From: Eric Gillespie, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's no such animal. I mentioned DynDNS in my post, and i'm
mentioning it again. It's a free service that will give you a
valid domain name which can be updated everytime you're IP is
reassigned. Works great for those of us stuck on
From: Robert Waldner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you mean DynDNS? It sure ain't free - according to their
pricing page (at www.dyndns.com) there's a $50 pa charge,
plus the cost of registering a domain name.
Try www.dyndns.ORG ;-)
Ah. Never thought of trying that :-)
Thanks,
Paul
Hi,
I have a PC with APM support at home. I've installed Debian (Potato) onto it
and built my own kernel with APM support compiled in (I needed to build my
own to add the APM real mode calls option, as the default kernel crashes on
a poweroff call).
Now, I can successfully shut down, but the
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
Anyone know why do I get the following error upon bootup:
insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/unix.o cannot create
/var/log/ksymoops/2619212757.ksyms Read Only Filesystem
Looks like your root
From: Nate Bargmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure as I've seen the reference to the $VIMRUNTIME
env variable
in the vim docs. Since it seems vim is hardwired to look in
/usr/share/vim, perhaps /usr/share/vim should be a sim-link to a real
directory of /usr/share/vim56 or
I have a set of four potato unofficial CDs, and a massive hard disk, and I'm
bored of swapping CDs. What is the best way of copying the full contents of
the CDs onto my hard disk so that I can install off there?
I assume that
mkdir -p /dist/cd[1-4]
mount /cdrom
(cd /cdrom tar cf -
I'm getting strange messages on the console of my Debian machine, namely
eth0: too much work in el3_rx
Can anyone give me any hints as to (a) what it means, (b) whether it
indicates a problem, and(c) how to get rid of it (as it corrupts my working
screen).
Thanks,
Paul Moore.
PS If I need
From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
While getting rid of non-free is a noble goal, i don't feel
that Debian
can do it now without losing support from some parts of the Free
Software community (look at the reaction over KDE, and then think of
Netscape, LyX, etc etc etc) and without losing
From: William F. Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do this from cron every night:
#! /bin/bash
cd /usr/local/fromDebian
DEBIAN=ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists
wget -o LOG-unstable-contents $DEBIAN/unstable/Contents-i386.gz
mv Contents-i386.gz Contents.unstable.gz
Then I could do
Hi,
I have a laptop which I can run either using the internal 800x600 screen, or
an external monitor which will run at 1024x768. I'd like to be able to set
up the system so that I can start X to run on whichever is connected (eg, I
could have aliases startx-internal and startx-monitor).
I can set
Hi,
One of the most common queries I have with the Debian packaging system,
which I don't know how to make, is to search for the name of the package(s)
which install a given file or files. For instance, the most recent such case
I have was looking for the gvim executable. As it happens, this is
From: Paulo J. da Silva e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I did: I ran dselect and marked my kernel image as on
hold (find your kernel image in the selection list and type
an =).
Unrelated question - how do you find what packages are on hold, and/or
unhold them? I just did an apt-get
Hi,
I don't know for sure if this is the best place to ask (debian-doc looks
more like it's for the people developing documentation, rather than for
asking *about* it - tell me if I'm wrong and I'll ask there), but here
goes...
I've used Debian off and on for a while now, and the thing I find
Hi,
I havd a Debian box set up connected to my office LAN. I am getting an IP
address from the site DHCP server, and am getting name resolution from the
site DNS servers.
The problem is that the site is totally Windows-based, and my Debian box is
not integrating as nicely as I would like. I have
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
Hi there,
I am urgently searching any documentation regarding the creation
of a callback server and the client fitting to this... Do
you know any location where I may obtain this documentation
/ HOWTO ?
There's a callback mini HOWTO at the Linux Documentation
Hi,
I have a small number of machines which are currently running slink. I'd
like to upgrade them, at least to frozen and possibly even to woody.
The simple answer is apt-get (dist-)upgrade. However, there are a couple of
issues with this. First, I pay for internet downloads, so I want to
From: Christian Surchi
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine
2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines
3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines.
try apt-zip!
That seems to work based
From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have done precisely this.
That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right...
However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know
exactly how to duplicate that on other machines.
I'm guessing that I copy
Another question on apt...
I've downloaded a lot of .deb files from various places on the Internet, and
I'd like to put them on a CD or something for safekeeping. It strikes me
that the best way of doing this would be to put them in some sort of format
which would allow me to use apt to install
From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The easiest way would be to use the Packages.gz from the
mirror and the
directory structure as used on the mirror, when you update using that
Packages.gz, it will seem as if there are much more packages, that you
don't all have, however if you
From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error
message when logged in as root (not as a normal user):
invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH
This happens with all commands where bash is involved. In my
From: Eric Hanchrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul == Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul 1. The box cannot see these netbios names for other
Paul machines on the LAN. I can ping machines with static IP
Paul addresses by name, as (I guess) the names are resolved via
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore, Paul) wrote:
Aargh. In order to run dhcpcd on 2.2.14, I need the version from
unstable (frozen, I guess). But that depends on the unstable version
of libc6, which depends on the unstable version of debianutils, which
Hi,
I have a Debian laptop (2.1r2 slink, with kernel 2.2.14 and the latest
DHCPCD, PCMCIA and netbase packages) which I'm connecting to my company
network - which is basically NT/Windows based.
The basic connection is fine, I get an IP address and access to the DNS
nameservers and network via
From: Moore, Paul
[... Description of WINS name resolution problem omitted ...]
Can anybody tell me what I might need to do to get this working?
Another (possibly) relevant point: I can connect from the Linux box using
WINS names with smbclient. The problem appears to only be with things
Apologies if people have seen this before. I initially sent it via the news
gateway at our site as I was having trouble getting subscribed, but I'm not
convinced that the gateway is making it to the full mailing list (other
messages I've sent that way are not in the archives). Now that I've got
Hi,
I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very*
good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main
compatibility worries are with video and sound cards.
The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a
365 chipset. I've looked
Hi,
I see that people are hoping for kernel 2.2 to be released by Christmas.
I've looked (honest!) and yet I can't see a straightforward list of the
major new features expected in 2.1/2.2. Can anybody point me at
something I could look at? (Short of the sources :-)
Thanks,
Paul Moore.
I'm thinking of buying a new PC. However, I want to be sure my hardware
will be supported. I've read the Hardware HOWTO, and I *think* I
understand it, but there are a number of things I am still concerned
about:
* The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a
Jetway make,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by
xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you
have to have that key.
That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm, just startx from the console...
Nevertheless, thanks for
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chip Grandits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| As has been strongly encouraged, I spend most of my time on my linux box as
a
| mortal user.
| Every once in a while I need to go 'root-in' around some system
| files to set up
| a new application
| that I've
Hi,
I've just started using apt for installing and upgrading packages. I'm
very impressed with it (at least as far as getting stuff off the web is
concerned). What I'd like to do is use it for *all* my setup. But I
can't get it to see the stuff on my (CheapBytes) Hamm CDs - which I'd
like to use
Thanks to all who offered help and comments. I now have exim as my MTA,
and I'm very pleased with the results. The filtering facilities are nice
- replaced what I previously used procmail for. I don't think there's
anything I needed to do but couldn't with smail/procmail, which I can
now do with
Hi,
Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway
the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server?
I'd need to be able to transfer incoming list mail into a local
newsgroup and direct local postings to the group out to the mailing
list.
Is there
Hi,
There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default
mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to
go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I
initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual
(section 39,
From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doh! I feel pretty dumb now. The scripts ARE being run. The problem
does, however, seem to have something to do with the way in which they're
being run. One of the scripts contains an ftp command, which should
(using a macro in /root/.netrc)
Hi,
I have Debian 2.0, which has Perl 5.004_04 installed. I'd like to
upgrade to 5.005_02 (or maybe even _53). There isn't a debian 5.005
package yet (AFAIK) - how do I install 5.005, without confusing dpkg? I
don't know what there is on my system which depends on Perl - can I find
out?
I'm quite
From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 November 1998 16:55
To:Debian User List
Subject: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using pon.
I can run the script manually, and it
Hi,
I'm currently running a 2.0 system (pretty much vanilla), but I'm
thinking of trying out a kernel build of one of the new 2.1 kernels
(probably the latest, unless anyone is aware of problems which may mean
an earlier one is more stable).
I've looked at all the stuff in the kernel-package docs
From: Imran Geriskovan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I've installed Debian several times on several machines but got stuck with a
problem on one machine.
Problem is as follows:
I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux
Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network,
From: Waif W. Urchin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grr...
Alright, still trying to recompile my kernel after doing an initial
install from floppy.
While I'm not particularly able to help with your problem, I'd guess
that you don't actually need to recompile the kernel. So maybe you can
avoid the
Hi,
I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working
together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through
procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the
local delivery agent (when I used the SuSE distribution, with sendmail
and procmail,
To all who replied so helpfully, thanks. I now have a working setup.
Basically, the simplest solution for me is to add the idle option to
my ppp options, to hangup the line when there is no more activity.
A number of people suggested diald - it certainly looks good, and I may
well look into it
I've had a number of suggestions now, thanks to all who replied.
However, I've still got some problems.
First - for all those who suggested fetchmail, thanks but I am aware of
fetchmail, and it just does not do what I need. The reasons are complex
but conclusive... [If anybody really wants to
From: Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
query script) as the last item in ip-up.
Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' -
so the leading 'z' puts the file
From: Mitch Blevins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moore, Paul wrote:
[snip]
The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
came up
Background:
I have my PPP connection to my ISP set up, pretty much out of the box.
In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, I have some scripts, one to send queued mail, one
to get a newsfeed via slrnpull. I will probably add extra scripts later
(mirror my homepages, download new packages, cache web pages,
From: Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello:
Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald)
which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the
link based on idle time.
Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main reasons.
First, my ISP passes mail to me
From: Mitchell, James T1[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use demon, who also use SMTP to send email while online. My 'solution' is
based on the fact that I use diald to manage connections.
Actually, I use demon, too :-) [Are there any good web pahes about how
to set up Linux with demon?]
diald will
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MP == Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MP Have I missed something, or is FvwmConsole not included in the debian
MP package?
I don't know this module. What does it do? How does it look like?
Perhaps it is not a official part of fvwm2 and Suse
Hi,
I'm just getting smail set up, and I'm not sure what I need to do for
the last stage (getting my dial-up setup working). I have local mail
setup fine, including redirecting postmaster mail to my normal
account. My ISP (Demon Internet in the UK) passes mail to me using SMTP
when I am logged on,
I've just got FVWM2 set up and running on my Debian 2.0 system. I wanted
to play with some options, and I looked for the FvwmConsole module which
comes with Fvwm2 (at least it did on my previous SuSE setup). But it
doesn't seem to be included...
Have I missed something, or is FvwmConsole not
I am trying to get to grips with Debian, and I'd like to browse through
the documentation. The problem I have is that my Debian PC is at one
home, whereas the PC where I have the most chance to read documentation,
print things out, follow up references, etc, is at work. My current work
PC is
From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can
I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have Windows gzip, tar, etc
utilities).
deb(5) documents the format. Basically, it's an ar(1) archive containing
tar.gz
!!
Thanks a lot!
Paul.
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 1998 17:46
To:Moore, Paul
Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Getting at Debian distribution files
Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have
Hi,
I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0
Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which
has a CD drive).
The work PC has no CD drive, but it *does* have a network connection.
I have got the install through to the point of running dselect as
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting Debian 2.0 to install from a hard disk
partition (the PC in question doesn't have a CD drive :-()
I downloaded all the stuff I needed (according to install.html) from
ftp.debian.org, and put it on my HD (DOS drive D:, subdirectory \debian)
Then I started the
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