Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Chris" == Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> People always get lots of responses from queries like this, Chris> but this seems like the obvious way to do it: Chris> pidof xemacs && gnuclient -q $1 || xemacs -nw $1 Yep, that works. In the hopes of saving a newbie or two so

Re: Just a Question???

2000-05-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > Gustavo Minari wrote: > > > > May I have some problems using: > > > > Video: SiS 6326 > > Modem: LT Win Modem #2 > > Sound: Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V > > Printer: Epson Stylus Color II > > Scanner: Avision - Model: AV260C > > > > With your Linux package > > > > Please sen

Re: -lX11

2000-05-29 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
-L/usr/X11/lib wont work but yeah it worked... my question now is... how do i compile something that needs no path? i mean the -L/usr/X11R6/lib On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:20:50AM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:31:24PM +0800, Kreaped Ripping Reaper wrote: > > > > hi.. i tr

question on "w"

2000-05-29 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hello... If anybody could help me: I've noticed that the "w" program on Potato/Frozen is a bit different from the one when I was still using Slink/Stable. What I mean is, the "WHAT" colom: it sometimes just displays a "-", and not what the user is actually doing. How is this? I know there are a

Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

2000-05-29 Thread Taupter
> > 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in > > the console or term. pon is some sort of script who calls "pppd call connection". Gnome-Dialup is some sort of front-end for "pppd call", as pon is. Taupter

glibc

2000-05-29 Thread zdrysdal
Hiya in order to install a newer version of lftp in order to get the recursive put feature... i need to upgrade glibc. Can a lower version of glibc run concurrently alongside the newer version, or will it replace it altogether thus requiring upgrading the other packages as well?? thanx Zane

Re: db2html

2000-05-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:51:32PM -0700, Alberto Meroni wrote: > I am trying to compile helix gnome for slink but I cannot find > db2html. Where is it ? apt-get install cygnus-stylesheets (Grab a copy of the 'Contents' file off of a Debian ftp site. Very handy.) -- Bob Bernstein | E

Re: [Good News] printer driver for HP/Canon/Epson printers...

2000-05-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 29 May 2000 19:06:58 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:08:47PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > How did you install the thing? I mean the Ghostscript driver... I > rarely use Gimp, and never to print, but I'd like to print out s

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:58:08PM -0400, john s jacobs anderson wrote: > Okay, that could work -- but I'm too forgetful to remember if there's > already an XEmacs process running -- anybody have a shell script that > will execute the following pseudocode? > > if there's an XEmacs process

Re: mailwatcher

2000-05-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:35:28AM +, john smith wrote: > I would like to have a mail watcher or checker that tells me if there > is new mail. As of now, I do not know I have new mail not unless I > login to a console or terminal then it tells me that I have new mail > there. I would like to ha

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Here's why I use gnuserv all the time. Say I in a shell in a Peter> directory called Peter> /deb/potato/home/rhogee/deb/gri/CVS/gri/doc/cookbook and I Peter> want to edit a file in Emacs. I could go in Emacs and type

Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread ktb
Dan Christensen wrote: > > Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. > > > what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? >

mailwatcher

2000-05-29 Thread john smith
I would like to have a mail watcher or checker that tells me if there is new mail. As of now, I do not know I have new mail not unless I login to a console or terminal then it tells me that I have new mail there. I would like to have a sort of a checker or watcher applet in my x-window (gnome r

Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. > > what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? > > Usually some file that was erased

automagically queuing sendmail on dial-up

2000-05-29 Thread Joseph de los Santos
hi, I have my machine set up in such a way that when I connect to the internet, I have a fetchmail daemon running and polling my pop server while I am connected to the internet but when I send email thru sendmail, it queues all mail when I connect to the net, but not when I am already connect

Re: Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. And it's relevant to "the correct spelling" Oki

3dfx, quake2+gforce256

2000-05-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
WOW, ok, MANY THANKS, to the guys who had the patience to just keep telling me to try and install the binary dist of 4.0... Sweet, and the gforce came up clean. Now I'm trying to find all the things that broke when I moved the 3.3.6 distro out of the way, such netscape. Now to find it al

Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. > what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? > Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process, > but I don't know an eas

Re: New to Debian, X problems

2000-05-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 29 May 2000, adam.edgar wrote: > Im new to Debian, though I have been using redhat for about a > year. the way I installed was to use a cd i purchased(slink) and then use > apt to get the frozen version available online. having given background I > will present my problem. >

Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread ktb
Dan Christensen wrote: > > Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. > what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? > Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process, > but I don't know an easy way to determine which file or process.

determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread Dan Christensen
Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process, but I don't know an easy way to determine which file or process. "lsof | grep usr" is a start, but

Re: [Good News] printer driver for HP/Canon/Epson printers...

2000-05-29 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:08:47PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: How did you install the thing? I mean the Ghostscript driver... I rarely use Gimp, and never to print, but I'd like to print out some highlights and stuff from documents on my Stylus Photo 700. > some time ago I began to look

Re: Netscape6 vs Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vitux wrote: > Forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't crack this one: > I was hoping to try out Netscape6.0 in potato, but it > complains about a missing "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". While > dselect was still working, I did a search for it, but nothing > turned up. Anybod

Re: Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?

2000-05-29 Thread Brian Stults
Paul McHale wrote: > > Hi, > > I am interested in replacing my motherboard, but the current replacement > available is based on the VIA chipset. Does anyone have any experience with > this chipset? > > paul > VIA makes a lot of different chipsets. Personally, I have been having very good res

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s >> 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? > >you may do this, but this is not the way it should be done. Really? It's the way kernel-package does it ... -- Colin Watson

Re: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?

2000-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just >crapped out?) >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go >installing stuff. >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not found". >Ok, maybe there's some path been lost: >~#whereis dselect >

Re: Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?

2000-05-29 Thread Marc Moody
On Mon, 29 May 2000 20:26:41 -0400, "Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in replacing my motherboard, but the current replacement > available is based on the VIA chipset. Does anyone have any experience with > this chipset? I've been running potato with a Tyan 1854 (which is

Re: help!!!!!!

2000-05-29 Thread montefin
John, I did not get my cut of your purchase price. Please send me a dime. montefin John Archuleta wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern, > > I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble > installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through > it.

Re: Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Corey Popelier
Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. Relevant to Debian it is the name of a character in the movie "Toy Story". All Debian distributions have been named after characters in that movie. There is a URL with the complete story behind this, I'm sure someone else will post the URL shortly,

Re: Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Shel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a "potato"??... "potato" is the codename for the forthcoming Debian 2.2. Previous releases were codenamed "buzz", "rex", "bo", "hamm", and "slink", and the release after potato will be called "woody". The names all

Re: can't get around diald problems...

2000-05-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:14:40PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > May 29 15:03:16 kaynjay diald[915]: keepup parsing error. Got token > 'tcp.ssl'. Not a known tcp service port. > Would someone please clue me in to this? I added a > diald 120/tcp > line to my services file due to the message ab

Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Shel Johnson
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a "potato"??... Shel __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Does the VIA chipset work with Linux?

2000-05-29 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I am interested in replacing my motherboard, but the current replacement available is based on the VIA chipset. Does anyone have any experience with this chipset? paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:

Re: gdm Question (I think)

2000-05-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:55:26PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, I'm currently using Gnome and starting it with "startx" I > changed the .xsession so that O could start it from the console but > when it starts I am no longer asked for a login name and pass. I want > to be able to start gdm

Re: Problem with latest Realplayer

2000-05-29 Thread Joey Hess
Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), > I am now told "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be > using it." on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other > programs can make use of the soundcard. Realplay

Re: Realplayer, Lilo suddenly & mysteriously segfaulting (potato, kern 2.2.15) -- SOLVED RP problem

2000-05-29 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Macdonald wrote: > I just installed RealPlayer 7.0b2 yesterday. It worked fine on it's own, > but the plugin caused Netscape to bus error on startup on my 2.2.14 potato > box. Then I doubt you're using the debian package of realplayer, since I fixed that problem in it in March. -- see shy j

Re: New to Debian, X problems

2000-05-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Instead of # ** # Pointer section # ** Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" Write #

Re: Logging

2000-05-29 Thread kmself
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:34:30PM +0200, Tamas Nagy wrote: > Could you recommend any good online documentation about the logging under > Linux? What sort of logging in particular? While there are some standards for logging under Linux (such as the use of /var/log for system logs), and some loggi

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread kmself
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > that's wrong ... > > if the parent process would exit, then it's children would be inherited by > > init, which would make a wait() upon the sigchld it will receive, when the > > child exits. > > long-time zombies typically in

[Fwd: Guidance]

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am not sure if I follow all of your questions, but I hope this helps. > > 1. Your floppy is probably /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1 > > 2. For a computer the is not connected to the net and being setup by > > a newbie you really should consider spending th

Re: Best hardware?

2000-05-29 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:42:17PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend some sites with good reviews of hardware for > Linux? I'm looking for something like www.computers.com , except > that they'd recommend the best graphics cards, monitors, etc. for > Linux instead of for

gdm Question (I think)

2000-05-29 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, I'm currently using Gnome and starting it with "startx" I changed the .xsession so that O could start it from the console but when it starts I am no longer asked for a login name and pass. I want to be able to start gdm (I think that's what it is) so I have a choice to select from Gnome

Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade

2000-05-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:59:08AM +0200, Vitux wrote: > I see. Security isn't such a big issue on this stand-alone > home-use box, but anyway: how do I find out which group owns > /dev/xconsole? ls -l /dev/xconsole Should be root.adm and be a fifo /dev/xconsole| -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·A

Re: Floppy

2000-05-29 Thread kmself
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:05:21AM -0700, Elsadig Khanagi wrote: > Dear, Sir > I install GNU/Debian (Linux 2.1r2). But I didn't able to deal with floppy..I > use (mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /floppy)...when I do that with an empty floppy > it run without error message. but when I try to copy a file f

Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Brad wrote: > > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > > Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when > > launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives > > an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. > > I find it quite annoying; I've go

Netscape on low-mem system (was Re: X on a 486)

2000-05-29 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:46:07PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote: > AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I > AN> could set up X on this 486? > > From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the > windo

can't get around diald problems...

2000-05-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've been beating my head against the wall, it seems. I cannot get this darned thing to work. I really think I have a script that should work, but I get the following on trying to start diald: May 29 15:03:16 kaynjay diald[915]: Unknown option 'reroute' May 29 15:03:16 kaynjay diald[915]: k

Re: Problem with latest Realplayer

2000-05-29 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:19:27PM +0200, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > > xmms works fine. However, I've found one peculiar way of playing. If I go > to preferences and choose "Esound support", go out and try to play -> > "Cannot open..." message, go back to preferences and then choose "Enable

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:48:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just did an apt-get update, which shows a lot of new packages. > But apt-get -q upgrade just gives me a ton of messages like > > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/task-c-dev_0.4.1

Re: Potato source.list

2000-05-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:27:46PM -0500, Dean Struss wrote: > Hi all, > Am taking the plunge to potato using apt-get dist-upgrade > and the one source I have in /etc/apt/sources.list is: > http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free Looks right... > I've already received 10 er

Potato source.list

2000-05-29 Thread Dean Struss
Hi all, Am taking the plunge to potato using apt-get dist-upgrade and the one source I have in /etc/apt/sources.list is: http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free I've already received 10 error 404 file not found, so I'm asking what else I should put in sources.list. The files

Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!

2000-05-29 Thread Shaul Karl
This all discussion is about things I heard about but never had a need to actually apply. There for I am not sure I fully understand the problems. However, I believe you should: 1) look into http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html 2) Can't you tell the bios what is the CHS of your HD?

Re: Guidance

2000-05-29 Thread tom
I am not sure if I follow all of your questions, but I hope this helps. 1. Your floppy is probably /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1 2. For a computer the is not connected to the net and being setup by a newbie you really should consider spending the $10 and having the cd available to you. It is much simpler t

Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade

2000-05-29 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when > launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives > an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. > I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used to keeping an e

db2html

2000-05-29 Thread Alberto Meroni
I am trying to compile helix gnome for slink but I cannot find db2html. Where is it ? Thanks Alberto

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-29 Thread montefin
Atila, I believe you are correct re: Netscape being the time/mem culprit. I have a 486DX66 w/24Mb RAM Debian test box and use fvwm2 (a.k.a. fvwm now) quite nicely. I installed Netscape6 and, yes, it worked but like molasses in January. I opted for removing Netscape completely and using a very nic

Re: Netscape6 vs Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Check the Contents file to see what package owns any particular file: freefall ~ $ zgrep libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Contents-i386.gz ./usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 oldlibs/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 freefall ~ $ The Contents file should be in dists/frozen/Contents-i386.gz on the web/

Re: X on a 486 (Debian can serve the purpose of recycling)

2000-05-29 Thread Alain Reinhardt
> Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X > on this 486? Allô, It is a shame that olvwm has not evolved to be more competitive on the wm's list. I have set up a 486DX2-66, with 16MB RAM and low mem Trident VLB video card, on top of which I run olvwm. Works

Re: Netscape6 vs Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Esko Lehtonen
Vitux wrote: > > Forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't crack this one: > I was hoping to try out Netscape6.0 in potato, but it > complains about a missing "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". While > dselect was still working, I did a search for it, but nothing > turned up. Anybody know what FM to R o

Re: kernel make

2000-05-29 Thread Ron Farrer
Harry ten Berge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you install the kernel sources (2.2.15), unpack them and want to make the > kernel, where can you get the configuration of the base system kernel? I > mean, if I run 'make menuconfig' there is a '.config', but the resulting > kernel is definitely not

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread David S. Bateman
Thanks Randy, that worked perfectly! BTW, any idea as to what caused the problem to begin with? I got the 2.2.12 kernel when I "dist-upgrade" to potato, then the 2.2.15-idepci kernel by way of "apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci" and when I ran "apt-get upgrade" last night the package mgmt

kernel make

2000-05-29 Thread Harry ten Berge
If you install the kernel sources (2.2.15), unpack them and want to make the kernel, where can you get the configuration of the base system kernel? I mean, if I run 'make menuconfig' there is a '.config', but the resulting kernel is definitely not the same as the original after fresh installation.

Re: BIND configuration files

2000-05-29 Thread Sven Burgener
>>Slink has a tool for this purpose ... named-bootconf, it comes as part >of >>the bind package. Now is there any way to convert the other config files apart from named.{boot,conf}? TIA Sven

mesa3 packages are broken?

2000-05-29 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, xmms is nagging me about libGL.so.1 obj file and I know that that can be found in the mesag3 packages (graphics/mesag3-glide2,libs/mesag3,libs/mesag3+gg i) but I can't download any of them. are they broken?

Re: exim - listar problem

2000-05-29 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:28:33PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: > > > > 2000-05-29 14:08:02 12vj9N-0001GS-00 Neither the system_aliases director > > nor the address_pipe transport set > > a uid for local delivery of |/usr/lib/listar/l

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > Today I noticed the following: ... > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > > do not wait() for them, but ex

Re: how did u solve ur MACH64 prob?

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Matthias Wieser wrote: > > I have the same card (a ATI RAGE IIc- how did u solve ur problem :) ? > > Thank u Matthias > > -- > __ _ __ * > /\ /\ \ \_/ \_/ / here I * Matthias Wieser * > / ^ \ \ / come * ICQ#: 12597522 * > / /\_/\ \

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Bolan Meek wrote: > > Sven Burgener wrote: > ... > > Today I noticed the following: > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the pa

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Today I noticed the following: > > > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > > do not wait() f

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > Today I noticed the following: > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > do not wait() for them, but exit(

Re: exim - listar problem

2000-05-29 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: > > after installing listar (mailinglist software) and setting the correct > aliases in /etc/aliases, i get the following error when mailing to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 2000-05-29 14:08:02 12vj9N-0001GS-00 Neither the system_a

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Sven Burgener wrote: ... > Today I noticed the following: > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > this applies to UNIX in general. zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof do not wait() for them, b

Re: Problem with latest Realplayer

2000-05-29 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:21:48PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: >"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via >> realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), >> I am now told "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may >> be >> using it." on startu

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Well, now it's working for me. Go figure.

Re: BIND configuration files

2000-05-29 Thread Sven Burgener
>Slink has a tool for this purpose ... named-bootconf, it comes as part of >the bind package. Thanks for your support! Sven

zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Today I noticed the following: 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume this applies to UNIX in general. Any pointers / references appreciated. TIA Sven

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Ross Boylan wrote: > > The modem and the connection seem to be working otherwise. For > example, I sent the e-mail after the attempt, but in the same dial up > session. I can ping http.us.debian.org OK. > > Wow! Thanks for the fast response. > Strange, I've used the exact same mirror earlier t

New to Debian, X problems

2000-05-29 Thread adam.edgar
Im new to Debian, though I have been using redhat for about a year. the way I installed was to use a cd i purchased(slink) and then use apt to get the frozen version available online. having given background I will present my problem. I used xf86config to set up X but ran into some

Netscape6 vs Potato

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't crack this one: I was hoping to try out Netscape6.0 in potato, but it complains about a missing "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". While dselect was still working, I did a search for it, but nothing turned up. Anybody know what FM to R or which pkg this is in? Re

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
The modem and the connection seem to be working otherwise. For example, I sent the e-mail after the attempt, but in the same dial up session. I can ping http.us.debian.org OK. Wow! Thanks for the fast response. On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:06:24PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > >

Re: Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Ross Boylan wrote: > > I just did an apt-get update, which shows a lot of new packages. > But apt-get -q upgrade just gives me a ton of messages like > > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/task-c-dev_0.4.1.deb > 404 Not Found > Failed to fetc

Problems downloading files from debian.org

2000-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I just did an apt-get update, which shows a lot of new packages. But apt-get -q upgrade just gives me a ton of messages like Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/task-c-dev_0.4.1.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/

C Profiling tools like gprof

2000-05-29 Thread Manikandan A
Hi All, I tried gprof for getting the amount time spent in each function call in the C code. But it seems that it is not working. gprof o/p shows the statistics as zero. Is there any other program/tool like gprof ? Thanks in advance Regards Mani

Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Hi Debs. 4 days since upgrade. Still trying to get used to all the new stuff. Looks really cool, though, this far. The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just crapped out?) Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go installing stuff. Now, I get "bash: dselect: comm

Microtek Scanmaker IV Scanner compatible?

2000-05-29 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, The linux HOW-TO compatibility list does not include this model, though it does include the Scanmaker III. Is anyone successfully using the Scanmaker IV and do you have any tips to get me started? Thanks. Erik Ryberg -- Running Debian GNU/Linux www.gnu.org www.debian.org www.cheapbytes.

Re: Problem with latest Realplayer

2000-05-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via > realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), > I am now told "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may > be > using it." on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other > programs > can make use

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Atila Nemet wrote: > > AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I > AN> could set up X on this 486? > > From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the > window manager itself (since there are peopl

SOLVED: Rage IIc AGP & X => no vt's!

2000-05-29 Thread Vitux
Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vitux wrote: > > > Well, the subject kind of nutcases the situation. > > You mean "nutshell", a "nutcase" is the guy who goes mountain climbing > in a string bikini or runs around wearing an aluminum foil hat (even > when not using a cell phone :). > >

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread Randy Edwards
> apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci > to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot > off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. Yes, you've got exactly the idea -- recreate the vmlinuz symbolic link. As you've pro

Problem with latest Realplayer

2000-05-29 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), I am now told "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other programs can make use of the soundcard. Realplayer fine before the upgrade. I haven

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s > 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? > you may do this, but this is not the way it should be done. you should reconfigure your /etc/lilo.conf (and run lilo afterwards). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

Re: Secure Shell Login

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> directory called .ssh in my home, it has permissions 711 700 should be enough, i think. > (chmod 600 authorized_keys). But I dont know how to place the key in that > file(authorize_keys). simply paste the contents of the public key file. it should be a single line, which is in the same format, as

Re: ssh stopped working

2000-05-29 Thread Andre Berger
Sorry for my quite unprofessional posting. The problem has been solved now; my ISP's dialin-server had a wrong configuration. Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can you take a look at the syslog of the other host??? Maybe that gives > > yo

Secure Shell Login

2000-05-29 Thread Jay Kelly
I need help with using and setting up ssh. I downloaded a secure shell client(ttssh. and now I am working on setting up the server side. I ran ssh-keygen and created a RSA key. Where will I place the key. I have made a directory called .ssh in my home, it has permissions 711 (chmod 711 .ssh) inside

Re: How do I allow empty passwords?

2000-05-29 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Riku" == Riku Saikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Riku> "passwd -d guest" seems to remove the password for the user "guest" on Riku> my potato system One can also do usermod -p "" guest Beware, however, that PAM may not be configured to allow empty passwords. ---

lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread David S. Bateman
I'm running potato on a pent 533EB and have been using 2.2.15-idepci , apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. In /lib/modules i've got 2.

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-29 Thread Atila Nemet
AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I AN> could set up X on this 486? From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various win

Re: Problems with TeTex

2000-05-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
This should be a FAQ by now. Make sure your slink TeTeX packages are up to date (check your local mirror). If you use older packages (off a CD for example) you'll run into this problem. Something 'expired' after a year. You can search this list for gory details, but the fix is: install the latest a

Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???

2000-05-29 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Chris, On Sun, 28 May 2000, Chris Joyner wrote: > I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how > do I get to use wvdial as another user?) You have to add the users which shall be allowed to connect via ppp to the dip group (e.g. with: adduser username dip). Regards, Daniel

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-29 Thread Felix Natter
Atila Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > window manager which is low on system resources so I > could set up X on this 486? other than those already mentioned, there is icewm. its advantage is IMHO that it is fast but still i

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