gnucash & woody

2001-10-24 Thread John Kuhn
This is not another question about how to install gnucash 1.6.x on woody. There have been a few recent threads which answer this question. My question is: when woody is released as stable, is there any chance that it will include a modern gnucash? Woody currently has gnucash 1.3.4 which is an exp

Re: xine fullscreen?

2001-10-24 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Joerg Johannes, > I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. > I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only > shows up in window mode ("F" during playback has no effect, and "-pf" on > the command line neither...) > I'm using the xine-ui

Re: Firewall on PC

2001-10-24 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> Is the functionality level of the 2.4.x filter the same/greater/lower > than the OpenBSD filter?. >From my point of view functionality is very close. -- Alexey

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Vittorio
Hi Blars, as a matter of fact it was dselect under woody to automatically select and install the package modutils-2.4.10-3 when I asked for kernel-2.4.10. So, do you mean that there's something wrong under debian woody? Vittorio Blars Blarson [debian-user] <24/10/01 02:01 -0700>: > In article

Re: xine fullscreen?

2001-10-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:58:26AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello List > > I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. > I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only > shows up in window mode ("F" during playback has no eff

Possible X bug?

2001-10-24 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, I think I may have possibly stumbled accross an X bug, but I was interested to see if anyone else had encountered it before bugging the harried souls of the X Strikeforce. A quick look at the billions of bugs filed against xserver-xfree86 hasn't turned up anything relevant... I have a few

Re: Firewall on PC

2001-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, plz. wrap lines at 72 chars. Thx. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Davi Leal wrote: > Hi all, > > --- OpenBSD 2.9 (or any other version) versus "iptables" GNU/Linux > 2.4.x --- > > If GNU/Linux is chosen, is Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' (woody) the right > distribution?. No 'potato' due to it uses 2.

Bad memory?

2001-10-24 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was trying to compile gaim last night, but gcc keeps dying of signal 11, here's the output: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make[2]: *** [autorecon.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gaim-0.46/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Le

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread R. Alexander
Sorry but I am confused. If you add a physycal hard disk, the kernel upon recognizing it will assign a DRIVE id such as /dev/hda for the first IDE drive, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc for the third IDE and so on. Now, on you /dev/hdc drive you will need some partitions. Each primary partition is called /dev

instalacion de potato

2001-10-24 Thread mimebla
buena s a todos .me gustaria ke me echaseis una mano ,voy directo al grano . tengo un thinkpad 750c ,intento de instalar la potato via cdrom puerto paralelo pero por lo visto esto solo me funciona cuando instalo la suse 6.2. Aparte el floppy del portatil es de 2.88 y me da probemas a la lectura de

Re: Modem configuration + Dial up - Procedure

2001-10-24 Thread John Hasler
Shaul Karl writes: > You might install the pppconfig deb and run it. He already has pppconfig. It's in the base system. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

LILO : 2 linuses on 2 different partitions

2001-10-24 Thread Michel Loos
Hi, I would like to be able to boot from lilo 2 different linuxes (debian and Connectiva) each of which is installed in a different partition and uses a 2.4.x kernel. For the moment with the following configuration I have been sort of unsuccesful (It searches the modules in the wrong place) boot

Re: xine fullscreen?

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 11:58, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello List > > I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. > I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only > shows up in window mode ("F" during playback has no effect, and "-pf" on > the comm

Debian & Kernel 2.4

2001-10-24 Thread rock
Hi everybody, i'm currently using potato 2.2r3 the debian stable version. The new features in the new kernel like iptables are interesting and i like to try it. I have read the document at the url http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 It contains the instructions to upgrade potato to the

Firewall on PC

2001-10-24 Thread Davi Leal
Hi all,   --- OpenBSD 2.9 (or any other version)    versus  "iptables" GNU/Linux 2.4.x ---   If GNU/Linux is chosen, is Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' (woody) the right distribution?. No 'potato' due to it uses 2.2.x kernels.   I think that the subjects which must be taken into account to eval

Re: Help with ssh, please

2001-10-24 Thread BURLET Frederic
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed > teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can > ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password. > > How can I elimnate this prompt?

Re: Xfree is not working

2001-10-24 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
> What XFree level package did you install ? ??? Don't know what u mean. > > How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? > > Cheers. Bob Î have attached the XFree log and m< XF86Config-4. I use Xfree 4.1.0.1 cheers, Raffaele XFree86.0.log Description: Binary data XF86Config-4 Description: Binar

Help with ssh, please

2001-10-24 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password. How can I elimnate this prompt? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

2001-10-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: > > # cd linux > > Uh Oh! > > (I think you meant "cd pcmcia" because I can see something > called "linux" in /usr/src/ trying to "cd" there gets only an error.) no, i meant linux. in the linux tar, there is a pcmcia directory. that's what i have to remove in orde

lpc: conflicting informnation.

2001-10-24 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I'm getting conflicting info in trying to get my printer going again. The following was done as root ... # lpc start all lp: printing enabled daemon started # lpc status all lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note > > that this is non-free software. > > Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would > certainly appeal to Debian folks... I will look for the "kaffe" package... Andr

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data I was then able to mount hdc1. This has me confused? why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? Is there a place I can get more info on mount points, etc etc? mike Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote

Re: Xfree is not working

2001-10-24 Thread R. Alexander
What XFree level package did you install ? How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? Cheers. Bob - Original Message - From: "Raffaele Sandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 1:13 Subject: Xfree is not working Hi, I have updated woody yesterday. As i could se

Re: help me with tar

2001-10-24 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
> So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a > storage band. You do not need to create a file before. Use tar without the option 'f'.

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note > that this is non-free software. Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would certainly appeal to Debian folks... Hall

Re: help me with tar

2001-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Angel MAN wrote: > It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem > with tar > i want to save some data from a server. > So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a > storage band. > But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i

Re: help me with tar

2001-10-24 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
> But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i > can't save all my data. You need lfs patch to create a file with a size biggest than 2 GO. However, you can use this backup command instead: > tar -C /orig -cf - ./ | tar -C /dest -xf -

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya oleksander i tested a bunch of different svga cards w/ svideo/rca outputs.. but non could talk to a regular tv - but some fo those svga cards... worked with Win98... :-( ( not with linux ) - even cards that proports to have linux drivers to display onto a r

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2001-10-24 Thread Radulovity Emil
Hello! I want to know where can I get Debian Woody ISO images. I want to update my Potato system, I have slow connection and can`t use Internet for this. I looked for ISO images, but didn't find one. If you know the link, please send me! Sincerelly yours: Radulovity Emil -- Radulovity Emil

xfree86 4.x & woody

2001-10-24 Thread Stefano
Hi everybody. I've upgraded my debian potato to woody. BUT many things went wrong. The last one, meaning the not already solved one, is that the server X gives me this message: Couldn't load XKB keymap falling back to pre-XKB keymap and using setxkeymap couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES p

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. ROTFLMAO!! Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-24 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Where, exactly, did this text come from? It's quoted from the license agreement for Star Office 6 beta. -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE66FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 0

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-24 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and >> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? > > One is a symbolic link: > > ls -l /var/spool/mail > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 03:30 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail Ah, stupid me; I only checke

Re: method POST to php

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Cole
The error.log reports normal operation. No failed loading of .so's. The httpd.conf does not have the Options +ExecCGI but the srm.conf does. Should this be in httpd.conf? The LoadModule php4 is in httpd.conf and the AddType is in the srm.conf. Should there also be a AddHandler and Action for th

Re: Xfree is not working

2001-10-24 Thread BURLET Frederic
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > > I have updated woody yesterday. As i could see Xfree was updated to > version 4.1 (i think). To know which current version you are using : X -version > > After that its not starting. But doesn't output any error message > it starts and the

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Charles Bray
Petre, yes, my /etc/resolv.conf file is set up correctly. Thanks. Lars, > Charles Bray wrote: > > > Right now, my /etc/network/interfaces file includes the following > lines > > (excluding comments): > > > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > My understanding is that the "auto lo" line i

Xfree is not working

2001-10-24 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi,   I have updated woody yesterday. As i could see Xfree was updated to version 4.1 (i think).   After that its not starting. But doesn't output any error message it starts and the shuts down. It worked perfectly before the update.   Any hints?   cheers, Raffaele

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:13:34AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall > occasionally, atleast on major distribution upgrades, as > a kind of periodic spring cleaning (ensuring old and no > longer needed files and directory structures etc get > p

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Aurelio Turco
Brian Nelson wrote: > > Aurelio Turco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > > > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > > > > > Yup. > > > > > > > Or do I need to

Re: The old story - backspace in xterms

2001-10-24 Thread xio
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:27:00PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > For some reason neither the Delete key nor the Backspace key work in my > terminal windows (xterm, Konsole). I have to use ^H on the command > line. The keys work however as expected in editors like vim, pine (in > these very te

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Today at 01:12:63 you wrote the following wise words: > Now, my boss is going to get most of the heat, and he and his managers > are looking for alternatives. > I wish the ppl at my school were that smart as well... There are some Debian-based distro's with very nice installers and things like t

Re: method POST to php

2001-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Ref : Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:02:23 AM MC> I am having some difficulty finding what to do to fix this problem. I MC> have Apache 1.3.9, PHP4 and Postgresql. I am trying to POST to a php MC> document. Then html form has action="validate.php">. When I submit the information I get a 405 MC

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Charles Bray
Michael Heldebrandt wrote: > I have the same lo lines and mine works fine. How is your eth0 > interface configured? Is it also in /etc/network/interfaces? No, I'm still in the beginning stages of getting my Linux machine usable, so I haven't networked with my wife's Windows machine yet. I did

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Yesterday at 18:21:63 you wrote the following wise words: > Also, I think there is a lot of need for this sort of work. I've been > talking to some admins here about starting a project for backporting > sets of packages from unstable to stable to do 3-6month update packs > after stable comes out,

xine fullscreen?

2001-10-24 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello List I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only shows up in window mode ("F" during playback has no effect, and "-pf" on the command line neither...) I'm using the xine-ui deb from unstable. H

Re: apt logfile?

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander Steinert
> Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? Something that would keep a record of > what was done when? Just a simple text file with a format of: > > > > Does anyone else think this could be very useful? Me2! It's not what you meant, but sometimes I use ls -ot /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums | head -2

help me with tar

2001-10-24 Thread Angel MAN
It's a long time since i wrote here but i've got a problem with tar i want to save some data from a server. So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a storage band. But when my tar file override 2 GO, the programm exit and i can't save all my data. The server can coutain up to 80 Go

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24-Oct-2001 Brian Nelson wrote: > >> When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > >> "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > > > Yup. > > > > technically, apt-get upgrade will work. dist-upgrade has a few more rules in > it to mak

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Aurelio Turco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > > > Yup. > > > > > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall? > > > > Nope.

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: ... ... > >> Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall? > > > > Nope. > > > > There have been Debian machines that have been updated for 5 years. In fact > the joke among us Debian developers is that our installer is so bad because > most of us only see it once. no

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Aurelio Turco
Brian Nelson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > Yup. > > > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall? > > Nope. > Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall oc

Re: Modem configuration + Dial up - Procedure

2001-10-24 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Could somebody pls tell me how Modem configuration + Dial up is done on any Linux box , if I am having an ISP ? Thanks, There is no simple answer to ppp configuration on any Linux box. Debian standard is pppconfig and then use pon/poff. Then there is wvdialconf and wvdial to dial in, this

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in >'/lib/modules/2.4.10-586/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for >ieee1394_device_size > It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then > you probably need a new version of modutils

Abiword and libgal9 [was Re: Gnucash ]

2001-10-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Just for completeness, in case anyone else needs this, libgal9 is |> there too: |> |> http://crdic.ath.cx/libgal9_0.10-1_i386.deb |> |> I'll leave them up for a few days. Ahh---thank you so much for this. libgal9 is also required for the new Abiword

확인하세요

2001-10-24 Thread 박진재
안녕하세요 먼저 허락없이 메일드려 죄송합니다.. 불필요하신분들은 삭제하세요 최신CD을 저렴한가격에 판매합니다 최신게임.유틸프로그램.그래픽.멀티미디어.캐드.교육용. VCD.등 여러분들이 필요로하시는 시디을 다량보유하고 있습니다 신용은 물론 100프로 믿으셔도 됩니다 첨부된 화일(cd list. zip)을 다운받으신후에 디스크에 저장하신후 압축을풀고 살펴보십시요. 믿고 거래하시면 만족하실겁니다 == 보너스CD도 드립니다 = 참고로 이 메일을 보낸 아이디로는 연락

Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Vittorio
I can't install kernel image 2.4.10 in woody properly. Here's the script of #apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.10-586 Sorry, kernel-image-2.4.10-586 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:51, Patrick Lane wrote: > What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm > using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. > I've java working in both (i think) using the Blackdown j2re,look on "http://www.blackdown.org"; for (c

Is it a bug?

2001-10-24 Thread Erik Christiansen
Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation, to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited: X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) Trying: strings /usr/bin/X11/X | grep X | more shows "/etc/X11/X" appears in the exe

Re: segmentation fault??

2001-10-24 Thread BURLET Frederic
> Hi, > > This is my first time to meet this message and don't know why. > The story is. > This afternoon, I tried to install ssh3 for higher security. > Follow standard step: > configure > make > make install > > everything was fine, no error message showed on the screen. > But, I can not conn

Re: intel fortran compiler

2001-10-24 Thread Emiel Metselaar
I also had some problems with alien, but since i just converted from a red hat machine and i had backups i could just *ahum* copy the backup /opt/intel directory and it worked. So try to find a rh machine and try the same approach. Not clean & nice, but one could call it pragmatic good

[slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0500, DvB wrote: > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask... I've > heard (on Slashdot, to be exact) that Emacs21 has some "new user > oriented" features that can be annoying for more experienced users. What > are they? (assuming there rea

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread david
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:51:31AM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm > using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. This worked for me (using the IBM JDK under Mandrake (currently moving that machine over to

Re: Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Danie Roux
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:51:31AM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm > using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. You put a line like this in your sources.list: # Blackdown Java deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Oct-2001 Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns. > >> I haven't been using Debian long enough to experience a full new >> release. >> >> Currently I'm running 2.2r3 and my apt-sources point to 'stable'. >> >> When Woody

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: > > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a > > "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > Yup. > Not: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: How do you apply an 'ac' patch?

2001-10-24 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:22:24PM +0200, Morbo wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, I know this is basic stuff, but what is the correct way to apply an > Alan Cox patch? > (Or probably any patch for that matter.) www.bzimage.org let's you download incremental patches. And has instructions on how to use it.

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread David N. Welton
Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Therefore, I propose a new project: Project Odyssey. To take the > > long road from where we (the geeks) now are to create a true Do you want to create something that 1) can be *used* by anyone, or something that can also be 2) installed/admined by 'any

Re: [possibly OT] Message Board <- what to use

2001-10-24 Thread Ramin Motakef
john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've been asked to find a Message Board (ie BBS) to be installed on a > debian server. I've had a look around and found nothing that really > excites me. > > And when I look at UBB I see it relies on many files in /cgi-bin to be > world writable. This w

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

2001-10-24 Thread Lars Knudsen
Charles Bray wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to Linux and just switched from SuSE to Debian > 2.2.19pre17 a few days ago. I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook. I've > tried very hard to solve this problem on my own, but the solution > continues to escape me. > > Right now, my /etc/network/in

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Shepherd) writes: Please wrap your lines at ~72 columns. > I haven't been using Debian long enough to experience a full new > release. > > Currently I'm running 2.2r3 and my apt-sources point to 'stable'. > > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so

Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Patrick Lane
What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. --Patrick

Re: fatal X server error

2001-10-24 Thread j
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 09:28, Rikki Hall wrote: > Others have had this problem and solved it by reinstalling xfonts > packages, i removed all fonts and then installed them again. it worked. kinda. It failed again when i added xfonts-scalable btw: what is defoma and can it help in this

What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-24 Thread David Shepherd
Hi All I haven't been using Debian long enough to experience a full new release. Currently I'm running 2.2r3 and my apt-sources point to 'stable'. When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall? It would be coo

segmentation fault??

2001-10-24 Thread haheho
Hi, This is my first time to meet this message and don't know why. The story is. This afternoon, I tried to install ssh3 for higher security. Follow standard step: configure make make install everything was fine, no error message showed on the screen. But, I can not connect to my server by ss

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Vittorio
What is weird is that many applications under gnome (netscape, gimp, staroffice with generic printer etc) are able to print correctly using "lpr -Plp" while the same command under a terminal/console dies silently. Vittorio Sebastiaan [debian-user] <23/10/01 16:07 +0200>: > Hi, > > On Tue, 23 Oc

fatal X server error

2001-10-24 Thread Rikki Hall
X is failing thusly: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Others have had this problem and solved it by reinstalling xfonts packages, but I have done a forced reinstall ('apt-get --reinstall install ...') of xfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, and xfonts-scalable, and it

Re: Messages being frozen with exim.

2001-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:50:10PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: > Lately in my log file for exim I see a bunch of messages that certain mail > messages are being frozen. > Where should I look to see the reason for this nd how do I unfreeze them? The command mailq will show you what messages are froz

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > What about upgrades? Initial installs probably aren't a problem, but > people upgrading without metapackages will get xbase-clients and not xinit! > (thus preventing them from starting X at all, at least using the common > methods) I don

Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module

2001-10-24 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: >(snip) >> I do not understand your response. I am not seeking to recompile a new >> kernel, but I want to make a module available to the kernel. > >Where are you going to get the module from. Darren could get the modules off the official binary Debia

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Lars Jensen
I had the same problem. I noticed that /var/spool/lpd has different group/ownershipin woody, so I simply replaced my /var/spool/lpd directory in woody with that from potato (I did a cp -p to preserve ownerships and permissions). After that everything worked fine. Lars. On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Vittor

Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module

2001-10-24 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>> >Linux debian 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown >> > >> > Would someone please explain where I can find this module and >> > how to install it ? >> >> I'm using kernel-source-2.2.19-8 and the option is CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 in >> the kernel source's .config file. > >I

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. I've had a look a CUPS but trying > > 'apt-get install cups' > > gives me a response along the lines that there is no such package. > > Has it been debianised ? $ dpkg -l 'cups*' or $ apt-cache search cups Also, postfix replies and trimmin

Re: How do you apply an 'ac' patch?

2001-10-24 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:55:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Morbo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Sorry, I know this is basic stuff, but what is the correct way to > > apply an Alan Cox patch? > > (Or probably any patch for that matter.) > Be aware that you have to use patch

Re: root disk

2001-10-24 Thread nate
Ian Frizzell said: > Hello - > I'm having difficulties getting the root disk to work. > I insert the rescue disk at boot up then it load the kernel and > asks for a root disk. I insert the root disk and hit enter - when I > do it says "Compressed Image found at block 0" And I'm not sure > what I'm

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Adam Bogacki
Thanks. I've had a look a CUPS but trying 'apt-get install cups' gives me a response along the lines that there is no such package. Has it been debianised ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:30:22PM -0700 or thereabouts, K. David Prince wrote: > Try using cups + cupso

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Allen Wayne Best
michael: by the way, there is nothing mystical about putting your new drive as "data" in the root. you can put it anywhere you think it should be mounted. for example, if this were to be a part of a database installation, say postgres, you could conceivably put this in a directory called /db/po

root disk

2001-10-24 Thread Ian Frizzell
Hello - I'm having difficulties getting the root disk to work. I insert the rescue disk at boot up then it load the kernel and asks for a root disk. I insert the root disk and hit enter - when I do it says "Compressed Image found at block 0" And I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong - but if th

I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

2001-10-24 Thread eDoc
I have the following and am about to reboot ... pray! :-) Progeny update/upgrade to Unstable: Steps: Uncommented only unstable in sources.list apt-get update dpkg --purge --force-depends libfreetype6 apt-get -f dist-upgrade (got an error on gdm) Ran "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" again. (additi

Re: pty-redir

2001-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:26:13AM -0400, Adam John Henry wrote: > pty-redir seems to be an essential program used to establish > a VPN using SSH+PPP. However, it would appear that, for > whatever reason(s), it has not been debianized. > Unfortunately, I am unable to download it from its source: >

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