How to set initial wd in gnome-terminal? (newbie)

2000-04-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
On the console, everything is fine - when I log in as root, I start in the /root directory. When I log in as a user I start in ~/. However, any gnome-terminals I open under X drop me to /root regardless of login. Of course, since I mostly use a standard user, the first command always is "cd ~". Ma

RE: mount & ownership problem (newbie, maybe)

2000-04-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello Thanks for your reply (this goes to Oswald, too) It seems that I know so little, that my question was beside the point. :) Please, let me have another go: 1) I want only root to be able to mount anything but floppies. I removed "user" from the list of mount options for the cd driv

Re: /usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/

2000-04-14 Thread Brian May
> "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: w> after getting "apt-get upgrade" all clean (not that there isn't w> a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got lots of stuff w> in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just like the stuff w> i've already got under /usr/doc

Re: Problem with telnetd

2000-04-14 Thread kmself
What are your firewall and/or /etc/hosts.allow | /etc/hosts.deny settings? Telnet is an insecure protocol and should generally not be used. SSH is the preferred alternative these days. The Security HOWTO also mentions a secure telnet replacement using SSL. On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:33:12AM +02

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Robin M. Stephens
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > supe

modperl is gone? -- SOLVED

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
i was fully prepared to whine about being in the dark on "how the hell can you find the package to download when you just know about one missing file?" well, i solved it myself, so thought i'd share the process... (i'll get to whine later about something else, i'm sure.) i'd changed some stuff

newbie question (recursive dependencies)

2000-04-14 Thread Sunil Pandey
How do I take care of recursive dependencies while installing packages. Particularly, gnome-bin depends on libgnome32 which in turn depends on gnome-bin. Is there any place I get some detailed info on debian packages Sunil __ Do You Yahoo!? Send o

Re: unresolved symbols

2000-04-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Here are my dmesg and my unresolved symbols out put attached. Hope someone can help. Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote: > The easyest way is recompile it in 2.2.14 if you have the source code or ask > to module writer to that work. From you the only thing to be done is to > check if your kernel h

Re: /usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/

2000-04-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:35:12PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > after getting "apt-get upgrade" all clean (not that there > isn't a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got > lots of stuff in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just > like the stuff i've already got under /usr/doc. > > is the

RE: /usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/

2000-04-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
IIRC, the stuff in /usr/doc is/should be symlinks to the /usr/share/doc stuff. Christian > is the /usr/share/doc stuff significant? should it replace > the /usr/doc items? can i obliterate it?

/usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
after getting "apt-get upgrade" all clean (not that there isn't a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got lots of stuff in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just like the stuff i've already got under /usr/doc. is the /usr/share/doc stuff significant? should it replace the /usr/doc items?

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote: > They must have swallowed Microsoft's propaganda hook, line, and > sinker, finally telling me they are "NT professionals" and that they > know little about Linux. > If they are NT professionals and know little about Linux than they are better off sticking t

Re: 2 newbie questions

2000-04-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> Peter Solinsky wrote: > > > > I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't > > detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ > > for it to be recognized? > > You may try to set it manually if you wish. Another possibility is the isapnptool

Re: Apache support for multiple domains

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I want to do very domain hosting for family and friends. What I have so far > is multiple IPs and how to assign them to the same Ethernet card. I also > know how to set up users and allow them to update their own page at > www.mydomain.com/~username. Here is my attempt at support multiple doma

Re: ext2 fstype?

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > cfdisk doesn't seem to have a filesystem type that's specifically > "ext2". it does have > 05 extended (for logical partitions, apparently) > 85 linux extended (is this it?) > 0f win95 ext'd (just say no) You want type 83, it is called "L

perl's finally broken now

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
# perl -e 'use DBI;' Can't load '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBI/DBI.so' for module DBI: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBI/DBI.so : undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/DBI.pm line 158 BE

Re: ext2 fstype?

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> cfdisk doesn't seem to have a filesystem type that's specifically > "ext2". it does have > 05 extended (for logical partitions, apparently) > 85 linux extended (is this it?) > 0f win95 ext'd (just say no) > create partitions of type 83 for ext2. you need not create partitions w

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Stephens
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The problem with shutting down Debian still remains. APM now works > with Windows, so I presume it must be something to do with the > M'board as you suggest. My knowledge is very limited - any > suggestions as to where I should go from here. You may be ab

ext2 fstype?

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
cfdisk doesn't seem to have a filesystem type that's specifically "ext2". it does have 05 extended (for logical partitions, apparently) 85 linux extended (is this it?) 0f win95 ext'd (just say no) when i try selecing 85, it never changes the partition type. same thing in fd

newbie question: problem with libpng2

2000-04-14 Thread Sunil Pandey
I am trying to install libpng2 1.0.5-1 on my machine. However when I do: dpkg --install libpng2_1.0.5-1.deb it tells me that libpng2 depends on libz1 and that libz1 is not installed. However, according to the debian site, libpng2 depends on zlib1g which I have already installed on my system. How do

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
> > With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what > > the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped > > anyone to *under*clock the CPU? > > I was having some problems like this last week and it turned out that I > had set some resource lim

Re: swat man pages

2000-04-14 Thread FreeMan
It's not a problem to ping my linux-box. I've made so from my Windows-computer. I always get response. However I'm already using my linux-box as a small file-server and I'm also running telnet- sessions on it, so I don't think it's really a dns-problem. I just think swat is not running as a deam

Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
"Lewis, James M." wrote: > > > I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of > > it. > > If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet > > range. OK, here is what I got: > > > > Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has t

postgresql 7 (woody) broken - downgraded to frozen

2000-04-14 Thread kmself
The upgrade to postgresql 7 is broken rather horribly in several places -- postinstall does not work, this has been noted as a bug on the tracking system, though the posted fix (changed flags to dbinst) only addresses part of the problem. The bug is now outstanding for over two weeks. I've resolv

Apache support for multiple domains

2000-04-14 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I want to do very domain hosting for family and friends. What I have so far is multiple IPs and how to assign them to the same Ethernet card. I also know how to set up users and allow them to update their own page at www.mydomain.com/~username. Here is my attempt at support multiple domains

Re: Another modem question (was: Modem not working)

2000-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Gudmundur writes: > I now have to put my old modem back in, but was thinking that maybe it > would be safe to have them both, since one is PCI and the other ISA. That will work fine. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Another modem question (was: Modem not working)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:41:26PM +0200, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > Hi there, > > Thanks for the responses to my original question. I have now found out > about what is wrong. It is a PCI modem and modems of that kind don't > work with linux yet, although there is work going on in that field.

No Sound

2000-04-14 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Does anyone know how to configure Motherboard sound card for a Micron Millenia LXA ? Dan ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Joe" == Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. > Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to before trashing everything, check that the fan on the cpu is still working at the appr

Another modem question (was: Modem not working)

2000-04-14 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi there, Thanks for the responses to my original question. I have now found out about what is wrong. It is a PCI modem and modems of that kind don't work with linux yet, although there is work going on in that field. Maybe for 2.4. It may well by a winmodem too, although it showed up on at least

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread John
At 00:12 14/04/00 +0100, you wrote: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. > You can download a patch from Microsoft that will fix the problem, > but to install it you will have to drop your system speed down to

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread John
At 18:47 13/04/00 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John wrote: > Not wanting to put Debian at risk, I tried to boot Windows - no go and > I could not use safe mode. I re-studied the M/Board Manual and checked On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can do

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread muggles
fwiw, www.jimpick.com is alive and well. to wit: Get:5 http://www.jimpick.com potato/non-US/main Sources [5358B] Hit http://www.jimpick.com potato/non-US/main Release Hit http://www.jimpick.com potato/non-US/contrib Sources Hit http

Re: Need Help About SSL Certificate

2000-04-14 Thread muggles
there is a script with appche-ssl, /usr/sbin/ssl-certifcate, that is called be the apache-ssl install that you can re-run to gen a cert. if you already have a cert use the --force flag. you can also pass a -days x flag to generate a cert that will expire in 3000 days or somesuch. there is a pa

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote: > Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there > was an experiment comparing the hacker-seurity of a > linux-server to a windohs. That was when I started getting > into Linux: everyone was invited to try to break the > servers. NT was killed in 2

RE: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Apr-2000 18:32:28 Chris Mason wrote: > If I was an ISP changing from NT I wouldn't use Linux, I'd use > freeBSD. Much more secure, stable, more mature, and it's also free. I suggested FreeBSD to them also, for the same reasons. -- Andrew

Re: HELP! How to use ISDN in debian?

2000-04-14 Thread Felix Natter
Robert Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do I need to do to make an ISDN card work in Linux? > > What modules do I need to install? > What do I need to do to configure the ISDN card? > Can I use the two 64kbit channels separately and how? > What other packages support the ISDN channel? > E

RE: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Mason
If I was an ISP changing from NT I wouldn't use Linux, I'd use freeBSD. Much more secure, stable, more mature, and it's also free. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net

Re: Need help with mirroring non-US (fwd)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Here's one that works for me: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free (the line is wrapped, but you can fix that at your end). -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
Pollywog wrote: > > An ISP saw a post of mine on the dhs.org website and asked me what > they could do to make their service better. I replied that one thing > they could do is switch to Linux or FreeBSD or some other UNIX (they > are using NT). Their reply to me was that the problem with Linux

Re: Screen full of ?'s

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
If you do: 'setterm -reset' or just 'reset' the vt will be fine again. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Abyss wrote: > One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font and is > displaying characters as black on white question marks and other assorted > graphical characters. >

Re: 2 newbie questions

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
Peter Solinsky wrote: > > I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't > detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ > for it to be recognized? > > 2nd: I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly. When I run > xf86config and set

Need help with mirroring non-US (fwd)

2000-04-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. > > I later sent the post below, showing my mirror.defaults file. The paths > look correct to me, using the same server as you. If I run in debug mode, > it does read and xfer the dir contents, but it hangs at the end. Perhaps > i

Re: Proper environment settings`

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when inside an > xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile etc don't seem like > the > answer to me? Both for root and users. > change the global ".profile": /etc/profile -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me in

need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
An ISP saw a post of mine on the dhs.org website and asked me what they could do to make their service better. I replied that one thing they could do is switch to Linux or FreeBSD or some other UNIX (they are using NT). Their reply to me was that the problem with Linux servers is the security hol

RE: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of > it. > If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet > range. OK, here is what I got: > > Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has the > Debian > tm logo on it and the O

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get the dreaded sig11. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) > > Every now and then, I'll

Re: Screen full of ?'s

2000-04-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, could it be that you did 'cat' or 'more' a file with strange control chars? Maybe a binary? If that is the case you simply type 'reset' on that console. That should fix that problem. hth, Rolf On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Abyss wrote: > One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font

Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:04:41AM -0700, John Kiff wrote: > I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: > > sh: mformat: command not found > warning: mformat error > > Am I missing a package? Yep. Install mtools. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"

Re: Plotting Program?

2000-04-14 Thread Felix Natter
SCOTT FENTON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all. Does anyone know of a free package (preferebly in Debian) > that does what graphviz > (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/), that is, draws > family-tree like diagrams? I do not know "graphwiz", but there is a gnome-application call

Proper environment settings`

2000-04-14 Thread Dan Myers
Hiya, Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when inside an xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile etc don't seem like the answer to me? Both for root and users. TIA Dan Myers Web Developer Strategic Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
> The other solution, setting XAUTHORITY in the root environment to > that of the user that owns the X session, also worked for me. > I've never seen that before - neat. I'm thinking, shouldn't this be done automatically by /bin/su ? This would make a lot of sense and simplify life significantly.

Re: problem creating boot floppy

2000-04-14 Thread John Kiff
I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: sh: mformat: command not found warning: mformat error Am I missing a package? John Kiff --- Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everythi

Re: Help installing Netscape

2000-04-14 Thread r3ck
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along > time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux :) >* I downloaded 16 MB from > > ftp.netscape

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian > > non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for > > you)? > > apt-get update worked for me just now.

Re: Where is libz1?

2000-04-14 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Norman" == Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.6 in order to get support > for my Trident Blade 3D card. I've managed to get as far as > attempting to install xserver-svga, but it claims to depend on > 'libz1'. > I've looked a

Where is libz1?

2000-04-14 Thread Norman Walsh
I'm trying to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.6 in order to get support for my Trident Blade 3D card. I've managed to get as far as attempting to install xserver-svga, but it claims to depend on 'libz1'. I've looked all over the debian site, but I can't find anything called libz1. Help?

Re: how to make .deb packages?

2000-04-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Fox, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically my question is, how do I make a deb kernel image, so that it can > be transferred to other machines and used. Since all the machines are on the > same hardware. > > And another thing I am curious about, is if compile something to my system, >

Screen full of ?'s

2000-04-14 Thread Abyss
One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font and is displaying characters as black on white question marks and other assorted graphical characters. This does not change if one logs out then back in again. It does not change if X is started. It does not change if "setfont"

Re: Asus K7V motherboard

2000-04-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
If it didn't work, you'd be seeing posts about it. It's very unusual for an off-the-shelf motherboard to have problems with Linux these days. I'm about to buy a K7V myself. Linux works just fine on my K7M. Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia wrot

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
And editing lilo.conf couldn't make linux use all your ram?? On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Alexander Shutov wrote: > Lucky you are - i have 64Mb not 192 both in 2.0 and 2.2 versions. > > > - Original Message - > From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-14 Thread Alexander Shutov
Lucky you are - i have 64Mb not 192 both in 2.0 and 2.2 versions. - Original Message - From: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Linux only sees half my RAM > I don't know how, I once saw it

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:47:46AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different comput

libc6 howto

2000-04-14 Thread Dominic Blythe
libc6 howto says get ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-5 libreadline2_2.1-7 libreadlineg2_2.1-7 bash_2.01-5 to upgrade to libc6, but the libreadlines download page says they depend on ncurses4, and the "all packages" page only lists bash_2.01.1-4.1 any hints?

Need help with mirroring non-US

2000-04-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been mirroring Debian at our office for years, but haven't been able to get non-US to mirror for many months. I get a "timeout at end of directory" error. I've tried different mirror sites with the same problem for both slink and potato. Below is what I have now that doesn't work for the non

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:47:46AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. > >

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:07:17PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user > > > > on any other system to connect t

problems with apt-get upgrade slink -> potato

2000-04-14 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I tried to do a slink->potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update   <-- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade   <-- problems... but, (see below) it looks like I get only a few fiels, adn many many errors which seem server related.

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian > > non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for > > you)? > > apt-get update worked

Re: ftp.jimpick.com disappeared...

2000-04-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
After more than 24 hours and a bitchy letter to my ISP, ftp.jimpick.com now resolves again. No clue why it disappeared, except my ISP has changed hands recently On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:23:16AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:13:58PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wr

Re: 7-bit PPP

2000-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Oki writes: > I'm having problem setting up a PPP connection on Debian; one of the side > complained that the line was not "8-bit clean." Is this kind of problem > due to the settings in /etc/ppp/options or is it a hardware problem? Neither. It means that pppd is starting up at your end while a l

2 newbie questions

2000-04-14 Thread Peter Solinsky
I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ for it to be recognized? 2nd: I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly. When I run xf86config and set the card for SVGA, my monitor bl

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Joe Emenaker wrote: > [cut] > With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what > the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped > anyone to *under*clock the CPU? > You could try memtest86 to test the memory.

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-14 Thread John Stevenson
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the .xse

2.2.14 vs procps [was: debian on newer kernel]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
John Kuhn wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: > > John Kuhn wrote: > > > > > > My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you > > > can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 > > > would require installing a newer procps (

Re: Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Christian Surchi
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:22:45PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > So, what's exactly the meaning of "Debian?" Is it a made up name or what? > It's nice to have "Debian" in a dictionary, but it doesn't explain the > meaning of the word. DEBra and IAN Murdock! bye Christian

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-14 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Vitux wrote: > John Kuhn wrote: > > > > My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you > > can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 > > would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or later). > > > > John >

Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. > If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet > range. OK, here is what I got: > > Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box,

dselect

2000-04-14 Thread admar
Hello. I'm using Debian potato on my laptop at school where I have a fast and free internet connection. At another computer at home, I'm using Debian slink. I would like to put potato on that computer to, but that one has no fast & free connection. That computer uses some packages not installed my

ZyXEL ISDN external adapter

2000-04-14 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hello: We have a ZyXEL Omni TA128 ISDN external adapter connected to a high speed serial card (460 kbs). How we must configure linux (Debian) to works fine with this harware (using two ISDN Channels)? Where can we find documentation about this problem (or similar)? Please help us 8-) Thaks for

Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Joe, On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it > will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I > can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del > doesn't do any

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread SCOTT FENTON
If you hav a cable, DSL, or T* connection, wait for potato to stablize, then run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Alex Kwan wrote: > > Hi! > > Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my > nstalled application and user's information. > What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato? > > T

Re: Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:22:45PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > So, what's exactly the meaning of "Debian?" Is it a made up name or what? > It's nice to have "Debian" in a dictionary, but it doesn't explain the > meaning of the word. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-basic_defs.html#s-pronunciation --

Re: request of help to make the network card work

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a 3Com Etherlink iii 3c509b ISA PnP network card, located under > windows at IO=0x210, IRQ=5. When I try to load the module 3c509.o under > linux, it detects a card at IO=0x200, irq=3. > Any attempt to > configure the module (via modules.conf) with specified values results in a > IO_PARAM

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

2000-04-14 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my nstalled application and user's information. What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato? Thanks

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-14 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > > The debian cd should contain the rtl8139.o file. It should install it, if > > you select the rtl8139 module during the kernel module configuration phase > > of the install

[Fwd: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?]

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
> Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) > > > > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely di

What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

2000-04-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. Currently, I'm having this

request of help to make the network card work

2000-04-14 Thread mauro faga
I have a 3Com Etherlink iii 3c509b ISA PnP network card, located under windows at IO=0x210, IRQ=5. When I try to load the module 3c509.o under linux, it detects a card at IO=0x200, irq=3. The diagnostic PING doesn't receive any response, as the addresses aren't correct. Any attempt to configure the

Problem with telnetd

2000-04-14 Thread Vicente Torres
When I telnet my machine from another box, I get following message bash-2.02$ telnet mymachine Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX... Connected to mymachine. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: getpty: Permission denied . Connection closed by foreign host. bash-2.02$ SSH works well. I think it was after upgra

Re: Installing Netscape6

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I've d/l'ed the tarball, unpacked it, and there's no readme, > no ns-install (like in 4.72), no docs whatsoever!? i found no install program, too. i guess, you have to un-tar it to it´s final destination. > So, I figure I'll try the "netscape"-file which is in the > top-directory. I know very li

Re: 2 modems to the Internet

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Is it possible to have two default routes to the Internet? basically you cannot have two default routes, as this is a bit paradox. you could set up some more complicated routing rules according to the destinations. also, the kernel offers some options, which are enabled by "advanced router" in th

ispell

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, If there's an ispell, where is the ithes? Oki

Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I see, DEBra and IAN Murdock. It was in the dictionary, so it's a made up one. BTW, the logo gives me an impression that Debian is a Genie in a bottle. Oki

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable... > it is set. otherwise he would get the message "... Xt error: Can't open display:" instead of > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Error: Can't open displa

Debian

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, >From www.dictionary.com: "/deb'ee`n/, *not* /deeb'ee`n/ The non-profit volunteer organisation responsible for Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian's Linux distribution is dedicated to free and open source software; the main goal of the distribution is to ensure that one can download a

Re: Having trouble with USR v90 56K Internal Voice modem

2000-04-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> 1) I recently purchased a USR v90 56k Internal Voice modem, I tryed to detect >my modem under debian it couldn't find it. but apon checking windows it > listed as COM 5, how do I get debian to detect com5 > are you sure, it is no winmodem? if it is ok, then you possibly have to enable "exten

Gnudip & DHCP serve

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm looking for ways to update a Gnudip server by sending requests to a DHCP server asking for all those available Windows names with their respective IPs. How? Or should I just read the DHCP's RFC? Thanks in advance, Oki

Asus K7V motherboard

2000-04-14 Thread Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia
Hi All, Anybody out there using an Asus K7V motherboard? It's very new and I haven't found anything on the web concerning compatibility with linux or lack thereof. Any info? Thanks in advance. -A. Leonardia

Some confusion with libraries and include files (HELP!!!!!)

2000-04-14 Thread Taupter
Hello! I'm a bit in trouble here, and any help will be _very_ welcome! Well, Once upon a time, I had installed Slink. Some libs went old (GTK and a large bunch), then I compiled them from source to use the newer versions. Ok. Libs in /usr/local/lib e includes in /usr/local/include, ok? I edited

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