if it matters. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life. -- Unsubscribe? mail

Re: scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)

1999-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
There's a gradebook program floating about that I saw mentioned somewhere. Perhaps a search on freshmeat? Don't know what your particular needs are, but a text output piped to a2ps might do you okay. You could probably work up something pretty good with postgresql if you want to go that

Dselect Trouble

1999-10-19 Thread Rik Burt
I am having problems with the apt part of Dselect. I can get it to access an ftp site but as it is updating it gives a segmentation fault in apt update. What gives? I am trying to install the stable (slink) version but I tried the potato version and I had the same problem. When I helped a

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: But when I disconnect I can execute another script in ip-down.d because I use 'kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.d`' which is not a proper downing of route ppp0. Of course it is (and ppp0 is an interface, not a route). pppd takes down the route when it receives the signal.

Re: ipupload

1999-10-19 Thread Bart Szyszka
I am connecting and disconnecting to the net over a modem line. My ISP gives dynamic IPs. I want to upload the IP that I get from my ISP to a website so that my friends can come to know if I am online. Why don't you and your friends use a program like ICQ? The site for the Windows version

Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Ok, I'd like to create a admin group (adm), and have some questions. But first, my goals: Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will be added to the

dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread jh
Hi. As anyone who has followed any of my posts knows, I'm totally green. At this point I have debian installed. (from floppy) I now have access to my cdrom. What I would like to do is install the x-window manager, as well as some other things like joe. (some kind of text editor) I also want to

can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-19 Thread jh
Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian installed from floppy so there is not too much on my system. The only fairly interesting program that I have discovered is ae (I think it

Re: no pon/wvdial

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, pplaw wrote: pon used to work until i downloaded lots of files from the site and then installed wvdial, which seems to start the pppd. i switch tty's and ping the isp. nothing happens. here's /var/log/ppp.log: pppd 2.3.5

seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Jacob Schmude Your Jacob Schmude
Hello When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my previous linux system this never happened. I'm trying to build a custom 2.0.36 kernel but may switch to 2.2 if that will help. The error is: make: *** [first/rule] Segmentation fault make: *** [first/rule] error 2 I'm

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will be added to the member of the adm group.

Re: Newt0.30 in potato

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: There was a posting on here a while ago about a fix for newt0.30 dependency problmes a little while ago, but the message archives don't seem to have caught up yet. Does anyone remember what the solution was? I know

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create a few accounts for friends. My normal user account will be added to the

gcc in potato

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
I am not sure where to complain about this...it probably isn't Debian's problem, it is probably the new gcc. The newest gcc in potato: gcc version 2.95.2 19990906 (prerelease) Seems to be pretty damn buggy. There is a great store of code I have that compiled under the last one I used: gcc

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: 3) Some versions are said to not support the wheel group. how is this possible? If I've set the group of the file to wheel (or adm in this case), and the permissions to -rwxr-x---, then how can the su

qt2 packages?

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Rati
The qt2 packages in potato seem to have been replaced with libqt2 packages, but when I unpack them, I get an error saying: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqt2_2.0.2-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g Is there a

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root, the other being a normal user.) I also would like to create a few accounts for friends.

ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread Marshal Wong
I'm using the latest potato right now. The ALSA source compiled fine. I used make-kpkg to install the modules. But for some reason the module won't start. Every time I run /etc/init.d/alsa start, I get the following. Starting sound driver: snd-card-interwave /etc/init.d/alsa: line 10: 7070

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Oct-99 Christopher J. Morrone wrote: dmesg is not suid root...so the users can get that information themselves without dmesg, or compile their own copy of dmesg. There isn't much point in changing the permissions on dmesg. It is only on binaries that are suid and provide some special

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will need to buy online, so I can't browse. Thanks, Jeff If you can

RE: dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Did you, by chance, re-compile your kernel? I assume not, but there is a kernel module for reading NLS Charset iso8859-1. It should be automagically loaded for you. Let me know. Bryan On 19-Oct-99 jh wrote: Hi. As anyone who has followed any of my posts knows, I'm totally green. At this

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I haven't used them myself, but they exist, according to www.gtk.org. On 18-Oct-99 zhaoway wrote: Bryan Scaringe wrote: Just to clarify: GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is called

Re: ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread flonesaw
Marshal, There is a Seg fault problem with the ALSA drivers. I have a Creative Ensoniq PCI64 (ens1371) soundcard and the ALSA drivers do the same thing to me. This is on a S.u.S.E. system with kernel 2.2.5. What I do is to put the modprobe command in a script in my /root/bin directory and run

RE: dselect is killing me

1999-10-19 Thread jh
At 10:41 PM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote: Did you, by chance, re-compile your kernel? I assume not, but there is a kernel module for reading NLS Charset iso8859-1. It should be automagically loaded for you. Let me know. Bryan I did not recompile. I may have done something to hurt the kernel

Re: ALSA sound modules not loading

1999-10-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: I'm using the latest potato right now. The ALSA source compiled fine. I used make-kpkg to install the modules. But for some reason the module won't start. Every time I run /etc/init.d/alsa start, I get the

es1371 sound

1999-10-19 Thread Dave Blears
Hi am having problems with getting an es1371 sound card going and am in need of some collective wisdom! dmesg shows the card there es1371: found adaptor at io 0xef00 irq 5 but i get the following errors and no sound :P es1371: dma timed out?? any clue appreciated! -- Best Regards Dave

enlightenment problem

1999-10-19 Thread Stephan Vachon
I just switched from slink to potato, so I could get XFree68 3.3.4, which supports the millenium G400. After setting up all the files, and running xf86config, I could get Window Maker to run. However, when I tried enlightenment, I got the error message: Enlightenment is unable to initialise

Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread David J. Kanter
From what I've read, I'm relatively pertrified to use my root account unless absolutely necessary, like configuring X or setting up my MTA. (There are only two users here, me and root.) But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run

problems with sendmail on new potato laptop

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Perry
Hi all- I had a recurring problem getting the latest sendmail to work today on a new potato laptop. IT continually bombed trying to find a required file; namely the aliases file that lives on my desktop in /etc. I tried numerous reinstalls of the latest sendmail in the instable tree but it

Re: Emacs20 install error

1999-10-19 Thread Carl Greco
Ian, Thanks for your help. I have the /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc file but not the .el one which, I suspect, is the problem. Install script is probably looking for *.el to byte compile it for emacs20. Unless I hear otherwise, my next step will be to purge both emacs19

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-19 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:42:10AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an CGI executed by apache? Use the directives RLimitCPU, RLimitNPROC, RLimitMEM, etc in the apache config file. See the docs for details. Alternatively you could

X won't start

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just installed lesstif-bin on my potato system (apt also installed lesstif1 and removed lesstifg) and now I can't start X. I get the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I don't see any connection between lesstif and a missing font. Does anyone know what might

Re: Upgrade and floppy

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
The floppy will still boot the same kernel, but it will be compatible. If you upgrade to a newer kernel at some time, you should prepare a new boot floppy (if it is a .deb kernel image package, you will be asked whether you want to make a floppy). You might consider installing LILO for the

Re: RAM Problems....

1999-10-19 Thread Brant Wells
Hi All... Thanks for the replies... I finally got the 2.2.1 kernel booted... It did solve the problem :) Thanx , Brant Wells; [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

potato boot-floppies

1999-10-19 Thread Onno
Marcel had last friday some new potato boot-floppies compiled and made available at http://pandora.debian.org/~marcel/attic/boot-floppies/ The boot-floppies aren't there anymore... Does anyone have a copy of them on the net??? Thanks, Onno

Network Card on PCMCIA...

1999-10-19 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all I'm doing an installation of Debian for a friend. He's got an IBM Thinkpad 360Cs w/8 megs of ram a 165 meg hard drive. I need to get the TrendNet PCMCIA network card going, so I can mount the Debian CD that's on My linux box... Help! Thanx Brant Wells

RE: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Actually, how a cracker will typically try to get in is by exploiting security holes in deamons that listen to network ports. These programs USUALLY run as root. Logging in as root presents little-to-no additional risk. If your system security is weak, logging-in as root wont cause much

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread shaul
1) What am I doing wrong ? 2) Is it possible to intsall unstable's bind without having problems with commercial software ? [07:30:43 /tmp]# apt-get install dnsutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18 Oct, Pollywog wrote: Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble with it. -Todd ps. for this to work, you of course

Re: enlightenment problem

1999-10-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Stephan, I have only seen the enlightenment on the slink CD. But when I checked it out, I think I got around the same problem by running a program called imlib_config (or something close). If you type imlibTAB at the prompt, you should see it. Hope this helps, John P.S. I never got

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-19 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
jh is kooking for a hand to hold: Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian specific book on linux There is a recent Debian specific book from O' Reilley and it is available online too. Do a 'wget -r --no-parent www.ora.com/catalog/debian/chapter' ragOO,

How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi ..anyone knows how to find the ethernet add of NIC pls . bye.. = If making love is an Art, I'm an Artist---ZEN MYSTIC __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:09:13PM -0700, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: hello, I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda But when

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona

Warning - ipmasq

1999-10-19 Thread Art Lemasters
I installed ipmasq and lost connectivity to the Internet with its default configuration. ...another lesson to read before I install. ;-) Art

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Peter Weiss
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:05:17 +0200, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Eric On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct

Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
First load the module, then ifconfig to give IP info to card and then route add -n xxx.xxx.xxx.0 dev eth1 - Original Message - From: ZEN MYSTIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:40 AM Subject: How to find the ethernet add of NIC hi

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-19 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Bernhard Rieder wrote: Thank You for all your answers. Maybe the glib info-files are better than the html documentation.

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make backups quickly! I have seen this kind of messages three times now, and each time they came from a dying hard disk. Especially the fact that it occurs at decreasing intervals is alarming. Try to backup valuable data first, and then do a

Re: Newbie guides on new site

1999-10-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
I have a public IP number at 212.19.67.118 that I'd be happy to make available for this site... Patrick - Original Message - From: Muhammad Yusuf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:22 PM Subject: Newbie guides on new site Hi all. I've

Re: seg faults while building kernel

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew Hately
Jacob Schmude Hello When I try to build a kernel the debian way, I get a seg fault. On my previous linux system this never happened. Was the previou s linux system on this or other hardware? If other, then I suspect your current hardware. Read the Sig11 faq. Often a go-faster option that

Re: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-7_i386.deb

1999-10-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:34:11AM +0200, shaul wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dnsquery', which is also in package bind dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Hi Shaul, I had the same PB with a package from KDE; I used dpkg -i --force-overwrite new_package to

Network problem--cannot resolve the ip to dns

1999-10-19 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
hi... i have sort of network problem here.. recently i have changed my ip add..and was previouly running apache and ws-ftp...now i could'nt ping and access the machine by typing it's dns(the name of the machine following by its domain name) but if i type the ip i could get access... pls

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