Re: debmake help

1999-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-99 David Z. Maze wrote: roddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: roddie I'm experimenting with making my first .deb. roddie roddie The howto's tell me to run build. I can find build anywhere. I roddie have all the packages. debmake, dpk-dev, dh-make, debhelp but roddie I can't find it.

RE: PCMCIA CD-ROM -- please help!

1999-07-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jul-99 Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, I guess this is an easy question, but can anyone tell me what device it should be to mount a PCMCIA CD-ROM? Thanks! On most laptops it is /dev/hdc. (First ide device, second controller). Otherwise, place the pcmcia card into the laptop during boot

RE: Install Source Packages

1999-07-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jul-99 Klaus Pieper wrote: Hi, How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the

RE: DHCPCD

1999-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get debian working with DHCP, but something's wrong. The DHCP client loads at boot, and when I run ifconfig the eth0 unspec addr, Bcast and Mask all say '[NONE SET]'. What is RX resp. TX packets? RX == received TX == sent If eth0 is

RE: CRON (another question)

1999-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-99 Daniel Ruoso wrote: Hi, Does anybody knows if there is a way to append (just put at last place without entering any editor) a schedule to crontab thanks.. echo 52 61 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly /etc/crontab will

RE: netscape 4.61 dies around window destroy in potato

1999-07-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape 4.61 as packaged in potato dies intermittently around window destroy events. Does anyone know why? We can only guess it to be glibc related ( it is compiled against 2.0 not 2.1 ).

RE: wallpaper Question

1999-07-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Not to mention another package, but there is a nice app call wallp in potato. It will update your wallpaper for you every so often. The easy way to use this or your program is to add a line in .xinitrc in your home directory. If the file does not exist, make it so it looks like: exec some

RE: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
[...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map cp System.map \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.36 test -f System.map chmod 644 \

RE: libXpm.so.4

1999-07-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jul-99 erasmo perez wrote: hi! when i try to run netscape 4.61 in xfree86 3.3.4 with debian 2.1 and kernel 2.2.1 i receive the following message: netscape: error in loading shared libraries libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and in fact, i

RE: More dhcpcd and pcmcia questions

1999-08-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Aug-99 Bob C. Ruddy wrote: When trying to start dhcpcd from the 'network.opts' file dhcpcd never picks up the network information. When I run /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start it works fine as long as I don't switch networks(see previous post). What happens when I boot the system with 'DHCP=y'

RE: /dev/mouse: not supported by device

1999-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
/dev/mouse is a symlink (via ln -s) from whatever is your mouse. So if your mouse is on com1 it should look like /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 a ps2 is psaux.

RE: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based card.) I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list

RE: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: Hi all (soory if this comes twice), I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you know

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: Why C/C++? Because I'm too lazy to learn Perl :) So look into Python. All the glory of C++ w/o the mess. Honest, it is worth the week of effort. class Foo: def __init__(self): self.i = 1 self.string = 'hi' f = Foo() print

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: It looks as though there is a new release of xfmail. Is that correct? I recompiled xfmail against gdbm and a few other clean-ups, closed all open bugs, etc. I have been unable to find the maint and upstream is also dead. I am the maintainer now until someone

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have been using xfmail for a while, but find it crashing often on me, ie, serveral times daily. It doesn't give any errors, though, besides the Xfmail crashed... etc dialog. What is the best way of reporting bugs? There is none. Either it works or it

RE: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
*DANGER* 2.2.11 has memory leak issues and other fun nits. Make sure to upgrade any and all boxen running it to the next release as soon as it comes out.

RE: Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The part I miss most is the context-sensitive TAB-completion, like bash can not do this. However a coworker and fellow Debian developer uses zsh and from what I have seen *NO* shell matches it. He has tab complete for apt, dpkg, telnet, and other fun things.

RE: ppp with dynamic name server

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Short term: on a system with working dns do a whois on the ISP. Use the name servers listed there. Long term: the new PPPd will handle this. The initial support is there. Read some docs, play around.

Re: ppp with dynamic name server

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
it means you need to setup your ppp dialer ( /etc/ppp/ppp-on ) to use dynamic ip instead of static... No silly. The IP while assigning IPs also gives out DNS via ppp, not dhcp. until recently ppp did not know how to accept this dns info. ppp does all the IP work. The problem is getting

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok let's take it from the top. Boot your machine into X, forget the dhcp thing for now. In a term window, su to root and run dhcp. Then, highlight the text and go to your email window. Click the middle mouse button when you have the cursor where you want the text -- bammo cut and paste X

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
that having been said, there is something flaky about the dhcp/dhclient setup on debian; i cannot understand why it works and then, when the cable co that I connect to has changed my ip or other features, i cannot connect; the purpose of dhcp is to be dynamic, is it not? dhcp works off

RE: moving /var to another partition??

1999-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new partition, or move /var over

RE: Good books

1999-09-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
O'Reilly has a learning Debian coming out soon. Several other book makers do as well. Look in your local book store.

RE: bash prompts question

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to something terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in bash, besides

RE: building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree.

RE: Where are my copy buffers?

1999-09-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Sep-99 David Blackman wrote: I'm want to start writing perl c programs that actually do stuff. What I'm wondering is this: When I'm in X windows, and I highlight something, where does it go (I know to the clipboard), but is that an actual file I can access? In X, cut and paste is

RE: permissions for /tmp

1999-09-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Sep-99 Marshal Wong wrote: Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks! Here ya go. root Description: Binary data

RE: ucd snmp

1999-09-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Avoid fakeroot. It does bad things. Use sudo. dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo

RE: DOWNGRADING glibc (2.1.x = 2.0.x)

1999-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Hi there, unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc 2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as I'm running out of

RE: APM doesn't really work

1999-09-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why does the CPU wake up by itself, or so it seems? Could something be going on in the background that wakes it up? As a test, try disabling X screensaver. What may be happening is that xscreensaver is performing some task, which wakes up the CPU. APM functions based on time and idleness,

RE: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: Ok, top was in the unstable yesterday. Today it is not? I miss top. I liked top. It might not have been the best, nor the prettiest, but I liked it. Does anyone know more about it? It is in procps -- has been for some time.

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
geisha [~] $ dpkg -S top|grep bin xpdf: /usr/bin/pdftops procps: /usr/bin/top snipped and yes, that command actually runs. I maintain a absolutely current potato box so I can compile packages.

Re: top missing too

1999-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok, seems the new version of procps (which my mirror did not have) does indeed lack top. This fix is on its way to the maintainer. Sorry for the confusion.

RE: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Marcus Johansson wrote: Hi! We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status of both cpu's, and even which cpu the processes are running on. Will the top (the GNU variant I guess) distributed with Debian 2.1 show anything like that? If I have

Re: Dual CPU

1999-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-99 Peter Iannarelli wrote: Then explain why xosview version 1.7.1 on potato reports the activity of both CPUs. Because people are always getting better at breaking the rules (-:

RE: QT 2.00

1999-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-99 The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: Hi, I'm trying to ./configure QT 2.00 but it won't seem to work. This is the error I'm getting: The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is currently set to , but it should be set to this directory, which is /usr/local/qt.

RE: XDMCP without xdm?

1999-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-99 Stuart Ballard wrote: Is there any way I can allow remote hosts to access my machine via xdmcp without running xdm on the machine itself? (running xdm seems to lock the machine completely on a regular basis). Would running xdm without managing any local displays solve the

RE: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Wendell Buckner wrote: I hate to be a novice Linux/Unix user but I can't help what I am! Someone...please tell me WHAT PACKAGE CONTAINS X WINDOWS!!! The X Window System is a client server interface. You need client applications (like those you listed) and a server that

RE: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Carl Fink wrote: [This message has also been posted.] I have a system that was installed from a Debian 2.0 CD-ROM, with many packages upgraded to 2.1 or unstable via the web site. One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my .bashrc and .bash_profile files

RE: Problems changing colour depth.

1999-07-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jul-99 Revenant wrote: I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't use a colour depth of greater than 8. I've tried running startx with the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.

RE: file transfers and the PIII

1999-07-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Jul-99 Jef Elliott wrote: Just joined the list - looks to be a good resource. Hope someone can offer some insight or advice. Are there any known concerns with the PIII chip and Linux? Nope, other than it runs really fast (-: We run Debian on several

RE: make menuconfig

1999-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
You need ncurses-dev. In Debian a library exists as libfoo or sometimes just foo. To compile something using that library requires the matching libfoo-dev or foo-dev.

RE: pcmcia support and debian

1999-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jul-99 David Mussington wrote: Hi: I have just purchased a used AST Ascentia 810N notebook pc. This system doesn't have a cd rom drive, so I am forced to use a PCMCIA-enabled one to install Debian. Could anyone tell me if the Debian 2.0 CD (I just bought the official user guide

RE: Synchronising many machines.

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I am maintaining quite a few machines that run Debian._ I presently only have access to a 56K modem link._ I have some powerpc machines and some intel machines._ I presently try to keep them in sync by doing an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade on one intel machine and one powerpc machine._ I

RE: getting .deb files after removed from incoming

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2000 Per Marker Mortensen wrote: Hello Newly uploaded files to debian are located at http://incoming.debian.org/. When the files are accepted they are moved to the main-archive. How often does ftp.debian.org sync with this main-archive? I want to install the newly

RE: Login Message

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jun-2000 Bill wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me where to change the login message when logging into Debian Box with SSH. ssh login geisha [~] $ ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Sun Jun 25 13:11:48 2000 from silicon.su.valinux.com on pts/5 Linux geisha

RE: ext3 and availability

2000-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: Hi debs How far is the development of ext3? Today, at linux-conference.ch some guy from RH said he was using ext3 on his notebook right then. Apparently the main developer of both ext2 and ext3 works also for RH. So, I wanted to know whether anyone

RE: xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote: Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my

RE: wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: hi, I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) mode? no, sorry. console does not work that way. GGI has

RE: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: Hello, I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it categorize the password as

RE: apt-get

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me where to get documentation on how to use apt-get? I am new to debian and apt. /usr/share/doc/apt. Every package in Debian has docs (some have more than others).

RE: unofficial mirror

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Christopher Thompson wrote: I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend. So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to mirror

RE: find question

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
dir1 and dir2 are web sites themselves. I want to know if anyone has accessed dir1 within the last 60 days. I've been using find like this: $ find dir1 -atime 60 -print Is this the correct command? looks sane, although I think atime is only set on files. Also, some people turn off

RE: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jun-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: I am looking for a window manager for debian that will not soakup the system resources. Which one would you suggest? I maintain blackbox it was designed to be minimal. Another popular choice is window maker, with all the bells and whistles turned off.

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: Just makedev lp3? This is the part that I am a little vague on. Isn't there parameters to include with this? How does it know how which piece of hardware it is intended for? Or am I making this harder (in my head) than it really is? And you

RE: Making new /dev entries

2000-07-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jul-2000 Walter Williams wrote: So it sounds like there are files containing pre-defined information for making /dev entries. I would therefore conclude that it knows that lp3 would be a printer port and configures it accordingly. files in /dev are special files. if you ls -l

RE: cron editor

2000-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-2000 Erik van der Meulen wrote: Dear list, this seems a silly issue but I cannot get around it. I just installed cron on a new Potato system. If I do a 'crontab -e' I get a strange editor, unlike vim which I get on met 2.1 box. Is there a way to change this behaviour? it reads

RE: A strange little kppp error

2000-07-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Potato ( kernel 2.2.16 ) with Slink version KDE. When I start kppp it displays a message which says that I don't have ppp compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module which is wrong (I have ppp as a module). the user who runs ppp should

RE: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can anyone verify that this is the case? Add any info? Which should I use on my system? Do I have a choice? Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Can I delete my /etc/conf.modules.old file without worry? yep, i have not had one for some time. There is no standard as of yet. When the LSB (Linux Standards Base) gets ratified we may have to revisit this issue. If documentation confuses you, please mail the maintainer and ask for the

RE: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris if you compile a kernel once with all the odd devices as modules you

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is in principle supported, but what

RE: Debian and OpenBSD -- ssh compatibility?

2000-07-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Jul-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm configuring an OpenBSD firewall in front of my Debian box. Current problem is getting compatible versions of ssh on both boxes. I can ssh FROM OpenBSD to Debian, but not TO OpenBSD from Debian. Error message on attempting OpenBSD connection:

RE: crontab think `root' is a command?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Peter S Galbraith wrote: I'm getting these cron mails under potato: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 06:42:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /bin/sh: root: command not found

RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote: Hi, Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted spool. I haven't found any applets that suit

RE: What are user quotas?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2000 Hammurabi Mendes wrote: what are user quotas? can anyone help me? i couldn't find much information on the manual pages user quotas are limits placed on normal users. Examples are size of home directory, number of processes running at once, amount of memory used, etc.

RE: g++

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++ program which before used to work with geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ g++ -Wall -pedantic test.cc -o test geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ ./test I equals: 0 you *MAY* need to use -lstdc++, but that is

RE: apt-get byte compile problem

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Peter Mickle wrote: A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the install process, I answered yes to a prompt to byte compile the newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade)

RE: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Aug-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker, the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting, but what can I do to make dselect usable in

RE: bash-problem

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC? better yet, set root's shell to something like sash.

RE: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away. If not, this is a bug in gdm.

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really think it is a gdm problem. right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, the dir should go away with it.

RE: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X exits. Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't make any difference. Should I file a bug or something? I have Version: 3.3.6-10, and it does when i use startx.

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer

RE: C programming

2000-08-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: Hi the list, I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an explanation on why the two for below give different results. my comment here is -- use better

RE: rm user

2000-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-2000 cls-colo spgs wrote: debs, what's the command for removing user accts? userdel or deluser (equiv of useradd and adduser). Quick hint: at the bottom of man pages there are oftens references to similar commands. These two are listed in the man page for adduser and useradd.

RE: How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 Jeffrey Austen wrote: How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there a way to upgrade in multiple steps

RE: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Aug-2000 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? run tzconfig as root, choose EST5EDT. OR choose a city on the East coast of the U.S. Linux (and other unices

RE: DHCP and Debian 2.2?

2000-08-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Aug-2000 Bryan K. Walton wrote: Greetings! Quick question: For the longest time, I was running Debian 2.1 in a network environment where my laptop computer obtained an IP address via DHCP. I had the dhcpcd .deb file installed which obtained the IP address for me. Last Friday I

RE: How can I restart the installer's task-selection routine?

2000-08-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlefolk: I'd like to revise my selection of tasks for a newly- installed potato box, but offhand I see no instructions on restarting the nice front-end that lets me choose blocks of packages by checking a single `task'. Is that available

RE: Network disapeared after upgrade.

2000-08-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, After the last upgrade my Potato box does not have any network device. Eth0 has disapeared. I've also lost my X11 configuration and when I try to use XF86Setup It is imposible to communicate with the mouse. if dpkg

RE: potato ugrade confusion

2000-08-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Aug-2000 André Wayand wrote: Hello, I am completely confused. The kernel image file on the potato CD is called linux-kernel-2.0.something mac. Isn't that supposed to be a 2.2 kernel? I installed the .deb file, everything went fine, however it put the kernel file vmlinuz2.0.something

RE: Packages I Don't want to upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I'm sure there is a way in Debian to flag certain packages to not upgrade, and I would appreciate any instructions on this. dpkg --set-selections file file looks like: package hold foo hold bar hold or as suggested, use dselect. Also - I know there is a XF4 deb packaging project,

RE: kernel-package concept question

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
It has been suggested in a previous post that the pcmcia should have been left alone. Now my question is, when is it required to rebuild that? Only if I compile a kernel from a different source? At this point, I am left in a situation where I am unable to install the 0.2 kernel.deb because

RE: 'menu' package : question : console support ? ; mailing-lis

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Sean Champ wrote: hi. if the debian 'menu' package [ http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ ] does offer console-support , this email can probably be disregarded. ( having a need to stay booted to ms-w right now, i can't check this myself, yet. also, the

Re: Device settings for sound configuration

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Funn Dipp wrote: I just installed Debian Potato a week ago. All I had to do is add my regular username to the audio group. I suspect if you do the same for each user that needs to use sound, you'll be all set. This is indeed the Debian way to solve the problem. audio group

RE: Apt-get doesn'f find propose-updates

2000-08-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Aug-2000 Anthony Campbell wrote: In ftp.uk.debian.org the README file for proposed-updates in potato says You can access this directory with apt by adding deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates I therefore put in my /etc/apt/sources.list the

RE: potato update question

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
apt-cdrom add does all the work for you. And you must add each cd rom.

RE: potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Aug-2000 Egbert Bouwman wrote: During my slink-life I have developped the habit to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. The real files are in /local/etc . This system has advantages and drawbacks. The big

RE: Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
What exactly do I need to put into /etc/network/interfaces for this NIC to have it go up at boot-time? (Will be using DHCP for a cable modem connection on the NIC :) if you look in /etc/network/interfaces, it points you to related man pages with examples.

RE: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-2000 Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar wrote: Hello, I was searching for UID of irc user (some time ago I've seen such user exists); now I can't find it. adding of irc package runs adduser --system which is nice but I don't prefer that method (some UIDs were already allocated for some users

Re: /etc/passwd user IRC

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
hmm will it be fixed or isn't it treated as a bug ? dpkg -s only knows about a file if it is actually in a package. /etc/passwd is not contained in one package. The installation creates it, then base-passwd updates it. This is not a bug.

RE: lesser man database..

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Michael Bacarella wrote: So, I get a call from a coworker before who asks me if I can find some userland Linux utilities to port to FreeBSD for a RAID controller. In the interim, I give him an account on a Linux server of mine and he starts barking because he types 'whatis

RE: installing openssh

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Scott wrote: hi, was noticing that on the news update titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, the Joel 'Espy' Klecker release, is officially released openssh is listed as one of the new software packages. i can't seem to find the openssh package under dselect, can anyone help me? im

RE: gnupg help

2000-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Sep-2000 Carlos Laviola wrote: Hello people, I know this is not Debian-related in any way, so please forgive me for posting here. My question is: is there a way to change a e-mail address in a gnupg key? My previous ISP (sol.com.br) is gone now, so I am using a new one, with a new

RE: dhcp to static ip

2000-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: Hey guys, I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip) to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what to do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah into this

RE: Current correct woody URL's for apt-get?

2000-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I know at some point I should change those URL's to unstable. as long as it says woody, you will track the woody release. You only need to edit it when a new release is due.

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