Re: KDE packages?

2001-01-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Saturday 13 January 2001 23:22, Rob Rati wrote: Is there another place to get KDE packages besides kde.tdyc.com? That site appears to be down. Does anyone know why it's down, or when/if it'll come back up? I thought I remembered hearing something about the site disappearing because tha

Re: running xconfig

2001-01-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Sunday 14 January 2001 11:41, William Leese wrote: i was. tried: $ xhost +local: but it gives the same error. You have to run it as the user in control of the X session, not as the user trying to gain access. Run xhost +localhost as the user running X. Incedentally, take a look at

apt-proxy configuration

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Guthrie
Can anyone send me a working configuration for apt-proxy that contains the standard distribution sections ( / /non-US /non-free)? Or perhaps you can tell me what I've done wrong; here are the backend entries for /etc/apt-proxy, stored on my box called wolf: add_backend /kde/

Re: invalid group name / home directory changed

2000-12-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 18:48, Erik Steffl wrote: ktb wrote: I don't know how but every file and directory has recursively changed in my home directory. What has changed is group and owner of all files. they are all now 1000. I can change the owner to kent but not the group. When

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
I was able to download 2.2.17 kernel sources, where the emu10k1 module was present. I used kernel-package to compile my kernel (with emu10k1 module, no other sound modules were needed). I use dpkg -i on my custom kernel .deb pacakge and then ran modconf. Worked fine for me, though you only

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 10:55, Carson Christian wrote: I have partitioned a separate physical disk into 3 partitions: /hdb1 is 3GB for my root. /hdb5 is 800MB for /usr, and /hdb6 is 128MB for swap. My primary OS is Win2k Pro. I want to be able to dual-boot when it's all said [...] First:

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 20:07, John Hasler wrote: Robert Guthrie writes: It [chrony] is not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package under most circumstances,... What do you think is wrong with it? Nothing _wrong_ per-se. Just not the most accurate time daemon, mostly

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 21:10, Jim Kroger wrote: unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass _ James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior Department of Psychology Did you ever see that ER

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
Anybody able to translate and/or respond to this? It just landed in my inbox: Abwesenheitsnotiz: autosetting time From: Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause.  Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.: 06151/818-5593)  

Re: [Fwd: Princeton's reputation]

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
I just got this back from hime (apparently). Looks like he wasn't reading the instructions carefully. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: UNSUBSCRIBING Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:10:55 -0500 From: Jim Kroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - At 9

Re: LI- Lilo just stops working SOLVED

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
The prize goes to Jiri Klouda *applause* for the winning tip. I checked out /usr/share/doc/lilo, and found the section that mentioned about 6 permutations of lilo just printing out LIL- (I mis-remembered, and thought it was just LI-. Anyway, the /boot/map file had not been updated when I

Re: SOLUTION: sblive

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
The latest stable kernels have the module in the tree, so if you plan on creating a custom kernel, it's there to be compiled, and the SB Live name is in the list of sound modules to pick from. On Thursday 07 December 2000 23:00, Chris Palmer wrote: Hi, all... It was a while since I asked for

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
I actually use chrony, which is a good-enough solution for my wierd setup: One machine (a tyan motherboard with a cyrix p150+) has a non-y2k compliant bios, which sets the date to 198x every time it's rebooted. I'm not connected to the internet fulltime, so I have cronyd running on a 486

Re: multi cd's via network (nfs, http, ftp,...)

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 10:41, Andrew Perrin wrote: ANy advice, short of copying all the cd's to a disk location which I'd rather not do? Thanks. You don't happen to have that many cdrom drives on machines connected to your network, do you? You could export the cdrom drives, and then

Re: 2.2 - 2.2.2r

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 16:20, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear colleages of list, it is not clear for me yet how to upgrade from 2.2 to 2.2r2. Should I do apt-get update apt-get -y dist-upgrade with a link to stable in the /etc/apt/sources.list? Thanks in advance for the help! Yes.

man errors when no man page available

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
Sometimes when I try to view a man page that doesn't exist (try man nomanpage, or man foo), I get these errors: man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz: bad

Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 15:31, Scott Patterson wrote: I would assume it's not a virus since the LI- is common when your MBR is messed up. Did you install a new kernel recently? Yes, but after the re-boot, it worked for at least 2-3 reboots before the problem reared it's homely head.

LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Guthrie
After setting up lilo on my MBR to allow me to dual-boot Debian and my game-OS, everything worked well. I had to use the lba32 option in lilo.conf to get this to work, so initially I was booting lilo from a floppy. Well everything is fine for a while, then one day, I reboot and get: LI- And

Re: Hi all

2000-12-04 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 01 December 2000 23:35, Tim Uckun wrote: digging around a bit I found out I was running on run-level 2! WTF?? I then changed the inittab and did a reboot (just to be sure) and bash segfaulted on me. Note that run level 2 is the default run level in debian. I never did understand

Re: Hi all

2000-12-04 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Saturday 02 December 2000 14:50, Tim Uckun wrote: Actually SSH was not working ither. It was never installed (wh not?) then I did a apt-get ssh and it said there was a dependency for libssl09 so I did a apt-get libssl09 but it could not find it. Well I decided to do a reinstall figuring

Re: unzip - again

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 08:28, Alistair Whittle wrote: Hi, Using 'apt-get install zip' worked like a charm to install the zip package. However, using the 'unzip' variant, the following error occurred: Package unzip has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically

Re: Potato KDE packages

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 08:55, Richard Hunt wrote: Are there such things as Debian potato KDE2 packages? ___ __ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com deb

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
If you have the budget for it, check out http://www.ora.com They have some of the most constently excellent books on the various unix tools and tasks (such as andministration, DNS configuration, Programming) that I've seen from any publisher. YMMV, but I swear by them, and have 8 paper books

Re: Kernel problems

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
Did you use kernel-package? It's a wonderful thing for maintaining kernels. It will help you easily create a .deb package from which you can install your custom kernel image. And you can create that package as a regular user (one less thing you have to do as root!). Once installed, check

Re: nfs problems - read/write, restarting nfs_damon

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 12:07, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: two linux boxes are connected via nfs to each other: MINI (kernel_2.2.17) -- GOOFY (kernel_2.0.38) the /etc/exports on GOOFY: /home/rland MINI(rw) After rebooting I do a MINI:/home/rland# mount -t nfs

Re: Linking Recursively

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 12:51, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: This is Unix, so you use several tools together to accomplish whatever you want: $ mkdir collapsed $ cd collapsed $ find /original/path -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ln -s [untested ofcourse!] Mike. actually, find

Re: nfs problems - read/write, restarting nfs_damon

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 30 November 2000 13:04, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Keeping temporärly away from NIS I added user rland on MINI to group users. On GOOFY user rland belongs only to group users. After this rland on MINI may view the files and do a ls -l, but he cannot write to the mounted nfs dir.

Re: VALinux box - NT4 - Debian emergency!

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: A small complication as that we need to practise installing NT4 onto the new server as we have a completely new IT support department who don't Blasphemy! ;-) much experience in this area. I'd like to get the VALinux box, possibly

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i can't send you mine

Re: apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 17:13, Alson van der Meulen wrote: I'm running the Potato version of this, if that matters. it does, woody as apt-move 4.x instead of 3.x shipped with potato, maybe that release will work, it has a quite different apt-move.conf format so i can't send you mine

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 07:41, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: MICKEY can ping GOOFY because of using the local C:\windows\hosts MINI can ping GOOFY because of using the local /etc/hosts But GOOFY cannot ping MICKEY or MINI by name although GOOFY's /etc/hosts containes: #file /etc/hosts

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was wanted? If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. The

Re: KDE2

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
There's a new kde mailing list (debian-kde), which is mostly for developers, but just lurking on that list will let you in on anything that might concernt a kde user. Currently, they've uploade new packages for kde libraries and some programs, but not all, and this is causing some people

Re: wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 12:53, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: connection. How should I define the right privileges in order to run wvdial or pon from my personal account? Thanks in advance! Add your personal account to the dip group. adduser youraccount dip -- Did you know that if you

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard drive pretty quickly. On Thursday 16 November 2000 09:58, Vicente wrote: My system has run out of hard disk space. I have removed several

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help (SOLVED)

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:02, Vicente wrote: 340MB on this directory was the problem!! Thanks As Dave Sherohman pointed out, apt-get clean will keep that directory clear of refuse. I'd suggest a cron job that runs /usr/bin/apt-get clean once a week or so. -- Did you know that

apt-move dain-brammage

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Guthrie
I must be missing something... I'm getting very wierd behaviour out of apt-move (apt-move.conf attached) I run apt-move update, and I get the usual stuff... #:/usr/doc/apt-move# apt-move update Updating Packages and override files... Getting: distribution names Getting: stable main

Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde and getting this output: snip ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE snip What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 10:24, David Teague wrote: MIS managers have a LOT of power. They frequently prohibit installation of any software by users. AND they are NOT always prohibited from use of the company systems to mail this list. Let's not be quite so tough on them. There are

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde snip What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care about that and the package name. You can do

Re: 'xhost' gives error message

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 12:13, GYULAI Mihaly wrote: When I try just: 'xhost', it gives me an error - Xlib: Connection to :0.0 refused by Server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server All this I tried as root, previously as user (with the same result). A day before it

Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Monday 13 November 2000 02:43, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I have two related question on procedure it would be great to have the answer to... 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave that in

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 01:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in

Re: Installing KDE2

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 17:27, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: Hi Tim, and all others. Yes, your're right, with apt-get will be better, but the sources.list line isn't work. I read that the person who support the package in his webpage says that package won't be accesible for personal

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 08:27, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: ... An analogy that illustrated a wrong concept... Exactly what I assumed. ... and another bad analogy illustrating what really does happen on a single network (no gateway involved). I'm not to sure

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 14:48, Robert Guthrie wrote: As you may have figured out, having 2 NICs on the same subnet would not do anything for you. The computer with 2 NICs would either recieve duplicate packets, and have to do double the work (forwarding duplicate packets), or it would have

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
Have you tried unmounting that partition and e2fsck-ing it? If it's your root partition, you might be able to accomplish that in single-user mode. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:12, Mike wrote: Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security problems associated with it that one ought to know about? Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it. I

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote: As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2. I agree with this assessment. robert_wilhelm_land wrote:

Re: sound

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
Are you a member of the group audio? If not, you won't have access to the dsp device, though I don't know if this is needed for playing audio cd's. On Wednesday 08 November 2000 19:16, Joseph Holland King wrote: since i have installed debian i have been without sound. my cdrom can read cd's

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup is the same as mine... 1 linux box, serving NFS and SMB to 2 desktops that dual-boot linux and windows 98. Under linux, I

Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:06, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Does ipfowarding relate on something special compiled into the kernel or do I need a certain package? Yes and Yes. Read the howto documents on IP-Masquerading and IP-Chains. Then re-read them, then meditate and pray for

Re: (sans sujet)

2000-11-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
Visit this site. There is a list of places to obtain HOWTO documents translated to french there. http://www.linuxdoc.org/links/nenglish.html On Wednesday 08 November 2000 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i will become a debian user but i'm new in this way and i just want to solve a problem:

Re: Newbie question

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 14:49, Sreeni R. Nair wrote: Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated. The hardest

Using apt-move to share apt-gotten kde2 packages not working.

2000-11-07 Thread Robert Guthrie
Apt-move works great for sources of packages that support rsync, but as far as I can tell, it won't work for deb http://kde.tdyc.com stable kde2 The thing I'm trying to accomplish is this: Using my pathetic 33.6 modem, I apt-get install some packages. After it's installed, I want to have