Re: Strange dependencies.

If /dev/hda5 doesn't exist anymore, then you need to remove the line referencing it in /etc/fstab. See the manuals on fstab and mount for more info. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which > sound cards give good perfomance under Linux. > I'm thrilled with my new Trident 4D Wave based card. The one I got cost me about $19 including

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote: | ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ... | | When I use cu on Debian I get the message"pppd permission denied". I can | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to | Debian. What am I doing wrong?

Re: xemacs21 questions

Writing right to left in hebrew. currently only vim has it On 12 Aug 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just installed xemacs21. It's still running together with xemacs20 > > untill it will work fine. (I Installed it because I hoped for some new > > mule

undefined reference

Hi all, I'm almost all the way done porting a large software project to Linux. Everything compiles beautifully etc, but I get a linking error. I'm not complaining, I used to get over 1000 lines of linking errors, now I just get the one. But I'm having a heck of a time understanding it. This is t

File formats for fonts?

Hi! Where can I find information on the format of the files that are output by setfont (-O, -o, -om and -ou options)? I want to make a Latin-1 font of my VGA card's built-in font, but is lacking information on how to do it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohu

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:46:45PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > > > Salutations, > > > > > > I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have > > > time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debia

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > > When you buy the full Debian release (through Linux Press I think), one > of the > promised services is "30 days of free E-Mail support". It said it in the > ad and it > says it on the manual but there's no E-Mail address listed anywhere. > Try e-mailing

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Julian S. Taylor wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > > On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > > > Salutations, > > > I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I > > > don't have time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the > > > official Debian release and regi

Re: gcc troubles again

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 10:16:55PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > :-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > That's not egcs, that's the gcc272 package. > > > Yeah, either get rid of gcc272 completely, or check the gcc actually > points to egcc, and > > not gcc

Re: Strange dependencies.

> Cheshire wrote: > > Ok, this is probably an easy one. A while back I edited some > file, I don't know what, to mount a vfat partition on boot. > Since, the system has undergone a lot of changes and /dev/hda5 > just doesn't exist anymore as per the message below. I just /etc/fstab maybe? I don't

Strange dependencies.

Ok, this is probably an easy one. A while back I edited some file, I don't know what, to mount a vfat partition on boot. Since, the system has undergone a lot of changes and /dev/hda5 just doesn't exist anymore as per the message below. I just asked my local linux dude how to do it before bu

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

Pollywog wrote: > On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > > Salutations, > > > > I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have > > time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian > > release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an >

RE: What's this about E-Mail support

On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > Salutations, > > I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have > time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian > release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an > E-Mail address for the prom

What's this about E-Mail support

Salutations, I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an E-Mail address for the promised 30 days of E-Mail support - never happened. H

Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

Salutations, I log in to Sun using a prompt-response method. The server sends down a random number, I make an entry into a calculator and it gives me the password for that session. For this reason, I can't hook up using expect or chat. Using slackware and Caldera, I just log in using cu. Debian's

Getting lprng to /dev/lp1

Salutations, I can shut doen lprng and cat /dev/motd to /dev/lp1 but when I turn on lprng, it refuses to print and lpq shows: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'indianpeaks' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 515 active Status: sleeping 10 secs before retry, starting sleep at 08:06:19 Rank Owner/

Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???

:-> "Sean" == Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The best thing to use right now is the libc5 version of netscape as supplied by > Netscape. The packaged version of netscape if chock full of problems that, if I > understand it correctly, are largely glibc2.1 related. You'll need a

RE: Netscape 4.61 - ???

On 14-Aug-99 Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato? > I only get a segfault. > If you are able to use it, what combination of > kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ? I did not use it as provided in Potato. I just used the netscape4

Re: gcc troubles again

:-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not egcs, that's the gcc272 package. > Yeah, either get rid of gcc272 completely, or check the gcc actually points to egcc, and > not gcc272. I'm pretty sure that I completely deinstalled gcc272. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/

Re: [Debian: Install] Harddisk partitioning

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:23:27 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >Now I like to install Debian 2.1 on it but I do not know, >in which partitions. > >My problem is, that I do not know the size of the root and use prtition, >because I need to install many source for compiling

Re: X resolution problem

Bill, Are you sure you have the correct specs for your monitor's horizontal and vertical refresh rates? If your entries are correct and you try to use a higher resolution that execeeds the specs, the Xerver will remove the invalid modes. If you enter values that exceed what the monitor can handle,

Nci drivers for PCI card?

I got myself a cheap 10/100 base-t nic figuring I could get Debian to use it with the ne2k-pci module. Well, unforunteately that doesn't work. I got a Aompex ReadyLINK 100-TX/PCI card. Doesn't anyone know what drivers to use with this? I scoured the 2.2.10 documentation, but this card doesn't

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 03:24:38PM -0400, Sean wrote: > I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370). The kernel > support > for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound. The only > drawback is > that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities. For me, t

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370). The kernel support for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound. The only drawback is that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities. For me, though, this is a non-issue, as I hardly ever listen to MIDI and

Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???

The best thing to use right now is the libc5 version of netscape as supplied by Netscape. The packaged version of netscape if chock full of problems that, if I understand it correctly, are largely glibc2.1 related. You'll need a few packages from the oldlibs directory ... libc5, libg++2.7, xpm4.

Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:14:39AM +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote: > Hi! > I just tried to incorporate http://security.debian.org into my apt > sources.list once again - and it didn't work once again. Usually I don't reply to my own postings, but this was really a no-brainer which I don't want to bo

Re: gcc troubles again

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/2.7.2.3/specs > gcc version 2.7.2.3 > You have mail in /var/spool/mail/ik5pvx > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gcc --version > 2.7.2.3 That

Restore disk

I have bought a new harddisk for my laptop and want to transfer Debian (2.1) from the current to the new harddisk. As this is a laptop I can't connect both drives at the same time, so I created a .tar.gz file that I stored on a different computer on the network. In order to extract this file to

Re: gcc troubles again

:-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks to me like you some sort of conflicting packages installed for gcc/egcs. What does > it say when you do `gcc --version'? > Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1

[OT] Best sound card for Linux

I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which sound cards give good perfomance under Linux. I used to have a SoundBlaster64 PCI in this machine, but the sound output `broke up' under light CPU or disk activity. I swapped it with a friend for an original SoundBlaster16 ISA card

X resolution problem

Hello all, I have a small problem. I've set up Slink on a very old machine that has a #9GXE64 S3 based PCI card. I have X working but only at the lowest possible resolution 640-480 using the SVGA server. If I try pushing up the resolution or using the S3 servers, I get the monitor going into sleep

Re: Modem Problems

Your serial port that your modem uses is probable using an IRQ greater than 4. If so, Linux won't detect the serial port. You have to tell Linux that the serial port is using IRQ n. Check in windows first: find out which COM your modem is in. Then check which IRQ this COM is usin: control pannel

Re: gcc troubles again

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 08:13:20PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > I've just upgraded to the latest gcc in potato. > It install itself as i386-linux, and when I try to compile, it can't > find cc1. I've solved this problem by linking the > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux to i586-unknown-linux-gli

Netscape 4.61 - ???

Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato? I only get a segfault. If you are able to use it, what combination of kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mai

gcc troubles again

I've just upgraded to the latest gcc in potato. It install itself as i386-linux, and when I try to compile, it can't find cc1. I've solved this problem by linking the /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux to i586-unknown-linux-glibc[12], but now I have this other problem that I'm not able to solve: $ gcc -

Re: egcs

Hi Robert, On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:40:09PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi All, > I'm using egcs for my software project. This is the output for g++ -v. > gcc version egcs-2.91.60 Debian 2.1 (egcs-1.1.1 release) are you aware that the egcs team is now the official maintainer of gcc? Egcs and g

Java swing classes

Hi all, where is the java swing classes in Java? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

... ldbm ???

Hi, I tried to compile the fastcgi module for apache but the linker can't found the library(?) ldbm. Please help me. thx!, Oliver

Compaq Trackball and Ethernet Card

Hi! I'm just installing Debian-Linux on my Laptop. It's an old Compaq LTE Elite 4/75 CX including a Smart Station. Now I reached gpm setup and the laptop has an internal trackball. Any idea if this device is supported and which configuration to choose? Thanks Oliver Bonkowski P.S. Anyone kn

Moving bzdisk Kernel to HD

Hi, How would I move a kernel made with `make bzdisk` off the floppy and onto a HD? I know I could recompile and copy the kernel as a file onto a floppy with a file system on it, but I have the floppy here but not the src. TIA, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Resume:

Re: Bug # 38205?

I've got a set of unofficial slink installation disksets, specificaly for the Adaptec SCSI cards. You can find it at . On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:55:16AM -0500, Nowan wrote: > Is there a work-around for this bug -- e.g., a rescue image that contains >

Re: major slink -> potato problem

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: > If I tried to run /usr/bin/which I would get "file not found" as if it > could not find which ... not because which could not find bash and since > strace was also not installed, it caused a few minutes of thinking before > I realized that bash was gone.

Re: Toshiba Portege 3015CT Laptop

> and running, and badly needed Linux on the laptop, so it's currently in > the process of an overnight Internet installation of RH 6.0, just to get > it done, but I'd prefer to use Debian on the system if I can get it > working. If you have another linux up and running you can try untar debian ba

Re: vim config bug in potato

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:08:17PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Couple days ago, I upgraded vim and started receiving the errors > below. Last night, a new vim package was available, but the problem > persisted. Can anyone tell me where I can tell vim where it should look > for it's syntax fi

Toshiba Portege 3015CT Laptop

Hi all, Tried to do an installation of Debian 2.1 (slink) on my Toshiba Portege 3015CT laptop this evening, and failed miserably. First I downloaded the standard installation floppies and tried to install from floppy, since the CD-ROM is on a PCMCIA-IDE controller and I figured it might not be b

Problem with Mutt and Exim

You can also set exim up to do this. In the past I have had success with the following at the bottom of my exim.conf file, in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION part of the file: # This rule performe a rewrite on all outgoing mail (possibly only all # non-local mail, I'm not quite clear, but probably moo

Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

> My problem is that my ISP requires the login name on the from: > address be that of the account at the ISP. My machine isn't named > the same as my ISP, and the account here is different too. > > I'd like to be able to fire up PINE and press control-x to send, as > I can here on my machine at

... ldbm ???

Hi, I tried to compile the fastcgi module for apache but the linker can't found the library(?) ldbm. Please help me. thx!, Oliver

bash and parameters

When I create a shell script how do I pass parameters to it? For example, if I want to create a directory based on a name I pass to the program with a shell script called mkmine the command would look like "mkmine Mydir" and this would create a directory called "Mydir" would the script simply

Bug # 38205?

Is there a work-around for this bug -- e.g., a rescue image that contains a kernel that works with the adaptec 2940 scsi card? I'm trying to install slink & the rescue disk kernel is hanging at the "Downloading sequencer code" line. I'm new to debian, so there may well be some FM I haven't R'd, s

Re: UPS anyone?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just purchased an APC Smart-UPS 620 (APC model SU620NET) I'm running Debian slink, pretty generic system. My specific setup has the APC-supplied cable on /dev/ttyS2 and uses the apcd package. I did set the port's IRQ to 0 with setserial; my system board shares

[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Building Debian Packages

Hi, PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to discuss the building of Debian packages. Please note the new location!!! PADS Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads PADS Main Meeting: Note the new location!!! Topic: Building Debian Packages Speaker: Chris

Strange fetchmail/exim behaviour!

Hi, Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to some packages in http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the latest apt installed). Anyway, since that time I have started having problems

Re: printing again

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jocke wrote: > I am sorry to ask again but I am really stuck here. Ok, let's give this a try here... > I would like something like 4 settings. > > 1: draft text mode > 2: high quality text > 3: draft pictures > 4: high quality pictures You have 3 .upp files, so you'll get

Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:37:06PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: | You do this in the remote_smtp transport. | headers_remove = "sender" | headers_add = "${header_from}" That didn't work. Perhaps because I'm using smarthost? Anyway, the rewrite rule: [EMAIL PROTECTED] egm2@jps.ne

weird terminal wrapping

i've had debian installed on my compaq 486 lte laptop for a few weeks now, and i've just started experiencing a problem where all of a sudden all of my virtual terminals will start wrapping the text funny. basically, the text will either begin in the middle of the screen and wrap around to the mid

Re: why no linuxconf package?

I tried linuxconf from potato and it completely screwed up my dns settings. I think manually editing the files is a little more reliable meridian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > There's is a linuxconf package in potato. However, it somewhat > screwed up fro

ALSA sound

Is anyone using the ALSA package on an i386? I thought I'd try it out, but I can't get it to compile. I've already posted a bug report on it. I guess my real question is how good is sound from CS4236 and CS4610 cards? I currently get an annoying pop when first playing sounds -- a problem I'd

vim config bug in potato

Couple days ago, I upgraded vim and started receiving the errors below. Last night, a new vim package was available, but the problem persisted. Can anyone tell me where I can tell vim where it should look for it's syntax files? Here's the error: "nothing.c" [New File] Error detected while proc

1st Authorized LINUX System Administration course in AZ

5678 Linux System Administration for Network Professionals 8/30-9/3/1999 The Linux System Administration for Network Professionals course provides five days of practical, hands-on Linux training. Although the course is not specific to a particular Linux distribution or vendor, OpenLinux 2.2 is used

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 06:39:07PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: | On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:14:41PM +1000, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: | > system, and after rebooting, tried to install updated binaries using | > dselect,apt from the unstable-main archive. | | Your problem seems to be related to

egcs

Hi All, I'm using egcs for my software project. This is the output for g++ -v. gcc version egcs-2.91.60 Debian 2.1 (egcs-1.1.1 release) I've run across an internal compiler error, and hesitate to report it as a bug unless it's also a bug in the latest version of egcs. So, what I want to know is,

Re: why no linuxconf package?

There's is a linuxconf package in potato. However, it somewhat screwed up from the RH version. Part of the problem is the debian /etc/* configuration is different from RH. Still, I never thought linuxconf was that great. It would be nice to have a GUI config tool, and I believe someone is wor

Re: update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?

> > * "shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > shaul> Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic > shaul> entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where > shaul> should I look ? > > a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed? > b) run update-menus wi

Re: Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing

Hello Nico, On 13-Aug-99, you wrote: NDR> NDR> I just installed another PCMCIA network adapter and now the MAC NDR> address is stable so it was indeed the card. NDR> NDR> Thanks to all who helped ;-) NDR> NDR> Nico NDR> Weird behaviour nonetheless - ironic that it was consistent on M$. I ha

Re: Problems with Mutt and Exim

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:56:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My problem in a nutshell: My login name on this machine is "shadow". My > e-mail account at my university is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can use Fetchmail and > Mutt to read mail from the tc.umn.edu server, and I can send e-mail fine as

Re: Problems with Mutt and Exim

Thus wrote Robert Ramiega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.13 06:18]: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:56:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My problem in a nutshell: My login name on this machine is "shadow". My > > e-mail account at my university is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can use Fetchmail > > and Mutt

Re: firewalling (ipchains) question

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:56:20AM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i lo -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 > ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i lo -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 You can restrict this to 127/8 and all local addresses. In Addition to that you should DENY all i