X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm having a rough time getting x to work in sid. My XFreelog is attached. In essence X fails to start because it cannot find a font called fixed. But thats only the symptom of the bigger problem in that there is no utility to install X. XF86Setup is missing and xf86config is just no

Squid

2002-02-18 Thread Oki DZ
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-9.html#ss9.20 "9.21 In the IP cache section, what's the difference between a hit, a negative hit and a miss? A HIT means that the document was found in the cache. A MISS, that it wasn't found in the cache. A negative hit means that it was found in the cache,

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-18 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:04:49 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: >On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:13, Tom Cook wrote: > >> While we're at it, how about setting the 'Reply-To' header to >> debian-user@lists.debian.org, so I can hit 'reply' to send to the list, >> and don't have to 'reply-all' and delete the sen

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > > I heard on this list that this may cause hardware damage. I had several > accident of unplugging KB and no problem afterward. (I was not on Compaq > but generic MB) Talking from experience, you might damage your mb though it is not likely. The only one I've "managed "to fry this way was a

Re: Non Postscript Printer

2002-02-18 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:21:11 -0800, Dennis Krinke wrote: >Hi. I am trying to configure a Panasonic printer, KX-P1124. >I have always used epson LQ850 compatibility mode. >Oddly, I had this working one month ago, >I could print from StarOffice or Mozilla. >I can print text with 'lpr'. >But the

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue - frying mb

2002-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 07:57:36PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > donno... i've plugged and unplugged various mouse and kbs > all the time into lots-o-mbs and machines and have not > yet fried any mb... ( guess i can consider myself lucky... True but if you think about it, it may be true PS@ is dangero

Re: PAM Critical error, but no logging

2002-02-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to say this was on stable, using 2.2.17 and then moving to 2.2.19. > I've honestly been looking at this for a couple of hours now (and have > been reading about PAM for a couple of days) and have mainly established > that I myself am not crazy. I have a n

Re: re-using cached .deb files on new installation

2002-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:06:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm going from Potato -> Sid (over and over, to learn about installing). > I'm using the diskette boot method and then a network install. > > Boot, install Potato base system. If you want to cheat, go to console and edit sources.list

PAM Critical error, but no logging

2002-02-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've honestly been looking at this for a couple of hours now (and have been reading about PAM for a couple of days) and have mainly established that I myself am not crazy. I have a new configuration for the file /etc/pam.d/passwd as follows: authrequired/lib/security/pam_pwdb.

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:04:49AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:13, Tom Cook wrote: > > > While we're at it, how about setting the 'Reply-To' header to > > debian-user@lists.debian.org, so I can hit 'reply' to send to the list, > > and don't have to 'reply-all' and dele

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:20, Tom Cook wrote: > Aye aye aye, and I thought I was scared before... flipping your boot > sectors across the network and *hoping* they come back the same... > AARRGH!!! > > I think we have an entrant here for sysadmin disaster of the month: > > http://user-mode-linux

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:13, Tom Cook wrote: > While we're at it, how about setting the 'Reply-To' header to > debian-user@lists.debian.org, so I can hit 'reply' to send to the list, > and don't have to 'reply-all' and delete the sender from the list? As inconvenient as it may seem, the headers a

Re: HELP with samba/ linking Nt machine

2002-02-18 Thread nate
> does anyone know how to mount an nt machine onto samba unix ? > > Nt machine can see the unix box, but unix cannot see the nt ? if your referring to mapping a SMB share from a win32 system onto a GNU/Linux system then you should read up on 'smbmount'. if your using some flavor of UNIX, then sm

Non Postscript Printer

2002-02-18 Thread Dennis Krinke
Hi. I am trying to configure a Panasonic printer, KX-P1124. I have always used epson LQ850 compatibility mode. Oddly, I had this working one month ago, I could print from StarOffice or Mozilla. I can print text with 'lpr'. But the thing that has changed is that I can no longer get the correct

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 23:38, Gary Turner wrote: > >I am new to Linux/Debian and this is my first installation. Hence, I am > >looking for a document which describes the entire process in details > >with the actual commands to be typed. Please let me know if anyone knows > >of any such document or

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-18 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Rahul Agarwal quotation: > Thanks for you reply. Yes I am using potato. Would you really recommend > using Woody for a novice? What kind of problems could I run into. Also > do I need to rebuild the system for istalling Woody or it can be > installed over potato. You certainly don't need

Re: sound is really soft

2002-02-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jason Stechschulte wrote: > Since I can't seem to remember to turn down the speakers > before rebooting, is there something I can do about this behavior? Have you tried using a mixer program to change the volume in Linux? Aumix might be a good starting point.

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