help w/ cvs watch add foo for mail notification

1998-11-23 Thread Shaleh
I have a CVS server and would like to get mail notification on commit going. However all the users of CVS are not local users. CVS insists on trying to mail locally anyway. I have created a file: users: foo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bar:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but it just mails foo and bar on the local mach

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread Kent West
David Stern wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:36:56 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Li

ip aliasing

1998-11-23 Thread Babs
I am running kernel 2.0.34, a ne2000 either, ip aliasing built into the kernel i have already had the system admin check my network file and all is configured properly ie. temptress:/# cat /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 000.000.000.000

technical problems with kde and debian (loading of libs fail)

1998-11-23 Thread Mikael Suomela
Hi all, I've got following problem: when I try to launch kde it fails complaining about missing libraries. I've installed kde using .debs from ftp.kde.org and qt 1.41 from a .deb from ftp.funet.fi (a mirror of ftp.debian.org). Any kde users here who could illuminate the situation? Lots of thanks

Root Menu entry

1998-11-23 Thread rathon
Hi, I am using Debian2.0 with olvwm. I can right click my mouse and get the pulldown 'Root Menu' that shows all the installed stuffs I have put. later on, I added a xemacs package(using dselect instead of dpkg)and under the pulldown menu: Root Menu-Debian-Apps-Editors It does not show up!

Laptop woes - Network Cfg.

1998-11-23 Thread Ryan King
I can't seem to do anything without running to you guys! You already helped me through two problems (both my fault, of course), and here I am again! I promise that as soon as I get going and am connected, I'll quit using you all as a crutch. Yeesh.. Regardless: I'm having trouble figuring out h

Re: set/export TERM=vt100

1998-11-23 Thread maximill
set is used for csh or tcsh. export is used for sh (bourne shell) derivatives, like bash. -brad On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > hi! > i once had an ISP where in order to be able to run elm (when telnet`ing to > it) you have to invoke _$ set TERM=v100_ , they were running RedHat

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AS" == Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the AS> machine, and recheck ifconfig -- it's wrong. It resets the IP address to AS> 192.168.1.1 everytime! Check /etc/init.d/network Ciao, Martin

RE: List language?

1998-11-23 Thread Shaleh
Seems a news server in Poland is leaking onto the mailing list. We have notified them. > > I was just curious why this list has such an influx of non-english posts. > I am not complaining. It just seems odd that we're getting so many of > them. >

Installation help required

1998-11-23 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I am trying to install packages from a floppy/s using dselect but keep getting the messages: /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mount/packages/ does not exist can any give me some advice on this? or just general advice on installation (x window etc) regards Stephen Lavelle   Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.

HP820se Windows printer help

1998-11-23 Thread Richard Lampe
Hi all, I have a HP820se printer and was wondering if anyone had luck configuring this printer with a Debian system. I have HAMM installed and I have used Tim Norman's PPA utility on an old slackware system, but currently I am having trouble (no output) on the Debian system. Thanks Rich

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No Debian MTA comes preconfigured to use procmail that I know of ... > sendmail certainly doesn't (though adding it is no big deal). We use Sendmail uses sensible-mda, and it calls procmail. (At least on my hamm/slink systems.) Mike Stone

diald time restriction

1998-11-23 Thread Peter Bartosch
hi debians i´ve got only a short question: is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) i don´t use diald at the moment! it´s only to avoid reading more and more ,-) until next mail ;) . ___ ---___ .--.

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 01:42 PM 11/23/98 -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: >I have a question about ifconfig. >I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local >network. >I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 >I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > >then I check it with ifconfig and everythi

Re: car ads

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Pick
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or rather, looked like a Polish Opal for sale in another country. It looks like somebody has been an idiot, and subscribed all the Debian lists to a polish mailing list of some sort. Cheers, - Jim

Re: Gnome

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Pick
Trevor Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Everybody, > > My gnome libs are all wrong. Or to be more precise my gnome apps are. The > availiable packages in dselect for the games (and most of the gnome stuff) are > ver 0.30-1, whereas the lib packages are around 0.30.1-2 and so when I run a >

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Peter Granroth
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:31:09PM -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 [snip] > > > How do I get

Re: Ifconfigy

1998-11-23 Thread dpk
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: I have a question about ifconfig. I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local network. I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 I type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 then I check it with ifconfig and e

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread stick
Amanda Shuler said > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot

Re: sprzedam samochod

1998-11-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Oliver Elphick wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > > >So why are we getting Polish car adverts on debian-devel-announce? > > Someone in Poland has misconfigured a news server. It seems to be > sending each local message to all the Debian lists. > > I have sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a

Re: sprzedam samochod

1998-11-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > > >So why are we getting Polish car adverts on debian-devel-announce? > > Someone in Poland has misconfigured a news server. It seems to be > sending each local message to all the Debian lists. > > I have sent a message

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Joop Stakenborg
> I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the > machine, and

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everythi

3Com card

1998-11-23 Thread Jeremy Blonde
I keep getting this error with my 3com 3C509 NIC card: eth0: infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011. waiting for 3C509 to discard packet, status 2011. Any ideas on what is causing this? It seems to happen most when I use tcpdump otherwise it just pops up that error message every once in a whi

Re: Getting setup for mail and news

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I'm using Netscape for my mail and news, and WVDIAL to dial my isp. > What I'd like to do is to get the internal, if that's the right term, > stuff going in linux. I tried setting up the pon for the dialer, smail > and fetchmail for mail, but I didn't get far. I got confused on what >

Package Help Please

1998-11-23 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I am trying to install packages from a floppy/s using dselect but keep getting the messages: /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mount/packages/ does not exist can any give me some advice on this? or just general advice on installation (x window etc) regards Stephen Lavelle   Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.1

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: : I have a question about ifconfig. : I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local : network. : I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 : I type: : ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 : : then I check it with ifconfig and e

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Amanda Shuler wrote: >I have a question about ifconfig. >I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local >network. >I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 >I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > >then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct.

Re: sprzedam samochod

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
George Bonser wrote: > >So why are we getting Polish car adverts on debian-devel-announce? Someone in Poland has misconfigured a news server. It seems to be sending each local message to all the Debian lists. I have sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], asking them to stop. However, it would

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-23 Thread Jonathan Crowe
> El Fri, 20 Nov 1998, George Bonser escribió: > > >Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the > >mistake of "upgrading" netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ... > >I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I link to it > >from, say, /usr/bi

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:50:45PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: > * ^TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-english > :0: > * ^TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-spanish These are wrong. Take out the :.* from between ^TO and the addresses: ^TO is a macro that contains everything you need, and putting colons a

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
try to edit your /etc/init.d/networks - as far as i remember debian puts there base network interface configuration is your netmask and broadcast correct ? greetz Piotr Wachowiak Horyzont, TI OSSU

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-23 Thread john
Jonathan Crowe writes: > I was a little worried that it didn't ask for my nameservers but I > decieded to leave my setings in /etc/resolv.config and it seems to be > working. pppconfig checks /etc/resolv.conf. If it exists and has nameservers it doesn't ask for new ones. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PR

Re: help!

1998-11-23 Thread john
Jiri writes: > Have you tried the -mentors list? > If memory serves it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it's > supposed to be for getting one-on-one help with debian. Memory doesn't serve. debian-mentors is for one-on-one help for debian *developers*. debian-user@lists.debian.org is for help for debian

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-23 Thread Rob Current
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Marcin Krol wrote: > Probably E and GNUStep are. However, it is not important which desktop is > most popular *right now*. KDE would be very important even if it were not > very ergonomic or aesthetic. It's NOT. KDE is ugly as sin. Following Motif'ish styling clues to create

Re: Sound Card

1998-11-23 Thread Joop Stakenborg
> Hi folks, > > Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster > card... During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA > settings, but it seems to expect one DMA of 1 or 3, and another of either > 5,6, or 7. This worked fine on my other PC (Jazz16

Re: I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread Joop Stakenborg
> Greetings, > This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple > dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time it > rotates blank screens, don't want that. I want to see the login prompt. > Where, how who, do I modify in order to keep the sc

RE: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Set the IP address in /etc/init.d/network script On 23-Nov-98 Amanda Shuler wrote: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > t

List language?

1998-11-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, Sorry about that last empty e-mail. I have an itchy "send" finger. :) I was just curious why this list has such an influx of non-english posts. I am not complaining. It just seems odd that we're getting so many of them. Thanks, -Ossama _

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-23 Thread Ossama Othman
__ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Andrew Ivanov
You could add a line into lilo.conf default = winlabel Then save it, run lilo /etc/lilo.conf and reboot. This should take care of a problem. HTH, Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else und

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:36:56 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to > recognize the MSDOS p

sprzedam samochod

1998-11-23 Thread robert dziubkowski
Opel Omega kombi 2.4i automat bialy 1991r 150.000km stan idealny cena 5.000 Sfr Odbior Szwajcaria ewentualnie dostarcze do Polski (za oplaceniem zaliczki)

DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-23 Thread Daniel Elenius
I have this problem that has been bugging me for quite some time: I can't get my DEL key working properly in Xemacs. I want it to always generate delete-char, but it works like backspace, i.e. generates delete-backward-char. I have a swedish keyboard. I've put (require 'iso-syntax) in my .emacs.

Re: Nissan Primera 2.O '92 - slabe ogrzewanie

1998-11-23 Thread Tomek
Mam taka sama Primere i to prawda ze ogrzewanie jest beznadziejne. Moja do tego duzo pali tzn. 12-15 na setke w miescie nie wiem czy to jest normalne czy tez nie. A jak u ciebie ze spalaniem? Tomek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacek Grabowiecki napisa³(a) w wiadomo¶ci: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >Samochod jak w

Re: Dowcipne toasty

1998-11-23 Thread Marek Solek
A taki marynarski toast: "Za nasze zony i kochanki. Oby sie nigdy nie spotkaly"

Rescue disk creation?

1998-11-23 Thread Alex McCool
Are there instruction on how to create a rescue disk for installation on new systems? I can create a kernel which boots good, but it panics when looking for the root FS.

Re: Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bret Craw wrote: >How do I set up Win98 as the default in LILO. I have tried putting it above >the Linux in the lilo.config file. That is correct; the first entry is the default. However, you MUST run /sbin/lilo (as superuser), or your changes will not be recognised. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: bylo: jak zwykle o wszystkim...

1998-11-23 Thread Darius Jack
Jaroslaw Zielinski wrote: > > Darius Jack wrote: > > > > > Krotko: nie masz takich znajomych. > > Przestan nudzic bo to jest banalne. Ja nie wiem co to w tym widzisz > > szczegolnego ze mam znajomych na MIT. > > Nic, gdyby to byla prawda. > > > Naprawde, twoi sasiedzi zaraz dzwonia i sprawdzaja

Re: I'm a newbie... with probs with modules

1998-11-23 Thread charles verge
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Michele Bini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:36:46PM -0500, The Cookie Man wrote: > > hi yall. i'm just installing debian today and i have no idea really what > > i'm doing with the modules. which ones do i need? which ones do i not > > need? (i.e. the ip modules) > > >

Re: web design question

1998-11-23 Thread Henry Kingman
Background images in _tables_ -- though not table cells -- are supported by IE 3 and later and Netscape 4 and later. Just use -- > From: James Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: web design question > Date: Friday, Novembe

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Mount your Win98 drive as type vfat instead of msdos and you will see the long file names. On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > pull down m

Re: ksi±¿ki do turbo pascala

1998-11-23 Thread Stanislaw Ciszewski
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grzegorz Swen wrote: > >> >Czy mo¿e lepiej zacz±æ od C++, bo s³ysza³em, ¿e TP >> >jest tylko jêzykiem przej¶ciowym. Po co wiêc mam >> >uczyæ siê czago¶, z czego po jakim¶ czasie zrezygnujê? >> >> Kolejne pytanie, ktore juz z zalozenia prowadzi do jalowej >> i niczeg

Re: Adjust the pop up menus in Aferstep.

1998-11-23 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:32:46 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > I have added Afterstep as a window manager. When Debian installed, in the > popup menu, it gives a choice of windows managers in X. After installing > Afterstep, and adding it to the xinitrc file, it is the default. I would > like to add it to

Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Amanda Shuler
I have a question about ifconfig. I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local network. I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 I type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the machine, and recheck ifconfi

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to > recognize the MSDOS partition, so

Re: Olimpiada Informatyczna - protest?

1998-11-23 Thread Stanislaw Ciszewski
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grzegorz Grudzinski wrote: >Robert Maron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze: >> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:27:09 +0100, Krzysztof G. Baranowski <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> wrote: >> : Z czystej ciekawosci... jakimi cechami powinien charakteryzowac sie >> : jezyk programowania, bedacy

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

1998-11-23 Thread debian
The problem as near as i can tell regards the fonts. None of the fonts (i.e. Xfonts-XXdpi 3.3.2.3a-8 or the non -XXdpi) remedy this message in .xsesion-errors while using either wmaker .14.1-7 or 0.20.2-2 [excalibur:root] /root #tail .xsession-errors /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: could not

Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Amanda Shuler
I have a question about ifconfig. I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local network. I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 I type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot the machine, and recheck ifconfi

Re: Podkrecanie PII 300 ?

1998-11-23 Thread akane
Witam!!! Arek Chrzescian 4DT napisal: Mam podobna sytuacje :))) On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, £ukasz Rzepecki wrote: > Mam plyte ASUS P2B (BX), procek Intel Pentium II 300MHz > i pamiec RAM 2 x 64MB 100MHz. > > Oryginalnie taktowanie bylo ustawione na 4.5 x 66MHz. > > Zmienilem na 5.0 x 66MHz, ale nad

Czy mozna edytowac AMIBIOS'a z poziomu systemu operacyjnego ?

1998-11-23 Thread Leszek Leszczyñski
Czy mozna edytowac AMIBIOS'a z poziomu systemu operacyjnego ? Jesli tak to czym i gdzie to znalezc ? Po nieudanej instalacji Linuxa nie mam dostepu do setupu przez klawisze ( ani [escape] ani [F1] i w zadnej kombinacji ). Leszek Leszczyñski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread charles verge
mount your windows partition as vfat in /etc/fstab you need /dev/hda2 /c vfatdefaults where /dev/hda2 is the 2 partition on the first hd /c is the mount point vfat is the file system

Re: Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I set up Win98 as the default in LILO. I have tried putting it above > the Linux in the lilo.config file. I have also taken off the other and put > that in front of the lilo section. I am able to dual boot at this point, > but can get the Win

Re: DNS configuration

1998-11-23 Thread charles verge
Read the DNS-HOWTO at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO and the NET-3-HOWTO and the PPP-HOWTO has some useful info too.

Re: Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:30:14AM -0800, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I set up Win98 as the default in LILO. I have tried putting it above > the Linux in the lilo.config file. I have also taken off the other and put > that in front of the lilo section. I am able to dual boot at this point, > but c

Strange tty problems

1998-11-23 Thread Andrea Novara
Hi! I've just installed hamm. And recently descovered a little problem with ttys and remote unix. Default terminal setting is xterm-debian which is non present on our Sun Ultra server at university. When I telnet on it, I set TERM to xterm and try to stty erase . But nothing changes. I continue

Re: Boot Param: floppy=thinkpad

1998-11-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
nathan nattered, > You need to give the kernel name first, then the parameters. On the > boot floppies I think it's just "linux". So, at the boot prompt, you'd > type: > linux floppy=thinkpad > I've installed Debian successfully on two different 755C's and you do > indeed need the floppy=thinkp

Re: Cos Do Mirroringu

1998-11-23 Thread
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:29:19 +0100, groszkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jak, lub jakim programem najlatwiej robic mirror innego ftepa? Jezeli po prostu chcesz sciagnac calego ftp to wget, jezeli chcesz zrobic mirrora to mirror, mozna znalesc na tasku i sunsite

Re: dosemu help

1998-11-23 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > I just installed dosemu on my system via Debian package (version > 0.66.7-13). I need to run a dos program, but I cannot even access the > partition through dosemu. > > Thus far, I have tried the following: > > - lredir, always f

Re: Klawiatury sa do d*** (Re: To jest do d***)

1998-11-23 Thread Andrzej Boczek
On 23 Nov 1998, Mirosław `Jubal' Baran wrote: > >> No właśnie, Dvorak. Ciekaw jestem, jak by się na tym pisało :-) A swoją >> drogą - nie wiedziałem, myślałem że układ QWERT[Y|Z] jest jakoś tam >> zoptymalizowany... > >Uhum. Żeby się klawisze w maszynie do pisania nie zakleszczały :-) > Nooo. Po

Re: I'm a newbie... with probs with modules

1998-11-23 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 07:36:46PM -0500, The Cookie Man wrote: > hi yall. i'm just installing debian today and i have no idea really what > i'm doing with the modules. which ones do i need? which ones do i not > need? (i.e. the ip modules) > Usually kernel modules are automatically loaded by a k

Re: isapnptools

1998-11-23 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:05:18PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: > Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but > is this still true if pnpdump detects it? I think of yes.

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-23 Thread Alan Cox
> > An API to access either Gnome or KDE desktop strikes me as beyond the > > scope of the LSB. > > 1. How about *generic desktop API*. 2. If there is any reason for LSB, it > is desktop. KDE is outside of any LSB work. Remember the main reason for the LSB is at least notionally commercial softw

Re: Cyfrowe lacza TP S.A.

1998-11-23 Thread Szymon Sokol
Filip WOSKO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : X.25 poniewaz o tym protokole najwiecej (w szczegolach) wiem. Zapomnij. X.25 to historia. : 2. Oddziały terenowe musza (ze wzgledu na niezawodnosc) byc pola- :czone laczem dzierzawionym i awaryjnym laczem komutowanym :(PAD). Czy wobec tego w o

Re: Dziwne zachowanie sendmaila

1998-11-23 Thread Andrzej Filip
Kłopoty z DNSem :-( 1) dodaj dino.wsi.edu.pl do /etc/hosts 2) w sendmail.cf użyj [dino.wsi.edu.pl] (nie szuka MX rekordów) 3) w /etc/nsswitch.conf (lub innym używanym przez sendmaila) sprawdz, że files sš sprawdzane prze DNS Michal Jeczalik wrote: > > Wiem, że to temat na pl.comp.mail.mta, ale j

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-23 Thread Jonathan Crowe
Hi John. I have done as you suggested and restored my /etc/ppp/options file to the original. I then ran pppconfig and entered all my info. I was a little worried that it didn't ask for my nameservers but I decieded to leave my setings in /etc/resolv.config and it seems to be working. I also too

Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread Bret Craw
How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to recognize the MSDOS partition, so that I can see what is on the hard drive. How

DNS configuration

1998-11-23 Thread Carmen Correia
I have a machine with Debian Linux 2.0 installed and I am trying to configure it as a DNS server. This machine is not connected to the Internet, for now I am only using it to create a Intranet. My LAN as a class A address with a mask of 255.255.0.0. in order to have various sub-networks. The c

Adjust the pop up menus in Aferstep.

1998-11-23 Thread Bret Craw
I have added Afterstep as a window manager. When Debian installed, in the popup menu, it gives a choice of windows managers in X. After installing Afterstep, and adding it to the xinitrc file, it is the default. I would like to add it to the menus so that I can switch between WMs when I get bore

Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Bret Craw
How do I set up Win98 as the default in LILO. I have tried putting it above the Linux in the lilo.config file. I have also taken off the other and put that in front of the lilo section. I am able to dual boot at this point, but can get the Win98 to be the default. I need this because I have a f

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-23 Thread Marcin Krol
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, BadlandZ wrote: > Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm asking me a question. There is now 2 big desktops for Linux: KDE and > > Gnome. > > Couldn't we add an API to access either Gnome or KDE desktop for the > > applications to interact with them. > > So, a Word proces

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Yosef B wrote: >Thanks for the info. As I have a very pressing need to get a copy of slink >up and >running, any idea how I might get my hands on this new rescue image ASAP? I >t >presently is not at any of the sites I know of. Alternatively, is there a c >d image of >

Re: scanf: floating point formats not linked

1998-11-23 Thread Robert Tkaczyk
Adam Michalski wrote: > > Witam! > > Mam taki problemik. Pisalem sobie prosta funkcjem wczytujaca z pliku liczby > typu float. Jest sobie taki programik: > > #include > #include > void main(int argc, char **argv) > { > FILE *f = fopen (argv[1], "rt"); > int ilosc, i, j; > float p

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1998-11-23 Thread robert dziubkowski
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Re: Boot Param: floppy=thinkpad

1998-11-23 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having | trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until | time to install the drivers, and then all I get "/dev/fd0: Device not | configured"). | | When I `mount -t

Re: Boot Param: floppy=thinkpad

1998-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ryan King wrote: : I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having : trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until : time to install the drivers, and then all I get "/dev/fd0: Device not : configured"). At the boot: promp

Boot Param: floppy=thinkpad

1998-11-23 Thread Ryan King
I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until time to install the drivers, and then all I get "/dev/fd0: Device not configured"). When I `mount -t (ext2|msdos|dos|*) /dev/fd0 /mnt`, I get: "mount: /d

Re: Always my problem with X

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I still got that problem running X : > > waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. > > immediately after the graphical screens comes up... and down ! That error message doesn't sound too bad - after all, it

Re: I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Foltz
Anthony, setterm -blank 0 The man page is not very helpful. On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple > dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> It is not clear to me exactly what you mean, but you can edit /etc/modules nope, i know how to load a module... its the stuff like this i don't know where to put: echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' > register echo ':Java:M::\xca\xfe\xba\xbe::/usr/local/java/bin/javawrapper:' > registe

Re: web design question

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Andrew, > I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in > HTML... Are you sure you want to do that? Images sometimes have an annoying tendency to get in the way of the information you are trying to get across... The image will also slow down loading, the text wi

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > wanted to set up again some of the misc binary modules capabilities > on slackware init i had a rc.local where to put such stuff where do i put > it in debian? It is not clear to me exactly what you mean, but you c

Re: "simple" three-d graphs

1998-11-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
_ > > /\__\__\__\ > >/\/\__\__\__\ > > /\/\/\__\__\__\ > > \/\/\/__/__/__/ > >\/\/__/__/__/ > > \/__/__/__/ > > > > with the line going through the middle region. > > > I don't exactly get how simple these drawings will be, but if they are > going to be reall

Re: I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread servis
*- Anthony Landreneau wrote about "I don't want the display to blank" > Greetings, > This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple > dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time it > rotates blank screens, don't want that. I want to s

Re: Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Just wanted to say thanks. > > Got the needed script! (One C, one Perl). > > The first came 3 minutes after my post. > > Yup, there's just no reliable "customer service" with linux, is there? ;) Well, no, there isn't. It's very often excellent, but "reliable" means something else :-)

Status of Debian in Ultra/Sparcs

1998-11-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, my techer is asking me for help him install Linux at two Sun Ultra Sparcs that he is buying. I thought a little and think that I want the same quality in Suns that I have in PCs with Debian installed. I'm asking about the status of Debian Ultra Sparcs, abou

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:55:55PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > > > Is there any explanation for this? > > Explanation for what? > Why they're dead? I don't know. > Why they're still listed? Because apperantly so far nobody noticed it and > decided to act in the way the page suggests: "Ple

Re: System wide data type system?

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Is there any kind of system wide data type system in the works for linux > (like the ones found in AmigaOS and BeOS). You mean like file(1) and magic(5) ? > Such a mechanism would essentially eliminate the need for programs like c2p Well, no, you'd just be calling them automagically ra

Re: screenshot

1998-11-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ on trying to make a screen shot from an xdm login screen ] > try setting the DISPLAY var > with export DISPLAY=:0.0 That is not the problem. Both with xwd and xv I explicitly specified the display with the -display option (also tried DISPLAY variable). To be able to do that I had to give an x

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote: : > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as : > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a : > user-agent. : : Bad assumption as Exim d

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