Re: Problema con la Debian policy

1999-11-02 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 12:14:10PM +0100, Paco Brufal wrote: ¿Tienes todos los paquetes necesarios instalados? Yo tengo estos y siempre me ha funcionado bien: ii sgml-base1.01utilities to maintain the SGML catalog file ii sgml-data0.13Data files for SGML

Re: modem 3com

1999-11-02 Thread TooMany
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:44:44AM +0200, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: Pero con el hylafax no chuta. Dice Bueno... tengo malas noticias (Brown). Tengo el Hylafax rulando en la empresa de coña. Primero compramos seis módems 3Com 56k, y menos tres que los pude recolocar por ahí, el resto los

Nuevos desarrolladores

1999-11-02 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: He leido en ciertos mensajes de la lista que actualmente es imposible hacerse desarrollador. ¿Es verdad? Si es así, ¿a qué se debe? Un saludo. Virgilio Dios mio, hemos caido en manos de ingenieros Ian Malcom, el matemático de Parque Jurásico http://mural.uv.es/virgoru

Re: ¿No funcionan los acentos en el Netscape de Potato?

1999-11-02 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Han Solo wrote: Pue eso, en una potato que tengo en el trabajo, he instalado El Communicator 4.61 y resulta que ahora no funcionan los acentos. Antes teía el 4.08 y sí que funcionaban, pero lo he actualizado porque fallaba más que una escopeta de feria (no el clásico problema del

Re: Problema con la Debian policy

1999-11-02 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Han Solo wrote: Hola a todos. Necesito imprimir la Debian policy, y estoy intentando hacerlo a partir del fichero policy.sgml, pero me está dando mucha guerra. Lo primero que he hecho es intentar convertirlo a LaTeX con sgml2latex ¿Has probado con debiandoc2latex? Es posible que ese

como se activa el /dev/dsp

1999-11-02 Thread 31
tengo una awe64, y antes, con los kernels 2.0, funcionaba, pero ahora con los 2.2, ya no lo hace y activo exactamente lo mismo que antes menos la opcion del kernel /dev/dsp, porque no viene con las opciones. El kernel, hace la inicializacion del sonido, pero luego si hago un cat /dev/sndstat en

CITRIX en Debian

1999-11-02 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
He probado de instalarme el cliente de Citrix para linux (versiones 2.8 y 3.0) en mi debian, pero no consigo conectarme al Windows NT Terminal Server de turno, me devuelve un error 49. Alguien ha probado este programa y le ha funcionado? --

Recompilar LIBC6 para pentium II

1999-11-02 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Supongo que la pregunta es algo generico de Linux/Unix, pero creo que se trata de algo interesante: Se ganaria en rendimiento si se recompilara la libc6 para una arquitectura especifica (por ejemplo Pentium II). Lo digo porque recompilar el kernel es una cosa habitual

RE: Netscape 4.71

1999-11-02 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: martes 26 de octubre de 1999 3:51 Asunto: Re: Netscape 4.71 On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: El Sun, Oct 24, 1999, Angel Vicente

Re: Nuevos desarrolladores

1999-11-02 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Virgilio Gómez Rubio wrote: He leido en ciertos mensajes de la lista que actualmente es imposible hacerse desarrollador. ¿Es verdad? Si es así, ¿a qué se debe? De la lista debian-news, mensaje del 12 de octubre: It's official: Debian is not currently accepting new

Re: Nuevos desarrolladores

1999-11-02 Thread Jon
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Virgilio Gómez Rubio wrote: Hola: He leido en ciertos mensajes de la lista que actualmente es imposible hacerse desarrollador. ¿Es verdad? Si es así, ¿a qué se debe? no se,pero hay todavia hay paquetes huerfanos,y los seguira habiendo --

Re: Problemas con sound blaster 128

1999-11-02 Thread Avid El Fasih Santalla
Avid El Fasih Santalla wrote: ¡Por fin funciona! Gracias por la ayuda prestada. Lo que pasaba no me lo creo ni yo. Normalmente casi nunca hago el make dep. La ultima vez lo he hecho y me ha funcionado, no lo entiendo, además que en el equipo de la oficina siempre lo hago, no se por qué

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1999-11-02 Thread Alejandro Espejel Rosales
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menus w/ xcircuit don't work?!

1999-11-02 Thread Herbert Ho
none of the menus on my xcircuit work. i've checked the man page, readme, and bug reports and nothing points to any solutions or problems with the menus. when i move my mouse over the menus they highlight, but when i try to open then (with mouse button 1, 2, or 3) they don't respond. this is a

Re: ipfwadm rule

1999-11-02 Thread Damon Muller
Hi, There is a modular firewall shell-script called gmmf that should do what you are after. It's pretty simple to set up, and denies all ports by default, and requires you to open any specific ports you want to use. Have a search on http://freshmeat.net for gmmf to find it. Cheers, damon On

Pine 4.20 debs available.

1999-11-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
source and i386 packages only for now. http://debianpine.tripod.com (These debs are not endorsed in any way by the Debian Project or anyone other than me.) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Freeserve in UK). Connection gets established OK - ifconfig shows it's up Good. and routing tables have sensible entries. Please show us the routing table. However I am only able to successfully ping

Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread Iain Lamb
uncle! I have two machines: 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2 I want to synchronize .2's time with .1's. I've setup ntp on both. On .2 I've specified 192.168.1.1 as the server. But things don't seem to work - after waiting a few hours, .2's time is still very out of sync with .1's. If I kill ntpd on

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-02 Thread Peter Good
Thats the only way I could get my burner HP7100i to work as well, load both with scsi emulation On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Gubitz said xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel ERROR at text.tcl

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
just make sure xntp3 is running, you can test it by telnetting to port 37 on the ntp server, it'll spit out some garbage and drop you thats normal. then setup a cron entry i suppose to synch the time every 12 hours or something.. my ntp server is rarely more then 0.001 seconds off from the servers

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 05:59:18PM -0800, Iain Lamb wrote: Note that netdate tcp 192.168.1.1 works fine on .2. That means your xntpd is not loaded, otherwise it should return: 2 Nov 03:21:51 ntpdate[5563]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting Check you've got a symlink in /etc/rc2.d, alike:

HELP! Can't restore system after 1st ZIP afio archive

1999-11-02 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Perhaps there is an easier/better solution then kbackup/afio? Before I reinstall from scratch, I would appreciate advice, as it may be possible to get my system back I recently used the zdisk utility to successfully build a boot floopy, with my kernel that has support for my (imm)

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-11-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... No, I can only guess at what's going on. The first few lines of the document source are (wrapped arbitrarily): HTMLHEADTITLESlashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. /TITLE /HEAD BODY bgcolor=#00 text=#00 link=#00 vlink=#00 ..

debian installer and adaptec 2940

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
I recently downloaded the latest Debian and tried installing it. Unfortunately, it dies when it tries to initialize the SCSI bus (Adaptec 2940UW). After downloading the sequencer code, it says: Failed in WD-7000 initialization. It then reports 1 host (my Seagate 9 gig), and then it loops

Re: mysql root password

1999-11-02 Thread Clint Dimick
Ingo Reimann wrote: Sometime, when i installed mysql ( don't know why exatcly ) the configure script advised me to set a root password. I yelled for the ghosts ( is it correct? ) and set one with myswladm password XXX ok, so far so good. Every time when some apt script touches the

Disk error! ACK!

1999-11-02 Thread Jon Hughes
I ran into this problem tonight and I'm trying to be very cautious so if anyone can give me (a semi newbie) some advice I'd appreciate it. Here's what happened. I used CFDISK to re-designate a extra partition on my hard drive from BeOS type (it wasn't being used at all) to Windows95 Fat 32 so

Re: debian installer and adaptec 2940

1999-11-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch) rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can snarf them from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/. On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:18:15PM -0800,

dv_version? what is that about?

1999-11-02 Thread Jacob Schmude Your Jacob Schmude
Hello When trying to upgrade to the latest potato release I get the following error: db_version: command not found dpkg: subprocess exited with status error 127 There's no package that seems to be associated with the error and there's no db_version command on my debian system. The commands I

(solved) xcircuit menus won't work

1999-11-02 Thread Herbert Ho
hehehe, stupid mistake. the xcircuit troubleshooting page (the one i forgot to read) states that menus won't pull-down with the num-lock keys on... silly me... =) herbert

Problem with dselect in unstabke

1999-11-02 Thread Stan Brown
How can I totaly reset dselect's view of the world? At least thats what I think I need to do. Heres the problem. I am trying to do a cold install from unstable. i have th meachne up, and conected to the network. I have even run dselect a couple of times.

Re: Pine question

1999-11-02 Thread Dpk
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, peter karlsson wrote: Johann Spies: I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic

remove custom kernel-image

1999-11-02 Thread minxu
Hi, Over time, my linux box accumulated a bunch of installed kernel-images. Can I safely dpkg --purge the unwanted kernel? Thanks. -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(O) (212)

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread Iain Lamb
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just make sure xntp3 is running, you can test it by telnetting to port 37 on the ntp server Yes, a telnet to .1 37 does indeed return a little healty garbage - although I thought perhaps ntp connects to port 123 using udp (this idea based on a 'grep ntp

Re: remove custom kernel-image

1999-11-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over time, my linux box accumulated a bunch of installed kernel-images. Can I safely dpkg --purge the unwanted kernel? Yes. Just make sure not to remove the one you're currently using, that could cause problems ;)

Re: Where I find kernel and netscape?

1999-11-02 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello! Sorry my english (I brazilian) :) Where do I find the packages of the kernel of Debian? I bought Debian 2.1 in just a CD (Cheapbytes) and I am having difficulties of finding the kernel and the netscape. Can anybody help me? 1) kernel: Beside using deselect and searching for

Re: Wp8 and Debian 2.1

1999-11-02 Thread Adam Shand
In addition to that you need a wrapper that rearranges the library path, this is the one I use i've attached a better one which was posted by someone on bugtraq. it also solves a couple security issues which are particularly an issue if you're using wp on a multiuser system. make sure you

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
i run xntp3 on tick.firetrail.com and it gives connection refused when i attempt connection on port 123. but 'ntpdate tick.firetrail.com' does work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] telnet galactica 123 Trying 208.222.179.31... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pine question

1999-11-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Dpk wrote: From the main menu in pine: 1. Type 's' for 'Setup' 2. Type 'c' for 'Config' 3. Scroll the very bottom and select (hit enter) on 'url-viewers' 4. Type 'lynx' and hit enter 5. Type 'e' for 'Exit' Thanks, but that did not solve the problem. Even

Is this a reason to put an a4 versions on the net ? Where ?

1999-11-02 Thread Shaul Karl
[15:38:02 /tmp]$ zgrep -A12 -B9 tcp/ip introduction /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.txt.gz 4.3. Where to get some non-linux-specific network information. If you are after some basic tutorial information on tcp/ip networking generally, then I recommend you take a look at the following

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-02 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:35:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Gubitz said xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel Thes are two separate issues.

where to get powerpc debian cd

1999-11-02 Thread Adam Shand
is there somewhere i can buy a powerpc debian install cd? or do i need to wait for potato to become stable? thanks, adam.

console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Todd Suess
Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 a2h has a programming bug at

Re: Debian -VS- RedHat, again?

1999-11-02 Thread Mickael Vera
You can add yourself entries in the menus of your window manager. I use fvwm2 and there are hooks in your .fvwmrc2 that allow you to customize your wm. Just read your fvwmrc2 or equivalent, I've never done it but it should be very easy. -- Vera Mickael Stagiaire

Debhelper for slink

1999-11-02 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade before I can do that? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore,

RE: Error using apt-get install

1999-11-02 Thread CARVALHO Carlos
Have you tried purging (use underscore _ instead of hyphen -) ntpdate and all related packages in deselect ? C. Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Message d'origine- De: David J. Kanter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: lundi 25 octobre 1999 05:05 À: Debian listerv Objet: Error using apt-get

problem with telnet

1999-11-02 Thread Markus Lenzing
Hello, I'm trying to set up a little server with debian linux. When I connect to my server via telnet and try to change my configuration files (like smb.conf), I get a 'permission denied'. The user account I have used has the nessecary rights. Where can I change this? Markus

Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

1999-11-02 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has successfully restored a system from a multi-volume set. I'm really stuck, trying to figure out

Re: Disk error! ACK!

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:24:27PM -0500, Jon Hughes wrote: I'm cautious about clearing some illegal block for fearing I'll lose data or what not. And you're right :) Try to change it again, but this time with 'fdisk' instead of 'cfdisk', some cdfisk versions are not very good, especially with

Re: problem with telnet

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:58:22AM +0100, Markus Lenzing wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a little server with debian linux. When I connect to my server via telnet and try to change my configuration files (like smb.conf), I get a 'permission denied'. The user account I have used has the

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-02 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Further to PPP to ISP saga - once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so excuse formatting) ... DestinationGateway Genmask Flags MSS Win irtt Iface 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 15000 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0

gnome-session only starts enlightenment

1999-11-02 Thread Paul Serice
I'm having a hard time getting gnome-session to start any window manager other than enlightenment. I've tried exporting WINDOW_MANAGER immediately before calling gnome-session but to no avail. Thanks, Paul Serice

Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

1999-11-02 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: Hi, I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has successfully restored a system from

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debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Once I did that (it took about 15 minutes to read the kernel from the floppy), it went to the main installer thing. I selected

Modem driver

1999-11-02 Thread Tim Bedding
Does anyone know of a driver for the modem Modular USB 56k? Tim freely-modifiable software advocate

Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Schramm
I hope this gets to the list. I never saw my question post the last time. I am running Debian slink and I need to share my printers with my networked Debian slink workstations. I know that there is a file I need to modify in order to give permission to each computer to do this. I just

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote: I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Hi, I think that we need to know at least something about your hardware

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

1999-11-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 11:59:14AM -0400, Sebastien KALT wrote: I have a 390 and i'm using the XFree 3.3.3.1 with the SVGA X-Server from Slink and it works. I set up X with XF86Setup (for that you need the VGA16 X-Server also). The NM2200 chipset is available, and when i launch X it is

Re: Does anyone use ZIP disks to backup/restore their system? How?

1999-11-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: Hi, I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really appreciate any advise

Help! My linux is gone with an error message

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
I get this message from the console when I'm working TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone. Use /dev/vcs and the system goes down. I cannot do nothing and I must power off my machine. I have debian 2.1r3, and I don't install unstable packages. I've done memtest86 this weekend and I didn't get any

What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? -- Abracos, Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.871 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamos catalogar o Linux no Brasil?: http://members.xoom.com/riba/ http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/5560/

.zip file

1999-11-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
I recently recieved a .zip file in the e-mail, and when I tried: $ gunzip file.zip gunzip: zile.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored What am I doing wrong? -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ

Re: .zip file

1999-11-02 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: I recently recieved a .zip file in the e-mail, and when I tried: $ gunzip file.zip gunzip: zile.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored What am I doing wrong? Better try http://packages.debian.org/unzip;. But it should already be on your Debian CD (if

Re: What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:09AM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? It's the current released version of Debian. Our releases have version numbers assigned when they are released, and until then they are known by code names. Slink is the name for Debian 2.1.

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =) I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec 2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8:

Urgent: How do I relay mail

1999-11-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I need to setup an (internal) server that will relay mail. I does not need to accept mail from outside it will just have to forward mail from anybody who can reach it to wherever it has to go. I Installed sendmail but the default setting for it is to relay no mail at all (only from the

Solved! (WAS: Re: problems with mirror /// Re: BUG: wu-ftp 2.6.0 !? (was: Mirror bug)

1999-11-02 Thread Onno
Mirror was the problem. There is a new version of mirror available in potato that fixes the problem. Read the docs for more info... In short: upgrade mirror Thank you all for the help, Regards, Onno

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] Other hardware: - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't find the module to install this card in the installer) This uses the pci-ne2k module. - SB16 - Riva TNT2 AGP I've gotten it to install and reboot off

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at

Backup Media

1999-11-02 Thread Bernadette McKevitt
I am based in small office with 2 pc's and 1 laptop. The computers are set up on a local network and I am trying to decide which backup media device would be best for this office. Bernie,

Runtime kernel parameters configuration

1999-11-02 Thread Onno
When I was configuring kernel 2.2.13 (make menuconfig) I was looking for IP: always defragment (CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG) and I couldn't find it. It had to be somewhere because its required for masquerading. Then it hit me, some kernel options are moving to /proc/sys/* and can be configured at

NIS

1999-11-02 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile it but it still does not work -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

STS

1999-11-02 Thread Tim Bedding
Space-Time Systems is a UK company which supplies Linux systems. Does anyone know anything about them? I have their website address. Are they any good? Tim freely-modifiable software advocate

Re: NIS

1999-11-02 Thread sharkey
Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile it but it still does not work Works ok for me... Eric

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/11/99 Mock Ko wrote: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) ^ 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now (I was

Perl termcap error during apt-get?

1999-11-02 Thread Charles Lewis
Getting the following error during a recent dselect/apt-get: Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Configuring packages... /tmp/fileCfnBOx: /user/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig

Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Oct, Pere Camps wrote about Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages Phil, You don't need to install any glibc2.1 packages to run kernel 2.2 - I'm doing it right now. You just need to update some programs as per the kernel documentation (best by compiling from scratch, imo).

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further to PPP to ISP saga - once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so excuse formatting) ... DestinationGateway Genmask Flags MSS Win irtt Iface 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 15000

hwclock, date, and utc

1999-11-02 Thread Michael Perry
Greetings- I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, I can reset things using the hwclock commands and then

Re: What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:09AM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? It's the current released version of Debian. Our releases have version numbers assigned when they are released, and until then they are known by code names. Slink

libslang problem after upgrade to potato

1999-11-02 Thread Neil Booth
After doing a distribution upgrade from slink to potato, I keep getting errors about /usr/lib/libslang.so not existing. Doing ldconfig /usr/lib results in ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: I will report this as a bug, anyone else get this also? -Todd Yes, and I tried to uninstall and reinstall. It just got worse. New error messages. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

uninstall/reinstall

1999-11-02 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi folks, just some practical question. Does there exist a simple mechanism to reinstall a package, that might be broken by some error? If i use dselect, all dependencies are also checked and lots of packages might be removed. would dpkg -r --force-depends XXX ; apt-get install XXX do what

Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-02 Thread m_shapiro
I am running slink with kernal 2.0.34 and am thinking about upgrading to kernal 2.2.10 (I have seen posts about problems with 2.2.11 and 2.2.12, no news, yet on 2.2.13). I don't have any dire need to upgrade, so I'm not sure if it is a good idea, or just wait until potato is upgraded to stable

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a 1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem. Just to be

S3 trio 3D

1999-11-02 Thread Hongyu Lu
I tried to setup X for S3 trio 3D in debian, but falled. I already upgraded the XSVGA to 3.3.5(this worked fine for my previous Redhat 5.0), but I can only get the 800*600(8-bit) config work for me. Any idea? Thanks. Hongyu

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian installation woes 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes file in the kernel source documentation Util-linux

Re: [A try again . . .] Mail Server

1999-11-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
Dear Mentor List; 'debian-mentors' is for technical help for packaging software for the Debian distribution. 'debian-user' is for usage questions. I am copying your mail there. You will probably get much more help from them. Julian I would like to apologize for my previous mail

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I thought that might be the case. However anyone installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0 kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people would need that much swap anyway. --- Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian installation

Re: [A try again . . .] Mail Server

1999-11-02 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: Hello List ! 1. What is the best mail software for Redhat ? INFO : The mail server has to be SMTP / POP3 and WILL have a very nasty load of users. I would say qmail 1.03 :) 2. What would be the best platform for this server ? INFO : We

Re: gnome-session only starts enlightenment

1999-11-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS I'm having a hard time getting gnome-session to start any window manager PS other than enlightenment. I've tried exporting WINDOW_MANAGER PS immediately before calling gnome-session but to no avail. You need to go into the GNOME Control Center and change

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-02 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Hans Gubitz said xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel In the Setup-menu Defaults has no entries. Thes are two separate issues. The first is

IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP-1stDomainname--2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated to a domain (e.g., hidden.static.domain.name.net). I want all traffic (on the same

Re: kernel upgrade options addtl

1999-11-02 Thread John
on 27 Oct 99, Brad wrote... I forget to mention in my earlier message that I had read 'Linux kernel release 2.2' and 'changes 2.2 kernels' notes. Not sure I understood everything, but I ensured I had the minimum requirements including ppp v2.3.5 (confirmed by 'pppd -v'). John.

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-02 Thread John
on 27 Oct 99, Brad wrote...inter alia, If there is nothing sinister arising out of the above, I propose to apply patches 2 to 7 and then on to 12. Go to 13, it fixes some problems with 12. In particular, i wouldn't bother to compile 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, just do the patching. I haven't yet

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA

Re: hwclock, date, and utc

1999-11-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Nov 1999, Michael Perry wrote: Greetings- I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, I can reset

Re: IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
To further simplify, I am stuck with a _public_ domain (a static one) delegated for a DSL connection. We'll call it static.domain.name.net. I want to exchange traffic for mymachine.domain.net (I own domain.net). There is only one IP address, and this is one potato box that is running

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