Re: Problem with the instalation!!!

2000-09-06 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:52:31PM +0300 or thereabouts, Peter Antoniac wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org, I have huge problems with installing the packages from potato. It seems that /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is

nfs module

2000-09-06 Thread Major Sébastien
Hi, I take nfs-kernel-server, the nfsstat prog say : Warning: /proc/net/rpc/nfs: No such file or directory Why ? nfs module is not loaded, so I wrote : modprobe nfs. Which alias command must appear in /etc/modultils/aliases to correct this trouble. The kernel function is request_module

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-06 Thread avner zrihen
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Netscape Bookmarks [solved!!]

2000-09-06 Thread Shel Johnson
Ok, this is what I did.. I copied win9x netscape file, Bookmark.htm, to file /.netscape renaming it to bookmarks.html .. it was that simple.. next for fun, I transferred my address book because the file name is the same for both.. In a few weeks, Mr Gates can kiss my a$$!!.. Thanks everyone for

URL for mysql slink binaries

2000-09-06 Thread USM Bish
From where could I download mysql server and client (binary distributions) for Slink ?The ones on the debian mirrors now, appear to be for potato. USM Bish

RE: 2.2 - Woody

2000-09-06 Thread felix opare
please unsubscribe me . I do not want to be part of this. -Original Message- From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:14 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.2 - Woody On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:02PM -0700, Kyle Lynch wrote:

Source directory

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi everybody, Which is the proper place to uncompress and compile source code that will be installed on /usr/local without any deb? It's /usr/src or /usr/local/src? For example, any program that I download from internet in .tar.gz file where should be uncompressed to follow debian policy (one of

Woody -- potato?

2000-09-06 Thread Andre Berger
Is there anything like apt-get dist-downgrade? -- Andre

apt-get upgrade size mismatch question

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
hello all, i'm having a small problem with apt-get and was wondering if anyone can help out. i'm running woody by the way. everyday i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, but i always get these errors when performing the upgrade. Failed to fetch

Re: sound

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:59:37AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: Hey guys, I finnally got Debian 2.2 installed and running on my laptop. My biggest problme was X, Why can't these companies just use normal video chipsets? Anyhow, it's working!!! I have a ess solo sound card. I installed

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Åsmund Ødegård [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-cache pkgnames | grep task may be suitable for you? Maybe more suitable/easier: $ apt-cache search task Greetings, joachim

installation problems

2000-09-06 Thread Anderson, James H \[IT\]
I'm still working my way thru a first installation and am having a few problems. 1) Using apt-get I upgraded my _working_ pcmcia (LAN) stuff. I stupidly didn't bother configuring during the upgrade, thinking that my config file was already built, so there was no point. Of course the latest pcmcia

Re: how to reconfigure a package? (debconf)

2000-09-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:15:13AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: due to some bug, when debconf starts up the enter key is devalidaded, so upgrading of my machine is impossible i wanted to change the setting for debconf... but couldn't figure how to force reconfiguration of a package

Re: cable modem: does my hostname matter?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:59:18AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 24.115.135.172cr275960-a

Update Debian Slink-Potato: Problems with Soundblaster AWE64 and kernel 2.2.x

2000-09-06 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hallo! I have a weird problem with Debian 2.2: Since I updated my system from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2, sound doesn't work anymore. - Debian 2.1: Sound is fully functional with kernel 2.0.x and kernel 2.2.x (I tested one of my backups to make sure). - Update to Debian 2.2: Sound through

thx to all, the firewall is running !

2000-09-06 Thread webmaster
Thanks to all, giving me tips to set up and configure my firewall !

any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Fedichev
Hello! have anyone ever managed to get sound working with ES1869 sound card? I've been using RedHat and gave up with it. Since recently I installed Debian 2.2 and got the same problem again. Do any of you know the way out or maybe there is a place somewhere to read about configuring a sound

How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Adrian Nims
How do I start | stop a daemon under debian ? I have Debian 2.2 Potato. I understand that I have to use ln -s in order to start a daemon automatic after reboot. Is it the same for stopping forever a daemon that was set up to start after reboot ?

Re: dist-upgrade

2000-09-06 Thread luke
I checked my hostname files after booting off the rescue disk, and everything seems normal. Any other ideas? On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:09:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:32:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I had potato on my computer and decided to

RE: How do I start | stop a daemon under debian

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
adrian, daemons are located in /etc/init.d to start lpd for example # /etc/init.d/lpd start to stop # /etc/init.d/lpd stop to control which runlevel a daemon is stopped/started automatically, use the command update-rc.d. as an example: # update-rc.d -f lpd add hope this helps you out!

Re: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:24:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Debians! I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always have an extra partition to run an extra Linux distribution for

/etc/rcx.d... how should be setup?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I would like to ask a question that has come to my mind... How should be the /etc/rcx.d directories managed ? (replace x with a number) I currently have runlevel 2 with gdm set and 3 without it. But is it there any program in debian that could manage this without breaking the package

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:20:49PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:56:10PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub floppy on the Easy Guide is broken.

Re: Where is the grub floppy?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:14:21PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: Hello all. I am attempting to install the Hurd, but the link to the grub floppy on the Easy Guide is broken. So where do I get the GRUB floppy image from? Install the grub woddy package and then 'info grub'. You will find

Re: why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:51PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Simply because the -l option links static libraries, those which end in .a and not dynamic ones (.so). When you try to compile with libcrypt, it not uses the one in /lib; it uses the /usr/lib/libcrypt.a instead. The same happens

RE: /etc/rcx.d... how should be setup?

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
Use the command update-rc.d, you can easily manage the rc directories with it jason Hi all, I would like to ask a question that has come to my mind... How should be the /etc/rcx.d directories managed ? (replace x with a number) I currently have runlevel 2 with gdm set and 3 without it.

Portuguese charsets and fonts

2000-09-06 Thread Leonardo Dias
There's something wrong with Debian kbdconfig and kbd package. I've tried this more than once: I choose the br-abnt2 keymap using kbdconfig. The keymap is loaded and dead keys starts working. Only that whenever I try to do a 'a, for example, it doesn't return a á. I've tried changing fonts and

Running X from /usr/local

2000-09-06 Thread scott worley
Hi, I built XFree86 4.0.1 from source and installed into /usr/local with ProjectRoot=/usr/local/X11R6 and EtcX11Directory=ProjectRoot/etc. When I run /usr/local/X11R6/bin/startx I don't believe I'm starting X 4.0.1. This startx has on its last line xinit ... without any path. Since my

Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread racuti1
Dear Developer, Technician, User, etc..., I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however does not work. I have tried to configure it in the xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs from the Logitech 3-button/scroll-wheel trackmarble to a

teTeX output looks bad. Any ideas?

2000-09-06 Thread Debian User
Hello fellow Debian users, I've recently did a clean install of stable, and I've run into a problem. The problem is that LaTeX/dvips-produced PostScript files, when printed appear to be at a lower resolution than they really are. More specifically, it looks like the fonts produced by

supported hardware

2000-09-06 Thread Dimitar Vassilev
I am thinking of installing Debian on my PC. Could somebody send me a list of supported hardware? Thanks, Dimitar

Strange Post-install linkage Potato to RH6.2

2000-09-06 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I've just installed Potato onto my laptop in a multi-boot configuration. With LILO only configured for Potato on /dev/hda2 I can reboot with no problems but once LILO is configured for Win98 on /dev/hda1 and RH6.2 on /dev/hda5 modprobe complains about Can't open dependencies file

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you Craig, I've setup Document Root for each virtual host on /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com I made stats for each virtual host on /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com On Apache I want to forward http://virtualhost1.com/stats to

Netscape Network Print Command

2000-09-06 Thread complaw
Okay, this may not be the best forum, but I know that some of you have run into this before... I'm using Netscape on a network. I have a printer set up (lp35) to which I can print things just fine from, say, enscript (using -Plp35). However, the same -Plp35 returns an unrecognized option error.

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Morten Liebach
On 6, sep, 2000 at 02:13:18 +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome (using Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome is

RE: supported hardware

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Holland
If your hardware is listed somewhere on this page, debian will work http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Jason I am thinking of installing Debian on my PC. Could somebody send me a list of supported hardware? Thanks, Dimitar -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

.bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, Ghost here. Recently switched from ksh to bash and have a question. When I open up an Eterm, it does not seem to be reading my .bashrc properly. For one, I have the lines: eval `dircolors` alias ls='ls --color' # set a fancy prompt PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\'

RE: .bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Pollywog
Put in your user .bash_profile: source $HOME/.bashrc On 06-Sep-2000 Debian Ghost wrote: Also, wish to have my ls = ls --color. Both of these things are not working. It almost seems as if my .bashrc is ignored. Can anyone give bash advice? Thank$ a lot! Debian Ghost 'space ghost

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew Porter
I had this problem; it went away when I purged gpm; gpm, as configured in Debian (but not in Redhat) interferes with X's mouse. - andrew porter, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with XFree86 4.0.1 and Gnome-calendar

2000-09-06 Thread James Carscadden
Hi there.., I am having trouble running gnome calendar under XFree86 v 4.0.1. I get the error: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 This repeats a few times then the program segfaults. Same thing happens with gmc

Re: .bashrc question

2000-09-06 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Debian Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dg Ghost here. Recently switched from ksh to bash and have a question. dg When I open up an Eterm, it does not seem to be reading my .bashrc dg properly. dg Can anyone give bash advice? The bash man page is _VERY_ comprehensive and well-written.

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Jaume Teixi
thanks Erdmut now on my rule 've RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/var/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] on the rewrite log I see: rewrite /stats - /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com/ '/var/reports/virtualhost1.com/' to get passed through to next API URI-to-filename handler and then appears a 404

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Preben Randhol
racuti1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/09/2000 (15:52) : Dear Developer, Technician, User, etc..., I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however does not work. I have tried to configure it in the xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs

Re: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Marcus Crafter
Hi! On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, racuti1 wrote: I have sucessfully installed Debian Linux, and Xwindows. My mouse however does not work. I have tried to configure it in the xf86config program, I have tried several types of mice/trackballs from the Logitech 3-button/scroll-wheel trackmarble to a

OT - I/O and CPU load

2000-09-06 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I'm sorry that this is off-topic, but I think many people here would be able to answer this question easily. The unix system in my research center has a file server with 4 CPUs. I don't know all the specifics of the machine, but my question is rather general anyway. Basically, the file

Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading

2000-09-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Willi Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Willi Dyck wrote: Hi. I don't understand the world (Debian)anymore. As soon as I compile things like - ip firewalling - ip masquerading - ip forwarding into the kernel, I can't ping any host by it's name. I am able to

X don't work

2000-09-06 Thread Adrian Nims
I want to make X work under Debian. I have Debian 2.2 Potato with kernel 2.2.17. After I removed gpm, after I configured X with xf86config (after SuperProbe saw my S3 Trio3D/2x with 4096 Kbytes of RAM video board), X start and freeze. You have attached the output of X at start in x.out and

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Jaume Teixi
problem is that Document Root for each virtual host is on /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com and I'm trying to forward http://www.virtualhost1.com/stats to /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com so rewrite rule RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/var/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] really looks for

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Gray
Paul, It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's stability, but our ISP has a contractor who's opinion is Red Hat's the best, thats why they are so popular. I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own It is my experience most people feel whatever they

mIRC

2000-09-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks!

Re: mIRC

2000-09-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:25:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks! Heh, mIRC no. But there are dozens of IRC clients. For console lovers there is bitchx and epic. For X (GUI) lovers there's Xchat (and a lot of others I don't

Re: mIRC

2000-09-06 Thread Digital Overdrive
[ my first posting.. did I sent it correctly ?] Timothy C. Phan wrote: hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks! Look for tkirc in dselect. Or BitchX is even better (IMHO) Digital Overdrive -- Dutch Security Information Network | alt.hack.nl FAQ

Debian w/ 2.2.14 kernel

2000-09-06 Thread ryanr
I am using the 2.2.14 kernel and am having a problem with the file-max limit. I have it set to 4096. Is there any way to set this higher or is this the maximum amount allowed open files? Ryan J. Rady Unix Systems Administrator | Byrider Systems, Inc. 12802 Hamilton Crossing Carmel, IN 46032

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Scott_Patterson
I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome (using Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what helix gnome is really supposed to look and I like what I saw. So my

Re: mIRC

2000-09-06 Thread Frodo Baggins
Timothy C. Phan scripsit: hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks! First, mIRC is the name os _a_ client for irc... and it has no Unix version. However, if you meant tehere exists a IRC client for Linux? the answer is YES. Try xchat (it comes with the standard debian

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-06 Thread Scott_Patterson
The fact is that most, if not all the mirrors are just EMPTY, for example ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ has nothing, nada, zero files. So, I suppose that unless someone indicates what to do, KDE is for the most part closed for

small problems

2000-09-06 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, These are a few easy problems that have got me confused. There are one or two I can't remember the specifics of, but the really simple ones are as follows. 1. Touchpad! In windows it defaulted to no tap-clicking... you know, where tapping the pad is taken as a mouse click. Well now it's

Re: Kernel compile error

2000-09-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Blair Haukedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I cannot compile the Debian 2.2.17 kernel. I get the following: peewee:kernel-source-2.2.17:(root)73$ make config rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) /bin/sh: cd: include: No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create

Re: LILO probs fixed - MBR faulty

2000-09-06 Thread Heather
Hi, thanks to Olaf Meeuwissen and others who responded to my request for help. I was encouraged to continue adjusting lilo.conf until it recognised my three OS (RH6.2, Debian 2.2 Win98). It is now possible to boot into RH and Debian but Win98 seems to have a problem still. I had

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
Jaume Teixi wrote: problem is that Document Root for each virtual host is on /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com and I'm trying to forward http://www.virtualhost1.com/stats to /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com so rewrite rule RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)

strange broadcast message from syslogd

2000-09-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is really weird. I've got potato running on a machine at work, configured pretty much the same as all my other workstation in terms of software. Every few days or so I get the following message broadcast out to all my login sessions: Message from [EMAIL

Re: any luck with ES1869 sound card?

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Smith
You have to recompile the kernel with sound enabled as a module (if you're using idepci kernel--the full-blown version might have it in already) and use the sb (soundblaster) module. A list of the modules I have working says : sb uart401 sound soundlow soundcore Use sndconfig to set it

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I was able to figure out the problem myself. For some reason, I was unable to get Pump to work with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] DHCP servers. I then remembered that there was another DHCP client, dhcp-client, which I have used earlier on

Help setting up my scanner??

2000-09-06 Thread Daly Gutierrez
Hello all, I have an HP Scanjet 5p (SCSI) scanner hooked up to my Buslogic 958 (Mylex) SCSI card. The Hardware-HOW-TO states that both devices are Linux compatible... and they appear to be, to some extent. I have installed the SANE package and its documentation also says that the HP Scanjet 5p

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:51:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what's causing this but my X settings looks grainy on Gnome (using Sawmill for wm). To be check if helix-gnome is supposed to look grainy I booted to Win2K and went to helixcode's website. There I saw what

RE: OT - I/O and CPU load

2000-09-06 Thread Jean-Jack M. Riethoven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- running. However, our sysadmin insists that cpu-intensive jobs will have no effect on I/O intensive jobs. Is this generally true? First of all, let me tell you I am no expert :) Its strange that a machine designated as fileserver is running user jobs at

Re: Grainy Gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My resolution is no problem it's only this grainy texture that bothers me. It sounds like you're not actually running at 32 bpp. If I remember correctly, there is a file in /proc that lists the X-server specs.

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:44:23 -0400, Paul McHale wrote: Debian has a religious issues with /usr/local. Some packages really want to be there (I.e. apache). Huh? Check out what the policy manual says about it (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1); essentially, the religious

Re: strange broadcast message from syslogd

2000-09-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is really weird. I've got potato running on a machine at work, configured pretty much the same as all my other workstation in terms of software. Every few days or so I get the following message broadcast out to all my login sessions:

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Paul == Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Paul, just adding my two cents, [...] Paul There are curious parts of debian. Debian has a religious Paul issues with /usr/local. Not so. Please go read up on the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard,

Re: strange broadcast message from syslogd

2000-09-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Tue Sep 5 17:42:31 2000 ... locust In my experience, this happens someone tries the rpc.statd buffer overflow exploit. I'm surprised you don't see it in syslog and messages (with

Re: Seyon with incoming calls

2000-09-06 Thread Barry Samuels
Dave Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply Dave - the only one so far. On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:45:14AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: I am trying to get Seyon to answer incoming calls and there is, strangely, no mention of answering incoming calls in the documentation.

Re: Help setting up my scanner??

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Smith
There is a seperate section in the kernel configuration for generic scsi devices. You have to have that enabled for the scanner to work. After that, the device that you should use is /dev/sg0 (1st scsi generic device). Daly Gutierrez wrote: Hello all, I have an HP Scanjet 5p (SCSI) scanner

Re: small problems

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:14:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. CDROM. Once I load up my GUI, if I hit the eject button it pops right out, but at the command line it doesn't. Now I'm probably ignorant to some basic truth of Linux here, but since I prefer to work at the command line

Re: Funny login comment...

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Triggs; Ian wrote: Hi, just after I managed to get my cable modem working under linux I noticed some funny things started happening to my computer. For example, when I login it gives me the message: PAM_unix[390]: (login) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) and then after the

Re: URL for mysql slink binaries

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
USM Bish wrote: From where could I download mysql server and client (binary distributions) for Slink ?The ones on the debian mirrors now, appear to be for potato. the slink archive is on archive.debian.org now I use: deb http://archive.debian.org/ slink main contrib non-free for my apt

Re: Debian w/ 2.2.14 kernel

2000-09-06 Thread Leonardo Dias
I am using the 2.2.14 kernel and am having a problem with the file-max limit. I have it set to 4096. Is there any way to set this higher or is this the maximum amount allowed open files? VALUE=8040; echo $VALUE /proc/sys/fs/file-max -- Leonardo Dias Analista Programador / Analyst

Re: installation problems

2000-09-06 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:24:01AM -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote: I'm still working my way thru a first installation and am having a few problems. 1) Using apt-get I upgraded my _working_ pcmcia (LAN) stuff. I stupidly didn't bother configuring during the upgrade, thinking that my

Re: help with compiling qt examples?

2000-09-06 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:34:10PM -0400, Rob Tandy wrote: Hello all, I recently apt-got libqt2, libqt2-dev, qt2-doc... i think proper usage is i recently 'apt-get'ted... or if you're from georgia, i done apt-git... :)

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:30:13AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: dhclient (that's the name of the executable in the dhcp-client package) is the best (imo) dhcp client for unix-type systems. That would explain why NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD use dhclient in their bootup sequence when you select

Re: How to get proposed-updates.

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:39:09PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: How do I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to access the proposed-updates or potato-proposed-updates directory on the Debian mirrors. What are those proposed updates? How do they differ from the usual packages available online?

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Smith
Oh, no, dhcpd is the server software. That won't work at all, unless you are on contract with @home to provide this service:^) In fact, you might be handing out addresses to @home customers who wonder why it doesn't work. What they don't tell you about @home is that they use static ip

david the gnome

2000-09-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello All, D Ghost here. Have a quickie. How can I tell if I installed gnome or helix gnome? I can not remember which I installed. Thank you kindly, D. Ghost 'space ghost riding a fox named swift'

Re: installation problems

2000-09-06 Thread David Karlin
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:24:01AM -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote: 2) My /var file system is out of space, mostly filled up with apt stuff. I'd like to delete only those packages that have been successfully installed since there are a number of things I still want to install,

Re: LILO probs fixed - MBR faulty

2000-09-06 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:09:38AM -0700, Heather wrote: As a preference, I think the install-mbr is elegant. I like the idea that it won't say much, but I can hit SHIFT and access everywhere. And if you set no delay then your non-Linux-enthusiast superiors won't notice you've slipped one past

small problems PS

2000-09-06 Thread Rubbish5
Hi, Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs. Each of these (the link to home and then 3 urls) are called 'gmc'. If I close the programs the icons go

Re: WP5.1 under DOSEMU uses 100% CPU all the time

2000-09-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, I. Tura wrote: Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I Under DOS there is no ability to idle waiting for an event. Instead the system must continously poll the

dhcp to static ip

2000-09-06 Thread William Jensen
Hey guys, I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip) to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what to do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah into this file, do this with resolf.conf? I'm itching

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread John Reinke
Read Sven's message below again - dhcpcd - this is not server software. This is what I use for my cable modem connection. It worked for me before I even had a clue what I was doing! It automatically is assigned the DNS servers, etc, so all you need to do is turn it on and it works (even easier

RE: dhcp to static ip

2000-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: Hey guys, I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip) to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what to do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah into this

Re: small problems PS

2000-09-06 Thread David Z Maze
Rubbish5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R5 Another one I forgot: I'm running GNOME with enlightenment, and R5 when I'm in root, the pager (GNOME's pager, I got rid of R5 enlightenment's) displays the icons as if they were programs. Well, there's an easy answer here: don't log in to X as root. In

Re: dhcp to static ip

2000-09-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi William! On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip) to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what to do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah into

RE: Linux hates rodents

2000-09-06 Thread Federico Silva
Hi, Run gpmconfig ( or it was gpmconf, someone? ), and accept all the defaults BUT the repeat protocol should be none. This should fix it without sacrificing the gpm Worked for me, hope it works for you. :) And by the way, please don't send html mail or rtf mail. If I read this

where did moncontrol go?

2000-09-06 Thread Eric House
Programs using moncontrol() that compiled on slink no longer link on potato. Any idea what library that function lives in? Is there an alternative? Is there no way to search for this information on the Debian site? (moncontrol is used to turn on and off the gathering of statistics during

VMWare troubles

2000-09-06 Thread Ryan Jackson
I'm trying to get vmware 2.0.2 build 621 running on my Woody system and I've been unsuccessful so far. vmware-config compiles the vmmon, vmnet and vmppuser modules just fine and lsmod says they're loaded, but when I try to power on a virtual machine my system hangs. I've done this with kernels

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Smith
Yeah, there's that, but from all the inquiring I have done, that address is pretty much unchanging. The problem I've found with @home, at least in Eugene, OR, is that they use alot of mystique to describe what they do, like it's magic or something, when all they really do is pass packets and

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-06 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:53:19PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: Read Sven's message below again - dhcpcd - this is not server software. Yup, note the 'c' in dhcpcd. Stands for client. And the binary behaves like a daemon in the way that it disconnects from the terminal and keeps running the way

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2000-09-06 Thread brandont
i have quite a predicament in installing linux flavor debian 2.2.8 i believe...unfortunately, i don't remember the kernel...at any rate, i have tried several flavors of linux including mandrake 7.0 (i know, i suck but i was desparate), slackware 7.0, and finally debian (preferred)...i tried 3

Re: OT - I/O and CPU load

2000-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Brian Stults wrote: Hello, I'm sorry that this is off-topic, but I think many people here would be able to answer this question easily. The unix system in my research center has a file server with 4 CPUs. I don't know all the specifics of the machine, but my question is rather general

Re: Help setting up my scanner??

2000-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Daly Gutierrez wrote: Hello all, I have an HP Scanjet 5p (SCSI) scanner hooked up to my Buslogic 958 (Mylex) SCSI card. The Hardware-HOW-TO states that both devices are Linux compatible... and they appear to be, to some extent. I have installed the SANE package and its documentation

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