Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread servis
*-George Bonser (26 Jul) | On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Xiaonan Ma wrote: | | > I tried both /proc//cmdline and "ps axw", still can't find idled. | > Is it possible that some other process is doing it? Looks like it checks | > every 10 minutes since it logged out at time 13:30, 02:00 ... | > | > regards

shell programming question

1998-07-26 Thread Keith
I was wondering if someone could help me with this shell programming language question. I am trying to remove some entries from a database file. Here is what the database file looks like: Joe,Walsh,134 Mockingbird Way,New Orleans,LA,33456,(444)768-1287 Becky,Walsh,432 Rodeo Drive Apt C,Hollywood,C

Re: no pon!

1998-07-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DP" == David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? pid = Process ID To check what prozess has ID 109 do a "ps ax|grep 109" Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-26 Thread Ian Eure
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:00:35AM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? > > > > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session > > that logged me into a remote sun com

Re: no pon!

1998-07-26 Thread David Parmet
ok.. i looked there and i found LCK..ttyS0 and LCK..ttyS1 should i rm them? On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: > > > who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? > > > > If there is no process with a pid of 109 running, you can h

ppp change OK now

1998-07-26 Thread Richard Sevenich
Thanks to John Hasler and others. ppp is 'normal' again. A line was needed in /etc/resolv.conf Richard -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

no pon!

1998-07-26 Thread David Parmet
When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message that "Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109" ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Printing problems

1998-07-26 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! I was wondering if anyone could help me resolve a printing prblem I have got? I have an HP LaserJet 4L. If I do lpr textfile.txt then it works fine. However, printing in lyx appears to work fine, but nothing is printed :-( If I export the document first and then use dviprint, then this

RE: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Frock
I use these options for ps: a show processes of other users too x show processes without controlling terminal(this would be the specific option, you're looking for) u user format: gives user name and start time /Frock > -Original Message- > From: George Bonser [ma

Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Xiaonan Ma
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: > > > I don't think that using ps would show you if idled is running or not. At > > least, on my hamm system, I can't find a way to use ps to show me _all_ > > processes (including daemons). I always found this odd,

Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: : I don't think that using ps would show you if idled is running or not. At : least, on my hamm system, I can't find a way to use ps to show me _all_ : processes (including daemons). I always found this odd, since a : home-grown Linux system that I always use doe

Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Eric
Ah, yes, just figured that out...silly me, those processes don't have controlling terminals, so ya need 'x' in there. Thanks. _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ | |__/ On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: > > > I don't think that

Re: ppp change?

1998-07-26 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I suggest you put "debug" into your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file so that the details of the negotiations get logged. Mike On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:28:06AM -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: > I just installed kernel 2.0.35 and have noticed a change in ppp behavior, > if my memory serves me right.

Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Eric
I don't think that using ps would show you if idled is running or not. At least, on my hamm system, I can't find a way to use ps to show me _all_ processes (including daemons). I always found this odd, since a home-grown Linux system that I always use does show every process when using 'ps aw' (e

Re: lexmark printers

1998-07-26 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > There are some pretty good deals on Lexmark printers at my > University. They use PCL5 and PS emulation. Anybody have any experience > with Lexmark's emulation and Linux ? I've heard that the emulation isn't > perfect. Since they don't support Linu

Re: logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Xiaonan Ma
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Xiaonan Ma wrote: > > > > > After updated the system, now when I logged in and started X, > > the system always automatically logged me out saying "no keyboard > > touch for 63 minutes ...", even though I did work under X (look

Re: Win95 and Win98 can do it. Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread iAlexey Vyskubov
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 12:31:48PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > Netscape would automatically be maximised on screen. You don't need to > cram 1024 points into 640, you just need the mode switching in X up to > Windows 95 standards for God's sake so that it is intelligent enough to > resize wi

Win95 and Win98 can do it. Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread Christopher Barry
Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:21:47PM +0200, Nico Fritschi wrote: > > when i change my screen resolution to a lower one i always get a screen > > which is not fixed, this means I can scroll it around and i can't see > > the whole screen. Is it possible to change that? > >

logged out automatically because of excess idle time

1998-07-26 Thread Xiaonan Ma
After updated the system, now when I logged in and started X, the system always automatically logged me out saying "no keyboard touch for 63 minutes ...", even though I did work under X (looks like it only checked the tty which I logged in on). I checked /var/spool/cron/crontab but didn't find th

Slink KDE doesn't start.

1998-07-26 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi all, This is a bizarre problem. I have installed previous versions of KDE error and hassle free and the other day I decided to grab KDE 1.0 from Slink and the dpkg -i install went without errors and then I modified /etc/X11/window-managers so that KDE would be the first to start and when I type

RMON for linux?

1998-07-26 Thread Gregory Guthrie
We would like to create some LRP remote network traffic monitor boxes, queryable via SNMP; i.e. RMON probes. I thought I had once seen RMON for linux; but now cannot locate any such information. Hints? Thanks. Gregory Guthrie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nul

Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Nico Fritschi wrote: > > My next question is about Netscape 4.05 . When i set up my mail and news > server i always get the message "unknown host mail.gmx.de" or > "news.gmx.de". I tried that on- and off-line but both did not work. Do I > have to list them in a config file somewhere? > Maybe you

Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:21:47PM +0200, Nico Fritschi wrote: > when i change my screen resolution to a lower one i always get a screen > which is not fixed, this means I can scroll it around and i can't see > the whole screen. Is it possible to change that? What do you want to change? You want

Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Nico Fritschi wrote: > > when i change my screen resolution to a lower one i always get a screen > which is not fixed, this means I can scroll it around and i can't see > the whole screen. Is it possible to change that? > The "virtual resolution" is always large enough to a

Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

1998-07-26 Thread Nico Fritschi
Hello, when i change my screen resolution to a lower one i always get a screen which is not fixed, this means I can scroll it around and i can't see the whole screen. Is it possible to change that? My next question is about Netscape 4.05 . When i set up my mail and news server i always get the me

lexmark printers

1998-07-26 Thread G. Crimp
There are some pretty good deals on Lexmark printers at my University. They use PCL5 and PS emulation. Anybody have any experience with Lexmark's emulation and Linux ? I've heard that the emulation isn't perfect. Since they don't support Linux, they are not likely to offer any solutions

srwxrwxrwx & prwxrwxrwx

1998-07-26 Thread G. Crimp
I'm transferring an existing Debian installation from an small disk to a new big one. I used tar to move all the files over. For the most part all the permissions and other attributes were preserved, but a few were not. Most notably all sockets were made into pipes in /dev and in /var/ru

ppp change?

1998-07-26 Thread Richard Sevenich
I just installed kernel 2.0.35 and have noticed a change in ppp behavior, if my memory serves me right. I normally login as a user and start ppp by going su momentarily to issue command 'pon' and then exit back to user. This still works as usual. However, if I log in as root and issue 'pon' the m

Re: Diald problem

1998-07-26 Thread robbie
Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:43:56AM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > > I am having some problem with diald. Iam using it with ppp and ip masquerade. > I have an internal network which I assign the standard 192.168.0.x This is > working fine. The modem is connected to the linux box. If I don't use diald

Suspect daily,weekly cron causing hangs

1998-07-26 Thread Martin Weinberg
Folks, I have a Beowulf-type Debian-based cluster of 16 dual PII 333Mhz boxes (Asus P2L97-DS) Debian 1.3.1. They run hard, often under full load with high network traffic for days or not weeks. The current application is an MPI application using a master-slave paradigm. I've noticed that the "

Re: unsubscribe

1998-07-26 Thread Peter George
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RE: Debian mirror

1998-07-26 Thread Frock
Take a look at http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist /Frock > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter > Shtinkov > Sent: 26. juli 1998 17:24 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Debian mirror > > > Please tell me where I can find

Re: Debian mirror

1998-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Peter Shtinkov wrote: : Please tell me where I can find mirror of Debian Web site, which is : accessible using ftp ? The web site can be mnirrored from debian.crosslink.net, directories /www/debian.org and /www/debian.org-local See http://www.debian.org/devel/mirror for furt

Debian mirror

1998-07-26 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Please tell me where I can find mirror of Debian Web site, which is accessible using ftp ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

IDE tape

1998-07-26 Thread john
I have a client who is running Debian 1.3.1 on a pentium box with a Seagate STT8000A tape drive and IDE disk and CDROM. I have been assured that the tape is installed as a slave drive on the same controller as the IDE disk, and is jumpered properly. Debian was "installed" for him by the hardware

mailing list

1998-07-26 Thread bell
Hi Just wanted to let u know that I have Bero-List installed on my server but there seems to be a problem with subscription,I would like to know if it is a bug or just me? The problem is as follow: If somebody is already a member of the mailinglist and by mistake tries to subscribe again, he is g

Re: module missing

1998-07-26 Thread Greg Norris
The net-pf-5 request is for the appletalk protocol. If you're not using that, add "alias net-pf-5 off" to /etc/conf.modules. I'm afraid I don't know what char-major-10 refers to, but the same trick ought to work for that as well... On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:43:55AM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > When

Re: any risk in using /home/root

1998-07-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:43:55 +0800 Jieyao writes: > > I have one partition which I had mounted as /home. I figured that > since this is gonna store user information and files, I might as > well put the root home there too. So I created /home/root and > change /root to a symbolic link to /home/

Re: StarOffice4 and libc6/5

1998-07-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 12:26:53 -0700 tony mollica writes: > > Hi. > Has anyone successfully run SO4sp3 on a > hamm system with the libc5 package installed? It works well for me. You just need to install some X11-related libraries from oldlibs, I thing xlib6 and xpm4.7 should be sufficient for run

Re: module missing

1998-07-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:43:55 +0800 Jieyao writes: > > When I start up I get the following > net-pf-5 missing > char-major-10 missing > > This happens after hda2 and hda3 are mounted.. > > The error also appears in the syslog now and then. What am I > missing? If your system is working cor

Re: boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > I installed the package boot-floppies so I would be able to create the > boot floppies to have as backup. I cannot find the scripts that this > package installed though. Does anyone know where they are? And, as a > related question, does anyone know how

Re: iomega/lp woes

1998-07-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 01:06:54PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Hi Richard. I own a parport drive as well. The current linux kernels > do not support having both the drive and the printer working at the same > time. This is being worked on however. I have good experiences with 2.1.106. Both, the Zip

Re: home network w/win'98 & Debian

1998-07-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Jesus Duran writes: > > Greetings all, > > > i'll try to keep this as short was possible > i need someone to point me somewhere where i can find info on > networking.such as setup and protocols, hardware etc... Have you ever heard of the NAG? Network administrators guide written by Ola

Strange happenings

1998-07-26 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I've had some problems with wmaker from slink and icewm(hamm) too. It goes like this: When I try to load a large image from netscape (3.04) my screen would go blank for a while then goes back to it's normal state. When I make Afterstep or fvwm2 as the startup window-manager I don't get this. It

Re: who ?

1998-07-26 Thread Gregory Green
Thanks! The "w" command does what I need! Gregory Green George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > to wipe and reinstall shellutils. It _is_ a base package, and > > reinstalling anything for shells makes me nervous, so far. > > ...just a tiny bit of info. above (shel

Apt vs deselect question

1998-07-26 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, I have a question regarding the use of apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my system current. When I issue apt-get upgrade, I get a message that 90 packages were help back, and it fetches nothing. If I then dpkg -l (list) any of the held packages, then apt-

Re: Installing to a Harddrive other than C:

1998-07-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
DMDP wrote: >I have been reading your installation information and I cannot find >anything that tells me how to install Debian to an E:\ drive for example >and use a DOS bootup menu to access it. > >How should I go about setting this up? > >The installation guide recommends installing

Re: fetchmail not fetching

1998-07-26 Thread Clint Adams
> fetchmail: 1 message at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > reading message 1 (1772 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed See if this gives you better results: fetchmail -S localhost -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: exmh configuration.

1998-07-26 Thread Clint Adams
> Question: How to change exmh configuration so that it will let smail do what > I > want ? That is, how to prevent exmh from disturbing smail to set the From: > header the way I want it to be ? You want to change this in nmh or MH (whichever you're using), not in EXMH. -- Unsubscribe? mai

Re: boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: : [...] : And, as a related question, does anyone know how to tell what debian : packages install which files after they've been installed (via dslect or : something like that) and the .deb file has been deleted? `dpkg -L ` will give you a list of files

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Alexander wrote: > A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not > shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear > accident...) I tend to get them when the check is forced (due to 30 unchecked mounts), without

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 09:17:51PM -0700, Alexander wrote: > Any and all UNIX systems are fully Y2K compliant, as long as the hardware I think this statement is naive. Although the kernel may represent all time values as time_t, you cannot guarantee that all applications do, and since there are ra

Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Just make sure that you have no other users with the same first 8 characters in their username!! (but of course you know this ;) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:14:55 -0700 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > C

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... The local2 syslog facility. Debian normally saves this to /var/log/ppp.log, and /var/log/syslog, besides all the others (/var/log/messages?). Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:39:31 -0500 > From: the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Ma

Re: Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... And of course 8250 is unspeakable. :) Actually 115200 should work on plain 16550. Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:12:38 -0700 (MST) > From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: PATRICK DAHIROC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: is the kernel worth it, what about Debian 2.0?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... I'm still running 2.0.33. The only thing noticeable in 2.0.34 was the nestea patch, which I'm already protected against (somehow). Then again... Are the Phrack 52 article 06 patches effective against 2.0.35? Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:17:07 -0400

home network w/win'98 & Debian

1998-07-26 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all, i'll try to keep this as short was possible i need someone to point me somewhere where i can find info on networking.such as setup and protocols, hardware etc... its for a home network..and i think its a great way to introduce 4 kids to linux (before they're completely

Re: is the kernel worth it, what about Debian 2.0?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... I'm not quite sure what the advantages to 2.0.35 are. I can say that upgading to Debian 2.0 (`hamm') is extremely well worth it and you probably shouldn't spend another minute with that insecure box of yours. :P Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:06:21 -040

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Not only slimmer and faster, but will probably also support some interesting hardware the generic kernel image cannot. (most notably, sound support) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:49:28 -0400 > From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL

Re: Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... For a typical serial port or internal modem, 115200 is the fastest you can go. However, if your serial port supports it, you should be able to go faster. The value signifies how fast your computer is connected to your modem. (it's a stupid modem limitation based on the fact that modems run

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, check the kernel configs. `make menuconfig' for a pretty and intuitive interface, or `make config' if you feel like wasting time or don't have ncurses installed. Of course, if you compiled printer support as a module you can find out what modules are loaded by typing `lsmod'. Typing `mo

Re: LPRng & printer Port

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Umm, can you write to the printer port directly? i.e.: cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lp1 (prints userlist on the printer, without passwords if you have shadows installed; if you don't it isn't recommended you print this particular file ;) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Babs wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Ju

Re: dselect questions, suggestion..

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Your first suggestion? You mean like having the file sizes in the Packages file you download for the package listings? Yeah, that'd be nice. ;) Your second suggestion's already implemented in dselect. Press Shift-R if you select a package that has lots of dependency/conflict problems that y

Re: Questions from a new user [forwarded]

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Libc5 and libc6 is the conflict. These are the Linux C library and GNU C library, respectively. Either or both can be used on a system, but one of them is required; these libraries drive most Linux systems. Using version 6 (or the GNU C Library, version 2) is recommended; it's more secure an

Re: memtest

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Uh, then it isn't a reliable memory test, is it? Heh, I guess that's what the BIOS memory test is for! Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:16:38 +0200 (MET DST) > From: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian > Subject: Re: m

Re: I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Anyone who has an up time over a week probably is obsessed with it. I haven't got quite that much, but I'm slowly getting there... hell, I only upgraded this thing a few days ago :) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:38:16 -0400 > From: "Step

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, you do realize that SMB also provides print shares. If he wants to use printers that'll need samba too. (er, I think samba has a print client...) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:45:20 -0400 > From: "Michael B. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Ugh! I forgot `su' too!! Thanks for reminding me, maybe I'll remember when/if I do that to myself. ;) Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:24:09 +0200 (MET DST) > From: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian > Subject: Re: I've ho

Re: I've hozed my root login.

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Yes, I do have some words of wisdom. Mount the disk to /target (or just mount it through the GUI), and everything should be under /target. (i.e. /target/etc/passwd) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Marlon Urias wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Marlon Urias <[EMAIL PRO

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Umm, just run `X' or your favorite X server then. Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:58:11 -0700 > From: Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards? > Resent-Date: 21 Jul 19

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Smbclient or a smbfs package is needed to access SMB shares/file shares (respectively) on the NT machine from the UNIX machine. (unless you write your own clients, of course) Smbclient is included in the samba package. If what you're trying to do is set up a LAN to connect to the internet w

Re: memtest

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... There is no such package `memtest'. I have no such program installed, either. Maybe you could give me some pointers? Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Lawrence wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:28:40 +1000 > From: Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Subject: mem

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Any and all UNIX systems are fully Y2K compliant, as long as the hardware they run on is. However, their time_t value (UNIX time is represented in seconds since 00:00 Jan 1 1970) will overflow sometime in the 2030s I think. After that time_t will have to be expanded to 64 bits and all progra

problem with RealPlayer 5

1998-07-26 Thread Xiaonan Ma
I just updated the system to hamm and tried to install rvplayer5.0, however I can't make it work. After dpkg -i rvplayer_5.0-2.deb and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH virable, first I tried to run rvplayer directly with the included welcome.rm, but no sound was played out (I can cat *.au > /dev/audio an

boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Robert Rati
I installed the package boot-floppies so I would be able to create the boot floppies to have as backup. I cannot find the scripts that this package installed though. Does anyone know where they are? And, as a related question, does anyone know how to tell what debian packages install which files

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, but if you can see both X displays at the same time how do you switch the keyboard to one of them? Alex On 21 Jul 1998, Manfred Bartz wrote: > Date: 21 Jul 1998 10:00:35 +1000 > From: Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.d

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Heh! Binding ANYTHING over Ctrl-Alt-F? is NOT recommended. :P Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:49:41 -0500 (EST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: 2 Xsessions?

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Uhmm... I've had that problem before. I could get some weird messages when I tried pinging their broadcast address. I never did figure it out though. Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 06:38:39 -0500 > From: Tomt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexander <[EMAIL PROT

Re: New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Recompile dialog. Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:21:52 -0700 > From: Mike Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: New ncurses breaks dialog > Resent-Date: 20 Jul 1998 23:22:05 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lis

Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Uhhhyou can run another X server on your machine in 8 bpp if you want. It'll use the next available tty (i.e. if :0 is on tty7 then :1 (the second server) will run on tty8). You should be able to switch between them using CTRL-ALT-. You can also just start up the second X server by itse

Re: Fwd: LBA or not LBA

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... LBA can't hurt. It's Linear Block Addressing (am I sure I have that right?), it basically is a BIOS feature (I think; it might be an IDE controller feature) that translates a hard disk's normal Cylinder-Head-Sector three-dimensional addresses to a linear (i.e. block 0, block 1, ...) addressi

RE: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... I never needed the ipmasq package. I've had IP Masqerading on my LAN long before the ipmasq package even existed. All you really need is the ipfwadm man page and (maybe) some examples. Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:47:40 -0400 > From: Patri

Re: hdparm

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... Cache. Good cache. Good boy. Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:38:57 +0300 > From: Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: hdparm > > >> Hi... > >> > >> Umm: > >> > >

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-26 Thread Alexander
Hi... A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear accident...) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:18:15 -0400 > From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROT

module missing

1998-07-26 Thread Jieyao
When I start up I get the following net-pf-5 missing char-major-10 missing This happens after hda2 and hda3 are mounted.. The error also appears in the syslog now and then. What am I missing? __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---

Diald problem

1998-07-26 Thread Jieyao
I am having some problem with diald. Iam using it with ppp and ip masquerade. I have an internal network which I assign the standard 192.168.0.x This is working fine. The modem is connected to the linux box. If I don't use diald, pppd works fine and I am able to go out using ip masquerade, no p

any risk in using /home/root

1998-07-26 Thread Jieyao
I have one partition which I had mounted as /home. I figured that since this is gonna store user information and files, I might as well put the root home there too. So I created /home/root and change /root to a symbolic link to /home/root Is there any security risk in doing this? One problem th

Re: xterm woes

1998-07-26 Thread Paul
These definitions are in /usr/lib/xterm/x/. I have copied these from my debian box to a subdirectory of my home directory on a Solaris system and then defined the TERMINFO envirnment variable to point to that directory. I do not know if this will work on an Irix system. See man ncurses for detai

Re: Installing to a Harddrive other than C:

1998-07-26 Thread Evan Van Dyke
At 10:06 PM 7/24/98 -0400, DMDP wrote: >I have been reading your installation information and I cannot find >anything that tells me how to install Debian to an E:\ drive for example >and use a DOS bootup menu to access it. > >How should I go about setting this up? > >The installation guide recommen

Installing to a Harddrive other than C:

1998-07-26 Thread DMDP
I have been reading your installation information and I cannot find anything that tells me how to install Debian to an E:\ drive for example and use a DOS bootup menu to access it. How should I go about setting this up? The installation guide recommends installing on C:, but I REALLY don't want t

Re: who ?

1998-07-26 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 06:31:36PM -0600, Gregory Green wrote: > I am running hamm and kernel 2.0.32 on my Debian box. Can any one tell > me why the "who" command does not return anything? I do believe it > worked before I upgraded from bo. I can sucessfully run the "last" > command but who does

who ?

1998-07-26 Thread Gregory Green
I am running hamm and kernel 2.0.32 on my Debian box. Can any one tell me why the "who" command does not return anything? I do believe it worked before I upgraded from bo. I can sucessfully run the "last" command but who does nothing. What can be done? Thanks, Gregory Green -- Unsubscribe