Re: [Re: Chuleta de arranque.] Falta algo vital aqui!

2000-02-12 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Estimados Martin y Antonio: Veamos, la cadena va asi mas o menos init Aqui va el programam gettyy (u otro semejante) que es el que toma el nombre y ejecuta login (u otro comando). Este programa es sumamente interesante, y siempre es bueno hacer man gettty. Tambien permite no pedir el

Re: resucitando un viejo 486 (svgalib)

2000-02-12 Thread hcl
El Wed, Mar 19, 2036 at 03:23:56PM +, Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga dijo: Estimado Andres: En un mail comentaste Solo me falta que hubiese un buen navegador svgalib para mandar las X a freir esparragos No uses wm, cambia la linea del wm del ~/.xsesion por netscape. Y será algo parecido a

Problemas para compartir archivos en NFS

2000-02-12 Thread Lucky
Quiero compartir el directorio /usr de un PC con otro y he hecho lo siguiente: En PC1: /etc/exports/usr 192.168.0.3 (rw) En PC2:mount -t nfs 192.168.0.3 /mnt/PC1 I me da el siguiente error: directory to mount not in host:dir format Sabeis que hago mal?Gracias XaLaWEB:

Re: Video para linux

2000-02-12 Thread Netman
El Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Carlos Solano dijo: On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Juanma wrote: Queridos amigos: Me gustaría tener un servidor de archivos en una red pequeña (tres puestos) en la que el servidor se encargara de hacer grabaciones en video de escenas

Re: Oracle 815

2000-02-12 Thread Netman
El Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 04:17:33PM +0100, Luis Clausell dijo: Yep! Estoy intentando instalar Oracle en Debian (potato) con kernel 2.2.14, pero nada más ejecutar el instalador ya tengo problemas :-( (...) - Net8 Configuration Assistant

Re: Por mi mala cabeza

2000-02-12 Thread Al Cipone
Hola. Lo que primero te pediría es que no envies correo en formato HTML, mucha gente no lo verá correctamente. Lo segundo es que procures formatear el texto en lineas mas pequeñas, es un incordio leer tu msg en una sola linea. Tercero, aunque uses

Re: Los genios de esta lista

2000-02-12 Thread Al Cipone
Diego Bote wrote: Si cada vez que empiezo tengo que esperar unos meses para empezar a preguntar. Eso esta activo en la lista . ¿Es por eso por lo que no he podido postear durante un mes? Si es asi, apaga y vamonos. -- Iniciando Windows 98... ya puede apagar

Re: Ha nacido ORCA (voten por su eslogan favorito)

2000-02-12 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Enhorabuena por el glosario... no estaría mal que, ya que se va a tener un glosario vivo se puedan descargar copias del mismo en diversos formatos ... para, por ejemplo, añadir el fichero a i2e cuando tenga suficientes términos. Un sólo error, y es que el proyecto de traducción de

Re: Problemas para compartir archivos en NFS

2000-02-12 Thread Pookie
por el mensaje que pone parece que tengas que poner unos : entre el host i el directorio es decir: 192.168.0.3:/mnt/PC1 en lugar de 192.168.0.3 /mnt/PC1 No he usado nunca NFS, asi que no se si sera eso.. :P pero prueba, y si es eso pos dimelo :) - Original Message - From: Lucky [EMAIL

Re: [Re: resucitando un viejo 486 (svgalib)]

2000-02-12 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Estimado Andres: Si, la svgalib esta (como bien has dicho) excesivamente infrautilizada. Yo soy programador, aunque no muy ducho en linux (soy de la epoca de assembler, c, pascal y DOS) pero puedo leer y comenzar a hacer algo asi como un browser / gestor de ventanas. Los mecanismos internos

ssh-agent

2000-02-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hur är det egentligen meningen att ssh-agent ska fungera? Jag testade att starta med ssh-agent startx när jag drog igång X, men jag får ändå ange lösenfras för varje uppkoppling jag gör? Som jag förstod det skulle den komma ihåg dem mellan uppkopplingarna? Lite jobbigt är det, eftersom jag kör

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-12 Thread Joe Emenaker
Joe Emenaker wrote: All in all, this usually takes about 5 minutes of my attention per machine per update. Also, since I always want my machines on the bleeding edge, I always want the latest of whatever's available. If I just pointed dselect and apt to woody instead of unstable, then,

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Emenaker wrote: Problem is that unstable doesn't always have everything. From what I can tell, when a release is frozen, everything from unstable is moved to frozen. No it isn't. Links are used. Unstable is still just as usable as it ever is. [EMAIL

Newbie ?: setgid /home

2000-02-12 Thread John Dalbec
I just noticed that my /home partition has the setgid permission bit. Is this normal for Debian? Security problem? Hacked system? TIA, John

Re: the uninstall approach...

2000-02-12 Thread Tom Pfeifer
DOS/Win9X fdisk can not delete non-DOS partitions (such as Linux partitions) when they are inside an extended partition, and will then also refuse to delete the extended partition itself in that case. If you still have a Linux boot floppy around with Linux fdisk or cfdisk on it, that will do it.

thumbs

2000-02-12 Thread Evan Moore
here is there a deb package for a program that will generate thumbnail images from jepeg images. Thanks Evan

Re: unix98 pty

2000-02-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have compiled a 2.2.14 kernel with Unix98 pty support. Is there a package that will create the appropiate files/links under /dev ? I don't want to boot the kernel until the tty's are created, else I may not be able to get a console

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-12 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:44:48PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free This way

lp port problems (again)

2000-02-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Thanks to your help, I have configured my parallel port on my slink Debian box, but I still can't print. My problem now, is that when I run lp i get the error: lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found I have tried this with two different printers, so I don't know what could be

Re: thumbs

2000-02-12 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Evan Moore, here is there a deb package for a program that will generate thumbnail images from jepeg images. Thanks Evan Try `convert' from the ImageMagick package. Works well for me. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist

Re: lp port problems (again)

2000-02-12 Thread Colin Walters
Cameron == Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron Hey, Thanks to your help, I have configured my parallel Cameron port on my slink Debian box, but I still can't print. My Cameron problem now, is that when I run lp i get the error: Cameron lp: Driver configured but

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:37:42PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: http://kernelnotes.org/kpatch22.html bah, kernelnotes is inherently outdated... Linux 2.2.13 Release Notes Errata Compilers This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. It is known

RE: rdate fails Y2K?

2000-02-12 Thread Larry Fletcher
I searched through all of the old messages on this subject and couldn't find a fix for the problem, except using another time server. My problem is I'm behind a firewall and can only use a local time server that won't work with rdate. Has rdate been fixed yet? If so, is there somewhere can I

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Pollywog
Would it be possible to go back to an older gcc without breaking my system? I have a slink CD so I probably have something older if it would work. tnx -- Andrew Compilers This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
That is definately possible, I know it is possible to have multiple gcc's running on you system, but I don't know how you can do it... try HOWTO's and manpages, that should let you know how. Ron == Linux meets Southpark:

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Ron writes: I know it is possible to have multiple gcc's running on you system, but I don't know how you can do it.. Install gcc272. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Feb-2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: That is definately possible, I know it is possible to have multiple gcc's running on you system, but I don't know how you can do it... try HOWTO's and manpages, that should let you know how. I don't want multiple gcc versions, I just want to downgrade to a

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Feb-2000 John Hasler wrote: Ron writes: I know it is possible to have multiple gcc's running on you system, but I don't know how you can do it.. Install gcc272. I might have this on my Slink CD. What other packages will need to be downgraded also? thanks -- Andrew

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:37:42PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: http://kernelnotes.org/kpatch22.html bah, kernelnotes is inherently outdated... that was 2.2.13, check the 2.2.14 Errata page (which kernelnotes still has not bothered to post):

Re: Mouse has a mind of its own...

2000-02-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
It's also possible you chose the wrong protocol for X. I can get my PS/2 mouse to work badly (like you describe) using a protocol other than PS/2. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key:

Re: Slink - Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:30:55AM -0800, Chris HOOVER wrote: HELP, I finally took the plunge and upgraded my linux server from slink to frozen last night. After running apt-get dist-upgrade and moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14, I can no longer dial out to the internet. When I try to run

Re: Sound Troubles

2000-02-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:45:22PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the games that Debian came with have sound. Why not? Thanks, Cameron

Re: lp port problems (again)

2000-02-12 Thread paul
Cameron == Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron Hey, Thanks to your help, I have configured my parallel Cameron port on my slink Debian box, but I still can't print. My Cameron problem now, is that when I run lp i get the error: Cameron lp: Driver

Re: Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: I might have this on my Slink CD. What other packages will need to be downgraded also? None. You can also use update-alternatives to make cc point to gcc272 if you want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Slink - Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-12 Thread Chris Hoover
There is nothing in the /var/lock after a clean reboot. Also, if I drop back to the old 2.0.36 kernel, the problem clears. This is very perplexing since my other 3 linux boxes are all running the same type of setup (potato/2.2.14). Any other ideas? On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:

nsswitch solution:explanation required

2000-02-12 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, Background: I use DSL with Slink. My ISP recently mandated a change in the configuration of the DSL router from bridging to ppp mode. After the change, I could not resolve names ( DNS ). nslookup would fail. The route command would take a _long_ time to print the final default gateway line.

Re: nsswitch solution:explanation required

2000-02-12 Thread Ben Collins
I did this by trial-and error, not with any insight. I believe the change involving the hosts or networks lines finally did the trick. I would hazard a guess that it is because your cable provider is using a non-standard netmask/broadcast for whatever private network you are on. Either

Re: nsswitch solution:explanation required

2000-02-12 Thread Howard Mann
Ben Collins wrote: I did this by trial-and error, not with any insight. I believe the change involving the hosts or networks lines finally did the trick. I would hazard a guess that it is because your cable provider is using a non-standard netmask/broadcast for whatever private

Re: PPPOE, ipmasq, and news - Fixed!

2000-02-12 Thread Marc Sherman
From: Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a debian box running pppoe and ipmasq set up as a router/firewall for a home network. I have a Win98 machine behind the firewall. I can't read news on the win98 machine (using my ISPs news server, news1.sympatico.ca). I've tried a number

Re: Opera

2000-02-12 Thread Matt Miller
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:15:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is rough software with quite a way to go before it reaches Prime Time. I thought the user interface was basically cool, but I dropped Opera after reading some of their documentation on JavaScript and other 'unsafe'

Forcing an install with dpkg - apt complains

2000-02-12 Thread Phillip Deackes
I downloaded a debian package of kisdn. When I tried to install it, it complained that I needed qt1.4 or higher. I actually have libqt1g v1.45-0.4, but this wasn't good enough. I forced the install and kisdn ran perefectly. Unfortuantely each time I ran apt-get it complained about unmet

Re: Newbie ?: setgid /home

2000-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 07:15:15PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: I just noticed that my /home partition has the setgid permission bit. Is this normal for Debian? Security problem? Hacked system? TIA, John its not a security problem, though I am not entirely sure of the point.. here is what it

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it sets it with

Missing modules in python

2000-02-12 Thread Egbert Bouwman
The import of glob, fnmatch and shutil gives an ImportError in Python 1.5.1, slink. Who has left them out, and why ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:42:26AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: I'll look at this when I have some time, but when my machine shuts down I see a message saying hardware clock being updated or something like that. This behavior may be part of the ntpdate package, I didn't consider that

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-12 Thread Onno
At 04:25 PM 2/11/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Onno [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Onno SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: Onno host mx1.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.249]: Onno 552 qdirdel.1 error 100:User is over the quota. You can try again later. means that your disk

deleting getty

2000-02-12 Thread Henry White
I was about to do apt-get -f dist-upgrade from slink to woody when I got this: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! getty 143 packages upgraded, 34 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2

PHP4 - Does anyone have the .deb pkg working?

2000-02-12 Thread jeb
I was happy to see the php4 debian module ready for use. I've been using hte php3 module (from the .deb package) and was generally very happy with it. I installed the php4 package; now php3 files won't work at all. Php3 files aren't being interepreted by the apache module. I did check the

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-12 Thread John Foster
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Lars Sander-Green wrote: lars_i I recently installed the most recent version of the Debian base system on an lars_i old 486 (with a clean system) from floppy disks. Everything seemed to be lars_i working fine and the base was installed, but when I tried to boot it

cp of big file causes high loadavg

2000-02-12 Thread Remco van 't Veer
When moving or copying a big file (100Mb) across filesystems, the loadavg climbs from below 1 to 5, X screen refresh gets choppy and xmms starts to stutter. Anybody know any tweaks to avoid this problem? I played around with hdparm but the problem remains. Sysctl maybe? I am using a P3 with

Re: Sound Troubles

2000-02-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Cameron Matheson hat gesagt: // Cameron Matheson wrote: I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the games that Debian came with have sound. Why not? What games are you trying to play? Is

C++ dev environment advice

2000-02-12 Thread Michael Laing
I have a small multithreaded java app that I need to convert to C++. I am an experienced C and java developer transitioning to C++. The initial target platform for this app is Windows 98, probably implemented as a driver. However, I would like to retain as much cross-platform capability as I can

Re: cp of big file causes high loadavg

2000-02-12 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Maybe something is wrong with my bios settings. Anybody any ideas? On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:22, Eric Hanchrow wrote: Remco == Remco van 't Veer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remco When moving or copying a big file (100Mb) across Remco filesystems, the loadavg climbs from below 1 to

app-defaults or something else?

2000-02-12 Thread paul
Today I upgraded my XFree86 to version 3.3.6 from Vincent's XFree86-update directory, and now I have a minor but irritating problem. Some applications are now using large fonts in their controls (ugly) that previously were not. Most notably netscape, abiword, gimp, and lyx. Other apps have

Re: NO MOUSE

2000-02-12 Thread davidturetsky
I had the same problem. Consider whether all of your devices are supported... I had a frozen kb and mouse... both of these devices on my system are Microsoft's "intelligent" versions I'm trying the route of using XFree86 as my x platform. Nothing helpful to report so far David -

Re: cp of big file causes high loadavg

2000-02-12 Thread dan
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:01:04PM +0100, Remco van 't Veer generated a stream of 1s and 0s: As, I said, IDE sucks. 'nuff said. When moving or copying a big file (100Mb) across filesystems, the loadavg climbs from below 1 to 5, X screen refresh gets choppy and xmms starts to stutter.

First Kernel Recompile

2000-02-12 Thread Lane Lester
I did a fair amount of reading and asking first, but now I've tried my first kernel recompile. make xconfig wouldn't work, and it seemed to be because it couldn't find the tk stuff. make config worked OK, but make dep wouldn't, and it seemed to be because it couldn't find the standard C headers,

Re: NO MOUSE

2000-02-12 Thread Steve Anderson
I have a Compaq wheel mouse, and here is the mouse section from my XF86Config: Section Pointer Protocol IMPS/2 Device/dev/psaux SampleRate60 BaudRate 1200

RE: rdate fails Y2K?

2000-02-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Larry Fletcher wrote: I searched through all of the old messages on this subject and couldn't find a fix for the problem, except using another time server. My problem is I'm behind a firewall and can only use a local time server that won't work with rdate. Has rdate

Re: XFonts?

2000-02-12 Thread sgaerner
I had the same strange look when I used an ATI Rage 128 based graphicsadapter. When I switched the hardware acceleration off, the fonts became normal. In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config there could be an entry like # accel off I uncommented this line an X11 works normal. bye Sven Robert L.

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

2000-02-12 Thread David J. Kanter
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:49:22AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I have Debian Potato using Enlightenment set up on my server. I want to try out the KDE applications with the Enlightenment connections. I would appreciate tips suggestions etc. from anyone using these presently. Thanks! ---end

Re: Syslog and kern.log after upgrade

2000-02-12 Thread dan
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:12:54PM +, Randy Edwards generated a stream of 1s and 0s: Ever since I upgraded to potato my syslog and kern.log has grown to huge sizes: Feb 9 04:36:34 rademaker kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 130.161.65.12:138 130.161.65.127:138 L=242 S=0x00

Re: Sound Troubles

2000-02-12 Thread David Blackman
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:15:06PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Cameron Matheson hat gesagt: // Cameron Matheson wrote: I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the games that Debian

Re: graphical login

2000-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote: The graphical login in run by xdm. Either remove /etc/rc2.d/xdm, or edit the xdm conf to turn off xdm for the local host (comment out the final line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to do a dpkg

video bios address

2000-02-12 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi How do I find out my video bios address and size so I can map it into dosemu to allow some games to run which need the extended features of the bios? Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 53401220

Re: graphical login

2000-02-12 Thread Carl Mummert
Bart Szyszka writes: (comment out the final line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to do a dpkg --purge xdm? You may want to connect from another X machine to your local machine, and login via XDMCP ; in this case, all that is required is