Re: Latest licq packages seems broken

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:55:00PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any error messages, but licq won't run now. When I try to run it I get: Illegal instruction Anyone know what might be wrong? TIA This was a

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 3:45:18 PM, Rob wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:24:01AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I thought it was part of the script's syntax. (hmm.. what an enlightenment...) Oki 18:39 ~ $ which [ /usr/bin/[ 18:39 ~ $ type [ [ is a shell builtin How strange. I can't get

ATI?

1999-11-18 Thread luis
hello everybody: which is the difference between an ATI AGP and an ATI Xpert AGP video cards? thnaks a lot

Linux as a router

1999-11-18 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. I have installed the base slink system on it, but I'm still having problem with the NE2K network card; the module for it can't be loaded. But since Satan is not available for slink and the system is currently non functional (nowadays, if

strange memory errors

1999-11-18 Thread Philip Thiem
I am running libc6.2.1.2-9 and stdc++2.10 2.95.2-2 in the last couple of week I upgraded to these packages and begun having some strange memory related errors. I've been working on some code in C/C++, and part of this involved a simple string class that takes caring of memory allocation,

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: dont trust that infomration it can be flawed. the kernel just spits out what is standard for those serial ports it does not detect conflicts or even the right IRQ at times The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be rearranged in the init scripts. --

trouble installing debian

1999-11-18 Thread Chris Acheson
I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press enter at the boot: prompt. There is some disk activity for a few seconds, and then the

Re: diff caches stuff in memory?

1999-11-18 Thread debuser
I too doubt this is directly related to diff (but I could be wrong). Is the clean_dir by chance on a network share? I did have a similar problem with a Samba share. If someone logged onto the Samba machine and modified a file, then a Windows machine on the network would not detect that the file

Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded

1999-11-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: There were lots of questions about php4 and when it will be packaged. 4.0b3 was released today, I'm now testing how it compiles and works with shared modules, I will package it this week. Expect an upload on Sunday. For now there will only be an

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:42:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a hybrid slink/potato system on a Sparc IPX right now. yes, slink is in general less stable/less working than potato. OTOH, potato and 2.2.13 will not run at all on

Unstable Stable Debian on a same machine.

1999-11-18 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Hello: The question is, Can I have unstable 'potato' on my first primary drive and stable 'slink' on my secondary drive ? As of now, I'm having 'potato' on my primary HDD with two images of the stable '2.2.13' and unstable '2.3.28' kernel. LILO resides on the first HDD ie. /dev/hda on the /

/tmp permissions changed!

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on the IPX, console on ttya, before I wiped the drive (AM

Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded

1999-11-18 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Just to let you know about the progress... it builds, loads, seems to work. I could even set apache up to load both php3 and php4 modules. This I just read something about the PHP4 release that mentions that Zend is licensed under the QPL. Since PHP4 uses Zend, isn't there a licensing issue

Re: PHP4 packages will be soon uploaded

1999-11-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: Just to let you know about the progress... it builds, loads, seems to work. I could even set apache up to load both php3 and php4 modules. This I just read something about the PHP4 release that mentions that Zend is licensed under the

Re: good GPLed backup program

1999-11-18 Thread Min Xu
Hi, *- On 17 Nov, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote about good GPLed backup program Hi, Looking for good reliable backup program under linux. I know BRU is good but it is priced. I want a free product. -gnana How do you define good: efficient, flashy, easy to use, flexible or

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't recall where ... On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: : [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] : :

Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?

1999-11-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes pinging the remote host seems to provoke the data transfer to start again (or is this coincidence?) I have seen this as well, with the 14.4k of my parents (Doze´95). At my parents, I had multiple Netscape connections open, and all of them would

Re: diff caches stuff in memory?

1999-11-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): apparently diff caches stuff in memory. I'm not sure what you mean by made a new clean version. (I'm sure you know that -N means any empty files that were cleaned away will have no effect on diff's

off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | | --- --- caption 1

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-18 Thread Oki DZ
Harlan Crystal wrote: I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlightenment all the time. Hi, What is the spec of your machine? Mine is a Pentium 100MHz/64MB, would this one run X/Gnome/E comfortably? Oki

exim and procmail?

1999-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my mails to debian-user. Basically, the procmail log messages get echoed back to the debian list server. I edited a line in /etc/exim.conf: userforward: driver = forwardfile no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
Power-On SelfTest FAILED ... Replace CPU Board Umm, this concerns me, shouldn't you check into that? :) As far as the cua0 errors and the overruns on the serial console, I forgot how I fixed that on my system, but it is a simple fix. Try: rm -f /dev/cua* This will get rid of those devices

test

1999-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
this is just a test

Newbie Questions

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Neal
Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks

Scratchy Lines in X now

1999-11-18 Thread debiangeek
Alright, I've got X up and running at a decent resolution, with Xfree86 3.3.5-2 my chipset is supported. The only problem (and a very annoying one) is that there are scratchy horizontal lines that appear when I change something (ie scrolling windows in netscape, resizing windows, moving apps

RE: Newbie Questions

1999-11-18 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine. I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the

TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x

1999-11-18 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel (as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like ping or dns lookup, work fine, but telnets just hang. My system is actually not a

Re: New intel 820 board with linux

1999-11-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Does anyone know how the new intel (I think its number is 820) board is compatible with linux? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't - just don't expect absolute top performance out of it though. --

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferably like to package the cross-compiler so I can esaily remove it if I

Re: gnome-pager loses windows and freezes X

1999-11-18 Thread Herbert Ho
*grin* yeah, forgot to method i tried this. when X froze it took the keyboard with it. no C-A-F1 or C-A-DEL. thanks though! =) herbert On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:17:30PM -0700, Kevin M. McLin wrote: Hello, I don't think I can help you with your gnome-pager problem (I'm old-fashioned and

My ppp connection is (stalling)

1999-11-18 Thread David J. Kanter
This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log of a normal 2.2.13 boot of my IPX, kernel compiled on

Non-fatal (i think) Error messages while loading modules

1999-11-18 Thread Marshal Wong
I'm getting the following error messages when I first, boot up. Anyone know what they might mean, and how to fix them? Loading modules: vfat /lib/modules/2.2.13/fs/fat.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/19991018051253.ksyms No such file or directory /lib/modules/2.2.13/fs/vfat.o: cannot create

Re: Scratchy Lines in X now

1999-11-18 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
The only problem (and a very annoying one) is that there are scratchy horizontal lines that appear when I change something (ie scrolling windows I'm using Potato now, with an SiS 5598 Chipset running an SVGA X server. I'm certainly no X guru and I'm not familiar with that chipset, but I

NIS over Internet

1999-11-18 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
From what I understand NIS isn't encrypted. NIS+ is, but NIS+ doesn't work out of the box and requires a bunch of extra shit to make work. Is there a way to ssh yp or something to get it working? I'd like to use it, but all my servers are spread apart. Thanks. bb

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? This is a console log

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread iehrenwald
Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive

Re: One for you Fetchmail experts out there

1999-11-18 Thread Kent West
Nick Cabatoff wrote: On Nov 16, Kent West wrote: Configuration #2 -- I can further configure Eudora to delete read mail off the server after X days. After X days has transpired, the next time Eudora check the mail it deletes any messages older than X days off of the server

shared library not found

1999-11-18 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all I'm trying to run WordPerfect for linux from Corel It stops with error libXpm.so.4 not found when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 = not found when I try ldconfig -p it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 (libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 what is the problem? Why

natd package

1999-11-18 Thread Dave Wiard
Could somebody tell me what package natd is in? Is it broken with potato? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Kurt Taylor
You might try a LaTeX package called subfigure. It can be downloaded from the CTAN website at ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html. I don't know how well it works as I just came across it a few days ago and haven't had a chance to work with it yet, but it looks like it

Re: Question about Update site behaviour

1999-11-18 Thread John Foster
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Gerardo Mauricio Sarria wrote: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main No, that means you suddenly get a whole new set of packages and doesn't help him at all. Wichert. --- I

/dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Nagilum
I'm wondering how to get /dev/console to work properly in Debian. I'm running Debian 2.1 slink, and a 2.2.12 kernel. I've seen that the Debian distribution sets /dev/console up as a symlink to /dev/tty0, while slackware and Redhat create an actual device with Major # 5 and Minor # 1. Is there a

Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?

1999-11-18 Thread virtanen
Hi, is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2? (Internet server appliance using linux, apache and smb preconfigured) We are thinking here (an educational organization, about 40 workers; 12 000 students...) to buy a www-server with easy administration tasks and uses

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
I'm not a wiz at DNS config but I've done some domain install with success... Here it goes: At 01:50 PM 11/17/99 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] Hi, I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian

Re: Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?

1999-11-18 Thread Radim Gelner
I personally do not own CQ but what I know from debian-mips, they're using their own, modified version of a Linux kernel. It should be available in a source form from their homesite. They also run some mailing lists (as mentioned at www.linux.sgi.com), maybe you should better ask there. Radim

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
I'm not an expert on this bit I have an idea... Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending

Re: /tmp permissions changed!

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
No problem here... I installed from the potato boot flops. Regards, Onno At 03:10 AM 11/19/99 +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with:

Re: UDP port 1025(Blackjack)

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
Thanks for the great tip! Regards, Onno At 07:31 PM 11/17/99 +, Chris Schleifer wrote: Hi, I don't know a lot about this stuff but I can help a little I think. When you are using a network, ports will get opened on your machine whenever you make a connection, this way the remote machine

Re: encryption licenses

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
Maybe the guys at debian-legal (licensing issues) know the answers to your questions. Regards, Onno At 08:47 AM 11/17/99 -0800, aphro wrote: It's been really hard for me to get whats needed in terms of liceses(if any) for encryption. What i'd like to know, if anyone can enlighten me is

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-18 Thread John
on 18 Nov 99, Philip Lehman wrote... The first message in this thread did not reach me, so I don't know who initiated the query. I am a novice and asked the same question . If you go to the archives and look up Alec Smith's reply to me on 10th Nov, you will find a fully detailed step by step

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nagilum wrote: Example: I have: auth,authpriv.* /dev/console in my syslog.conf. These messages should then be logged to the console (among other places). The slackware 7 box handles it fine, but I don't get any

maillinglist news interface down?

1999-11-18 Thread Christoph Martin
Hi folks. Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem to be come in over news directly and not via the mailling list. Is the gateway

How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one without reinstalling all things? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49 -

dselect vs apt

1999-11-18 Thread Urban Gabor
Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major differences between dselect and apt. I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD images. Why would I switch to apt? Regards, Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Radim Gelner
Depending on what type of harddrive you have. For example Seagate and Quantum have a utility to transfer content of a whole harddrive to another one (even bigger). But the free versions available work only with their hardware. Also, I've tested it with fat32, not with ext2fs :-(. Radim Gelner

Mouse, please help

1999-11-18 Thread Haris Siakalis
Hello, I have a problem with the mouse. After the installation finished, and i startx there is no mouse. I see an x in the middle of the screen. I only installed debian yesterday, so be patient with me. I did crtl+alt+del dropped to console and typed gpm but it said command not found.i also typed

Re: off-topic: quick LaTeX question

1999-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity: --- --- | table 1 | | table 2 | | | | |

xv instead of IM in mailcap?

1999-11-18 Thread Debian Mail
I manually exchanged ImageMagicks display against xv on /etc/mailcap. But every time I install an application which alters /etc/mailcap, display is again inserted. How can I prevent that? Stef

How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martyn Pearce
Peter Weiss writes: | Hello, | | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling all things? dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. Mx.

Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Nov, David J. Kanter wrote about My ppp connection is (stalling) This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote: Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something like this: (for instance) \begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth} \begin{table}[t] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}[]{} % Table entries

no list mail

1999-11-18 Thread tf
Hey guys, I'm writing this, but I won't be able to see I did. I'm not getting any mail at all from debian-user. Have any idea why this might be? cc me please, -- -t

Re: Mouse, please help

1999-11-18 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Haris Siakalis wrote: Hello, Maybe the package gpm is not installed. How do i install it? 1) There exists a package called 'gpm'. 2) Did you install it? 3) Which method of intallation did you use? 4) Did the intallation procedure ask anything about the configuration of

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Jose Marin
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote: Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something like this: (for instance) \begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth} \begin{table}[t] \begin{center}

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Onno
Norton Ghost would be a good util, see if you can borrow it from a friend. Regards, Onno At 11:26 AM 11/18/99 +0100, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other reasonable

Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)

1999-11-18 Thread mheyes
I had the same problem. My connection worked fine with a 2.0.36 kernel, but when I used 2.2.13 I would stall after 50K or so downloaded. I read a posting about certain ISPs using Ascend routers, which don't work well with the bsd_comp and ppp-deplate compression schemes used in potato. I added a

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:48:25AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: What is the spec of your machine? Mine is a Pentium 100MHz/64MB, would this one run X/Gnome/E comfortably? I gotta bite... I sit in front of a Dual PII 400 w/ 512MB ram at work and recently switched back to afterstep (from

Re: Mouse, please help

1999-11-18 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi, gpm is not responsible for your mouse in X. To find out, if gpm-package is installed, type dpkg -l gpm. Now there should be something like coma:~# dpkg -l gpm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
That worked quite nicely, thank you. Also, if I put my \label and \caption between \end{tabular} and \end{center}, I can have separate captions on the tables, like I wanted. Awesome. Thanks a lot. Rob -- Just the facts, Ma'am -- Joe Friday

RE: Sane / Scanner problem

1999-11-18 Thread mheyes
The scanner (HP 4c) id was set to 2. When I booted with the scanner off, and entered the echo line you suggested, the scanner mounted and I was able to access it. Hmmm. My lilo.conf forced recognition with append=aha152x=0x140,9,2 so I tried changing the scsi id from 2 to 3 in the append line

autoload balancing

1999-11-18 Thread Petr Vácha
Hi there. I really need to know if it's possible to use autoload balancing on the ethernet and, if yes, how can I configure it. Thanks Petr Vacha

Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferably like

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \ -c

Re: Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before installing Debian Slink [..], I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended packages to install?

Re: diff caches stuff in memory?

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The test case I just set up worked! I don´t know what was different... Maybe the error really was between keyboard and chair, and I´ve now gotten the brown paper bag award :-( I don´t know. Thanks for taking the time to answer, That's OK. It

Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread Rajesh Mittal
hi I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd on that. Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w card. or as a whole . rajesh This is Linux Country. On a

how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: this daemon does not create .pid files, and it forks several times when its

Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 12:35:54 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: Hi, just a small hint : somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago because I

Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the information it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debian that I might download (I guess it's slink.something). I'd like to know if I

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel Mashao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. I must stop avoiding vi at once :-) I just

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Boonstra
You wrote: I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 18 Nov 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: Peter Weiss writes: | Hello, | | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martyn Pearce
Martin Fluch writes: | AFAIK dd can make the copied data useless, when the target hd isn't | identicaly to the source hd (and with identicaly I mean it: same geometry | and partitioned in the exact same way). | | ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions | it

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Boonstra
dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. - Brian

Re: shared library not found

1999-11-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Hi all I'm trying to run WordPerfect for linux from Corel It stops with error libXpm.so.4 not found when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4 = not found when I try ldconfig -p it shows among rest lines: libXpm.so.4

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martyn Pearce
Brian Boonstra writes: | dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. | | | I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. If you mean bad blocks, then the HDD will not present them to the outside world. Mx.

Re: Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called seminar.cls available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Ethan Benson wrote about how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot? does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? does there happen to be a replacement software for these UPSs (that works in smart mode) ? You didn't mention if you tried the bpowerd Debian package.

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be john rearranged in the init scripts. i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a fact that the kernel incorrectly identifies my modem which i hardcode to IRQ9

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Erik Mouw wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile

get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Evan Moore
How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? Thanks Evan

Re: TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On 18 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote: miles Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel miles (as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my miles ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like miles ping or dns lookup, work

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread wir95cgu
| my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one | without reinstalling all things? In my experience these dma/irq errors don't necessarily mean that your hd is about to die. I had these

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ -I./config -g0 \ -finhibit-size-directive

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:28:34AM +0100, Onno wrote: I'm not an expert on this bit I have an idea... Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17

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