On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote:
> I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I
> expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect
> any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward
> as upgrading any other package?
If you upg
Hey all,
first off, thanks for the previous replies to my question RE DNS.
now a bigger problem...
as far as I can tell, my DNS server is dead to all outside connections.
the domain that I'm hosting is klaradio.com, using nslookup, I can find
various subdomains, and entries, byt when I set the
>> "m" == mguenthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
m> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
m> update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
m> I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
m> "local." For exa
Hi All.
This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of
www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Mow when I run
dselect and go into the Select option, the program just with the
message:
dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory
This is on a 32MB AMDK6-2
I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I
expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect
any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward
as upgrading any other package?
how about post installation problems? I mean, is it
Hi List
My Slink version of Debian worked for a month now, but now the
Windowmanager
doesn't start anymore. The Xserver gets up but no Windowmanager appears.
The cursor is
moveable on the screen.
The error message says something about _TransSocket () and so on but no
error number like the
111 in
Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> I'd like to use the perl script to generate the signature for my mail
> messages,
> depending on the addressee. For example: when the address ends with ".pl" the
> signature is in Polish etc.
> Now I have the signature var set to "~/.generate_signature|".
> Is it possib
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On Mon, 10 May 1999 17:45:26 -0400, Brant Wells wrote:
>What happens, is I can telnet to the system(ie: telnet 192.168.0.115),
>and it will say 'Connected' but it will never show the login prompts.
>However,. if I am connected to the net, it works wit
Howdy All:
I've recently discovered a problem on my two Linux boxes in the house.
If I am not connected to the internet, I cannot telnet between the two
of them :( Can anyone help?
Linuxbox (Computer 3)
Tcp/IP: 192.168.0.115
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.10
DNS 206.66.158.201 (My ISP)
help! dselect / apt-get segmentation fault on me...
Here is the output when I run dselect/install:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nvi-m17n-common systune nvi-m17n
16 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove a
Hi!
I've got a problem with rsync. my wish:
i want to get all binary-i386 packages of the potato distribution from
ftp.de.debian.org.
so i set up an includes file as follows:
- **/
- **/*
+ dists/potato/
+ dists/potato/*
+ dists/potato/*/
+ dists/potato/*/*
+ dists/potato/*/binary-i386/
+ dists/pot
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2
Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:02:25PM -0400
In reply to:Andrew Chung
Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems mysel
I'm attempting to install Metro-X (metrox) on a fairly virgin Debian
slink box. (I need touch screen & multihead support). The initial set
up has gone well -- i can start the X server -- but the remaining
configuration is stalled. When i try to run configX ( root running
startx & in the default
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:17:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater
> device, however, gpm can't start either.
>
> An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being
> able to open the device, and /var/log/messag
On Sun, 09 May, 1999 à 07:40:48PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> It's called Midnight Commander. Type "mc" in an xterm (it should be
> installed by default).
>
> Actually, the package "mc" appears not to by installed on my
> system. And yet I am using Midnight commander. What's up with that?
>
You
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debi
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it
> tell's me this :
>
> Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm
> couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sounds like midnight commander: here's a link to the description
>
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/mc.html
>
> I remeber a MC-based shell once upon a time, but haven't heard anything
> about it in years. For X, I don't know if anybody's make
Hi
like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it
tell's me this :
Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm
couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink since March
without any problems and now in t
On 10-May-99 Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> When you get problems with .Xauthority files, you should delete them and
> then do xauth-b to rebuild them.
I would need to do this at every login :( until I find out what is causing
the problem. What I will do is put something in my .bash_profile to re
On 8 May, Brent Metzler wrote:
> I noticed no one else replied to this, so I'll give it a stab.
>
> I had a similar problem with the mouse. The problem seemed to be caused by
> running
> gpm, the command-line mouse proggie, before X. This apparently causes
> conflicts that
> X cannot handle.
> My questions is can I use bind to solve my problmen?
>
> Is it posible to assign IP addresses to workstations using a look up table.
> So CP6 will always get's 192.168.1.6 as his IP address?
>
if machineA should always be 1.1.1.1 you add a line in the dhcp server's conf
binding the machine's M
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
> > update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages.
> > However
> > I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
> > "local."
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> > > sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
> > > in a directory and install it
I assume when you say dhcpd you mean dhcpcd (the client package). If the name
ends up
in hostinfo-eth0 I believe this means that you're getting the option in the dhcp
response. That is, I don't think that any info in hostinfo-eth0 is generated.
I'm just
guessing because I use the dhclient package
Ok... I can't remember if this started when I installed 2.2, but I suppose
it doesn't really matter.
the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in
netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with
anything...
I remember using xmodmap
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all,
> a friend of mine is buying a K6 and want to know if the following
> especification run on Linux.
> Thank for any information,Paulo Henrique
> PIO Mode from 0 to 4 and Ultra DMA/33 at
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I installed the defrag package and read the man pages. I'm not sure
> how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and
> anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem! I suppose I can
> copy the executable to a floppy, go to sin
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx
> series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP
> 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or
> simply the bundled software.
I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all
on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now.
What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy
stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky
s
Hai,
My workstations currently have static IP adresses, and I'm planning to
change this to a DHCP protocol.
I already have a DHCP daemon running on my unix box witch gives IP address
in the range
of 32..254 (CLASS C network). I use 1..32 for the current workstations
(staticly assigned).
On my uni
The file mentioned sounds like it is part of gcc, which means that the
program is causing an error in gcc's internal library. it is uqite common
to get a "not found" message from gdb (especially with e.g. string errors
or malloc errors), but it generally points to a lack of checking on the
part of
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE
Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 05:50:07PM -0700
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
> update-menus, being unable to add men
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Paul L. McNeely wrote:
> You moron, stop sending trojans over the mailing list that's not funny.
You seem to know how to get rid of it, but you obviously don't know how it
works. He probably didn't even realize that he had happy99 on his
machine, which which would have sent i
You moron, stop sending trojans over the mailing list that's not funny.
For those of you that downloaded that program and got the nice fireworks
display you also got the trojan implanted on yours system. What it does is
extract certain files to the system directory and attaches a copy of itself
to
This issue is covered in
http://www.debian.de/releases/slink/i386/ch-dselect-main.en.html
Though I dont know if this manual is correct.
It says to run "access" and "update" with the last binary cd and then
to run the "install"-option for each cd seperately (here "install"
told me to insert the fir
Subject: Re: Help with apt
Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:16:55AM -0400
In reply to:Mitch Blevins
Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> > sometimes I download a package ov
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:20:16PM -0700, Vaidas wrote:
Try mrtg. As an example www.debian.org/mrtg
> Hello!
>
> Does somebody know the simple way to count traffic bytes in/out debian
> server?
>
>
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*- On 10 May, Michael Beattie wrote about "Re: hdparm"
> On Sun, 9 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not
>> work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can
>> hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back
>> to normal mod
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about
> one dot every three seconds.
Isn't this output from 'dpkg'?, it can build huge internal tables (or
something like that at least it grew to a wopping 13MB RSS for me
once.). How
I installed the defrag package and read the man pages. I'm not sure
how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and
anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem! I suppose I can
copy the executable to a floppy, go to single user mode and then
unmount the filesystem and ru
i have recently obtained a ps/2 - 70 with an mca smc-tcp mc nic and
initially could not get the kernel to properly recognize the nic but that
was because i needed to apply a patch to one of the standard nic
drivers...i just found the patch yesterday but have not tried to apply it
but along the way
A 18:49 08/05/99 -0700, vous avez écrit :
>As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what
>apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know
>how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix
>system) Here is my dilema after searching th
André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation
We have all been there.
> I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says:
> "can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config"
Yuck, I keep f
Thanks,
It works fine now. When I am using http://ftp.debian.org/debian in apt.
But ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian in apt is not working, nor ftp out to
internet on the command line. Any ideas why http is working in apt, but ftp
is not? Should ftp be configured more?
Anyway, Philip, your answer h
Please help me in installing Smail in my unix machine
through UUCP.
Please give me detailed instructions.
Thanks in advance.
- Anil
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
begin:vcard
n:J I;Anil Kumar
tel;pager:9612-316762
tel;fax:+91-40-3730652
tel;home:+91-8712-26887
tel;work:+91-40-3735430
x-mozilla-html:TRUE
I have checked the recent list messages about StarOffice not working after
upgrading but they all seem different from mine. In my case it just says
Abort and nothing. Any ideas?
/--/
Daniel J. Mashao
Electr
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
> sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
> in a directory and install it with dpkg.
>
> I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a
> dire
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Dselect ? Do people 'still' use that?
Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and
sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it
in a directory and install it with dpkg.
I have tried apt, but could not g
I'm using /unstable, and a couple of upgrades ago some really, /really/
annoying netscape stuff started happening with 4.51.
The first thing is when I have multiple netscape windows open, and close one,
sometimes netscape will all go, and the entire thing has crashed with the
following message:
/
Perhapss you have gmc installed?
/nisse
On 9 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> It's called Midnight Commander. Type "mc" in an xterm (it should be
> installed by default).
>
> Actually, the package "mc" appears not to by installed on my
> system. And yet I am using Midnight commander. What's up
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you don't want to mount the drive for the entire session, you could
> also just try the following:
I shoul proof read my articles before sending them.
My /etc/fstab have almost the following lines:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto
On 10 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote:
> >
> > As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue
> > in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but
> > chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much
>
> The problem is
Same problem here
I use ALSA sound drivers and just now tried compiled in OSS support same
problem, i
lose all
sound after q3test.
( Have a AWE64 ISA ).
Ran "fuser /dev/*>temp" didnt show any sound devices in use but attempt to
access
/dev/dsp = device or resource busy.
Anyone have a sledge hamm
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 01:08:59PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
> Hi all,
> a friend of mine is buying a K6 and want to know if the following
> especification run on Linux.
> Thank for any information,Paulo Henrique
>
> SiS 530 AGP Chip
hi List !
when i invoke free, i get the following :
archangel:~$ free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 63268 12692 50576 22284944 5824
-/+ buffers/cache: 5924 57344
Swap: 130748 0 13
Hello,
Just reading your FAQ's and cna't find out what
Linux Kernel version that Slink uses...I have downloaded Slink, and I want to
use Linux drivers for my Token Ring NIC, the only problem is that the
manufacturer only lists compatibility by Linux version, not by any
particular distributio
I would like to know if it's possible to compress a Linux partition with a
drivespace-like utility ?
Thanks.
I would like to know if it's possible to compress a Linux partition with a
drivespace-like utility.
Thanks.
Try killall instead of kill.
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > put a kill or a terminate command in /etc/ppp/ip-down?
>
> Thanks, John. This is what I tried to do, but kill needs a pid. If I try
> 'kill icqnix' nothing happens apart from t
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> put a kill or a terminate command in /etc/ppp/ip-down?
Thanks, John. This is what I tried to do, but kill needs a pid. If I try
'kill icqnix' nothing happens apart from the system telling me that
there is no such pid. How to I make it so that icqnix will a
Hi!
I just uppgraded from Hamm to Slink and faced strange situation.
I have one program only in binary, so I can't compile it myself. This program
has been compiled with the following system:
- 2.0 kernel
- g77 0.5.19
- gcc 2.7.2.8
It worked with hamm, but crashes with sli
I am in Sacramento Calif and want to download Linux for my I B M
computer need the right version please?
I'm sorry.
The virus attack that originated my windows box took me by
surprise.
It seems that every time I have better reasons to switch
pernamently to
the Debian Linux installed in my system.
I would like to thank everybody who responded with the
alert, and those who
helped me with the wav -> mp
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. Now it is running Debi
Sun, as far as I know, doesn't work their disklabels like x86 machines
do. One thing I've found that you have to have is a type 5 partition
(Whole disk) that encompasses the entire drive. Then create your
partitions. You may be able to boot off a floppy, then add the
partition through fdisk (IIR
On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote:
>
> As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue
> in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but
> chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much
The problem is that something would change the ownership back t
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> on it. N
I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
"local." For example:
?package(local.Eterm):\
needs=X11\
section=Personal\
ti
convert the rpm to deb with alien -d rpm_package it will create the_deb_file
then dpkg -i the_deb_file
budi wibowo
informatics eng
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On 9-5-99 at 19.32 Jayson Baird wrote:
>Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to insta
i just got a free 5x86 100 8MB notebook..win95 was a dog so i wiped it o
ut..
i got the base of slink installed and booted up. pcmcia services
start..but i can't figure out how to get the cdrom working, or even what
device it would be.
win95 said it was a SCSI pcmcia card..linux says its a paral
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not
> work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can
> hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back
> to normal mode! Does anyone know why it does not stay
> in standby/sleep mode
I have a Transmonde Vivante laptop with a PCMCIA modem running Debian 2.1.
I recompiled kernel 2.0.36 to use apm, and recompiled the kernel modules
as well. For the most part, my modem is fine. If I type 'cardctl suspend',
all is well. However, if I then type
% cardctl resume; cardctl resume
Sounds like midnight commander: here's a link to the description
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/mc.html
I remeber a MC-based shell once upon a time, but haven't heard anything
about it in years. For X, I don't know if anybody's make a tcl/tk
interface for it, but it should run fine
As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue
in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but
chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I installed KDE 1.1.1 on my Slink system and found I had to in
George Bonser writes:
> Man, I think maybe the maintainers should be forced to install their
> stuff on a 386 just to get some perspective. CPU horsepower sure can
> cover up inefficient code. Or to put it another way, an system without
> any CPU horsepower sure exposes the inefficiencies.
Hmm. A
First, it's a trojan, not a virus--get your terminology straight: virii
automagically execute and do their damage, trojans need intervention to
execute (Melissa virus indeed...). Secondly, as a trojan, you have to
execute it on a winbox, so there shouldn't be much problem on a Debian
list. Third,
The only think I can think of is there's another program, more specifically a
TSR
that's running resident in the background causing modprobe to report with this
error.
Are you sure that you don't have lpd running in the background and that you have
unloaded any other possibly conflicting modules
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Kenneth Sims wrote:
> Why did you (Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) just send a virus
> (HAPPY99.EXE) to the debian-user list?
He probably didn't realize that he sent it. Happy99 sends itself to
everyone that the user sends a message to in the background. The user does
He doesn't want it as a startup thing. There ain't no extreme about it,
just a preference. Linux is not confined to X, so why artificially
confine it? BTW why stop at 7 VTs when you can make up to 255 relatively
easily (I have 9+syslog [X gets VT10] and would have more, but I don't
like the ide
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
> 1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to
> auto - start. How do I take that option out?
remove the S90xdm file from your /etc/rc2.d (maybe all rcx.d, but 2 for
sure, as it's the default runlevel)
>
> 2 -
KaHa wrote:
> Hey, Ken: get a virus scanner.
Apologies, Ken. 'Twas Alexander that I meant.
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Another thing to think about might be NFSing what you need from another
machine. Use the 386 as what amounts to (almost) a diskless client that
gets all its files off another machine except /boot.
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
> >Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I wou
Robert Woodcock wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Does anyone know when a version of Debian will be released with the
> >2.2.x kernel?
>
> Potato, later this year. It doesn't yet have a version number attached to
> it.
>
> >I need a Linux distribution with the 2.2 kernel to install on my
> >sys
I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to
boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label.
The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1
The bootloader is silo.
The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire
disk with type 83. th
>Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
>firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
>bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
>on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
>In dselect the Scanni
> Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's
> with alien? Thanks...
alien -i some-prog.rpm to install
alien some-prog.rpm to turn into deb
for more info look at man alien
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