Re: ppp problems continue! (long)

>> "CE" == Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CE> Route gives me: CE> Kernel IP routing table CE> Destination ... rest of headings ... CE> but nothing beneath and I have to ^c out of it CE> Netstat -rn gives me: CE> Kernel IP routing table CE> Destination Gateway ... CE> xxx.yy.zzz.1

Re: mozilla

Richard Harran writes: > Should I install these now on my system, and if so will this cause any > problems (eg as I need to update libc6)? I upgraded libc6 yesterday and had to downgrade it when emacs20 started crashing. I suggest you stay away from slink for a while unless you want to help with

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote: > I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux > boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to > shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial > port to communicate its statu

ppp problems continue! (long)

I am trying to connect a home machine to my university ppp server. The machine has an ethernet card in it which worked at its old location in the university but not where it would have seen or used the ppp server. I would like to use it for ip masquerading in due course so I've left the card i

Re: Isapnp won't see my AWE64 sound card.

On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 05:04:19PM -0500, roadrun37 wrote: > does anyone have this problem? Please read my Howto and post me your isapnp.conf file. In this order. http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Lin

exim questions

A few days ago, I converted my system to use exim as it's MTA, rather than smail. While I'm generally happy with the results, there are 2 things I haven't been able to sort out yet, and I'm hoping that someone might point me in the right direction. 1. Is there any way to have exim rewrite headers

problems with isdn

Hi, I'm new user of debian 2.0 buyed Lehmann, before moving to debian I used the SuSE 5.3 but the was SuSE manage the system don't make me happy, however several things make me moving to Debian. First installation was easy and rebuilding kernel with own needings -hardware, networking is easy done,

Finance managing tool?

DEar debian people, Is there a package for managing fincances? I need this for an event as opposed to personal stuff. It needs ideally to be free (how is gnucash these days?). Any opinions on what to use/avoid? Cheers, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge T

Re: Modem connection speed

Hi all, After running into this same problem, and asking on this list for answers, I think I may be able to give others some help now. First, what speed are you connecting at? As reported in another post or two, it is easy to make your system save the modem connect speed in its own file. Mine sav

Re: Build of xemacs-20.4-7 fails

On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 09:47:23PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > This is what i get when i try building xemacs-20.4-7 (sources and > patch from slink) under hamm: > > ---snip- > /usr/src/XEmacs/xemacs20-20.4-5/lib-src/profile.c: In function `get_time':

Re: help! I have a strange problem with Netscape

You need to install the latest libc5 and libc5-compat libraries for Netscape to work properly, either that or get the Netscape 4.5 that is linked with glibc(2). Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UnixGroup Admin - NASA LaRC On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 [EMAIL P

help! I have a strange problem with Netscape

Hello! I have the following problem: I've installed Debian 2.0 on my machine and I'm trying now to install Netscape 4.06. At first Netscape couldn't find some libraries. Now everything is OK with the libraries but when I try to start it in X-Term it says: "Segmentation fault." Please help me!

Re: SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen

Date sent: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:47:07 +0100 (MET) From: Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Berlau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Re: SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Peter Berlau wrote: > Hi Lars, ic

Re: biff and comsat don't work

I suspect the reason for this is that you have a daemon which listens to netbios-ns port already running when you (re)start your (x)inetd. The culprit in question is probably nmbd which is part of samba distribution. Does the problem go away if you do these things? 1. first shut down your (x)

Re: rawrite2 & NT

Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote: > : > : Greg Vence wrote: > : > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? > : > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm > : > missing? > : > : No, I had the same results

Re: Help on Sendmail

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote: > Wilson Tuma wrote: > > > > I just installed sendmail on my linux mail server. The problems is it only > > accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail). My domain name name is > > douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com > > > > H

Re: mgetty prevents calls

I believe that your problem is that your ppp configuration uses /dev/modem, and mgetty uses /dev/ttyS0. My suggestion for you is to get rid of the /dev/modem stuff, as it is causing problems with locking the devie (the modem). See mgetty's documentation for more details. Simply using /dev/ttyS0

Re: Smail configurationg (wrong from)

There are instructions for configuring smail to rewrite your From field, in the Debian FAQOMATIC (Courtesy of Daniel Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ): > Hi Debian users, > I'm using smail as my MTA and I have a problem: > when sending a ma

Re: biff and comsat don't work

If you use sendmail, put the following in your sendmail.mc: FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)dnl define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -Y -d $u')dnl If you don't use sendmail, I don't know where to make the config change, but you want to pass procmail the arguments above. $u is... uh, I'

Re: rawrite2 & NT

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote: : : : Greg Vence wrote: : > : > Hello, : > : > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? : > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm : > missing? : : No, I had the same results - EXCEPT

biff and comsat don't work

I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the following line in my /etc/services: biff512/udp comsat and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf: service comsat { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait=

/etc/X11/config analog in slink?

Hi, What is the analog of /etc/X11/config in slink? I'm missing it... And /etc/init.d/xdm no longer refer to it to define whether to to start XDM or not... Am I missing something? Thank you, Sasha.

Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(') > appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and > since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the > source it shows question marks as

No Admintool for debian?

Hi! Is there nobody who cares that Debian has no admin-tool like other big distributions have (RedHat or SuSe, btw I do NOT want to start a discussion about the useability of YaST or anything like that !!!) I'm very impressed by the features of linuxconf. But the Package in projekts/experimental

Re: rawrite2 & NT

Greg Vence wrote: > > Hello, > > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm > missing? No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks worked PERFECTLY. I don't know why NT dosn't show the 0-1-

Re: Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: : I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it : dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to : work now after I installed the scsi drive. The network card says its : IRQ is blocked or used by another d

Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to work now after I installed the scsi drive. The network card says its IRQ is blocked or used by another device. Being the Scsi controller is all that I in

GIMP plugins

Dear all, I want some plugins :). a) are any debian packages? b) if not, where will the gimp debian package look for them? c) having installed a plugin, how do I use it (i.e. invoke the plugin) Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society

Problems booting linux :(

Dear all, A friend of mine used to have working hamm system. He upgraded his processor memory, and then the sound and video card to a Videologic Apocalypse 5D Sonic Accelerator card (sound and video card) this has the PowerVR PCx2 3D processor ET6100 chip (2D) and ESS audio chipset The sy

Re: .Xresources?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Ole J. Tetlie said | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | | > | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands | > | if its not listed in the man page? | > | > I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called | > editres. | > | | Ed

Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic > vi that would handle multiple buffers and color & indent his programs Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an oxymoron. :) I don't use vim (obviously) but using one

Re: unresolved symbol errors (SOLVED)

Turns out that an upgrade to the latest version of Arla fixed the symbol errors. That's the benefit (?) of using alpha software. Max

Kernel Log

For some reason the kernel logging turns off part way through the boot up process. Anyone know how keep the kernel logging on? Thanks, Ken Rea

Re: Debian GNU/Linux question

cyberjackz wrote: > > Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product?? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I'm using an AMD K6-2/266 on an Iwill p55xb2 motherboard with no problems at all. Installs the system and re-compiles the kernel just fine

Netscape, Locale 'C', Bus errors...

Hi All, I've upgraded librarys & locale to support Gimp & Sane. Since upgrading Netscape dies with the following messages to the xterm window, (Gimp & Sane work properly); Perhaps the $XNLSPATH enviorment varible is not set correctly? Netscape: locale `C' not supported. The Netscape license win

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

Just fyi, I think I finally did fix my SCSI problem (had a 1 in 3 chance of booting without the infinite reset errors). The problem was that I have a device that was incorrectly set to UW instead of U (40 max trans rate, instead of 20). The old aic7xxx driver I had in RH4 somehow didn't have a pr

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a Dell > Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW > hard drive. > > All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is > co

Re: postgres and php => error?

> > Not regarding the actual errors in the commandline, I'd like to notice that > postgresql doesn't like "www-data" as a user. It's the dash causing > problems. > > Try using another username when calling the database system. Actually it turns out I was using the wrong syntax in pg_connect. I

tcpdump (suid) not halted normally

Hi, I'm a newbie in Linux. I've a problem with tcpdump. I set it suid. When I run it as a user (not root), it can't stop normally. When it stopped, it gave message like this: linux socket : operation not permitted. Help me please.. Thanks --indra--

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: > > I noticed that "startx" disappeared! > > I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this > list that the slink X packages were severely broke

Re: mozilla

On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 04:05:44PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: > The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required > some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my > installed system is from hamm. > > Should I install these now on my system, and if so

Re: Problems switching to debian

> > 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I > made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. > > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a > DeskJ

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > if (x) > { > x = 0; > } > > How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but > didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about > this? > M-x info m xemacs RET should be helpful. (well, I don't use XEmacs, but

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like > this: > > if (x) > { > x = 0; > } > > But I want it to look like this: > > if (x) > { > x = 0; > } > > How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu bu

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

> > I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink. > Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble. > > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: > I noticed that "startx" disappeared! I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer spe

mozilla

I've been following the thread on Netscape, and someone said that the Debian package version might be available from today. The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my installed system is from hamm.

Re: Help on qpopper

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilson Tuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of >my network with just a single posting. Read the docs in /usr/doc/qpopper/ Mike. -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was

Re: Debian GNU/Linux question

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, cyberjackz wrote: > Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product?? > Yes, it should. (Debian isn't a product tho in the traditional sense, it's a totally free volunteer effort. So you might as well try it and see if it works.) Havoc

Re: Help on Sendmail

Wilson Tuma wrote: > > I just installed sendmail on my linux mail server. The problems is it only > accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail). My domain name name is > douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com > > How do I configure it so that it accepts all mail for delivery >

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

Quoting Thomas Apel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > BTW, how can I indent a selected area? Is there something like block > indent? M-x indent-region Mike Stone

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well... I would say I've had substantial success. > > Cygnus gnu win32 gzip/tar was able to extract my 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz, and > all the filenames seemed to be intact in windows' long filename format. > But when I booted back to Linux, and attempted to copy

dpkg/apt-get madness

I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink. Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble. Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: I noticed that "startx" disappeared! Ok, this is probably temporary, I thought. The new xserver pa

Re: Help on qpopper

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: : : Hi : : How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of : my network with just a single posting. RTFM the qpopper man page and keep a weather eye for "Bulletins". -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue S

Re: Help on qpopper

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:31:04 +0100, you wrote: >How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of >my network with just a single posting. This is not a popper problem. You need to make an alias for your network members. Look at /etc/aliases. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: linux crash when RAM > 128MB

On 1 Nov, Oz Dror wrote: > Hi > I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine. > MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890) > I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each. > > When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes. > > Is this a hardware or software problem. > > -Oz My guess is hardware. I have 2

Re: offix

I know I'm following up my own post here, but no-one else did On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, H C Pumphrey wrote: > Just a small one: I tried installing the offix suite several times from my > Debian 2.0 CD. It never worked, presumably because of bug #27078:( libdnd1 > does not run ldconfig in the post

XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like this: if (x) { x = 0; } But I want it to look like this: if (x) { x = 0; } How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about

RE: Kernel rebuild

>From: Waif W. Urchin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Grr... > >Alright, still trying to recompile my kernel after doing an initial >install from floppy. While I'm not particularly able to help with your problem, I'd guess that you don't actually need to recompile the kernel. So maybe you can avoid

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a Dell > Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW > hard drive. > > All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is > comi

Re: Emacs command line option

daniel worte, > One reason some people are disgusted with emacs is the changes that RMS > and company puts in emacs files. Everytime a new version comes up it seems > to break some old code that used to work. that and it's use to force the True Faith of GNU down our throats. Remember lignux?

Help on Sendmail

Hi I just installed sendmail on my linux mail server. The problems is it only accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail). My domain name name is douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com How do I configure it so that it accepts all mail for delivery Thanks

help on firewall

Hi How do I use ipfwadm to prevent all the users of my local network from doing ftp and telnet to my mail server while allowing only two other systems the same network from beign able to telnet or ftp to the mail server. Thanks Wilson

Help on qpopper

Hi How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of my network with just a single posting. Thanks Wilson

Re: Strange? error with slink ISDN - Solved

I just read about bug #28769; /dev/ippp0 - /dev/ippp6 are created with the wrong minor device numbers. This is solved in the new makedev_2.3.1-5 in Incoming. Note that /dev/isdnctrl still needs to be linked to /dev/isdnctrl0 in order for isdnutils to work. Thanks to Torsten Hilbrich to point out t

Debian GNU/Linux question

Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product??

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

Hi A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1 and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3). In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg tells me that I need libc6 (>=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install libc6? Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it? Ho

RE: No Next

>From: Imran Geriskovan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi, > >I've installed Debian several times on several machines but got stuck with a >problem on one machine. > >Problem is as follows: > >I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux >Partion, Install device drivers, Conf

Re: postgres and php => error?

On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: : The following is from my postgres log (log level set to three) : : usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 353 user www-data db wea : ther socket 5 : /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster child[0]: execv(/usr/lib/postgre

(t)csh and the "if" statement

I want to run the shell-script #!/bin/csh if ($?EDITOR) echo "Setting EDITOR" the result is as follows: then: then/endif not found. what was not my intention. Any help? (I have to use csh instead of bash since I have to install some software package with twenty csh-Shell-scripts, which I do

Re: Netscape4.5

Ralph Winslow wrote: > > I've installed Netscape4.5 (nice job on the installer, guys) > but I can't seem to use it to send mail because it insists on > cryto-signing it and I don't have any certificates. Could > some kind soul tell me how to turn this feature off? I've > been through Mail and Ne

SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen

Hi, ich möchte mir gerne einen CD-Brenner kaufen und natürlich unter Linux(Debian 2.0) CDs brennen(Audio- und Data-CDs) ich besitze einen Adaptec 2940 AU-Controller Soyo 5 EH board 128 MB RAM 2x 4.1 GB (IBM) und ein 2x SCSI- CD-ROM (geht da auch direct copy von diesem zu dem künftigen CD-Brenner)?

ISDN

Hi, Ich habe Debian 2.0 hamm von den Lehmann-Disketten installiert und bekomme die Isdn-Konfiguration einfach nicht geregelt: 1. Die Verbindung steht, lt Ausgaben (eingeschaltetes Debug) in /var/log/syslog und in /var/log/messages steht die Verbindung, das Passwort wird akzeptiert, die Protokolle w

Re: top vs. ps?

> > Hi. I have Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 running > with xdm and fvwm2. When I display > processes with top, two xdm's appear to be > running with different pid's. However, > displaying with ps shows only one. > > Is there an explanation for this? Ps does not show all processes by default. Try `ps

Re: Stuck with M$ Exchange.

Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > > Exchange servers, at least where I work, support POP, IMAP and a > web/Javascript based interface that looks kinda like Outlook. > > For POP try your exchange server as the server with Domain/UserName as the > login. > Thank you a lot! Using Netscape Messeng

Re: about latex and tables

Hello, I'm not a Latex expert, but I think the current versions of Latex (known as Latex2e) should have a package called longtable or supertab that may do what you want. See the Latex Companion for more documentation. There is also a TeX newsgroup. Hope this helps King lee On Sun, 1 Nov 19

Re: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

Hi, >>"G" == G Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD G> is". I have recently seen this acronym floating around in G> relation to how big companies like micromush are going to combat G> against the growing threat posed by open sou

Re: Strange? error with slink ISDN

> "Torsten" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Torsten> On: 30 Oct 1998 10:21:35 +0100 Rene Hogendoorn writes: >> I am trying to get ISDN working on my new system. While I had >> a working configuration on my old system, I am now stupified by >> an error while try

linux crash when RAM > 128MB

Hi I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine. MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890) I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each. When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes. Is this a hardware or software problem. -Oz -- <<

Re: PPP Connection and local networ

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I setup my PPP connection, but I'm in trouble with my ethernet local > network. How I can route the packages correctly. When I'm using PPP I can't > use the network and vice-versa. > Also,

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

Chris R. Martin wrote: > I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux > boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to > shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial > port to communicate its status, but statistics, et

Re: Standard kernel for IP Masquerading?

At 13:32 Uhr + 31.10.1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: >>I would like to setup IP Masquerading on my Debian 2.0 >>box. I would like to know if the default kernel is >>built with the correct settings of if I have to go and >>install all the development stuff for rebuilding my >>own kernel. > >You will ne

RE: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt --> FUD It is a term for rumors and what not that are meant to throw people of the track.

Re: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:22:58 -0800, G. Crimp wrote: >Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD is". I have >recently seen this acronym floating around in relation to how big companies >like micromush are going to combat against the growing threat posed by open >source. These

Re: icewm & backgrounds

On 02 Nov 1998 06:20:24 +0100, Peter Granroth wrote: >"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and >> not tile? >xv -root -quit -rmode 5 -black backgroundcolour imagefile & I was looking for an internal since one can s

Slightly off topic: FUD ??

I've just been reading an interesting article by Eric S. Raymond (_The Cathedral and the Bazaar_, http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar). In it he is commenting on what he believes to be an authentic internal M$ document talking about the challenge presented by the open source movem

Re: icewm & backgrounds

"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and > not tile? > xv -root -quit -rmode 5 -black backgroundcolour imagefile & (the defult backgroundcolour is black) -- ---

GGI include files

Hi, I installed libggi1 and libggi-dev and trying to compile a native GGI program. Info in libggi-dev says that in has all necessary include files to compile but compiling stops with message "can't find file ggi/libggi.h". Did I miss something? best regards Vladimir _

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bruce Jackson writes: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > > > > > rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on > > > > deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same > > >

icewm & backgrounds

Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and not tile? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+---

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: > > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 > > <@kira.peak.org> : colon expected after route > > fetchmai

Isapnp

Evening all. Does anyone have experience in installing a PnP modem for Linux? If you do, please contact me, I am having some problems. Thank you, Andrew

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

Someone else was wondering the same thing: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980721/097233.shtml Personally, I have a best patriot pro for my system, and it works good. It has saved me from lots of little power problems (same circuit breaker as my sterio and two garage door openers) and one 30 sec

Re: zip disk

I have the (older?) version in which the line printer and zip reluctantly share the parallel port - both as modules. The system wakes up with the printer owning the port. To use the zip, I must "rmmod lp" "insmod ppa" To get the printer functionality back I must similarly "rmmod ppa" "insmod lp" I

UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial port to communicate its status, but statistics, etc are not needed. Also, I don't

Re: zip disk

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Debian-User wrote: > I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i > built the last one > And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what > happens when i try to > use it.: > mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip > mount: the ke

Re: whois default

You (wb2oyc) wrote: > You could edit the named.ca file. As in /etc/named.ca? That file doesn't currently exist and I couldn't find any references to it in the named man pages (but then I don't see what named has to do with whois). Could you explain? Thanks, Max

Re: unresolved symbol errors

You (Michael Beattie) wrote: > Give `modprobe xfs` a go... It says there aren't any dependencies. Max > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Max wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a program (Arla) that creates a module called > > xfs.o. When I try to load that module with insmod, I get the > > following: > > >

Re: Print Postscript in draft-mode on Canpn BJ200, today!

> Hello, > > I have spent some time in the ghostscript source trying to make my BJ200e > print Postscript in draft-mode. Anyone who uses the BJ200 knows it can be a > real ink-hog when priniting some documents, and most of the printing I do can > be done in draft mode. You might try the effect o

zip disk

I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i built the last one And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what happens when i try to use it.: mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device

Total absence of Ethernet iff dLinux

Hi, please excuse the ignorance of a Linux newbie, still learning. please excuse the desperation, I haven't a damn clue what to do. please help! Short story: my Ethernet card appears but doesn't work under dLinux. Confusing evidence: One computer, three har

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