Re: What sends IGMP packets?

2000-02-13 Thread David Coe
Anton Emmerfors [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a problem: Since a few days something is sending out IGMP packages to 224.0.0.1 When my family added an iMac to our internal network I started getting a few IGMP packets each time the iMac powers up; don't remember the dest. address,

Re: debian sources

1999-12-02 Thread David Coe
James Sasitorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? There's no automatic way to do that, but recent versions of apt-get include a source option, which

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread David Coe
Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail, supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each? I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little more stable. Will my choice

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread David Coe
Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU docs. What I quoted is from the 'gnus' package docs. gnus is another

Re: Word to the wise Re: is your WINE broken too?

1999-10-15 Thread David Coe
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14-Oct-99 David Coe wrote: Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack first,, to save

Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?

1999-10-15 Thread David Coe
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. I assume you are doing this in your

Word to the wise Re: is your WINE broken too?

1999-10-14 Thread David Coe
Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack first,, to save a copy of the currently-installed version. Then, after you find out that

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread David Coe
Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I haven't been able to find one as yet. Someone is packaging it (for potato); check the debian-devel archive if you want to know who that is (I don't remember); I've been using port

Re: cannot route after adding more interfaces

1999-10-13 Thread David Coe
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, when I add an additional interface, eth0:7 which isn't used before, the routing tables change to the following: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0:7 100.100.100.0 *

Re: App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] unless there is some way to make dselect apt recognize that the required packages are installed, though not where debian expects them. [...] Take a look at the debian package equivs -- it was made for that; you must be careful with the

Re: Cleaning out dselect

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache list? The mystery cache list is /var/lib/dpkg/status -- you don't want to remove it, but you may want to edit it. Be careful, and keep a backup.

Re: wu-ftpd vs proftpd vs ftpd

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wu-ftpd 2.5.0-4 proftpd 1.2.0pre7-3 ftpd 0.11-4 Which one of them is better? I don't want something that is going to puke on large files. Something that has lots of features to play with would be nice. User and anonymous ftp access is required. This

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, I sent in a bug report. I followed the instructions at bugs.debian.org, so I hope I did it right... The bug report number is 47105. Looks good to me; but you should, technically, have included the versions of the packages that xserver-svga depends

Re: How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't return outside a subroutine at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 Post that subroutine here, I'll bet someone can tell you how to change it to make it work, especially since all you want to do is remove the package.

Re: how to remove a broken package (solved)

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] After banging my head on this problem and becoming quite intimate with the different options of dpkg and apt-get, I discovered what the problem was. In order to disable apache, squid ,etc, one of my coworkers had added the line 'exit 1' at the

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Still getting that X: undefined symbol: __syscall ? Yep. Hmmm, let's see what packages you have on hold --- just a shot in the dark. Please do: sgrep -e '(DEB_PKG containing (DEB_STATUS containing

Re: Cannot convert string ... to type FontStruct

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get n error with several programs under linux (mostly xemacs21 recently) sayying that it can't convert string to type fontstruct. for example: Warning: Cannot convert string -ttf-web hebrew monospace-medium-r-normal-regular-*-160-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1

Re: kernel compile problem

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
See also bug #47054, which suggests a one-line additon to the kernel-package script that's probably a better fix to this problem (though I haven't tested it).

Re: gdm locks me out!!!

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
Sergio Brandano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] ... I can not use the system in any way. How do I boot in single user mode from lilo? boot: linux single

Re: kernel compile problem

1999-10-10 Thread David Coe
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote: See also bug #47054, which suggests a one-line additon to the... I got it to work by changing line 759 to the following... Thanks!

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The only thing in '/root/.xsession-errors' is: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [...] # dpkg --print-avail xserver* Package 'xserver' is not available. WTF? Did I do something wrong in the command? Yeah there is

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've attached a file named log_x11.txt which is the output of the command you gave me (it was too long to try and type). OK, I'm going to digest that for a while... to see if there are any obvious problems (missing pieces, bad versions). Meanwhile, please

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] in your user directory: .xinitrc .xserverrc .xsession I could not find any of these files in my users home or /root!?! Is this part of the problem? No! They could be contributing to the problem if they were there, but their absence is

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] And, if you really feel like it, try manually performing each piece of startx at the bash prompt ('which startx' will tell you where startx is), and see if you can find the point of failure. I am

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken. OK, that error, X: error in loading

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory X is running in? You might check the X docs on this. Art, Actually, xinit doesn't need an .xinitrc; it defaults to using

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-09 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran apt-get update;apt-get -f dist-upgrade last night. It only took 12 hours at 26.4K... Anyway, I've attached an updated listing of installed x11 packages. Ohh, and it still doesn't work... Still getting that X: undefined symbol: __syscall ? Hmmm,

Re: potato: procps and bsdutils conflict?

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
Hwei Sheng TEOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.9w-3.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/bin/kill', which is also in package procps [...] However, I was just wondering, is it really the case that both bsdutils and

Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
Stephen R. Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato. I've upgraded apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times - it's repeatable). I get the following error:

Re: potato: procps and bsdutils conflict?

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
Hwei Sheng TEOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm, only one combination seems to work though... installing procps first will cause dpkg to complain when bsdutils is being installed. For some reason, installing procps on top of bsdutils seem to simply overwrite /bin/kill with no warning. I'm not

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading to potato X dies with this error: X: error in loading shared libraries: X: undefined symbol: __syscall X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Any ideas on how to fix this? are you starting X with 'startx' or

Re: Installing potato

1999-10-07 Thread David Coe
esl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree. Last I kenw, you shouldn't use those unless you want to help develop them; they're really not ready yet. Join the debian-boot mailing list if you

Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A. M. Varon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could we have a potato mailing lists? That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another list for it? Ben answered on _debian-devel_, but not on _debian-user_; I hope he doesn't mind my posting

Re: Read-only file system on /dev/fd0?

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Yifang Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hit this strange problem today, on my potato machine: /boot# dd if=bzImage-2.2.12 of=/dev/fd0 dd: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system do you have it mounted? try umount /dev/fd0 and see if that lets it work.

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:06:16PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Instead of traditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build a package from your new kernel; install this package,

Re: procps vs. bsdutils in unstable

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Marshal Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't know where I should post this, but I guess here would be as good as any. The latest procps package is overlapping with bsdutils. Namely /bin/kill is overlapping. Yes, the new bsdutils (not yet on the mirrors) has removed /bin/kill, so

Re: brokenness somewhere in netbase or dpkg (or apt?)

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Ari Heitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is an already-reported and recently-fixed bug in the new (potato/unstable) debconf utility. Try installing the latest debconf first and see if that makes the rest of it work. The latest as of today is: debconf (0.1.53) unstable; the bug you encountered

Re: expiring mail in Gnus

1999-10-06 Thread David Coe
Matthias Hertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'd like to configure Gnus to make reading debian-users somewhat newsgroup-like, ie. all messages that are read (as opposed to unread, ticked, or dormant) should be deleted from my disk after three days. This is a common concern and source of

Re: HTML support for ispell

1999-10-05 Thread David Coe
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you think about this? I downloaded the Debian ispell sources and applied the patches, and they work like a charm here. Would be nice to have in the official package, if possible! Thanks, I'll see what I can do -- this looks promising.

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread David Coe
Adam == Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no Adam tomorrow. [...] Adam Cease and desist at all costs. Adam I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in Adam incoming. So, it should all be fixed

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread David Coe
egm2@jps.net wrote: On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | apt-get --install icewm | | should be all you need to do. | | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is | install the

Re: Keystone on Debian?

1999-06-10 Thread David Coe
David H. Silber wrote: David H. Silber wrote: Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system? On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:35:29PM +, David Coe wrote: Yes, many versions of it. If you use apache, php3-mysql and php3 from slink, it's pretty straightforward

Re: Wanted: Location of unused packages

1999-06-10 Thread David Coe
Take a look at the popularity-contest package: DEBIAN PACKAGE POPULARITY CONTEST - Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] = This package contains a script, /usr/sbin/popularity-contest, which generates a list of the packages installed on your system, in order of

Re: PCMCIA and NFS

1999-06-08 Thread David Coe
Near the bottom of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts you'll see a couple of almost-empty shell functions, start_fn() and stop_fn(). I believe they're installed originally as: # Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface start_fn () { return; } # Extra stuff to do before shutting down

Re: SV: A better telnet?

1999-06-08 Thread David Coe
Take a look at the vncserver and xvncviewer packages -- they tell you where to get Windows versions of the same stuff. Very nice, you can run vncserver on linux and vncviewer under windows and have access to a complete linux/x desktop from windows, and you can run vncserver(or something).exe on

Re: Keystone on Debian?

1999-06-08 Thread David Coe
Yes, many versions of it. If you use apache, php3-mysql and php3 from slink, it's pretty straightforward. If you run into problems, write. David H. Silber wrote: Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system?

Re: How to create mailing list like debian-user?

1999-06-05 Thread David Coe
I suggest you also look at mailman (packaged for slink and potato). Colin Marquardt wrote: * Jens K Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone please advise how to set up a mailing list like the debian-user? I assume all the software is available in debian, but which packages will

Re: Changing IP address

1999-06-03 Thread David Coe
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Dan Willard wrote: You are correct that your ISP is clueless. Going by the numbers that you sent, your home network and theirs are one network with the same network number and broadcast number. And why your router calls out whenever a broadcast packet is

Re: help! install with DOS-lost HD on boot

1999-06-03 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've lost my Linux drives, though. I am hoping someone could point out where I screwed up, and suggest a way to avoid

Gnome-terminal: secure keyboard?

1999-06-02 Thread David Coe
Does gnome-terminal have a secure keyboard option like xterm? (I can't find it, but haven't checked the source yet.) If not, anybody know why not?

Re: [Fwd: Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen]

1999-06-02 Thread David Coe
For me, the panel's error messages go to .xsession-errors; they probably do for you too. I have the same problem, and see this when I click 'Lock screen': sh: xscreensaver-command: command not found I guess that's why it recommends xscreensaver. Personally I prefer xtrlock, so I just added a

re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread David Coe
Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8). I've done nothing since then but a lot of reading. Can I safely add them back using fdisk or sfdisk (or cfdisk or something else? I know their

Re: re-add deleted extended logical partitions?

1999-05-28 Thread David Coe
: GPL End Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Yes, if you have the exact partition geometries you can just add them back as long as you haven't created anything else on top of them since. David Coe wrote: Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are in an Extended

Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

1999-01-11 Thread David Coe
to one, just to see if I can and judge for myself how much better X is the win95 :-) yours, frankie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redland Hunt Pony Club, Maryland

Re: Search and Replace

1999-01-08 Thread David Coe
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Re: Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....

1999-01-07 Thread David Coe
in perl; mailman is more modern, web-based, and written in python. I switched from majordomo to mailman because i'm more comfortable with python than perl, but that's just me; you could try them both and make your own decision (and, as I said, there may be others as well). -- David Coe [EMAIL

Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages

1999-01-06 Thread David Coe
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Re: smbmount-2.1.x: how does it work ?

1999-01-04 Thread David Coe
Ada, OH 45810 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: activate with mouse over

1999-01-04 Thread David Coe
! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread David Coe
), exclusively from CNET at http://www.download.com! -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread David Coe
could add it to my ip-up script and the computer would never fall far behind. (I plan to upgrade in January, so this would be a temporary fix.) -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: /etc/init.d startup file for CFS

1998-12-12 Thread David Coe
appreciated! damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Masters Candidate Department of Criminology University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521

Re: WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-11 Thread David Coe
think that it really works slick. I'd be willing to code this... provided whoever maintains dselect would be open to the idea of including it. - Joe -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489

Re: wmmail problems

1998-12-09 Thread David Coe
xanim +Ze +Av100 /home/glhenni/lib/sounds/ugotmail.au but I don't like xanim popping up on my screen every time I get new mail. TIA, Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread David Coe
. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread David Coe
at that time there isn't anything else running. Have you tried recreating the floppy? Maybe you got a bad image. If that doesn't help, I'm afraid your problem is beyond my knowledge; but let us know what happens, hopefully someone here will have a good idea. David Coe wrote: Are you *sure* it's

Re: Upgrading from hamm to slink

1998-12-06 Thread David Coe
on dpkg. -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-03 Thread David Coe
Joe Emenaker wrote: In fact, it has just occurred to me that we could have named them alpha, beta, and release instead of unstable, frozen, and stable. Please don't. Alpha (unfortunately) is already ambiguous (thanks to DEC) ;-). -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D

Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-03 Thread David Coe
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Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-03 Thread David Coe
H, please post the exact command and the messages you get from dpkg -- someone here will be able to figure it out if I can't. Cheng Tang wrote: I tried this. But it still doesn't work. :( -cheng On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:14:51PM +, David Coe wrote: have you tried doing both

Re: upgrading libc6

1998-12-03 Thread David Coe
. On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:31:47PM +, David Coe wrote: H, please post the exact command and the messages you get from dpkg -- someone here will be able to figure it out if I can't. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto

Re: DNS question

1998-11-05 Thread David Coe
You can do what you suggest. When you register a domain name (xyz.org), you just tell the InterNic (or whomever) the primary and secondary name servers (provided by your ISP, usually) for names in that domain. The name servers answer the specific host address for each such host (you have to tell