Re: scsi tape device

2000-01-17 Thread David J. Mason
Hi, * Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:31:42AM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try > making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' <=> 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'. > Check the man page for correct options... > > They should have root:tape ownershi

Re: That old /usr/include/linux linking thing...

2000-01-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Jan-2000 Frank Barknecht wrote: > Jonathan Lupa hat gesagt: // Jonathan Lupa wrote: > >> But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio >> drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier >> documentation they want me to do the linking. > > What SB

Re: cd-rw's

2000-01-17 Thread paulwade
I know some people don't want to compile a kernel. They just want to be able to use the cd recorder. There are some packaged kernels at ftp.greenbush.com for ide cd writing. The 2.2.13 was recently built mainly because I needed to write files from an NTFS(ugh) partition to CD-RW after NT crashed

Re: cd-rw's

2000-01-17 Thread Frank Barknecht
Robert Marlow hat gesagt: // Robert Marlow wrote: > if ur using atapi there's a little more to do before going straight to > the howto. first you need to recompile you're kernel so it supports > generic scsi devices, turn off ide cdrom support and turn on ide-scsi > emulation. this should make yo

Re: That old /usr/include/linux linking thing...

2000-01-17 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jonathan Lupa hat gesagt: // Jonathan Lupa wrote: > But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio > drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier > documentation they want me to do the linking. What SB Card? If it's an AWE, you could try the alsa driv

Booting kernel with module SCSI support?

2000-01-17 Thread Svante Signell
Having built my first GNU/Debian kernels with SMP support (2.2.13-2 and 2.2.14-1 for i686) an experience drawn was that the kernel had to have the SCSI module aic7xxx.o compiled into the kernel for the kernel to boot. The boot disk is /dev/sda. The machine I'm writing this on is running redhat/raw

Re: I forgot my password

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I forgot my password how can I get it back If it's your root password, boot with 'linux init=/bin/sh' at the LILO prompt (assuming you use LILO) and you'll get a shell; then use 'passwd' to reset your root password and boot normally. If it's a user password, log in as ro

Re: Source code to DEB?

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote: >Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a >.tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing >it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I >try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch >the pro

How to enable åäö?

2000-01-17 Thread Svante Signell
After upgrade from slink to potato the Swedish characters åäö are not displayed any longer either in console or in X. The keyboard is a Keytronic with Swedish layout. The Swedish keymap has been loaded: loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz. Also this keymap has been made t

Re: slink mirror

2000-01-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Nathan, Thanks for the information. I, however, have problem using rsync because I'm still using 1.3.1 and rsync required libc6. Is there another way around this. Does 'mirror' is no longer used for mirror site? Thanks! Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Sven Gaerner
Ron Rademaker wrote: > On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux > server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work > properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the > time), but when for example someone tries to ping fr

Re: I hate off-topic posts (including this one :) [was Re: Acer machines]

2000-01-17 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/17/00 at 01:24 PM, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I hate to prolong this thread, but I have to ask ... Who the hell cares? And >what is the relevance to Debian? Don't know about the _thread_, but do know that sometimes I have questions that I really d

Re: cd-rw's

2000-01-17 Thread 2
kinda depends on what kinda cd-rw ur using. the cd-writing in linux isn't directly handled by the kernel but by a program such as cdrecord and it's frontend xcdroast. unfortunately, last i looked these programs only supported scsi. if you're using a scsi device then you're fine. just read the cd-w

Re: How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Wilson: > I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it > mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the > kernel ?? > > Thank You! > > Wilson Your original post (see later in this post) shows that the kernel recognized your tape drive. Thu

Re: slink mirror

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : Hi, : : I need help to mirror the slink distribution. I have mirror : previous release (hamm) before and I did not seem to have any : problem. : : I've modified the config file and try to do it for slink and : it always timeout (or

Re: Remote access

2000-01-17 Thread Kent West
Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Hardware: > > ISDN Teles 16.3 card > > Goal: > > I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling > the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to > the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1 > Can anybody t

Re: distributions

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
over recent months ive played with corel linux 1.0, suse 6.3, caldera 2.3, and more recently mandrake 7 ..all are pretty easy provided you install it on supported hardware.. depends on what the newbie wants..i got a co worker to go with suse6.3 and hes loving it..another newbie (linux newbie not co

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Wright wrote: d.wrig >Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's d.wrig >about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked d.wrig >would be insane. there are kernel patches out there to restrict usage too..the patches i use restrict

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: mjnf > How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the "Illegal mjnf >Instruction" thing honestly if it were my box i would reinstall. mjnf > I don't think there is any problem with the kernel. It has been working mjnf >for a long time, w

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
for ping make sure ICMP masqurading is turned on in the kernel. i dont think this is a run-time configuration otpion it needs to be turned on when configuring the kernel. nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron >On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linu

Re: Problem searching list archives

2000-01-17 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: > > Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at > http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ > > No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' > which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the > page http://cgi.debian.o

Re: Remote access

2000-01-17 Thread Nate Duehr
Not sure about the ISDN card, but I do this with an external modem using the mgetty package. On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 02:20:11PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Hardware: > > ISDN Teles 16.3 card > > Goal: > > I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling > the serve

Re: fdformat?

2000-01-17 Thread ferret
Your machine isn't a Sparc, is it? On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Wayne wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the > following error message: > > floppy drive state > > now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c > timeout_message=

GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

2000-01-17 Thread David Teague
Hi A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34 Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-17 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:12:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote: > >Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual > >problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure > >this out within 10 minutes of sending my post.

X windows help...

2000-01-17 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into /usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's where I got the error: X: X: cannot execute

distributions

2000-01-17 Thread DanSV
What have you heard of the libranet distribution? Is it pure debian? A good dist. for newbies, or should you just go with the debian dist? - Dan

cd-rw 's

2000-01-17 Thread DanSV
Is debian set to use cd-rw from the install? (IE. Do you need to simply install the necessary packages, or re-compile the kernal?) - Dan

slink mirror

2000-01-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I need help to mirror the slink distribution. I have mirror previous release (hamm) before and I did not seem to have any problem. I've modified the config file and try to do it for slink and it always timeout (or something) on me and stopped. I have a fresh partition that I wan

Re: startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Stuart Ballard
Fredrik Appelberg wrote: > [Disclaimer in advance: I'm not an expert on any of this, but I have come up against the same issues; all my answers are only from memory, so read the docs on my suggestions before blindly following them] > Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debi

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the > following problem after the package files have been downloaded: 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' Jason

Re: startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Alec Smith
Don't know about your second question, but I think I can help with the first. Take a look at /etc/modules You'll want to list any modules you want to load (and their parameters) one per line in that file. Ex Redhatter huh? Welcome to the light. :) On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrot

Re: startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
Fredrik Appelberg wrote: > > Hi again! > > Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian > kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I > thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting, > so that I won't have to do su & modprobe manual

icewm problems !

2000-01-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All moved to potato icewm-1.0 and found strange problems: i cannot swith to another workplace! Any keyboard (Ctrl-Alt--> etc) or mouse command will swith to next workplace but icewm immediately switch it back to workplace "1". i run mostly potato stuff on intel. Any ideas/advices? thank

Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Maurizi) wrote: > Reinstalled gdm: it works. > However, xhost + tells: > >_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 >xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" > > and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. > Why? >From

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 17 Jan, 2000 à 12:57:43PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 20

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: : On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux : server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work : properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the : time), but when for example

Re: How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Liu Chung Him
I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the kernel ?? Thank You! Wilson On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Wilson: > > I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st

Re: Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 04:17:10PM +, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one > exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). > > The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type "Whole Disk". The > hard drive

startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Fredrik Appelberg
Hi again! Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting, so that I won't have to do su & modprobe manually every time. So started looking for rc

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux > server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work > properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the > time), but whe

Source code to DEB?

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a .tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch the program. Typing the command doesn't work an

Krash binaries?

2000-01-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, Does anyone know of a place that might have DEBs or RPMs of the Krash version of KDE? I'm not having much luck finding any. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?ref

I hate off-topic posts (including this one :) [was Re: Acer machines]

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : well i read from multiple sources that their UP->SMP upgrade tool worked : about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100% : successful *if* you had compaq hardware.. : : there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP su

I forgot my password

2000-01-17 Thread BUDDYG246
I forgot my password how can I get it back

Re: ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Ronald Tin
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 02:02:30PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux > server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work > properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the > time), but

Re: ssh encryption

2000-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
hypnos wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between > client/server is started before any exchange of data > takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the > username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when > using the -l option to ssh client. The machine public keys are exc

Re: Printing woes

2000-01-17 Thread Howard Mann
Howard Mann wrote: > > Hi All, > > When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or > Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the > right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is > thus printed. > > This does not occur when I print an A

Re: How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Wilson: I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0 (rewinds after each operation) and /dev/nst0 (does NOT rewind after each operation - you or your program/script must do the rewind). You can use 'mt -f /dev/[n]st0 OPERATION' to manipulate a tape (do man mt for a description of the OP

Re: scsi tape device

2000-01-17 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Ryan: I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' <=> 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'. Check the man page for correct options... They should have root:tape ownership and be owner:group RW. Put any users that need acces in group 'tape' De

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-17 Thread Shaul Karl
I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time after the system is shutdown? In any case, there are hw K scripts: [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw* /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh [18:22:27 /tmp]$ Note that your system

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remov

Partitioning SparcStation

2000-01-17 Thread Fraser Campbell
I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type "Whole Disk". The hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB for /tmp. When I reboot t

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. > > When I comment out the if structure that tests for the > existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, > there are no problems. That is, I can source the file > without any problems. > > However the

Vplay

2000-01-17 Thread Derek Cassidy
I'm looking for the vplay sound player and cant seem to locate it anywhere on the net. where do I find it??? Derek

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ron Rademaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Subject: root should be able to do anything... right??? Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked would be insane. > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file,

Problem searching list archives

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the page http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists If I take H

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Try lsattr and chattr... Regards, Onno At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had >weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 1

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread aphro
i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the filesystem nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron > ron >Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory ron >but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had ron >

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > > weird permissions: > > > > c---r- 1 8224

dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Rele

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I tried to do a lsattr, when it reached fonts I got: lsattr: No such device While reading flags on ./fonts Ron On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type > i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file un

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Now I'm trying to remo

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ashley Clark
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Now

Re: root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Todd Suess
Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless you use chattr and remove the attribute first. Regards, Todd At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a w

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 > SetKbdSettings - succeeded > > Wher

Re: Graphics tablet & pen + psaux mouse

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's > possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another > solution to it. > > The tablet & pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered) > pen and a tablet wi

Re: Re: ssh2

2000-01-17 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Louis Larry, > I added > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main > non-US/contrib non-US/non-free interesting! I have: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free (unstable/non-US) while you have "unstable" and the 'non-US' s

Re: External Serial Modem in Debian

2000-01-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get external > > PnP modems working? > > "External PnP? The phrase makes no sense. If it's an external it should > just work. What have you tried and what happened? Give exact details. No,

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread ulla . russell
Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. When I comment out the if structure that tests for the existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, there are no problems. That is, I can source the file without any problems. However the problem seems still to be elsewhere. When I

Project Management

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. > However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the > resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at > correct resolution mode. > So I want to reorder the modeline in the "scr

Remote access

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hardware: ISDN Teles 16.3 card Goal: I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1 Can anybody tell me how I could do that. The other comp

xterm permission problems after upgrading to 3.3.6

2000-01-17 Thread Attila Megyeri
On a potato system after upgarding xterm to 3.3.6 I am unable to start xterm as a regular user (starting as root works). The "~/.xsession-errors" file says: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied The xterm binary is: -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Jan 15 03:53 /usr/bin/X11/x

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

2000-01-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
aphro wrote: > > its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or > is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the > binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the "Ille

ipchains

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the time), but when for example someone tries to ping from within the dos box it doesn

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: >> The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything >> bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > >The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial >will store and reload seri

How to access tape drive ?

2000-01-17 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, I have a scsi tape drive and want to use it to backup. From the output of dmesg, i know that the tape drive is detected. However, I don't know the device file name of the drive. The output of "dmesg" command : scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S6

inn package changes permissions?

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check others' experience. Whenever apt-get (or formerly dpkg) upgrades inn, I find that permissions in /var/lib/news and sometimes /var/log/news are changed. Some of the files are now owned by root, rather than news, meaning innd running as news can't

root should be able to do anything... right???

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow

Re: roadrunner cable

2000-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:35:47PM -0800, David Pilz wrote: > i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use > on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they > e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was > wondering if an

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've fixed the problem in X

Emacs not aware of Japanese fonts?

2000-01-17 Thread Roland Mas
Hi there, I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain. The toggle-input-method command works, since I find myself in the situation where I can start typing phonetically. I find the same behaviour as I had way back when I had compiled and installed Emacs on my Red Hat machine

Re: broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato > libgtk, I'm getting the following: > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to > share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. > > what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it > from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've

First it works, now it doesn't : (

2000-01-17 Thread John Gay
I got my scanner to work just by pointing apt-get to unstable and installing sane 1.0.1 at first. I've been installing quite a few other things, and now my scanner doesn't work any more. I tried installing the latest sane from Debian, as well as the new gimp, and xsane. My scanner is an AGFA 1236

fdformat?

2000-01-17 Thread Wayne
Hello, I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the following error message: floppy drive state now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c timeout_message=floppy starts: 881369470 f80369470 090369470 ""' ""

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-17 Thread Ailton Santos
Friend, I downloaded the image-files rescue and drivers disks and a new rescue and driver disk was created using rawrite2. But, when I´ve the prompt 'boot:', I don´t know the correct command to mount root fs. When I try "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the system display a warning

XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Phil
I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modeline in the "screen" section of the XF86config file.   I

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
> I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the > latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the > pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is > significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9

Re: Viewing powerpoint files

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: >There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create >powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone >tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? Not that particular program, but I've successfully run Word in WINE n

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote: >Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual >problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure >this out within 10 minutes of sending my post. Turns out that the >environment variable FLAGS_CLASS=-green was bein

Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Reinstalled gdm: it works. However, xhost + tells: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. Why? On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > >

hwclock --adjust in slink

2000-01-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Since the BIOS clock in my PC at home is lagging behind more than 10 minutes per week, I looked into the correction mechanism of hwclock. I am able to set the BIOS clock with hwclock --set --date, and get the expected result if I try hwclock --show. The hwclock is called in a script from

gdm, startx ... (URGENT)

2000-01-17 Thread Alberto Maurizi
After upgrading Xfree to 3.3.6, some problems arose: - gdm no longer works (/etc/init.d/gdm starts does nothing) - startx as user says "X: you are not authorised to run the X server" Any idea? Thanx, Alberto

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread lehman
> Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with > > the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a > > hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the > > card after bootup seems to b

Re: ipfwadm

2000-01-17 Thread didier ayllon
non - Original Message - From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: didier ayllon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-User Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: Re: ipfwadm > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, didier ayllon wrote: > > > when i try to do : > > > > ipfwadm -A -f > > > > Th

Re: help -- UDMA install....

2000-01-17 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: >I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto hi

ldconfig and libwine.so

2000-01-17 Thread Roy Pluschke
I am running the latest potatoe updated as of today. I have un-installed wine but now get the following warning message when running ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libwine.so ... more ... skipping. How do I get rid of this -- when I run "ldconfig -p" I see no mention of libwine i

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