Thomas Halahan wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your promt reply. Much appreciated. I didn't quite
understand this:
I fixed this with a link to a libdb?.so in /lib via /lib/libdb.so.3,
and after that, the upgrade to a new libdb worked.
Do I just install libdb and manually link
Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
Is there any way, using pon/poff, to be notified in the console/term of
connections and disconnections? When I type pon, I'd like to be told
when it actually finishes connecting; and when my ISP disconnects me,
I'd like to be told about it so I don't scratch my head
Dale wrote:
I'm confused as to how debian handles the .bashrc file. In my user
directory, I have a .bashrc file that reads
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
...
But when I log into X and issue the ls command, it doesn't execute the
command in color, nor does it do
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
On 02 Aug 2000, Bolan Meek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On topics arisen from this discussion,
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
...BTW, please refrain from sending to _both_ the list and me,
I read the list. ...
One may assume that those whose names one sees often
Stefan Bellon wrote:
Hi everybody!
Does anybody have a XF86Config file for the S3 Trio64V+ card? I've
managed to get a 800x600 running, but I'd like to increase to 1024x768.
Whenever I modify the XF86Config (with XF86Setup) to contain a 1024x768
ModeLine, the server dies when trying to
Ben Pfaff wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes:
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
more offers backwards paging, it is in the man page I am suprised that you
missed it.
ps auxw | more
How do you scroll backwards? b doesn't work.
`more' supports backward
Nianwei Xing wrote:
Hi, Debians:
Ni hao.
I have a question about network card.
And I have questions about your questions and clues:
it's mostly a terminology problem.
When I move my computer to another place,
I need reconfigure my network.
By 'another place', are you talking about
Tim wrote:
Bolan Meek wrote:
What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
i.e. not have mounted?
I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumably
something to do with the drive
Tim Wood wrote:
Hi,
I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33
laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space.
What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`?
If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
i.e. not have
John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because
it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating
Debian for a possible switch.
Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian
Linux over Redhat Linux?
I chose Debian
R. D. Loga wrote:
When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get Connect script
failed. Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file
permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all the
scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory too? Is there an easy way
Greetings: God bless you.
When using dselect on a sparc to install t{cl,k}8.2-dev, I get
...[relevant part of messages]
Setting up tcl8.2-dev (8.2.3-3) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4.dpkg-tmp
a symlink to /etc/alternatives/tcl.m4: No such file or directory
Declan Grady wrote:
I have a Dell Latitude LS, and read the how-to at
www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/ but I cant figure out how to build a new
kernel (to include support for ethernet adaptor)
Step-by-step instructions are included with the kernel
sources, whether you get the Debian package,
Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
I seem to receive most of my mail, but some isn't coming through. For
example, sending to me from yahoo, my sister received the bounce
message:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [her address]
Subject: failure delivery
Content-Length: 1069
Message from yahoo.com.
... ppp connection...IP address of the namesever is necessary to connect [?]
The IP address of the nameserver is not necessary for a ppp connection,
but it is necessary to have in a nameserver I.i.P.p entry in
/etc/resolv.conf in order to use DNS names rather than IP addresses
after you've
Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . .
Oh, I read a version of this earlier. It was there. I didn't reply
since I don't know an answer for you off the top of my head. Not even
off the top of the pointiest part of my head...
IN my
Nianwei Xing wrote:
Hi, debians:
I am a new comer for Debian. I just want to install
acroread on my machine. I am not the super user and
also I have download the linux-ar-405.tar.gz.
Any infomation is appreciated!
If you want a private copy of acroread, one only
executable by you, you may
Patrick J Draper wrote:
I'm still having trouble with my Debian 2.1.
Awww, shucks! Bummer...
I've managed to get the system up and running and X11 is running of a
fashion.
Oh! Well, congratulations!
My graphics card is not configured correctly (Matrox G200 AGP 8meg)
and I
Ethan Pierce wrote:
There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get
better results with the paste feature.
I plan to try this later when I get home from workbut does anyone know
if taking out gpm will mess up the x server?
Taking out gpm will not mess up the x
Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
I installed Potato last night, everything went great,
Congratulations! Welcome Aboard!
but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could [not]
find my mouse (which is a PS/2). Can somebody help?
check `dmesg | more`. Did your /dev/psaux get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...I can't start an X session as unprivileged user.
How are you attempting to start an X session?
(Answers may be below, but I am confusing myself with
the differences in syntax, so just to be clear...)
What error messages are you getting? Try `startx startx.log` .
Julien CANON wrote:
quelqu'un peut-il m'envoyer une ou plusieurs URL où il est possible
d'obtenir les images ISO des CD de la debian linux PPC.
My French is not good, but I think that what is requested
is a URL for Debian/PPC.
I find
ftp://ftp.debian.org/\
michelle wood wrote:
looking for some help in making minicom 1.82.1. connect via a serial
connection to cisco router.
I think that I can help. I've connected to several Ciscos with serial
cable, mostly though using M$ HyperTerminal. I _have_ connected with
one older Cisco, an IGS, using
LêíGh wrote:
Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research
on the different Linux distributors...
I just want to ask somethings:
1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean
that you don't have any stocks information?
Yep. (no stocks)
2. You
Pavel M. Penev wrote:
(I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... )
Well, thank you for the opportunity!
Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail
archive? What I have found is at http://www.debian.org/contact; in
section Commonly
James Polson wrote:
...problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer.
The symptoms are:
(1) ...network is unreachable ...
(2) ...ifconfig -a, ...eth0, ...not there.
...
Information about my system:
(1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card.
(2) I have the NC2000 driver in
CHEONG, Shu Yang (Patrick) wrote:
Hi!
...debian (potato) box to an NT network...
...enabled DHCP...
A ping to the proxy ip and the isp dns ip was successful as well.
So the router is allowing ICMP. Have you asked your networking
support people what outward connections are being blocked
Frodo Baggins wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote:
Hi there ...
...apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing
the lists, I got an error message:
E:
Ethan Pierce wrote:
Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the display settings.
When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that needed to be
run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do
was su and run them. Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a
Jake wrote:
Hi,
I just installed Debian 2.2 version but I want to unstall and then reinstall
it.I want to uninstall it because:
1) I have win-98 on it with two partitions of 2.6 GB which I might not able
to access once LiLo is booted.Can u help me with that?
2) I am not able to configure
Suresh Kumar. R wrote:
Hi,
When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian package
mechanism is not aware that the particular package is installed.
For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware of it.
Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something else,
it would
Ethan Pierce wrote:
Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file...
someone told me it takes 6 days to run for good passwords.
While my root password is non dictionary, will crack work?
If it _really_ is non-dictionary, probably not, but I can't
answer for sure without studying
zhaoway wrote:
Hi,
I cannot report a bug using neither reportbug nor bug.
The problem is that even I have set the EMAIL environment
or using the --email opt to set my from: line, the bug
message sent were still using my local not-FQDN hostname
hence got to be rejected by Debian's SMTP
M.K.Pai wrote:
Guys,
I am facing a rather strange problem.
I am unable to echo the character M on my bash prompt.
I am able to get M by
perl -e 'print chr(77);'
I am even able to put it in an email. Note the M right here.
But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M.
Most
Greetings: God bless you.
I'm not yet a Debian Developer, but my application is in the queue,
and I'm assaying to become the maintainer of the orphaned package
xmailtool, as well as the upstream maintainer.
But I'm wondering if I'll be wasting my time, and could better
contribute elsewise. So I
Matthew Thompson wrote:
Hello, all
I just installed imp/horde/mysql. My server is located at mattyt.net.
Here is my /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
...
192.168.1.1 doma.mattyt.net doma
...
For some reason, when I point Netscape (from outside mattyt.net) at
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Walter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but...
CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C
is probably still using COBOL too... sigh
Excuse me, for
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if Linux (Debian/GNU) can work with wan
protocols, especifically frame-relay?
Linux has drivers for the frame relay protocol, and drivers
for WAN cards. Stock Linux kernels do not have these drivers
compiled, neither in the kernel,
Derek Wueppelmann wrote:
You missed his point of having the NIC on the inside in
a different subnet than that of the NIC on the outside.
But let me ask first: isn't the IP on the ISP's side one
out of the ISP's net? Or are you allocating one of your
IP to your ISP's router?
Have
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
I am looking for a window manager for debian that will
not soakup the system resources. Which one would you
suggest?
I like mwm in lesstif, the libraries from which are
required for nedit, my favorite editor. However,
the lesstif package containing mwm doesn't seem
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Bolan Meek wrote:
this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts...
How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!?
Of course not! How could I?! :)
Well, we members of the Perl Hackers Anti-Defamation League
sometimes
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Bolan Meek wrote:
this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts...
How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!?
Maybe I ought have said perl slackers. (Well, I can get
away with that since I resigned from PHADL).
Well, you
Well, let me see if I can translate this:
Gustavo Oceguera Ugalde wrote:
Hola, encontre en en internet tu direccion donde menciones que tienes
Hi, I found in the Internet your address where [there are] mentions
that you have
un scaner Realisys AVEC Easy 3, necesito los drives de este
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
Hi list,
this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts...
How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!?
Suppose I have a comma-seperated or tab-seperated file and I want
to flip the lines and columns. So an input file like:
Derek Wueppelmann wrote:
eth0 xx.xx.xx.1 :Connected to the internal network
eth1 xx.xx.xx.2 :Connected to the internet.
# note that the xxx.xxx.xxx are the same subnet since
we are allocated a class C domain.
Minor correction: to the Internet these addresses are
in the same _network_,
Jake Stowell wrote:
Hello,
I just upgraded from potato to woody and all seemed fine, that is until
i attempted to run netscape/netscape messenger. i was wondering if
anyone else was having similar problems and what I should do about it.
i am a relatively new user, so i am not entirely
Tim Webster wrote:
Stupid me I deleted the /etc/default? directory.
I have no idea what was in that directory.
Seems it contained some rather importanted stuff.
If someone could tar up their /etc/default directory it would be great.
Then I could use that /etc/default tar ball as guidance
john smith wrote:
hello. I'd like to know how to get rid of that annonying netscape group
icons near the bottom right-hand side of communicator. (the
navigator,inbox,newsgroups,addressbook and composer). well, maybe I can
leave the navigator icon there...
TIA
YWIA.
If you click on the
Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote:
hi
im omar shuja a linux fan.
i have a very old IBM 86 processor on which i want to
install linux.
Please be more specific about processors: do you mean
an 8088 or 80286? If so, no. There is a project going
to port a version of Linux to '286s, but it's not
Parrish M Myers wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know what standard Linux/Debian conformes
to in regardes to IPC?
AFAIK, Linux developers attempt to conform to the POSIX standard.
I recently picked up W. Richard Stevens boot: Unix Network
Programming Volume 2 [Interprocess Communications]. None
mh99 wrote:
Dear sir,
I have kept receiving jet Mail Error notes for a long time,
unfortunately both I and my customers, such as Jim, Pat, John, listed
below don't know what is wrong. Actually I don't know who is Jetmail
System.
Received: from frank([202.103.152.177]) by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey there... I'm having some problems getting debian to see this
IBM token ring card. Is there a driver somewhere I can download or
will deb not fly with TR?
Have you recompiled your kernel with a token ring driver
or module? I don't think the dl'able kernel has
cam_random wrote:
I have an nVIDIA TNT2 video card, but I can't find my card in the
database when I configure Xany ideas?
Justin
Since NVidia's NV1/STG2000 and RIVA 128 chips were supported in
xserver-svga, my bet is that TNT2 is, also. Have you used
xf86setup (or is it XF86Setup?),
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wayne Sitton writes:
Why doesn't the linux community push for these specs. I read all the
time about going after the video chip manufactures to provide specs, Why
aren't modems looked at in the same fashion?
The video chip
Nuno Almeida wrote:
I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if it's a
bug of mine.
When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a signal trap
I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 and 17, for SIGKILL
and SIGSTOP.
On Debian I
Sven Burgener wrote:
Hi all
For some weird reason, I have the following entry in my /etc/hosts file.
What is the meaning of that? I dont think I added it myself... ! (I
changed the real FQDN)
0.0.0.0host.domain.com
My guess is that it's a dummy, for example kind of
Sherry wrote:
Hi,
Greetings: God bless you.
A friend installed debian on my PC. l now have a hardware modem
and would like to install PHP for veiwing.
My debian has know user interface. Could someone help me.
\- no?
You surely have a
I'd like to help... and so might others.
However we need more precise info from you.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.3com.co.uk/products/modems/prod-faxmod-ext.html -- this is
my modem.
Good for the link...
i used kppp kwdial minicom . i used all linux versions, i
compiled kernels.
adam.edgar wrote:
I have run into a bit of a problem when compiling the test kernel
under potato. When I make zImage it runs all the way to the end and then
crashes after reporting that the system is to large.
In that case, use `make bzImage`. It uses bzip2, if I'm not mistaken,
so
john smith wrote:
... if software from os/2 can be ported to linux.
Basically, any software can be ported. If you can
get the source code...
I know that os/2
can use enlightenment, etc so that means the libraries used are not much
different to linux??? (i'm guessing here...)
The
Johann Spies wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:40:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to
fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct path to
Phillip Payne (PAYNEPH @ GBNUHO) wrote:
...
Hi,
I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list, because it just
generates tto much mail, without any success. The two methods i have tried
so far have been :-
sending mail to
1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe
Christian Mathes wrote:
Hi all,
I currently try to install Debian 2.1. I have problems
to configure my hard disk drive properly.
Just as friendly assistance in your English usage -and
I see that your English is quite good- the gerund form,
in this case, configuring, is more often used as
Tran Van Tan wrote:
Hi !
How do I enable an DNS message and send it to nameserver ?
Uh... maybe it's just a terminology problem, or language
problem, but...
One doesn't _send_ DNS messages to a nameserver, one
sends DNS _queries_. This is handled in the resolver
library, or kernel
JC Portlock wrote:
...First, How can I get my SB16 pnp to work in linux?
Use the isapnp package. Load driver modules with appropriate arguments.
...fairly experienced Debian users...
Can we get details as to what they've tried? The above question is
really too broad, and my answer only a
Joseph de los Santos wrote:
however, when I try to run make from that new partition I get this error:
Let me guess: did you run ./configure in your home directory, then
mv the files to your working space on your new partition?
make -C src/ptlib/unix both ; make -C tools/asnparser both ;
john smith wrote:
... mkfs -t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32
Try '-t vfat'.
Sven Burgener wrote:
...
Today I noticed the following:
15444 ? Z0:00 (cron zombie)
Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume
this applies to UNIX in general.
zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof
do not wait() for them,
Bolan Meek wrote:
Sven Burgener wrote:
...
Today I noticed the following:
15444 ? Z0:00 (cron zombie)
Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume
this applies to UNIX in general.
zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
Today I noticed the following:
...
Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume
this applies to UNIX in general.
zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof
do not wait() for them, but exit() instead.
Jay Kelly wrote:
I have a quick qestion, I want my nic cards (eth0 and eth1) to keep the
setting I configure such as ip, netmask after rebooting. Each time I reboot
eth1 dumps all the information I put in the ifconfig setup. How can I get it
to store and keep the information for both nic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Given that the directory isn't being rotated, is contantly growing,
| neither keysmoop nor keysmoops returns any hits on Google, and
| that smoop looks suspiciously like snoop..
Forgive me; I mis-typed. The directory is actually `ksymoops' and it's
obviously not
Greetings, all: God bless you.
I have noticed for some time now that, when 2)Update ing
in dselect, that source package list files are hit gotten.
Is there a way to get source file packages though dselect?
I fail to find any key combination in the help screens.
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