On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:51:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> > it in /etc/init.d, then make the link /etc/rc2.d/S50boot.sh. Is this the
> > proper way to do this? Thanks for the input.
>
> One way of doing it. Note that this only gets run
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:50:22AM +0300, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
>
> A note to the original poster: since junkbuster works by matching URLs
> to regexps in the blockfile, it would probably be more efficient to have
> wwwoffled forward requests to junkbuster and not the other way around.
>
> Ot
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Suppose package C depends on package B depends on package A.
> Now, it just so happens that no other packages depend on B,
> but package D also depends on A.
> If I do a
> apt-get remove C
> is it supposed to do the right th
I have a Linksys LNE100TX, also tulip driver, and get the same error if
I reboot from Windows into Linux. Problem is fixed if I start Linux from
a cold boot as opposed to restarting from windows. Have you tried this?
- Colin McMillen
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:36:24PM -0700, Raymond L. Zarling wr
hi all
I lost the boot floppy for my Linux laptop (Tosh. Sat Pro 4270), so I
downloaded the tecra images from the debian.org site. System boots fine with
the rescue disk, but after I mount the root partition (/dev/hda2), and
select the "Make Boot Floppy" option, i get the following error:
"Creati
you can get the kernel patches to support ata 66 here
http://www.linux-ide.org
have fun, use patch fromt he patch package to apply the changes to your source.
At 10:09 14/07/00 +0200, Petr Danek wrote:
Hi all,
i use Debian 2.1 slink but it looks that ATA66 doesnt work - HD Maxtor
Diamond Max
Hello.
I've been trying to compile and install the wv library. This is the
most current version of a project formerly known as mswordview---a
set of conversion utilities for MS Word documents. Mswordview is
packaged for potato and for woody but in a relatively old version
which handles only MS W
Hi all!
I changed the line
XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)"
to
XkbKeymap "xfree86(us_intl)"
in XF86Config but I am having problems with accented characters in Tcl/Tk
applications such as TkCon (the Tk console)
Instead of using " and ' the application puts \250 and \260 characters
which ar
Since you had not provided adequate info on your setup, I will assume you
are browsing your Linux (Apache) box from a M$ box on a local network and
that your Linux box is connected to the Internet. If you noticed, the
'other' links on the default page are actually Internet links and hence for
you t
On 16 Jul 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> It works fine until sysvinit comes with a new bootmisc.sh script...
> It'd be better if you put your script in /etc/init.d/myscript.sh and
> made a /etc/rcS.d/S60myscript.sh symlink pointing to it.
I can't seem to remember the name I saw, bu
Thx...will give it a try... and will post the results here for the
community
Cheers.
> -Original Message-
> From: Bolan Meek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 11:22 PM
> To: CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick)
> Subject: Proxying Problems (was Re: )
>
> "CHEONG,
What you have described is almost exactly what I have working on one of my
boxes at home..I don't think you will have a problem installing Linux on
drive D:. I usually like to use different file systems for the /, /usr,
/boot, /var and /home as corruption on one will not affect the others. If
Ethan Benson writes:
> if you had the source to netscape this would not be that difficult, but
> without source i don't really see a way to prevent File -> Quit by the
> user, or to trap it with some sort of password program..
However, you can trap the user in a loop that restarts X and netscape,
I have tried to install Debian 2.1 for Intel Architecture from two CD's I
bought from LinuxMall (the Official release, slink). I am able to install
it, but with many problems when running it using the 2.0.36 kernel that is
automatically installed. I often get messages like: "bash: error loading
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:34:45PM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> Thank you for your quick reply but no, I would like to accomplish this
> without using xdm or gdm, all hotkeys will be disabled..not only
> cntrl+alt+del. You're right..what you suggested was close..but I really do
> need nets
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:42:43PM -0400, Timothy Ritchey wrote:
> > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
>
> I've got this in my /etc/apt/souces.list file. Weird. I will keep looking at
> it.
>
Uhm, this might be obvious, but gimp-1.1.24 is not installed with
Thank you for your quick reply but no, I would like to accomplish this
without using xdm or gdm, all hotkeys will be disabled..not only
cntrl+alt+del. You're right..what you suggested was close..but I really do
need netscape to exit by asking the password first. perhaps I need a
perl/shell script
Linux has stopped talking to my ethernet card (Kingston KNE100TX, tulip
driver). The probem seems to be in ifconfig, which reports:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
I run a dual boot system, and it works fine from Windoze 98. It used to
run, some weeks ago, in Linux too, but I neg
> deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
I've got this in my /etc/apt/souces.list file. Weird. I will keep looking at
it.
tim
Hi everybody,
I've just installed Debian. It was not so easy managing with
Dselect, but when it was done, everything works fine, much better than before.
The only problem I have is with the users in KDE (version 1.1, not the
last one). There are some functions I can start
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:36:26PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
> What if you had root scriptably launch netscape as some user who is
> neither root nor the person logging in. (Normally I'm not allowed
> to kill processes started by other people.) I don't for a minute
> think this will actually wor
Gack... I've seen this before, but can't recall what I need
to do to get around this...
I did a mkfontdir for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lib/fonts/*
--
Rick Nelson
What if you had root scriptably launch netscape as some user who is
neither root nor the person logging in. (Normally I'm not allowed
to kill processes started by other people.) I don't for a minute
think this will actually work but maybe someone can explain why.
-chris
No idea but I had a vaguely similar thing a few months ago trying
to use a SCSI zip drive via the external connector on the scsi card.
I could write a certain amount of data, say 20 MB, and then I'd get
this message. This was kernel 2.2.1. At about the same time my
filesystems (I have two drives on
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:02:27PM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
#disclaimer: i have never actually tried this.
> Hoping someone can help me out with this..for example I want an ordinary
> user that when he or she logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
> 1.automatically starts x-window
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hoping someone can help me out with this..for example I want an ordinary
> user that when he or she logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
> 1.automatically starts x-window
Why not use xdm?
> 2.all hot keys will be disabled..ie cn
Hi,
Hoping someone can help me out with this..for example I want an ordinary
user that when he or she logs in a terminal this is what will happen:
1.automatically starts x-window
2.all hot keys will be disabled..ie cntrl+alt+del etc.
3.run netscape automatically and it will remain opened and it ca
I have a Crystal Soundcard cs 4236
but a have no drivers
please send them to me
greatings and
thanks.
Well - its definitely /dev/sda1 thats having the problem, the "08:01" means
major device 8 and minor device 1, which is the first partition on the
first scsi disk.
ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw1 root disk 8, 1 Jun 8 03:44 sda1
Is your swap space sda1 ?
Second: I see in the outpu
I had a rather hit and miss installation of Debian 2.1 from official
CD set, including failing to note (README.multicd) that the second
binary CD should be used first. (!?)
I went back to try and add in netatalk so that my Macs can see this
machine.
After a pleasing hour with the manual trying
When I try to issue an alias (set in ~/.bash_profile) inside mutt,
(with '!') it won't recognize the alias.
On the shell prompt OTOH, this works as always. Is it that alias'd
commands don't get exported to mutt or what?
Cheers
Sven
--
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Cho
Hi. I'm about to install a tekram dc390u2w scsi
adapter and attach a seagate drive and was wondering
if anyone is aware of whether there is any advantage
to using either of the sym53c8xx or the drivers from
the Tekram site (dc390x-ncr).
thanks,
--
tony mollica
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"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it.
(Not quite answering your question, but:) Often I see people asking
this question while they are unaware that there exists a perfectly
integrated Debian package just with the software they
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the insight. Itmt I found a very easy way to set some parameters
>at boottime: I amended /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and put hdparm and aumix
>entries at the bottom. Works fine.
It works fine until sysvinit comes with a new b
You'll have to install a ftpd if you want to be able to login to them with
ftp. You could use something like wu-ftpd.
Ron Rademaker
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote:
> hosts.allow is empty, hosts.deny has ALL: PARANOID. Both files are equal on
> 192.168.1.1 and 3. I amended hosts.allow with the
hosts.allow is empty, hosts.deny has ALL: PARANOID. Both files are equal on
192.168.1.1 and 3. I amended hosts.allow with the line ALL: .orchard.nl
(being my local domain name), but to no avail. I haven't installed the
package ftpd, only ftp, but isn't ftp supposed to work right out of the
box, bei
Thanks for the insight. Itmt I found a very easy way to set some parameters
at boottime: I amended /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and put hdparm and aumix
entries at the bottom. Works fine.
Hans
At 02:51 PM 7/16/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Hans wrote:
>> As
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'm running Potato with a 2.2.14 kernel.
>
> Is it possible to use Ipchains to firewall a single machine?
Yes.
> The various documents on Ipchains which I have read (and can't
> understand anyway) seem to assume that the firewall will
You could check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and are you
running a ftpd??
Another thing could be ipchains...
Ron Rademaker
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hans wrote:
> Here another riddle which I can't seem to solve
>
> I have two potato boxes (192.168.1.1 and 3) and a win95 laptop
>
Erik Mathisen wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Erik,
>
>
> i have a Logitech First mouse + connected to my serial one port. I
> can't get it to work anywhere on Debian.
I have the same mouse and it works fine using the microsoft mouse settings.
Unless
yours has failed the problem lies elsewhere.
> I have ju
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Arnaud Espanel wrote:
> Other GNU / Linux distributions binaries are pentium binaries and
> official debian intel binaries are i386 binaries. Some
> people say having pentium binaries increases performances.
> Is it true ? Why ? Is it interesting for people to recompile the
>
Here another riddle which I can't seem to solve
I have two potato boxes (192.168.1.1 and 3) and a win95 laptop
(192.168.1.2) on a local network. I can ping from to and from 192.168.1.3,
use telnet, but not ftp. Connection is refused when I ftp in from 1 and 2
and also when I ftp out from 3. I
Hi folks,
Running potato I have been able to build kernels in the past using
kernel-package. This time round however things are different.
I installed kernel-source-2.2.17pre6-1, when I got to building the
kernel_image an error came back saying that i386-linux-gcc could not be
found.
Thinking th
> What I want to do: I have a small shell script (setting hdparm, aumix, etc)
> called boot.sh which I want to run when my box boots. I thought of putting
> it in /etc/init.d, then make the link /etc/rc2.d/S50boot.sh. Is this the
> proper way to do this? Thanks for the input.
If I remember correct
On Jul 13 2000, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote:
> Jul 13 08:39:16 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for wmppp...
(...)
> What is happening???
That is called an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) situation and happens
(ideally, at least) when your system has its memory (physical
+
Wow, this looks just like sed(1). Sed rules!
chris
>
> Hi,
> perl rules:)
>
> rename 's/([A-Z])/_\l$1/g' *
>
> will do the job.
>
> As I already pointed out on this list, rename cames with the standard
> perl package of potato.
>
> By the way,
> rename 's/([A-Z])/_\l$1/g;s/^_([a-z])/\u$1/
I've used FIPS to resize a win98 partition, and it worked.
I don't know what this implies about win2k, presumably they use the
same file system? -chris
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Krisno Pryosusilo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 which is currently running Win 2K
> Professional.
> I do
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a small network (3 machines) at home and I have a modem in one
> machine which is the only machine that will access the internet. The other
> machines will not be accessing the internet in any way.
IP-Masquerade-HOWTO should help you.
regards,
abe
I'm running Potato with a 2.2.14 kernel.
Is it possible to use Ipchains to firewall a single machine?
The various documents on Ipchains which I have read (and can't understand
anyway) seem to assume that the firewall will be on its own machine and talks
in terms of two network cards.
I have a sm
Hello List,
I've recently installed a sound card in my system and have some
questions about the set-up. The card was given to me by a friend as "an
old soundblaster" - it's ISA and has a number of identifiable jumpers -
IRQ, I/O address etc. I first put it into a W95 box to see what that
made of
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Hi all Debian users,
anyone knows if libapache-mod-python could install.
I'm using woody and already did an apt-get udpate. The following
error occurs:
phantasy:/home/paulo/python# apt-get install libapache-mod-python
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some
Hi,
Other GNU / Linux distributions binaries are pentium binaries and
official debian intel binaries are i386 binaries. Some
people say having pentium binaries increases performances.
Is it true ? Why ? Is it interesting for people to recompile the
whole distribution for their own processor ?
And
** Reply to note from kmself@ix.netcom.com Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:54:02 -0700
> Generally speaking, you filter through Junkbuster first, then point it
> to your caching proxy. I chain Junkbuster to squid.
>
> To do this, point your *browser* to the Junkbuster proxy (port 5865 by
> default), and
Hi gang,
I have a small but recuring, and annoying problem. Every now and then,
my little xconsole starts spewing out the messages below, after which X,
and sometimes the whole system, usually crashes. It's somewhat
disconcerting.
Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> As far as I understood:
> Scripts run at boottime are located in /etc/init.d
You can't say that. All scripts are in there.
Things in /etc/rcS.d/ are run at boot time. (See /etc/rcS.d/README
for infos)
What's also run at boot time are the t
You're right, I still hadn't installed the development packages. However on
the pdq homepage it said only 'it requires GTK and GLIB versions 1.2.0.'
but never mind, it works now. Thanks. --Hans
At 01:23 PM 7/16/00 +0300, Esko Lehtonen wrote:
>Hans wrote:
>>
>> Has somebody successfully installed
Before I start doing this and mess up big time I want to ask if I'm right.
As far as I understood:
Scripts run at boottime are located in /etc/init.d
Links to these scripts are located in /etc/rc*.d (depending on the runlevel)
These links begin with Sxx+scriptname and are processed according to th
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Hans scripsit:
>So basically my question is 'how to translate one character into two and
>vice versa?' Anyone? Thanks for the input.
I forgot... to get the reverse transformation _file_name -> FileName
simply use
rename 's/_([a-z])\u$1/g' *
- --
T
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Hans scripsit:
>Sorry, I'm full of questions today.
>
>I'm working on a script that can rename filenames. For now I want it to add
>an underscore before each capital letter there is in the filename and make
>the capital letter lowercase: e.g. FileName
Sorry, I'm full of questions today.
I'm working on a script that can rename filenames. For now I want it to add
an underscore before each capital letter there is in the filename and make
the capital letter lowercase: e.g. FileName --> _file_name.
I tried many things like:
for a in *; do mv $a `
Hans wrote:
>
> Has somebody successfully installed pdq on a potato box, and if yes, how?
> When I run ./configure it says it can't find the glib-config and gtk-config
> scripts, hence it says both glib and gtk are not installed. I tried to
> modify the ./configure script to point to /usr/lib, whi
Has somebody successfully installed pdq on a potato box, and if yes, how?
When I run ./configure it says it can't find the glib-config and gtk-config
scripts, hence it says both glib and gtk are not installed. I tried to
modify the ./configure script to point to /usr/lib, which is where both
libgli
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Hi,
since we are talking about sound I configured
Hi all,
I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 which is currently running Win 2K
Professional.
I don't really want to get Partition Magic if I don't have to, and am
wondering if anyone has used FIPS successfully to repartition a FAT32
partition in Win2K.
When I do get it re-partitioned, this will be my fir
* Marshal Wong in "Stopping screen blank out." dated 2000/07/16 01:13
* wrote:
> Sorry for the newbieness of this question, but how does one stop the
> screen blank out in Woody. The reason is that I want to watch some
> VCDs, except after 10 minutes or so, the screen blanks. When I go to
> wake
"xset s 0" should do the trick.
man xset for further info, or just typing "xset" will give you some info.
Cheers,
Corey J. Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
On 16 Jul 2000, Marshal Wong wrote:
> Sorry for the newbieness of this question, but how does one stop the
> screen bl
Sorry for the newbieness of this question, but how does one stop the
screen blank out in Woody. The reason is that I want to watch some
VCDs, except after 10 minutes or so, the screen blanks. When I go to
wake it up, the X server locks (and crashes and burns horribly.) I
have no screen savers ru
The xfree86 maintainer's website [1] clearly states why
no debs are available, when they will get available and for whom
they are made available in the first instance.
kind regards,
Markus
[1] http://www.debian.org/~branden/
--
Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~
Timothy Ritchey wrote:
> Greetings!
> I have a debian system running woody, and tried to load up the HelixCode
> using their installer. Everything seemed to work okay, but even though I
> selected the full install, many packages were not installed (such as the
> 1.1.24 gimp, etc.) When I did an apt
On 07/15/00 21:34:09 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Anyone recall how to get mutt to use the domain defined in .muttrc? It
> has recently changed behavior and everything I have tried has failed.
>
Hi there,
You didn't mention what you've tried. I use mutt in conjunction with
exim to handle my ma
Hi,
i have a Logitech First mouse + connected to my serial one port. I
can't get it to work anywhere on Debian. I have just switched from
RedHat, and I have installed all the updates through woody. When I
look at my dmesg I get this for the serial ports:
Serial driver version 4.27 with no seria
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