Re: how to autostart the samba daemon(s)

1999-10-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Oct, Charles Lewis wrote about "how to autostart the samba daemon(s)" > I have the samba script in /etc/init.d, and when I do an 'update-rc.d samba > defaults', it says that the symlinks already exists. However, after a > reboot, I have to manually start the daemons by typing in smbd and n

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > Then recompile the kernel ... that should work. > > > > Nope, did that. Same errors. Then there seems to be some modules in the directory, wich are not needed, e.g. they are left from the previous kernel... (h

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There must be something I misunderstand, then. I put the following into > .muttrc: > > my_hdr From: Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is it possible that your upstream SMTP server is rewriting the header line? Looking at the Received: headers on y

Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

1999-10-15 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Okay, where can I find a good tutorial on LaTeX? I want to get started in > it, but I don't know where to start. Helmut Kopka: LaTeX -- A Document Preperation System, Addison-Wesley Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it shou

SGML->PDF

1999-10-15 Thread Steve George
Hi, Does anyone know of any tools to convert from SGML (or any output jade can make) to PDF? The tutorials all show jadetex but this keeps failing for me. I get this error if anyone knows how to fix it: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (format=jadetex 1999.8.24) 16 OCT 1999 00:19 **

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > Then recompile the kernel ... that should work. > Nope, did that. Same errors. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -

how to autostart the samba daemon(s)

1999-10-15 Thread Charles Lewis
I have the samba script in /etc/init.d, and when I do an 'update-rc.d samba defaults', it says that the symlinks already exists. However, after a reboot, I have to manually start the daemons by typing in smbd and nmbd. What am I not doing? I've looked at the smb HOWTO and it does not seem to confor

Re: running apt from an at command

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
apt-get -d -y dselect-upgrade I use it all the time (not from a cron, though. 56k modems suck) On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 06:43:13AM -, Pollywog wrote: > I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this > did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-15 Thread Rafael Maximino Dib Gonçalves
wow, sorry, it was really vj-max-slots 16, I just have typed it wrongly in my email... I also connected with pon/poff but it stayed just the same. with kppp, it connects and autheticates, but before receiving an ip address from my provider, it gets offline and the following msg is posted in the fil

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:10:59AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. > > You probably don't need any of them. paride is for parallel port IDE > devices. All the RAID ones are for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. > I'm not sure what linear is for. >

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-15 Thread Curt Daugaard
It is noticeably faster in my experience too. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unformat linux

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Take your hard drive into a professional data-recovery firm to have the data a few layers down salvaged. If it's not worth the money, then I believe you're hosed (depends on whether or not you ONLY repartitioned the disk, or whether you wrote a new filesystem on it, etc, and if you have a backup o

LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Currently I use Latex to do reports and essays. Okay, where can I find a good tutorial on LaTeX? I want to get started in it, but I don't know where to start. Also, any good tutorials/references on SGML? -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" D

Re: Banner

1999-10-15 Thread iehrenwald
> I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid > of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is > rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux > penguin may be. How do I do it? This is part of the BIOS and as far as I kn

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> well, here on my slink system I have added to the provider file these > lines: > bsdcomp 15,15 > deflate 15,15 > vj=max-slots 16 > mru 576 > mtyu 576 vj=max-slots 16? make sure that's not an = sign, but a - (I assume it's a typo) > > notice, my modem is a 28800 modem, so the mru and mtu line

not a newbie, still dumb

1999-10-15 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I get left without a working dpkg when I tried to backtrack from libc6 2.1 to 2.0. I couldn't find a non-deb dpkg, so I reinstalled base from CD. Not too bad really. Had to put my account back (my directories were fine). Now my dpkg database is way out of sync with my system. That too is not real

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I don't know what is happening exactly, but this is my setup: drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff1024 Oct 14 10:42 /home drwxr-s--x 66 dwon dwon 5120 Oct 15 15:20 /home/dwon -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberge

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:20:18PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > Why does the 3rd HD's on /dev/hdg, instead of /dev/hde? > > > > because hdc&hdd are for two disks on first IDE ontroller, > > hde&hdf are for two disks on second IDE c

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Samuel Varghese writes: > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i > get a message saying that there is no pppd module. Please post the *exact* message, along with complete copies of the relevan

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: [snip] > > and why does the speed (hdparm -t ..) still the same than under > > udma33? (and I'm sure that udma66 is Ok on this drive, through the > > dos utility). > > Are you sure that all the bells are on

sour wine

1999-10-15 Thread tf
Hey guys, Have some "wine" problems. I just installed the deb, thought I edited /etc/wine.conf correcty, made a directory, /usr/windows, stuck some win apps in there, and... about three pages of errors scrolled by. can someone give me a clue? thanks -- -t

Re: debian install [OOPS!]

1999-10-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Raymond: In item (2), don't press Alt-F1 to get to the second screen, type Alt-F2. Sorry, that minor typo could cause you all sorts of headaches. I think the rest of the post is factually correct. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Blooming

Re: keymap error when closing X

1999-10-15 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ookhoi writes: +- | > I get the following when closing Xwindows. | > | > What does this mean? | > How do I fix it? | > | > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm | -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap | > compiler (xkbcomp) repo

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:20:18PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Why does the 3rd HD's on /dev/hdg, instead of /dev/hde? > > because hdc&hdd are for two disks on first IDE ontroller, > hde&hdf are for two disks on second IDE controller and > hdg is what is left for you ;) I forgot t

Re: debian install

1999-10-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Raymond: Here's what I'd try: 1. Boot with the Custom Boot Floppy. Try logging in as root with no password (just hit at the "password:" prompt). Then try every reasonable permu- tation of what you think is your password, keeping in mind that case is import- ant to Unix. 2. If (1) doesn't wo

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: hi, > Hi all, > > I installed a 2.2.12 kernel and the hedridck patch for udma66; > I had: > append="mem=127M ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11" > > in /etc/lilo.conf, but I still have problems; detection is well done > BUT not for the good drive: > > PIIX

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-15 Thread Adam Shand
> It does :-) But nothing prevents you from using the libc5 version of > netscape under potato (which is what I do) what i do as well, just download the libc5 version and use the netscape4 installer. > I wouldn't call it rock solid, but it's useable and only crashes two or > three times a week (

udma66 ...

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I installed a 2.2.12 kernel and the hedridck patch for udma66; I had: append="mem=127M ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee,11" in /etc/lilo.conf, but I still have problems; detection is well done BUT not for the good drive: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: wi

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 15 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > depmod -a > > > Did depmod -a This is what I got: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/aten.o > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/bpck.o > depmod: *** Unresolved

Re: test don't read

1999-10-15 Thread Joe Block
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > test local to externel I don't mean to be a sphincter, but public mailing lists are NOT appropriate places to test your mail configuration. Already irritated because of the clueless folk who sent their unsubscribe messages to th

Re: Any way to install modconf on current potato?

1999-10-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Oooo, yuck. Please keep lines to <76 characters, please. On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > I actually prefer to add modules manually to /etc/modules as I find > modutils sometimes destroys little additions I have made to the module > options file (s

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Oct-99 David Natkins wrote: > You upgrade to a new version of modutils. Do an update-modules. > That was the first thing I did. It did not stop the messages. thanks -- Andrew

Re: debian install

1999-10-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Raymond: First device on second controller is /dev/hdc. Can you boot Linux at this point? If so, just log in as root and run dselect again. Make sure your access method is correct, skip the select phase, and go right to install. If you can't boot Linux, you should probably just start the insta

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Oct-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 15 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > >> depmod -a >> > Did depmod -a This is what I got: I got: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/snd.o -- Andrew

compiling a 2.0.36 kernel howto

1999-10-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Does anyone have a url for recompiling the kernel on slink? Thanks Patrick

test don't read

1999-10-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
test local to externel -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-15 Thread Rafael Maximino Dib Gonçalves
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > DCL> bsdcomp 15,15 deflate 15,15 vj-max-slots 16 well, here on my slink system I have added to the provider file these lines: bsdcomp 15,15 deflate 15,15 vj=max-slots 16 mru 576 mtyu 576 notice, my modem is a 28800 modem, so the mru and mtu lines shuold

What is the status of GNOME for slink.

1999-10-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello all. Recently, the GNOME project stopped mirroring the debianized packages of GNOME because GNOME has been included in the main Debian distribution. This is fine for potato users. However, I have Gnumeric 0.25 installed on my slink machine. I would like to use 0.38 because of many improvemen

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 15 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: > depmod -a > Did depmod -a This is what I got: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/aten.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/bpck.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/comm.o depmod: *** Unresolved

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 15 Oct, Pollywog wrote: > I did an upgrade of my potato system yesterday, and now I am getting this > error even though I went back to the /etc/modules.conf I was using before the > upgrade. > > Oct 15 16:56:47 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I did an upgrade of my potato system yesterday, and now I am getting this > error even though I went back to the /etc/modules.conf I was using before the > upgrade. > > Oct 15 16:56:47 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modu

can't get lm-sensors-source to compile

1999-10-15 Thread eric a . Farris
After installing the lm-sensors-source package on my potato system, cd-ing to /usr/src/modules/lm-sensors , and running 'make all' as root, the system goes along fine for a while, compiling, and then stops with this error: gcc -o prog/dump/isadump prog/dump/isadump.ro prog/dump/isadump.ro: In fun

Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread David Natkins
You upgrade to a new version of modutils. Do an update-modules. Pollywog wrote: > > I did an upgrade of my potato system yesterday, and now I am getting this > error even though I went back to the /etc/modules.conf I was using before the > upgrade. > > Oct 15 16:56:47 lilypad modprobe: Note: /et

Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

1999-10-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I had a Slink install on my second machine, and I wanted to give FreeBSD a try. After I installed it into the first primary partition, I can find no way to boot into Linux. I have a boot diskette, which I figured I would use, but it isn't happening (the booter loads, prints out correctly t

debian install

1999-10-15 Thread raymond ferrari
The last couple days have been going thru a new install with win95 on the machine. Everything proceeded great...slow paced...and methodical until I got to dselect. I decided to use a profile(std workstation) but wanted to look in dselect to check it out. I went to 'access' and somehow I must have p

Re: How to read the result of inittab

1999-10-15 Thread shaul
I think that booting into single state should enable by default for these messages to be read conveniently, but I do not know how this can be actually implemented. Do you think it is reasonable/acceptable/can be implemented ? Is base/sysvinit a reasonable package to file a wish bug with this req

modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade

1999-10-15 Thread Pollywog
I did an upgrade of my potato system yesterday, and now I am getting this error even though I went back to the /etc/modules.conf I was using before the upgrade. Oct 15 16:56:47 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Any ideas on how to fix th

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:13:13PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:11:12AM -0700 Lawrence Walton wrote: > > Hey take a look at the fact that MRTG and the latest snmpd in potato don't > > seem to work. > > I pounded my head on that one for a quite a while, never figur

Re: ftp login banner

1999-10-15 Thread aphro
just edit the source and recompile :)0 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://w

Re: newb trying to compile kernel

1999-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
You should consider installing the Debian kernel-package package. It contains make-kpkg which will automate most of what you show here. See the README.gz file in the package for details. On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:07:16PM -0400, Lucas wrote: > Please bear with me (cause i hosed my system!): > >

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > Many thanks for this reply. I certainly need some help with this; tearing out my hair in handfulls! > Hi Anthony, > I'm guessing somewhat here, since I've only used sendmail and exim, so > smail might work differently. > > Here are a few comments that might h

Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-15 Thread Abdul Aziz
Hi, I'm new to Debian and am trying to get smail working (using Elm) on 2.1 Slink - standard install from CD's. I keep getting the message cannot parse fully qualified domain. I filled in the name of my ISP (lineone.net) for the smarthost part of the config (I also tried smtp.lineone.net which got

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-15 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:11:12AM -0700 Lawrence Walton wrote: > Hey take a look at the fact that MRTG and the latest snmpd in potato don't > seem to work. > I pounded my head on that one for a quite a while, never figured it out, > maybe a pair of fresh > eyes might be able to see what I am not

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Jeff writes: > Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. > I could not install one module though it really sounds important: > xdxt hard disk controller You don't want any of these. Just skip the "block devices' section. > Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would s

test

1999-10-15 Thread ezz kha
test

newb trying to compile kernel

1999-10-15 Thread Lucas
Please bear with me (cause i hosed my system!): what's the most recent stable kernel that i can use? will the following work? Non-Debian Kernel Construction -- 1-mkdir /usr/local/src 2-mkdir /usr/local/src/kernel-VVV 3-ln -s /usr/local/src/kernel-VVV linux 4-cp linux

Re: please help if you can ...

1999-10-15 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 16 Oct, 1999 à 10:53:52AM +1300, lanz wrote: > Please explain in layman terms ... > - > ( I have read all faq's/howto etc) > > > Example > > > A system with a 2 GB hardrive and following partitions. > > 1) 25 mb > dos/fat16

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Todd Suess
Another alternative is simply to create a directory under /usr/local such as /usr/local/tmp and then do: apt-get dist-upgrade -o dir::cache=/usr/local/tmp That will use the (for most people) much larger USR partition and will give you plenty of space to upgrade. That worked good for me until I g

Re: Potato Dependancies problem.

1999-10-15 Thread David Natkins
Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > Everyone's having this problem at the moment, one solution is to downgrade > >slang to > an older version and put upgrading it on hold in dselect until new versions > of >the other debs arrive that work with the new slang. Do you have an old > slang >deb kicking ar

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-15 Thread Mike Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > APPS and GAMES: > - > Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on > the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) > Q3A > VisualStudio6.0 > Word 6.0 -- I've been told that StarOffice is

Re: Banner

1999-10-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid > of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is > rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux > penguin may be.

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Dave Baker
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote: > "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partit

Re: Potato Dependancies problem.

1999-10-15 Thread Jonathan Heaney
David Natkins wrote: > My problem: > > A new version of slang is in Potato (version > 1.3) > mc and mc-common depend on it (along with ae) > but whiptail wants slang to be < 1.3 and > modconf depends on whiptail. > Suggestions? (obviously a new version of mo

Re: Any way to install modconf on current potato?

1999-10-15 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of > potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: > 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they > are, just not the module names - they were never mentio

Banner

1999-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have Debian (slink) installed in a Packard Bell, and I want to get rid of the Packard Bell banner that shows up at the beginning, when it is rebooted. I would like to replace it with the Debian logo, or the Linux penguin may be. How do I do it?

Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have two ISPs: Demon and Freeserve. In the last week it has become almost impossible to send out mail (I'm sending this from a different machine which seems to work). It's been slow at times in the past but this is ridiculous. I'm using Slink with smail. I've RTFMd till I'm dizzy and have fiddl

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var > > NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! > > Do NOT use mv! This will change the ownership and protection rights > of the files. That could be very, very bad and will most certainly break > something. Oops. I missed out: First make

eth1 can't be loaded

1999-10-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Does this look like a hardware failure on a NIC? I'm getting a little desperate now as the kids will be most upset if they can't browse the Teletubbies sites over the weekend! enterprise:/lib/modules/2.0.36/net# ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.25 netmask 255.255.255. 0 broadcast 10.0.0.25 SIOCSIFFL

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-15 Thread David Natkins
I think what's being overlooked in all of this is that the orignal problem was that pppd was not found. pppd is the daemon. As root, issue the command: updatedb then enter : locate pppd and see what comes up. "Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Samuel Varghese wrote: > > > > i am new to debian but

Re: timezone question

1999-10-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thanks for the quick reply. It turns out my hardware clock was an hour off. I fixed it with hwclock and life is good. Thanks for pointing me to that program. noah On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:28:31 -0400, Noah

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive spac

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Samuel Varghese wrote: > > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a > message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in > the > install is the ppp module loaded?

Re: How to Access 2nd Serial Port & Cisco 675?

1999-10-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would just try using minicom or seyon. Both these programs will allow you to make a "terminal" connection to the device and type whatever commands you wish. The second serial port ordinarily will be accessed as /dev/ttyS1. Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I access my Cisco 675 modem/router

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread flonesaw
I wrote: > 6. Now, use "cp -a" (or "cp -av" if you want to watch it) to copy your >files, permissions and ownership to the new partition. > >cp -av /var/* /var > PS That command should be: cp -av /oldvar/* /var

Re: Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Peter Ludwig wrote: > > 2) Dial-in PPP Access. Before people start screaming > at me to read the manuals, I suggest they also look in > the documentation. The current documentation is not > detailed enough for me to get the system to work. I > can setup shell access using mgetty, but as soon as

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:43:27AM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > Hi > > If no-one objects, I'd like to do an NMU of MRTG early next week. The > major reason for this is that the SNMP_Session Perl modules need to > be split off into a separate package (a number of applications make > use of

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-15 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:28:34AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Mike Barton wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDRO

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread flonesaw
> "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition becaus e > > I've got plenty of availab

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
jh wrote: > [cut] > > Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would seem to > fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see > mitsumi cd-rom and mitsumi cd-rom with extended features. When I try to > install these I get an error message like: >

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-15 Thread Joe Block
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 09:26:16PM -0400, Justin Settle wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Nt boot loader is a pain - you can't use lilo. There is a howto for > this though. I take you have partitioning all done as fips can split > and NTFS partition as of yet. I saw something yesterday or

Re: (very) remote install

1999-10-15 Thread Joe Block
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 08:13:01PM -0400, paul wrote: > I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several > thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in > Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with > Debian from my pre

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mike Barton wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a > really sweet server here except

Re: timezone question

1999-10-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:28:31 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > and the time on the system is 1 hour behind what it should be. Running > tzconfig on either machine prints out 'US/Eastern'. Are you sure it doesn't have the "TZ" environment variable set? > Is there a way to get/set the BIOS clo

Re: More mail grief

1999-10-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Operator error. I loaded a spare partition /dev/hda4 as /tmp and that screwed it up. Sorry for the waste of time.

timezone question

1999-10-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have 2 slink boxes at home. I'm having a timezone problem on one of them, and I can't figure out what to do about it. If I run 'date +"%Z"' on one machine, it prints 'EDT' which is correct because we're in daylight savings time. On the other machine, it print

Re: Printer suggestion

1999-10-15 Thread flonesaw
Manuel, I have an HP 540 and an HP 310, both of which just work out of the box with all of my Linux systems. However, all HP printers use the same control language, called PCL level 3. This means that any HP Inkjet will work with Linux as long as it isn't one of the Windows-only versions. This m

Potato Dependancies problem.

1999-10-15 Thread David Natkins
My problem: A new version of slang is in Potato (version > 1.3) mc and mc-common depend on it (along with ae) but whiptail wants slang to be < 1.3 and modconf depends on whiptail. Suggestions? (obviously a new version of modconf and whiptail with a

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-15 Thread Dean Allen Provins
> Hi all! > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a > really sweet server here except that I just noticed th

Re: eterm: mutt & slrn

1999-10-15 Thread David Kanter
I'm not sure about using menus, but I've done the two-icon thing just using xterm. In xterm, I did this: xterm -name "Mutt" -title "E-Mail" -e mutt & xterm -name "Slrn" -title "News" -e slrn & This lets me chose a separate appicon for one without affecting the other. Since Exit session in Wmake

Re: More mail grief

1999-10-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Operator error. I loaded a spare partition /dev/hda4 as /tmp [ as /tmp was conveniently empty!] and that screwed it up. Sorry for the waste of time.

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
If you can find the documentation for the CD-ROM, check to see whether it is an ATAPI drive. If so, you don't need any special drivers for it-- you just use the (E)IDE driver. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Andrew Hately
"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive spac

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
Make sure "ppp" is in your "/etc/modules" file. Also make sure the module exists -- "/lib/modules/2.?.??/net/ppp.o" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to inv

swap quotas?

1999-10-15 Thread Brian Servis
Is it possible to limit certain apps to limited amount of swap? This morning I sit down at my machine to find that something ate all my swap which then proceeded to crash lots of daemons and my X session. I don't know what was the culprit but I wouldn't be supprised if it was netscape. I could

Any way to install modconf on current potato?

1999-10-15 Thread Stuart Ballard
Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they are, just not the module names - they were never mentioned in make xconfig) 2) See the

Re: (no subject)

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the > instruction footer to something less cryp

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bill wrote: > > I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape > 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and > and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The > other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape b

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, > > > which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". > > >

2.3x and IP masquerading

1999-10-15 Thread David Natkins
Marcin If you are ready to live dangerously, I would suggest you join the the Linux Kernel mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They should steer you in the right direction. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474

apache ASP perl : config ?

1999-10-15 Thread ezz kha
hello, please can someone help me with installing libapache-asp-perl ? I don't know what to add in : /etc/ apache/ access.conf srm.conf httpd.conf i set it to download the perl_mod. thanks

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