Re: Texto en DOS a LINUX

2000-04-23 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Otra fomra más. Con PERL: perl -p -i -e 's/\r//g' lista_de_ficheros Saludines. Virgilio

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-23 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 06:09 PM 2000-04-22 +0200, Santiago Romero wrote: [...] por cierto, ¿que tal la Storm Linux de la Linux Journal? ¿Me la compro o no vale la pena? Lo digo porque la Corel Linux me ha parecido un ENGENDRO impresionante, una bazofieta, no sé como Corel ha podido hacer algo tan malo (aunque

No funciona el CD-ROM

2000-04-23 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Tengo un kernel 2.2.14 con los ultimos parches, y soporte de CD-ROM en módulo (/dev/hdd). La cuestion es que ahora cuando intento montar un CD, me da un mensaje de dispositivo de bloque no valido. Sospecho de los parches estos, porque con un nucleo 2.2.13 si puedo montar CDs. ¨Le

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-23 Thread José
El sáb, 22 abr 2000, Santiago Romero escribió: bueno, yo nunca he negado a Debian que el hecho de que no incluya todas esas herramientas user-friendly de autoconfiguración sea lo mejor para aprender Linux. Tampoco digo que porque Redhat las incluya eso te impida solucionar los problemas

test

2000-04-23 Thread maec
test

Re: Pregunta técnica sobre C

2000-04-23 Thread Santiago Romero
El dom, 23 de abr de 2000, a las 12:00:10 +0200, Francisco José Avila Bermejo dijo: memcpy( a, b, sizeof(b) ); ¿no? (digo yo). Igual (respondo rapido) para tu ejemplo no se puede, pero si no recuerdo mal, es asi :) Pero es que tiene punteros y punteros a punteros, y el sizeof()

Re: Pregunta técnica sobre C

2000-04-23 Thread José
El dom, 23 abr 2000, Santiago Romero escribió: Pero es que tiene punteros y punteros a punteros, y el sizeof() no puede saber el tamano de un vector (punteros de punteros) dinámico. Eso funciona, pero es muy probable que de un core en un momento dado, ya que no reservas toda la memoria

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-23 Thread ijuanes
El dia Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 06:09:53PM +0200, Santiago Romero tuvo a bien escribir: por cierto, ¿que tal la Storm Linux de la Linux Journal? ¿Me la compro o no vale la pena? La instalación de la Storm es GPL, así como su software. Puede que la instalación gráfica de la Storm te pete un

Re: Archivos .deb

2000-04-23 Thread benalb
Cuando: sáb, 22 de abr de 2000, a las 07:58:45 +0100 Quien: Gustavo CR Que: Re: Archivos .deb On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:31:04PM +, jorge chavarriaga wrote: Si quieres ver lo que tienen por dentro los deb puedes hacer: ar -x archivo (...) Para ver lo que tiene un .deb, basta con

Re: depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep for writing

2000-04-23 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:38:18PM -0300, Flavio Alberto wrote: Eu estuo exaustivamente a dias tentando atualizar minha distribuicao Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux (frozen) e recebo sempre esta mensagem, ja recompilei o kernel umas 3 mail vezes e ele continua dando esta mensagem o que esta errado?

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-23 Thread Marcelo Elias Del Valle
Olá! Acho que desde que conheci o linux, o que eu mais sinto falta é tempo para participar de mais e mais projetos... Pena que eu não possa participar de todos, porque dá vontade! Eu estou MUITO interessado na distribuição debian em português, eu acho que debian é a melhor distribuição e não

Re: depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep for writing

2000-04-23 Thread Marcelo Elias Del Valle
Já verificou as permissões do arquivo? Tente compilar como root... Flavio Alberto wrote: Eu estuo exaustivamente a dias tentando atualizar minha distribuicao Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux (frozen) e recebo sempre esta mensagem, ja recompilei o kernel umas 3 mail vezes e ele continua dando esta

Re: Netscape menu fonts with X11?

2000-04-23 Thread John Carline
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, my ancient notebook can only do 800x600 pixels. Netscape from potato uses large fonts for menu bar and dialog boxes, so that the preferences dialog doesn't fit on screen. How can I make netscape use smaller fonts? Greetings Marc Greetings, You can adjust the font

[help] assembly code embed c

2000-04-23 Thread maths
hello everybody i have some assembly code write by my friend, they were close in a function. when i compile the c file, gcc report add nudeclare or something like this. i had use # cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m386 -Wall to invoke it. i know nothing about assembly, shall i include something?

Re: Print Email the same document

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that it's impossible to print and email a document from one command? You've outline of a rather complicated

Re: Netscape menu fonts with X11?

2000-04-23 Thread John Carline
John Carline wrote: Marc Haber wrote: --- Netscape*fontlist: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Netscape*XmTextField.fontlist: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Netscape*XmText.fontlist:

Re: potato growing pains

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 10:00:11AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: The installation went smoothly except for 1 glitch - I was unable to create a boot floppy. When I got to that stage it formatted the blank floppy I provided (and it seemed to use a superformat), then bailed out. When I switched

Re: Netscape menu fonts with X11?

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
I tend to avoid attachments but the following may be useful. /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common Netscape font settings require setting both Netscape and general XClient resources. On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 03:41:02PM +, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, my

Re: Print Email the same document

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that it's impossible to print and email a document from one command? There is a utility that splits a file into two pipes, but

apropos broken in potato (here)

2000-04-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I wrote in before with the problem that apropos is now broken on my potato system and I don't know how to fix it. It either hangs with no response, gives a short response and never finishes (never get the bash prompt back unless I ^C), or prints a response repeatly (of one or more finds). In the

magicfilter vs. apsfilter

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Has anyone had experience with both of these filter packages? What are the notable differences? On another note, I wonder why neither of them seems to support hpdj driver by default... -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: Print Email the same document

2000-04-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:21:59PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that it's impossible to print and email a document from one

Trouble with video on installation boot

2000-04-23 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
Hi, I have been impressed with Debian and am installing it on all the systems on the network here. I have one that's being a little poopy about booting the installation, and I wonder if anyone has experience with it. The machine in question is an older DELL 486DX2 50MHz machine, 16MB RAM, we

Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
One more question: On one of my other machines, I need to have Netscape Navigator installed, so I can have a browser that does RSA secure https:// browsing (for some online banking.) I am very much in the learning curve of dselect and apt-get, and alien doesn't like to talk to the Mandrake rpm's

lpd troubles (can't enable lp2 lp3 spools)

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
My printcap specifies three printers: lp|lp1, lp2, and lp3 with spools in /var/spool/lpd/(lp1|lp2|lp3). These are all for the same printer on /dev/lp0, but with different options (draft, normal, best). While lp1's status is always OK, lp2 and lp3 are always disabled (as follows from `status'

odd ppp performance

2000-04-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
Greetings, I have been bothered for years with this problem and I still have no idea on where to look for the cause. About once a fortnight I get very slow ppp performance and when I check with ping I see the packets coming back in groups of ~8. Sometimes it fixes itself but usually I have to

Re: Package Info

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0500, Irish, Jon D wrote: Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I know

Woody

2000-04-23 Thread Bill
Can someone please tell me what is required in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade to woody Thanks in advance Bill * The Mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open.

Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 06:32:34PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: A friend of mine in a fit of anger directed to his Window~1 installation called me and asked if I would install Linux for him. We have discussed with him before, that everything he needs from a computer (web browsing,

Re: Woody

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 02:56:05PM +1000, Bill wrote: Can someone please tell me what is required in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade to woody Here's my sources.list: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian

Re: Print Email the same document

2000-04-23 Thread Bruce Sass
On 22 Apr 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to do this off-and-on for two years, and although I've had lots of help, nothing has ever worked. Can I assume that it's impossible to print and email a document from one command? There is a

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:54:03AM -0400, Maury Merkin wrote: I saw, just a few days ago, a post with a command to get the current time and reset the system clock. I didn't pay much attention then 'cause I thought the script I used to use with RH would work. They don't. (No 'rdate' and no

mp3

2000-04-23 Thread Les Dowthwaite
HiCan you help. Do you know of a free program that will convert MP3 to WAVE.Thanks

Re: lpd troubles (can't enable lp2 lp3 spools)

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My printcap specifies three printers: lp|lp1, lp2, and lp3 with spools in /var/spool/lpd/(lp1|lp2|lp3). These are all for the same printer on /dev/lp0, but with different options (draft, normal, best). Hmmm, those are all valid names for lineprinter

PowerMac support

2000-04-23 Thread Bob Kuo
Dear PowerMac users, I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not found all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that almost all of the other PowerMacintoshes were supported, but 8100s were not listed as one of the supported one. Please

Re: mp3

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Les Dowthwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html HiCan you help.Do you know of a free program that will convert MP3 to WAVE.Thanks Xmms would do it. Just change the output plugin from OSS driver to Disk writer or something of that

Re: Scrolling with a Wheel Mouse in Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Eric Hagglund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got on Collas Nahaboo's Wheel Mouse web page. I was able to use the information on it to get my xterm to scroll previous output, but I'm still having problems getting Netscape to work. The information on Collas' page said to add

Re: Dell Inspiron 7000 and Debian?

2000-04-23 Thread Kari Ruohonen
I run Inspiron 7500 with potato with no major problems. APM works - resume/suspend is OK. Hibernation needs FAT-partition and I have not tried to set it up. I don't have the winmodem (I ordered without) but if I recall correctly there might be ways to get it work, too. I don't know about the DVD -

Re: odd ppp performance

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Greetings, I have been bothered for years with this problem and I still have no idea on where to look for the cause. About once a fortnight I get very slow ppp performance and when I check with ping I see the packets coming

Re: Upgrade failed

2000-04-23 Thread Bill
Problem solved. found answer in archives (file attached) many thanks to those who tried to help Bill On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:27:34PM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: i've done a fresh install of slink (because i have the bootable CD lying around...), and need to upgrade to

Re: PowerMac support

2000-04-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:34:05AM -0500, Bob Kuo wrote: Dear PowerMac users, I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not found all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that almost all of the other PowerMacintoshes were supported, but

Re: magicfilter vs. apsfilter

2000-04-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had experience with both of these filter packages? What are the notable differences? Of the two I have always preferred Magicfilter because I found it easier to set up and substitute my own filters etc. where necesssary. It does have a config

Re: Package Info

2000-04-23 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: You can read the packages status file for information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from your various apt sources, whether installed or not, and is somewhat more flexible than looking

Re: odd ppp performance

2000-04-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Greetings, I have been bothered for years with this problem and I still have no idea on where to look for the cause. About once a fortnight I get very slow ppp

Re: Money wasted on purchase of debian cd?

2000-04-23 Thread Jens Arvidsson
Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The glib answer would be to have patience. I've been horribly behind in the CD business, mainly due to taking on far too many responsibilities, most of which have been a distraction from Debian and hacking in general. As for your order in particular, I'm

hello, my friends

2000-04-23 Thread james tsang
where can I found the apxs script on my apache, or should I recomplie apache, so I can get it? I use a apache 1.3.12-2, But I can not find apxs while I building it cooperate with PHP3. thanks very much.

Tk-Skript for shutting down the box [Was: Re: rebooting as user]

2000-04-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mullins, Ron hat gesagt: // Mullins, Ron wrote: C-A-Rubout drops me to a console, yes. Using xdm/wdm/gdm that console isn't logged in. This then leaves me with, Ok, honey...now that you've killed the window manager, you now have to login again, then you can hit C-A-Del. (me gets blank stare,

Re: hello, my friends

2000-04-23 Thread james tsang
I found it in develop tools , thanks very much. and I post it here let other like me can find it. http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/apache-devel-1.3.12-10mdk.i586.html - Original Message - From: james tsang To: debian-user

success!

2000-04-23 Thread Philo Farnsworth
Well, I'm pleased to report that I finally succeeded with my first Linux installation. I was installing Debian 2.1+ from the OReilly CD and was having some trouble installing the base system (though everything else seemed to install just fine). I appreciate the helpful comments from those who

Re: Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Vitux
Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: One more question: On one of my other machines, I need to have Netscape Navigator installed, so I can have a browser that does RSA secure https:// browsing (for some online banking.) I am very much in the learning curve of dselect and apt-get, and alien

VNC question

2000-04-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have a problem: I have a one factory in Mexico and I want to see what is happenning in any of the PCs (Window$ NT) that monitor PLCs (machines controling factories). I was at Brazil and have another machine with

Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

2000-04-23 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Shao Zhang wrote: Could you post the line in fstab? Here are a couple of lines from my fstab: # file system mount point type options dump # pass [...] /dev/hda5 /vol/ntntfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Greetings!

2000-04-23 Thread Andre Dreyer
Greetings I am new to this list and hope to be here for a long time. Just to introduce myself, I am 20 y/o male from South Africa. I am mainly a Visual Basic programmer (Hold your tounges before commenting on MS). I played around a while back with Phat Linux but lost it with a hd crash. I now

Re: odd ppp performance

2000-04-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:04:49PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: mentor:# ping t99 PING t99 t99.xxx.wa.edu.au (192.168.1.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=0

Re: Upgrade failed

2000-04-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 05:26:56PM +1000, Bill wrote: Problem solved. found answer in archives (file attached) many thanks to those who tried to help Bill On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:27:34PM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: i've done a fresh install of slink (because i have

Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

2000-04-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Alan Sobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I am runing 2.2.14, and compiled NTFS as a module, I have no problem mounting it from command line. But putting it in fstab does not work. Could you post the line in fstab? Here are a couple of lines from my fstab: # file system mount

Re: lpd troubles (can't enable lp2 lp3 spools)

2000-04-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
I have done this in the past, with no problem. I spooled them all to the same directory, only the printer name and filter was different. Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : My printcap specifies three printers: lp|lp1, lp2, and lp3 with spools : in /var/spool/lpd/(lp1|lp2|lp3). These are

Re: Upgrade failed

2000-04-23 Thread Bill
- Original Message - From: Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:08 AM Subject: Re: Upgrade failed E: Internal error, couldn't configure a pre-depend does anyone knows what might be wrong? (I tried different mirrors on

Re: Greetings!

2000-04-23 Thread Vitux
Andre Dreyer wrote: Greetings I am new to this list and hope to be here for a long time. Just to introduce myself, I am 20 y/o male from South Africa. I am mainly a Visual Basic programmer (Hold your tounges before commenting on MS). I played around a while back with Phat Linux but

Re: Greetings!

2000-04-23 Thread ktb
Andre Dreyer wrote: Greetings I am new to this list and hope to be here for a long time. Just to introduce myself, I am 20 y/o male from South Africa. I am mainly a Visual Basic programmer (Hold your tounges before commenting on MS). I played around a while back with Phat Linux but

How do I use non-US in apt-move?

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Greenfield
Can anyone tell me the values of SECTIONS NONUSSITE that I should use in apt-move.conf that will match my sources.list: |deb http://zippy/debianfrozen main contrib non-free |deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debianfrozen main contrib non-free |deb

Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

2000-04-23 Thread Alan Sobey
I'm running Mandrake 7.0 (will switch to Debian when potato goes final) so kernel was obviously compiled different and YMMV, but at the end of this mail is the NTFS section from my manpage. I've no NTFS partitions at the moment (here at home) so I can't test anything. In work (Mandrake 6.1),

sawmill problem

2000-04-23 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't run, and keep mumbling error-- (invalid-function (macro . #closure define-value)) to me, each time I run :) if I run it with the --interp option it seems to run, but without the menus and don't know what else -- I've

Re: mp3

2000-04-23 Thread Carlos Bustamante G.
You can try also `amp -convert file.mp3 file.wav' or mpg123 and sox carlosb

RE: crypto patch

2000-04-23 Thread Andrew Weiss
Title: RE: crypto patch snip hesitant to put it in by default. Who knows, maybe some other distirbution does? Bastille Linux? [Andrew Weiss] So would you run this OS on a headless server? :-) Epitaph for Bill Gates: This man performed an illegal operation and was shut down --BBC SGI

Re: hello, my friends

2000-04-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[please do not use HTML in email] On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 19:49:14 +0800, james tsang wrote: I found it in develop tools , thanks very much. and I post it here let other like me can find it. [1]http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RP

Re: VNC question

2000-04-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-04-23 09:27:46, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have a one factory in Mexico and I want to see what is happenning in any of the PCs (Window$ NT) that monitor PLCs (machines controling factories). I was at Brazil and have another machine

can't install debian!

2000-04-23 Thread Arie
Dear reader, I tried to install debian and everything looks oke after installation. The program asks to reboot and then it goes wrong!. the program stops with the message calculatin module dependencies ... this will stay for ever on the screen.Do you have any sugestion . thanks anyway.

Upgrade to 500MHz and patching

2000-04-23 Thread John
At 21:16 16/04/00 +0100, you wrote: Yes. You need to get the sources for 2.2.14 (either download it afresh or patch 2.2.12) and then patch to bring it up to 2.2.15pre9. Then you build the kernel in whatever way you do usually (either use Debian's system or build it conventionally, as you wish).

3 Questions ONLY.

2000-04-23 Thread José María Pongilioni López
1: When I connect to the Internet in Linux, 'xconsole' shows the following message: ppp-compress-1 module not found I have compiled and installed Kernel 2.2.5 for Linux (Debian 'slink'). The PPP driver was compiled as a module. Is this correct? 2: I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.6

General Protection Fault

2000-04-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the interrupt handler If you need more information, I wrote all the output

Re: VNC question

2000-04-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
All the programs running at NT are Visual Basic programs monitoring the PLC with graphs and such. My doubt is how to differ one computer from another with VNC? Thanks,Paulo Henrique Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-04-23 09:27:46, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

/dev/null: permission denied - problem

2000-04-23 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) a couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng reported at startup: setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission denied (I fixed it by installing lpr which does not complain about it), and

Problems w/installation

2000-04-23 Thread Dulan Tevesh
I'm having a few problems with installing Debian 2.1 on a Laptop. The first time, it initially went through the installation process without any problems, however, it then proceeded to freeze and crash once it prompted for drivers to install, and I selected them. Now, I cannot wipe/reformat the

Re: /dev/null: permission denied - problem

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Stephan Hachinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied Well, have you actually looked what the permissions to /dev/null look like? ls -l /dev/null. They should be crw-rw-rw- root.root. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia

Re: Plextor CD-ROM (was: cd-rom jitter)

2000-04-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:26:15PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Eventually the CD-ROM extracts everything perfectly, but those :-| have been annoying me. I have a feeling that the CDROM's firmware might be buggy. I got this 12/20 Plex a year ago (retail box). When I you might try a firmware

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz and patching

2000-04-23 Thread Bruce Stephens
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I was puzzled, however, by the fact that the unpacking created the directory /usr/src/linux instead of /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.xx. I thought the latter was correct for Debian. But since I had a kernel I could compile, I continued. (My earlier

Re: /dev/null: permission denied - problem (solved)

2000-04-23 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Thanks for your quick replies. I already thought of this solution, but mc did not let me chmod the null device, and so I thought there is no possibility of chmod for the /dev files. I think it's solved now. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger

Re: Plextor CD-ROM (was: cd-rom jitter)

2000-04-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:26:15PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Eventually the CD-ROM extracts everything perfectly, but those :-| have been annoying me. I have a feeling that the CDROM's firmware might be buggy. I got this 12/20 Plex a year ago

Re: Woody

2000-04-23 Thread John Galt
from potato sed -e s/frozen/unstable/ /etc/apt/sources.list sed -e s/potato/woody/ /etc/apt/sources.list from slink sed -e s/unstable/stable/ /etc/apt/sources.list sed -e s/slink/woody/ /etc/apt/sources.list from hamm mke2fs /dev/hda and get some bootfloppies On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Bill wrote:

Re: Woody

2000-04-23 Thread John Galt
sorry to reply to my own message, but the keyboard demon struck again :( On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, John Galt wrote: from potato sed -e s/frozen/unstable/ /etc/apt/sources.list sed -e s/potato/woody/ /etc/apt/sources.list from slink sed -e s/unstable/stable/ /etc/apt/sources.list should

Re: mounting a NTFS partition at boot time

2000-04-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I have had no problem using NTFS from potato, though my initial install was from boot floppies 2.2.8 (roughly). Have you checked with lsmod that the NTFS module is actually installed in the running kernel? Also, try deleting the fstab line and typing it again--maybe some odd character got in

Re: VNC question

2000-04-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-04-23 18:06:22, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: All the programs running at NT are Visual Basic programs monitoring the PLC with graphs and such. My doubt is how to differ one computer from another with VNC? You specify a IP/hostname to the vnc client, if that is

Re: How do I use non-US in apt-move?

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:59:11 +0100, Brian Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the values of SECTIONS NONUSSITE that I should use in apt-move.conf that will match my sources.list: I've now done what I should have done before posting:-( This has already been filed as a bug

Newbie installation questions

2000-04-23 Thread David Jenkins
Hi all! I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an excellent release! Whoever has worked on this has done an excellent job. The