At 3:32 am, Friday, October 12 2001, Robert L. Harris mumbled:
> Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say.
>
> The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato.
> The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At
> some
> point in the fut
At 12:37 pm, Saturday, October 13 2001, Gary Turner mumbled:
> I don't know about you, but fixing my first problem and then watching
> Linux boot was a warm fuzzy. Now if I can just get cron to stop mailing
> me every hour that news is failing (it's not even set up yet).
>
You can just move the n
At 10:05 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, Stephen Gran mumbled:
> p.s. - I'm told the debian way is much easier, but I've never used it,
> so others can tell you more.
>
AHHA! The Debian Way!
Basically, you can install a kernel-source .deb from apt, or download a
tarball from kernel.org, it doesn't r
At 10:04 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) mumbled:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:36:27 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation?
>
> I did some work on it, but abandoned it as I've encountered no problems with
> 2.95.x in my configurat
> On debian-user someone suggested that this is configured in
> /etc/X11/Xserver, but I believe that that file is obsoleted: it is not in
> my new install, `dpkg -S` doesn't know about it (apparently on my old
> installation it is a relict of a previous Debian version), and I cannot
> find it docum
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered:
>
> slink, potato, woody...what's going to be the name of the next "testing"?
>
Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody.
At the moment, it's dubbed 'woody+1', but I doubt that will stick. :-)
--
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:32:55PM -0600, Adam McDaniel uttered:
> Apparently, if you're running testing or later, you have to build those
> files yourself. Simply done by
>
> # cd /usr/include; h2ph -r -l .
>
> that converts all the c header files into perl header files. Effectivly
> it fixes (o
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:51:06AM -0700, Dale Morris uttered:
> PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Starting kswapd v1
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Ron Reinhart uttered:
> I just got NFS running to build a kernel on a small hd laptop to apply a
> fix for the trackball (DEC HiNote CS450) using the NFS-HOWTO. I can
> access files for read and write as root on the client fine.
> (rw,no_root_squash set in
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:32PM +0700, San Segkhoonthod uttered:
> The best way is to have an ext2 partition for /boot, so you can always
> have GRUB load linux kernel. That way, it will be easier to change your
> linux root file system to some other file system.
>
If you are tracking unstable
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Firebeam al mare uttered:
> === BEGIN CUT HERE ===
> Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
> ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/bas
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:23:35AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
> If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ?
> My thoughts are something like:
>maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like
> if [-x /path/AIRC]
> ./path/AIRC #
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
> smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as
> a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd
> love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.)
>
Cheating, and mounting my *cough* W
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
>
> $ dpkg -S \*mdb\*
That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc.
> postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html
> postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz
> postgresql-
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:42:50PM +1000, David Wiener uttered:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/hbf-cns40-5.postrm: /usr/bin/kpsewhich: No such file or
> directory
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which kpsewhich
/usr/bin/kpsewhich
[EMAIL PROTECTE
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 01:15:03AM -0300, Daniel Toffetti uttered:
> AFAIK, this has nothing to do neither with Debian, nor with God. May He
> send them where they deserve...
>
Go directly to /dev/null, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Or something. :-))
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:26:04PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered:
> I don't think that was their point. It is not viral in that respect, but
> it is viral in that (from what I understand) anything GPL'ed can't get
> sucked into another program without that other program being required to
> be GPL'ed
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:00:39PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther uttered:
> This way you're able to archive even the last 10 kernels you build just for
> fun and boot them to see _what da he**_ you changed since then :-)
>
Boot them? Who said anything about booting them? :-)
If you used kernel-package,
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:23:43PM +, Ch?taignier Etienne uttered:
> I've got a intel 740 graphic card and I don't know how to
> make it work for the debian because I didn't find the i740
> X server. Can you help me please?
>
*kicks his stoopid i740*
Depends on which X version you're running
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:33:22PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry uttered:
> there are gobs and gobs of them. GNOME has some, KDE has some, plain GTK+ and
> QT. Try Multimedia->Graphics->Viewers on freshmeat. All of the good ones are
> packaged.
>
I see you forgot to mention that some of the not so
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:36:40PM -0400, Wayne Topa uttered:
> mailboxes ! =admin =gtt2323 =jaytee =bulk =majordomo \
> =Lists/atm =Lists/scope-drive =Lists/Quickcam \
> =Lists/netfilter =Lists/shorewall =Lists/packet-writing \
> =inbox =linux =jane =sent-mail nsmail/Inbox /program/OLD
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:52:04AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan uttered:
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat
> ld: unrecognized option '--oformat'
> ld: use the --help option for usage information
E?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep oformat ./linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile
$(LD) -Ttext 0x0
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:52:53AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan uttered:
> Things seem to be going fine until the end of the build, when I get:
> (Please excuse any typos, e.g., I can't get the ' to swing the other way ;) )
>
> bbootsect.s: Assembler messages
> bbootsect.s:253: Warning: indirect lca
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:01:59AM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered:
>
> what would be a command (or script) which would execute a given command
> after a certain amount of time? for example I want to run something like
>
> ./offin 60 poff
>
> where offin is a script/command, 60 is the # of minutes b
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Nathan E Norman uttered:
> In my opinion this boils down to a religious issue: some hate Dan
> Bernstein (and by extension his software), and I hate BIND because
> it's a massive bloated buggy pile of crap. I don't think either of us
> will convince the o
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:46:23PM -0400, Ken Januski uttered:
> Does anyone know if there's a preferred owner of files in /var/www for
> Apache html files? When I set it up it defaulted to root.root. I suppose
> I could just change owner to myself but I'm wondering if there's not a
> better way to
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:00:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft uttered:
> my potato apache server identifies itself as:
> Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 AuthPostgreSQL/0.7.1
> mod_ssl/2.4.10 OpenSSL/0.9.4 mod_perl/1.21_03-dev
>
> which is way too much information for my personal taste
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:20:01PM +0200, Joost Kooij uttered:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:38:13PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:31:43PM -0600, John Galt uttered:
> > > Let me guess: you're running X as root. Shame shame shame!
> > >
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:31:43PM -0600, John Galt uttered:
> Let me guess: you're running X as root. Shame shame shame!
>
I'll give you shame. X is setuid root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7136 Jul 13 16:31 /usr/bin/X11/X
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:45:06AM -0500, John Hasler uttered:
> Adam Bell writes:
> > Woohoo! More donations for us!
>
> These guys have run up a bill of at least $10,000 just in the last few
> days. Unfortunately, Debian has, AFAIK, never attempted to collect the
> $1999 from anyone.
Pity. It'
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:06:49PM +, Victor uttered:
> So, in a nutshell:
>
> Not willing to do a mess with my potato 2.2r3 *JUST SUCCESSFULLY
> RESTORED* installing anything from testing or worse unstable I wonder
> if it is possible simply to add the needed modules simply compiling
> with t
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:47:06AM +, Victor uttered:
> I'm unable to find dh-make-perl && rtfm under
>
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free
>
> Where can I find them?
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered:
> Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here as
> well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does not
> install bin86, which is necessary to build the boot code. Now I know Joost
> i
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson uttered:
> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're
> mounted, they're owned by amy.hall.
>
> amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "users" exists also
> and hall is a member of it.
>
What is h
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P uttered:
> Hello,
> I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in
> Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain
> some feedback as to whether Debian is appropriate for new users.
>
Gah! Don't do
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +1000, Brian May uttered:
> Well, in theory, all UDP packets could be numbered, much like TCP
> packets, and you get exactly the same reliability TCP offers. This
I doubt that. UDP isn't a connection oriented protocol, and as such, it
can't deal with a packet out
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:46:03PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered:
>
> Musta done something wrong in the install. After a lot of frustration, I
> figured out that I needed to do an "ifconfig down tunl0" from root to kill
> whatever "tunl0" is before my connection to the internet works. So, once
> it
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:45:44PM -0400, D-Man uttered:
> I bet none of them (the management anyways) do -- they tell their IT
> department to make it work :-). Then the IT department pulls a
> NT=>Linux changeup under their nose and the need to reboot stops.
> (I've read of this actually happeni
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:18:50PM +1000, David & Leanne Wiener uttered:
> Hi,
> When I apt-get an application, the new packages download fine but then
> apt-get unpacks another package that was left from a previous session. This
> package is lilo, I use grub as my boot manager and don't want to
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan uttered:
> I suppose I can install a bare-bones potato and dist-upgrade to
> testing but that's an additional step I would rather avoid if
> possible.
>
Install a base potato syetem, and when you reboot, ask to edit sources.list
manually and
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:37:15PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman uttered:
> dear all,
>
> this is from dpkg:
>
> ii yadex 1.0.1-1.1 WAD file editor for doom-style WADs
>
> this is from the yadex website:
>
> 2001-06-30 - Yadex 1.5.2 is out
Hm, it does look the maintain
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:19:32AM +0200, Daniel Kleine-Albers uttered:
> Hello,
>
> which version of apt-move do you use? The one from potato?
> I recommend you to use the apt-move from testing/woody. I just set it up a
> few days ago - without any problems. I think apt-move hasn't many depends
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:02:24PM -0400, D-Man uttered:
> Yes "Enlightened Sound Daemon". I don't have a sound card in this
> box, but I used to have one and it could only play 1 sound at a time.
> So if I had WinAmp going, and I was working on a presentation in
> PowerPoint, I wouldn't notice th
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:20:26PM +, Victor uttered:
> In my sources.list I've the following line:
>
> deb http://http.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free
>
> working smoothly for a long stretch.
>
> What's the matter with this site? Has anything changed since a couple
> of
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:42:20PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed uttered:
>
> Is there any way to pass the "-j " option to make when building
> kernels using make-kpkg ?
>
Read the README for kernel-package.
Make a .kernel-pkg.conf in ~ as the user you compile it as.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i concurr
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Robert Matijasec uttered:
> 56 data byes
> neighbour table overflow
> ping:sendto: No buffer space available
> ping:wrote 24.217.12.166 64 chars ret=-1
> neighbour table overflow
> etc, etc ...
>
Put 'auto lo' on a line by itself in /etc/network/interfaces
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Jay Latham uttered:
> I hope I don't get flamed for asking this on this
> list but here goes.
> I've decided that it's time I learned a little about
> programming and I've decided that, for various reasons,
> Perl would be a good place to start. But I'm con
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:57:57PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki uttered:
> On archive.debian.org the oldest release is buzz.
> I have debian 0.93r6, but only binaries for i386.
> Does anybody has any older releases?
>
> Thanks :)
>
archive.debian.org only archives offical releases, of which Buzz was
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:52:00AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor uttered:
> Unfortunately, I *have* installed it and don't have a session open.
> Question: What is the best way (using a rescue disk) to
> fix/circumvent/whatever pam well enough to be able to login once and repair
> the situation with
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:35:51AM -0700, Edwin Lau uttered:
> I have the same problem, just wait for a fix... =(
>
Download libpam*.deb from http://incoming.debian.org
And blame the PAM maintainer.
--
Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn'
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:20:33PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt uttered:
>
> I have i810 graphics on a Pentium III machine.
>
> I just upgraded to X 4.0.3 using:
And there is your problem.
X 4 is set by default not to listen on a TCP port.
check /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
--
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:48:44PM +0200, Rutgher Pruijm uttered:
Don't post in HTML, it's evil and will probably make people ignore you.
You need to install xserver-common and xbase-clients.
That should get down everything you need to run X.
--
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:57:52AM +, John Patton uttered:
> My systems clock is set for my local time zone (or used to
> be), which always worked well before. Now it lists the time
> in UTC (correctly, meaning that the time listed is about
> 5 hours off of the actual time). This is causing pro
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Colin Watson uttered:
> Please don't cc me on mailing list mail; my mail headers say not to, and
> if you don't then I get to filter mailing lists somewhere else rather
> than have it all end up in my inbox. Besides, if anyone might have
> wanted the URL ge
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:51:45PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered:
> I tried running dpkg with debugging info on, but unfortunately that still
> doesn't shed any light on the problem. Can someone give me a few pointers
> as to why a postinst script would bomb with this particular error? Or how
> I
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:04:00AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered:
> now I get "init_module: No such device", all systems running
> "unstable". sndconfig doesn't seem to deal with 2.4 kernels (complains
> about sound_core missing, I wonder if I can alias that away...)
>
Did you compile in Sound
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:31:52AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas uttered:
> Hello, everyone ...
>
> I finally succesfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel using make-kpkg but in
> order to have my modules.dep set by depmod I had to make some symlinks
> because the architecture of the /lib/modules/2.4.5/ directo
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:41:21AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke uttered:
> I had to alter "xdvi.bin" to "xdvi.real" in the xdvi Skript to make xdvi
> work. Is this a bug or does it depends on my configuration, which is
> AFAIK the default one coming with potato.
>
I've filed a bug to that effect (#10
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Alex Suzuki uttered:
> Thanks kent. I'm now using .xinitrc exclusively.
>
> xsetroot -solid black &
> sawfish &
> panel
>
> I'm also backgrounding the windowmanager because I'm using gnome.
>
E?
If you want to drag in gnome you put 'gnome-session' at
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:35:01PM +0200, vester uttered:
> > Ahha! The fun of removing init scripts.
> > touch /etc/init.d/gdm
> > chmod 755 /etc/init.d/gdm
> > apt-get remove gdm
>
> but still, that doesn't bring the original gdm script back, does it? or am
> i missing something?
>
No, of cours
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Hans uttered:
> from http://hell.hell.pl/baran/tek/linux/debian/ttmkfdir/ as it is not in
> unstable), this will create a new fonts.dir file with the truetype fonts
ttmkfdir not in unstable?
You must have missed something.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache se
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:53:24PM +0200, vester uttered:
> [...]
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gdm: file does not exist
> dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> [...]
>
> it works fine if i first touch /etc/init.d/gdm only that
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:04:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
> hey, im having trouble finding the right boot disk. i have an older version
> of debian (2.2) and i can only find the boot disk for the newest version.
> could you send me the .bin or .img or send me a link to download it. tha
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:47:32AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
> Using wvdial and minicom, I get connected, but then something happens and I
> do not get on the internet. wvdial keeps redialing, minicom stays where it
> is. ppp is apparently properly installed, judging by the relative logs, but
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:19:10PM +1000, Andrew Pollock uttered:
> Any ideas why it's happening?
>
> I'm running 1.3.19-1 from unstable.
>
What does /var/log/apache/error.log say?
That file has helped me _heaps_ of times.
--
Steve
"I'm a sy
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:38:25AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
>
> I obviously do not understand file /boot/vmlinuz- because I could not
> make it work.
>
Whoops. I should have been more clear.
file /boot/vmlinuz- (here, you press tab)
--
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
>
> i've been wondering about this, too --
>
> lots of linux-in-general documents call the apache server
> "httpd" instead of "apache". is this an old naming scheme?
> or does debian repackage it as "apache"? and instead of
> user/g
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:23:14PM +0800, Tim Wood uttered:
> I note a line saying that there is a problem with /dev/gpmdata but I
> have not started gpm.
>
Well then, there is your problem. X 4 (which is in woody) uses a different
config file than X 3. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
It seems your mouse
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:36:37PM +0200, Bernhard Josef Rieder uttered:
> Hello everybody,
>
> bad News: bugs.debian.org seems to be down.
> or is this just my f***ing ISP?
>
No, master.debian.org, which hosts the BTS is currently down. The story I
got is that it blew a hard drive. :-(
--
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Daniel Barclay uttered:
>
> What's the right way to set system-wide environmen variables (one place
> to put environment variables to set for all logins for all users).
>
/etc/profile, of course. (for bash shells - tcsh, i don't know)
--
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:00:24AM -0500, shock uttered:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> i've been experiencing the following everytime i apt-get upgrade for the
> past couple of months:
>
> Setting up debiandoc-sgml (1.1.45) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debiandoc-sgml.postinst:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:13:09PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon uttered:
> What I'm trying to figure out specifically is if I have a file, or a
> directory, at the beginning of my disk and it start to get bigger and
> bigger will it push the rest of the file system towards the end of the
> disk or will it
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker uttered:
>
> doing this
>
> snmpwalk localhost public system
>
> get the snmpd agent down for a feew minutes
>
> other way to hit the bug is
>
> cfgmaker '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from mrtg package.
>
> I've tried woody packages, s
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:43AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered:
> What is the output of "ls -l /vmlinuz" on your Debian root partition?
>
file /boot/vmlinuz-
Would also be very helpful.
That will tell which version of the kernel you are running.
But, a fubar lilo config, more than anything so
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:52PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans uttered:
> I don't agree. I think "stable" is an innapropriate name. The prime
> example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was
> released after GNOME 1.0 came out. Let me tell you, there was nothing
> at all "
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:35:35PM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
> I ran depmod -a as root and got:
> Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep for writing.
>
> Again the number seems to indicate my kernel version is 2.2.14, which it
> shouldn't be. However, I do not know enough about kerne
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:23:57AM -0500, Dana J . Laude uttered:
> Actually, iptables works with it built-in to the kernel also.
> Ya just have to follow the build. I.e, install the kernel
> source,
> then install iptables, do a make mrproper, make
> xconfig(whatever),
> make dep, make bzImage,
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:44:17PM -0400, Simon Read uttered:
> Folks,
>
> I have a two difficulties interpreting this message: iptables is not a
> dynamically loadable module in 2.4.4 but is compiled in; no modules
> were built at all for my 2.4.4 kernel.
>
*slap*
Do _not_ build iptables direc
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks uttered:
> Then /sbin/modprobe -v ppp
> Response: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-15.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
>
Run depmod -a as root to fix that particular problem.
--
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:14:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin uttered:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> >
> > where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot',
>
> Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your
> tinkering will be
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:05:44PM +0200, Alexander Gun uttered:
> May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
> May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.13.100
> May 31 15:01:38 asterix kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.13.100
>
Make sure nfs-
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:53:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman uttered:
>
> Check. I actually had tried shutting down NFS and then stopping and starting
> portmapper and NIS in various combinations yesterday; NIS gives a completely
> different set of errors when portmapper is shut down.
>
I seem to re
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:22:06PM -0400, D-Man uttered:
> 2.1 (aka Slink) is very old. I recommend getting 2.2r4 (aka Potato)
^
That looks like a thinko, too me.
The current release of potato is 2.2
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:06:11PM +1000, Renai LeMay uttered:
> is there a package for unstable containing windowmaker themes? I was using
> fvwm but have recently acquired a large amount of ram
>
Bah, WindowMaker doesn't use _that_ much RAM. :-)
$ apt-cache search windowmaker | grep theme
them
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:42:27PM -0700, Jim Darrough uttered:
> What does it mean when you run apt-get install, download several files,
> and then during the install, some of the files are listed as "held back"?
>
What this basically means, is that some packages are being 'held' by either
dpkg
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