Re: Crear el Packages.gz

2000-10-29 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On dom, oct 29, 2000 at 10:02:05 +, Luis Cabrera Sauco wrote: elsa:~# dpkg-scanpackages Usage: dpkg-scanpackages binarypath overridefile pathprefix Packages ¿?¿?¿? Que version tienes de las 'dpkg-dev' ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -s dpkg-dev|grep Version Version: 1.6.14 ¿Ein?,

Impresion desde mozilla

2000-10-29 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Tengo instalado mozilla M18-2, y a la hora de imprimir, se pasa por el arco del triunfo los margenes que le establezco. ¿Le pasa a alguien mas? ¿como se soluciona?

RE: alojar varios dominios.

2000-10-29 Thread Oriol de la Dehesa Demaria
Me imagino que alojar otros dominio es tan simple como añadir zonas en el dns, dar de alta el dominio con un contratador a nivel mundial ,por ejemplo network solutions, y por supuesto buscar quien me haga de dns secundario. El problema radica en como le digo a apache que cuando la petición se

alojar varios dominios y cortafuegos

2000-10-29 Thread Alberto Rodríguez
Tengo una máquina que hace de cortafuegos de mi red interior. El cortafuegos no ejecuta directamente el servidor de webs, sino que éste se ejecuta en el servidor de webs (en mi red interior). Tengo una utilidad, de las tantas que existen, que me redirecciona el puerto 80 hacia el interior, es

Re: Crear el Packages.gz

2000-10-29 Thread Chafar
Luis Cabrera Sauco wrote: Quien:Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg-scanpackages Usage: dpkg-scanpackages [-m medium] binarypath overridefile pathprefix Packages e.g. dpkg-scanpackages -m 'Debian GNU/Linux binary-i386' \ binary-i386

VPN

2000-10-29 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... ¿como se monta VPN? ¿Hay documentacion en español sobre el tema? Saludos.

E-post i Debian

2000-10-29 Thread Carl Winbäck
Hur gör man för att komma igång med e-post i Debian? Jag har ett POP-konto (Passagen) och vill kunna läsa min post med Mutt, eller något annat program som har stöd för GPG. Någon kanske kan förklara hur man gör för att: A) hämta e-post? Jag har exim installerat, men jag har inte lyckats

Re: E-post i Debian

2000-10-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:08:36AM -0800, Carl Winbäck wrote: Hur gör man för att komma igång med e-post i Debian? Jag har ett POP-konto (Passagen) och vill kunna läsa min post med Mutt, eller något annat program som har stöd för GPG. Någon kanske kan förklara hur man gör för att: A) hämta

Re: E-post i Debian

2000-10-29 Thread Kalle Svensson
Sez Carl Winbäck: Hur gör man för att komma igång med e-post i Debian? Jag har ett POP-konto (Passagen) och vill kunna läsa min post med Mutt, eller något annat program som har stöd för GPG. Någon kanske kan förklara hur man gör för att: A) hämta e-post? Här kan du använda fetchmail. B)

Re: Problema com o Debian 2.2

2000-10-29 Thread Guilherme Oliveira
Gustavo Bertoli wrote: Oi, Eu fiz a atualização inteira do Debian atraves do apt-get(upgrade) depois que acabou eu vou entrar no debian e quando aparece aquele modo grafico aonde tem que por o login e a senha, ele esta tudo torto aparecendo somente a metade do local aonde digita o

Re: Problema com o Debian 2.2

2000-10-29 Thread Cristóferson Bueno
Guilherme Oliveira wrote: Gustavo Bertoli wrote: Oi, Eu fiz a atualização inteira do Debian atraves do apt-get(upgrade) depois que acabou eu vou entrar no debian e quando aparece aquele modo grafico aonde tem que por o login e a senha, ele esta tudo torto aparecendo somente a

Re: Problema com o Debian 2.2

2000-10-29 Thread Guilherme Oliveira
Cristóferson Bueno wrote: tipo vc pode baixar o script q tem nessa hp http://jefferson.computers.webjump.com/ ele é bem simples e configura bem a acentuação no shell e no X, tembem configura prara o uso de fontes trutype e tem pra várias distribuições lah... slack, Debian dentre outras..

Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs

2000-10-29 Thread Mark Phillips
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone please give me a reference on the reiserfs? That is a new fs on me. What advantage does it have over e2fs? Have a look at: http://www.namesys.com/ Basically, reiserfs is a journalling file system which gives better performance (faster

Time?

2000-10-29 Thread Casey Henderson
Anybody know if Linux handles Daylight Savings Time automatically? I have kernel 2.2.17 on Debian 2.2 (potato). Will I need to change the time manually, and if so, how? Thanks. Casey

OT: compiling new gcc--can it coexist with old?

2000-10-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm interested in trying out an Athlon-optimized gcc (www.athlonlinux.org); this involves patching 2.95.2 and recompiling. The docs are not totally clear to this clueless non-programmer about the options to use for the configure step, but I chose the following: hpotter:/usr/local/obj#

Re:gtk-script: where and what is it? + package conflicts

2000-10-29 Thread Mr. Strockbine
Are you sure it wasn't looking for 'gtk-config'? I just ran make on the 0.1b2 tarball and there was no mention of 'gtk-script'. Seemed to build ok. Can you post a listing of what you're seeing? ah yes, it is gtk-config I was missing. I went on to install libgtk1.2-dev as someone else

Re: ipchains and netfilter on 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-29 Thread Mark Phillips
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PJS i'd like to learn how to drop packets coming from a PJS particular host -- is there a netfilter howto yet? i didn't PJS see anything on LDP. Have you checked the kernel docs? By kernel docs, do you mean /usr/src/linux/Documentation/?

Re: Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:48:10PM +0200, Gyulai Mihaly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is full. Do I need the contents of the following directories, or may I delete them? /var/cache/apt 6 MB /var/state/apt/lists 3.7 MB

Re: Time?

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:13:13AM -0400, Casey Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anybody know if Linux handles Daylight Savings Time automatically? I have kernel 2.2.17 on Debian 2.2 (potato). Will I need to change the time manually, and if so, how? Thanks. Yes, it does. -- Karsten M.

Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

2000-10-29 Thread Rino Mardo
hmm, mike's answer should go to that newbie maintenance faq that was going around here for a while. great job mike! - who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 - Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: apt-get wants toupgrade my kernel package to debian kernel package

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
thanks, it's all clear now (I also re-read the docs, I wasn't sure what one would use epoch for...) erik Colin Watson wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded debian kernel source package (+ source for alsa modules and 3dfx module). I used make-kpkg to

Gnus and Leafnode

2000-10-29 Thread Glyn Millington
Dear All, I'm trying to set up Gnus with Emacs 20 and using leafnode - I want Gnus to to its reading off-line. I think I've pointed gnus in the right direction, and things start up right, but then I get nntp read in the minibuffer and for about 40 mins it reads something that is over 2MB in

failed to create 3dfx module package: epoch not a number

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have compiled a kernel with --revision 99:jojda.2 kernel compiled OK, kernal package kernel-image-2.2.17_jojda.2_i386.deb (why is there no epoch in name?) I have 3dfx and alsa modules sources so I went on and did: make-kpkg modules_image (set MODULE_LOC first) it looks like alsa

Re: svgatextmode funnies

2000-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2000, Robert Norris wrote: I rebooted my box today to clear out a kernel module that got itself stuck somehow and wouldn't unload. When the machine came back up the screen went blank upon SVGATextMode running. I logged in remotely and messed with it for a bit, to no avail. My last

Re: RPMS in debian

2000-10-29 Thread Greg Gilbert
Alien has been mentioned already, but there are php and mysql debs available from debian. I just did apt-get install php-mysql to install it. Greg * Eileen Orbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there a way to convert RPM's so I can use them in Debian?? I want to install the

Re: Time?

2000-10-29 Thread Tuukka Hastrup
On 28 Oct, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:13:13AM -0400, Casey Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anybody know if Linux handles Daylight Savings Time automatically? I have kernel 2.2.17 on Debian 2.2 (potato). Will I need to change the time manually, and if so,

Re: DIVX?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hi remove it. the sdl lib, that is. i had major problems getting libaviplay.so to work w/ unstable, once it went through the libstdc++ upgrades. i have since given up and downgraded to testing. from here, it builds fine. OK, I've got both Xtheater and aviplay working now. I

What provides gnome-config?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
I need something called gnome-config to compile xmps, anybody know where to find this? Presumably it's a util that comes with the gnome libs, but there's so many things called gnome I'm not sure which ones I need. -chris

Re: runlevel + Serverstart at bootup

2000-10-29 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Hanno Böttcher wrote: A friend of mine told me, that serverstartups are configured with the runleves under etc/r.. I used Suse before and there was a central file named rc.config where you could set the server starts. Is there a similar file in Debian? Or do I realy

Re: What provides gnome-config?

2000-10-29 Thread Kristian Rink
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:54:51 -0800 (PST) Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need something called gnome-config to compile xmps, anybody know where to find this? Presumably it's a util that comes with the gnome libs, but there's so many things called gnome I'm not sure which

Re: How to download a free Linux?

2000-10-29 Thread Kristian Rink
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 22:11:45 +0600 tim456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linuxiso.org (...hope You're having a fast and inexpensive network access... :))) ) Regards, Kris -- -- And the things that we fear are the weapons to be used against

rsync

2000-10-29 Thread Britton
I am getting the following errors from stty when I try to use rsync, anyone know what might be going on here? $ rsync --rsh='ssh -c blowfish' -a --dry-run [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~bkerin ~bkerin [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: stty: receiving file list ... standard input: Invalid argument stty: standard

where did ldd go?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Erh, there used to be something called ldd, right? For finding out which dynamic libs an executable linked against? It's gone! Where do I get it? Where is there a map of binary names to debs? -chris

Suddenly I need MEM= to lilo, why?

2000-10-29 Thread Robin Collins
I've just discovered that after re-installing potato I now only have 64Mb out of 256Mb unless I use MEM=256M. VMWare was first to tell me, then I noticed /proc/kcore was only 64Mb. This is on a Supermicro P6DBS with dual PIII 700s which has had several Linux flavours installed, including potato,

how to test hardware acceleration / GL / utahglx?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK, I'm extremely confused by this hardware GL thing. My card is an ATI Xpert 98 (aka Rage), so presumably it has it? Will utahglx support it? Sometimes they say they do, sometimes they only claim to support matrox g400. What is the difference between, say, libutahglx and mesag3 and

Re: a question about internal modem

2000-10-29 Thread Damien
my laptop has an internal modem,when i use lspci command it shows me the modem is PCTel INC HSP Micromodem 56 then which module should i insmod and which /dev/ device does the modem take?? i think internal modem will not occupy an com port i accidently purchased a modem like this. the

Re: new machine: what's wrong?

2000-10-29 Thread Jack
Many thanks to those replied. Just found where the problem was: plugging another P133 Mem calms everything down. Yeah, It's a memory problem. thanks again, jack

Re: Do I need 'apt' directories, or can I delete them?

2000-10-29 Thread John Hasler
wrote: I just upgraded from 'slink' to 'potato'. Now my /root partition is full. Run 'apt-get clean'. Do I need the contents of the following directories,... Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

netscape?!!

2000-10-29 Thread ljoasis
i installed debian potato in my box,all run good,but i cannot find a way to start my netscape,i installed all the netscape package,and there is only a netscape-remote command can run,who pls help me to start my netscape //bow~~ -- »¶Ó­Ê¹Óà 21CN

Re: netscape?!!

2000-10-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i installed debian potato in my box,all run good,but i cannot find a way to start my netscape,i installed all the netscape package,and there is only a netscape-remote command can run,who pls help me to start my netscape You should find that Netscape appears on your

Re: Re: netscape?!!

2000-10-29 Thread ljoasis
my netscape seems did not install correctly,i have no the path that u give me, and my menu has netscape options,but click it no response. i use dselect,which package contains netscape? //bow a again [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i installed debian potato in my box,all run good,but i cannot

modprobe can't locate module char-major-6

2000-10-29 Thread Bud Rogers
Could someone remind me where the file is that lists all those? -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-29 Thread Frodo Baggins
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, although in

Re: Re: netscape?!!

2000-10-29 Thread Stephan Kulka
netscape is in the package navigator-base-475, but only if you point to the security server of debian in your sources.list. You can search in dselect pressing / and typing the name of the package you are looking for. It is a good idea to take some time to learn how to use dselect and apt. There

Re: modprobe can't locate module char-major-6

2000-10-29 Thread Tuukka Hastrup
On 29 Oct, Bud Rogers wrote: Could someone remind me where the file is that lists all those? The current aliases are in file /etc/modules.conf The configuration is done to file /etc/modutils/aliases and changes updated using command update-modules. Tuukka -- Trying to catch me? Just follow up

lockd problems

2000-10-29 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Lately, I've gotten Starting NFS common utilities: statd lockdportmap: server localhost not responding, timed out portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockdsvc: Input/output error . when I

Re: modprobe can't locate module char-major-6

2000-10-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote: On 29 Oct, Bud Rogers wrote: Could someone remind me where the file is that lists all those? The current aliases are in file /etc/modules.conf The configuration is done to file /etc/modutils/aliases and changes updated using command update-modules. Thank

Re: modprobe can't locate module char-major-6

2000-10-29 Thread sena
I heard that Bud Rogers wrote this on 29/10/00: Thank you, Tuukka. But what I meant to ask was the location of the file that lists all the char-major-N entries. I don't remember what char-major-6 is. If you have the linux kernel source, check the Documentation/devices.txt file. It lists

Re: KDE2 dependence problem

2000-10-29 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:14:14AM -0400, Peter Fedichev wrote: I have seen a couple of I have installed KDE2 reports here. How have you managed, since .debs on ftp.kde.org seem to require libgl1? Hi, I've installed the 2.0-final debs of kdyc (see other posts on what apt.sources line to use).

Re: modprobe can't locate module char-major-6

2000-10-29 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, sena wrote: I heard that Bud Rogers wrote this on 29/10/00: Thank you, Tuukka. But what I meant to ask was the location of the file that lists all the char-major-N entries. I don't remember what char-major-6 is. If you have the linux kernel source, check the

Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Sebastian Padó
Hi all, I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). My idea was as follows: I created two new users, reboot and halt, whose .xsession only contained /sbin/shutdown -r -a now and /sbin/shutdown -h -a now respectively. I also created

Re: Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pad=F3?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). My idea was as follows: I created two new users, reboot and halt, whose .xsession only

Can you run 4 commands on a potato (stable) box?

2000-10-29 Thread Shaul Karl
Can someone run the following on a *potato* (stable) box and let me know the results? ls -ld /var/man/cache ls -l /var/man/cache dpkg -S /var/man/cache dpkg -S /var/man/cache/index.bt Explanation: I am using unstable and I believe that somehow there is a problem with the latest unstable

Re: OT: compiling new gcc--can it coexist with old?

2000-10-29 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:20:00PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: The docs are not totally clear to this clueless non-programmer about the options to use for the configure step, but I chose the following: hpotter:/usr/local/obj# ../src/gcc-2.95.2/configure --enable-haifa --enable-shared

konqueror fonts

2000-10-29 Thread jens
hi there ... does anyone have the same font problems with the KDE 2.0-final Konqueror? -- with friendly regards jens luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xdm-config problems

2000-10-29 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hallo, I'm using xdm and fvwm2. After the starting process of my computer, the xdm login window pops up, but there's no background image or color. I tried to fix this problem by changing some values in the Xresources file in the /etc/X11/xdm directory, as well as in the /etc/X11 directory. Can

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, although in an ideal

ISDN PPP configurálás

2000-10-29 Thread Csáklán Tibor
Sikerult az ISDN kártyát a kernelbe forditanom de nem tudom a pppd beállitani és igy ISDN (fritz) kártyával az internet szolgáltatóm felhivnom.segitség SOS tibor

Re: Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Sebastian Padó wrote: Hi all, I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). I've created the script /usr/local/sbin/tkmgr: #!/usr/bin/wishx # Init stuff wm title . Chooser wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW

Need help/feedback on backup script

2000-10-29 Thread Jesse Goerz
I've created a backup script and would like some feedback/help on it. Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to use/hack it on your own. here it is: -- Begin Script -- #!/bin/bash # Many thanks to Robb Kidd who brought up the question of backup # strategies on the

ftpd - howto?

2000-10-29 Thread m_g_m
Hi, after the nice responses last time, I want to try again now. I followed the ftp-user-discussion and thought I'd better change from proftpd which was installed pretty easy to ftpd. My problem is now: how can i grant anonymous-user-access at all, how do you i configure the ftpd? Does anyone

Re: where did ldd go?

2000-10-29 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:33:06AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: Erh, there used to be something called ldd, right? For finding out which dynamic libs an executable linked against? It's gone! Where do I get it? Where is there a map of binary names to debs? -chris This doesn't help if it's

Re: Halt / Reboot: other user

2000-10-29 Thread Frank Barknecht
Sebastian Padó hat gesagt: // Sebastian Padó wrote: I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it). I use a little script at all my home machines that you may like, too. The trick is: The Xserver is running as root anyway, so if you

Re: ftpd - howto?

2000-10-29 Thread sena
I heard that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this on 29/10/00: after the nice responses last time, I want to try again now. I followed the ftp-user-discussion and thought I'd better change from proftpd which was installed pretty easy to ftpd. And why did you change from proftpd to ftpd (netkit's

ALSA problem in Potato

2000-10-29 Thread Christoph Haberberger
Hi! I have a SB16 ASP ISA soundcard. It's not supported by OSS, so I installed the ALSA packages included in Potato. The sound works, but there is an annoying knack noise about every 2 seconds (in average, depends on music) in the right stereo channel (only during playing). I've checked my

Re: ftpd - howto?

2000-10-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 05:25:14PM +, sena wrote: And why did you change from proftpd to ftpd (netkit's ftpd)?? I suggest that, if you don't want to use proftpd (very good daemon), you should use wu-ftpd instead of ftpd. Why's that? Security issues? Mike -- Michael P.

Re: xdm-config problems

2000-10-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:54:40PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: Hallo, I'm using xdm and fvwm2. After the starting process of my computer, the xdm login window pops up, but there's no background image or color. I tried to fix this problem by changing some values in the Xresources file in the

3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, At one point I had my Voodoo 3 working perfectly in Debian, but then I installed a new SB Live! which is where things went south. In order to get sound to work I upgraded to the latest (unstable) ALSA which in turn required a kernel update, etc. After a few hours I got it all working

Re: Can you run 4 commands on a potato (stable) box?

2000-10-29 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: Can someone run the following on a *potato* (stable) box and let me know the results? ls -ld /var/man/cache [EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ ls -ld /var/man/cache ls: /var/man/cache: No such file or directory ls -l /var/man/cache [EMAIL

dpkg -scanpackages - how?

2000-10-29 Thread Robin Collins
In response to a question from me about how to make use of the .debs I'd accumulated in /var/cache/apt during a re-install several people helpfully suggested I did dpkg -scanpackages Well, I tried and failed. Looking at the man and info pages for dpkg I don't see any scan capability. What do I

Re: dpkg -scanpackages - how?

2000-10-29 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Robin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to a question from me about how to make use of the .debs I'd accumulated in /var/cache/apt during a re-install several people helpfully suggested I did dpkg -scanpackages ^ Well, I tried and failed. Try dpkg-scanpackages without

Re: security questions

2000-10-29 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:36:47PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:06:56 PDT, Peter Jay Salzman writes: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i

Re: where did ldd go?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
This doesn't help if it's not in your path, but: $ dpkg -S `which ldd` libc6: /usr/bin/ldd OK thanks, I used to do this by grepping /var/lib/dpkg/info/* Are there other signs that glibc is broken on your system? Well, I don't know. I pointed apt-get to unstable in order to install

Re: Can you run 4 commands on a potato (stable) box?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Me too. -chris

Re: Can you run 4 commands on a potato (stable) box?

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 05:21:29PM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone run the following on a *potato* (stable) box and let me know the results? ls -ld /var/man/cache ls -l /var/man/cache dpkg -S /var/man/cache dpkg -S /var/man/cache/index.bt Explanation: I am

Re: VoIP Developer Kit.

2000-10-29 Thread A. D. Sharma
I require a used/second hand IP phone development kit including IP phone reference design, STIC card, VoIP software etc. for my personal R D at cheap rate or donation since I can't afford it.. Thanks ! -- A. D. Sharma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA problem in Potato

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Christoph Haberberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: I don't wont to install the source distribution of ALSA, because of clean package management in my fresh Potato installation. Check out the equivs package for circumventing Debian package dependencies. -chris

Re: En snabb fråga...

2000-10-29 Thread Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, V.Micic wrote: Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har letat men inte hittat... Tack i Förhand Her hentet jeg mine: sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/ISO-images Klaus

USB mouse

2000-10-29 Thread Joel Dinel
I've got a Logitech optical mouse with Wheel (a la Intellimouse). It has an USB and PS/2 connector. Is it possible to get it working in USB mode, and what would I need to do ?! Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-29 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that V.Micic wrote: Var kan jag ladda hem den senaste versionen av Debian i ISO format,jag har letat men inte hittat... Tack i Förhand I am the only one who tried to rot13 this?

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
Joel Dinel wrote: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_R06af9881 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod 3dfx failed Did you move your module from your old kernel to your new

No networking from certain users

2000-10-29 Thread Ross Boylan
My machine is potato + a little woody (for Helix). I have no problems with dial-up or ethernet networking. However, I recently tried logging in using a different account, which is in the dip group. I found 1) My windows laptop could not see my machine, which is running samba. This is an

ls -R | grep char_string

2000-10-29 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I would like to search all files in the current und subdirs for a char_string. Why does this commandstring not work?: ls -R | grep char_string No error , no nothing - although this certain char_string is in a simple ASCII text file! Robert

Re: USB mouse

2000-10-29 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:41:52PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: I've got a Logitech optical mouse with Wheel (a la Intellimouse). It has an USB and PS/2 connector. Is it possible to get it working in USB mode, and what would I need to do ?! http://www.linux-usb.org says this mouse works with

Re: ls -R | grep char_string

2000-10-29 Thread Christoph H.
I would like to search all files in the current und subdirs for a char_string. Why does this commandstring not work?: ls -R | grep char_string No error , no nothing - although this certain char_string is in a simple ASCII text file! You are searching for a string in the name of all files

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dave, this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to work for the life of me. i've been at it for a couple of days now. i emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied at all. not even a RTFM. (i'll leave my opinion of his maintainer's status

Re: potato install

2000-10-29 Thread ralbright5
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd Known problem of linux 2.2.16 and some 2.2.17pre's. Update linux to 2.2.17 or even 2.2.18pre. this newbie wants to know whats name of what I need. have browsed metallab's potato list but can't locate the kernels ] TIA robert

scanner; linux-gazette

2000-10-29 Thread A R
1. My scanner is connected to a usb port, the man page indicates that the device must be preferable indicated through the preferences menu of the options. But I cant start it because there is device configured!!! 2. Is there any command to see the linux-gazette without browsing into the

Re: ls -R | grep char_string

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Christoph H. wrote: I would like to search all files in the current und subdirs for a char_string. Why does this commandstring not work?: ls -R | grep char_string No error , no nothing - although this certain char_string is in a simple ASCII text file! You are searching for a

Re: What provides gnome-config?

2000-10-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
KM == Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KM I need something called gnome-config to compile xmps, anybody KM know where to find this? I keep on hand a copy Contents-i386.gz from the /debian/dists/stable directory on ftp.debian.org or your favoriate handy mirror. Then when a

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
what do you do and what errors do you get? I had no problems until I introduced epoch, it looks like package does not understand it properly (see my other post or other reply to this thread) in response to David: you probably need to recompile 3dfx (build a new package and install it)

Re: ls -R | grep char_string

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: find . -type f |xargs grep char_string /dev/null I use find . -type f | xargs mogrep $1 where $1 is the expression to search for, and mogrep (below) knows what to do with binary and compressed files. -chris #!/bin/sh REGEXP=$1 PRGNAME=`basename

Re: 3dfx.o -- SOLVED!!!

2000-10-29 Thread David Bellows
Hello Peter and anyone else having problems Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dave, this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to work for the life of me. i've been at it for a couple of days now. i emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
what particular problems do you have? I have just upgraded 2.2.14 to 2.2.17 and recompiled modules (alsa and 3dfx) and everything worked fine. however, I introduced epochs (so that my kenrel/modules packages are not overwritten by debian ones) and now 3dfx complains about incorrect version,

Re: What provides gnome-config?

2000-10-29 Thread Krzys Majewski
I keep on hand a copy Contents-i386.gz from the /debian/dists/stable directory on ftp.debian.org or your favoriate handy mirror. Then when a question like yours arises I do: $ zgrep gnome-config Contents-i386.gz Nice, thanks. -chris

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread Brian May
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are available on Debian and their use is fairly kmself transparent. For more complex

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 30 October 2000 at 09:00, Brian May wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are available on Debian and their

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:00:00AM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are

Re: Need help/feedback on backup script

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:49:16PM -0400, Jesse Goerz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've created a backup script and would like some feedback/help on it. Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to use/hack it on your own. Comments inline. Not bad, but not how I'd do things.

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-29 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:20:15PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with /bin/false. can't seem

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