Re: Finger

2001-05-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:43:29PM +0200, Csontos B. Laszlo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Dear List members, > > I've realized the following problem on my machine. When I perform a finger > command, I'll get the following: > > LoginName Tty Idle Login Time Office

Re: list of installed packages messed up

2001-05-26 Thread Eric Boo
Verily, on 27 May 2001 12:36AM (-0400), Carl Fink thusly proclaimed: -> Assuming you did install 'em via dpkg/apt, you might try reinstalling -> them (which would replace your existing binaries and conf files with -> the ones from the package), then uninstalling. Yep, I did install them via dpkg/a

Re: list of installed packages messed up

2001-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:29:05PM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: > I just realized that many packages which I've installed cannot be > removed because according to dpkg -s and apt-get, they aren't > installed (eg gpm), when they really are installed. > What do I do? Assuming you did install 'em via d

list of installed packages messed up

2001-05-26 Thread Eric Boo
Hi all, I just realized that many packages which I've installed cannot be removed because according to dpkg -s and apt-get, they aren't installed (eg gpm), when they really are installed. What do I do? Thanks. -- Eric Boo Sunday, May 27, 2001, 12:27 PM 13 hours and 3 minutes http://magicman

Re: Problem with gnome-utils

2001-05-26 Thread Cam Ellison
Cam Ellison wrote: > > I cannot get the 1.4 version of gnome-utils to install. > gnome-utils.postinst has a reference to scrollkeeper-update, thus: > Sorry about this one -- I turned my brain back on, looked for scrollkeeper on the ximian site and installed it -- all is well. Sorry for wasting

Problem with gnome-utils

2001-05-26 Thread Cam Ellison
I cannot get the 1.4 version of gnome-utils to install. gnome-utils.postinst has a reference to scrollkeeper-update, thus: case "$1" in configure*) PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin scrollkeeper-update ;; *) ;; The error is: command not found. A

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:01:35AM -0400, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > How about such compiling portsentry from scratch? Novel idea, eh? :-) I do it m'self, but I *prefer* to use the package system when I can. It's just a constant frustration for me that to use the (most excellent) apt/dpkg system,

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:18:46PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Presumably you meant "into testing" because it's not in stable. You can't > install the testing version in stable easily, either, because of dependency > problems. How about such compiling portsentry from scratch? Novel idea, eh? :-

Re: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Brian Dunnette
Having the same problem using testing... could it be because the php4 package requires an earlier version (<1.3.9) of apache-common than the one I have installed? And, on a related question, why is php4 in stable, but not in testing??? Thanks, Brian Dunnette On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:27:41PM +0

Obsolete packages?

2001-05-26 Thread Mike Cook
I run debian testing and I was looking under the obsolete and locally created packages in aptitude, and it appears that a lot of packages I use have been obsoleted. These include kdebase, all the X packages, and a few others. So i went to the debian website, and checked to make sure and sure eno

Re: Testing/Woody

2001-05-26 Thread Chuck Peters
This one has the complete Packages.gz deb ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free Can someone tell me why Progeny screwed up backspace and delete in X? Thanks, Chuck On Sat, 26 May 2001, Simon Read wrote: > Folks, > > The package lists I download for the Testing dis

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-26 Thread Matthew Gibbins
And yo was Bruce Sass heard to yodel: > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some > > modules > > for konqueror configuration. > > Particularly those under the directories: > >/usr/share/applnk/Settin

Re: Progeny install problems

2001-05-26 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010526 18:16]: > on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:09:22PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, jennyw wrote: > > > > >I'm trying to reinstall Progeny Debian 1.0 (boxed copy), and I'm getting > > >weird problems. > > > > Firs

Testing/Woody

2001-05-26 Thread Simon Read
Folks, The package lists I download for the Testing distribution from http.us.debian.org, and the mirrors that I've tried, do not contain any of the packages whose names start after f something. This results the package 'apt' appearing in the list, but the package 'grep' not appeari

Re: cpan

2001-05-26 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:55:13PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > This is a stupid question, but I've had a brain-fart > > What is the command for accessing cpan, I need to load some perl modules for > a program I'm developing. perl -MCPAN -e shell then you can type 'install My::Module' to install

Sound Blaster 16 PnP

2001-05-26 Thread Reza
Hi anyone... I wonder if anyone would help me with my soundcard problem.. I use Sound Blaster 16 Pnp which is in ISA Slot, my friend told me to use ALSA instead of OSS, can anyone tell what packages do I need to install ALSA besides alsaconf ? Thank you very much Sincerely, Reza _

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:08:59PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > If this annoys you, take a trip into non-free and install portsentry: Presumably you meant "into testing" because it's not in stable. You can't install the testing version in stable easily, either, because of dependency problems. --

Re: Libranet, Stormix, Progeny

2001-05-26 Thread Forrest English
there would be no reason to 'upgrade' to debian. they basicaly are debian, with updated packages in some cases, and gui installers and config tools. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to

Libranet, Stormix, Progeny

2001-05-26 Thread kyle
After much effort, I have totally failed on my efforts to install Debian, but I would still like to run it. (My linux partition is past sector 1023, and it won't make a boot floppy. I sort of managed to get around this by using the Grub install that RedHat did, since it pointed to the correct p

Re: help please

2001-05-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> this may sound like a stupid question, but I am setting up linux using the > Debian 2.1 cdrom and the "learning Debian GNU/Linux book. I am now at the > point that I should Install X (page 95). However, every time I type > xf86config, I get told this is an unknown command. I also cannot find t

Re: LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Andreas Tscharner wrote: >Hello World, > >On the LAME - Homepage, I've read the following: > >But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, >and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed >and quality to rival all commercia

Re: LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread ray p
But if by chance you do want to use lame to make MP3s (I think that in addition to being patent free that ogg also sounds better) you can get unofficial debs from deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On the LAME

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Paul Wright wrote: >Hi all, > >Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are >my relevant log entries: > > >May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 >May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from 2

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: > >jg> I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so >jg> by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages >jg> make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:51:30PM +0200, Bernhard Josef Rieder wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have been looking for galeon 0.10.6 packages quite > a long time now. The only packages that seem available > are the 0.10.5 ones that do not work with mozilla 0.9. > > Are there any new packages on th

Samba: listing hosts

2001-05-26 Thread Romain Lerallut
Greetings, With LinNeighborhood, I can get the list of the other computers on the network. What is the correct syntax with command-line tools ? Thanks for any help, Romain -- Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the gran

Re: ppp connection

2001-05-26 Thread John Hasler
Arian writes: > Thanks for any suggestion how to establish my ppp connection. Scrap the scripts. Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp, and then use pon to start a connection, poff to stop it, and plog to monitor it. There are also several GUI implementations of pon/poff/plog. -- John Hasler [

ppp connection

2001-05-26 Thread Arian Novruzi
Hi, I'm trying to configure my ppp in my new Debian 2.2 (well, I think these developers guys can make more easy the installation ;-) My modem is a lucent one and I use the appropriate package to install it. I'm using the same script which worked perfectly in RH6.2. Running "ppp-on" gives these mess

Re: Progeny install problems

2001-05-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:49:12PM -0700, jennyw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "John Galt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > First of all, this is a Debian list, not a Progeny list. They are > > I thought this list was for general discussion about Debian, and that > woul

Re: Progeny install problems

2001-05-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:09:22PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, jennyw wrote: > > >I'm trying to reinstall Progeny Debian 1.0 (boxed copy), and I'm getting > >weird problems. > > First of all, this is a Debian list, not a Progeny list. They are > related,

cpan

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Sitton
This is a stupid question, but I've had a brain-fart What is the command for accessing cpan, I need to load some perl modules for a program I'm developing. Wayne

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

2001-05-26 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:14:20AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time > to start ssh from that box. Only starting from that box, connecting to > it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down. > This

Re: help please

2001-05-26 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:42:29AM +1200, John and Colette Torrance wrote: > this may sound like a stupid question, but I am setting up linux using the > Debian 2.1 cdrom and the "learning Debian GNU/Linux book. I am now at the > point that I should Install X (page 95). However, every time I typ

startx missing in potato - 4.0.3 SOLVED

2001-05-26 Thread Dana J . Laude
Well, I actually got 4.0.3 going now. Here's a summary of what I did, and what went wrong... and what fixed it. First off, I added the following to my sources.list: # Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 - XFree86 Version 4.0.3 - added 05/24/01 at 20:35 deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/

CUPS

2001-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Used apt-get install to install cupsys and cupsys-bsd. This solved all my problems with a a Brother HL-730 laser printer on a parallel port. A second stand-alone computer with a Epson Stylus Color 860 connected to the usb port is still not working. The stcolor.ppd and lpinfo are missing.

help please

2001-05-26 Thread John and Colette Torrance
this may sound like a stupid question, but I am setting up linux using the Debian 2.1 cdrom and the "learning Debian GNU/Linux book. I am now at the point that I should Install X (page 95). However, every time I type xf86config, I get told this is an unknown command. I also cannot find this file

Long pause on bootup with 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
A while ago I compiled the 2.4.4 kernel but went back to 2.4.3 when I found I was getting a long pause during boot-up,just after this: 'Configuring network interfaces: eth0: Setting 100mbs full-duplex based on auto negotiated partner ability 41e1'. Today I compiled 2.4.5 and get the same thing. Th

Re: Help with CDROM (ide-scsi)

2001-05-26 Thread Cam Ellison
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > did you compile scsi cdrom support? scd0 is the first scsi cd drive, > scd1 second > > look at your dmesg output, it will show lines like: > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 >

RE: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Sitton
I double checked and I have all those un-commented, I've checked the error logs and they show nothing. wayne -Original Message- From: Ehren Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:33 PM To: Wayne Sitton Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: php4 here is the relevant secti

RE: php4

2001-05-26 Thread techlists
No, there is no mention of an error in the error logs. Come to think of it I had also installed jserv, and it has never worked. Wayne -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:28 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: Help with CDROM (ide-scsi)

2001-05-26 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:01:36AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here. > > I just installed an HP 9150i burner, and following the HOWTO plus some > information I picked up off this list (thanks to Osamu Aoki & Casey > Webster, plus several others), got it to wo

Re: LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On the LAME - Homepage, I've read the following: > >But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, >and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed >and quality to rival all commercial competitors. > >So I'm asking myself

Re: Caching-only nameserver - which bind

2001-05-26 Thread Stefan Srdic
Paul Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to configure a caching only nameserver for my dialup box, and I > noticed that there are two variants of the bind package available, bind > and bind9. I know that the bind package is version 8.x > > Which version should I use? > > Is there an advantage o

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Leonard Leblanc
*SNIP* > Does anyone how I can find out who/where/what-domain or host is using that > ip? *SNIP* Running a 'whois 216.136.179.238' gave me the following results: Exodus Communications Inc.SantaClara-5 (NETBLK-EC20-2) 2831 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95112 US Netname: EC20-2 Netblock: 2

LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, On the LAME - Homepage, I've read the following: But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors. So I'm asking myself, why LAME isn't i

I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-26 Thread Paul Wright
Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:06 j001 ippl: port 3

Authenticating for Web Access

2001-05-26 Thread matlads
Hello, I've ~ 200 users and the majority have their own workstations at the office. I would like to regulate their web access though not their access to their workstations depending on the current status of their payup email accounts. If the account is up to date then the workstation is given in

Re: dselect won't install gnucash

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using debian potato. I have been using gnucash (I am not sure >which version). After updating my system with dselect, it deleted >gnucash. When I try to reinstall gnucash (version 1.3.4-3 is all that >is listed) with dselect it gives me a dependency probl

Re: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Ehren Wilson
here is the relevant sections from my conf files...tell me if they compare httpd.conf --- LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so --- srm.conf --- DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 --- I vaguely remember the first time I set up ph

Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello folks, I'm not sure if the solution to this problem has already been posted, so sorry if this is a known issue. I have searched Google and the Usenet for the answer of this question. I have 2 IDE-Drives, one of them is a Plextor CD-Writer. I have SCSI-Emulation enabled, ATAPI CDROM disabled,

Re: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
"Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just installed php4 from dselect. I checked the apache httpd.conf, and >uncommented the php4 loadmodule. But, When I go to the website It still >tries to open a 'save as' dialog box. What am I forgetting? Is there anything in your web server's error

Re: Best sniffer?

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ethereal (sp) is good and provides a lot of information, but I have an >aversion to throwing X into the picture when running a packet sniffer >because it's using system resources that could be processing packets... You could always capture from tcpdump and use

RE: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Sitton
Did that also, still have the same problem. That's why I'm stumped. Wayne -Original Message- From: Ehren Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:05 PM To: Wayne Sitton; debian-user Subject: Re: php4 in srm.conf you you have the following line uncommented? AddTy

Re: boot system under unstable

2001-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the boot system and init scripts seem to have changed location upon upgrading >to unstable, most importantly I can't find a rc.local. I don't think there's been an rc.local for a long time ... create one yourself and install symlinks to it. See update-rc.d(

Re: php4

2001-05-26 Thread Ehren Wilson
in srm.conf you you have the following line uncommented? AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Hopefully that should fix it Ehren Wilson Echostar Solutions - Original Message - From: "Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: php4

Help with CDROM (ide-scsi)

2001-05-26 Thread Cam Ellison
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here. I just installed an HP 9150i burner, and following the HOWTO plus some information I picked up off this list (thanks to Osamu Aoki & Casey Webster, plus several others), got it to work just fine. I have the burner as /hdc and another cdrom as /hdd. Bo

php4

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Sitton
I just installed php4 from dselect. I checked the apache httpd.conf, and uncommented the php4 loadmodule. But, When I go to the website It still tries to open a 'save as' dialog box. What am I forgetting? Wayne

Re: Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Matthew Gibbins wrote: > Hi, > I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some > modules > for konqueror configuration. > Particularly those under the directories: >/usr/share/applnk/Settings/WebBrowsing >/usr/share/applnk/Settings/FileBro

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 26 May 2001 08:59:23 -0700 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no > problems at > > all. > > You did that with alien? I take it there are no deb packages then, > right? No deb packages. I just installed the rpm with rpm -

Re: problem running xf86cfg

2001-05-26 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Philipp Bliedung wrote: > hi > > I just upgraded to XFree 4.0.3 but when I try tu run xf86cfg I get this > error message: > > Xserver is running an old XFree86-VidModeExtension version (0.8) > Minimum required version is 2.0 > Module ABI versions: > XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 > XFree86 Video

Installing Potato with Promise RAID controller

2001-05-26 Thread Jonas Wolz
Hi, I'm trying to install Potato (2.2r2) on a box with two harddisks connected to a Promise PDC20265 controller in RAID 0 mode (the two harddisks appear like one, big harddisk). With the UDMA66 kernel, the system boots up fine, and it recognizes a disk connected to the controller as /dev/hde, b

Re: Network Printing with Progeny/Debian

2001-05-26 Thread Sebastian Becerra
> I am the proud owner of a nice new Progeny system but, since I > cannot seem to locate anything on their website concerning an email > reflector, I thought I would ask here. Please, as a favor, please > redirect flames to dev=NULL. I believe you mean "/dev/null". ;-) >When I try to access

Re: Setting the time with Samba

2001-05-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... The Samba list guys should know more about this stuff... but you may want to try this in your netlogon batch file.. net use \\samba /set /y Hope this helps... Mike - Original Message - From: "Andrew Pollock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 12:58 AM Subject:

Network Printing with Progeny/Debian

2001-05-26 Thread Jim Darrough
Greetings! I am the proud owner of a nice new Progeny system but, since I cannot seem to locate anything on their website concerning an email reflector, I thought I would ask here. Please, as a favor, please redirect flames to dev=NULL. I have an HP OfficeJet 630 hooked up to the debian

conclusion from Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-26 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:12:50AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | [...] | | > Does samba work when run from xinetd? | | | | Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a special

Re: compiling kernel 2.4.4 in potato

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: compiling kernel 2.4.4 in potato Date: Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:09:06PM - In reply to:Ian Lee Quoting Ian Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After following the instructions on the debian webiste to use a 2.4 kernel > on potato, everything installed fine. > I then unpacked th

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/26/01 08:45:49 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: [my ramblings about my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer snipped...] > Did you know that Epson have written a Linux driver for this printer? It > is available from: > > http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html > No, I wasn't aware of t

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/26/01 00:29:21 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Do you have terminal access? > Meaning... do you have X? > therefore you can install printtool.its a .deb package > (downloadable from debian site) > If you haven't tried printtool... give it a go... > Thanks for the response. Yes I have X

apt-utils

2001-05-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
When did apt-utils become mandatory? I just did an apt-get upgrade (in testing) and it died immediately after downloading packages with the message debconf: cannot preconfigure packages -- apt-utils is not installed E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true Installing a

Re: automounting home directories with nfs

2001-05-26 Thread Jonathan Matthews
> Hi All, > I'm trying to set up a small network and I'll be using NIS and NFS for > home directories. > > I was wondering if it's possible to only mount a user's home directory > when he tries to log in. This way I'll only have one home directory > mounted on the box at a time and I can avoid put

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/rc* and locate Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:20:47PM +0100 In reply to:john gennard Quoting john gennard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 25 May 2001, ray p wrote: > > > > Thanks for the replies. > > I don't understand Noah's point - as I said, I ran 'updatedb'

Re: Grafting directories with mkisofs?

2001-05-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:52:33PM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thursday 24 May 2001 09:12, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > Could you please tell me what is wrong with the following script : > > > > #!/bin/sh > > mkisofs -AArchive-22-05-2001/AI-1 -P"B Thomas" -hide-rr-moved -J -R > > -r \ -x ai/areas -x

Re: [Kris.VanHeurck@siemens.atea.be: i810 chipset on potato]

2001-05-26 Thread Paul Wright
Branden forwarded this to debian-user: Dear X Strike Force, I am currently installing Debian GNU/Linux potato on a machine in our labs. I found out (by opening the case, since I had no documentation on the machine) that there is a i810 chipset inside. I found the debian-page on this matter (XFre

debian x ibook

2001-05-26 Thread nico
ciao! vorrei sapere quale versione di debian devo procurarmi x poterla installare si un ibook blueberry, e se possibile anche come e dove procurarmela! grazie! angela

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. If you are not running make, but gcc directly, then I suggest you >make a small Makefile, it'll usually pay off if you compile often. If you're running gcc directly, you may not even _need_ a Makefile. Given a file prog.c, and no Makefile,

compiling kernel 2.4.4 in potato

2001-05-26 Thread Ian Lee
After following the instructions on the debian webiste to use a 2.4 kernel on potato, everything installed fine. I then unpacked the kernel. ran through the options did make dep;make clean Everything ok when I try make bzImage I get gcc: Internel compile error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 mak

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: jg> I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so jg> by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages jg> make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple jg> way to locate say 'line 1267' How do peop

Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

2001-05-26 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:18:11PM +0300, Derya PALANCI wrote: > Hi Andreas > > I had the same problem so i did what you told someone else... but it removes > some packages now i cannot make "xf86config" it says command not found... do > i have to do something? > > I have a i810 board, debian pot

Re: preferred dialup program

2001-05-26 Thread John Hasler
kent writes: > I used to have good luck with pppconfig. Pppconfig is not a dialup program. It is a ppp configurator which configures ppp as recommended by the upstream ppp maintainer for use with pon/poff or any of several dialup programs and ppp monitors. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancin

Re: Caching-only nameserver - which bind

2001-05-26 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:40:39AM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to configure a caching only nameserver for my dialup box, and I > noticed that there are two variants of the bind package available, bind > and bind9. I know that the bind package is version 8.x > > Which vers

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:59:48PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267'

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:51:30PM +0200, Bernhard Josef Rieder wrote: > Are there any new packages on the web or am I just to > stupid to find them? Currently I have to use Opera 5 > and I really do not like it. The look&feel is by Please read the list more carefully. I replied to a very similar

Re: Grafting directories with mkisofs?

2001-05-26 Thread csj
On Thursday 24 May 2001 09:12, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > Could you please tell me what is wrong with the following script : > > #!/bin/sh > mkisofs -AArchive-22-05-2001/AI-1 -P"B Thomas" -hide-rr-moved -J -R > -r \ -x ai/areas -x ai/lang -o ai1.iso \ > ai \ > areas/=ai/areas/0.doc \ > areas/=

galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-26 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
Hello everybody, I have been looking for galeon 0.10.6 packages quite a long time now. The only packages that seem available are the 0.10.5 ones that do not work with mozilla 0.9. Are there any new packages on the web or am I just to stupid to find them? Currently I have to use Opera 5 and I real

Finger

2001-05-26 Thread Csontos B. Laszlo
Dear List members, I've realized the following problem on my machine. When I perform a finger command, I'll get the following: LoginName Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone adminSystem administra pts/1 May 24 19:01 (192.168.1.42) egon Csizmadia

Re: new debian user

2001-05-26 Thread Ciobîcã
> To: debian-www@lists.debian.org > Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:45:44 +0100 > From: bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: new debian user > > Can anyone help > > Been running linux mandrake and decided to try debian. > When using mandrake I setserial to /dev/ttyS2 com3 to irq 10 and connection > to i

Re: Trouble setting up ALSA for a AC97

2001-05-26 Thread Henrik Grotjahn
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks a lot! Works fine, now. Regards, Henrik -- GnuPG-Key now available on public keyservers - http://www.gnupg.org/

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Neil Booth wrote: > Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > > for my Fortran codes:) > > That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. > > Neil. > h: echo '__LINE__' | cpp-3.0 -P 1 looks like you can ( with my For

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > for my Fortran codes:) That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. Neil.

Kde Sid directory problem

2001-05-26 Thread Matthew Gibbins
Hi, I'm running konqueror in Sid and am encountering problems loading1 some modules for konqueror configuration. Particularly those under the directories: /usr/share/applnk/Settings/WebBrowsing /usr/share/applnk/Settings/FileBrowsing -- I'm not advocating that anyone take up emacs. No

Conference support software?

2001-05-26 Thread Igor Mozetic
I'm looking for some software/packages/tools to support web-based conference registration. No big deal, medium-seized event with 100-150 participants. I don't expect anything fancy, just support for forms (cgi-bin, Perl, Python, ?), an interface to a database (might be event text-based?), on-line s

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread John Galt
In vi, :1267 works... On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: >I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so >by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages >make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple >way to locate say 'line 1267

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Erik Steffl
john gennard wrote: > > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go about this? in vi

x server again and again

2001-05-26 Thread Derya PALANCI
I've upgraded my xfree86 to 4.0.3  configured it but it had a porblem... in log it was written as : Symbol VBEInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved!   Does this mean i had something wrong? I have a i810 motherboard and i2ve selected to load all 3 of i810 mod

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Willi Dyck
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:59:48PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267'

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go ab

Re: installing galeon from rpms

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:06:18AM +, Alexander Isacson wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried installing mozilla 0.9 and galeon-0.10.6 > from > rpms? > Since no debs exist to my knowlege I was planning to create some with alien. > Which RPM pagackge should I should I choo

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:45:38PM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Hello Walter, Have you read Karsten Koehntopps Partitioning HowTo? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go ab

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 25 May 2001 21:51:09 -0700 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I > used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier > Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new > p

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