.
But you upgraded your box, right?
Anybody know what's wrong? I have no idea where the server socket directory
is.
Set the group ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix to root. Worked for me...
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the question/answer in the exim FAQ[1], but haven't the first idea
about what ought to go in the script it mentions.
Thanks.
[1] http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#SEC182
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I'm not on the debian list at the moment, but have just been searching
the archives. I noticed your messages which looked like they would solve
my (exact same) problem [potato + 2.2.13 + all updates];
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
/lib/modules/2.2.10/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter
On Monday 07 June, Pedro Bastos wrote:
hello everybody :) where can i find wterm in .deb format ?
cause i tried to install it in .tar.gz format, and the compile process
just failed.
not sure, but it compiled fine for me on slink. what were the errors
(don't reply to me, I might not
On Sunday 30 May, Roy Coates wrote:
Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been selected.
On Tuesday 25 May, David B.Teague wrote:
Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book Running Linux, 2/e
Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and
detail information ?
Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about
command syntax. No structure of Debian, little
On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote:
The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the
route commands and it should go away.
if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's
called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local
On Thursday 20 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
GA but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to
GA recompile GIMP to make it work?
Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for
libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such.
okay, I did, and it
On Wednesday 19 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
GA I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to
GA work properly.
Try the gtk-engines-* packages available at
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable
main
brilliant - it works a treat,
I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to work
properly. plain themes work fine but pixmap themes don't. I tried
using the BeOS theme by copying /usr/local/share/themes/BeOS/gtk/gtkrc
to ~/.gtkrc, but this is what happens when I fire up a GTK app;
Gtk-WARNING **:
I'd like to check the versions of some of the modules (e.g. the Tulip
NIC driver) used on the slink installation floppies - can anybody tell
me which files to dig around in, and on which disk?
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I just installed mod_perl and ePerl from slink today, and am having
problems configuring ePerl (Apache is also from slink).
I have added the following to access.conf;
PerlModule Apache::ePerl
Directory /var/www/nelson
Files *.epl
Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler
On Tuesday 04 May, Tommy Malloy wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if I could tell the following to everyone to type
command keyword or command string, and a list of applications
related to that keyword or string would be provided.
try this;
% apropos foo
where foo is your command or string. the
On Thursday 22 April, Angus Claydon wrote:
Could anyone who's online just now let me know what the proc line should
look like in /etc/fstab ?. Unfortunately I messed it up
and none of modules are loading correctly.
like this;
proc/proc proc defaults
Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and
buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on!
I've been reading on dejanews that you need the 2.2 kernel to get a
recent driver for the U2W...
Thanks.
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On Thursday 22 April, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain
| drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card?
It might, but you'd be better off getting a copy of the boot disks
with a more
very quick question - am I right in thinking that if I install slink on a
sparc I won't be limited to 2GB files as I am on a 32bit intel box?
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Graham
On Tuesday 20 April, Richard Harran wrote:
I am currently running kernel 2.0.36 in my slink system. Would there be
any advantages to upgrading my kernel? If so what version would be a
good (stable) version to which to upgrade? Are there any good reasons
not to upgrade?
I'm no expert, but
On Thursday 15 April, Alec Smith wrote:
I'm running kernel 2.2.5 with smbfsx installed from the deb... I get the
attached error... Any tips would be appreciated.
you need to recompile smbmount with 2.2.x kernels. I've never done it, but
have read that it needs doing.
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Graham
On Wednesday 14 April, Pollywog wrote:
If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the
same way as it is done with other distributions or is there some
obscure Debian way to do this?
you can do it the standard way (and I did it this way for months), or
you can follow the
into the .deb.
when you do dpkg --install kernel-image.blah-blah.deb dpkg handles
installing the new kernel for you. it also asks if you'd like to install it
with lilo, according to your current /etc/lilo.conf. very nice, and very
quick.
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Graham Ashton
Futures Testbed, Futures Lab, BT
On Wednesday 31 March, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Graham Ashton wrote:
not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.
xdpyinfo tells me;
class:TrueColor
flying runs only in 8bpp . startx -- -bpp 8
oh damn. thanks for the info.
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Graham
On Wednesday 31 March, Armin Wegner wrote:
there are a lot of nice libraries in /usr, but where are the
documentations for the c/c++ libraries?
humbug% dpkg --list * | grep libc | grep doc
pn glibc-doc none (no description available)
un glibcdocnone (no
I'm running exim on my mail server, which is fully DNS registered, and
has proper connectivity to the outside world. I'll call it
server.domain1.com
One of my mates wants me to set it up so that mail sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gets directed to his workstation (which doesn't have an
MX record),
when I try and run any of the pool type games in the flying package, I
get an error message;
not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.
xdpyinfo tells me;
class:TrueColor
depth:16 planes
available colormap entries:64 per subfield
red, green, blue masks:
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
Could someone please tell me either what I might be doing wrong, or how
I could do the 'configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option'
thing.
have you done either make config, make menuconfig or make xconfig before
the make dep; make clean ?
if
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
I've run the install script from the awedrv package, configured the kernel
(make menuconfig),
sorry - didn't notice that bit when I first read it. still, it sounds like
you've missed the audio section out. try it again, and look for the audio
section.
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound
options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I
can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created
this, and how do I fix it?
cool.
On Friday 26 March, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
(and putting me in the audio group didn't work).
anybody got any ideas why that is?
Did you logout/login again after you added yourself to the audio group?
I don't think so - I tried using the newgrp command instead. It works
fine now with
On Sunday 21 March, Michael Beattie wrote:
ShadowGate:/root# smbmount //dahouse/c_on_dahouse /dahouse -U BW07442 -P
shadowgate.com -I 192.168.0.10
mount error: Operation not supported by device Please look at
smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
I looked at
On Friday 19 March, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having
updated my kernel to 2.2.3.
When I did it I just moved the /usr/include/{linux,asm} directories out
of the way and then made symlinks to the appropriate kernel headers and
is there a debian package for the rexec daemon anywhere? I've found the
client, but the server doesn't come with it.
thanks.
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Graham
On Friday 19 March, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
is there a debian package for the rexec daemon anywhere?
/usr/sbin/in.rexecd is in netstd.
d'oh! thanks a lot.
[sheepishly exits stage left]
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Graham
I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having
updated my kernel to 2.2.3.
vmware needs to compile a module during the installation process, and it
takes one look at the version.h file that I have in /usr/include/linux
and barfs (wrong kernel version - version.h still reckons
I've just installed a fresh slink box, and selected the Basic profile
during installation.
I can't deliver mail locally (exim is installed), and there are no files
in /var/spool/mail.
Sending an email to a valid user has no effect - it just sits in the
mailq, frozen.
What can be wrong with it?
I just upgraded to CPAN 1.48 on my slink box (fully up to date), and now
the CPAN shell won't work. It says this;
cpan i /Zlib/
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined
I've just got sound going under 2.2.3, SoundBlaster 64 [OEM] (how happy
am I?!!)
My little mixer controller complained that it couldn't access
/dev/mixer, the permissions on which were 660. It's owned root,audio. I
put myself in the audio group, but it didn't fix it. If I do newgrp
audio I'm
I've been unable to find the UCD snmp stuff in .deb format. Does it
exist?
I've seen the CMU package, but need to get the UCD code instead to make
it work with php.
I know UCD snmp is really easy to compile from source (that's what I've
done), but I like to stick to debian packages where I
On Thursday 04 March, Richard Lyon wrote:
I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
keep getting empty gif files.
Your right! It's actually the transfig package as a whole which appears to
have no support for the generation of gif.
that's bizarre. it
On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote:
I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the
same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my
mail box straight away.
I've got the same problem. Strange, isn't it.
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Graham
I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
keep getting empty gif files. Here's a sample attempt;
shandy% cat data
0.3 1.2
0.5 1.34
0.7 1.6
shandy% graph -T fig data file.fig
shandy% file file.fig
file.fig: FIG image text, version 3.2
shandy%
So
On Saturday 20 February, Paulo Silva wrote:
I have promissed to write yesterday, but I completly forgot. Here goes
my awe64 setup information.
[snip]
that's a very clear description - thanks a lot for the info. I'll try it
later on today (maybe tomorrow if I'm too busy), and let you know how
On Friday 19 February, rich wrote:
From: Paulo J. da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure
everything is working.
I think I'll join in with this thread rather than starting a new one, as
my hardware and problems are very
is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd?
the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do
IP address based virtual hosting instead. :(
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Graham
On Wednesday 17 February, John Stevenson wrote:
However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error
message below.
Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation?
Any clues ??
I'd say that it's a problem with the mirror, as if you login to the site
and
I've got vim installed on both hamm and slink boxes, versions 5.0 and
5.3 of vim respectively, and use both from the same remote rxvt session.
When I switch line numbering on in 5.0, everything looks fine. When I
switch it on in 5.3, the line numbers themselves are underlined. It's
really
I've just started fiddling with mysql (from the standard .deb files) on
my hamm box, and am having problems with permissions/privileges. I can't
create databases with mysqladmin.
I can't even connect to the mysql privilege tables to alter the
permissions, as I don't seem to have the permissions!
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Chris Chabot wrote:
While developing several sites based on a PHP (3.0.6/Apache-1.3.4) engine, ive
stumbled across a max. size limit for TEXT fields while inserting them in the
MySql (3.22.15) database. The max size was 65535, which sounds awfully much
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:46:56AM +, Graham Ashton wrote:
look in section 7.2 of the mysql manual, and scroll down until you find
'TEXT' at the left hand side of the page.
sorry about that folks - I replied to the wrong list - wasn't thinking
straight. now that's 2 cock-ups in as many
I've got a bit of a problem with my exim config at the moment, and the
exim web site's DNS is refusing to resolve so I can't get to the right
part of the manual. Apologies for posting it here, but I'm in a bit of
a rush to fix the problem...
exim is receiving mail perfectly happily for all mails
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:03:56PM +, Graham Ashton wrote:
exim is receiving mail perfectly happily for all mails addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what it isn't doing at the moment, is accepting mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
sorry for replying to my own post
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote:
Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or
gpgp)?
I'm not sure. Certainly does pgp2 and pgp3 (whatever that means).
I'm thinking of switching over to
On 2 Feb, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
The stuff you downloaded from ftp.gnome.org was old (however those debs
are frozen in slink). However, libglib and libgtk 1.1.13 is new. GNOME is
rapidly evolving alpha software.
[snip]
thanks to those who replied. I think I'll see what happens if I
On 3 Feb, Jay Barbee wrote:
for a in file1 file2 file3; do \
echo -n $a seperate_file; \
echo -n ::: seperate_file; \
wc -l $a seperate_file; \
done
How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and
pass each file to this script.
replace the first line
I've downloaded libgnome0_0.30-1_i386.deb from ftp.gnome.org, and have
just tried installing it on my hamm box. I got a load of dependency
problems with dpkg, even for things that are installed. I installed
libglib1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb
libgtk1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb
without any problem.
I've finally decided to bite the bullet, and install GNOME. I'm running
hamm, without any packages from slink or potato installed.
I've downloaded the .deb files for the basic gnome system from
ftp.gnome.org, and thought I'd try and work out how to install them
with dpkg.
The problem is, it's
On 27 Jan, Nathan E Norman wrote:
Take a look at /etc/apache/httpd.conf - you'll notice a whole section on
modules. Uncomment the lines you want.
smashing, thanks. It's still not working, but I suspect I need to
revisit the manual to work that one out...
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Graham
I just tried setting up SSI on apache on my hamm box, but found to my
dismay that very few modules are compiled in by default;
humbug:root apache -l
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
I notice that the shared object one is there though, so I thought that
maybe all the others would be
I'm having trouble mounting CDs in my Toshiba SCSI CD drive. As soon as
I put a CD in (data or audio), the little green light on the front
flashes about 10 times, and then lights up permanently. The LED only
goes out when I eject the disk.
When I attempt to mount a (perfectly good) CD, I get;
On 11 Jan, Person, Roderick wrote:
I assume that this is part of wmakerconf, which I have got to yet.
no, it's on the attributes menu (the one you get when you right click
an application's title bar). I don't know when it was introduced, but it
was certainly in there by 0.20.3.
it has become
On 15 Dec, David S. Zelinsky wrote:
A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got
X configured with the VGA16 server.
I have a Dell Lattitude CPi 266XT (or whatever it's called), with a
neomagic chipset. I downloaded the XBF server from Red Hat's site which
On 15 Dec, Frank Barknecht wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've currently reached the stage where I've recompiled my kernel
having applied the latest awe-drv patch, and am trying to get the
module to load. I've been following the sbawe32 HOWTO to the letter.
On 15 Dec, Brian Morgan wrote:
1.I posted a samba question earlier. Has anyone had a chance to look at
that yet?
didn't see it, sorry.
2.Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an
error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I've had this problem in the
I've just installed a new hamm system, and am getting mail messages
about cfengine's cron job;
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Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
On 14 Dec, Ben Collins wrote:
Execute this command:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert --local --add --rename --divert
/etc/cron.daily/cfengine /etc/cron.daily/cfengine.norun
wow. how cool is debian?
thanks a lot.
[scuttles off to see what else dpkg-divert can do...]
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Graham
On 14 Dec, Kent West wrote:
At 02:07 PM 12/14/1998 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to print directly to a networked laser printer that has its
own IP address.
Yep, it's possible. Desirable? Depends. If you're the only one printing to
it, sure. If others are printing to it also, it's
On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc
could not sort mail anymore.
oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and
.procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically).
my fetchmail is done slightly
On 11 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all
working, where are the good window managers, etc.
I had problems getting xbase configured, but my previous experience
with Red Hat meant I knew how to frig it. I have a security problem
On 12 Dec, Zack Brown wrote:
I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to
start, giving an error. I ran apacheconfig, and got the following output
(essentially the same error):
I don't know why it should have trouble finding my hostname. It's right
there in
On 12 Dec, Tun Yang wrote: *** Opt graphics libtiff3g-de 3.4beta037-
3.4beta037- tiff development files [libc6]
Hi... I was trying to install WindowMaker 0.20.3 that I got from
www.windowmaker.org
Alright... so I don't think I can build any X program at this point... but I
can't find any X
may be able to fix it by setting the
$LOGNAME or $USER environment variables in the script that calls
fetchmail, but that would be a bit of a fudge, and I wouldn't recommend
it.
hope that helps. I've not tried any of that though. read the man page
before you do!
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Graham Ashton
just switched
from using Red Hat (which may explain a few things).
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