Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Holp, John Mr. wrote: only a single path is give and it is highlighted; /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with File error! There was a problem extracting the Base System from

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Holp, John Mr. wrote: Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it today with any of the on-line book sellers. Don't get a book with Debian 2.0. 2.2 is the latest stable, and is at least 18 months newer than 2.0 (this is a conservitave guess). What I

Some refreshing news

2001-01-03 Thread csnyder
I thought that everyone could use to hear something a bit refreshing. I upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lots of errors, graphics look

Re: cut-and-paste

2001-01-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
H. I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I can do a mknod? I turned off GPM, set my laptop to use /dev/psaux and a ps2 type. I told it to use Emulate3Buttons, but when I try to hit both buttons so I can paste it treats it as a 3rd click of the first button.

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian Warriors, -| -| Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian -|GNU/LInux 2.0 -| Linux 3 CD-ROM with -|new manual -| -| Does anyone know where I can purchase this

X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the command line using startx? (i'm asking because I don't have X installed right now, but will in a few weeks..) thanks!! xucaen --- David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after booting up press ctrlalt F1 to go into a console terminal.

Re: cut-and-paste

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:18:24AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: H. I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I can do a mknod? its a fifo, i thought gpm created it automatically but maybe not: mkfifo /dev/gpmdata chmod 644 /dev/gpmdata -- Ethan Benson

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
Hi. the latest stable release of Debian is 2.2r2 I ordered my CD's for $10.00 from https://www.justwebit.com/cgi-bin/e/eshopdb.cgi?9713 They download all the latest images from most of the major linux distros and burn their own CD's. the CD's are bootable. good hunting! xucaen --- Holp, John

OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread John Travis
I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX that is

RE: X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread David Turner
nope doesnt disable X just prevents it from starting automatically as part of the INIT process of linux. read the article http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/runlevels-intro.html mentioned on this list earlier today for more info. so startx should work fine (if you have setup your config

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:39:10AM -0600, John Travis wrote: I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket. It's not a great book, and it's not 2.1. It's a hybrid from VA Linux systems. I had endless networking problems with the kernel on that CD.

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-03 Thread Cam Ellison
Better still, use cfdisk. It's more sophisticated and useful. Cam Xucaen wrote: are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? you should be using the linux fdisk. --- Michael Light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently bought a debian software package and I've been reading

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Michael Smith
I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social engineering

Re: gnome MIME types

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 00:15:09 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I wanted to change the MIME types

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. NOTICE: you have

Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Barry Samuels
I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17. Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated .Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible! I am trying to record

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:08:57 -0500, Seung-woo Nam wrote: Hi everyone: Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might resolve this or should I install

Re: Packages

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:07:39 -0200, Antonio A. Lobato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to find the

Recompiled potato kernel and

2001-01-03 Thread Badiane Ka
now I'm having problems with modules not being inserted. I have tried to insert them manually with no success. I ran linuxinfo and notice that my laptop speed which is 500MHz is now something in the low 100's. Can someone help. Badiane __ Do

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). unstable != testing

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: Holp, John Mr. wrote: [...] The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with File error! There was a problem extracting the Base System from

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread John Travis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:20 -0900, you wrote: :On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: : I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at : least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is : one of the voluntary

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:26:20AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your cooperation. ;-) My brother got a similar e-mail from a friend of his once. It said This

Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing Old Tulip module ?

2001-01-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) I don't know how to

Source list

2001-01-03 Thread Brandeil
Hi ! I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. GIMP, MC, GTK and others i have not been able too, their is an attempt made and

RE: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Juerqen, Thanks, I have ordered the 6 CD set and feel much better about that approach. I am currently doing Red Hat 6.2 and SuSE 6.2 and was not well informed about Debian but this site seems really good. John -Original Message- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Virus?

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:39:10 -0600, John Travis wrote: I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not at

Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). unstable != testing

Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

2001-01-03 Thread csj
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Second question: where is the best place to get

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution. -- Original Message -- From: Michael P. Soulier

Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in. -- Original Message -- From: Barry Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT) I have a

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
Potato is the current stable (version is 2.2r2) but a large number of packages are out of date. Woody is 'testing' now (not unstable any more) so I expect that it is now quite reasonable and will be 'stable' soon. If you don't need to install right away, I would recommend waiting a while and

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux. -- Original Message -- From: Holp, John Mr. [EMAIL

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-03 Thread csj
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 22:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? I tried different options to do it, but

Re: Source list

2001-01-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to add a link to the source list (the attempts that i have tried causes an error and does not run) Run apt-setup to add source locations for software. Select http as your access method and then choose a mirror site (or the main Debian site, if you

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
It would be quite a wait for Woody as they are now talking about it going frozen about May and then several months after that before it goes stable. -- Original Message -- From: D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:26:12 -0500 Potato is the

Re: Source list

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:56:01 -0700, Brandeil wrote: Hi ! I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. GIMP, MC, GTK and others i

Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
csj wrote: The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Sure. I'd recommend changing your

Potato and new hardware

2001-01-03 Thread paul
hi there, i'm upgrading my current system (intel p2) and i'm getting a thunderbird 1.2ghz. i've ordered an abit kt7 motherboard, and i'm wondering if i can expect any problems? should i build a kernel with support for a particular chipset? and do i need any patches or anything? thanks

Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

2001-01-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation I did and it worked fine. The commands (after specifying Woody in /etc/apt/sources.list) are apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade. This will only upgrade the packages you currently have,

[OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/

2001-01-03 Thread Walter Tautz
Has anyone read it and do you have an opinion on the least painful way to learn about the kernel...reading the source is presumably the only way if one really wants to get into the heart of the matter? -walter

debian on a red hat system

2001-01-03 Thread Pat Woolley
Hi I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be able to install debian packages on my system. As I see it there are two ways possible. Convert debian to rpm or install dselect on my system. Can you help with one or both of these solutions please. Regards Pat

LILO 0x40 ERROR when trying to multiboot freebsd and linux

2001-01-03 Thread Walter Tautz
I have an older American Megatrends 1994 rev BIOS and I recently put in an IBM IDE 20Gig drive as my master driveI haven't done anything to reconfigure my BIOS since it is old and DOES work with just linux kernels (I have some newer equipment on which the settings below work flawlessly) I

Re: Straight to woody after fresh potato install?

2001-01-03 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED], # csj wrote: # # The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after # a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb # floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of #

Re: sound blaster live! 512

2001-01-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
romain lerallut wrote: have you tried the ESD output plugin instead of the OSS one ? [...] such device Looks like I might have deeper problems than permissions... Have any ideas? Could you look in your /var/log/syslog for any messages like modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0?

Re: Recompiled potato kernel and

2001-01-03 Thread Dan White
Badiane Ka wrote: now I'm having problems with modules not being inserted. I have tried to insert them manually with no success. I ran linuxinfo and notice that my laptop speed which is 500MHz is now something in the low 100's. Can someone help. Badiane To keep things consistent,

Re: debian on a red hat system

2001-01-03 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley wrote: Hi I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be able to install debian packages on my system. As I see it there are two ways possible. Convert debian to rpm or install dselect on my system. Can you

Re: Removing Helix packages

2001-01-03 Thread Walter Tautz
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the Gnome packages from Helix a try. After re-starting X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms don't have scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption is that it's related to Helix's version of the

Non-KDE2 programs aren't taking on color scheme

2001-01-03 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I have KDE2.1 installed and am having trouble with the color scheme being applied to other programs. This is how my computer currently looks: http://gigabee.com/linuxextras/kde2.1-koverse.png , but when I run GImp, for example, it is showing up as light gray with large fonts. Before, it

Gcc broken. How to fix?

2001-01-03 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I had a crash on my laptop (battery died) which has left me with a broken GCC. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling task-c-dev but now I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get install task-c-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building

Re: Potato and new hardware

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
paul wrote: hi there, i'm upgrading my current system (intel p2) and i'm getting a thunderbird 1.2ghz. i've ordered an abit kt7 motherboard, and i'm wondering if i can expect any problems? should i build a kernel with support for a particular chipset? and do i need any patches or

Re: debian on a red hat system

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Pat Woolley wrote: Hi I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be able to install debian packages on my system. As I see it there are two ways possible. Convert debian to rpm or install dselect on my system. Try alien. $ alien -r package.deb It should be a

Re: Removing Helix packages

2001-01-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the Gnome packages from Helix a try. After re-starting X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms don't have scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption is that it's related to Helix's version of the various imlib packages. Now though, I

[slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books on the list, but nothing definitive... can anyone recomend a good system administration/network administration book? just curious to hear people's opinions. thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

mouse configuration

2001-01-03 Thread Mithras
Excuse me if this question is really basic. After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I discovered the mouse wasn't working. It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it should (for my

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-03 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Mithras [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Excuse me if this question is really basic. # # After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I # discovered the mouse wasn't working. # # It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse # was just symlinked to some weird

Latest apt-get dist-upgrade on unstable removes kde ?

2001-01-03 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, a quick apt-get update and dist-upgrade would uninstall kde. Is this intentional ? Greetings Michael

RE: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Xucaen, I have purchased the following books: 1. Linux Systems Administration Handbook by Mark F. Komarinski About 385 pages, not enough examples, syntax, etc., for me. 2. PREP KIT General Linux I by Theresa Hadden Martinez About 350

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-03 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:31:58 -0500 (EST) Mithras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me if this question is really basic. After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I discovered the mouse wasn't working. It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse

Re: X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread matthschulz
I usually rename just the (in my case kdm) /etc/init.d/xdm into /etc/init.d/xdm.bak. It mkes a lot easier to bring everything back into the old status. /etc/init.d/xdm stopwill shutdown xdm without rebooting. Matth On Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 11:40, David Turner wrote: nope

Re: X-windows in startup

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:07:28AM -0800, Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. C-ALT-D only gets me

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket. Poor quality, dated, and a nonstandard distro. You can read what there is worth reading from it at O'Reilly's website. Going

Re: debian on a red hat system

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I would like to be able to install debian packages on my system. As I see it there are two ways possible. Convert debian to rpm Yes. or install

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:17:23PM -0800, Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books on the list, but nothing definitive... can anyone recomend a good system administration/network administration book? just curious to hear people's opinions. Linux

Re: 4 Mouse buttons with gpm?

2001-01-03 Thread Sam Vilain
I've got a Logitech 4 button MouseMan (according to the label) mouse, and I can't get gpm to repeat the fourth button; it keeps being repeated as button 2. Don't know if this solves your problem, but you definitely should use repeat_type=raw here. And to complement the use of raw you

Re: Memory leakage

2001-01-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, Memory loss and hard disk don't make sense. Memory in the sense of storage space, in the hard disk.

Re: Is there a nice graphical front end available for gpg or pgp ?

2001-01-03 Thread Sam Vilain
I am looking for a graphical front end for gpg and or pgp. Possibly qt or gtk based. Is geheimnis packaged already ? Check out the GnuPG home page at http://www.gnupg.org/, it has a list of many front-ends available. Then just use the search function in dselect with the name of the package,

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-03 Thread Mithras
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote: To quote Mithras [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Excuse me if this question is really basic. I wonder now if I showed naivete' by suggesting mouse configuration should be simple! :-) # After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I # discovered

Upgrade from Mandrake

2001-01-03 Thread Miguel Pengson
Hi, I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install Debian 2.2. I read the Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO at ldp but it seems a little dated(96), any pointers? --- Miguel _ Want a new web-based email account ? ---

Re: Gcc broken. How to fix?

2001-01-03 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
matthschulz wrote: Say dpkg -i _package-name_ Replace _package-name_ with the full name of the .deb file. Its not that simple. Have another look at the output below. The libtool package is installed its just thats its failing during configuration. Thanks anyway for the help. Erik

Re: Upgrade from Mandrake

2001-01-03 Thread Glyn Millington
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:38:47PM -0800, thus spake Miguel Pengson: Hi, I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install Debian 2.2. I read the Upgrading Your linux Distribution mini-HOWTO at ldp but it seems a little dated(96), any pointers? You will need to perform a new install

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:31:54PM +0100, Remco van 't Veer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How do I get sgmltools-2 to output my docbook article in a4 format? I always end up with a BBox size document. My /etc/papersize reads a4 though. I'm still getting the hang of this myself, but I

Re: Memory leakage

2001-01-03 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:44:45PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason,

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread Mithras
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books on the list, but nothing definitive... can anyone recomend a good system administration/network administration book? just curious to hear people's opinions. thanks! Myself, I've always liked the Unix System

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Larry Shields
Hello John, I have the same book Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, but never used the CD that came with it... I ordered a CD from http://www.Libranet.com, it comes with a full year of Support Help, not any other vendor I know does this... I will say this though, there CD was a snap to Install Debian, so

Network Throughput

2001-01-03 Thread Tim Sailer
I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do I tune the NICs to handle the streams better? There are ways of doing this on

Re: docbook and pagesize

2001-01-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dssl/docbook/nwalsh/print/dbparam.dsl In your custom dssl driver file put: (define %paper-type% ;; Name of paper type A4) The DocBook stylesheet documentation lists these

Quick questions

2001-01-03 Thread arthur
I was wondering, could you get a base Debian system installed by downloading from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/: base2_2.tgz images-1.44/rescue.bin images-1.44/root.bin Then install the rest of the system when I get networking configured? Also, how do you rebuild the package

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Would midnight on the 1st work? Just a thought. There's no situations I can think of where the first of the month doesn't exist in most locales, since daylight savings changes officially at 2 AM in places that do that. (like here... grrr) On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:12:21PM +0200, Jaume Teixi

Re: Quick questions

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering, could you get a base Debian system installed by downloading from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/: base2_2.tgz images-1.44/rescue.bin images-1.44/root.bin Then install the rest of the system when I get networking configured? I

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, Ben Collins did write: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it (perhaps you meant ...is undefined???) Ben

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-03 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do I tune the

Re: howto tell cron run last day of month

2001-01-03 Thread Rick
check out the GNU date function. I know that you can specify 'yesterday' and believe that you can 'tomorrow' as well, so if tomorrow is the first, then today is the last. Sorry, I'm on a solaris box with boring date and it doesn't do that to my knowledge. rick Nate Duehr writes: Would

Re: debian on a red hat system

2001-01-03 Thread Brian May
Veit == Veit Waltemath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Veit Why do you want install debian packages on a rpm-system. The Veit sense escapes me. Probably because Debian has packages that rpm doesn't??? (of course, the next obvious question is: why not install Debian instead? I suspect this

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-03 Thread David Benfell
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:31:41AM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # well i also used gcc-2.95.2 as that is also what is in potato. # # i should note one other detail, i build the kernel on straight potato # (with potato modutils) and install the

Parallel Printer Port Problem

2001-01-03 Thread Jeffrey S. Coppock
Anyone, I recently got the newest Dell Latitude CPx laptop and I've installed it with stable 2.2.18. I've got about everything worked out but the sound and the parallel printer port. I need help with the parport. It won't work. Here's everything I can think of to help: - parport and

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike
Mithras wrote: I'm also looking for a book, a late Xmas gift for my dad who's been getting into Linux. I'm confident he has enough newbie literature to help him when I'm not around (I last recommended Thinking Unix to him), so I thought a book about the free software culture would be good

Re: VPN client software for Linux

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Be very careful doing this. You're connecting a relatively insecure environment for many people (home network) directly inside your corporate firewall. If you're big enough to have a legal department, ask them to try to write something specific that your end-users have to sign -- but it still

Many install questions

2001-01-03 Thread David B. Small
I haven't been able to find an install-help list. If I've sent this to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one. I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise UDMA-66 card and an old CDROM drive. I was given 3 CD's of the potato release, and I intended

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Cooper
When I try to run gnomecc it crashes out of X and returns me to my KDM prompt. Is Gnome currently broken under Woody? == Steve Cooper (working for somebody else in Redmond, WA) Subject: Re: Helix gnome control center freezes Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001

Re: Many install questions

2001-01-03 Thread David B . Harris
I'll try to help where I can :) To quote David B. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED], # 1) Have other folks had trouble installing from potato CD's, or is it # likely mine are bad. I can't say for sure - I only used one CD, but it went flawlessly(after I figured out how to get through the install process

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/

2001-01-03 Thread Ray Percival
I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online the website not worth buying. There are a couple of books on the kernel one has all the source and comments (INAC so I have not looked at it) I also noticed that O'Reilly has a kernel book. -- Original Message

Re: Many install questions

2001-01-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:40:04PM -0800, David B. Small wrote: I haven't been able to find an install-help list. If I've sent this to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one. I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise UDMA-66 card and an old

Re: Problems with kernel recompiling

2001-01-03 Thread David Benfell
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:40:36AM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: I want to recompile the kernel. I config and compiling went without any problem (I am trying 2.2.18pre21 static on woody). Hwever, when I am restrarting computer, Xserver starts, but gdm doesn't, so all what I am getting is gray

Re: Imac CD install problem

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
You may want to subscribe to the debian-powerpc (or is it debian-ppc?) mailing list and ask questions there. You're much more likely to hit someone who's knowledgeable about the iMac platform there. I've been (very very slowly) gathering some information about how to load Debian on my new iMac

Re: Tracking down IP's

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Looks like HP OpenView or some other network management tool with auto-discovery turned on is wasting bandwidth on your corporate network. (And I say that because...) 161 is SNMP's port number. It's happening at regular intervals. 172.16.0.0/20 is private address space reserved IP's. And...

Re: Tracking down IP's

2001-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:30:25PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Either way, it's still a private IP address range. NOBODY should let packets with one of these addresses, either as source or destination, cross a network boundary. If the ISP is getting this traffic from its upstrea provider, it

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