Re: DHCP weirdness? broken?

2011-02-03 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess. I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no success, the same with the dhclient-script

Re: DHCP weirdness? broken?

2011-02-03 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess. I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no success, the same with the dhclient-script

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-02 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The easy way out is to boot from a rescue disk, fix the mdadm.conf file, rebuild the initramfs, and reboot. The Real Sysadmin way is to start the array by hand from inside the initramfs. You want mdadm -A /dev/md0 (or possibly mdadm -A

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-16 Thread David Gaudine
On 10-12-16 3:13 AM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, David Gaudine dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: The temporary hostname is in each ARRAY line in mdadm.conf. I've never seen a hostname value on the ARRAY line in mdadm.conf. Are you confusing hostname and array name

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-15 Thread David Gaudine
On 10-12-10 10:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gaudine dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sdb grub-install /dev/sda grub-install /dev/sdb --root

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-15 Thread David Gaudine
On 10-12-15 11:59 AM, David Gaudine wrote: The temporary hostname is in each ARRAY line in mdadm.conf. As I understand it, the temporary hostname is also in the superblock, and these must match or I won't be able to boot. So, do I have to do something about the superblock (how?), or just

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-15 Thread David Gaudine
On 15/12/2010 9:57 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, David Gaudine wrote: Sorry to answer my own question, but a power failure caused a corrupted filesystem on another computer and gave me a free IP to experiment with. So, I went ahead and renamed my computer. I did edit the name

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-10 Thread David Gaudine
On 10-12-10 8:04 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Upgrading between releases is typically not just a simple apt-get/aptitude upgrade (dist-,full-) run. The upgrade process and things you have to consider when you upgrade are documented in the release notes and it is a good idea to follow them, as

RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-10 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to use RAID 1 for the first time. I've gone ahead and set up a system to test, using primarily these two guides: http://mikeoverip.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/debian-5-lenny-step-by-step-installation-with-software-raid-1-with-screenshots/ http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/ My system looks

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-10 Thread David Gaudine
On 10-12-10 3:50 PM, Reiner Buehl wrote: On 10.12.2010 21:15, David Gaudine wrote: 2) I put the SWAP partition on RAID. The first guide doesn't use RAID for swap. The author emailed me his comments about the pros and cons, and I think I want it on RAID for peace of mind. It shouldn't

Re: RAID1 with multiple partitions

2010-12-10 Thread David Gaudine
On 10/12/2010 8:11 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:57:09PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote: Here I have a big problem. The guide said to run grub and do root(hd0,0) setup(hd0) and repeat for the other disk. I don't have an executable file grub. grub-pc is installed. After a bit

Upgrading postgresql-8.0 to 8.1

2006-12-27 Thread David Gaudine
I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is local/obsolete in Etch I want to upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a few warnings so I want to make sure I'm doing it right before I do it on my main system. Here's what I did that seemed to work but gave some of

Re: Upgrading postgresql-8.0 to 8.1 (correction)

2006-12-27 Thread David Gaudine
Sorry, that's pg_upgradecluster 8.0 main, not 8.1 David Gaudine wrote: I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is local/obsolete in Etch I want to upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a few warnings so I want to make sure I'm doing it right before I do it on my

Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5

2006-01-27 Thread David Gaudine
I have to set up a system that is totally reliable w.r.t. data integrity. That is, if a disk (or anything else) fails, it's OK if the system is down for a few hours, but when it comes back up it has to be exactly as it was, i.e. I can't restore from the previous day's backup. The obvious

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread David Gaudine
I know that this is not recommended. But I often set up Debian machines for friends who have virtually no clue whatsoever and no intentions of changing this. The machines are obviously not very important but I want to provide at least a minimal level of security because if I do not it will be

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread David Gaudine
and if ththeresroblem with MTMTApgrade ?:) True, now and then I have to count the subject lines to make sure all systems are accounted for. But it's still better than logging in to all the systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2 years, and haven't had a lot of

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Kent West wrote: I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them, and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them to make your feelings

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Although the person who said you shouldn't is probably right, with Gnome try (at the login screen)

Gnome in sarge; is there a default desktop?

2003-12-11 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to use gnome in Sarge. I've never used gnome before, so I don't know what to expect, but I don't think I'm getting what I should. I selected gdm as the default window manager. I get the login screen. After I log in, I get a blank screen, but the mouse buttons let me access a

Re: Gnome in sarge; is there a default desktop?

2003-12-11 Thread David Gaudine
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 11:09 AM, David Gaudine wrote: Is there supposed to be a desktop by default? If not, is there something simple to do to enable it? I'm looking through the documentation, but I'm not doing very well. (Replying to myself) I received a suggestion by private

sqwebmail

2003-11-19 Thread David Gaudine
I'm having trouble with sqwebmail. I'm using sarge, but a quick attempt on a Woody system seemed the same. I followed the instructions in README.Debian; -copied /usr/lib/courier/sqwebmail/html to /home/mywebmail (I used cp -a, so the directory en-us and the link us were copied) - Added

Re: sarge net.iso

2003-11-18 Thread David Gaudine
- Original Message - Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Because of previous posts that the stable sarge netiso was not booting I downloaded the 11/15 version on Sunday. Very fast server: could do it easy on my 56kb line. It boots. I'm not sure what you mean by stable sarge, but I'm one

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote: Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ? I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Greg Madden wrote: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386- netinst.iso This one works here, it is dated Nov 9. Thanks. That's the one I used (I mistyped the link). Strange. As a test of my CD burning, and in a

Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-11 Thread David Gaudine
Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ? I get a CD that looks good when I browse it, but that won't boot. I burned it on the same system and with the same software that I used to burn my 3.0R1 CD, and tried it

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-11-03 Thread David Gaudine
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Carlos Sousa wrote: Besides, an imap server doesn't really work with an MTA. It just sits on top of a few directories and distributes mail to connecting clients according to a configured set of rules. So go ahead and use sendmail and courier-imap, no

Re: installing sarge with nforce2

2003-11-03 Thread David Gaudine
Philippe Makowski wrote: is the official installation cd of sarge (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2 chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ? is there a success story ? I haven't had any luck with the network adapters. However, I'm sure

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I currently have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in the config file and converted the mbox into a maildir with the same name in the same

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:39 AM, David Gaudine wrote: The only option I see for maildirs in the config file is for handling aliases and .forward. My incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mail/david and isn't seen by the imap client, and the maildirs option in the config file doesn't affect

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Exim's default configuration needs to be changed though in order to support maildirs, and you need to either create one (don't remember the command) you send yourself an email to create it. From the courier-base README.Debian: Just

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread David Gaudine
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Yup, the way I do this with KMail is to add a filter that checks if my domain is in the References-header and puts it in a special folder if it is. There's an idea. I'll try it. Although personally I'd still rather receive

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread David Gaudine
Steve Lamb wrote: Also there are other problems with the CC approach. Take, for example, a conversation between 20 people on the same topic (much like this one) all whacking reply-to-all. Ok, fine, why have the mailing list software at all? By the time that 20th person hits reply-to-all

Re: Spamassassin+evolution

2003-10-28 Thread David Gaudine
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I searched on size in their FAQ and found nothing ... furthermore, the INSTALL documentation shows an example procmail rule that contains no size limit. It may be the case that sa takes a while to process a large message,

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread David Gaudine
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header set on my outgoing messages, which should be a clue for some readers. (I was told that gmane would translate Mail-Copies-To to Mail-Followup-To automagically.) With this mail

Fresh install of Woody on Asus A7N8X (NFORCE2)

2003-06-19 Thread David Gaudine
Has anyone done a fresh install of Woody on an ASUS A7N8X? If so, did you have to make your own installation diskette, and what kernel did you use? I've followed the instructions in the installation guide to put my own kernel on the rescue disk, but I can't mount the driver disk image to put my

Re: Linux enigma

2003-03-07 Thread David Gaudine
Linux enigma: I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the suse installation utility created several directories

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? Here are a

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
Here is a link to a pdf file that contains everything I know about running remote X clients with and without ssh, and with and without xdm. Since it contains everything I know, it's a very short download. http://annette.concordia.ca/~david/X.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
I have tried printing to file from the Windows box, and it ouputs a .prn file, which is apparently of type: steve@gashuffer:~$ file Resume.prn Resume.prn: HP Printer Job Language data I'm more interested in what's in the file, rather than what file thinks. I don't have a postscript driver

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
If you save the file for Word as an RTF, it's alot easier for any other word processor or conversion program like unrtf to read it. I tried that a couple of days ago. I lost all my figures and most of my formatting. - David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
I did try that and it worked perfectly Then it's kind of late for me to comment. But that never stopped me before, so... No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do ctrl+alt+del I get system guard!

Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-06 Thread David Gaudine
Bob Hilliard writes: But most Windows mailers make you read mail on-line, which is an abomination. Outlook Express requires me to go online to download messages or to upload replies. It does not require me to be online while reading or composing. Neither does Eudora, as I recall. What

Spam that's good for a laugh for Debian users

2002-11-05 Thread David Gaudine
I got this spam today complimenting me on my web site: I visited annette.concordia.ca today and have the following comments. Your Images and Icons are creative and interesting. The content is informative and precise. ... As much as this warms my heart, I can't take credit for the design of

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2002-10-16 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Andrew Lindley wrote: I went for option 2 - ssh. I can ssh between the 2 hosts but the $DISPLAY variable does not get set on the server machine. I have ssh_config on both sides defaulting to ForwardX11=yes and can see the x11_get_proto line if I give ssh the -vv

xdm: getting back to chooser with ctl-alt-backspace

2002-10-16 Thread David Gaudine
I have this line in inittab: 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11/R6/bin/X -indirect daisy I have these lines in Xaccess on the same system: daisy daisy CHOOSER dewey daisy huey The system has xdm installed, but I changed Xservers to not put a prompt on the local system. This basically works, I can log in

Using Linux system as an X terminal

2002-10-08 Thread David Gaudine
I changed one of my systems to act as an X terminal by changing one line of /etc/initab and adding another line as follows: id:5:initdefault: 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query systemname This seems to work. Is there anything wrong with doing it this way? Is it appropriate to use run level 5?

X -query hostname

2002-09-25 Thread David Gaudine
I use xdm, and I want other systems to be able to use X -query hostname to act as terminals connected to my system. When they try, they get a blank X screen and no login prompt. I don't know whether they're successfully connecting and not getting the prompt, or not connecting at all. On my

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was doing. I put exec gnome-session in the .xsession file, copying what Matthew said. (I suppose copying someone who's having problems may not be the best thing to do, but what the heck.) My .xsession-errors tells me gnome-session not

undefined symbol: _fxstat when using NAG FORTRAN with potato (only)

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
I have an application that runs fine on hamm and slink, but on potato it says undefined symbol: _fstat The application was compiled with NAG FORTRAN 95, and the symbol is referenced by a shared library that was provided with the compiler. I've verified that _fstat is a system routine of some

ssh and libgpm2.so (potato)

1999-06-02 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to install ssh (not ssh2) on potato. It can't find libgmp2.so. That sounds suspiciously like something that should be in the libgmp2 package, but that package is installed. ssh is 1.2.27-1 libgmp2 is 2.0.2-1.2 Perhaps I should mention that I previously installed ssh2 and had to remove

Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread David Gaudine
I just telnetted to my potato system and tried to su to root. (I know I should be using ssh, but it's my ssh problem that I was trying to fix, thanks Brad.) I got the message su: incorrect password Surely I didn't forget my own root password, but just in case, I went physically to the system

Potato system can't export NFS file systems

1999-05-28 Thread David Gaudine
My Slink systems can export NFS file systems to each other and to my Potato system, and can mount remote file systems from each other. My Potato system can mount remote NFS file systems from my Slink systems. But, my Potato system can't seem to export a file system. On the Potato system, I

problems with smbfsx and acct (potato)

1999-05-21 Thread David Gaudine
I just upgraded from slink to potato. This seemed like the best way to get support for my video card which has the Rage 2 C chipset. That works, but the upgrade affected a few other things, including; Where is smbmount for the 2.2 kernel? It seems to be present in smbfs but not in smbfsx which

Daylight Savings Time

1999-04-23 Thread David Gaudine
One of my Slink systems, a fresh install, currently reports all times in EST, i.e. it doesn't acknowledge daylight savings time. My other system, which was upgraded from Hamm, reports times in EDT. How can I control this?

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread David Gaudine
I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution? What exactly do you

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread David Gaudine
From: Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: Skipping deselected package: bash Skipping deselected package: bang Skipping deselected package: beat I remember

Can't use rsh as root

1999-03-19 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to use rsync from one Debian system to another. It works fine for transferring files from my user directory one one system to my user directory on the other, while I'm logged in to my user account. When I su to root and try, I get permission denied. auth.log shows Mar 19 13:02:19

rsh from root: must use rshd -h

1999-03-19 Thread David Gaudine
I found the answer to my earlier question about why I could use rsh from my own account but not from root even though .rhosts and hosts.equiv were set. In inetd.conf it's necessary to add the -h option to rshd. I don't know how big a security risk that is, or if there's a good reason why -h

Re: IMAP4-4.1 Broken

1998-02-26 Thread David Gaudine
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dale Harrison wrote: Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this? IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell. I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory. IMAP4-4.1

Re: Deltree command?

1998-02-23 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: It's not rmdir, but just rm; rm -r is what you want - rm -rf does what you want without asking questions (Just plain rm -r will ask you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access to). I hope I don't need to say how

Can't install samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (the one in hamm)

1998-02-16 Thread David Gaudine
dselect was unable to upgrade my samba using samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb. I then rather foolishly used dpkg --purge samba to see if a fresh install went better, this was a mistake since it left me with no samba at all instead of the older one. I have copied the dselect messages to the end of this

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. I have the same (or a

Re: upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It worked fine with bo but when i start the server under hamm, my machine switches to video mode, blanks the screen, and stops talking to the console. The server output looks normal (looks like it's not aware there's a problem). I cant

Re: I burst my LILO (new user)

1997-12-19 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, ADRIAN CLAYTON wrote: Having installed from diskimage floppies, I accidentally deleted some stuff (in the /dpkg directory) and decided to start over again. Since I reinstalled, LILO sticks every time I boot from harddisk. I then also imported LOADLIN~.DEB and configured

Re: smail gone made

1997-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning, there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail begain

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread David Gaudine
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: I have also had dselect render my system incapabile of a full boot a couple of times following an install session. The last being a couple of days ago and was an fsck check failure. Dselect had removed libcom_err which it seem caused e2fsck to fail to

Wild interrupt detection, and ATI bus mouse

1997-11-22 Thread David Gaudine
My ATI bus mouse doesn't work, with either GPM or X. But first, what does Wild interrupt detection mean? While booting I get the message Wild interrupts found: 5 The message is generated by setserial, in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. It's interesting that IRQ5 is the interrupt of the non-working

Re: Wild interrupt detection, and ATI bus mouse

1997-11-22 Thread David Gaudine
On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I compiled the kernel with ati bus mouse support Did you compile it as a module? If so then you'll need `insmod atixlmouse' or just add it to /etc/modules. I didn't compile it as a module. I compiled support

Re: unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right entries into dpkg-ftp

Incorrect no room message on nfs-mounted /var/lib/dpkg

1997-11-17 Thread David Gaudine
I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition). I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did NFS mounts; Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no effect.. I don't think I have the NIS package installed, what is it? I have a similar problem; when I run pine I get the message incomplete maildomain annette Return address in

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread David Gaudine
Sorry if this is a rerun, I think the list rejected it the first time because my email address was bad, which is sort of the point of this thread. On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no effect.. I don't think I have the NIS

Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-17 Thread David Gaudine
On 14 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Gaudine writes: When I try to configure ppp I get: Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... chown: root.dip: invalid group dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): I ran into that recently with diald. Turned out to be a typo in /etc

Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-17 Thread David Gaudine
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Gaudine wrote: OOPs, addgroup only accepts letters and numbers, root.dip is invalid. So I edited /etc/group as follows: operator:*:37: root.dip:*:39: src:*:40: Thanks to those who pointed out that root.dip is not the group name, it means user root

root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp

1997-03-14 Thread David Gaudine
When I try to configure ppp I get: Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... chown: root.dip: invalid group dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): Should I simply create the group using addgroup? What should the group ID be?

Re: xdm : always reply login incorrect

1997-03-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote: I just installed Debian Linux 1.2 from Infomagic Pack. I have a problem I can't fix, maybe you will help me : When I start Linux, xdm starts with the graphic banner login but I can't log in from it : it always replies login incorrect. I have

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-20 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... Nor any

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-11 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs, TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen with Exit highlighted.

Re: Just a Proposition....:-)))

1997-01-06 Thread David Gaudine
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A text based installation of the BASE system (whatever it is) plus X. Later we continue the installation under X by just using something like xdselect or xdpkg (without cryptic spells, just checkboxes). Of course there should be an option for all

Re: g77 failure

1996-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: I have now installed: gcc_2.7.2.1-2.deb g77_0.5.18-2.deb gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `f771': No such file or directory As I understand it, f77 wants gcc 2.7.2 and not gcc 2.7.2.1 I don't know the correct solution, but I just made a

Re: g77 f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: people here are having very serious problems with both g77 and f2c: the numbers which come out at the end are different from any other architecture we can lay our hands on, i.e. they have declared the boxes unfit for numerical calculations.

Re: g77 f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: I would greatly appreciate any information or patches. A bug report is in the process of being prepared for both the g77 developers and the f2c developers. Incidentally, should I send a bug report to the Debian developers too? I should add

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread David Gaudine
On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with c.o.l.{debian,redhat,caldera,slackware,craftworks,yggdrasil,wgs,

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: It is also easy to start reading a newsgroup. Many more people read a newsgroup than an average mailing list. [snip] Subscribing to a list takes much more effort, which reduces the number of participants. [snip]

Re: mgetty basic setup

1996-08-28 Thread David Gaudine
/mgetty. Did you mean /usr/info? That seems to have the same information as Gert's Postscript file, which is what I used for my successful Slackware installation. Following that info is complicated a bit by not having policy.h. David Gaudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : 2) What should

mgetty basic setup

1996-08-27 Thread David Gaudine
I have mgetty working on a Slackware system, so I assumed I'd have no trouble getting it working on a Debian system. Boy, was I wrong. I have no idea what I'm doing, or why nobody else seems to have trouble. I couldn't find any debian-specific instructions. 1) using dpkg --contents

Debian-1.1 Packages file sync problem

1996-06-19 Thread David Gaudine
Bruce Perens writes: I ran a Packages file update yesterday but it apparently did not complete. I am running one now. That should be a pretty popular download. What worries me is whether the market is going to be flooded with CDROMs with bad Packages files. With Slackware that always seems

Re: Debian-1.1 Packages file sync problem

1996-06-19 Thread David Gaudine
Kai Grossjohann writes: I suggest throwing away the Packages thingy completely and always telling dselect to update its info based on the actual contents of the directory. People have been hit too often by that problem, I think. This could be combined with the update option in

Re: Debian Linux Distribution Release 1.1 Now Available

1996-06-18 Thread David Gaudine
I installed the beta a few weeks ago. I realize that there's a procedure to upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1, but is there a procedure to upgrade from the 1.1 beta to 1.1, or do I just grab the packages and Packages.gz? Will dselect ugrade everything, including dselect itself and the files that were

Re: package conflicts

1996-06-13 Thread David Gaudine
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: psfonts There's gsfonts, fonts for ghostscript. Is that what you mean? I got some sort of can't find psfonts error, I forget the details, when I was using a bad copy of one of the package in

Re: Debian 1.1beta problems

1996-06-12 Thread David Gaudine
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the

/etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1

1996-05-28 Thread David Gaudine
I get this message daily: From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Tue, 28 May 96 06:42 EDT run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1 /etc/cron.daily/find is; #! /bin/sh # # cron script