available "parse error"

2001-04-30 Thread paulk01
Heya, I'm in a little trouble here. I have attempted to edit the file manually, but no joy. Is there an easy answer? Here is the relevant dump: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 133 package `packaging-manual': field name `X-MediumDebian' must be followed by

problem with sources.llist possibly???

2001-04-30 Thread geekmitul
Hi, I am a relative newbie to Linux. I get the following error when i run 'apt-get install autoconf' Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/main m4 1.4-12 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/main autoconf 2.13-26 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/po

tiff 3 pnm

2001-04-30 Thread John Griffiths
this time without offensive company sig, please disregard previous. Hello all, I'd like to be able to convert tiff files to pnm format so i can evaluate the gocr OCR package. I don't have X running on any of the available machines, is there a command line way to get GIMP to do this? or a

tiff 3 pnm

2001-04-30 Thread John Griffiths
Hello all, I'd like to be able to convert tiff files to pnm format so i can evaluate the gocr OCR package. I don't have X running on any of the available machines, is there a command line way to get GIMP to do this? or another package anyone can recommend? TIA john WARNING - This email is

Re: spam here and there

2001-04-30 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I am getting this now in my private email here as well as via the debian-user > list. I assume my address came from this list. Are others on this list > getting this personally too? Yeah, the lowlife spammer scum sent one to me as well.

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-30 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:48, Brandon High wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > The IBM SCSI disk I have here has a jumper to delay spin up depending on > > > SCSI ID so that an array of tho

spam here and there

2001-04-30 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
I am getting this now in my private email here as well as via the debian-user list. I assume my address came from this list. Are others on this list getting this personally too? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ?W§C??15?TTFT LCD Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:13:51 +0800 From: "

OT: Anyone using the ASUS A7V133 mainboard

2001-04-30 Thread Rick Commo
Built up a new box this weekend based on the ASUS A7V133 mainboard. Running a Duron 850Mhz. No major problems getting things going but am seeing something funny with Grub. When I select my Debian partition, grub starts but there is a 30 second delay before the kernel uncompresses. Weird. It al

Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
thanx to you all :) I guess I will go and buy promise ata100 and a new harddisk Edwin Lau On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:10:55 Daniel Freedman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have > > a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. b

Re: pam_condev?

2001-04-30 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:02:09PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:23:01AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > > Do you use wdm as your X login manager? > > Yep. Nope..I don't...I'm running xdm. Same error. Mark

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:00:03AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: [...] > And I had a file called ip-up.local in /etc/ppp : [...] > And at the end of connection I had ip-down.local: [...] > I noticed that here under debian there is a dir with autoscripts: > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and

Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have > a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. but once i upgraded > to a p3 ...ide started getting whacked bad. now the hd > could be going too, but if i were you i'd go out and get > a promise ide

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Re: Netgear FA311--compiling the module

2001-04-30 Thread aphro
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c > In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:37, > from natsemi.c:107: > /usr/include/asm/string.h:46: parse error before `size_t' > /usr/include/asm/string.h: In function `strncpy': > /usr/include/asm/string.h:47: number of arg

Re: Kernel panic

2001-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:21:00AM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following in my /var/log/messages (after the system went > kernel panic): You may want to provide additional information. Not familiar with the 2.4 series yet, but check to see if there's a /usr/src/

Re: Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread aphro
newer VIA ide chipsets seem flaky with linux. i have a Epox MVP3G5(Super7) and it runs perfect. but once i upgraded to a p3 ...ide started getting whacked bad. now the hd could be going too, but if i were you i'd go out and get a promise ide ata66 or ata100 controller for that machine and see if t

Re: ESD no long works after new alsa modules compilation

2001-04-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I don't know what's happening.. but it seems like my esd can no > long startup after I compile and install the new module 0.9+0beta3-1. also > some of the option for module ens1371 are no long support, isn't it? it > gave me the follow when I s

Re: Daily Sid update resulted in whacked system.

2001-04-30 Thread John Foster
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:24:47AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > I just did my daily update of Sid on my test system and it will now only > > boot to runlevel2 & not much of anything works, including dselect, apt, > > etc. Any ideas before I start chaseing my tail:-) > > John

rsync images

2001-04-30 Thread John Griffiths
I had 2.2r2 cd iso images on one of my servers I thought i would try using rsync to convert them to 2.2r3 images (i had heard this could be done) when i try to sync to the 2.2r3 images up on the mirrors i use the following command: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 debian.u

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kidd, Peter wrote: > on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's > to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long > pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is > it because I have a 2.4.1 k

Re: vgetty -- answering machine

2001-04-30 Thread A. Wrasman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:05:44PM +0530, omicron wrote: > > > hello > > i'm having a DAX modem and also installed vgetty. how do i > > configure a personal answering machine ? First thing first, apt-get remove --purge mgetty-voi

Kernel panic

2001-04-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have the following in my /var/log/messages (after the system went kernel panic): Apr 30 14:17:46 bdg kernel: VM: refill_inactive, wrong page on list. Apr 30 14:17:46 bdg kernel: printing eip: Apr 30 14:17:46 bdg kernel: c01277ef Apr 30 14:17:46 bdg kernel: Oops: 0002 Apr 30 14:17:46 bdg ker

Re: Apache, CGI, and LXR troubles

2001-04-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, the Debian community is the Greatest! I thought, I was alone with my troubles, but you hit it directly on the spot! will trillich wrote: > wild stab -- you do have execute permissions set, right? > > chmod +x fileone anotherfile yet/more/files/here This one was okay (of course :).

Netgear FA311--compiling the module

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Warner
I'm running potato, and I'm trying to get my Netgear FA311 nic card going. I downloaded the natsemi driver from scyld, but when I try to compile it using: gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c I'm inundated with errors. I've attached the complete log, but they start like this: In file inclu

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:02:02AM -0500, Kidd, Peter wrote: > on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's > to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long > pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is > it beca

Re: Diskless maintanence

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
> "Shane" == Shane Liebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shane> Hey all, I have been playing around with the diskless Shane> package for a few weeks now and am a bit confused with how Shane> to go about installing new packages. Since the /usr dir of Shane> the server is suppose

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Dean Liversidge wrote: > Are the debian package trees being reorganised ? Yes when new testing/unstable was introduced. Mirror pool to get it working. I mirroed OK using fmirror. I posted script to do it within 24 hours. See archive on web page. --

Re: start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:45:05PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:58:02PM -0500, DvB wrote: > I've never had to reboot after an X upgrade. Just stop X, then start > it again. the /etc/init.d directory is filled with fun scripts that > will help you start, stop, restart

Re: Latex guide

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to find a file called local-guide.tex or > something similar, but several searches reveal nothing. The local guide is something of a myth, though you'll find /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf/tetex useful. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In

Re: Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I tried this first (without the submenu), but all I was getting was > the default (non-Debian) menu... > > changing "session.menuFile: ~/.blackbox/menu" > to "session.menuFile: /home/bsass/.blackbox/menu" in ~/.blackboxrc > seems to have fixed things (strange, since "~/..." works inside the >

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
Wayne Topa wrote: > I upgraded from Debian packaged 2.4.2 kernel/headers to a kernel.org > 2.4.3 and now a 2.4.4 kernel. Due to space limitations, I removed the deb > kernel/header packages when I went to 2.4.3 because the deb package > wasn't available at the time. > > I have not seen any proble

Latex guide

2001-04-30 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to find a file called local-guide.tex or something similar, but several searches reveal nothing. The file is a help file for latex and although I bought the LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual, it looks like I need this file. Any suggestions? Does Debian package this file under anoth

backing up packages

2001-04-30 Thread aphro
hi. i am interested in doing something along the lines of: dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | dpkg-repack to get debs of all of the existing software. some of it (less then 5 packages) are 3rd party, and i want to back up what EXACTLY is on the system as opposed to download the packages

Re: video editing under linux

2001-04-30 Thread csj
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 03:54, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > hi > a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing > software under linux. i told him that i knew of no such program but > would ask. any help? > saqib Not debianized but you could try Broadcast 2000 at http://heroines.sourceforge

ESD no long works after new alsa modules compilation

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know what's happening.. but it seems like my esd can no long startup after I compile and install the new module 0.9+0beta3-1. also some of the option for module ens1371 are no long support, isn't it? it gave me the follow when I start. Anyone knows what's happening? C

Re: switching kernels

2001-04-30 Thread John Galt
Look on www.skyld.com for two kernel monte. It was thrown together sometime in the 2.3.99 area... On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, omicron wrote: >hello > How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to >reboot the machine ? > > Thanks in advance >--omicron > > -- Pardon m

Re: video editing under linux

2001-04-30 Thread Gavin Hamill
You might want to look at http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3 :) gdh - Original Message - From: Saqib Shaikh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:54 PM Subject: video editing under linux hi a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing sof

Bootup Disaster (post-upgrade?)

2001-04-30 Thread Alan E. Davis
Updating sid. A screen is presented at Lilo. Did I want Lilo to access the HDD as LBA? This was mentioned as probably desireable. Now I reboot. The boot process begins. After the BIOS readouts, up comes Lilo. But no! THis is what I see: LIL then a pause. Then continuing: LILLinux

Re: cron: nth of month?

2001-04-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:09:12AM -0500, b3 wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:19:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > what if we propose something like > > > > #min hr monthday month weekday cmd > >0 1 1 1 *echo Jan 1 1:00am > > #and for the new concepts, whic

Re: start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:58:02PM -0500, DvB wrote: > Just how effective is the start-stop-daemon anyway? For instance, can I > upgrade my kernel (assuming I use a prepackaged version or package my > own with make-kpkg) or X server and not reboot? > > This service only works for daemons, right?

Re: What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
First, apt-get kernel-package, and learn to use make-kpkg. (This is the only official debian way. Read doc comes with it.) Apply flavour patch prior to use for best result if you use old debian source packages or kernel from kernel.org. Kernel header is not needed for this task. Of course, get g

Re: Why is the default umask 022?

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:17:05AM -0700, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Why does the default /etc/skel/.bash_profile set the umask to 022? > Doesn't this defeat the purpose of having one group per user? because user-private-groups are not mandatory in debian, and users should know what they are

Re: start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
D> Just how effective is the start-stop-daemon anyway? For instance, can D> I upgrade my kernel (assuming I use a prepackaged version or package D> my own with make-kpkg) or X server and not reboot? D> This service only works for daemons, right? (i.e. lpd, httpd, etc). On Linux system usually [1

Re: start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:58:02PM -0500, DvB wrote: > Just how effective is the start-stop-daemon anyway? For instance, can I > upgrade my kernel (assuming I use a prepackaged version or package my > own with make-kpkg) or X server and not reboot? > > This service only works for daemons, right?

start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread DvB
Just how effective is the start-stop-daemon anyway? For instance, can I upgrade my kernel (assuming I use a prepackaged version or package my own with make-kpkg) or X server and not reboot? This service only works for daemons, right? (i.e. lpd, httpd, etc).

Re: How boot scripts?

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:36:51AM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > I want to do the following things during boot up: > 1. insmod -f > 2. setfont > I Understand that I have to write a script. Okay, written. The script >executes fine. Now where do I put the script, and how do I make >

Re: Daily Sid update resulted in whacked system.

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:24:47AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I just did my daily update of Sid on my test system and it will now only > boot to runlevel2 & not much of anything works, including dselect, apt, > etc. Any ideas before I start chaseing my tail:-) > John Foster If dpkg -i works (in

latex2html/netpbm/undefined symbol: pm_optParseOptions2

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I have a production machine which was 95% potato. I had to update the libc6 libraries to install a couple of woody packages which were needed by others. I found today that latex2html was broken. The error I am trying to track down is: /usr/bin/pnmcrop: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: <...> > > the code for g|k|xdm logins. > > I tried to mail Tim (he mailed me directly) but his return address was bogus. > > Blackbox can source other menu entries, so this is actually MUCH easier to do. Ya that was pretty bad. > Have a menu file wh

debian package mirrors

2001-04-30 Thread Dean Liversidge
Are the debian package trees being reorganised ? I've been using wget to download a local mirror of the /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-all & binary-i386 directories, and the last time i updates i found a lot of references to ../../../../..pool/main/a/apache.. etc.. this has screwed my mirro

Re: Apache, CGI, and LXR troubles

2001-04-30 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:06:31PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > I recently asked about a source code cross reference programm and > decided to give LXR (http://lxr.linux.no/) a try. Well, it uses some > CGI scripts which are located in /usr/local/lxr/http. I have symlinked > this directory to

Re: Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > will get you started with a customized menu system, but may not work, > is an all or nothing affair, and doesn't help with tweaking the > blackbox menu generator. > > I would probably ignore the menu building system and write a script > that runs when blackbox is fired up; it would copy the d

OT? apache vs. cpan installs

2001-04-30 Thread will trillich
i've got apache-dev installed (/usr/include/apache-1.3/*.h) but run into mucho trouble trying to install Bundle::Apache via cpan: In file included from apache_request.c:58: apache_request.h:5: httpd.h: No such file or directory apache_request.h:6: http_config.h: No

Diskless maintanence

2001-04-30 Thread Shane Liebling
Hey all, I have been playing around with the diskless package for a few weeks now and am a bit confused with how to go about installing new packages. Since the /usr dir of the server is supposed to be used on the client and the config files for the diskless clients are in the diskless directories,

Re: fckng null sender with Exim

2001-04-30 Thread Tech Support
Try using: headers_check_syntax = true headers_checks_fail = true which checks to be sure the From To BCC etc. are correctly formatted and rejects them if not. > > I'm having lots of frozen messages because null sender ie "mail > from:<>" > > I want to reject those email or bounce to one or ev

Re: Wheel mouse

2001-04-30 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, > > Try changing the protocol to "ImPS/2". I have a Logitech cordless > > wheel mouse, and it works fine with the setting above. > > Same here... same option, I mean. I have a Logitech optical, 4-buttons + > scroll wheel mouse and using the "MouseManPlus" protocol doesn't allow > me

Re: alsa et al

2001-04-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Vicar In A Tutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alsa source code doesn't want to compile. Tells me it needs the kernel source > to > be present in one of the directories; scoobied if I know what to do with it. Check that you have the kernel-source package installed, and that /usr/src/linux is a sy

video editing under linux

2001-04-30 Thread Saqib Shaikh
hi a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing software under linux. i told him that i knew of no such program but would ask. any help? saqib  

Exhausted by P3V4X+Maxtor harddisk.... looking for ata100 stuff... suggestion?

2001-04-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am exhausted by my P3V4X board and Maxtor combo because of the once-in-a-while system freeze due to the harddisk (some timeout out error, and dma trouble) does anyone with that combination but works fine? I am using kernel 2.4.3 right now... the system worked fine for me a q

Re: Configuring gnus

2001-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for all the responses. I am using gnus now, but there are still some teething problems. Regards. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same

Re: pg_dumpall question

2001-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > The reason is probably that you are running these commands directly > rather than under the control of the postgresql-dump script. According to the man page: postgresql-dump - a utility to dump and destroy a Post­ greSQL database when the database for

Re: Geforce2MX vid card setup

2001-04-30 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-04-30 16:53): > I just installed debian 2 days ago and was wondering how to get XFree86 4.0.2 > or better installed? I have a geforce2MX video card and using the SVGA module > isn't working > someone told me to add > deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody

fckng null sender with Exim

2001-04-30 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, I'm having lots of frozen messages because null sender ie "mail from:<>" I want to reject those email or bounce to one or every header email address. So i put these in exim.conf smtp_verify = true sender_verify = true sender_verify_reject = true sender_verify_hosts = * headers_sender_veri

alsa et al

2001-04-30 Thread Vicar In A Tutu
I seem to be having quite a few problems. Bloody hell, I knew that the transition from Mandrake wouldn't be painless; still, I didn't expect this. Alsa source code doesn't want to compile. Tells me it needs the kernel source to be present in one of the directories; scoobied if I know what to do w

Re: "global" login scripts

2001-04-30 Thread Gil Elad
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:32:19PM +0200, Christian Haugan Toldnes wrote: > > In Redhat there are a folder '/etc/profil.d/' in witch one could put > scripts witch were to be executed upon user logins. Are there any similar > way to do this in Debian? > > In Bash, you could create such a director

Re: Debian not ready for Euro?

2001-04-30 Thread Theo Herrmann
Hi, I found the origin of the problem with the missing "1" after removing LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 from /etc/inputrc everything works well again greetings Theo

Re: Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Timothy Ball wrote: > I've been trying to understand the update-menu system. Perhaps the > parsing bit of my brain is set to off... > > What I would like is a way to include a Custom user menu inside the > generated blackbox menu. > > I find if I edit the menu in /etc/X11/blac

RE: Why is the default umask 022?

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Yes, I already understood how permissions and umasks work. Here is a more detailed explanation of my question. Suppose that instead of having one group per user, the only group that all users belong to is `users'. To keep other users from being able to write to their files, everyone keeps their

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Blackbox menus and the menu system

2001-04-30 Thread Timothy Ball
I've been trying to understand the update-menu system. Perhaps the parsing bit of my brain is set to off... What I would like is a way to include a Custom user menu inside the generated blackbox menu. I find if I edit the menu in /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu w/ something like this: [submenu

php not working

2001-04-30 Thread bob hope
I have managed to fix my problem. All I had to do was upgrade to PHP4. This allowed me to use my .php files. Thanks for all your time and help. Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @

Re: Wheel mouse

2001-04-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > As fas as I know,XFree86 4.0.x supports wheel mice. I have > > one, and therefore, I have the following input section in > > /etc/X11/XF86Conifg-4: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Logitech MouseMan Plus" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "

Re: pam_condev?

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:23:01AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:29:49AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so: cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory] > > Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno

Re: Printer Failure

2001-04-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Printer Failure Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:34:15AM -0700 In reply to:Steve Gran Quoting Steve Gran([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello all, > I am new to the Linux world - I've only had a Linux box for about > four months. The box is a Deabian Woody distro running on an >

Daily Sid update resulted in whacked system.

2001-04-30 Thread John Foster
I just did my daily update of Sid on my test system and it will now only boot to runlevel2 & not much of anything works, including dselect, apt, etc. Any ideas before I start chaseing my tail:-) John Foster

Re: changing console framebuffer modes

2001-04-30 Thread John Kerr Anderson
This is what happens when I try to run the commands: fbset 640x480-72 error message: ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument or fbset --all 640-480-72 gives the same exact error message. Is there something that is not set up properly? Any suggestions would be helpful! :-) -

Re: parse errors

2001-04-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM +0200, cliff clifferson wrote: > hi > > i have a wired problem with the header files. > my box has debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.18, and sometimes when i want to > compile programms gcc gives me errors like that : > > /usr/include/sys/socket.h:175: parse error before 's

Why is the default umask 022?

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Why does the default /etc/skel/.bash_profile set the umask to 022? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of having one group per user? \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5 It

Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Kidd, Peter
on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is it because I have a 2.4.1 kernel running an otherwise slink installation (wh

Re: Configuring gnus

2001-04-30 Thread Christoph Groth
Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >how do I handle the situation where I am offline and want to > >read mail or news? > > Search info Gnus for the words 'agent' or 'unplugged'. You don't > need the agent for reading *mail* offline, but you do for news. You don't need to be o

Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Eric Richardson
Joey Hess wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:55:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed > > > > alien. > > > I did install alien but these directories were all empty which is why > > > I asked the questi

Geforce2MX vid card setup

2001-04-30 Thread Seth
I just installed debian 2 days ago and was wondering how to get XFree86 4.0.2 or better installed? I have a geforce2MX video card and using the SVGA module isn't working someone told me to add deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/$(ARCH)/ to my apt sources list. I did so but still get

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: corrupted partition table Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400 In reply to:Benjamin Black Quoting Benjamin Black([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi everyone. > > a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i > installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 tha

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2001-04-30 Thread cliff clifferson
hi i have a wired problem with the header files. my box has debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.18, and sometimes when i want to compile programms gcc gives me errors like that : /usr/include/sys/socket.h:175: parse error before 'socklen_t' or similar ones. so i asked some people at CCCongress what that coul

Re: pam_condev?

2001-04-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:29:49AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory] > Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM adding faulty module: > /lib/security/pam_condev.so > Apr 29 11:18:4

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:07:44 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > The extremely consistent response I've had from experienced linux users, > including kernel hackers (Rusty Russell, while in Canberra recently), is > "you're a brave man", which is tempered when I say "2.2". > > Keep your backups curr

dwww question

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
Hi, I wonder if anybody know why dwww pages 'List of HTML documents' (and 'List of HTML documents, with descriptions' also) can be always empty? I only can see something like: Dwww list of documentation (short) To the long index Short list of documentation The list of documents is

Re: Local Sid/unstable repository.

2001-04-30 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:18:18AM -0400, David B . Harris wrote: > > Hello there :) I'm looking to set up a local Debian mirror(for private > > LAN only, until we get more bandwidth), but only of the Sid/i386 > I use fmirror and works fine. It has config

Re: which gcc?

2001-04-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:06:44PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > just a quick question, but which gcc should I have installed? > > > > gcc > gcc-2.95 > gcc-3.00 gcc is a set of links to gcc-2.95. They are installed together currently. The gcc-3.0 package is only for testing. You have to call

Re: which gcc?

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
DP> just a quick question, but which gcc should I have installed? DP> gcc DP> gcc-2.95 DP> gcc-3.00 DP> or all of the above? Normally you should have gcc. This package installs 'gcc' binary which is actually just frontend to real compilators. gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 should install compilators ites

Re: help with IP Masquerading, 2.4 kernel

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Christensen
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Turn on forwarding: > > echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward That's already done. As I said, I can connect to remote systems through the firewall machine, and data flows back and forth. It's just that it freezes up within a couple of mi

Re: How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
M> For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains M> the default editor. M> when I look in /etc/alternatives I see: M> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 Apr 30 23:12 editor -> M> /bin/ae M> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Apr 30 23:12 editor.1.gz -> M>

Re: How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Mark wrote: > > For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains > the default editor. > > when I look in /etc/alternatives I see: > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 Apr 30 23:12 editor -> > Is there some debian specific setup script that maintains these links? >

Re: How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Martin Feeney
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:26:46 Mark wrote: > For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains > the default editor. update-alternatives --config editor Debian provides a whole bunch of very nifty update-* scripts. Some of them are (man -k update-): update-alternatives (8)

Re: Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:34:50PM +1000, Mark wrote: > I think it is caused by a swap file still existing. > Typing vi -r should list the swap files. Then you can just delete them or > recover them with vi -r filename Oke, turns out that those swap/recovery files were saved in /var/tmp/vi.recove

Re: How boot scripts?

2001-04-30 Thread Martin Feeney
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:36:51 V.Suresh wrote: > I want to do the following things during boot up: > 1. insmod -f > 2. setfont > I Understand that I have to write a script. Okay, written. The > script >executes fine. Now where do I put the script, and how do I make >it run

Re: installing debian things and compiling your own stuff

2001-04-30 Thread Colin Watson
Aaron F Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i'm very new to debian > >though i've been doing linux for a few years now > >i'm making my way through all the documentation > >but there is something i'm not seeing right now (meaning i am not sure >where this is in the docs i'm reading so if you know, le

shutdown problems

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've been having some problems on shutdown. My box goes through the usual routine but then near the end I get an error message: Warning can't open file: /var/run/shutdown.pid (recalled from memory so that might not be exactly the right warning) and then it prompts for the root password

Re: Nvi recovery

2001-04-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:38:02PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hello, > > This annoys me a bit. Everytime I reboot, Nvi recovers two text files. > These files are almost a year old now. I don't need them anymore. Why does > Nvi keep recovering these files? I even removed Nvi and I still get thes

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-30 Thread PiotR
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2001 06:48, Brandon High wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > The IBM SCSI disk I have here has a jumper to delay spin up depending on > > > SCSI ID so that an array of tho

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