port list

2000-11-09 Thread hee kwon
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Plexwriter 12/4/32(SCSI)

2000-11-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone have sucess stories with this CD-R under potato ? i just got it..now have to order a cable for it ..hoping i dont have to return it, plextor seems pretty well supported by cdrecord(dont plan on doing CDRW just CDR) thanks! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [

Enlightenment

2000-11-09 Thread Joshua Kruck
does anyone know the correct line to add to apt sources to get the newest version of enlightenment. The old on i had deb http://www.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/ enlightenment/ stopped working a while back. the dir's still show up at this address but i cant seem to make it work correct. Thanks Josh

RE: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-09 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version (snipped a whole lot of stuff) >Perhaps others can throw in their bit from here. There is actually a HOWTO on this very subject which should be a good start .. The Linux bootdisk howto, last updated Sept 2000. Also worth r

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Mike
Casey Henderson wrote: > Ok, I'm really getting discouraged here. Here's the situation. I have > a really old computer (about 5 years old), the video card is built onto > the motherboard, it's an S3 Virge with 2 Mb of video ram. I was I've also got an S3 Virge, though mine's with 4 megs RAM tha

Re: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-09 Thread USM Bish
Its over a day, and there are not takers for your query .. Offering an incomplete suggestion to keep this thread alive. I am attaching my boot-floppy making script below. Its just a barebone script, merely booting into your existing system. Does NOT have the additional features that you are

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:52:17AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have just switched from RH to debian, and in the process of > trying to compile nvidia and creative drivers have discovered that > the kernel source was not installed. (Due to the fact that the > drivers could not fin

Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Library

2000-11-09 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
is anybody aware of a C library to handle 4-bit BCD encoding. thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming

Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-09 Thread iwrigb
Hi, I have just switched from RH to debian, and in the process of trying to compile nvidia and creative drivers have discovered that the kernel source was not installed. (Due to the fact that the drivers could not find moduleversions.h) Is this the usual behavior for Debian installs, or did I

Re: remote login advice

2000-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:37:02PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Moritz Schulte, > > SSH (Secure SHell) is a very nice telnet replacement, which uses > > encryption and keys. Try apt-get install ssh... > > I'll second this and add something to it. > > If you have ssh running on both the la

Re: sound in pysol fails

2000-11-09 Thread Russ Pitman
My bad--:(( Sorry if I wasted anyones time Its working now. Old age and a bad memory is a bit of a handicap, I had forgotten I changed the sound card when I rebuilt another box a couple of weeks ago, having sound work with saytime and the cdrom threw me off. A recompile with the pci card has cure

Mailer wars Viva la mutt (was Re: Question and goodbye...)

2000-11-09 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:07:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > > > > > it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic > > > isn't > > > that hard to deal with

Re: remote login advice

2000-11-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Moritz Schulte, > SSH (Secure SHell) is a very nice telnet replacement, which uses > encryption and keys. Try apt-get install ssh... I'll second this and add something to it. If you have ssh running on both the laptop and desktop, you can set up ssh to use public key verification, so you d

apt-get strangeness

2000-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, I'm confused. I'm trying to install the C++ compiler. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: g++: Depends: libstdc++2.10-dev (>= 1:2.95.2-10) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages lupus:~# apt-get install libstdc++2.10-dev Reading Package List

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > > > it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't > > that hard to deal with - maybe ten minutes a day, if you've got a good > > mailer. > > > Yep. It was the amount on trafic

unstable: lost my ipppd (from isdn) connection after isdnutils upgrade

2000-11-09 Thread Shaul Karl
It might be that I have not upgrade the isdnutils package in the right way. However, just wanted to warn you that since there is now a ipppd package which is separate from the isdnutils package, you better download it before upgrading the isdnutils package. Another reason why unstable will live u

Re: SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > 1. Is there a list available for system admin type questions? Didn't > see it listed. > > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > filesystem

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Casey Henderson
Ok, I'm really getting discouraged here. Here's the situation. I have a really old computer (about 5 years old), the video card is built onto the motherboard, it's an S3 Virge with 2 Mb of video ram. I was successfully running XFree86 3.3.6 with the S3V server, using horizontal refresh rate of 3

Re: java 1.2?

2000-11-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:00:33PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. While I'm not the biggest Java fan at the moment, I was > curious about Java 1.2. I realize I can grab it from blackdown, but I noticed > that it's not available as a deb package. It is simply too unstable for > i

RE: Num lock activated by default, at start

2000-11-09 Thread Jason Holland
I do this in a script for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty done The relevant information being the setleds command. Jason > > How do I make my numlock pad active from start? > Thanks, > Antonio. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Num lock activated by default, at start

2000-11-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do I make my numlock pad active from start? Thanks, Antonio.

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:06PM +, Thomas Halahan wrote: > > I have tried > > #!/bin/bash --login > > and > > #!/bin/bash -login > > in .xsession and neither works. that solved it for me when i put it in the global /etc/X11/Xsession, maybe it won't work for a .xsession... > I have al

console mode mixer

2000-11-09 Thread Joel Dinel
I play a lot of MP3s in console mode with mpg123. Is there a good console mixer as well? Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: desktop power managment

2000-11-09 Thread Joel Dinel
> I have a cheap MyFavoritePC celeron 400 with added ram and hard disk space. > It works pretty well and fast with Linux. > > One thing I haven't been able to get it to do is shutdown the computer and > power it off. I tried both kernel options for power down, both real mode, > and real mode dis

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #478

2000-11-09 Thread troy
I had the exact same problem. I found that apt-get remove xfs sorted me out. :) now i have a problem in that xdm starts up on bootup, but i like to *choose* when i go into x... apt-get remove xdm which worked for me before, wont work out now. It says "E: Package xdm is not installed". but it i

Re: PCMCIA serial/modem problem

2000-11-09 Thread Cory Snavely
I may be all wet here, but are you sure it's ttyS1? If your laptop is like mine, it probably has onboard serial that forces your PCMCIA modem up to ttyS3. In fact, cardmgr is smart enough to symlink /dev/modem to it for me, and un-symlink it when I pop the card out--really slick--I always use /dev/

java 1.2?

2000-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. While I'm not the biggest Java fan at the moment, I was curious about Java 1.2. I realize I can grab it from blackdown, but I noticed that it's not available as a deb package. It is simply too unstable for inclusion, or is there another reason for this? Cheers, Mike -- M

Re: Q: Best compile PPP as module or inside kernel?

2000-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan writes: > Looking through all the FAQ's, everyone talks of sound, etc, being > compiled as modules but nothing is said of ppp if one is on a dial up > account accessing the net 2-3 times a day. It has no effect on performance. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: help with cdrom.h

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:00:02PM -0800, John McBride wrote: > But under /usr/include/linux, the cdrom.h does not have these > definitions. Thus, I get a slew of `DVD_*" undeclared messages when > trying to compile "mpeg3css.c", which has the line "#include > ". Tut tut mpeg3css.c is probably ill

Q: Best compile PPP as module or inside kernel?

2000-11-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Looking through all the FAQ's, everyone talks of sound, etc, being compiled as modules but nothing is said of ppp if one is on a dial up account accessing the net 2-3 times a day. Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan

Re: newbiedoc.intranets.com

2000-11-09 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:36:31PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:50:53AM +, Pollywog wrote: > > > > On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote: > > > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to > > > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it

Re: eGroups.com/group/newbieDoc [WAS newbiedoc.intranets.com]

2000-11-09 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:41:11PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:43:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > you think YOU've got it bad? i'm using MAC netscape, and boy is > > it ever screwy! i couldn't count how many times every day i get > > text in my scrollbar, overlapping

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: >Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error > message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can > some kind soul tell me how to fix this? As root: apt-get install dialog Martin -- Linux - the last serv

Re: where is the lockfile command...

2000-11-09 Thread W. Paul Mills
This file seems to be part of the procmail package. Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : it is used in the script : http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync : I tried loading lockfile-progs but it doesn't : have the program. It does have lockfile-create but : this clearly isn't the same p

disk hot-swap utilities

2000-11-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently had the opportunity to use a FreeBSD feature that I found extremely cool. I had built a machine, set it up as a server, deployed the server, then realized I needed to add a disk. The machine and OS support hot-swapping SCSI disks, so I was

RE: Perl compatibility question

2000-11-09 Thread Richard Taylor
This has been niggling at me for some time now, and when I did a fresh install recently it jumped out at me. When you install the Perl- 5.005 packages, the package scripts say something like: "Warning old DBs will not be compatible with new versions of perl, please use DB dump to convert." Somet

Re: exim

2000-11-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:38:48PM +0100, Arne Braun wrote: > I´m having problems to configure exim for a temporar > conection to the internet, using several providers. > My mailbox is at yahooo via smtp and pop and now I > need a sample configuration-file. What exactly is the problem? You basic

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi again, Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can some kind soul tell me how to fix this? Also, I was talking to a friend of mine who already has XFree 4 running. He mentioned that the S3 Virge s

exim

2000-11-09 Thread Arne Braun
hallo, I´m having problems to configure exim for a temporar conection to the internet, using several providers. My mailbox is at yahooo via smtp and pop and now I need a sample configuration-file. Sorry my english is really bad Thanks Arne _

Re: remote login advice

2000-11-09 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set up these machines so that I can log into the desktop > from my laptop so I can get rid of the large monitor on top of my > desk? SSH (Secure SHell) is a very nice telnet replacement, which uses encryption and keys. Try apt-get instal

Who supplies kupdate?

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Majewski
I'm trying to install noflushd , from sources, on an old pre-Potato and Potato machine. It complains about the absence of kupdate, which doesn't appear in the package contents AFAIK. How do I get kupdate without reinstalling from scratch? -chris

scroll up in console?

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Majewski
Hm, I'm on my old circa-1996 machine and Shift-Page_Up doesn't scroll up in the console. Don't know where to even look for this, I'm lost without .Xresources.. -chris

where is the lockfile command...

2000-11-09 Thread Walter Tautz
it is used in the script http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync I tried loading lockfile-progs but it doesn't have the program. It does have lockfile-create but this clearly isn't the same program or more precisely the line if lockfile -! -l 43200 -r 0 "$LOCK"; then echo `hostname` is unabl

newbiedoc at eGroups.com (MOVED from intranets.com)

2000-11-09 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:19:16PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > G'day, > After a fair bit of work, the Debian FAQ-o-matic is back up at > http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom > > I have plenty to do already so I'm looking for people to maintain > various > bits of the fom. If you wou

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Gerald
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi, > > Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems > with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5. > I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep tty5 > root 298

Xfree86 4.0.1 access rights

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Perry
HI all- I recently upgraded a potato system to woody, then did the Xfree86 4.0.1 thing. This system runs win4lin for a few reasons and is a smallish dell latitude Ls laptop. I managed to get through reconfiguring X for my neomagic (ugh) video adaptor. When using Xfree86 3.3.6, I could launch wi

Exim and Cyrus IMAP

2000-11-09 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
Well, exactly the same problem as some months before: how do I make exim pass local mails to Cyrus? I already copied the parts posted by jason, but that doesn't seem to help. local_delivery: driver = pipe command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" return_path_add

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:49:49AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: ... > I have now downloaded both kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb and > kernel-source-2.2.15_2.2.15-3.deb, first from ftp.de.debian.org, > ftp.au.debian.org, and ftp.debian.org which seemed to go OK, dpkg even > installed them with

RE: Masquerading -- Am I missing something?

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Patterson
> Michael Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MP> Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start > with a fresh > MP> install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't > seem to get a > MP> kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive. > MP> > MP> N

help with cdrom.h

2000-11-09 Thread John McBride
Hi, I have been trying to compile the codebase for "bcast 2000", a multimedia application on my debian box. Under /usr/src/linux/include/linux (kernel 2.2.17), there is a file named "cdrom.h" that has many DVD_* definitions. But under /usr/include/linux, the cdrom.h does not have these definitio

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:06, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Does ipfowarding relate on something special compiled into the kernel > or do I need a certain package? Yes and Yes. Read the howto documents on IP-Masquerading and IP-Chains. Then re-read them, then meditate and pray for understa

remote login advice

2000-11-09 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Hi All, I have a small network at my home consisting of an old desktop machine and my laptop. I use the desktop for IP Masquerading and a few other things. My questionis this. How can I set up these machines so that I can log into the desktop from my laptop so I can get rid of the large monitor

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't > that hard to deal with - maybe ten minutes a day, if you've got a good mailer. > Yep. It was the amount on trafic on debian-user which forced me to abandon net

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Robert Guthrie wrote: > > Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup > > is the same as mine... > > > > 1 linux box, serving NFS and SMB to 2 desktops that dual-boot linux and > > windows 98. > > > > Und

XFS hanging during boot

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Goodman
I'm trying to boot my potato after upgrading to XF 4.01. The system hangs while starting the font server (XFS ). I tried booting into single user mode to remove S20XFS from /etc/rc2.d but the file system is mounted read only. Does anyone know how to work around this? Thanks

Re: SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Alberto Brealey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > > > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > > filesystems, even though they are listed correc

Re: info su installazione di Debian

2000-11-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Pietro Greco wrote: > potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l' > installazione di debian poichè ho grossi problemi > grazie e arrivederci > Cosa ti serve in particolare? Rispondi a me, in questa lista si parla sopratutto inglese. Opp

newbie doc volunteers

2000-11-09 Thread will trillich
Troy Mutton wrote: > > Hi Will, > > Im a debian new*ie, and would like to help out if i can with this new > project. > > ive been using debian for about 2 months now, after migrating from winblows > to red hat about 6-8 months back. > > i dont know exactly what i can offer ;) or what it is you

Re: desktop power managment

2000-11-09 Thread mike
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:20:45 -0800, David Yeh said: > I have a cheap MyFavoritePC celeron 400 with added ram and hard disk space. > It works pretty well and fast with Linux. > > One thing I haven't been able to get it to do is shutdown the computer and > power it off. I tried both kernel o

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote: > > > > As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the > > 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk > > to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2. > > > > > I agree with this

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
John wrote: > Ok ill have a go, > > I think its something like this :) ? > > for each IP number bound to each NIC a route is set up in the routing table > to tell > the OS what to do with specific IP numbers > > ie if NIC1=192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 > > and NIC2=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 > > t

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Re: Masquerading -- Am I missing something?

2000-11-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Michael Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh MP> install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a MP> kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive. MP> MP> Now, on the kerne

Re: Q: Sound in/Alsaconf done: Linux 1 Human 0

2000-11-09 Thread dirk
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:47:44PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I've compiled in the sound module, OSS and SB16 for my SB16PnP card > and ran update modules. Yet nothing is in /etc/modules except my vfat and I > see on my boot sceen no sb being loaded. What's up? Did you do a "make

XFree86 4.0.1: Strange ssh behaviour

2000-11-09 Thread Dominik Bodi
Hi, I am using debian woody. After upgrading XFree86 to 4.0.1 I discovered strange behaviour of ssh's X-Forwarding: Scenario 1: I ssh to another debian woody box (XFree86 4.01 as well) on my local network. Then I try to run a x-app (wish/wishx in my case, but any app will do). The program seem

Re: apt-get install - but I don't want other packages

2000-11-09 Thread David Z. Maze
GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GM> I tried to use an 'apt-get install netstd' command, but received GM> many error messages about other packages that were selected before, GM> with 'dselect'. (these packages are mainly Python-related). GM> GM> The error messages are about unconfigured p

Masquerading -- Am I missing something?

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Patterson
Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive. Now, on the kernels that the Masquerading fails on, it isn't a total failure. Basi

Re: mutt

2000-11-09 Thread Gyulai Mihaly
John-Mark írta, 2000-11-08, 00:21-kor kelt levelében, ami 35 sorból állt: > I have just installed mutt on my system but can't see how to > configure it any help much appreciated Did you install mutt from a .deb package or from source? I installed it from source, as it's much newer (1.2.5) then t

apt-get install - but I don't want other packages

2000-11-09 Thread GYULAI Mihaly
I tried to use an 'apt-get install netstd' command, but received many error messages about other packages that were selected before, with 'dselect'. (these packages are mainly Python-related). The error messages are about unconfigured packages. Questions: 1. How can I avoid these unconfigured pac

Re: info su installazione di Debian

2000-11-09 Thread GYULAI Mihaly
Pietro Greco írta, 2000-11-07, 17:27-kor kelt levelében, ami 8 sorból állt: > potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l' > installazione di debian poichč ho grossi problemi > grazie e arrivederci Scusa, non parlo italiano. Andare http://www.debian.org/ , http://www.debian

Re: xsession, bash_profile and xdm

2000-11-09 Thread Thomas Halahan
I have tried #!/bin/bash --login and #!/bin/bash -login in .xsession and neither works. I have also tried just "/bin/bash --login" in the saem file to no avail? I don't know why. Tom On 07 11:45 pm, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Denis Kosygin wrote:

Re: SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is this is a problem with the way

Debian package that contains Expect.pm

2000-11-09 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, I am searching the Debian package that contains the Perl module Expect.pm I work on Debian Potato Could some one say me where can I find it ? Thank you very much -- --- Manuel Segura ESCPI - CNAM

SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Dave
1. Is there a list available for system admin type questions? Didn't see it listed. 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is there a

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and desired target and changed config files in the build directory

2000-11-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Meding wrote: > Hello everybody, > Before I begin, I want to mention that there is mailing list specifically for newbie packagers called debian-mentors@lists.debian.org . You should ask this kind of question there. > I am trying to find out where to change the envir

Re: sound

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
Are you a member of the group "audio"? If not, you won't have access to the dsp device, though I don't know if this is needed for playing audio cd's. On Wednesday 08 November 2000 19:16, Joseph Holland King wrote: > since i have installed debian i have been without sound. my cdrom can read > cd'

Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running? Date: Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:18:41AM -0800 In reply to:Marc Wilson Quoting Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary > that's not installed on the system is pa

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote: > > As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the > 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk > to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2. > > I agree with this assessment. > > robert_wilhelm_land

Re: Kernel-Module for Intel Ether Express PRO/10 (ISA) Card

2000-11-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
Would this (under Other ISA cards) be what you are looking for? < > EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support (NEW) cheers, Bob On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:47:52AM +0100, Walther, Christoph wrote: > Dear community, > > do you know, to compile a kernel with > > make menuconfig > > for

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-09 Thread Kaleb Daark
Yes, tried that only a couple of days ago, I have experienced the problem, both before and after the check. On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Robert Guthrie wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:18:20 +1100 > To: Kaleb Daark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: signing gpg key with old key ...

2000-11-09 Thread Jorgensen, Jens
The tools people use for sending you stuff should tell them that the key is expired. That should encourage them not to use it. If you revoke your old key that certainly invalidates the signature. Technically you can't change the expire date. I mean there's nothing to stop the software from chang

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:12, Mike wrote: > > Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security > > problems associated with it that one ought to know about? > > Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
Have you tried unmounting that partition and e2fsck-ing it? If it's your root partition, you might be able to accomplish that in single-user mode. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll ins

Re: Trouble building Python 2.0 on Debian Potato

2000-11-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:31:19PM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm trying to build 2.0 on my Debian box, but I'm having some trouble > getting Tkinter set up properly and I'm hoping somebody can clear up the > trouble I'm having. I didn't have any problems, but then I didn't include all things.

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-09 Thread Kaleb Daark
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:34:18 +1100 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Archive/kernel problems > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:13:43AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: > > After downloading kernel-sour

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
> The ^[[[E is the F5 key. Same here. Strange, isn't it. No big deal however, I can work with alt-left or right, it's an easy combination :-) --

Re: Q: Compiled kernel ok-Rename it etiquette?

2000-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:45:08PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've just successfully compiled my kernel and if you actually read > instructions and have the right tools it's a strong feeling of satisfaction. > My question is what to do with the bzImage file or kernel. I moved it to > bo

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > This is indeed possible! Very strange, so my F5 key probably is bound to > something else. Is there a way for me to check this? I just did the following: login on some tty, e.g. tty2, and then [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> hexdump /dev/tty2 Then I pres

Re: Problem with kernel modules

2000-11-09 Thread Aeschlimann Marc
"Aeschlimann Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled my new kernel (2.2.17) with kernel-package. After that I > tried the command depmod, the result was : Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.2.17/xxx/xxx.o What is the problem ? Did you have modules lying around in /lib/modules/2.2.1

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Any problems with the F5 key? Seems like a silly question, but I've once > problems with logging in due to a key not working on my keyboard. > > Can you switch to tty5 with ALT-LEFT or ALT-RIGHT? > This is indeed possible! Very strange, so my F5 key

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Indeed, still not able to change to tty5, pid changed but that's > all... (btw, this happens directly after reboot, so it's not some left > over process or anything I believe) Any problems with the F5 key? Seems like a silly question, but I've o

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:55:52PM +, Paul Sims wrote: > have you defined a global http proxy (squid or wwwoffle, for instance) - I > have had some funnies with this. Check the result of "export". No I have never installed squid and do not find any reference to wwwoffle (which I also removed

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5. > > I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5. > > > > Is this normal behaviour? > I don't think so, have you tried killing the process, maybe with the -9 > signal, it

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread halfdan
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi, > > Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems > with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5. > I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5. > > [EMAIL PROTE

Dual NICs, no forwarding

2000-11-09 Thread Craig Coles
Got a question for the group. I've heard at work that I am going to be asked to add a network card in our web server so that our private network (10.1.0.0) can share resources on the web server. The web server will not be allowed to forward any traffic by default. This is being done by anoth

Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5. I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep tty5 root 298 0.0 0.1 1180 480 tty5 SNov07 0:

Re: Problem with kernel modules

2000-11-09 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Aeschlimann Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled my new kernel (2.2.17) with kernel-package. After that I > tried the command depmod, the result was : Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.2.17/xxx/xxx.o What is the problem ? Did you have modules lying around in /lib/modules/2.2.17 be

Re: keyboard lock at boot

2000-11-09 Thread JD Kitch
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:01:01AM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > I guess, you haven't set the `prompt' option in lilo.conf. > Your right. I had only set delay, and forgot prompt. Thank you, jdk

Re: Can't login via xdm

2000-11-09 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Karl Philipp wrote: > > Hi, > > I updated several packages regarding to X Windows, enlightenment > and GNOME. > > Now, I can't login via xdm. > > You can read in the file ~/.xsession-errors > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server >

dpkg-buildpackage and desired target and changed config files in the build directory

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Meding
Hello everybody, I am trying to find out where to change the environment variables to get the package build for a specific target (i.e. instead of i386 i686). Also I would like to know how to change something in a configuration file in the build directory and then get the build done with the chang

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