Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
This has certainly been a learning experience. Yes, I'm guessing RAM or swap could have been an issue. I'll probably add some more RAM since this is the only machine I'm running Linux on which has only 16 MB of RAM. And thanks for letting me know about the 'free' command! I'd wondered for a lon

Re: QT1.42 Errors....

1999-02-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > I'm trying to write some QT apps, just really toying around with C++, > but when I try to compile ANY of the QT apps, using the command line: > > g++ -I/usr/local/qt/include -L/usr/X11R6 -lqt filename.CC > > I get an error message about a whole bunch of

QT1.42 Errors....

1999-02-17 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all: I'm trying to write some QT apps, just really toying around with C++, but when I try to compile ANY of the QT apps, using the command line: g++ -I/usr/local/qt/include -L/usr/X11R6 -lqt filename.CC I get an error message about a whole bunch of undefined references... Can anyone he

Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running > hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard > drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes > impossible. Just now I

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Thanks to everyone who wrote with suggestions re. my problem. At this point I'm guessing that either the guy who was using the computer for some Web development at the time was killing it with a misbehaving PHP script (he said he found he had an infinite while() loop, though I can't see how that e

Printer problems (Slink, apsfilter, HPDJ 694c)

1999-02-17 Thread steven walsh
I've got Slink and I'm trying to make aps filter and lpr work as a team, but it's giving me some problems (that Slackware didn't give me, oddly enough). I installed apsfilter and lpr from dselect. I read the stuff for apsfilter and found out it didn't have teh djc670 driver i use

Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it?

1999-02-17 Thread Leiserson
Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:23:12 -0500 (EST) From: "David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: Debian Users Subject:Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it? > How c

Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it?

1999-02-17 Thread Leiserson
Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:23:12 -0500 (EST) From: "David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: Debian Users Subject:Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it? > How c

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0r5 released

1999-02-17 Thread Alec Smith
Go into dselect and choose 'Update Packages' to update the list of available for the distro you're using (stable (hamm)/frozen (slink)/unstable (potato)). Any packages updated since the versions you have installed on your system will appear at the top of the list. At 10:48 PM 2/17/99 +0100, Rola

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > > > > I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I > > > need to get the full access > > > > > > Ro

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've got installwatch packaged in potato, under the "utils" section. It uses LD_PRELOAD (internally) to track file operations, and seems to do a pretty good job of following things. On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:59:23PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > What's the name of the software that helps you

help with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread Tony
Hi, It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of Debian.. but every time I try to start installing, I get the message: "Packages yet to be unpacked: 304 in : vim gnushogi xphoon pwgen tcl8.0 tk8.0 libpaperg... d

Re: Kanji characters?

1999-02-17 Thread homega
Fumitoshi UKAI dixit: > At Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:50:09 +0100, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have someone who needs to look at some web pages in Japanese. So far, > > Netscape shows some strange characters (they look nearly as strange as the > > right ones to me). Does anyone know how to do

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0r5 released

1999-02-17 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Nils Lohner wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0r5 released How can I check which Debian release is installed. My /etc/debian_version doesn't contain any release-information. Regards, Lipo -- Roland E. Lipovits Vienna, Austria

Re: what is wrong with the security updates?

1999-02-17 Thread Wojtek
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I downloaded the security updates from debian.org and when i tried to install > them, I got: > > lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb > dpkg-deb: `netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive > dpkg: error processin

RE: X

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
> > This is documented in /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian (I believe it's a > security precaution). > Yes, it is.

X

1999-02-17 Thread mcclosk
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> X has the right permissions. But I thought of something else that |> might be causing the ploblem. To get X11 working (as root), I had |> to change XF86_VGA16 to XF86_S3. The book 'Running Linux' suggested |> to change the link /usr/bin/X11/X

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
> > Thoughts? > Call me confused. I have no idea. If you use irc, #debian on irc.us.openprojects.net is a nice place to visit.

Re: DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 > it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. > > Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape > support in the kernel ? It should be usable, no

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread shaul
I think that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is right. WD says my HD is 3249MB, and the kernel says its only 3098MB. But WD also have a remark that it sees 1MB = 100B. Now if the kernel treats 1MB as 2^20 = 1048576 then my HD is 3098 * 1048576 = 3248488448 which are, roughly, 3249MB. Trying it for your H

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
I do not have a /proc/sys/fs directory. There are kernel, net, and vm in /proc/sys, but no "fs". By "odd", do you mean that something is not working the way it ought? What, in general, is the "Unable to load interpreter" message about? Is that only triggered by the kernel when the miscbin or jav

DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? Pf --

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Odin
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote: I had a similar problem once. It was because I had the wrong hostname entered into my smail configuration. Mail would come to my host... smail would say "This isn't for me!" and go look for the host that the mail was supposed to go to... then my machi

Re: XServer

1999-02-17 Thread Richard Kaszeta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("XServer"): >Hallo Debian - Entwickler(innen), > >ich habe bei der Installation des XServers erhebliche Probleme mit >der Garfikkarte. Da ich eine SpeaV7 Vega-Plus PCI Karte installiert >habe, diese aber nicht in der Liste von XF86Setup aufgeführt ist, >stellt sich für mic

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:34:19PM +, George Richard Russell was heard to say: > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: > > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time > > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK > > libaraires are t

XServer

1999-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo Debian - Entwickler(innen), ich habe bei der Installation des XServers erhebliche Probleme mit der Garfikkarte. Da ich eine SpeaV7 Vega-Plus PCI Karte installiert habe, diese aber nicht in der Liste von XF86Setup aufgeführt ist, stellt sich für mich die Frage ob es eventuell eine verglei

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
>#cat /var/log/kern.log > > Feb 16 15:55:03 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:55:33 pvs29 last message repeated 4 times > Feb 16 15:55:46 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:59:09 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:59:13 pvs29 last message r

How to get mod_perl into Apache?

1999-02-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'm running a 2.0 system, and I need mod_perl. However, there does not seem to be a source or binary package under hamm for this. I have tried getting the hamm Apache source package and the mod_perl tarball (from perl.apache.org), then building mod_perl (telling it to not build apache), then doin

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
OK --- #last -7 /var/log/daemon.log Feb 16 18:05:26 pvs29 in.ftpd[162]: connect from jefferson.VOTE-SMART.ORG Feb 17 11:20:52 pvs29 init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 17 11:25:36 pvs29 in.ftpd[408]: connect from jefferson.VOTE-SMART.ORG Feb 17 11:30:35 pvs29 init: Id "2"

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
> > I've looked in the log files and all I see are messages pertaining to the > error itself -- I don't see anything that would seem to indicate a cause. Paste a couple of the errors directly from the log. It may not be a kernel error.

Re: Windows Pings not Telnet

1999-02-17 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Best guess I have is your /etc/hosts.allow is set to paranoid for all and your local net does not have a name server with entries for the windows machine. Pat On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 06:54:07AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Why would I be able to ping my debian box from my windows box and vic

Re: Cron examples?

1999-02-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
"James R. Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used > to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran > a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run > maintenence for the online games, delete old lo

Diamon SupraSonic II

1999-02-17 Thread Kevin Traas
Is there anyone using this modem under Linux? This is their 2-modems-on-one-card product and I'm interested in channel bonding and saving some slots If you have any experience with this card under Linux, I'd really appreciate any comments you can give. Supra Tech Support has not been too hel

Re: creating 10 disks of Debian

1999-02-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hello, On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:26:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have downloaded the files recommended to their own directories (e.g. > base14-1.exe) - but have only successfully extracted the first two image > disks. I infer from the documenation that 10 in total exist. > > After t

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Shaleh - I do not recall enabling either -- I don't even know what "misc binary" support would mean. How can I check? Anyway, let me describe what's happening in more detail: The machine is a P-166 w/ not a lot of RAM (16 MB) and Debian 2.0 is the only OS on the hard drive. I think I installed

RE: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Kent West
At 06:52 PM 2/17/1999 +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: >X has the right permissions. But I thought of something else that might be >causing the ploblem. To get X11 working (as root), I had to change >XF86_VGA16 to XF86_S3. The book 'Running Linux' suggested to change the link >/usr/bin/X11/

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
On 17-Feb-99 Chris Kaltwasser wrote: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running > hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard > drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes > impossible. Just now I had to d

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:51:03AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > Ken Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > than with putting out software! Shoot - missed deadlines and playing > > politics insteadwhat is this? Microsoft?? ;) > > At least one difference: > > MS would release a non workin

Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes impossible. Just now I had to do a hardware restart, which gets it working "n

RE: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: > My question is when I install Linux stuff, I might want to put some on the > vfat drive. Are there any issues with this? Can I move say /usr/local to > the vfat mount? How? There are, unfortunately, fatal issues with this. The vfat filesystem do

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using > the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions > in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. > > I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems th

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-17 Thread George Richard Russell
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK > libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff > like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other

Re: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-17 Thread servis
*- On 17 Feb, Markus M. Schneider wrote about "Re: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Has anyone had any luck getting the Acrobat reader plugin to work in >> Netscape-4.5-libc6 packages? Without fail it crashes netscape. > > When using the Acrobat reade

Goodbye for some time

1999-02-17 Thread Alex Broz
Hey, sorry but I must say goodbye from the user-list because my e-mail server deletes all the non-lists-mails. So I can not get the e-mails from my other e-mail partners. I will be back when the server works like I want him to work. I hope i will get an answer if I write to the List so you rewr

apt-get install from local directory of Deb files

1999-02-17 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
I am trying to get apt to work installing .deb files from a local directory. I have no packages list and I cannot seem to figure out how to make the FILE: uri stem work. I guess the problem is that they are just sitting there so I say: deb file:/dosc/zips/debs in my /etc/apt/sources.list. But

Re: Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

1999-02-17 Thread servis
*- On 17 Feb, Rich Hartman wrote about "Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!" > Hello all, > > I just tried to compile 2.2.1 kernel and ran into a problem > Following the directions in > /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.Readme, I installed the source > ..deb, make menucon

RE: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
$ adduser username dip This worked fine Of course only root can do this ... Regarding X there are two situations possible. If you run xdm as I would recommend, xdm handles all logins. Only root can start or end xdm but this is a feature, too. You can still kill the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspa

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread Graham Ashton
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

RE: How do I find what a source package depends on?

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
On 17-Feb-99 Robert King wrote: > I'm trying to compile pine 4.10 and having problems. The build fails with > ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory > I'm trying to work out if I'm missing a required library before reporting > it as a bug, but there doesn't seem to be any way to fi

Re: lilo

1999-02-17 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chen Xu wrote: > When I installed FreeBSD I installed boot manager. So when I boot, I > can have chices F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD. And F5 for second disk, > which is not working yet. > Question: > How can I configure Lilo to boot Debian directly from HD? Will the > inst

Re: not a plain file - apt method with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
Looks like I have found the problem. It seems to have been the ftp site I was using. I eventually got through to another site and dont seem to have the same problems. Still strange though. I might try to just ftp the files by hand and see if there is a real problem -- John Stevenson, Objective

not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages. I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on t

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
OK, go into fdisk and have it looking at your drive. Use 'u' to make sure it's reporting everything in cylinders. Use 'p' to show the partition table. 1) is it showing the number of C/H/S the manufacturer shows on the drive? 2) if you multiply out the number of cylinders with the numbers given

what is wrong with the security updates?

1999-02-17 Thread Pollywog
I downloaded the security updates from debian.org and when i tried to install them, I got: lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb dpkg-deb: `netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb (--install): subproc

Re: lilo

1999-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:33:36 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >When I installed FreeBSD I installed boot manager. So when I boot, I >can have chices F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD. And F5 for second disk, >which is not working yet. > >Question: >How can I configure Lilo to boot Debian directly from HD? Wil

Re: help with deselect

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: help with deselect Date: Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 10:23:55PM -0600 In reply to:Tony Quoting Tony([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... > > I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of > Debian..

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card > Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:56:07AM -0600 > > In reply to:David Webster > > Quoting David Webster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it

lilo

1999-02-17 Thread Chen Xu
Dear All, I installed Debian2.0 form official CD last night for the first time. I should say that it is pretty easy to install. As newbie, I have my first question here. I have two IDE drives. In the first one I have DOS(win95) and FreeBSD. In the second one, I have one partition for more DOS and

Problems with Crypto++ in debian - more facts

1999-02-17 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I just stated that my problems with compilation of Crypto++ 3.0 result from commenting out of definition of "auto_ptr" in egcs's include file "memory". I have uncommented this definition and corrected the "release" method: /usr/include/g++/memory ... X* operator->() const __STL_NOTHROW { return

Re: Windows Pings not Telnet

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Windows Pings not Telnet Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 06:54:07AM + In reply to:Paul Nathan Puri Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Why would I be able to ping my debian box from my windows box and vice > versa with 0% packet loss, but not be able to teln

Re: kernel 2.2.1 message

1999-02-17 Thread Philip Thiem
Make sure that this is the case. I have a network card and since upgrading I get this error twice from the /etc/init.d/network twice. Once when I try to establish a route for lonet route add -net 127.0.0.0 and the next when try to establish my network route add -net 131.151.188.0 however establ

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel) Date: Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 06:05:54AM -0500 In reply to:Jim Foltz Quoting Jim Foltz([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 05:04:00AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I'

Re: Bridging Networks

1999-02-17 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to bridge 2 Windows 95 peer to peer networks > through a phone connection. At this point I feel that the use of a > dedicated Linux machine is necessary. The 2 networks both use > NetBEUI and IPX/SPX. Does anyone have an idea whe

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread Matt Garman
> > What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's > > getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized > > piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall I use a program called epkg. Check out the following address for specific info: http:

Windows Pings not Telnet

1999-02-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Why would I be able to ping my debian box from my windows box and vice versa with 0% packet loss, but not be able to telnet, http, etc.? I suspect I have to reinstall all my networking related stuff, is this the answer? Thanks... -- NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian/GNU Linux Monk McGe

Re: Cron examples?

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Cron examples? Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:18:38PM -0500 In reply to:James R. Lunsford Quoting James R. Lunsford([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used > to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 1999q, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I've heard a lot > of good things about 2.2.1, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm currently > downloading linux-2.2.1, but the directory also contains linux-2.2.0 and > a patch-2.2.1 file. I was reading thro

RE: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Feb-99 MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: > It is my understanding that on Debian, the KDEDIR variable > does not have to be set. I could be wrong but I think I read that > somewhere. > I have been told that by another person, but this was after I "fixed" the problem. He told me that

Re: Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

1999-02-17 Thread schulte
According to Rich Hartman: > > Hello all, > > I just tried to compile 2.2.1 kernel and ran into a problem > Following the directions in > /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.Readme, I installed the source > .deb, make menuconfig, make-kpkg clean, then make-kpkg > --revision=custom.1.0 ker

RE: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
I have a similar yet somewhat different question re: partitioning. I have all my Linux stuff on a single 1GB ext2 partitioned drive and a 85 MB swap partition. I mount my Win98 drive (3gb) at boot (fstab) as a vfat drive. All works fine. My question is when I install Linux stuff, I might want t

RE: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread MacKenzie, Andrew
It is my understanding that on Debian, the KDEDIR variable does not have to be set. I could be wrong but I think I read that somewhere. I just installed KDE1.1 Debs from KDE.org and unless dpkg modified my .bashrc, the KDEDIR is not set and all works fine.

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Managing /usr/local Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:59:23PM -0700 In reply to:Gary L. Hennigan Quoting Gary L. Hennigan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's > getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Deb

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme? Date: Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 06:22:20AM -0500 In reply to:Jeremy Quoting Jeremy([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > Storage mostly needs to be shared, so I think I need Samba and Netatalk > > (see below). So,

Re: Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

1999-02-17 Thread rabe
> BUT the next step requires installing the newly created .deb package > with dpkg -i... trouble is, no .deb package is created by the > make-kpkg command so now I'm stuck half-way thru... any ideas? Look in the directory ABOVE the one that is current when you execute the make-kpkg command.

Re: KDE

1999-02-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > KDE won't run > I'have installed: > > qt 1.42 > qt1g-dev (dselect, from contrib) > libjpegg-dev (dselect, from binary) > KDE (dselect, from contrib and non-free) What specific KDE packages do you hav

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > What does one do about KDEDIR after installing the Debian KDE packages? > I want to install kxicq (from source) but it complains about not finding KDE. > I can even find KDE with the 'locate' command, and it is working. Th

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Tim Heuser
Mark Wagnon wrote: > Tim Heuser wrote: > > > > > After entering this I got... > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" > > Error in startup script: invalid command name "but

Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

1999-02-17 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello all, I just tried to compile 2.2.1 kernel and ran into a problem Following the directions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.Readme, I installed the source .deb, make menuconfig, make-kpkg clean, then make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image... this took a long time (about 30

wwwoffle woes (fwd)

1999-02-17 Thread keyoz
Hi every1. my question is why does http://localhost:8080/index.html shows up as a text document rather than a rendered html document. There are html tags all over the browser, acckkk!!! Help!!! wwwoffle version is: ii wwwoffle2.3a-1 World Wide Web OFFline Explorer TIA k e

Re: SCSI errors on Install

1999-02-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > At 04:02 PM 2/16/1999 -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > >On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > >> This is my first experience with SCSI, so I don't know where to begin. > > > > First things first: what's the exact model name and number of the SCSI > >card

Re: Kanji characters?

1999-02-17 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:50:09 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have someone who needs to look at some web pages in Japanese. So far, > Netscape shows some strange characters (they look nearly as strange as the > right ones to me). Does anyone know how to do this? You need to install fonts

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? > > It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset > documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce > better documents than MSWord > > Matthew > >

Re: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-17 Thread Markus M. Schneider
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone had any luck getting the Acrobat reader plugin to work in > Netscape-4.5-libc6 packages? Without fail it crashes netscape. When using the Acrobat reader plugin netscape crashes with a message concerning the libBrokenLocale. Therfore I've tried to prevent t

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I could name one, but that might be flame-bait

Re: Firewall

1999-02-17 Thread Dale E. Martin
Tony Schonfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Everybody , > > i need to found a package in Debian who can provide a solid > firewall easy to setup. > > Any idea ? > Thanks per advance for reply If you're using a 2.0 kernel, check out "dotfile-ipfwadm". (It depends on other stuff too, bu

Error Installin XBase

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel . Farmer
When i run dpkg on the xbase_3_3_2_3-2.deb file i receive the following error: can not create symbolic link '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc' to '../../../doc/X11': no such file or directory Any one have any guesses. I've installed xlib6g_3_3_2_3-2.deb and

gnuplot/libvga and permissions

1999-02-17 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
Hi! I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and everything worked fine. Since other programs that use libvga work fin

Re: sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Its me quoting myself. >I've had a look at sulogin.c and discovered that the max. pass-string-length >is about 15 characters. >Is there anyone to patch that ? (I guess MD5 allows max. 127 characters) so >the only thing to

Re: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I > log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use > the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not > the ro

Re: latex

1999-02-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shao> I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. Shao> Shao> \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark } Shao> \footnotetext{hello world} I'd do something more like \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello, world.\footnote{Thanks to Ke

sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi all! For security reasons I've switched to MD5_CRYPT + shadow pwd's. login seems to work fine, but sulogin refused to recognize my root-password that is much longer than 8 chars. Thanks, Soeren. we usually get what we want.

sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
> Hi all! > > For security reasons I've switched to MD5_CRYPT + shadow pwd's. > login seems to work fine, but sulogin refused to recognize my root-password > that is much longer than 8 chars. > > Thanks, > Soeren. > > > we usually get what we want. Its me quoting myself. I've had a look at s

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> The only thing is you have 64 megs of swap on each drive. This Jeremy> is a total of 256 megs. Linux will not make use of more than Jeremy> 128 megs, unless you're running a 2.2.x kernel. This is wrong: Linux will not use more than 128MB of a single swap

Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it?

1999-02-17 Thread David B. Teague
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > Please, don't laugh at me until you have read the message! > > I was doing some maintanance tasks, removing old files with rmold (it is > an alias for "rm -rf *~ .*~"). I noticed (with "ll /etc|less") that /etc > had some old files and I did "rmold /e

New home page address

1999-02-17 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hello everyone ! Please note that my home page address has changed: My new address now is: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hallelujah/ My Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] will remain until the end of April 1999. Come and visit ! Helmut

Re: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Frank Barknecht
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven hat gesagt: // Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. > When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For > example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also > can't start X11 when

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread Jeremy
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > Storage mostly needs to be shared, so I think I need Samba and Netatalk > (see below). So, after getting input from several people, this is how I'm > looking to do things: > > Drive 1: > / = 200MB I think 200 megs is overkill here, but since you have the

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Growler
D-Select will ONLY install Debian packages (.deb). The Kernel upgrades are source code (compressed into a tgz). To install : download the latest kernel from ftp.kernel.org - ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.1.tar.gz should get it. copy it into the /usr/src directory. Use GZ

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 05:04:00AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I've heard a lot > of good things about 2.2.1, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm currently > downloading linux-2.2.1, but the directory also contains linux-2.2.0 and > a patch-2.2.1

I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not the root. The system tells me I have to be a root for this. I think

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