Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Anthony Fox
Brad Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome

Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Martin_Tanzer
As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. For the deamons the startscripts redide in /etc/init.d (SuSE/sbin/init.d/) and all accept start, stop, sometimes status, reload, restart. Try it

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread peter
Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Percival
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of

Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Percival
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance

why does Apache depend on MySQL libs?

2001-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to install Apache without any MySQL libs. Why does Apache depend on MySQL in the first place? Seems like if it depended on any DB it should be Postgres. :-) -Ian

Re: how to remove Xfree?

2001-02-16 Thread USM Bish
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:58:34AM -0500, seg wrote: I know I could probably find this info in HOWTOs or whatnots, but I am pretty it's quite simple and one of you nice fellows won't mind spending a few lines of text to explain:) I basicly want to boot up in the DOS like interface, no fancy

eth0 gone

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Gray
I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a Bad file descriptor error. The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under

apt-get via firewall

2001-02-16 Thread hanasaki
Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? Thank you

re discombobulated mirrors

2001-02-16 Thread Heitzso
this morning the de ftp debian unstable mirror is trashed in that the list of avail packages doesn't match what's actually available (offending packages are perl and tk) while the us ftp debian unstable mirror miraculously got its act together after umpteen days of package list not matching avail

Re: Slow SSH responses from server

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:18:14PM -0800, Forrest English wrote: i think it's because your server isn't generating enough entropy. enter random commands at the keyboard somtime. do ls -lahR /that should get you enough randomness to last for awhile. Any suggestions for keeping the

Re: why does Apache depend on MySQL libs?

2001-02-16 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:42:08AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to install Apache without any MySQL libs. Why does Apache depend on MySQL in the first place? Seems like if it depended on any DB it should be Postgres. :-) Um, apache doesn't depend on MySQL. -- CueCat decoder

Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-16 Thread hogan
P133, 48MB RAM, Debian Testing/Unstable (some bits from unstable) 2.2.17 (move to 2.4.1 on hold for time being whilst I read Rusty's howtos on netfilter etc. :) ). Have two onboard ports - ttyS0 and ttyS1 (IRQ 43 respectively) Have an ISA IO card (everything disabled on card save ttyS3 and lpt3

RE: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a recipe for disaster. Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. Similar experience here at work with a Sun Sparc we had... moved

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Gray
Anyone have any experience with DemoLinux? Version 2.0 is based on Debian. Its unique feature is that it runs a complete Linux with KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment straight off of the CD without installing to your hard drive at all. If you like it you can install it to your hard drive. I ordered

Re: backing up a complete linux system

2001-02-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I trying to do a backup of my system and I think I might have the backup part rightcorrect me if I'm wrong I could use this command tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz / ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??)

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. fucking

Re: Wake Up on LAN

2001-02-16 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use /usr/sbin/arp. There are programs that build WOL packets out there - look for ether-wake.c, for example, -chris c-3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For WOL you need to know the node adress of the network card in the computer you want to wake up. Under Windows you can easily get it

Re: necesito información sobre Hurd

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:24:58AM +0100, wolfman wrote: | |La cuestión es donde puedo encontrar el kernel para bajarmelo??? | I don't understand much Spanish (no hablo mucho espanol), but maybe this will help : http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -D

Re: eth0 gone

2001-02-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gray wrote: I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a Bad file descriptor error. The

Re: apt-get via firewall

2001-02-16 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? ftp/http firewall? If you're doing packet filtering, allow those packets. Or set up a ftp/http proxy. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU

Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. nate I Have had a simular experience

kde ignores /etc/profile

2001-02-16 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an export PATH-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I logged in to

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
William Leese wrote: heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as someone already said installing a new kernel.. but

Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ... but how else do you know? Please tell me? I'll change my evil ways... if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it prompts for the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To change the login prompt message, you can edit the file /etc/issue. You will probably have to restart the login on each console for the change to take effect. For example you could log in, and then log out, and you will see the new message. Tom Brad Cramer wrote: I am not really new to

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail within 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever since i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've only

annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Bresson
Hi, Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that i can't get to go away: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep i tried doing a 'depmod -a'

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Nate Amsden
William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM is all i use now.. i'd buy a maxtor

Re: eth0 gone

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Gray
Thanks, Adrian, That did the trick. I know the risks of running unstable and I'm willing to take them to get the more up-to-date packages. Actually, I run the stable dist on a somewhat more mission critical machine. Chris On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris

Re: how to remove auto start to X

2001-02-16 Thread Robin Rowe
If you prefer a simpler method simply use dselect to uninstall xdm or whatever X login you are using. When you come up in a console mode launch X using startx. Cheers, Robin - Original Message - From: USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: seg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...] Try Stormix. Its Debian with a easy installer and a great gui replacement for dselect called stormpkg (which is also available from woody). The installer will also set up X window for you. [...] Any truth to the rumor that they have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] automatic perl module building from CPAN

2001-02-16 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:47:39AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: -- see shy jo, who is ready to throttle CPAN for its insessient There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.59) available! hear hear! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc -- we need your brain!

xwd (GIMP) screen cap error

2001-02-16 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I get an error sometimes when attempting a screen capture: xwd: Warning. Error in XWD-color-structure (flag) xwd: EOF encountered on reading xwd: load_image (xwd): XWD-file /root/.gimp/tmp/gimp_temp.277523.xwd has format 2, depth 24 and bits per pixel 24. Currently this is not supported.

Re: 2 simple questions

2001-02-16 Thread Brad Cramer
Thanks that ddid the trick - Original Message - From: Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: 2 simple questions To change the login prompt message, you can edit the file /etc/issue. You will

Fetchmail Sendmail

2001-02-16 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail server to pass sent mail to. In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I should be using something different. What I'd like to fix is this...

XFree86Config bpp depth confusion

2001-02-16 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I have a little confusion with XFree86Config. What is the difference between bpp and color depth? With the DefaultColorDepth set to 24 my screen rate was 115 hz, but at 32 it is just 85 (max 86). What does choosing 32 or 24 signify? Isn't 24 bits as much as there actually is? At 85 hz I can

Re: wav -- audio cd

2001-02-16 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all I find that for audio CDs, cdrdao works the best for met. Cdrecord forces a 2 second pause between each track. Cdrdao can make an exact copy of a cd, that will even cause the correct CDDA entry to be loaded. Furthmore, it has an automagic copy command, where you just feed it the

Re: Fetchmail Sendmail

2001-02-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail server to pass sent mail to. In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I

XFree86 agpgart.o

2001-02-16 Thread peter
hi there !! im recently trying to run an xserver on a fuckin (sorry) i810 intel board... all those on-board stuff sucks... but anyways... im running potato with a new 2.4.1 kernel ( i also got the new modutils and stuff and all works fine )... on the xfree site they say to run the server with

No incoming mail

2001-02-16 Thread Lars Jensen
Recently I installed my Debian 2.2 system, and I'm having a problem with incoming mail. Outgoing mail works fine, but I don't get any main from the outside (local incoming mail works OK too). Any ideas how to fix this? I've re-run eximconfig, but it doesn't help. My machine is permanently on the

Linux Professional Institute

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Ferrari
On behalf of the Linux Professional Institute, I invite anyone interested to participate in our current survey of Linux professionals. We are in the process of developing our next level of tests for our certification process. We need the help of Linux professionals and system adminins to develop a

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-16 Thread idalton
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:16:44AM +1100, hogan wrote: P133, 48MB RAM, Debian Testing/Unstable (some bits from unstable) 2.2.17 (move to 2.4.1 on hold for time being whilst I read Rusty's howtos on netfilter etc. :) ). Have two onboard ports - ttyS0 and ttyS1 (IRQ 43 respectively) Have an

Re: No incoming mail

2001-02-16 Thread Glyn Millington
Lars, I think we need more help to help you - what programme are you using to bring mail down? Fetchmail? Something else? Can you put up that information, maybe the last lines of any log you have from fetchmail and exim? Glyn M -- so here we are then

Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-16 Thread Patrick Ouellette
You can also create boot floppies off the Debian CD. There should be a directory on the cd called disks-i386. It contains the boot floppy image files. You will also need the utility rawrite2 from the dosutils directory (or somewhere on the net like ftp.us.debian.org). Pat On Thu, Feb 15,

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is 'hostname'. You need to

Help. Odd install problems.

2001-02-16 Thread robhr
I tried posting this question a while ago, but I received no reponses. I looked in the mailing list archives and it doesn't appear there either, which is probably why I got no responses. Anyway, here's my problem. I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on an old PS/2 386. It was running Debian 2.0

LPI:Survey

2001-02-16 Thread Ray Ferrari
This is the site for the survey: http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/jass.py smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: backing up a complete linux system

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On 16 Feb 2001, Krzys Majewski wrote: tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz / ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??) Yeah you probably do. You might want to exclude other stuff to, like /proc, /mnt, /tmp, and possibly /dev. Normally device files are created with /dev/MAKEDEV.

How to get rid of warnings in ldconfig?

2001-02-16 Thread robhr
I've been running the same system since, oh Debian 2.1 I believe. I recently went and cleaned out all the libc5 stuff because nothing I have installed requires it. However, now when I run ldconfig it warns that libg++2.7.2.so, libstdc++2.7.2.so, and libntdll.so are missing (well, those names are

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM drives are

OffTopic - What's the proper way to...

2001-02-16 Thread William Jensen
I've got a web site that has some protected data. On some of the pages I have javascript that does some calculations. Right now I have it so if they click on the link to that page it auto asks for username/password, however, what I would like to do is let them see the page and only ask for

Tool to measure network/connection speed

2001-02-16 Thread Richard Black
Hi all, can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: IMPS/2 problems after kernel 2.4.1 update

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Dave Bresson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: # Yeah, sorry about that...my babbling doesn't translate well to paragraphs. # Ah well... :) # First of all, if your mouse isn't initialized as an IntelliMouse, it # pretends it's a regular PS/2 mouse. # #

perl

2001-02-16 Thread Yuriy Turbovets
When I update my packages with apt-get i have problem with perl. Then some packages don't wan't to install. And then apt-get , when i type apt-get install package , after download apt-get: Compilaton failed ...perl .. etc. And I can't use apt-get

Re: Tool to measure network/connection speed

2001-02-16 Thread Wil Reichert
Various online speed tests available at http://www.dslreports.com/stest/0 Done via browser applet, hence not OS specific. Wil - Original Message - From: Richard Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Tool

Re: kde ignores /etc/profile

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:16:16 +0100, you wrote: Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an export PATH-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is # 'hostname'. # # You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with mounted # filesystems, and you need to reboot to

What is going on with the digest?

2001-02-16 Thread bryan
Greetings, I apologize if this has been hashed over already, but I haven't been getting the debian-user-digest for the past week or so. Don't know what is going on, they just quit coming. I tried subscribing again today in the chance that I had been unsubscribed and so I tried

ssh and devices

2001-02-16 Thread Rick Rezinas
Hi, I'm using testing I was having an issue (think I saw a post regarding this recently), where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty and changed o+w for /dev/tty Now all seems happy, but I was

Promise SuperTrak 100 RAID

2001-02-16 Thread David Priban
Dear fellow Debian users, Did anybody get succesfully Promise SuperTrak100 RAID5 controller working? Kernel 2.4.1 seems to recogize the PDC20265 chip set, I2O driver even tells me the controller is there, but I really don't know how to talk to it nor where to mount the array. It is probably just

Re: Special issues with X on a TFT screen?

2001-02-16 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is handled by the SVGA server. I have configured the whole thing using XF86Setup and Xconfigurator and after that manually tweaking the setup file. I get the X

Re: Fetchmail Sendmail

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: | I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a | mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail | server to pass sent mail to. | | In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I

Re: Tool to measure network/connection speed

2001-02-16 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0500, Richard Black wrote: can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... $apt-get install bing Phil

Re: ssh and devices

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Rick Rezinas [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hi, # # I'm using testing # I was having an issue (think I saw a post regarding this recently), # where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' # # I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty # and

Re: ssh and devices

2001-02-16 Thread Lance Levsen
where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' That would have been me. I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty and changed o+w for /dev/tty No such luck on my end, /dev/tty is already 0666. Sorry, I can't answer your other questions.

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is NOT foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Rebooting is _never_ foolish if it keeps peace in the family... :-) Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning

general kernel question

2001-02-16 Thread c-3
Hi! I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you save boot time, if it's not??? Christian

Re: ssh and devices

2001-02-16 Thread Rick Rezinas
I actually have execute perms also...maybe that makes a difference? I found the issue using strace: strace ssh host and it spews gibberish for a bit, then you see something like open (/dev/tty),??? ENOACCESS(-1,) (sorry, from memory...) which indicated that my user couldn't access

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: ... You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly initialized could

SIOCSIFADDR neighbour table overflow

2001-02-16 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I try to keep up with unstable (I run apt-get dist-upgrade about once a week). Anyway, after a power failure, my machine is not in a happy state. Trying to run ifconfig I receive: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file

Re: OffTopic - What's the proper way to...

2001-02-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:12:19PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: I've got a web site that has some protected data. On some of the pages I have javascript that does some calculations. Right now I have it so if they click on the link to that page it auto asks for username/password, however,

Re: general kernel question

2001-02-16 Thread Erik van Roode
At 10:32 PM 2/16/01 +0100, c-3 wrote: I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you save boot time, if it's not??? Depends on the speed of the medium from which you read the kernel, and the speed of the processor. If the processor can decompress faster than the medium

reconfiguring pcmcia nic when laptop resumes

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i seem to remember months ago, with the linux 2.4pre kernels and debian unstable, dhclient would run anytime the laptop awoke and reconfigured the nic. this was quite convenient since it often awakes on a new network. somewhere along the line, it

Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Albert
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:12, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote: On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use 'debian/rules build', which is rather odd. Anyway, here is the

Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-16 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Matthew Dalton wrote: I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove anything, but..) It proves that the cables are okay. , I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping step. My potato says plip0:

Re: SIOCSIFADDR neighbour table overflow

2001-02-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 13:52:51 -0800, Michael K. O'Brien wrote: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor Known problem. Downgrade to the net-tools package from Testing. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be

broken gnucash in unstable

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately conflict with each other. - --

Re: broken gnucash in unstable

2001-02-16 Thread Glenn Becker
I have had this problem in testing ... Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 5:06pm on Fri, 16 Feb 2001, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it

Problem binfmt module-Help define?

2001-02-16 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm posting about a recent error in my daemon log that occurs every other day stating: modprobe can't locate module binfmt-002 (these change) What did I forget in my last kernel build. I build all modules. What is going on? Thanks, Jonathan -- __ _

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. # # I doubt it. Any trouble I've

boot-floppies mirroring problems

2001-02-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all. I'm trying to get the boot-floppies generation to work because I need to build a custom installation procedure for a machine I want to install debian on (the default kernels do not have drivers for the raid controller on this machine, and there is no ide hard disc, so a special kernel

Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread #KUNDAN KUMAR#
Greetings to all! I have just Installed Debian Potato. Delighted to see that it could be done. I am extremely new to apt-get and the other debian package managaement tools. Had heard a lot of apt-get and thus I came to debian. apt-get is cool. I have a small dumb problem. How can I just upgrade

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:30:11PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and

Re: XFree86 agpgart.o

2001-02-16 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I used the i810gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm and xfcom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm files from http://www.intel.com. Then I rpm -U i810gtt and alien xfcom_i810. Going to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE I rebuild agpgart.o for my running kernel, insmod it, and then dpkg -i xfcom's deb I just alienated. I maked sure /etc/X11/X

Re: broken gnucash in unstable

2001-02-16 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:08:19PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: I have had this problem in testing ... has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict resolution because it depends upon two packages

Re: What is going on with the digest?

2001-02-16 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:03:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I apologize if this has been hashed over already, but I haven't been getting the debian-user-digest for the past week or so. Don't know what is going on, they just quit coming. I tried subscribing again today

Re: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
First change all references to stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list to woody. Then type: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade All this is to be done as root. You could also upgrade to unstable instead of woody/testing by substituting unstable for woody above. If you have any questions, write

Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-16 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer suspend so that all (most of) is powered down but I can resume it and have it in the same state it had before the suspend. Something like portables do, but with a workstation. The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-16 Thread Tyler Braun
I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story, but if I do: xset dpms 0 0 3600 then my monitor powers down after an hour. The first two settings are for going into a suspend state, where the monitor blanks out but doesn't actually shut off. Setting them to

Latest Kernel

2001-02-16 Thread eileen
Hi, I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

/proc/devices lists '188 usb/ttys/%d', choking MAKEDEV

2001-02-16 Thread David M. Anderson
I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled the 2.4.1 kernel. MAKEDEV chokes, with the output: /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the fact that in /proc/devices, under Character

Re: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: | First change all references to stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list to | woody. Then Shouldn't that be testing ? -D

Re: Latest Kernel

2001-02-16 Thread Martin Fluch
I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? 2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre.xx in unstable at least... Martin

Re: Latest Kernel

2001-02-16 Thread Tyler Braun
2.2.18 is the latest in the 2.2 series, but there's also the 2.4 series now, and the latest there is 2.4.1. See http://www.kernel.org instead of the Debian site if you're looking for a kernel. Ty On Fri Feb 16/2001 @ 6:02:P -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking around

RE: /proc/devices lists '188 usb/ttys/%d', choking MAKEDEV

2001-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Feb-2001 David M. Anderson wrote: I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled the 2.4.1 kernel. MAKEDEV chokes, with the output: /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the

Invalid partition table?

2001-02-16 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I am having a problem booting to a Compaq LTE5200 laptop. It has been runnning linux for almost two years until yesterday when I decided to try to upgrade it using a bootable CD. Since it did not seem to boot from the CD, I thought I might make it happen by modifying /etc/lilo.conf.

Re: DSL NT

2001-02-16 Thread Nick
As soon as I read MS Proxy, I thought eck, very sticky. I don't know and easy way possible, except for what was mentioned. Want proxy, use squid, but ipchains is a darn good fire-wall, cheap too! look into firestarter for newbie's - Original Message - From: Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL

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