Re: Problemas con sound blaster 128

1999-10-25 Thread Jordi
On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 07:24:12PM +, Avid El Fasih Santalla wrote: Saludos listeros y gracias por la rapida respuesta, pero ya he revisado que el kernel está bien seleccionado, pero no me va. Tengo el kernel 2.2.10. Para probarlo como tengo instaldo el kde multimedia selecciono el

Re: mutt

1999-10-25 Thread Jordi
Hola, On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:25:28PM +0200, Manuel Fonseca wrote: Hola, hace tiempo creo redordar que se iva a formar una lista de correo para el mutt, me interesaria saber varias cosas sobre el mutt y de paso enterarme de otras interesantes que seguramente no se que existen, sabe alguien

Kernel 2.2.13 y Raid0

1999-10-25 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola a todos Sabeis si ha cambiado algo en el soporte para raid en el /dev/md* ? Es que tengo un raid 0 como particion raiz que uso sin problemas con los kernels = 2.2.12 y con este no se logra montar. -- Deica logo

apt y gnome

1999-10-25 Thread yashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD Hola gente disculpen la molestia alguien tiene por alli alguna direccion para agregar a mi source.list para bajarme el gnome, estube en la pagina de gnome pero no encontre nada solo encontre para caldera, rh, suse y los sources desde ya muchas

Linus y II Congreso

1999-10-25 Thread TooMany
Buenas. Puede que por la temática del emilio me tildeis de oftopiquero, pero correré el riesgo para preguntaros: - ¿Realmente viene Linus Torvalds al II Congreso Hispalinux? - De aquí (Terrassa -Barna-), vamos tres personas. ¿Nos vamos a ver por el Simo o el Congreso? ¿Sería factible hacer una

Re: Problemas con el XAWTV?

1999-10-25 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
El Wed,20/Oct/1999 a las 15:46:44+0200, Lucky escribió: Al intentar ejecutar el XAWTV me da este error: This is xawtv-2.32, running on Linux/i586 (2.2.5-15) sh: v4l-conf: command not found En la distribución slink a mi me pasaba lo mismo. Me traje el original de

MKISOFS Y LOS UNIX EN GENERAL

1999-10-25 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Hola a todos, Me bajo de sunsite.rediris.es programas, y cuando intento hacer un cdrom no sólo para que me lo lea Linux o BSD sino tambien Solaris, me ocurre que todos los nombres a partir de 8 letras se cortan. Eg: Emacs-2.4.tar.gz Emacs-2. Cuando lo hago, entre otras opciones pongo -R -l

IP FIJA CON DOMINIO IGUAL A ...

1999-10-25 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Hola a todos, Es posible que tenga que ver un servidor de correo cuya IP fija sufre un enrutado por parte del servidor de internet. Este cada 15 minutos le intenta lanzar el correo. Para ello, me comentan dos cosas. En el named debo poner un registro mx con la IP fija. Y luego Sendmail con la

(Fwd) ALSA drivers

1999-10-25 Thread Diego Bote Barco
Hola a todos He bajado los fuentes que he encontrado relativos a ALSA, para leer documentacion, pero tengo muchas dudas. La pregunta es: si tengo el kernel 2.2.12 y una tarjeta Crystal CS 4232, ¿deberia instalar todas estas cosas? Realmente es que no se que es ALSA La verdad es que las

SUSCRIBE

1999-10-25 Thread Clemente Feo
SUSCRIBE

Re: apt y gnome

1999-10-25 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, oct 25, 1999 at 12:55:54 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD Hola gente disculpen la molestia alguien tiene por alli alguna direccion para agregar a mi source.list para bajarme el gnome, estube en la pagina de gnome pero no encontre

Re: MKISOFS Y LOS UNIX EN GENERAL

1999-10-25 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, oct 25, 1999 at 03:24:17 +0200, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Me bajo de sunsite.rediris.es programas, y cuando intento hacer un cdrom no sólo para que me lo lea Linux o BSD sino tambien Solaris, me ocurre que todos los nombres a partir de 8 letras se cortan. Eg: Igual digo una estupidez pero

Re: Linus y II Congreso

1999-10-25 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, oct 25, 1999 at 12:56:23 +0200, TooMany wrote: Puede que por la temática del emilio me tildeis de oftopiquero, pero correré el riesgo para preguntaros: No pasa nada, buen rollo :) - ¿Realmente viene Linus Torvalds al II Congreso Hispalinux? Me alegro mucho que me hagas esa

RE: MKISOFS Y LOS UNIX EN GENERAL

1999-10-25 Thread Ángel Carrasco
no uso x. Ya lo siento -Mensaje original- De: Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: lunes, 25 de octubre de 1999 15:41 Para: DEBIAN Asunto: Re: MKISOFS Y LOS UNIX EN GENERAL On lun, oct 25, 1999 at 03:24:17 +0200, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Me bajo de

sigo con el problema de la asignacion de direccion

1999-10-25 Thread cygar
Hola, como veran sigo con el problema de asignacion de mi direccion cuando lanzo para tratar de hacer el enlaze con mi isp. tiro aca lo que logeo el syslog. p.d.: eh probado lo que me han dicho de ponerle una dire local por si este no asigna una (en el options del pppd ponerle :direccion) Oct 25

Re: Linus y II Congreso

1999-10-25 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
TooMany writes: [...] - De aquí (Terrassa -Barna-), vamos tres personas. ¿Nos vamos a ver por el Simo o el Congreso? ¿Sería factible hacer una quedada de debianeros? Ya sé que durante el Congreso se van ha realizar una jornadas debianeras, para desarrolladores, etc. Pero yo pensaba en

Re: Divulgação da Debian-br

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Ferrante
Oi Pessoal, On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, [ISO-8859-1] Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro wrote: Salve Lista, Para aumentar a divulgação da Debian-br/Debian-pt, criei os domínios debian-br.engnux.ufsc.br e www.debian-br.engnux.ufsc.br e coloquei como página principal a que

Re: Divulgação da Debian-br

1999-10-25 Thread Helio Loureiro
Eu acho a ideia boa, mas porque nao se faz esforco para se montar um mirror Oficial da Debian? Ou entao, outro mirror oficial das Paginas da Debian? Eu soh conheco o LinUSP no Brasil, e eu acho que ele estah ateh sobrecarregado... Por isso, eu acho que a ideia de se fazer mais mirrors

Re: Olá

1999-10-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Para entrar na lista va no site da Debian: http://www.debian.org e va na parte de mailing list e assine a debian-user-portuguese. Abracos,PH Quoting Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Olá, pessoal, Pequei o endereço desta lista em um site(esqueci de

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-25 Thread John Carline
jh wrote: As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync settings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark

Netscape's toolbar is black white?

1999-10-25 Thread Colin Telmer
Hi, the toolbar and frame around netscape 4.71 is black and white although the pages I view are in color. This has actually being happening for some time starting a few netscape verions back in time. I am not exhuasting any colormaps as all other programs started before or after are in color. Has

More sound problems...

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, before I left for the weekend, I had my sound working. When I returned, my machine had apparently lost power and was sitting there at invalid system disk because I hada floppy in the drive. Anyway, my main partition was hosed, so I had to run fsck manually. Next, I fired up xmms to make

expert engine

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I wonder if such an engine (in GNU/GPL) exists? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies.

Re: Package differences - bla_all.deb vs. bla.deb

1999-10-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hugo van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the difference between the locales_2.1.2-5_all.deb package file and the locales_2.1.2-5.deb package file? I assume packages with a _i386 extention are specifically for the i386 architecture. That makes me think the _all

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Patrick exim is run on demand from inetd in potato, so it won't show up in

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
I had this problem and it turned out the card was trying to use an IRQ of 0. Fixed it by cd-ing into the modules directory and loading each module in turn 'til I found one that worked.

2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread clread
1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 -- 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36? 2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects me with the error msg: System bootup in progress -- please wait I incrementally killed all daemons running

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. Enlightenment probably. I run enlightenment. In an Eterm (or xterm), try gnome-panel ...not sure, since I don't have the panel installed again, yet,

x-windows

1999-10-25 Thread raymond ferrari
Like another post to this list recently(Bryan Walton w. response from Kent West), I have a problem starting x. I have the directory /etc/X11 and a file for XF86(I did choose to install x during the dselect process: desktop system) however, when I startx I get a fatal error and the following:

offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I'm new to perl and want to write a small perl script with a nice userinterface. There is a wrapperscript for /usr/bin/dialog, but it gives the following warning: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. I'm using potato with perl-5.005. What is the correct

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Telnet to port 25 on the local machine. If you get a banner message from Exim, it's

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? You don't need to uninstall

Re: HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libcrypt.so (No such file or directory), skipping [...] You've updated the base shared libraries but not the

Re: Mail woes after upgrade to potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:38:15PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: 1. eximconfig -i seems to start exim. How do I stop it and restart it? pstree shows no exim. If exim is being run from inetd it won't be a continually running process but instead will only be started when something actually wants

Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Lesage
Hi all. I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while now. Here's what happens: Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only one) of my users is also unable to FTP there, getting the same error message as when I try as root. That user is not

Re: Cannot telnet on my SMTP port

1999-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi all, I'm trying to configure fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my pop3 server. However, something goes wrong when fetchmail tries to send retrieved messages to my SMTP port. Fetchmail send a messages like : SMTP connection failed I checked if I can telnet my SMTP port and I can't. --

Re: Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Daniel Lesage wrote: : Hi all. : : I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while : now. Here's what happens: : : Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only : one) of : my users is also unable to FTP there,

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-25 Thread Brandon Beretta
Hello Aaron, On Sunday, October 24, 1999, you wrote: AVC Hi all - AVC I'm doing some superhero work here, rescuing fellow students from the AVC Gates of hell and introducing them to sweet, brand GNU, true freedom. AVC Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(.

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread Harlan Crystal
I believe this results from when you upgrade your kernel from the older series to the 2.2.x series. The older kernels had a Route command which is used in various startup scripts, but the newer series is smarter and no longer requires the route command so it doesn't exist. These error

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Patrick Also.. when you upgraded exim, you should have seen an install message telling you that the format of

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: /etc/resolve.conf Should be `/etc/resolv.conf'. -- Greg Wooledge| Truth belongs to everybody. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp52KUvPIhOT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects me with the error msg: System bootup in progress -- please wait rm /etc/nologin Then try to find out why the nologin file was left lying around -- Greg Wooledge

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
Olaf Conradi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# -- line 34 Split normally returns an array, not a scalar... unless I'm missing something. (I'm no perl guru.) -- Greg Wooledge

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that installing the deb of the kernel-image 2.0.36 will get you to 2.0.36. As for the boot question, i do not know. Perhaps you should wait a bit more ? ---BeginMessage--- 1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 -- 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel to

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and 4.6

Re: Netscape's toolbar is black white?

1999-10-25 Thread Sean Johnson
I seem to remember this being a known bug with running Netscape in X @ 24-bit color. Supposedly changing the color depth to 32 or 16-bits or less will keep that from happening. I could be wrong, but it might be worth a try. Sean Colin Telmer wrote: Hi, the toolbar and frame around netscape

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 -- 2.1, but my kernel is still 2.0.29. What should I do to upgrade the kernel to 2.0.36? If you have apt, apt-get install kernel-image-2.0.36 If you don't have apt, you can download the

dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread Jeff French
Attempting install of slink AMD K-5 PR-166, 49152K ram Install media on CD After [I]nstall begins, a message appears on screen: ... Scanning available packages...Cannot open /var/lib/dpkg /methods/multicd/available: No such file or directory. installation script returned error exit status 1. ...

zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with make zdisk it will boot, but when using make bzdisk it will not. I had to use the tecra rescue and driver disks when installing, and I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560. Or, is there something else going on in

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Harlan Crystal wrote: I believe this results from when you upgrade your kernel from the older series to the 2.2.x series. The older kernels had a Route command which is used in various startup scripts, but the newer series is

Error using apt-get install

1999-10-25 Thread David J. Kanter
I messed something up but don't know how to fix it. I installed ntpdate, then accidentally removed it, then tried to re-install it, and this is the error I get: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or

Re: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread Ed Samour
Any info, or pointers to it would be helpful, Hi. Here's some info that may help you. Instead of using make zImage try the following: dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdXX Where XX is the name of your main linux partition. Let me know if that

RE: zdisk boots, bzdisk won't - Thinkpad 560

1999-10-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Oct-99 John Miskinis wrote: Hello, I have noticed that when I create a boot floppy with make zdisk it will boot, but when using make bzdisk it will not. I had to use the tecra rescue and driver disks when installing, and I wonder if this is somehow related to the IBM Thinkpad 560.

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-25 Thread M.K.Pai
Just my $ 0.02. Use xf86config. I like it more than tha xf86setup. Use the most generic freqs. It always works. The reason I started to use xf86config was that I was using a lousy no-name cheap cheap b/w monitor from an Indian company that had gone out of business. And believe me, I was pleased

Re: x-windows

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
raymond ferrari wrote: Like another post to this list recently(Bryan Walton w. response from Kent West), I have a problem starting x. I have the directory /etc/X11 and a file for XF86(I did choose to install x during the dselect process: desktop system) however, when I startx I get a fatal

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY. Other than that, it works great for me. On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James

Re: [TEST] Ignore

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Debian is a nonprofit organisation. It costs them (and therefore us) to distribute messages. Therefore, please do not use our mailing lists to test your mail system. Thank you On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:23:54PM -0700, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: You shouldn't be reading this! -- I already have all

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I use that for the german mirror - as you see. I think ftp.debian.org should also work. Nope. ftp.debian.org is in the US. -- I already have all the latest software. -- Laura Winslow, Family Matters Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advertising Policy:

Re: Dialing modem out when there are messages in message box.

1999-10-25 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
X3 /etc/chatscripts/provider (or whatever) change: OK ATDT555-1212 to OK ATX3DT555-1212 (as appropriate) On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 01:28:14PM -0700, Christopher R. Barry wrote: If your line is beeping due to messages in your message box, what modem init string due you use to force the

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:52:59PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: If you need to look at splitting an ext2 partition. Have a look at ext2resize. It seems to work for me, but MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR FILESYSTEM MOUNTED READ-WRITE, OR IT WILL GET CORRUPTED IRREVOCABLY. Could you

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. Do you (and others): - - have Java enabled? Yup. - - have Javascript enabled? Yup. - - typically open

rpm package broken ?

1999-10-25 Thread Darxus
I just did apt-get update apt-get install rpm rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm And got rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Did a locate libbz2.so, found nothing. Did a search for packages containing libbz2.so at

pain in the a-- guys monitor problem solved

1999-10-25 Thread jh
I want to thank the list for all the help and advice you have been giving me. I am the one who has been trying to run xf86config to set up x-windows. As you may know I do not have any specs for my monitor, and every time I would run xf86config I would get a scrambled screen. During my probably

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote: Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# -- line 34 split always splits to an array. Here, you're trying to get the number of elements

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
For a count of elements in an array $count = $#array; -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: [[[snip]]] - - open a lot of windows using open in new window (middle mouse button)? Nope. [[[snip]]] How many Netscape windows is it useful to have open at

Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the web and tried to download from there, but the deb's are not available. What

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
looks like the driver for the card isnt loaded. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: More sound problems...

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
you may not be able to get sound because there is not enough free memory below 16MB for the dma buffer. in more recent 2.2.x kernels you gotta enable the persistant DMA buffers in sound config and it will reserve the memory at boot. it may not solve this problem, but its an idea :) nate

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
to override that delete the links to nologin in /etc/rc2.d althnough its best to see whats hanging the machine at boot. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
some ftp daemons check to see if the user has a valid login shell before allowing a ftp login. check /etc/shells to see if that user's shell is listed. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/

Re: dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
i read a while back(year?) that the multicd support in dselect was rather broken(i've never had a reason to use it) try using plain cdrom as the access point rather the multicd nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. Do you (and others): - - have Java enabled? Yup. - - have Javascript enabled?

cdrom lost

1999-10-25 Thread koyote
Well- I am running slink (2.1) on a thinkpad laptop. I use a docking station with a scsi card and cdrom to install, and wanted to add a couple of packages. I have done this before without difficulty, but this time I cannot get to the cdrom as scd0 or cdrom on mnt or dev. There is nothing in

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Dirk Lother wrote: I'm looking for a way to access an NT Server with a floppy Linux in order to save data from broken down NT clients. Could you think of a way to do that ? The easiest way would be accessing the hardware; ie: removing the harddisk and mount it on your Linux (Linux can

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Jake Griesbach wrote: I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing linux aix7xxx to boot. After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: ... Kernel panic: VFS:

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape to crash at least once every time I sit

3..2..1..0... boot off

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have successfully installed debian on my Sun Classic using floppies; the base system up 'till now. My question is: how do you configure the keyboard? The keyboard says that it is a model-5. I use the sunkeymap (not sure, but it is the US-English one) keyboard setting, but it doesn't work.

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
What does restarting inetd do?

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
reloads the inetd.conf file... On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: What does restarting inetd do? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html

Isn't IP Forwarding the default?

1999-10-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, I am replacing a CISCO router with a Linux box running 2.0.34. I have an Emerging Technologies Card, which connects to the V.35 modem my ISP gave. The machine refuses to forward packets accross interfaces. My configuration: Linux earth 2.0.34 #19 Sun Oct 17 17:03:59 IST 1999 i586

re: Netscape Installation Problem segmentation fault

1999-10-25 Thread alf . krause
I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. I installed it on my Debian 2.1 system. Everything seemed to be fine with installation until I tried to run ./netscape. The first problem I got was that netscape can't

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 23:58:54 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: What gives? They've been renamed to 'libgmp2' and 'libgmp2-dev'. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:58:54PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the web and

Re: rpm package broken ? Hotfix

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Darxus wrote: I just did apt-get update apt-get install rpm rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm And got rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Did a locate libbz2.so,

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: For a count of elements in an array $count = $#array; ^ this is the subscript of the last element in array, one less than the length, since there is a 0th element; $count++; # number of elements in array @array; you could also

Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? Have anyone any experience with this?? -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato

make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the source i can remove it with the dpkg. Have any solution? -- Best

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I THINK it is modutils that is causing the problem. Two machines, both upgraded yesterday. Now neither one can properly depmod. All modules report unresolved symbols and refuse to load. NOTE this only

Re: Installing nedit and xmbase-grok

1999-10-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Unfortunately, there was an incompatible API change in the new version of lesstif so all the packages that were compiled with lesstifg will have to be recompiled with the new lesstif1 package. Some maintainers have updated their packages faster than others. If there isn't one already, you should

C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to learn it!) So I need a doc for lammers! Thx the help! Sorry about offtopic! -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato

getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust resulting in the system clock losing

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Jerry, I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get and compile a 2.2 kernel? Thanks in advance, Patrick

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to learn it!) So I need a doc for lammers! How 'bout Kerninghan, Ritchie: The C

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:43:22 +0100, Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jerry, I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get and compile a 2.2 kernel? Not realy, there is HOWTO's on the basic things about compileing the kernel. Check you /usr/doc/HOWTO and it

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Many thanks!

apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Suddenly my apache server (Slink) stopped asking for authentication with .htaccess files. Any hint what could be going wrong here? I have no idea since this was working ok. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but

Re: make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:18:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the

Software (was Re: trashing Netscape)

1999-10-25 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, John wrote: Fortunately my car runs without software, i wouldnt go near it otherwise :) Hi John However, unless your car is very old (before early 1970s) your car has a computer, and software, in it that does ignition timing at the very least. On my car, the computer

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