Lyx with typein

Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it to work with latex's \typein. Here's the text ... Now is the time for all good men to party. \typein[\name]{What is your name?} <--- This marked red for Tex command You, my dear \name\ , are invited. When I try to view or p

Re: Keyboard and KDM

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Becher, Andrew wrote: > I'm having a problem with the keyboard and KDM in slink.  The keyboard won't > respond after the system boots.  I understand someone recently posted a fix > for this, but I wasn't subscribed then.  Could someone please send it to me? If it's the same as

Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

Hello. Please check CONFIG_SOUND in Documentation/Configure.help. I can use pcspeaker with kernel 2.1.127 + patch-pcsp-soundcore-2.1.126-v2. and you can use normal sound device(i.e. /dev/dsp), not /dev/pc*. (no need sound card.) UNO Takeshi

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Modifying /usr/info/dir (EMACS)

Hi, I have a number of aliens in my system with infomation files stored in /usr/local/info. In theory I can make these files visible to the emacs help by the following procedure: 1. Add the following line to .bashrc export INFOPATH=/usr/info:/usr/local/info 2. Modify /usr/info/dir to

Re: Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) It seems that the initailisation of the COM ports is changed. I saw a > message during boot that something was wrong. Install the new version of "setserial" from slink or potato. > b) I could not find a way to access my ZIP drive (parallel). It seem

PC with no hard disk

Hello All! Does the standart way to install Debian (Hamm) on PC without harddisk exist? (I mean that root=/dev/nfs). Thank you, -- Serge Gavrilov Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Hydroelasticity Office: +7-812-321-47-83 (room 45); Fax: 321-47-71; Home: 444-03-93

Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

Thank you all. Replaced the speaker. Works fine. First time I noticed that my bash also uses the speaker to get the user attention. I still do not know which device is used for the speaker, if any. grep pcspeaker /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt gives noting with my Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0

Re: slink PPP hangup problem

Isn't the failing of chat (2nd line of in your messages) means that you were connected at all ? > Hello All > > I have been using Debian Slink Linux for a while now, but I have a problem > hanging up (terminating) a PPP connection. > > I have the latest version of PPPD installed, I have edited

Re: Netscape 4.08 vs. 4.5?

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 04:23:39PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > Sergey Imennov wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hello. > > > > I'm having a hard time deciding what to use -- either > > Netscape 4.08 or 4.5. > > > > What are the differences anyway. It seems as though w

Re: Ugrading using apt-get?

Will Lowe wrote: > > > 3. Execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > > > > I see that all of the packages to be updated are simply held back. > > Essentially nothing gets upgraded at all. Why is this? I have tried to > > use the -f parameter in step three as well to no avail. > > Do you have them marked "h

Re: Ugrading using apt-get?

> 3. Execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > > I see that all of the packages to be updated are simply held back. > Essentially nothing gets upgraded at all. Why is this? I have tried to > use the -f parameter in step three as well to no avail. Do you have them marked "hold" in dselect? (they'll have a

Re: Ugrading using apt-get?

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > I see that all of the packages to be updated are simply held back. > Essentially nothing gets upgraded at all. Why is this? I have tried to > use the -f parameter in step three as well to no avail. You have probably set them all to hold in dselect, you n

Re: 2.2 ready ?

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 07:05:00PM +0100, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > potato definately, slink possibly > Slink works, over here (I think I have mostly slink installed now, SANE is > the > only packet I know is potato, and a loot of other package are still hamm. > Apt-tells me that it is holdin

Re: XDM

Hi, > > My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer "yes" to making XDM the > > default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, > > then type "XDM" then sign on again. The first signon must be root. > > > > Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS

Re: Search and Replace

Hi, Yes there are quite a few ways to do that, another example: GLOBAL REPLACE in the files: awk '{gsub("call", "mall", $0); print > FILENAME}' *.kumac change call to mall in all *.kumac files Word of CAUTION: If you process really big files you may run into trouble, that only part of your file

Re: Netscape 4.08 vs. 4.5?

Sergey Imennov wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello. > > I'm having a hard time deciding what to use -- either > Netscape 4.08 or 4.5. > > What are the differences anyway. It seems as though work > on 4.08 is still being done, while 4.5 is ? > As far as I can tell, 4.08

Ugrading using apt-get?

Ok here are the steps I took to try and upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1. 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to frozen on http.us.debian.org server. 2. Execute 'apt-get update' 3. Execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I see that all of the packages to be updated are simply held back. Essentially nothing ge

RE: version control systems

> I think "doesn't restore timestamps correctly" is a little bit too strong, > but > I agree that timestamps are painful. As an example, we had some very unhappy customers after shipping a version of comctl32.dll with an incorrect timestamp due to CVS' (non-existant) timestamp handling. I've us

Re: version control systems

Hi, > > Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system > > with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, > > which supports binary files? > > > > cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store Delphi source files in it, > > I use CVS at work to m

OT: Opensource Forum

To all those interested in opensource program development (or the movement in general), a channel has been formed on IRC's EFNet server, called #opensource. We're particularly interested in those that work a sysadmin job during the day (allowing them to access IRC), as we're looking for reliable

Re: dhcp and boot-up network configuration

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:01:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi all > > I have setup a dhcp successfully, It works great > But, it is started by rc* scripts _after_ /etc/rcS.d/S40network script > wich uses static config info Well, all my network scr

Re: IP firewall chains

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:05:07AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:02:18 +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: > > >Wouldn't this mean that trying to, say, telnet out of the box would fail, as > >the remote machine could not return any data? > > No, because the connection is already m

RE: Remote Booting Question

-Original Message-From: Ben Messinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 7:37 PMSubject: Re: Remote boot question>If I understand you corre

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan, 1999 à 04:54:49PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Didier Verna wrote: > > > > Mosl Roland writes: > > > > Mosl> I find the current method with email very unpractical. > > > > I find it very practical. > > Not everyone out here agrees with that statement. > > > Mos

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

Hi, >>"Charles" == Charles Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> I repeated the make-kpkg exactly as before, as far as I Charles> could tell. This time it completed, except for the lack of Charles> pgp, which is correct-I don't have it-and I presume not Charles> critical. The tail of th

NIS netgroup entries in /etc/passwd under glibc2/Debian 2.1

I have a machine on which I want only a small subset of my users to have a valid shell... Under debian 1.3, I made an NIS netgroup called 'admin' with these users in it, and put the following entries in /etc/passwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]::0:0::: +::0:0:::/bin/false So that users in the admin netgro

Quantum Bigfoot

Not sure that my hamm installation on a Quantum Bigfoot 8GB would wholly agree with you there... Maybe my setup is OK - I have a maxtor 2.5GB primary master disk, with the bigfoot as the primary slave, on which Debian 2.0 is happily installed. Actually the fireball disks are supposed to be fa

Re: Network Installtion problem.

1. Check the output of the command 'dmesg'. Look for text that pertains to your network card. If 'dmesg' shows that the drivers loaded successfully goto step 3. If 'dmesg' did not show anything look at the output of 'lsmod'. Look for the module names '8390' and 'ne'. 2. If the modules are not l

Re: XDM on >1 vt...

I think you have to setup more then one Xsetup file: should be Xsetup_0 for the first one and Xsetup_1 for the second one. And in those file you should specify the correct display. Bye, Giuseppe [...] > Ok, got that... :> But how do I get Xbanner running correctly on the > 2nd vt? I _do_ have i

RE: version control systems

> Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system > with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, > which supports binary files? > > cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store Delphi source files in it, > half of which are binary. I would also l

Re: Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

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dhcp and boot-up network configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all I have setup a dhcp successfully, It works great But, it is started by rc* scripts _after_ /etc/rcS.d/S40network script wich uses static config info To use dhcp provied configuration, I suposse I should: start the /etc/inid.d/dhcp script in /etc/rcS.d/S

Re: your mail

On 6 Jan 1999, ERIIX wrote: > The idea has come that it might be possible to use a mini-dist. of > Linux as a OS to boot the system ...use DHCP or BOOTP to get IP > information... then have the Win 95 image be downloaded into memory... > and boot as if it were the only operating system there. H

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

- Original Message - From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-Users Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 7:18 AM Subject: Re: Reduce scope to one distribution? >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Morgan Fletcher writes: >> > What happened: I had a system pointing at unstable, then I realiz

Re: XDM on >1 vt...

If I remeber correctly you have to add a second line with display :1 in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver. Then you will have a sencond xserver on vt8 (control-alt-f8 key combination.) Bye, Giuseppe Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > After reading through the X documention that I've seen, I get the > impression that >

XDM on >1 vt...

After reading through the X documention that I've seen, I get the impression that it is possible to have X running on two virtual terminals concurrently, with XDM up and running on both... however I havn't be able to tweak the settings to have it happen. Is there anyone out there has has succeede

Re: Starting KDE at boot time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) About runlevels, I currently run at level 2, do I just change the value in > the inittab to 5 and be done with it? or are there more things to consider? You can do that. Is that really something you need to do,

Re: Chat scrpit trouble

Terry Maton wrote: > > I am new user and I am having a real problem connecting to my isp. > First yes I do have a win modem and from what I hear it isnt a good > start. But onto the problem, when I run the logs for chat script I get > down to the "expect ok" then I get "alarm" then "failed" > Th

joe and debian was Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

I just upgraded to hamm via a cheapbytes cd. I was never able to upgrade any of my red hat installs. At least not without reformatting and starting over from scratch. Had joe before. Have newer joe now. Joe is in debian. Why not just install joe? ;^) Jack To: debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: 2.2 ready ?

>>>Shaleh wrote: > On 08-Jan-99 Bert Barbe wrote: > > Is there a distribution that is kernel v. (pre-)2.2 ready (= having > > the right versions of neccessary tools to run linux (pre-)2.2) > potato definately, slink possibly Slink works, over here (I think I have mostly slink installed now, SA

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

> I've managed to teach people to install debian, it took an > afternoon to do and these people didn't know anything about > Linux before they started. I thought myself to install Debian in a day. Never saw Linux before that day, and I successfully installed it twice so far (a friend of mine got

Starting KDE at boot time

Okay, I have my system running, and X runs, and xdm runs, and kdm runs and I can get the KDE environment up. But I have some questions on how to do all of this automagically. 1) About runlevels, I currently run at level 2, do I just change the value in the inittab to 5 and be done with it?

Re: Search and Replace

sed was made for that. there are lots of other tools that are more programming-oriented (awk, perl, python...); sed is simple and a bit cryptic but good to get to know. John Greer wrote: > > I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a > shot anyway. I need to searc

Snooping program

I'm looking for a program similar to the linspy that will work under kernel 2.2.x. If you're reading this and don't know what linspy is. It's similar to ttysnoop except that it's not a daemon. Linspy loads into the kernel and attaches to the write or read functions (forgot which). There's a pro

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

Manoj: On 8 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Are you sure that the source tree was not somehow corrupted? I > can't reproduce the problem here. I do have include/net/rosecall.h > > manoj > I repeated the make-kpkg exactly as before, as far as I could tell. This time it

Re: 2.2 ready ?

Bert Barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a distribution that is kernel v. (pre-)2.2 ready (= having > the right versions of neccessary tools to run linux (pre-)2.2) > > Thanks > > Bert I'm running 2.2.0-pre4 with (99.9%) slink. The only problem I've noticed is that I've made a new 256

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > john jabbed, > > > I have found that there is much more packages available for > > debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat > > then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies. > > > Yes, I found that as well. In addition to b

Re: version control systems

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 10:38:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system > with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, > which supports binary files? > > cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store De

Keyboard and KDM

I'm having a problem with the keyboard and KDM in slink.  The keyboard won't respond after the system boots.  I understand someone recently posted a fix for this, but I wasn't subscribed then.  Could someone please send it to me?   Thanks!   Andy

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

john jabbed, > I have found that there is much more packages available for > debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat > then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies. > > If there is an odd package that is only available in a .rpm, > then just convert the .rpm to

Re: XDM

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: > Greetings, > > My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer "yes" to making XDM the > default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, > then type "XDM" then sign on again. The first signon must be root. > > Is there

XDM

Greetings, My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer "yes" to making XDM the default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode, then type "XDM" then sign on again. The first signon must be root. Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS come up with

Samba

Greetings Folks, I'm having a bit of a snafu with Samba... and its clearly a security issue. I *think* its a security issue with linux itself, rather than the samba. Here is what I'm trying to achieve: Laserjet 4 attached to lp1, available and shared across the network to my four NT servers, my

Re: IntelliMouse support???

*- Bernd Mueller wrote about "IntelliMouse support???" > Hey, > > Where can i find a "driver" for a MS Intelli (comp.) Mouse connected to > /dev/psaux? > > bye > / Bernd / > > > Gpm and X both support this mouse. You have to have ps/2(psaux) support compiled into the kernel or as a module.

Re: Switch to Red Hat? No thanks...

I have found that there is much more packages available for debian than there are for Red Hat, so if you did move to Red Hat then you would be missing out on a lot of Linux goodies. If there is an odd package that is only available in a .rpm, then just convert the .rpm to a .deb file (takes two mi

Re: "make-kpkg" terminated before completion

Manoj Thanks for the quick reply. The output from du is exactly what you have. But the directory is /usr/src/linux/include/net, not the one you have, if that makes any difference. The file sizes are 7924 Nov 15 13:33 rose.h 110 Jul 13 16:47 rosecall.h I did a tar zxpv linux-

IntelliMouse support???

Hey, Where can i find a "driver" for a MS Intelli (comp.) Mouse connected to /dev/psaux? bye / Bernd /

0setserial and kernel 2.2pre

I've been having trouble with the kernel 2.2pre releases with Debian 2... Its been suggested that the setserial -W flags be removed, and I've done that. Now I get messages to the effect "device does not support operation". Can someone out there send me a working 0setserial for Debian 2.0 and Kerne

Re: Switch to Red Hat?

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Jeff Miller wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, *crossover*? I am tempted to just run out and purchase Red Hat 5.2 and wipe my Debian system and leave it all behind me. Is there an alternative?> yes the

Re: IP firewall chains

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:02:18 +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: >Wouldn't this mean that trying to, say, telnet out of the box would fail, as >the remote machine could not return any data? No, because the connection is already made. It is only new connections tha

IP firewall chains

[ Please CC all replies to me, as I dont read this list as often as I should ] Hi all, I am setting up a linux firewall using IP firewall chains. However, I am having difficulty understanding an example that is given in the IPchains HOWTO. The example (4.2) is included below. What I don't get

Re: colored comman prompt

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > is it possible to make the command prompt colored? > > like the escape sequence that you do in DOS? > > Apart from the solutions other people here suggested, you could install > the dotf

Re: Search and Replace

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:49:10AM -0700, John Greer wrote: > I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a > shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string > (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is > there a command or

RE: 2.2 ready ?

potato definately, slink possibly On 08-Jan-99 Bert Barbe wrote: > Is there a distribution that is kernel v. (pre-)2.2 ready (= having > the right versions of neccessary tools to run linux (pre-)2.2) > > Thanks > > Bert > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/n

Re: Search and Replace

I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If this is possible it

Re: Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times. I have a Win98 machine > that was up and > running. I added a new drive to run Debian "hamm" on. The installaion > went great but I am > still booting from the floppy. I noticed that Wi

2.2 ready ?

Is there a distribution that is kernel v. (pre-)2.2 ready (= having the right versions of neccessary tools to run linux (pre-)2.2) Thanks Bert

Re: version control systems

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 22:38:01 +1100 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EM

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

The REAL question for the Debian list, is this: How do I get a "logo" at startup in Debian/GNU Linux, before all of the init functions take off, using Lilo as bootloader? THAT would be the cat's meow, IMO. -- Or the penguin's waddle, if you wish. == [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Switch to Red Hat?

I would say don't do it. I switched to Red Hat for this reason and it the biggest regret of my linux life! Red Hat ran slower in everything on my sytstem. The installition is very simple but it make admin task very complex (without using the graphical interfaces). The structure of the file system

Re: hard drive

Quoting Rick Knebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I boot up redhat I have a 3rd hard dirve which is a seagate UDMA > Seagate 3.2 gig that gives me unusual partition info as compared to my > other 2 hard drives . > > It says: " hde: [PTBL] [787/128/63] hde1 hde2" > > All my other hard drives just ha

RE: Switch to Red Hat?

Hi I grabbed all the 99.2 rpm's and alien -d'd them. there were error messages here and there, but the packages were debianized successfully (I had updated GTK and GLIB from the source to 1.1.11, so I didn't need those rpms). The first time I started 'gnome-session' I was flooded with message

Re: Re:[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98][OT?]

Hi David, agreed - I've become so used to HTML mail readers that I forget everyone isn't using one. I was in too much of a hurry it seems to get it on the internet and my geocities space was the only space accessible from behind my firewall here at work. I will put it on my Debian logo site @ htt

hard drive

When I boot up redhat I have a 3rd hard dirve which is a seagate UDMA Seagate 3.2 gig that gives me unusual partition info as compared to my other 2 hard drives . It says: " hde: [PTBL] [787/128/63] hde1 hde2" All my other hard drives just have the drive and partition designation without the PTBL

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:16:00 +0100, Ryszard Lach wrote: >If we're spoking about functionality: how to make lists's adress appear in >Reply-To field? *chuckle* Here we go again. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm yo

Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

Hello all, I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times. I have a Win98 machine that was up and running. I added a new drive to run Debian "hamm" on. The installaion went great but I am still booting from the floppy. I noticed that Win98 has an operating systems loading message before the

PyGreSQL package?

Is there a .deb for the Python interface to Postgresql?

Re: Chat scrpit trouble

>> "TM" == Terry Maton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TM> First yes I do have a win modem and from what I hear it isnt a TM> good start. This is an understatement. Winmodems don't work with Linux at all. Ciao, Martin

Re: Re:[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98][OT?]

Quoting Gary Singleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yep, or just shift+click on the link. I just did it real quick but it > would be cool to modify as a shut-down screen with a phrase something > like 'It is now safe to boot into your _real_ OS'. Or something. > This may be getting off topic and since

Re: Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:44:36 -0500 (EST), Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > >128.239.214.7 hobbes.resnet.wm.eduhobbes > > >The loopback address may be better for you (127.0.0.1). > > Isn't loopback always supposed to be "localhost" else it breaks > som

Re: Re: compiling a kernel

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/7/99 3:41:51 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > treff.uni-koeln.de writes: > > > M> Is there a way to find out what options the current kernel has been > > M> compiled with? I don't want to miss anything or add anyt

Chat scrpit trouble

I am new user and I am having a real problem connecting to my isp. First yes I do have a win modem and from what I hear it isnt a good start. But onto the problem, when I run the logs for chat script I get down to the "expect ok" then I get "alarm" then "failed" Then the system says "pppcon

RE: Switch to Red Hat?

Jeff Miller writes: > Hello Debian users, > > I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, but > am starting to recognize deficiencies in available, up-to-date packages. > For example, the latest GNOME files are 0.99.2 but I cannot find .deb files > for it anyw

ipacset

Since I've upgraded to slink, I've been seeing hundreds of e-mails per day which complain that ipac can't run and which suggest that ipacset must not have been run. But when I run ipacset as root, I get the message: # ipacset /usr/sbin/ipacset: cant read "/proc/net/ip_acct" - exit ls /proc/net/ip

Switch to Red Hat?

Hello Debian users, I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, but am starting to recognize deficiencies in available, up-to-date packages. For example, the latest GNOME files are 0.99.2 but I cannot find .deb files for it anywhere. The best I could find was 0.30.

Re: compiling a kernel

>> "DBT" == David B Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DBT> So how do I determine the various configuration details? As you DBT> suggest, I intend to use my current configuration and make some DBT> guesses as to necessary changes. If you have build your kernel with kernel-package, you will find

ACER extensa 390's keyboard

Hi I have an ACER extensa 390 and I'm having difficulties ... I already have X working with the mousepad working (ps2 in /dev/psaux), thank you very much for your help. But the keyboard ... What it is the type of the the keyboard in X? The keyboard is ok in Linux but in X no, the delete key

Re: IRCD

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: > -> OK I am now getting somehwere with my Debian 2.0 install. But some things > -> are now broken from 1.3.1 ? > -> > -> For example my ircd refuses to start now. It is accompanied by an entry in > -> syslog which reads... > -> > -> Your M: li

Re: compiling a kernel

Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "M" == MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > M> Is there a way to find out what options the current kernel has been > M> compiled with? I don't want to miss anything or add anything that > M> I don't already have and won't need. > > If you

Re: version control systems

>> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> centralised NT servers. If CVS can do binary files, that's an HM> option. It can. You just have to mark them as binary (preferable during import). See Chapter 9 of the CVS manual. Ciao, Martin

Re: System won't boot, "lilo.conf" problem

On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:34:10PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I have the same situation to Tam. Whenever I boot my PC, It only > show " LI" and freeze. The different thing is I have only one disk ( > 2GB) and all dedicated to linux. No other operating system inside. > The /etc/lilo.co

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

>> "RL" == Ryszard Lach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RL> If we're spoking about functionality: how to make lists's adress RL> appear in Reply-To field? No, no, no. Again, this has been discussed to death. Reason: If some recipient as not reachable, the sender of a mail to debian-user gets a me

version control systems

Summary: can anyone recommend a good multi-user version control system with Windows and Unix support, that runs in an acceptable time on a WAN, which supports binary files? cvs almost fits the bill, but I need to store Delphi source files in it, half of which are binary. I would also like a Windo

oops, gues MC is broken :)

Just updated with potato, maybe not such a good idea :). Anyway seems Midnight Commander has broken, now comes up mc: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1: undefined symbol: stdscr bugger :( cheers

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

Ryszard Lach writes: Ryszard> If we're spoking about functionality: how to make lists's adress Ryszard> appear in Reply-To field? You don't want to do this, NEVER! If somebody posts without being subscribed, there would be no way for him to get the answer, unless you add him manually in C

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

> > I agree with you, though, that a newsgroup would be nice. But the current > format is working just fine for me. One possible problem with a newsgroup If we're spoking about functionality: how to make lists's adress appear in Reply-To field? Siaco. -- Ryszard Łach Internet Designers http

Re: System very slow.

On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:38:05PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > I replaced a processor in my computer yesterday, from P120 to P166, and it > worked fine all day yesterday. But when I cam e back from work today, I > got this problem: > Some applications seem to be working very slow. > For example,

analog and virtual hosts

Hi! Does anybody know a straightforward way to have stats for web access for my different virtual hosts without having to have each host in its own log file? I'm now logging the hits with this format: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"

Re: ld: warning / not elf file? /make menuconfig

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, pjintel wrote: > Hi > Im using debian 2.0 > > 1)when i tried to install wmsysmon > > I received this warning: > ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so, may > conflict with libc.so.5 > > And when i run wmsysmon i get a segmentation fault. Does anybody k

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