Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:42:09AM -0400, chris horn. wrote: Hi. I'm running wiht packages from the newest update of Slink off the ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/debian Debian2.1r5 site, with kernel 2.2.14 #4 SMP Sun Feb 6 12:02:09 EST 2000 i686 I've been getting hard lockups lately, and want to

Re: bad NICs vs bad routing question: potato

2000-04-26 Thread Stan Kaufman
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Here's the ifconfig output: ... it looks good. Here's dmesg: ... don't know, what the multicast errors mean, but they should be harmless. probably you got some dos tool to setup the card - try some options which seem to have something to do with it.

apache + mod_proxy

2000-04-26 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem with apapche and mod_proxy. I added the following to the /etc/apache/http.conf ## www proxy settings CacheRoot /var/www/cache CacheSize 500 CacheDirLevels 3 CacheDirLength 1 and uncommented the LoadModule proxy_module line. I set the clients to access the webserver,

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread chris horn.
I had hard lockups like you describe that were heat related. This was on an overclocked machine (my parents') which would lock when I was home on summer vacation but not for Christmas break. So make sure that your CPU is getting the proper cooling, and if you are overclocking, I guess

Re: moving filesystem

2000-04-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The lost+found directory is created for use by fsck. When fsck runs if it finds orphaned fragments and things like that it will put them into lost+found, creating a file for each cohesive chunk. So, you probably don't need to copy it from /home to /images. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i am

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread Paul Check
Is there a Debian package that displays the temp? Maybe I should keep my eye on that too. I thought I had heard of the Netscape/Java freeze problem before. Any ideas on fix and/or where the problem is coming from? I think I'm now having the same problem while running Star Office too.

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread chris horn.
Is there a Debian package that displays the temp? Maybe I should keep my eye on that too. I don't know about a deb, but I compiled lm_sensors-2.3.4 from source and then installed procmeter3-3.2 from source, as well - and now have a procmeter which displays my system (board thermistor) temp

Re: bad NICs vs bad routing question: potato

2000-04-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.3.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 according to then man-page and a real case in the last few days, this should help: route add -net 192.168.x.0/24 gw 192.168.x.1 eth?

Re: compile vs binary was RE: missing curses?

2000-04-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:10:02 +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: i'm going to be compiling apache and php3 to get my modules in, so i thought i may as well do the lot. or is there a package for MySQL/Apache/PHP3? perhaps there should be. all the apache binaries I've ever seen don't include

Docbook: Graphics for navigation links

2000-04-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
I notice that graphics for 'Home', 'Up', etc. navigation links were included in the distribution of the Docbook modular stylesheets. I can't find a hint as to how to turn them on for HTML output. I have grepped though the Docbook modular stylesheets, and tried searching deja and the mulberry

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Anda mento

2000-04-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Depende do programa. Geralmente fica em um diretório chamado po que venha junto com o código de um programa. Quoting Debian Linux User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Potfile é um arquivo com as mensagens e telas de um programa

Re: silly gif/jpg - ascii art question.

2000-04-26 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:22:54PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: hey. i friend wanted me to convert a picture he had into an ascii art image. the gimp has an option to export an image to AA format (which i assume is ascii art??) but it's greyed out. does anyone know what i have to do to

IP Masquerade problem

2000-04-26 Thread Robert
Hi I have a problem with IP Masquerade on Debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.14 When Debian boot i have message IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel. but i enable it.

Getting mail.

2000-04-26 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hello, I am using Debian Hamm and have some questions about mail configuration. The mail server in my work-place is mri.mri.ernet.in, and I have been using Pine to read mail on this server from the PC in my office (riemann.mri.ernet.in). To do this I used the following options in configuring Pine

Re: framebuffer leaves the consolle in ruines

2000-04-26 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:37:36PM +0200, Joost Claessen wrote: Hello ppl, Lately I have being using the video framebuffer. Now my console looks nicer, quake runs faster ect. But now and them I use expermintal software and my consolle crashed very hard leaving the consolle

Problems with the compilation of the 2.3.44 kernel

2000-04-26 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I have some problems while trying to compile a 2.3.44 Kernel (I need it in order to use a 3D-Rage 128 driver). I compiled it just with the options I needed for this 3D-driver and It worked well (Yes...) But I want to recompile it with my old options : I need SCSI-Emulation to use my IDE-CDRW.

Re: DOSEMU?

2000-04-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: However, since DOSEMU uses custom kernel modules, couldn't a crash inside DOSEMU take down my precious Linux box, too? huh? kernel modules? wasn't that in the far past? all needed changes have been incorporated in the upstream kernels, afaik. I remember that on

Re: psutils and Postscript manipulation

2000-04-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Pearson wrote: is there good documentation of the Postscript file format, so somebody could write a short perl script? There is a book called The Postscript Language Reference Manual from Adobe Systems Inc.

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 4/26/00 2:13 PM, chris horn. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hardware is brand new (August 1999), and top quality. I haven't had any trouble with it until lately, really... Abit BP6 Dual Celeron 400 (not o/c) [snip] Were you aware that there is a mailing list (linux-abit) dedicated to

[joost@thor.edu: Re: /var/lib gone]

2000-04-26 Thread Brad
i think this was intended for the list, not me personally ;) ---BeginMessage--- On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Brad wrote: You could still get a list of more or less all installed packages, since every package creates a self-named directory in /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc. There's one

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread chris horn.
Thank you. I will slap that BIOS on a boot disk and flash away into the sunset! I'll also go find that site. chris. - 26-Apr-00 - 14:53:40

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, chris horn. wrote: Assuming that a software problem would leave clues in the logs or be predictable, and a peripheral problem (i.e., the HDD) would give symptoms first Try testing the memory (hwtools pkg), checking for overheating (take the cover off and point a

multi line regex's in vi ...

2000-04-26 Thread Adam Shand
is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally use vim)? i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace something like the below paragraphs: __ the first line of text, this is

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread chris horn.
I believe you. :) *grin* Electronics (chips that is) either goes bad within the first few months, or lives for 15-20 years before the failure rate start to climb again. The initial failures are caused by defects, the later ones by `wearing out'. So, if the box is a few years old it is

Trick serial port question!

2000-04-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
I need to be able to open a dumb-terminal session to a serial port, while forcing RTS low. Strange, yes, but an absolute requirement. Can this be done with any existing utilities? kermit? Thanks Jeff

syslog

2000-04-26 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello everyone, I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and recreate them? Also, I notice that, lately, whenever I boot into linux and am about to log in, the processor is extremely active.

Re: IP Masquerade problem

2000-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Robert wrote: Hi I have a problem with IP Masquerade on Debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.14 When Debian boot i have message IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel. but i enable it. Well, the kernel doesn't seem to agree with you. 1. Did you compile the kernel? 2. Did

Re: syslog

2000-04-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:24:09PM -0400, Andrew Kae wrote: Hello everyone, I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and recreate them? Yes, if your not concerned about their content. You can

Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Is it possible to run the Debian installation program on a workstation which runs Linux? My friend has given me his HD to install Debian onto it, and I hooked it up and partitioned already. I would like to do an FTP install for him without losing my productivity (read: without booting

latex and xemacs

2000-04-26 Thread herve
I use latex and xemacs like editor. On my previous installation, xemacs recognizes automatiquely the tex file (yet latex appears in the tools bar) and for example Control CC automatiquelly compile. I don't know how to configur xemacs to obtain this result. May i install emacs also? is any

Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Is it possible to run the Debian installation program on a workstation which runs Linux? Is it possible to simply mount whatever floppy image I need off /dev/fd0 and run the installation program? If so, what is the program's name? you may try a chroot-ed environment. man chroot -- Hi!

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread chris horn.
Well, I flashed the BIOS. So now it's just sit tight, and hope. ;) I think I have to update lm_sensors now, though. It's reading temps of 30C for everything! I knew it was cold in here, but wow! Oh, wait. RC5 hadn't been on for a bit. [sitting. staring.] The system was slacking. There they

Re: Print Email the same document

2000-04-26 Thread Kent West
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Kent West wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had lots of help, nothing has ever

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread kmself
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:42:09AM -0400, chris horn. wrote: Hi. I'm running with packages from the newest update of Slink off the ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/debian Debian2.1r5 site, with kernel 2.2.14 #4 SMP Sun Feb 6 12:02:09 EST 2000 i686 I've been getting hard lockups lately, and want to

Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-26 Thread kmself
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:02:40PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Is it possible to run the Debian installation program on a workstation which runs Linux? Is it possible to simply mount whatever floppy image I need off /dev/fd0 and run the installation program? If so, what is the

OT: Help! I need emacs html mode

2000-04-26 Thread Maury R. Merkin
I have almost everything important working now from my switch last week from RH to potato. While I can't say that it's been painless, I have learned some things, which, I s'pose is good for the soul, or something. So, one of my two major remaining problems is that I just need emacs' html mode

xfree86-1-3.3.6 source question

2000-04-26 Thread Tim Buller
I'm trying to build xfree86-1-3.3.6 from source on a i386 potato box. I get through the build phase fine, but it chokes on the binary phase: # ./debian/rules binary test -f debian/rules test 0 = '0' set -e for i in debian/create-compat-* ; do /bin/sh $i ; done dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown

Re: syslog

2000-04-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Andrew Kae wrote: Hello everyone, I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and recreate them? Yes, you can delete recreate them, but do not forget to send a SIGHUP to

Re: serial mouse not working

2000-04-26 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
Hi Rafael! On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Rafael Caetano dos Santos wrote: Is it possible to be a motherboard problem? Mine is a SiS (I forgot the model), with all those PCI, PnP, onboard adapters (sigh). But I guess this bears no problem with respect to serial ports. BTW, I've got a (real) modem

Re: OT: Help! I need emacs html mode

2000-04-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
Maury R. Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, one of my two major remaining problems is that I just need emacs' html mode 'cause I maintain some rather large Web sites and I won't know what to do without it. All I know is that whenever I installed or upgraded xemacs before, it's always been

Re: moving filesystem

2000-04-26 Thread zdrysdal
then how would i refrain from copying the lost+found file whilst using the cp -a or cpio commands? Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/04/2000 04:05:47 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: moving filesystem The lost+found

Re: OT: Help! I need emacs html mode

2000-04-26 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote: I have almost everything important working now from my switch last week from RH to potato. While I can't say that it's been painless, I have learned some things, which, I s'pose is good for the soul, or something. So, one of my two major remaining

Re: which sound configuration utility?

2000-04-26 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! 1) I am looking for a sound configuration utility (like sndconfig on Red Hat), which is it? 2) can I use the sndconfig of Red Hat on potato? thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hi Alex! To

Perhaps I am not understanding this MANPATH stuff

2000-04-26 Thread Richard Kaszeta
I'm trying to figure out MANPATH and man-db 2.3.10-68. First of all, for various reasons, my lprng setup is compiled locally, and runs out of /usr/local/lprng/bin. It's man pages are in /usr/local/lprng/man. I've editted /etc/manpath.config, and told it to map tje PATH entry

Re: which sound configuration utility?

2000-04-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 Alex Kwan wrote: 1) I am looking for a sound configuration utility (like sndconfig on Red Hat), which is it? i don't know wether debian has such a tool, but, perhaps you are interested in the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) driver (http://www.alsa-project.org).

Shell connections refused

2000-04-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there everyone. I don't know if this is a debian specific issue, or a network issue, but I'm experiencing a strange problem connecting from one machine to another. Here's what happens: D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on debian.org. Both machines have telnetd,

Re: moving filesystem

2000-04-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, well I wouldn't worry too much about that. Just let it copy and then delete the directory afterwards. If there's already a lost+found in the target directory then don't sweat it. Just let the thing copy it. It won't make a difference. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then how would i refrain from

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