Re: Posting to usenet

> Well, dselect says that trn depends on inews, which inewsinn provides and > leafnode doesn't. Just in case I tried forcing a removal of inewsinn, but > when I tried posting I just got an error message along the lines of "inews > not found". > > I also tried installing nn, which doesn't have this

No mail lately

Hi there Just was wondering were all the mail went? Have not received no mail for the past week. Thanks Steve Koop: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Where is qmail?

Could somebody help me to find the qmail package? I couldn't find it in non-free or contrib. Thanks! Feng ** * Feng Qian * * Dept. of Pharmacol. & Physiol. Sci.* * The University of Chicago * *

Dynamic IP Script??

Hi- I am interested in a script of some sort that would email me (at a given address) whenever my ISDN connection is disconnected by my provider and my IP is reassigned upon a new dial-up connection. I am(of course) trying to have as close to a dedicated connection as possible and also to have acc

/etc/networks

Is /etc/networks used the same as /etc/hosts ? Can someone post an example of all the formats for /etc/networks ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: (sendmail || bind) help

Try to telnet to the pop3 server on port 110 and make sure it connects. If it connects, you can use the conversation: user USER_NAME pass USER_PASSWORD list quit to make sure it all works. Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

URGENT: Diald connection problem

Hi, I have a problem with diald ... I tried to diald my isp with minicom, and get the messages CONNECT 38400. fine... then Annex username:. I type my username and press enter. Now it says Annex password: and I answer with my password, and I get my ip and so on ... that great! but ... I can't get

Re: configuring bind

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : Is there a good howto or web page on configurating bind? Search the web for BOG (Bind Operations Guide), or checkout ftp.isc.org. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: in.qpopper and /var/spool/mail

Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Is there any way to make in.qpopper use another directory than : /var/spool/mail? Yes, but you need to rebuild the package changing a #define somewhere. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Teleph

Re: dselect & other install issues.

>> John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine >> > when I worked out how to display a list of "All" packages installed or >> > not. However I ran it a second time just to familiarise myself with it >> > and when I went to quit I

Re: best Linux video card

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Simon's Mailing List Account wrote: > I don't think 3D is supported right now, though people are > supposably working on getting Mesa to use the hardware 3D features. > It's a damn fast 2D card though. well, marketing people can call Mill II or Virge etc 3D cards. If you want

[SOLVED] man problem, bo

Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Taking diff of two directories recursively?

I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not just interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in if the dates of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone know of a program to tell me all of this? Thanks Sam -- VA Research Li

Re: Monster 3D (was Re: best Linux video card)

hi, On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > >> Oleg, > >> > >> > are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. > >> > you'll have accelerated OpenGL under > >> > Linux and Windows and

Re: best Linux video card (Open Hardware)

> > S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. ... > What's the Open Hardware certification? What other vendors Look at . It's a way for manufacturers to promise that they'll publish specs for their hardware. Bruce did this along with a lot

Re: best Linux video card

I don't think 3D is supported right now, though people are supposably working on getting Mesa to use the hardware 3D features. It's a damn fast 2D card though. On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > Simon, > > > with 4MB of MDRAM. However, for around $220-$230 you should be > > able to find a M

Monster 3D (was Re: best Linux video card)

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: >> Oleg, >> >> > are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. >> > you'll have accelerated OpenGL under >> > Linux and Windows and can play >> > GLQuake with decent frame rate. >> >> Does the m

Re: gcc math functions

Christopher Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a PC with debian 1.3.1 installed (my first linux > installation). When I try to use the math functions (exp, pow, etc.) in > gcc I get a message like: > > /tmp/cca016941.o(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `exp' > > On other sy

Re: gcc math functions

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: > I have a PC with debian 1.3.1 installed (my first linux > installation). When I try to use the math functions (exp, pow, etc.) in > gcc I get a message like: > > /tmp/cca016941.o(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `exp' > > On other sy

Re: gcc math functions

You also need to link with the math library libm. Try adding -lm to your gcc options. As to why the math functions aren't in libc, I don't know. It sounds like a holdover from old Unix days. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: > I have a P

Re: gcc math functions

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: > I have a PC with debian 1.3.1 installed (my first linux > installation). When I try to use the math functions (exp, pow, etc.) in > gcc I get a message like: > > /tmp/cca016941.o(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `exp' > > On other sy

gcc math functions

I have a PC with debian 1.3.1 installed (my first linux installation). When I try to use the math functions (exp, pow, etc.) in gcc I get a message like: /tmp/cca016941.o(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `exp' On other systems I have used the "include " was sufficient. Is t

Re: best Linux video card

Oleg, > i believe you have to have 2D card as well. > Any cheap (~$50) S3 card will do it. I don't play Quake the times I will need to in order to pay up for buying a Diamond Monster. ;) Thanks anyway for your help. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dselect & other install issues.

John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 04 Nov 1997 11:09:13 -0500, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> As expected the program starting flying throught the list of programs > >> but it never seemed to stop. My screen saver activated twice as I was > >> waiting for the program to stop.

Re: best Linux video card

> S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. > > Thanks > > Bruce What's the Open Hardware certification? What other vendors have/haven't signed it? What other chipsets has S3 signed it for, or not signed it for? Why did Debian's version numbering change? (Just

man problem, bo

I've done a recent simple installation of a subset of bo. root can access man just fine. If a "normal" user issues a man command, such as 'man man' the following output appears: man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory Must be a permissions problem, but where? Thanks.

configuring bind

Is there a good howto or web page on configurating bind? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

(sendmail || bind) help

Hi, A friend of mine is trying to configure a linux box as a mail, web and pop3 server and is having some troubles that over pass by far my little knowledge on this subject. He is doing the following in /etc/sendmail.cf: Cwnat.com.br DMnat.com.br And in /var/named/na

non-US , RE:ssh

What about having that all debian mirrors who can contain a non-us package have a directory called non-US so that we may set our dpkg-ftp to stable free contrib non-US and load all non US packages automagically? this is not so now BTW in ftp.de.debian.org I could set Enter space sepe

dselect times out

when I try to update my list of available packages via ftp, the transfer times out every time. I usually only get about 100k of the packages.gz file regardless of where I request it from. FTP *to and from* the server is really slow and usually times out, but other network traffic seems to be norm

Re: dselect & other install issues.

04 Nov 1997 11:09:13 -0500, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As expected the program starting flying throught the list of programs >> but it never seemed to stop. My screen saver activated twice as I was >> waiting for the program to stop. I'm not sure what the default time >> the screensa

Re: other side of remote xdm

> > We'd like to set up some boxes that come up as xterminals, to be used on > > the remote connections. I've found the -querey type options for startx, > > but not for xdm. We really just want to turn old hardware into remote > > heads on alphas. Can anyone make any suggestions? > > Let's cal

diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

Hello, I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The PPP link would connect, but the PPP link no longer was selected as the default route. However, I could establish the link using the 'pon' command. (I was using

RE: knews Q.

On 04-Nov-97 Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Can anyone explain to me in plain, simple english, what I > need to do to get knews to only subscribe to the 5 news > groups I've subscribed to? You will need to download the active file ONCE and can cache it afterwords. > I can't > afford to keep muckin

in.qpopper and /var/spool/mail

Hi! Is there any way to make in.qpopper use another directory than /var/spool/mail? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es

Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)

> Date sent: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:46:46 -0500 > To: "TING Ching-Hua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: JD Thomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet) > Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Printing to a HP LaserJet requires

Re: best Linux video card

Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. > > Does this make all the Virges good for Linux? If so, do we have > support for them now, or do we have to wait? They are supported now, in XFree86 and in svgalib. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL

libdl1 ??

Hi! Upss... sorry 4 last subject ;) Where can I find libdl1 ? linuxconf depends on it... Thx! Magic -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic Czymze jest zycie, jesli nie ustawiczna mozliwoscia popelniania bledo

Re: best Linux video card

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > Oleg, > > > are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. > > you'll have accelerated OpenGL under > > Linux and Windows and can play > > GLQuake with decent frame rate. > > Does the monster need a 2D card, or can it provide 2D graphics as > well? i be

Re: dselect & other install issues.

John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine > when I worked out how to display a list of "All" packages installed or > not. However I ran it a second time just to familiarise myself with it > and when I went to quit I accidentally se

Re: sendmail -> smail: easiest way!

Hi! Where can I find libdl1 ? linuxconf depends on it... Thx! Magic -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic Czymze jest zycie, jesli nie ustawiczna mozliwoscia popelniania bledow. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: PPP and NT4.0

Tim Wilson wrote: > > I just subscribed, and have spent the last 3.5 hrs reading > through May,Jun,Jul archives for answers. If this has been > covered before please tell me which archive to look at. > > I am having problems connecting to my Debian Linux system > from an NT4.0 machine. I have als

Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)

Printing to a HP LaserJet requires that you send an initialization control sequence to the printer that tells the printer to use a CRLF for each LF the printer receives. I created a simple printcap filter to do this, and to allow selection of monospaced font sizes. If you would like I can send

Re: best Linux video card

Bruce, > S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Does this make all the Virges good for Linux? If so, do we have support for them now, or do we have to wait? Thanks for the info! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.

Re: dselect & other install issues.

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, John Spence wrote: > I've just installed 1.3.1 with my shiny new CDROM set so please don't > tell me that Debian GNU/Linux version 2.0.0 is due out next week. Nope. We might make it out by the end of the year, but I very much doubt it. Upgrading to libc6 is a massive underta

Re: best Linux video card

Paul, > I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 > WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I > think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 Any good for 3D? Better than Diamond's Monster?

[X Resources] Which Debian packages?

Howdy all! I've been playing around w/ X Resources - have made xcalc look sweet! But I now have a rather general question. How do you determine what values for a resource are valid? I've used editres to see the resource tree and to even change some values. I've used appres to display the resour

Re: best Linux video card

Oleg, > are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. > you'll have accelerated OpenGL under > Linux and Windows and can play > GLQuake with decent frame rate. Does the monster need a 2D card, or can it provide 2D graphics as well? Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: best Linux video card

Simon, > with 4MB of MDRAM. However, for around $220-$230 you should be > able to find a Matrox Millenium II with 4MB of WRAM. It's supported > as a Millenium I right now, but it'll be even better when it's fully > supported as a Millenium 2. Is the Millenium II good on 3D, or, remaking t

knews Q.

Can anyone explain to me in plain, simple english, what I need to do to get knews to only subscribe to the 5 news groups I've subscribed to? It ignores $NNTPSERVER, so I need to manually connect to my ISPs news server everytime I start it, and it always tries to read every group. I looked at the

dselect & other install issues.

I've just installed 1.3.1 with my shiny new CDROM set so please don't tell me that Debian GNU/Linux version 2.0.0 is due out next week. My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine when I worked out how to display a list of "All" packages installed or not. However I ran it a

PPP and NT4.0

I just subscribed, and have spent the last 3.5 hrs reading through May,Jun,Jul archives for answers. If this has been covered before please tell me which archive to look at. I am having problems connecting to my Debian Linux system from an NT4.0 machine. I have also experienced the same proble

Re: Samba Samba

Thanks Adam. I had tried that before. But after I got your response I went and checked again. I had write permisions in the bottom directory of /var/spool/lpd/. So I made spool and lpd world writeable also. It works now. Thanks again. For a while I was wondering whether my message got out, becaus

rpc.rquotad running multiple times ???

I am running the quota system on our server. But I was wondering why the rquotad server is running at least 20 times on this machine ??? I have found the following messages in the daemon.log file in /var/adm: (I have changed the DNS names) about 20 times the next line: Nov 3 11:51:26 (SERVER) r

Re: login process fails with diskless box

Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: > > > I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The > > binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into > > another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local mach

Booting from drive connected to a PCMCIA SlimSCSI adapter

Colleagues, I've an external SCSI drive connected to a Adaptec AHA 2920 controller with Debian 1.3 on it. Now, I want to connect this drive to a PCMCIA SlimSCSI card inserted in my Compaq Contura and boot using Loadlin (images on DOS C:), as I always did. I got and installed the PCMCIA packages fr

Re: xplaycd works without sound output

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, TING Ching-Hua wrote: > Problems: > 1. xplaycd works only in the root account. > 2. In a user account xplaycd cannot access the CDROM. It always wants > to access '/dev/cdrom'. The system always complains 'Permission > denied'. > 3. No sound. Try this on your computer: ls

Re: lpr does not work

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) > Subject:Re: lpr does not work > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TING Ching-Hua) > Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:40:52 +0100 (CET) > Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > > > Papers came with mis-aligned but

Re: ssh

> > Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask > > you if you want it to download the version from an overseas mirror... and > > then install that over the top of the fake one. > > This seems a good idea, but there is one technical problem. You simply > can't call dpk

Re: xconsole

> B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and > there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file.. I believe that it says in there somewhere that xconsole understands most of the standard xcommands... so if you do a 'man X' or 'man xterm' most of

fat32 in installation vfat module?

I hope it's not inappropriate to cross-post this. I thought it somewhat relevant to both groups. I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is stands

Re: best Linux video card

S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-35

Re: smartmail/exim question

> > Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses > > of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this? Ok, I figured out how to do it. There is a new feature in exim 1.73 (just uploaded) that allows you to strip selected headers. I changed to the following in /etc/e

Re: Easy Samba Question

On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 06:05:51PM +0100, Kevin Traas wrote: > Will Samba work across a router? The Internet? > i.e. I'm about 8000KM away from the Linux system I'd like to connect to via > SMB. > > Am I dreaming? Is there a way to do this? If so, any pointers? The HOWTO > didn't deal with thi

Re: best Linux video card

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > What's the best Linux/Debian (Win95/NT too) compatible video card > available for $100-225? > > Thanks in advance for your help! card with 3d acceleration is way to go. The only supported by Linux 3d cards are 3dfx based - check d

Re: netscape

On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 02:08:21PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Ever since I upgraded to XFree86 3.3 (in unstable), netscape won't run. > > First it complains that it can't find XKeysymDB, so I set that > > environment variable; then I get a bus error. > > > > Any ideas

Re: public news servers

On Mon Nov 3 12:31:05 1997 +0400 Ferenc Kiraly wrote: > Hi! > > This is sligtly off topic, but... > > Are there any public news servers on this planet that would > feed news (at least linux related newsgrups) to my > news server? > > thanks, feri. > news.fuller.edu for e

Re: Posting to usenet

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > > > I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started > > over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that > > sufficient?); the message I get now is "Can't get h

Re: Easy Samba Question

> : Will Samba work across a router? The Internet? > : > : Am I dreaming? Is there a way to do this? If so, any pointers? The HOWTO > : didn't deal with this issue at all. > > It will work, unless some firewall/router blocks your packets. > > smbclient host\\service -I _ip_of_host I

termcap

I have to install a program via source that needs termcap. How do I accomplish this in Bo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Samba Samba

> How can I persuade Samba to let everyone print ? > If user is not admin user I get Access denied writing to the printer > when I click on > Print. As soon as I add user to admin user then samba prints. That is not a samba issue it's an lp issue. Check permissions on everything in /var/spool/lp/

Re: ssh

> What about making empty package named ssh and put it into archive which > will just say when installed that there is also non-US part of archive > and where one can find it. Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask you if you want it to download the version from a

lpr does not work

Hi, Papers came with mis-aligned but correct content printing if documents were sent from Xterm. Papers came without printing if an application did the printing. The system used is: HP LaserJet IIP Pentium II Debian 1.3.1 Thanks, --

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I saw this in a recent info-gnu posting: Subject: Bash-2.01.1 available for FTP [...] g. Fixed a bug in the locale code that occurred when assigning a value to LC_ALL. Don't know which exactly was wrong, but I hope to see a Debianised bash_2.01.1 soon..

init

When I boot up linux, it says "INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel" and stops. What can I do? -Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Year 2000

Arran, Although linux may be "year 2000 safe," You also must assure that all application programs are also clean. It much more likely that an application program will will have the "fatal" hidden flaw that will bring you down. Ben ---

Re: hard drive crash

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jessica Wolfe wrote: > I need to write a report on hard drive crashes. First I need to figure > out all the possible > causes of hard disk failure. Can you help me out? What do you mean with hard disk failure? HD stop spinning, making strange noises, isn't possible read t

Re: best Linux video card

Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 > WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I > think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 > supports it, but I believe Acce

Re: smartmail/exim question

On Nov 03, Jim Pick wrote > > I've recently installed exim and set up several smartlist mailing > lists. Things are working the way I want them to, except for > one thing. > > Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses > of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of

Re: modem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something > to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? > -Joe I'll help you, but ONLY if you lower ISDN rates for the north-east! Seriously though, did you perchance install (and partially configure?!) dia

Re: hard drive crash

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jessica Wolfe wrote: > I need to write a report on hard drive crashes. First I need to figure > out all the possible > causes of hard disk failure. Can you help me out? > [...] > Student > North Idaho College > Major: Computer Applications > In Business > Coeur

Re: termcap

Compiled like a champ. Thanks all. Man I love debian and its people. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ssh

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > > What about making empty package named ssh and put it into archive which > > will just say when installed that there is also non-US part of archive > > and where one can find it. > > Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask

Re: Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

If your motherboard is set up to boot from CD and the "Boot" CD is still in the drive, it might give out that message. Pop the CD out and see what happens. If you determine your boot block really is clobbered, we can tell you how to replace it. I doubt, at this point, that a virus is to blame.

Re: xconsole

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do: > a) load in the lower left (1024x768) > b) white text with black background > c) displayed as part of the background; can't be iconified/moved, etc. > window manager has no control over i

Re: Large buffers entry in free

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I get an unreal buffers listing after running for several days (bo, > > kernel 2.0.31): > > > > $ free > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem: 30948 27588 3360 745

Re: X, S3 server, and #9 Motion 771

On 3 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Christopher Jason Morrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion > > 771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But > > then when I click "Done" and it tries to start the

Re: best Linux video card

I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 supports it, but I believe Accel-X does. -Paul On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Pere Camps

Re: Question about sane

I did not see any comment, so perhaps the following will be of some help. Your output shows couple of problems, but basicaly the program can't find some functions that it should have. I am not using sane and I am only speculating. I think that you didn't make some preliminary steps before you tri

Re: modem

At 06:57 PM 03/11/97 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something >to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? Could be it's trying to phone home and can't dial direct. Check your phone bill for inexplicable long distance charges. Just be glad

Re: Accel-X and Debian

XFree86 tends to benchmark faster (using Matrox cards, which are by far the best/fastest cards under Linux) than either Metro-X or Accelerated X. It also has (imho) a better configuration program. From the limited contact I've had with Accelerated X technical support though they seem pretty good.

login process fails with diskless box

Hi! I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The login prompt comes, but it never asks for a password after typing the user name. Where ca

Re: gcc: Signal 7

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? >> I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. > >On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Oliver Elphick answered: >> `ma

Re: lpr does not work

> Hi, > > Papers came with mis-aligned but correct content printing if > documents were sent from Xterm. > > Papers came without printing if an application did the printing. > > The system used is: > > HP LaserJet IIP > Pentium II > Debian 1.3.1 What kind of documents do you want to print? j

smartmail/exim question

I've recently installed exim and set up several smartlist mailing lists. Things are working the way I want them to, except for one thing. Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this? Cheers, - Jim pgpqYuUIPKV0U.p

Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWT

Re: xconsole

B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file.. -Paul On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: > A and B or in the man page, I would like to see C done. I believe it is > wm specific. > > Paul Miller wro

Re: hard drive crash

Jessica, Most Internet mailing lists frown on "please do my homework" requests. We'd like to keep this list for the single purpose of supporting the Debian Linux Distribution. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you

Re: login process fails with diskless box

On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: > Hi! > > I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The > binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into > another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The > login prompt comes, but it never as

Re: debian-changes-digest Digest V97 #100

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Nick Gilliam wrote: > The subject Digest (V97 #100) included a message concerning > pornography. Hopefully this was simply a mistake as it should > have nothing whatsoever to do with Debian/GNU Linux. > > However, if you intend to promote this sort of activity in the > future

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