No setup signature found...

Hey Guys, I was compiling a 2.4 kernel (test5) and put the info in lilo.conf, ran lilo and now on boot if I try to boot the image, I get a message saying: No setup signature found... the system then halts. Does anyone know what may be causing this? I buit another kernel from the same 2.4 source

mmap(0): Illegal seek

Hey Guys, I received this message in my system check. I was wondering what this illegal seek is. Is this an attempt to exploit ftpd? Looks like my wrappers kept them out, but I was wondering if there was anything else to this... thanks, A. D. Ghost Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 28

cdrecord

Can anyone help with a cdrecord problem? I've read the docs and man and still get errors. Please reply if you have some experience or could lead me to developers. Thanks, D. Ghost

Re: downgrading to potato

You just change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to potato stable: deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main deb-src

communicator 4.6 library missing (but here)

... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xlibs is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded. HERE IT IS: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 Thanks for any info, A. Debian Ghost

missing /dev/hda2

Hey Debianers, I have a question about a partition of my hard drive that I can't seem to locate. When I set this machine up, I set up a 10 gig drive to have /dev/hda1 with 7 gigs and set the rest aside for another partition (can't remember why I did this, but I did... I don't think I could get all

system.map wrong ?

Hey Guys, Somehow I have a messed up system.map file. Could someone tell me what this file is/does, and how I can fix mine? I get this result from a ps -ef : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work_data ps -ef | grep netscape {no_halt} {init_task_union} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.15 does not match kernel

Netscape, IMAP and compact folder (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:22:58 -0500 (EST) From: Debian Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Netscape, IMAP and compact folder On occasion, when using IMAP, my netscape will fail to compact the folder

Re: DESTROY

Ah, That may explain it. I had tried to upgrade from potato to woody, and as soon as the woody perl was installed, my apt-get upgrade really crashed. All the packages started having conflicts with each other (specifically gnome packages). Maybe I need to upgrade perl? Should I dpkg --purge perl

Re: DESTROY

I don't know much about perl or debconf. What is the best way to see which perl and debconf I have? I had to back out of a woody install, but I don't think some things got backed down (perl maybe being one) Thanks! D. Ghost

RE: DESTROY

and 0 not upgraded. On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Steeve Lennmark wrote: Nah, you just need some other perl-stuff, try: apt-cache search perl | grep 5.6 // Steeve. -Original Message- From: Debian Ghost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 29 november 2000 14:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

RE: DESTROY

. // Steeve. -Original Message- From: Debian Ghost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 29 november 2000 14:16 To: Joey Hess Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DESTROY I don't know much about perl or debconf. What is the best way to see which perl and debconf I

whois use

Hey Guys, I have a whois question. I was trying to get the abuse contact info for a mass spam, but for some reason I am not coming up with anything. I thought that I was doing this in the proper format with the proper whois server, but obviously I am doing something wrong. Could anyone give me a

DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd)

Steve's return below... ? Any advice? Thanks! Debian Ghost On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Steeve Lennmark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% apt-cache search perl | grep 5.6 perl-5.6-suid - Runs setuid Perl scripts. libperl5.6 - Shared Perl library perl-5.6 - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report

DESTROY

Hey Guys, I've lately been noticing this 'DESTROY' message coming up when I apt-get a package. I am not sure what it is or what it means. Can anyone give me a hint as to what this means? 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 246kB of archives. After

cron unusual event

Hey Guys, I was wondering what may be causing my logcheck to report every time a cron session is opened / closed via root. The weird thing is that root has no user crontab file. Would this be talking about /etc/crontab and cron.daily / monthly ? I'm not sure what else it could be. Give the Ghost

samba or NFS mount

Hey Guys, I was wondering what would be better to use in this situation. I want to basically be able to have read access to a particular LAN device on which the files are on a NT server and the client(s) that I want to be able to read files (mostly spreadsheets *.xls) that change daily. So I guess

Re: samba or NFS mount

Thank you for the reply. So samba is the only way to mount an NT filesystem? Sounds good... Do I need to run a samba server on the linux machine or would the server be an application on the NT machine. I went to samba.org/samba to read the FAQs and I'm still a little confused as to what I do to

CISCO -- debian tool(s)

Hey Guys, I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco routers and/or other Cisco gear. I was thinking about things like analytical tools and configuration tools. Mainly I am interested in anything that is happening now and/or being developed. Any info much

System.map

Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something. The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but that is all I've done. Anyone help with this? meanwhile as Debian Ghost does a shift insert

8 bit color

suggestions welcome! Thanks so much, Debian Ghost

gnomeICU

Hey Guys, I just upgraded from gnomeicu .90b to .94. When I go to run it now, I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ gnomeicu ** ERROR **: file extern.c: line 639 (s_panel_add_applet_full): assertion failed: (li != NULL) aborting... ** WARNING **: file applet-widget.c: line 934: Corba Exception:

Audio IN ? -- Is this mic on?

Hello Debianers, I have been wondering what sort of program I can use that would allow recording audio in (to .wav or something similar) ? I currently use xmms for audio out. Now I need the counter part. ANY suggestions welcome! Thanks a lot! Debian Ghost. 'space ghost in a forrest'

Netscape spelling option

Hey Guys, For some reason netscape did not install with the spelling option. Is there a special way or package I need to be able to spell check? I thunk it wode reley help my work parformence. *grin* Thanks, Debian Ghost

HELIX and potato

Hey Guys, I notice that there is no helix gnome package for potato. Is there an eazy way to implement helix into potato? I am using regular gnome and want to go to helix. Any advice? Thanks! D. Ghost

apache sending request to old hostname

Hello All, I have a strange thing going on with apache and I'm not sure why this is happening. When I put a request in from my localhost to go to http://localhost/. It will work. But when I try to go to localhost/anything, it tries to send me to my hold hostname. I've looked in apache.conf and

audio in

Hey Guys, Is there a program that will capture audio in? I want to record some sound bytes. Thanks, D. Ghost!

jetdirect and lpr

Hey Guys, I've just changed networks and was using lpr with a printer on the lan that was using jetdirect. I am now on a different network and have edited my /etc/printcap to point the remote printer to the new IP. The only thing is now when I print... nothing comes out on the printer. Am I

EFM

Hello, Anyone know if EFM requres XF4.0? I'd like to try, but I am running XF3.6 on a ati rage pro + dvd. Thanks! D. Ghost

gnome-name-server

Hello All, Does anyone know what this gnome-name-server is? I did an apt-get install of panel or gnome and suddenly I am running gnome-name-server? Could anyone explain what it is? Thanks a lot! D. Ghost Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Oct 28 16:02:02 ghost

Re: gnome-name-server

Hello Bruno, each CORBA object can conenct through the orb to other objects, it has Hehe, I feel like I just stepped into the star ship ent:) What is a CORBA and what is an orb? several ways to get the reference on that other object the simplest beeing asking a nameserver for it (the

smtp domain question

Hey Guys, I have just changed DNS to point to a different domain. I changed from ghost.net.cfw.com to ghost.ntelos.net. I edited the /etc/exim.conf file to reflect the change, but for some reason when I telnet to smtp ESMTP, it still thinks it is the old domain rather than the new. Is there a

domain change

Hey Guys, I posted this question earlier in another way, but no one replied to it. Maybe if I ask in another way: I changed the domain name of my machine (via DNS) and was wondering if there was a global file that I need to change to tell my machine it is host.new.domain rather than

gnome shortcuts

Hey All, Silly little question here. I can swear I used to drag icons from the Gnome pager to the desktop to create a shortcut. I recently had to reinstall enlightenment (not gnome) but when I started X again, all my gnome stuff was gone. When I try to drag icons off the main gnome pager to the

sound module

For some reason my sound module stopped working recently. I can't fathom any configuration changes that I've made. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this working? Oct 25 16:43:07 ghost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/ad1848.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed Oct 25 16:21:20 ghost insmod:

60 gig drive

Hello Debianers, I was thinking about getting a 60 gig hard drive and was wondering what linux constraints were on having a drive that big. Would I be able to have one large 60 gig partition or would I have to break it up into several smaller partitions? Thanks in advance! D. Ghos

Re: 60 gig drive

Actually I was thinking of an internal EIDE, not scsi. Would EIDE pose a problem? Thanks for your reply! D. Ghost

ethereal and display

Hey Guys, I would like to be able to use ethereal without having to start X from root. I've never really understood what tells the xserver who can display, but if anyone could tell me what I am doing wrong, much appriciated! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 [EMAIL

more than 64 megs ram?

Hey Guys, I've totally forgotten what to do if you have more than 64 megs ram in a machine. I have 128 megs in one of my machines, but it is not coming up for me. I was also wondering another way to identify how much ram is in a mcahine other than using 'top'. Thanks, D. Ghost 'space ghost

sunrpc

Hello All, I removed *portmap from /etc/rc2.d and I am still having sunrpc start up on boot. I want to remove sunrpc from my system, but am having trouble. Can anyone explain how sunrpc starts and how to stop it from starting? Thanks! D. Ghost

audio for root, not user

Hello All, I have a question. One one debian box I have sound working properly. On another It is not. I type in the same command to load the modules, but different modules appear to be loaded if I do a lsmod. On the machine that is not working properly: After I load the sound modules and try to

gnome panel (catch me if you can)

Hey Guys, Have a question about gnome panel and enlightenment. I am currently using the enlightenment pager and have two pagers with 4 workspaces each. Most of the time my gnome panel will only be on one set of the pagers. I'd like to have the panel running in all 8 windows at all times. The

.bashrc question

\' Basically all I want to do is set the prompt from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ (I prefer to see to $) Also, wish to have my ls = ls --color. Both of these things are not working. It almost seems as if my .bashrc is ignored. Can anyone give bash advice? Thank$ a lot! Debian Ghost 'space

david the gnome

Hello All, D Ghost here. Have a quickie. How can I tell if I installed gnome or helix gnome? I can not remember which I installed. Thank you kindly, D. Ghost 'space ghost riding a fox named swift'

staroffice .bin

Hey Debianers, D ghost here. Just wanted to ask if anyone had had any success with Staroffice. I was not sure what to do with the 97 meg *.bin file that I d/l from Sun site. I have nothing to README :) Please advise how to get started with this install. Thanks, D. Ghost p.s- I love apt.

Re: last rc. file ???

Hello Krzys, Thank you for the speedy reply. I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically says I have not passed the proper arguements. I put the entry in the alias file and also put the entry in options. I am unsure why it still is not working. Is there anything else I

Re: sunrpc (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:21:16 -0500 (EST) From: Debian Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sunrpc Dear Olaf, Thank you for the reply! I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Does