Re: StarOffice Debian 2.0 (glibc6), SI es posible :)

1998-11-04 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hola! Yo tambien instale Star Office 4.0 sin ningun problema. Si uno instala Netscape 4, dselect selecciona todas las librerias que este necesita. Y tambien las que Star Office necesita. Ya lo he probado en 5 maquinas, siempre sin problemas. Me encanta poder trabajar con este software. Saludos,

Re: xbase 3.3.2.3a-6

1998-11-04 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 02:52:44PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: He attachado el fichero con lo que he intentado hacer. He mirado el el bug tracking y no encuentro nada que se parezca. He instalado: xbase,

Conexión a Retenet

1998-11-04 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
[Perdón por el offtopic para los de fuera de España] Hola! ¿¿Alguien usa Retevision para conectarse a Internet?? Yo uso el nodo de Barcelona y todo me funcionaba perfectamente hasta hace un par de días. Ahora he de conectarme a traves de Infovia. Por lo que yo entiendo al mirar el log del PPP,

Problema con colores en X

1998-11-04 Thread Hernan Velasquez
Hola a todos Tengo un pequeno problema con algunas aplicaciones X windows, pues por la salida de error me sale: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for grey o para diferentes colores, lo cual hace que las aplicaciones salgan con unos colores feos. En estos momentos estoy usando el kde, no

Conexión a Internet

1998-11-04 Thread PEDRO FERNANDEZ
Como soy un neófito en el tema de la conexión de Internet bajo Linux, y como leyendo unos y otros tratados, cada uno lo explica a su manera, me gustaría que alguien me indicara los pasos a seguir para conectarme, he llegado hasta configurar el ppp con pppconfig, pero de ahí no paso.

Re: WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.

1998-11-04 Thread Mitch Blevins
Christian Lavoie wrote: 1) Is there a way to boot from command-line (without pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL). /sbin/shutdown -r now 2) From within the X server? (pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't reboots. Just has the speaker beeping.) Turn off your numlock --or-- Open an xterm; see 1) [snip]

Unstable (potato?) http source

1998-11-04 Thread wb4mle
Tried http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main and the i386-packages file wasn't synced to the directory. File not found, size mismatch etc. Anyone have a working http path to potato or whatever its gonna be? -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-04 Thread Lazar Fleysher
After upgrade bo-hamm had a similar problem run-parts in ip-up is not executed, but if I add everything to the ip-up directly it works. Did not have to find what went wrong and gave up Not a very constructive e-mail :-) ZORO On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN

Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

1998-11-04 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? Thanks, Sasha.

[Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-04 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page and some of you might be intersted in reading it. Cheers, Chad This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The

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Re: Operation not permitted !?

1998-11-04 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sounds like you have IP firewall enabled in kernel. Something seems to be broken in the way this sets up. Despite startup scripts telling it to allow certain connections, it seems to instead deny EVERYTHING. Routes specifically added by the scripts were still not allowed. On my box, I could not

Re: lp accounting -- lprng [pages?]

1998-11-04 Thread Max
Right after I sent the previous message with a similar subject I realized lpd runs as lp group lp. I changed the ownership of /var/log/lp-acct and now it works. What I need to know now is if it's possible to count the number of pages printed. I'm using magicfilter (if that matters) on

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-04 Thread john
Lazar Fleysher writes: After upgrade bo-hamm had a similar problem run-parts in ip-up is not executed, but if I add everything to the ip-up directly it works. What are the permissions on the files in ip-up.d? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

Re: linux crash when RAM 128MB

1998-11-04 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 2 Nov 98 07:06:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oz Dror) wrote: Hi I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine. MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890) I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each. When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes. Is this a hardware or software problem. Try running it with

Re: missing libcurses.so.1

1998-11-04 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Hi, Jeff! Take a look at this page: http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/admin/libcurses.html This is the main Grass site for Linuxers. It's a 'must have' link Markus Neteler's Home Page! Good luck with Grass and Linux! Adalberto da Silva Jeff Katcher wrote: Hi all I am trying to

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

1998-11-04 Thread Randy Edwards
Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? I like the card a lot. I'm running one now (4MB) in this box. It runs with the regular SVGA X server and I'm currently pushing it at 1024x768 @ 99mhz. Couldn't be happier with it... -- Regards,

XFree86 support for Riva TNT?

1998-11-04 Thread Chris R. Martin
I need a new video card (my Riva128 is acting up) and I was hoping to replace it with a Riva TNT-based card.. however I need support under Debian/Linux! Anyone know if the TNT will currently work under X? Chris

Re: xfstt font database should be in /var

1998-11-04 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: well this si a FIXME of sorts) :) xfstt currently requires write acess to a font database it stores (which by all rights should be in /var) as it stands this is in the same directory as the fonts... Why exactly xfstt requires

Re: Linux - SMP

1998-11-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: [ snip ] : You have three choices: : : 1. Live with it : 2. Compile a non-SMB kernel : 3. move to a 2.1.x kernel. FWIW, we have a server that gets the crap kicked out of it (debian.midco.net) which is running 2.1.125 - it's an IBM Server 325 with

where is man command

1998-11-04 Thread puzzle12
hi there, i installed debian 2.0 and got some (in fact A LOT) of .deb s and their man pages! but cant find a pkg which has the man program!! can any one let me know which deb pkg to download which has it ? also, what is the port /dev/ttySx for mouse ? thanks sriram

RE: where is man command

1998-11-04 Thread Shaleh
man-db I think ttyS0 == com1 ttyS1 == com2 and so on ps/2 mice is /dev/psaux On 04-Nov-98 puzzle12 wrote: hi there, i installed debian 2.0 and got some (in fact A LOT) of .deb s and their man pages! but cant find a pkg which has the man program!! can any one let me know which deb pkg to

DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread SEGV
I attempted to manually install the DHCPCD client daemon, to update my cable modem IP as my ISP changes it. It seems to have installed, and setup itself to run at boot time. However, it does nothing. If I run it manually I get this: # /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -d ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig):

Re: help on firewall

1998-11-04 Thread pmiller
Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi How do I use ipfwadm to prevent all the users of my local network from doing ftp and telnet to my mail server while allowing only two other systems the same network from beign able to telnet or ftp to the mail server. ipfwadm will only filter between networks. You

slink features?

1998-11-04 Thread SEGV
Since I am going to install Debian 2.1 on a new hard drive once it is released, I thought I'd ask a few pertinent questions here (I haven't installed Debian since Feb98). - Has the install process changed? improved? - Is apt or dselect used? which is recommended? - Which C compiler (GCC/EGCS) is

Re: help on firewall

1998-11-04 Thread iodine
When using ip_masquerading, I have seen a friend block machines on his internal network from using http/ftp/telnet to any address on the outside using ipfwadm. ie 192.168.1.5 not allowed to use ftp(21), telnet(32) and http(80) to anywhere by using 0.0.0.0 in the command line or something similar.

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-04 Thread Remo Badii
I use most: it just recognizes the .gz files and has more advanced features than less itself. Remo ___ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Badii | / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ | CH-5232

SUID and mount/ NDC drivers

1998-11-04 Thread Vernon Marshall
Hello all, Forgive me if this is a stupid question BUT I need some ideas. I am trying to make a menu system where users can easily mount floppies, cd's, zips, etc. I'm trying to avoid making the mount command available to everyone and I can't SUID the shell script containing the menu. I know

Re: WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.

1998-11-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
1) Is there a way to boot from command-line (without pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL). shutdown -r now to reboot shutdown -h now to halt the system 2) From within the X server? (pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't reboots. Just has the speaker beeping.) you could run su in an xterm, and then type the above.

Re: SUID and mount/ NDC drivers

1998-11-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello all, Forgive me if this is a stupid question BUT I need some ideas. I am trying to make a menu system where users can easily mount floppies, cd's, zips, etc. I'm trying to avoid making the mount command available to everyone and I can't SUID the shell script containing the menu.

XDM chooser and authorization

1998-11-04 Thread CAMTP guest
I'm trying to configure XDM on two Debian/Linux boxes. On each of them XDM should present the CHOOSER menu with both, and the user can then select any to work on. After a week of experimenting and reading all available documentation I gave up. So, any suggestion is appreciated. Let's have

xmix cannot open mixer device

1998-11-04 Thread Conrado Badenas
Does anyone know why xmix replies me `Error opening mixer device: Operation not supported by device' ? And more important: how can I fix it? -- Conrado Badenas

RE: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-04 Thread Moore, Paul
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

problems compiling 2.1.126

1998-11-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Does someone else have this problem when compiling kernel 2.1.126 on a hamm machine which underwent a partial slinkification ? (Meaning that a few packages were upgraded, notably modutils, libc6, libg++ and egcs) egcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/scratch/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Re: lprng and logs

1998-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Max, Have you tried looking in /var/log/lp-acct? LPRng saves very detailed accounting info in there if you enable accounting. If it's not enabled, edit your /etc/printcap and add the following entry for the desired printer: :af=/var/log/lp-acct I have it enabled, but I

Re: problems compiling 2.1.126

1998-11-04 Thread James Dietrich
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:15:06PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Does someone else have this problem when compiling kernel 2.1.126 on a hamm machine which underwent a partial slinkification ? (Meaning that a few packages were upgraded, notably modutils, libc6, libg++ and egcs)

Re: lp accounting -- lprng [pages?]

1998-11-04 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Marcelo Right after I sent the previous message with a similar Marcelo subject I realized lpd runs as lp group lp. I changed the Marcelo ownership of /var/log/lp-acct and now it works. I don't know the answer to your actual question. But as for ensuring that all the permissions and so forth

where is less ?

1998-11-04 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I am a partisan of less -- the bidirectional more. Where is it on the debian system? How do I install it? Thanks in advance. joeh

A question about bridges...

1998-11-04 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Everyone I have a problema involving bridges and i would appreciate some help. Here is the situation: I work on a university with building spread arround the city. Every building is linked to the others (this is a generalization) through wireless conections using Wavelan in a start shaped

Problems with XWindow at slink

1998-11-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I upgraded XWindow at slink but I have many problems. I downgrade to Hamm. But there are some problems: 1) Every time I run a xterm or Eterm the console erros go out in xterm or Eterm 2) Every time I run netscape from xterm the errors are:

Packages out of sync with archive

1998-11-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Both ftp1.us.debian.org and mirror.aarnet.edu.au seem to have Packages files which are out of synch with the actual archive; error 404s during download etc. The US site is much better than the AU site, but neither are correct. It has been like this all day. This is frustrating to put it mildly

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-04 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió: Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page and some of you might be intersted in reading it. This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future issue of Open

NT Printing under Linux...

1998-11-04 Thread Llista mail debian
Hi All!! I want to print to a Linux Machine using Windows NT (SP3). The linux Machine has the samba program, but the path \\machine\printer is not valid for NT printers (Always give an error). The solution was to add in the /etc/hosts.lpd the name who have permision to print

Daemon rpc.nfsd dies.

1998-11-04 Thread Llista mail debian
Hi! We have a serious problem with daemon rpc.nfsd. This daemon dies very often and we don't know why. The problem happens in two machines with Debian 2.0 (Pentium 200MM, 128Mb Ram, 5HD UWSCSI 8GB for each one and Pentium II 266, 128Mb Ram and 4 HD UWSCSI 8GB each one).

suck + multiple hosts?

1998-11-04 Thread Gossamer
I've had suck working beautifully for one host, but now I want to grab news from two. Is there a way to do this with the get-news.conf system, or will I have to do it by hand? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Building my own kernel

1998-11-04 Thread Moore, Paul
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

Re: Bash in xterm under x*3.3.2.3a-6

1998-11-04 Thread joost
On 3 Nov 1998, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I put this in my .bash_profile: if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then . $HOME/.bashrc fi You're right that you want as little as possible to be re-run in .bashrc each time it's sourced, but as I understand

Texas Instrument and Docking Bay

1998-11-04 Thread Tony D. Koehn
I have an old TI 4000E laptop that has a Adaptec AIC 6360 SCSI controlloer on the Docking station. I can't get Debian 2.0 to recoginze or see anything in the 16 bit slots on the docking station. Does anyone know where I could find drivers for this? I have 8 Megs ram on this machine and I can

Re: help on firewall

1998-11-04 Thread Paul Miller
iodine wrote: When using ip_masquerading, I have seen a friend block machines on his internal network from using http/ftp/telnet to any address on the outside using ipfwadm. ie 192.168.1.5 not allowed to use ftp(21), telnet(32) and http(80) to anywhere by using 0.0.0.0 in the command line or

emacs where is it?

1998-11-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends. I used dftp to upgrade my system this week and it upgraded emacs20-el to version emacs20-el_20.3-4.1.deb the emacs corresponding to this is only emacs20_20.3-4.deb. What's going on. I tried to install emacs20_2-7.deb from hamm and the corresponding emacs20-el package. I

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:43:39PM -0500, SEGV wrote: If I run it manually I get this: # /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -d ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot assign requested address and it does *not* configure my eth0 device. I have to manually configure it to get access to my network.

Re: lprng and logs

1998-11-04 Thread Vera Lucia Mazzocchi
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Max, Have you tried looking in /var/log/lp-acct? LPRng saves very detailed accounting info in there if you enable accounting. If it's not enabled, edit your /etc/printcap and add the following entry for the desired printer:

Problems with DIALD

1998-11-04 Thread Matthew Myers
I am having a hard time getting diald to work properly. When I attempt to use the connect scripts pon/poff from diald they don't work. They work fine from the command line. When I attempt to use /etc/diald/connect, the script that comes with diald. If connects, authenticates, and then hangs

sample muttrc with folders

1998-11-04 Thread Thomas Lakofski
hi, not having much time, i thought i could shortcut the process of creating myself a muttrc by asking someone to send me theirs (preferably someone who subscribes to a lot of lists). i'm somewhat fed up with pine, but don't want to devote the necessary time to learning (yet another) rc file

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote: I attempted to manually install the DHCPCD client daemon, to update my cable modem IP as my ISP changes it. Is it a @home cable modem? It seems to have installed, and setup itself to run at boot time. However, it does nothing. If I run it manually

Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alan Eugene Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I upgraded mutt to v 0.93.2-1. Now all mail that has been read is deleted from my inbox. Is there a configuration issue? It may depend where you're coming from. I new in from pine, and built my .muttrc from Sven's. It mentions that hold

Re: Packages out of sync with archive

1998-11-04 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Both ftp1.us.debian.org and mirror.aarnet.edu.au seem to have Have you tried purging the cache and apt-get updating again? It is not the first time I have seen this with ftp.questnet.net.au (mirror.aarnet.edu.au) if it continues email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RAID1 Question....

1998-11-04 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I have a machine that I would like to institue RAID1 on. Two 4 Gig drives, the primary is partitioned with a /dev/hda1 / /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 /var /dev/hda4 /usr I have the secondary drive partitioned the same way. I would like to mirror the

Re: Problems with DIALD

1998-11-04 Thread Mitch Blevins
Matthew Myers wrote: I am having a hard time getting diald to work properly. When I attempt to use the connect scripts pon/poff from diald they don't work. They work fine from the command line. When I attempt to use /etc/diald/connect, the script that comes with diald. If connects,

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-04 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Hi Eric, I recently upgraded to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2). So I ended up removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package) and installing netscape-base-45b2, netscape-base-4 (since

Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Costa, Michael J.
I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any help would be much appreciated. man-db packages was --- ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.10 -65.deb

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have a /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (which I think should probably be a link to

Re: xmix cannot open mixer device

1998-11-04 Thread Kirston Akos
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Conrado Badenas wrote: Does anyone know why xmix replies me `Error opening mixer device: Operation not supported by device' ? And more important: how can I fix it? -- Conrado Badenas Hi! You have to compile the kernel with /dev/audio enabled. Or you have to chmod your

Installation on Toshiba 330CDT laptop

1998-11-04 Thread Stephen Turner
Hi everyone. I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 330CDT laptop. I have several years Unix use, but I've never tried to install Linux before. I'm installing from CD, but I can't even get past the first page. I get the following: boot: Loading root.bin13. Loading

Re: Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Kent West
Try: dpkg -i man-db I'm not sure of the exact syntax, but basically you're telling the debian installer (dpkg, of which dselect is the front-end) to install the man-db .deb package. Or if you have apt, you can try: apt-get install man-db Again, I'm not sure of the syntax. Apt is the

Re: slink features?

1998-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote: Since I am going to install Debian 2.1 on a new hard drive once it is released, I thought I'd ask a few pertinent questions here (I haven't installed Debian since Feb98). - Has the install process changed? improved? - Is apt or dselect used? which is

Re: Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote: I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any help would be much appreciated. dpkg --install filename while your at it have aread of

Re: Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote: I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any help would be much appreciated. man-db packages was ---

Re: Daemon rpc.nfsd dies / GLIBC bug

1998-11-04 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Llista mail debian wrote: Hi! We have a serious problem with daemon rpc.nfsd. This daemon dies very often and we don't know why. This is a known problem -- the problem has to do with a bug in the glibc code, and not rpc.nfsd. You have two options to

Backups seem to take too long(scsi tape)

1998-11-04 Thread servis
Hi all, I have a Seagate Tapestore 8G on a scsi-2 controller. When I back up my drives(ext2, vfat) and some smbfs mounted drives(over a 10-T) it seems to take too long. I am just using tar whith compression. Here are the stats from tar: Total bytes written: 5752760320 (5.8 Gb) (contained in

Re: Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CMJ == Costa, Michael J [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CMJ I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any CMJ documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any CMJ help would be much appreciated. You install it with dpkg. dpkg --install

Howto /dev/3dfx ?

1998-11-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi List, I am trying to set up a /dev/3dfx for my Voodoo-1-Card. I followed the instructions on http://glide.xxedgexx.com/, downloaded Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm, rpm2cpio'ed it, unpacked the resulting tar file, typed make and copied the 3dfx.o file to /lib/modules/2.0.34/misc. Then I edited

Install to Removable HDD-results and Help

1998-11-04 Thread Neoklis Kyriazis
Hi, I would like to report results of my effrot to install Debian to removable HDD, although this may well be known. The difficuties I had originally trying to partition the removable HDD (/dev/hdb) were due to apparently incompatible formatting of the disk by Win95. After formatting and

Re: RAID1 Question....

1998-11-04 Thread Pierre Blanchet
Greetings, I have a machine that I would like to institue RAID1 on. Two 4 Gig drives, the primary is partitioned with a /dev/hda1 / /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 /var /dev/hda4 /usr I have the secondary drive partitioned the same way. I would like to mirror the

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: how to I make the package management system believe that package emacs20 no longer exist? Perhaps hack /var/lib/dpkg/status, changing install reinstall conffiles [or whatever] to install ok not-installed? Note: I am not on a Debian

Creating fake packages

1998-11-04 Thread Dave Swegen
Is there any way of creating fake packages just to fulfill dependencies? The reason I ask is because I have some old programs and libs which I don't have the sources for any more, and some debs depend on their equivalent packages. It just seems daft spending time and money DLing sources or

RE: Creating fake packages

1998-11-04 Thread Shaleh
If you have the binaries already make a package from them. You do not have to use source. We do not always have source for items in non-free, so making packages w/o source is supported.

Re: Problems with DIALD

1998-11-04 Thread john
Matthew Myers writes: Could someone send me some working diald config files and scripts or point me in the right direction to find some? Here is my /etc/diald.options: # /etc/diald/diald.options # This is the port the modem is connected to. # *** MODIFY to match your set up *** device

Re: Creating fake packages

1998-11-04 Thread servis
*- Dave Swegen wrote about Creating fake packages | Is there any way of creating fake packages just to fulfill dependencies? | The reason I ask is because I have some old programs and libs which I | don't have the sources for any more, and some debs depend on their | equivalent packages. It just

Newbie Question

1998-11-04 Thread Costa, Michael J.
Thanks to all that responsed about the DPKG command. Works great.. Michael Costa Consolidated Edison of New York * Tel: 212.460.2994 Pager: 917.360.3197 Operating Systems Support * Fax: 212.387.2157 4 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003 * Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-04 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Is there another utility I can use to configure sendmail apart from sendmail's sendmailconfig utility? Thanks Wilson

Re: Daemon rpc.nfsd dies / GLIBC bug

1998-11-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known problem -- the problem has to do with a bug in the glibc code, and not rpc.nfsd. You have two options to avoid this bug. The first is to use the old rpc.nfsd from the bo distribution, which uses libc5 instead.

PPP route problem?

1998-11-04 Thread John Maheu
Having just installed pppd and configured pppd with pppconfig I get the following when I try to telnet to a valid address through my ISP, trying address Unable to connect to romote host: No route to host Any idea on how to fix this? ftp, and ping work fine. Thanks John

Re: Installation on Toshiba 330CDT laptop

1998-11-04 Thread Kevin Traas
Hi everyone. I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 330CDT laptop. I have several years Unix use, but I've never tried to install Linux before. I'm installing from CD, but I can't even get past the first page. I get the following: boot: Loading root.bin13. Loading

SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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) connect to a

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Try a newer version of dhcpcd at isc.org. On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mike Wood wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 07:19:35 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SEGV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DHCPCD? Resent-Date: 4 Nov 1998 15:18:03 - Resent-From:

OFF TOPIC: help with SMB wierdness?

1998-11-04 Thread Eric
I've been messing around with writing a Tk frontend to smbclient similar to the Micro$oft network neighborhood thing...one of these doesn't exist, does it? I've kinda run into a wall with testing my program, however, because all of a sudden the browse lists from all the workgroup masters on the

MuPAD window problem (copy and past)

1998-11-04 Thread Jan Krupa
I use MuPAD (xmupad) under debian2.0 and have the following problem with copy and past). Usually when I mark some text e.g. in emacs using the left key of mouse then I can past e.g. in vim, netscape, ... using the third key of mouse (actually the emulation of it by pushing at the same time both

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Mike Wood
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Try a newer version of dhcpcd at isc.org. I had tried that... For some reason it would take the wrong address from the wrong server. This is Rogers @Home internet service I always though dhcp was dhcp but until I downloaded the version from

icmplogd: destination unreachable from my nameserver

1998-11-04 Thread Eric
I _continually_ get icmplogd: destination unreachable from my nameserver in my syslog and it's really beginning to bug me. Anyone know what this means? Thanks, Eric. -- _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | |

Re: OFF TOPIC: help with SMB wierdness?

1998-11-04 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 03:57:37PM -0600, Eric wrote: I've been messing around with writing a Tk frontend to smbclient similar to the Micro$oft network neighborhood thing...one of these doesn't exist, does it? I've kinda run into a wall with testing my There are two graphical samba browsers

re:Kernel Problem

1998-11-04 Thread Dale Khehra
Hello Everyone I am trying to install the debian system first time.I tried to install kernel-source package using dselect but failed.Can anybody tell me the procedure how to install it ,means which package should I select in the list . Thanks in advance. Dale Khehra

EXT2-fs error

1998-11-04 Thread S Lim
Hi, I am running hamm, kernel 2.0.30. I have 2 hard disks, extfs partitions are hda2 and hdb1. hda2 stores all system files, linux application and user home directories. hdb2 stores DOS user files and DOS application programs. My system crashed and hda2 could be fixed using e2fsck in automatic

XWindows

1998-11-04 Thread Costa, Michael J.
Sorry for another newbie question. I was looking for X-Windows, thought it was on base, but I can't find it on the system. Can't find it on the web site either. Anyone know where it is? THanks Michael Costa Consolidated Edison of New York * Tel: 212.460.2994 Pager: 917.360.3197 Operating

Re: XWindows

1998-11-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 04:38:35PM -0500, Costa, Michael J. wrote: Sorry for another newbie question. I was looking for X-Windows, thought it was on base No, it's way too big for base. The X Windowing System (or X for short, but never X-Windows, according to its authors) has its own section,

Re: XWindows

1998-11-04 Thread Andrew Ivanov
The files you need are in http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/ /x11/xbase with all the required packages, such as cpp, ncurses-base, lib6c, ncurses3.4, xlib6g /x11/xserver -- Video card dependant. /x11/xfntbase /x11/xfnt75 Those are basic files that you need to install Xwindows. Andrew

Test (nothing)

1998-11-04 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, This is a test. -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

PPP Headaches

1998-11-04 Thread Ladd Joseph Epp
Hello, I'm a relatively new user to linux, but a very proficient computer user. Here's the scoop: I just installed Debian 2.0 on my system and I need to get PPP up and running. I've been able to connect to my ISP and begin a PPP session (Using pppd and chat on a terminal server, if anyone

re:Kernel Problem

1998-11-04 Thread Peter Berlau
Date forwarded: 4 Nov 1998 21:30:06 - Date sent: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:21:03 -0800 To: Debian User's List debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Dale Khehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:re:Kernel Problem Forwarded by:

detecting unscheduled reboot due to power failure

1998-11-04 Thread Joe Chung
I came home yesterday and found out my debian machine had been rebooted around noon for the first time in a long time. My wife denied everything, so I figured it was a power blackout or brownout that caused it, but nothing in /var/log tells me that the file systems were not unmounted cleanly. How

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