Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file > append="mem=128Mo" Ah. Objection already noted. But thank you. > by the way you can install lilo on a diskette and boot with it. Erm... why would I want to do that? I use the bootdisk if I want Linux,

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file > >append="mem=128Mo" > No French spoken here. :-) > Make that > append="mem=128M" Thanks, guys, but: a) Not using LILO b) I found th

Re: missing header file

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 10:57:21PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to port a program from HP-UX to Linux, but I seem to be missing > a header file. This seems kind of strange to me, since the header file is > present in the gcc directories on the HP's, but nowhere is it to be found

RE: rotating log files

1998-12-15 Thread Jon Burchmore
> I believe that in Debian 1.3 (or was it 1.2?), the cron > package came with crontabs that will rotate the log files in > /var/log. This does not appear to be the case with Debian > 2.0. Has the crontabs become a separate package? Or do one > have to write his/her own? I have several 2.0 syste

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Peter Berlau wrote: > > * Crucial: Disappearing kernel devices: > > Under 2.0.34, I have full NE2000 and PPP. But: > > - only 64MB RAM instead of 128 > add a line in Your lilo.conf like > append="mem=128M" Can't. Even if I was using LILO, I'd want to avoid this technique. I

tracking idletime

1998-12-15 Thread Gossamer
Not quite on-topic but I can't think where else to ask! I want to put together a daemon to track idletime, the sort of thing that tells you to get up and stretch every half hour of worktime. Trouble is, there's no way I can figure out to track "Last keypress in any virtual terminal" (I don't and

rotating log files

1998-12-15 Thread okushi
I believe that in Debian 1.3 (or was it 1.2?), the cron package came with crontabs that will rotate the log files in /var/log. This does not appear to be the case with Debian 2.0. Has the crontabs become a separate package? Or do one have to write his/her own? Thanks, Fumi Okushi

RE: Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s

1998-12-15 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Brian Morgan took time to write : > Having some trouble using debian 2.0.34 > > 2.Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get >an > error: "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" I've had this problem in the > past, on another debian machine, but I don't re

Re: X-windows/Mouse

1998-12-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi Kent, Some others have given you some useful advice. It might be an idea to get gpm working before trying X. This is the program that gets the mouse working in console mode (text mode). Sounds like you are pretty new to Debian. It takes a little while to get the hang of things, but don't gi

Re: Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s

1998-12-15 Thread Graham Ashton
On 15 Dec, Brian Morgan wrote: > 1.I posted a samba question earlier. Has anyone had a chance to look at > that yet? didn't see it, sorry. > 2.Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an > error: "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" I've had this problem in t

Re: Accupoint Mouse Pointer

1998-12-15 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 16 Dec, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a Toshiba t211x series laptop with a pointer (accupoint) on the > keyboard. > Does anyone know how (if) I can configure this in X11? > Regards, > Stephen Lavelle > I think it looks like a PS/2 mouse, software-wise. Try "ps2" as the mouse type

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Karl B. Hammar
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Peter (Troff) Petroff wrote: > Machine description: > The machine is an AMD K6-233 with 128MB RAM, ISA (nonPnP) NE2000 > compatible > network card, an Ensoniq EAPCI; Winborg on hda1; dLinux2.02 with typically a > kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot flo

Tecra disks

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
There is a file in the installation directory called ltecra. Since I need the tecra boot disks for my Toshiba laptop - do I need this file as well? What is it? -jay

Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s

1998-12-15 Thread Brian Morgan
Having some trouble using debian 2.0.34 1. I posted a samba question earlier. Has anyone had a chance to look at that yet? 2. Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an error: "can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" I've had this problem in the past, on another

Accupoint Mouse Pointer

1998-12-15 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I have a Toshiba t211x series laptop with a pointer (accupoint) on the keyboard. Does anyone know how (if) I can configure this in X11? Regards, Stephen Lavelle Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ 110 Heales Road, Lara, Geelong, Australia 3212 Tel:++(03)52742232 Fax:

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > You're in luck! I once was desirous of just such a thing myself and > since it didn't exist (but I knew this was possible since you can do > it in NT) I went ahead and wrote one myself. It's command line and you > give it the IP of the machine and it

Re: xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:00:10PM -0500, lee wrote: > Thanks Colorado and everyone else, oops ^^ Conrado -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks Colorado and everyone else, I had already converted /var/xmcd to group audio after seeing some of the other suggestions. But I went ahead and installed the new version since it fixes the directory permissions itself. The xmcd.deb from slink didn't run xmcdconfig like the one from hamm did.

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gee, that's funny. The webcam I look at uses server push and works with Netscape but *not* with IE (haven't tried it with anything else). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't hold your breath. Netscape has taken the position that they are more > interested in providing new, esoteric features for it

Boot Disk & LILO

1998-12-15 Thread timothy
Hi, I tried to make a boot disk with memtest86 on it to test a buggy machine. It works fine on my machine, but when used on the target machine, the lilo on the disk goes "LI" and stops. I used: boot=/dev/fd0 prompt timeout=100 image=/floppy/memtest86.bin label=memtest As the conf file to install l

Re: I can't print after upgrade

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 06:20:29PM +, guest1 wrote: > I've upgraded my PC (runing Debian 2.0) from VXPro/Pentium 133 to > TXPro-II/K6II 266 and almost everything worked fine except my printer. > Everything looks to be correct: irq ; printcap ; cat /proc/devices: lp is > included ; cat /proc/io

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:09:25PM -0800, Michael Wahl wrote: Hi Michael, if Your work has finished log out any user from the linux-box after that look in and type shutdown -h 0 that means shutdown -halt in 0 Seconds, also immediateley or shutdown -r 0 that means shutdown -reboot in 0 Seconds, als

Re: soundcard suggestions?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:26:03PM -0500, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > I just installed rvplayer, so maybe it's time to get a sound card. > I'm looking for a linux compatible 16 bit card with great sound at an > amazingly low price. Any suggestions appreciated. Web site vendors etc? > > p.s. H

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread homega
Bob Nielsen dixit: > > Or better yet, use 'shutdown -h' or 'halt' which will just shut down > without starting a reboot. Yes, but don't forget to wait until you see the "system halted" line before you switch the power off. -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: Debian CDs.

1998-12-15 Thread J.T. Wenting
The correct address is www.datom.de, but from their list they are more expensive (even with shipping outside Germany) then ordering from linuxcentral.com from the USA. J.T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9203 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: graphic card again

1998-12-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, One more here. I also have Matrox Millenium G200, works great. Take XFCom_Matrox from ftp.suse.com, I also needed to fix backspace problem ln -s /var/lib/kbd/ /var/X11R6/xkb/compiled Sasha. > > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I gave my Hercules card ba

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
>are there any other tools that can do it? The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in a domain... but I couldn't figure out how to

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: switch off Debian Date: Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 02:16:05PM -0600 In reply to:Kent West Quoting Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: > > > Hello out there, > > > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > > And, what else, I have a

Distributed Programming with DIPC

1998-12-15 Thread Kamran Karimi
To people interested in distributed programming and clustering under Linux, This is to introduce DIPC (Distributed Inter-Process Communication). DIPC is a software-only solution for very easy distributed programming under the Linux operating system. Here developers design their applications as

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread Kevin White
4.5 just came out, that took forever to add that feature and after a hard drive crash on my Mac clone, every time I try to download Netscape 4.5 128 bit version, the damn thing crashes the connection half way through the file, it does this 4 out of 5 times, I still havent bothered getting it again

Quake 2 3dfx mouse problem

1998-12-15 Thread Vincent Murphy
When I play Quake 2 using 3dfxgl.so, it won't let me use the mouse. The other modes do. What am I doing wrong? Please CC me on list replies. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 NT = Not Today

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread servis
*- Michael Wahl wrote about "switch off Debian" > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is

Re: query dialup-hostsname

1998-12-15 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:16:40 +0100, Marcus Geiger wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone knows a possibility to query the hostname (dns) that will > be assigned after dialing into a internet service provider ? > > Sometimes when logging into a ftp server, I will be greeted with > something like 'dialup.a-n

Re: very confused

1998-12-15 Thread alexander.schwartz
Have there been duplicates? I suppose that you first need to move your mailfile /var/spool/mail/my_account to your $HOME and then start formail/procmail as procmail appends the mails while cat reads them again and again?! Alex. On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > I am very c

I need some help with X

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
Hey guys, I'm kind of stuck here on what to do next. I seem to be unable to get X working correctly. I have a Diamond II Stealth S220 Card - which isn't supported via XF86Setup, so I used xf86config to set things up. All went well, and it went all the way thru without error. When I try to star

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Will Lowe
> And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? No. Linux (therefore Debian), like all Unix operating syst

Re: todos/fromdos

1998-12-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:27:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know if there are todos/fromdos packages for Linux/Debian? I've > searched the Packages files and did a dpkg -S for it, but to no avail. That will only show you the package if you already have todos installed on your syste

todos/fromdos

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
Anyone know if there are todos/fromdos packages for Linux/Debian? I've searched the Packages files and did a dpkg -S for it, but to no avail. -Jay

Re: graphic card again

1998-12-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:32:52PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I gave my Hercules card back and got a Matrox Millenium G200 instead. Good choice. > Does anyone run a machine with this card to give me some info or > configuartions? What do you want to know? I use it with the XFCom_Matrox server

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/15/98 2:09:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On the contrary, this feature already exists in Navigator 4.5. Have fun! > (the feature being: the ability to restart cancelled downloads.) > > Peter > I sit corrected. :) -Jay

soundcard suggestions?

1998-12-15 Thread Christopher Mosley
I just installed rvplayer, so maybe it's time to get a sound card. I'm looking for a linux compatible 16 bit card with great sound at an amazingly low price. Any suggestions appreciated. Web site vendors etc? p.s. How does someone determine if sound support was compiled in the kernel? Is the s

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Or better yet, use 'shutdown -h' or 'halt' which will just shut down > without starting a reboot. Oops, that should have been 'shutdown -h now'. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PRO

query dialup-hostsname

1998-12-15 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, does anyone knows a possibility to query the hostname (dns) that will be assigned after dialing into a internet service provider ? Sometimes when logging into a ftp server, I will be greeted with something like 'dialup.a-number.lrz-muenchen.de'. I want to query this hostname to work with it

I can't print after upgrade

1998-12-15 Thread guest1
I've upgraded my PC (runing Debian 2.0) from VXPro/Pentium 133 to TXPro-II/K6II 266 and almost everything worked fine except my printer. Everything looks to be correct: irq ; printcap ; cat /proc/devices: lp is included ; cat /proc/ioports: 0378-037f cat /proc/interrupts: lp is not included but tu

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: > > > Hello out there, > > > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > > And, what else, I have a question: > > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the > > computer. When I switch it

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this r

switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Michael Wahl
Hello out there, After all I finally installed DEBIAN. And, what else, I have a question: When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? Thanks Mi

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't hold your breath. Netscape has taken the position that they are more > interested in providing new, esoteric features for it's browsers than in > fixing and enhancing the features that already exist. Welcome to the browser > wars. In fact, I

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Just one minor comment, since others seem to be handling the query... > Mark Phillips wrote: ... > > 3. Fetchmail feeds this email into some black box (I don't understand > > this bit - is it a file or is it a program that is sitting around > > waiting for such events???). ... > There is

Re: X-windows/Mouse

1998-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
KTB wrote: >You are right I don't have any mouse use when I am in normal test mode. I s >ee no >white block or anything when I move my mouse. So, I tried to run gmpconfig >as root >and it wasn't there. I searched in dselect but it wasn't listed. I found i >t listed >u

Re: Flavours of rebooting (was 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian ...)

1998-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
It belongs on the LILO command line that boots the linux kernel (given that you boot with LILO). It's interpreted by the _kernel_, not any user-mode program, at boot time, and it saves that parameter until halt time. You can also hack the kernel to hard-code the booting method. Another solution wo

graphic card again

1998-12-15 Thread Michael Meskes
I gave my Hercules card back and got a Matrox Millenium G200 instead. This card is listed in the xfree list as being supported by the latest release. Does anyone run a machine with this card to give me some info or configuartions? I suppose it may not work with 3.3.2.3a but it should with 3.3.3. T

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You're in luck! I once was desirous of just such a thing myself and since it didn't exist (but I knew this was possible since you can do it in NT) I went ahead and wrote one myself. It's command line and you give it the IP of the machine and it spits out the name. Actually I added a few more pos

Re: --MARK--

1998-12-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Coming in in the middle here, so I may not be relevant. To disable the --MARK--, edit /etc/syslog.conf liske so: *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mai

Re: xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I just installed xmcd. It is able to query remote databases to find info > on the CD's I insert, but it can't save the information. > > > Should I make the /var/xmcd directories writeable by everyone, or is > there

Re: X-windows/Mouse

1998-12-15 Thread KTB
You are right I don't have any mouse use when I am in normal test mode. I see no white block or anything when I move my mouse. So, I tried to run gmpconfig as root and it wasn't there. I searched in dselect but it wasn't listed. I found it listed under the directory, under "Console utilities

Re: xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Conrado Badenas
Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > Hi, > > I just installed xmcd. It is able to query remote databases to find info > on the CD's I insert, but it can't save the information. > > The about box shows: > > CD Database paths: > /var/xmcd/rock > /var/xmcd/jazz > ... > cddb

Re: --MARK--

1998-12-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:13:35PM +, Daniel Marquez-Klaka wrote: > Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > > Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > > > > > > It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still > > > > active. You can use the "-m" option to change it's frequency. > > > >

Re: Zip drive problem

1998-12-15 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 11:46:07PM +1100, Attila Csobonyei wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Debian 2.0 slink and tried to remake the kernel > with the Zip drive. Not being an expert in these things I first did a > make zdisk which worked fine, the Zip drive was working without any > problem

Re: Monitor Troubles.

1998-12-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Anders wrote: > I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this (probably > not) but I am having a problem getting my monitor (A Sony Multiscan > 200sf) to display in 1152 x 864 mode correctly...it is always too small > to fit the screen and I cannot make it big eno

Re: What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

1998-12-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using Debian (the most recent packages) on a laptop with a pretty > noisy harddisk (a Toshiba harddisk inside an HP Omnibook), and I'm > sick to death of hearing it all the time I'm using my computer (and, of > course, it's draining the b

Re: Syslog message errors!

1998-12-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: : Hello all. : I have these messages being repeated over and over and over in my syslog, : every : 10 minutes. : What do they mean? : : Dec 15 06:42:26 snafu syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. : Dec 15 06:51:27 snafu inetd[8525]: auth/tcp: bind: Address a

Re: xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:22:57PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Should I make the /var/xmcd directories writeable by everyone, or is > there a better solution? Maybe keep /var/xmcd available for a global database that root set's up and users databases are saved in ~/.xmcd ? just a thought -- --

RE: Package install problem

1998-12-15 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Lyndon Fletcher took time to write : > Hi all, >I have a number of small problems getting Debian packages onto my > PC. Ok, for a start the machine has an unrecognised CDROM type and the OSes don't recognize it ? or you d

xmcd local database

1998-12-15 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I just installed xmcd. It is able to query remote databases to find info on the CD's I insert, but it can't save the information. The about box shows: CD Database paths: /var/xmcd/rock /var/xmcd/jazz ... cddbp://cddb.sonic.net:888 Here are the permission

Re: mouse work

1998-12-15 Thread John Greer
I have my mouse set up so that it seems to work without X under GPM. I can block text etc. but what commands do I use to cut, paste, etc?? I find that it does not seem to work with the built in ae commands. Do I not have it fully configured?? TIA John

Re: X-windows (ATI 3D Rage II)

1998-12-15 Thread Richard Hall
One of the error messages that you supplied said that XF86Config was not created. When dselect tries to configure xbase, it is trying to create /etc/X11/XF86Config, and it appears to be failing on your system. So you don't have an XF86Config file yet. dselect runs some graphical X configuration

samba: writing to network drives

1998-12-15 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm running samba on linux 2.0.34 and having trouble writing to the drives I've networked in windows. I can connect to my linux partitions just fine, but I am having trouble setting the permissions correctly in smb.conf to allow me to write to or create directories from my windows machine. Here's

Re: Presort my email messages when exmh is the MUA.

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 01:19:16AM +0200, shaul wrote: > > I am using exmh to handle my email (MUA ?). The MTA is smail (is it also the > MDA ? What are the differences between MDA and MTA ?). MUA: Mail User Agent: interactive mailer examples: mutt, pine, Outlook, etc. MTA: Mail Transfer Agent:

Re: X-windows (ATI 3D Rage II)

1998-12-15 Thread KTB
I have been reading and working with Debian for a week now and I can't even answer the questions you ask. Here is my best shot: At the X-Free86 web site they said to run "X -showconfig" I did and it said that I am using version 3.3.2.3 / window system (Protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor rele

Re: Syslog message errors!

1998-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Amanda Shuler wrote: > I thought that if you put two machines on a network with the same >IP, the newest maching on the network would knock off the old machine? >When I asked him about it, he said that, although he wasn't sure, he >thought that linux "held" onto it's IP address even i

Re: X keyboard mapping

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > > I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - > whenever > I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are > correct. I typed > > xmodmap > > but nothing happend. I c

Re: Syslog message errors!

1998-12-15 Thread Amanda Shuler
Umm.. one thing. The very first line of the errors, where is says "syslog restart" is not part of the errors. I accidently put that in. That's from the daily syslog restart. I just cut and pasted the errors from the top of today's syslog, so that's how I got the "syslog restart" message, by acc

Re: odd errors using lredir

1998-12-15 Thread Michele Bini
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 05:38:48PM -0500, MenTaLguY wrote: > I'm running 0.98.1 right now, and everything I try with lredir consistently > fails: > > C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos > Error f0bc redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\DOS > C:\DOSEMU>lredir d: LINUX\FS\dos\ R > Error f0c2 redirecting dr

Re: burning debian cd from win95

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Deal
I have done this with adabtec (soa I cant spell) cd pro. Just rename the image to .iso and it will burn. --- Mike Deal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zonenet.net / www.northwestextreme.com The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be try

Re: X-windows

1998-12-15 Thread Richard Hall
That grey screen with the 'X' is an X session starting up. The 'X' is your mouse cursor. The fact that it is active is encouraging, and it seems to me that when you've gotten that far, your graphics card settings are correct, though maybe not optimal. 'Ctrl-Alt-Backspace' should get you out of t

Syslog message errors!

1998-12-15 Thread Amanda Shuler
Hello all. I have these messages being repeated over and over and over in my syslog, every 10 minutes. What do they mean? Dec 15 06:42:26 snafu syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. Dec 15 06:51:27 snafu inetd[8525]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use Dec 15 06:51:27 snafu inetd[8525]: finger/tcp: bind:

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave > my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, > > [...] > > Slink will ship XFree86 3.3.2.3. Once I'm done hammering the bugs out of > that, I w

burning debian cd from win95

1998-12-15 Thread Chris Hoover
I have the opportunity to burn a debian cd at my job. However, I have to do it in win95. Has anyone done this? Is there anything I need to be careful of? I'm planning on burning a slink cd so I can take it to my fathers house and install linux there for him. Thanks, Chris -

Re: Presort my email messages when exmh is the MUA.

1998-12-15 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>shaul wrote: > I am using exmh to handle my email (MUA ?). The MTA is smail (is it also the > MDA ? What are the differences between MDA and MTA ?). > I want to presort my email messages. > Can you recommend a way to do it (procmail ? exmh capabilities for this task, > if it got any

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:11:44PM +1000, Peter Troff Petroff wrote: > Hi, > could anyone please help a relative newbie desperately trying to escape > the > Winborg empire? As soon as I can reliably switch all jobs to analogous > applications under Linux, I'm shifting my friends (and hopeful

Re: X-windows (ATI 3D Rage II)

1998-12-15 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, Under BO (Debian 1.3), I had the same problem with the same video card and kept getting the message: Warning: Mach64Clkt < 16 (or something similar). I upgraded to hamm (with it's newer version of XFree86) and the problem went away. What version of X are you using? What's the output of:

Debian Japan and updates

1998-12-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, recently I download XFree86 3.3.3 from Debian Japan project. I'm asking if is safe to install these packages? What about put a line in /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Debian Japan? They seem to be very fast updating packages... Hav

RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file >append="mem=128Mo" No French spoken here. :-) Make that append="mem=128M" Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +4

Re: non-free

1998-12-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Cagdas Ogut wrote: > Last night I was interested with the non-free directory of the > ftp.debian.org and I have downloaded binary-i386 completely. For an > Intel based machine do I need anything else? I know that many docs etc. > was just symbolic links to files in binary-all

Re: fetchmail & procmail

1998-12-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail I would add quotes: fetchmail -v --mda "formail -s procmail"

'Segmentation Fault' - how do i find out what thr problem is?

1998-12-15 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, Excuse the vague problem definiton, but on a variety of programs I've compiled (but not written...), when i try to run the resulting program I just get a 'Segmentation Fault' immediately. Any clues either as to what causes this, or how to find out what does/doesn't (<-for elimination purpo

Can't get to a shell prompt - kicks me out after login

1998-12-15 Thread Al McElrath
I have a hamm system here that I can log into, but it kicks me back to the login prompt after it displays the default Debian MOTD, and the "No mail" message. It does the same for every user, including root, even in single-user. I've wiped the drive and reinstalled Debian twice from a hamm CD and t

glibc2 (libc6) and nsswitch

1998-12-15 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm using glibc 2.0.7t (the distribution's packaged verision doesn't changed anything about it) I wanted to use db files for the /etc/hosts file, but "it seems" there is no current support for this cause the program to build db files has no target to bu

RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Peter \(Troff\) Petroff took time to write : > kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot floppy, no LILO. too bad ! with LILO you could have all your ram (128Mo) seen in 2.0.34 ! > > The problems are: >

Re: Package missing

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
You need the xlib*-dev packages. If you load up dselect (or look thru the Packages file), you'll see the descriptions for them, and it will be instantly obvious which one's are X windows include and library files. -Jay In a message dated 12/15/98 8:18:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTE

smail again

1998-12-15 Thread Richard L. Alhama
Hi. The FAQ-O-MATIC entry #137 doesn't work. I'm getting errors. can someone send me their /etc/smail/* files for a dial-up ppp. I can d/l mails but I can't send mail to my domain csi.com.ph I've changed the following lines in /etc/smail/config visible_name=iln.csi.com.ph (used to be my hostn

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
Don't hold your breath. Netscape has taken the position that they are more interested in providing new, esoteric features for it's browsers than in fixing and enhancing the features that already exist. Welcome to the browser wars. In fact, I quit using Netscape last year because of their refusal

Cyrillics and handling

1998-12-15 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Has anyone been able to successfully set up cyrillic support for form handling? I seem to be doing everything there is to do, I can read pages, but my Comm. 4.5 can not handle the input in russian. Any help appreciated. Andrew N

Re: Pam dependencies

1998-12-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 10:24:32 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 10:08:25AM -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: > > How do I get around this? [I don't have the original message to reply to - in any case, dpkg installs the PAM packages just fine when given them in one go: dpkg

Re: Pam dependencies

1998-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 10:08:25AM -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: > How do I get around this? try: dpkg --unpack libpam.deb libpam-util.deb then: dpkg --configure libpam.deb dpkg --configure libpam-util You may have to play around with the order in which you configure it, not sure. But unpacking th

Pam dependencies

1998-12-15 Thread Amanda Shuler
Hi all, I am having trouble installing Pam with dpkg. It has "circular" dependencies. If I try to install libpam0g, it tells me that it needs libpam0g-util installed and configured first. If I try to istall libpam0g-util, it tells me that is needs libpam0g istalled first. This same thing h

DNS problem

1998-12-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, when I download netscape, I got the following error from Netscape 4.5: Bad Domain DNS NAME: Host Name: november.uws.EDU.AU IP Address: 137.154.230.60 Your DNS name probably won't be accepted. Click here for more info. I clicked more info and get the following:

Re: Netscape

1998-12-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: : -> Hi all, : -> I have got netscape 4.5 libc5 version. In the ftp directory, I : -> also saw a glibc version. : -> : -> Which one is supposed to be better?? What is the difference : -> between libc & glibc?? : : I loaded gliobc ver

Re: mailtools filter

1998-12-15 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard L. Alhama writes: > > does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? > > I'm fairly happy with mailagent. Sorry, I mean mailagent (is this the mail-filter tool that uses perl?) ciao admiral charah

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