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2000-07-17 Thread David Densmore
I was editing a text file with vi when I accidently hit some unknown key combination which caused a single line of text to fill the entire screen. I couldn't figure out how to exit vi from that state so I logged on to another terminal and killed vi. But when I tried to re-open the file I was work

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread William T Wilson
On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses. There are a variety of security holes that crop u

vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod

2000-07-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the above kernel, if it exists? I'm trying to build boot disks for my Debian laptop, which only seems to boot off the Tecra kernel image , of which I have v2.0.36, but that kernel version doesn't load any PCMCIA drivers (ie. it can't find /var/lib/mod

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:47:47PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a > donation (I forgot the exact price, something like $1000 American). And you think the spammers are paying that? > I hope debian doesn't lose money by me saying th

difference between running perl from command line and web

2000-07-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am using the latest perl in potato. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks. Shao. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: difference between running perl from command line and web Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Brealey wrote: >> > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in >> > > lib.inc.php on line 90 > >did you try > >dl("pgsql.so"); > >before using any pgsql functions? (you have to do this 'cuz pgsql is loaded >as a module, not comp

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Daniel Free
Just copy the disks. cp -ax / /mnt/ i think its ax anyhow. i should be more certain considering how many times i have done this, you will need to copy partition by partition, eg if you have /home on a different partition you will have to make a seperate partition on the second drive and mount

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network > sniffer on my ip to catch the data? > > I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet avai

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:55:54PM -0300, James Polson wrote > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm hav

installation startup problems...

2000-07-17 Thread Screwy Squirrel
Howdy all! I'm trying to get Debian installed on my new system. It is an 800Mhz Athlon on an Asus motherboard. Anyways, when I try to boot off of the CD(I have Debian 2.1 CDs from LSL, and a 2.1 CD from the Sams book), the boot up never finishes. The line where it stops reads: md driver 0.36.3

[Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to disconnect from the net or use (heaven forbid!) Windows for any kind of

follow-up to grep command

2000-07-17 Thread john smith
What I meant to say was use grep to show palindrome words. thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Soulier
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > You could create a script in /etc/init.d/local and run 'update-rc.d > local defaults' to create the necessary symlinks. /etc/init.d/skeleton > is a good place to start. This kind of thing is often put into the S runlevel too, /etc/rcS.d.

simple grep command twister

2000-07-17 Thread john smith
Hi! mind twister break? how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://ww

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:14:05PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Yes, it is called php3-pgsql if I am not mistaken. I have also checked > > to see that the file pgsql.so is in /usr/lib/php3/apache/ as where it > > should belong if I am not mistaken. I turned it on in php3.ini (see my > > origin

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:58:56AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > > Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail? > > > > just curious... > > > > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a > do

Re: init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:21:22PM -0500, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Hi, Im hoping to set off oss at boot. when I used mandrake I just edited > /etc/rc.d/rc.local . The structure seems a bit diff in debian. I booting to > runlevel2 so do I make some kind of link in /etc/rc2.d? > > The program to exe

modem dialin init string

2000-07-17 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, Anybody has a good init string for a v.90 rockwell based modem(dlink dfm-56E)? this will be used for dialin purposes. regards, = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com = === = = = = If I cannot bend Heaven

Re: broken mouse in x session -- FIXED!

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
That worked, Chanop. Thanks! btw, Ron, I also tried stopping and re-starting /etc/init.d/gpm, but it didn't help. Thanks, though. Aaron the happy debian-user Quoth Chanop... > From your description I think you turned on gpm repeater mode, I guess. > rerun gpmconfig again and turn it off with "

Dialpad - debian firewall

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Mason
I'm using Debian 2.2.15 as a firewall, configuring IPCqHAINS with PMfirewall. I would like to be able to use Dialpad from my windows machines but after reading all the info I could find I cannot get it to work. Anyone ever succeed? Any expert on the subject available to help? Chris Mason Box 340,

Re: broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
What if you stop gpm, and try again. (Start a x session, go back to console and do /etc/init.dgpm stop as root, or stop gpm first and then start an x session). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, > if you can help I'll love yo

broken mouse in x session (CORRECTION)

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
My bad, I meant "with and without gdm", as in "GNOME display manager". gpm (the console mouse server) was always running. > > btw, this seems independent of WM (tested with twm; and enlightenment, > > both with and without gpm). > > Are you sure about thi

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:58:56AM -0500, Brian E. Ermovick wrote: > Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail? > > just curious... > I was under the impression that one could advertise on the list for a donation (I forgot the exact price, something like $1000 American). I hope de

Re: broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Aaron Maxwell say > > I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove > all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade). The correct way to go. > My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I had > th

init.d stuff

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, Im hoping to set off oss at boot. when I used mandrake I just edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local . The structure seems a bit diff in debian. I booting to runlevel2 so do I make some kind of link in /etc/rc2.d? The program to execute at startup is /usr/lib/oss/soundon Thanks for any suggestions -Eth

broken mouse in x session

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, if you can help I'll love you forever... I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade). My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Arnaud Espanel
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:09:19PM -0700, Pascal Martin wrote: > I want to clone the same list of installed software, but the base > installation may differ slightly because the two computers do not > have the same hardware: different disk capacity and video card. They > also will have different I

Re: im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread I. Tura
At 20.16 17/7/00 +0800, LêíGh ha escrit: Hello Lêigh, I'd think that you'll find much more structured information regarding your research than our answers if you go to the main Debian page http://www.debian.org . Then you can go to the Free Software Foundation, http://www.fsf.

Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern When: Wednesday 19 July 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Facilit

Re: strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Moritz Schulte in "Re: strange log messages" dated 2000/07/18 01:33 * wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > > squid... > > which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in t

Re: strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > squid... which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in them. upgrading to the last 2.2.17pre should solve the problem. moritz -- /* Moritz S

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections To get the same packages installed on the other do: dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine) copy the file from thatmachine to the new one dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one) Ron Rademaker On Mon, 1

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:04:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade wil

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Actually, I think there are a whole LOT of issues with file > sizes > 2GB on ext2 and 32-bit machines. Best place to look for an > explanation would be a searchable archive of the Linux kernel mailing > list, like: > > http://www.uwsg.

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a > network sniffer on my ip to catch the data? Yep. Telnet was written back when worrying about pe

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it? I >

strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
When I'm running vmware I get these strange log messages, should I worry about them, are they deadly? My machine has 160 meg and vmware is setup to allocate 64M for vmware clients. Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_t

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-17 Thread Louis F. Melahn
I have solved the problem; I forgot to set up the "dummy" network module. L.M. Timothy Ritchey wrote: > > > > > Unable to bind port 16001 > > > > > > > > and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I > > > > > > I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on > > my system when

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Pascal Martin
Considering the answers I got, I feel my question was not adequat.   I want to clone the same list of installed software, but the base installation may differ slightly because the two computers do not have the same hardware: different disk capacity and video card. They also will have differe

Re: AfterStep and using Themes

2000-07-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
1.7-1.8 Afterstep has a builtin theme support. You can use that engine, or do it by hand, just untar the tarball, and put files into appropriate directories (manually). If you will use the theme engine, go to GNUstep/Library/Afterstep/themes directory, and put your tarball there. Next update all, a

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian Schramm wrote: > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it? I > am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist

Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Pascal Martin
I have the following problem: I have one fully installed computer, and I want to install a second one the exact same way.   I would like to avoid selecting all the packages manually.   Is any automated way exists ? Something like listing all packages from the existing system and generating a

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:21:05PM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in > > > lib.inc.php

Re: dhcp network

2000-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
If your DSL router is in fact a DHCP server you can just install the pump package and run it on eth0. If your router isn't a DHCP server (or doesn't proxy DHCP) then I couldn't begin to guess how you'd get the IP address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running

Re: What is SIOCSIFFLAGS, and when will he be back?

2000-07-17 Thread Raymond L. Zarling
Yes, I have booted linux both from a cold start and after running windows, with no difference. But I guess that indicates some kind of Plug and Play problem. I don't think that's what's going on in my case, since the dmesg output (recorded below) says to me that the kernal is talking to the card

Sending hard reset signals to hardware under Linux (fwd)

2000-07-17 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hi folks. The forwarded question below is from my friend. I don't know the answer. Can anyone help me out? He's running slink. Thanks. Syrus. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Rex Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Remote Apps

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Majewski
Definitely shouldn't work this way. Look in /etc{rcS.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d} and so on to see if they have a symbolic link to /etc/inetd (I think this is the one you want) called Sinetd, where , are digits. Then look in /etc/inittab to find out what runlevel you're at before anyone logs in. (Runle

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Majewski
Hm? I use diff on binaries all the time.. -chris On 17 Jul 2000, Lee Willis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: > > > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > > >for binary file? > > > > There i

Logging printer usage

2000-07-17 Thread Cory Rudder
Hello, Has anyone had to log printer usage? I am trying to locate a package that would be capable of such. All it needs to do is simply pass PS traffic from one nic to another, after asking the user to enter a job number or such. I have considered using a proxy package for this, but it seems to be

Remote Apps

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from work...normally this works fine. Today I thought I would just boot up my home machine to the login and leave it there to save some processor...theoretically this is supposed to work? I called another friend (this is b4 I left for

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Brian Schramm in "Monitoring program" dated 2000/07/17 14:25 wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there > is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I > control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone > stuck a disk in a dri

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
James Polson wrote: > > ...problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer. > > The symptoms are: > > (1) ..."network is unreachable" ... > > (2) ..."ifconfig -a", ..."eth0", ...not there. > > ... > > Information about my system: > > (1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card. > > (2) I have

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Bob McGowan
You could try mounting, if that fails then use dd to try and read the device. If it succeeds, then there is a disk there but without a normal filesystem. You might then assume it is a special boot image floppy, or if you know what sort of magic information to look for, you could try checking for

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work? Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that > was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But > they will still boot from them. > > > Bria

Re: How do I get mail archives?

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
"Pavel M. Penev" wrote: > > (I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... ) Well, thank you for the opportunity! > Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail > archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in > section "Com

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread Esko Lehtonen
James Polson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethern

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Brian Schramm
That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But they will still boot from them. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: >

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a

RE: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 17-Jul-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called >

Re: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I tried all sorts of combinations but don't seem to be able to get it going. What is the name of the Xlib library files? Here are the things I tried. Any other advice? Thanks. gcc test1.c -lX11 test1.c: In function `main': test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' /usr/bin/ld: can

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe w

How do I get mail archives?

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
(I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... ) Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in section "Commonly Requested Addresses": Mailing List Archives

Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Brian Schramm
Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will do what

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in > > lib.inc.php on line 90 > > Did you install the PostgreSQL package for PHP? And did y

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Mike Werner
Ethan Pierce wrote: > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network > sniffer on my ip to catch the data? Yup. And there's plenty of different apps out there to do just that. > I telnet to my ISP

telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network sniffer on my ip to catch the data? I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH from ISP shell to home machineis this just a

network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread James Polson
Hi, I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users (so I hope!). I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer. The symptoms

where to find info on ptty programming?

2000-07-17 Thread a
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AfterStep and using Themes

2000-07-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I was hoping matbe someone on the list might be able to help me. I am trying to install a new theme into AfterStep. I have downloaded the theme and placed it into: ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes. I had to make the directory themes, does it need a specific premission ? Then I start X

Re: BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Conrado Badenas in "BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX * Gigabyte mainboard" dated 2000/07/17 19:02 wrote: > Hi, all! > > Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I > would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my > system. Now I cannot com

Re: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonathan Heaney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which > > only exists

Re: Firewalling a single machine

2000-07-17 Thread bsamuels
** Reply to note from Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:14:30 -0500 (CDT) > PMFirewall is a set of perl scripts that will give you a good beginning on > what is generally believed to be a secure firewall. It should do what you > want. > > The homepage is http://www.poin

BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

2000-07-17 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi, all! Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my system. Now I cannot compile linux kernel because of signal 11 raises (Segmentation fault). I've read the Signal 11 FAQ (http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/)

Re: tekram dc-390u2w

2000-07-17 Thread tjm
Thanks for the reply. Out of curiosity, what are you considering as "newer" kernels. I was able to compile the tekram dc390x_ncr driver for the dc390u2w both in a 2.2.16 kernel and as a module in that kernel with no errors, but I haven't tried to run them yet. This still leaves the original p

Re: im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
LêíGh wrote: > > Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research > on the different Linux distributors... > I just want to ask somethings: > 1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean > that you don't have any stocks information? Yep. (no stocks)

Re: Installing the packages

2000-07-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:18:38PM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > Debianers, > >I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which > packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to > install the packages but don't select one by one, s

Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am trying to compile a simple X application but I keep getting the folloeing error: gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called under Linux. Thanks. -D

Installing the packages

2000-07-17 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Debianers, I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to install the packages but don't select one by one, select the tasks and profiles. How can I do this? And I want to install the res

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On 17 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > >for binary file? > > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first > differing byte (if any). > > As for why not:

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in > the users home-dir. > The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it > using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that > for

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Re: display export??

2000-07-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. the use of xhost to do this is grequentlyh considered a security risk by folks who understand such things (But I'm not one of them, so don't ask me to explain why :) There's (at least) two secure ways to do things. One is to, as the logge

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Antonio Fiol Bonnํn say > How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one? [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search communicator-smotif communicator-smotif-473-libc5 - Netscape Communicator 4.73 (static Motif) (libc5 version) communicator-smotif-408 - Netscape Communicator 4.08 (

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one? Thanks! Antonio On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say > > > > > I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the > > answer: > > > > I have Netscape inst

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say > > I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the > answer: > > I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin, > netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only > solution I hav

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:23:05AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms? The keycodes map between keys on the keyboard and numbers. The function doesn't change if someone changes their key mapping with something like xmodmap. Keysyms,

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Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Lee Willis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > >for binary file? > > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first > differing byte (if any). "cmp -l" will rep

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Riku Saikkonen
"Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent >for binary file? There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first differing byte (if any). As for why not: * diff is helped a lot by the fact that the input is li

Re: Installing.

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote: > Hello, > > I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts > for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where > we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it > also g

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I'm going out of my mind > > when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be > disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's >

Re: copy to NT via smbfs problems

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs > drive on my NT box. look at what happens : > > lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images > cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not

changing imp DB

2000-07-17 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've a working setup of imp+mysql and I would like to change it to imp+postgresql. What files should I change/run to accomplish this? I found /usr/share/horde/buildlib.php3 but I don't know which script should I run to update the whole installation. Thanks, []s

Re: from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

2000-07-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote: > I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got > slink working more or less well. > > My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd > module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with th

Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread FIOL BONNIN Antonio
I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the answer: I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin, netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only solution I have found is removing the plugin. I have tried with the Java plugi

im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread LêíGh
Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research on the different Linux distributors including Debian GNU/Linux. And I am hoping that you could help me out. I just want to ask somethings: 1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean that you don't have

apt-get problem

2000-07-17 Thread Michal F. Hanula
When I try to run apt-get upgrade, it stops with mount: can't find /usr in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr' E: Sub-process returned an error code I don't have a separate /usr partition (The machine has a 200MB HDD). Any sugestions?

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
This could be it, as I have a cable modem connected straight into my hub, and another computer on the network being the firewall, however it only has one card so it is using the one ethernet card for both the cable modem and the LAN. On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > About telnet: It CO

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in the users home-dir. The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that for more info), the closing part, here the idea I got on th

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