Re: Off-Topic -- Strange files
I've been getting these too and I'm using reiserfs. I have no idea what they are. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: I've seen mention of something similar before and I believe it's related to ext3, but I'll ask to be sure... In my / dir, I've got these files: -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 17:02 errs7NW6Z9 -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 17:04 errsdZrjcJ -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 17:01 errsiC9TId -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 12:55 errssdVYeJ -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 11:17 errstPArtw What are they ?? Being zero length, those are *usually* safe to delete, right ?? Thanks for any advice ! Regards Hall Stevenson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cox cable modem and debian
Hmm... I can't say this is true for Cox, but it is true for Adelphia. I'm wondering if what they are calling an Identity setting is the MAC address of the NIC? If so, the problem is that the MAC address you give the cable company is the only one that will be able to obtain an IP address using pump. You can obtain your MAC address with ifconfig, the MAC address is the HWaddr and should be in the format of xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Call them and tell them to set your Identity to this address. If you need to hook more than one computer up, either buy a router or set up a box with two nics using NAT. Kent On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:42:29PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Greetz, I have been running myself through the ringer trying to get debian to log onto my new Cox Communications cable modem using @home. I was given a new nic (Dlink dfe-550tx) that wasn't supported by linux. I found a site and pulled down source and attempted to build it for use on my 2.2.17 kernel (didn't happen) then finally pulled down kernel 2.4.7, where it is supported. I can boot up 2.4.7 and it sees both my nics (realtek and Dlink) and run pump but it fails every time. At this point, I removed my lan from my realtek and started attempting to get pump to use that card (cat5 connection). It still failed. I purged then re-installed pump and tried again using 2.2.17 kernel. Finally, I rounded up an old win95 laptop. I had a TRENDnet pcmcia dual-nic and loaded up windoz drivers for this. What a pain! Anyway, after dozens of reboots and locating my very old win95 cdrom, was able to get the nic working in this computer. Finally I loaded up some of the software [EMAIL PROTECTED] gives you. It tried and died and would not get online with the cable modem. Huh. . . A call to local cable buddy. We ponder the windoz network settings. Should work. Using Winipcfg, I released all, then renewed all - fails. . . Finally he asks, what's my Identity setting? I looked at my booklet and told him what it said. He informs me that isn't right, it has to have at least this many digits (forgot what number). I look at my reciept and there is a CX number. Is this required? Yes(!) he reports. I set the new identity tab, boot a few more times and it still fails. Then he asks again what number I was given and then reports, that it is not correct! . . . Okay, he gets on the telephone and comes back in a minute and says I had the wrong number and we type in the new number, boot. Bingo, I am now online with the cable modem with a DHCP'd ip address. So, now I KNOW the cable modem works. I can smirf as fast as the old lap top can go. Back to my nics. I rename my computers HOSTNAME to the number and re-run pump.. It fails. Next I issue the pump command using the -h hostname and -i interface, and it still fails. This is where I am. Sorry about the long post, but wanted to include the background of where I've been. Also note, I have read the cablemodem-howto at linuxdoc.org and not just the @home entries, but all of them... I'm stumped. Any help would be very greatly appreciated. thank you -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user \/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how stable is the testing branch?
If you want koffice, you could install it on a system running stable also. see: http://kde.debian.net/ On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: Debian has koffice in the testing branch this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing spreadsheet for our small school network of 10 machines. Will the testing branch be so unstable as to crash regularly? I don't want to look bad and I don't want linux to look bad. Thanks in advance for any wisdom the list has to offer. Joe Golden The Stevens School thestevensschoolofpeacham.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5
I just upgraded my Athlon potato system to 2.4.5 (actually ac17 because it has some fixes to sound driver problems for my CM8738) using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 potato packages and compiling my own Athlon optimized kernel. I also have another partition where I have Debian testing installed that I upgraded to 2.4.5. I used the 2.4.5-586 kernel with no problems there. But, I'd recommend compiling your own if you think you are ready for that. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:20:15PM +, Adahma wrote: Quoting David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): assuming you're installing kernel-image-2.4.5-686 for example. Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.5/Documentation/initrd.txt.gz for enlightenment. Thanks!! That brings up one more question. Which one of the images is best for my K7 Athlon? I saw mention on a couple of them that said for K5 or K6, but didn't see any that indicated it was for the K7. I was assuming the 386 was a safe bet, but would like to use another if it's more optimized. Thanks, Adahma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GRUB 5.96 for potato
Does anyone know of GBU Grub version 5.96 packages for potato? I've tried to compile from unstable, but I get: dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. and it fails. Thanks!
Re: GRUB 5.96 for potato
That worked perfect, thanks! On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:32:33PM -0400, D-Man wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: | Does anyone know of GBU Grub version 5.96 packages for potato? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub. It isn't a .deb package, but rather a sample floppy image. Use dd to dump the image to a floppy, then copy stage2 to /boot/grub. Make yourself a menu.lst file (a sample is included in the image) and reboot. At the grub command line you can install it on the MBR. This is how I installed it. HTH, -D
Re: XFree4 for potato?
Yes, you can find the instructions here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/xf403_potato/READ.THIS On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:14:50PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: Hi, Is there anywhere (URI) XFree4 for potato? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / qmail - - My PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome
I'm currently running potato with the unofficial Xfree 4.03 debs available from cpbotha. I'm running Ximian GNOME 1.4. It's the most stable and usable setup I've had so far. On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: Hello again.. After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achieve my goal. I figure one last shot and then I'll move to woody, or.. well I'm not sure what. ;-) 1. Has anyone on this list succesfully upgraded a potato box which is running Ximian gnome to X 4.x? 2. If after I complete all the steps that have been outlined time and time again but am still missing the actual XFree86 file (to which those symlinks eventually lead), what does that suggest? Marc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optical mice
I'm using a Logitech Wheel Mouse, which is optical and I paid $29.99 at OfficeMax. Works great under Debian! Kent On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:22:52PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: Hello List, Would anyone care to recommend any optical wheel mice for use with Debian - that is, optical mice with a wheel 3rd button? TIA LeeE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup
I've been having the same problem. No clue how to fix it. I'm running woody btw. Kent On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:40:26AM -0500, John Foster wrote: I recently used the Debian Potato files to install/upgrade Netscape Communicator 4.75 (not the tar ball installer but several smaller files) and now when I start the browser it pops up an error message saying it can not find the server. That's not unusual as it is seeking this url; http:// there is nothing to look for. I have altered the preferences to try every possibility with the same result every time. My conclusion is that there is something that is preventing the edited preferences from being used. Has anyone else had the same problem? Anyone know of a fix? All else seems to work fine, but this just bugs me! Thanks for any advice. -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup
That fixed it! Thanks! On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:03:07PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: Not by chance launching that from a GNOME laucher? I found replacing gnome-moz-remote with communicator (or netscape), made it go away.
debian-user-digest down?
I've not received the debian-user-digest or debian-devl-digest for the last couple of days. Is anyone else having this problem? Please respond to my email address, as I can't see it otherwise. Thanks
Re: Off-Topic? - silly mutt question
I made a symbolic link called inbox in my mutt mail directory that links to my /var/spool/mail inbox. Kent On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to the folder /var/spool/mail/jensenb. Does anyone know a shortcut to this? Blushing, Bill
Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin
Have a look in your ~/.gnome directory and see if you can find any configuration files for the panel which have /usr/bin/ in them, this might be your problem. You could probably start by doing an rgrep for /usr/bin/ in ~/.gnome and see what you come up with (I have no idea what file I changed, so I can't tell you exactly where to look). This solved my problem, may solve yours too. That was the problem! For some reason, in the ~/.gnome/session file, the field CurrentDirectory was set to /usr/bin for every entry. I changed them all back to my home directory and it appears to be working! Thanks! Kent
Directory always defaults to /usr/bin
I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin instead of the /home/kmp directory that they should default to. Netscape, Gnome-apps, virtually any application that opens an application to save or load something does this. Any ideas how I can change this? Thanks, Kent
Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran 'startx' in. I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory.
Re: gdk-imlib1 version
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:49:57PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: For the past week at least, I have kept a couple of packages on hold (I run unstable), as they depend on gdk-imlib1 (= 1.9.8.1), while on my mirror the version of gdk-imlib1 is 1.9.8-4. I was tempted to submit a bug report, but realised it might be only my mirror, and that someone else will quickly submit a report if this is really so. I too have noticed this, and I am using US mirrors. I just upgraded from potato - woody this past weekend, if that has anything to do with it. Kent
Re: gdk-imlib1 version
I just filed a bug report for balsa. Someone else had already filed a report for gedit and gdk-imlib1.
Re: setting clock to EDT
I think tzconfig is what you are looking for. On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:46PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
