Re: CR key broken ?

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:42:50PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > Hamish Moffatt Writes.. > > > Sounds like bad terminal emulation. I find that NCSA (and the related > > Clarkson CUTCP) telnet have pretty poor terminal emulation. > > You missed the point. These NCSA 'terminals' have been working jus

Re: test w/ keep

1999-01-18 Thread Rob S. Wolfram
Sorry ppl, mutt's folder-hook really got back at me. This isn't Usenet, how do I cancel a message? Cheers, Rob On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:44:37PM +0100, Rob S. Wolfram wrote: > -- > Rob S. Wolfram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP 0x07606049 >Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense? > > > --

Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.

1999-01-18 Thread per_adua32
I came home from work looking forward to a few hours playing with my Linux box, but unfortunately am unable to log on. I thought about re-installing the base system (which doesn't take long) but I decided to ask for help instead. I have the rescue disk and a bootdisk but don't really know wh

Re: Local network

1999-01-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:11:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Local network" > > > > I've got 2 pc's at home. > > 1 win95 and > > 1 Linux / win95 > > > > Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the > > ability to share files.

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > REMEMBER: BogoMIPS, are bogus only - they DO NOT tell you anything about > > your processors real performance. > Would you happen to know of any Linux benchmarking utilities that will > measure a system's ability to perform various tasks so I and others

Re: SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-18 Thread Oz Dror
I have two systems one with 2940UW and seagate UW drive pentium 200MMX 128MB RAM the second with aic7890 (which is like the 2940u2w) and a seagate u2w drive pentium-II 400Mhz 256 MB ram the second system clearly runs faster. disc access is faster, it boots faster it takes about 4 minutes

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
Tino Schwarze wrote: > > REMEMBER: BogoMIPS, are bogus only - they DO NOT tell you anything about > your processors real performance. So, I guess, the calibration loop used for > calculation BogoMIPS is somehow broken if you compile 2.0.36 for 686 instead > of 586 (as advised in Help to "Processor

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-18 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. > > What packages are these in? > I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should look > for, so O didn't fi

test w/ keep

1999-01-18 Thread Rob S. Wolfram
-- Rob S. Wolfram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP 0x07606049 Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?

test w/o keep

1999-01-18 Thread Rob S. Wolfram
-- Rob S. Wolfram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP 0x07606049 Ummm, well, OK. The network's the network, the computer's the computer. Sorry for the confusion. -- Sun Microsystems

Re: MAJOR Problems in dselect.

1999-01-18 Thread Andrew R Wilson
>Now here is the question. > -How do remove all of the packages that I installed and go back > to the situation when only the base system is installed(to > basically start fresh on dselect again)? Since you want to go back to the fresh "clean" installed state with just the base sys

SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-18 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hi all, I'm considering purchasing a SCSI Hard Drive to hold my system on, and I was wondering about debian/kernel support for the Adaptec AHA-2940 UW vs. the Adaptec AHA-2940 U2W. Also, is it economical to pay the extra $150 for an Ultra2 Wide controller and drive vs. an Ultra Wide? Wil

looking for new italian translation coordinator

1999-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
The current italian translation coordinator no longer has the time. We are therefore looking for someone to replace him. Being fluent in Italian would be an asset. :) If you are interested, contact me. To keep a translation project alive requires multiple people or the interest fails. If you are

Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Patrick, > With 2.0.36 compiled as 686 and as 586 i had only 350Bogomips with a 350MHz > K6-2 > > BUT (!) with 2.2.0pre7 compiled with CONFIG_M586TSC=y i have my full 700 > bogomips ! > with it /proc/cpuinfo shows everything right (CPU clock,etc...) > > That's strange isn't it ? Probably a str

Re:? Linux stranded ?

1999-01-18 Thread Andrew R Wilson
Hi Ulrich >Is it possible that Linux strands on certain occaisons? >After installating Linux, I run and download several >programmes from FTP. After closing and before I could login Did you use the APT method with Dselect to download your files? I used APT on Slink and it uninstalled my getty

AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)

1999-01-18 Thread pat
Thanks all for your input. The problem is solved in a way. Before mucking with hardware i tried few software things. With 2.0.36 compiled as 686 and as 586 i had only 350Bogomips with a 350MHz K6-2 BUT (!) with 2.2.0pre7 compiled with CONFIG_M586TSC=y i have my full 700 bogomips ! with it /proc

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread Jameson Burt
> > call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i > discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but > why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language > over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any pla

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Jan-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It's not possible at this time. The only support for hardware 3D >> acceleration in Linux is for Voodoo cards. > > I sent Nvidia email telling them I would not buy a TNT card because they > won't supply programming

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Dale E. Martin
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not possible at this time. The only support for hardware 3D > acceleration in Linux is for Voodoo cards. I sent Nvidia email telling them I would not buy a TNT card because they won't supply programming info to Open Source developers. I suggest that

Re: libV.so -- where to get

1999-01-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
dpkg -S /usr/lib/libV* v-dev: /usr/lib/libV.a v-dbg: /usr/lib/libV_g.a v-dev: /usr/lib/libV.so v1g: /usr/lib/libV.so.1 v1g: /usr/lib/libV.so.1.17 Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote

Re: Thanks for help becoming normal and /dev/null problem

1999-01-18 Thread Raoul Boenisch / FB14 / keine Hausanschrift
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Rich Harran. wrote: > Anyway, I'm still having trouble with my /dev/null, which sometimes > reverts to permissions: >rwx__ > when I reboot, causing X (and other) problems (it also did so after I had > got X running today, possibly when I symlinked by ~/.netscape/co

Re: economy mode printing?

1999-01-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I don't know if there are any ready for use economy mode filters, probably it depends on the printer. I can share my solution which works fine with my HP-LJ5L: lpfin is for final quality, lp and lpdr for economy mode. This is the coresponding fragment of my /etc/printcap: *** lpfin\

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 01:42:29PM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. > OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me > what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? > Any

libV.so -- where to get

1999-01-18 Thread Jonathan Hayward
Several packages, when I attempt to install them, claim that they require a libV.so, which I am not able to locate on any of the debian web pages. Could you tell me where to find that shared object? (My most recent occurrence of this was with libjpeg6a.6a-11.deb) Thanks! -Jonathan

doom (sorry)

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. What packages are these in? I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should look for, so O didn't find anything. Thanks in advance for your help, Fr

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
James Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i | discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but | why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language | over perl? One wo

Re: cracklib's cron emails.

1999-01-18 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Sergey Imennov wrote: Hi Sergey, I wasn't able to read the body of your message but I'm guessing your asking about the emails from cracklib cron. This is a known bug that I'm working on fixing. Till then you simply have to rediret the output of the cracklib utilities to /de

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. It needs to have it's boot files on the active partition on the master drive. It is possible to have the bulk of NT on any drive, but the boot files must always be on the master drive. How did you install NT there to begin with? You

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread James Pollard
Quoting Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > > > good documentation to read?? > > > > > > Thx. > > > > > > Shao. > > > > > > > I would recommend O'R

cracklib's cron emails.

1999-01-18 Thread Sergey Imennov
pgpDkaxIfRQpW.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: roaming access

1999-01-18 Thread Fraser Campbell
Karsten wrote: > My /etc/apache/httpd.conf was automatically changed when I installed > libapache-mod-roaming_0.9.1-1.deb and if I look in this file all the > things mentioned in /usr/doc/llibapache-mod-roaming/README are present. > I tried to re-install libapache-mod-auth-sys_1.10-4.2.deb with o

Re: 2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Shaleh
> I have checked my permissions, and they are correct. > Who is starting the ppp session? If it is the user frankie (or whatever) make sure you are in a group that has access to the modem device. Every time I have seen this error, it has been a permissions problem. Make sure /dev/modem (if you

Re: CR key broken

1999-01-18 Thread Nidge Jones
Rich Harran. Writes.. > I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but I've seen similar > things over a slow telnet connection when I've eg. been editing mail > messages. If this is the same thing, the problem is just with updating > being slow. Nothing to do with being slow, like stink !

Re: CR key broken ?

1999-01-18 Thread Nidge Jones
Hamish Moffatt Writes.. > Sounds like bad terminal emulation. I find that NCSA (and the related > Clarkson CUTCP) telnet have pretty poor terminal emulation. You missed the point. These NCSA 'terminals' have been working just fine under 1.3.1 - In fact damm excellent. This is a 2.0 problem, NOT N

Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated! -Ian _

Re: 2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
Shaleh wrote: > > On 18-Jan-99 Frankie wrote: > > What steps do I have to take to ensure kernel support for ppp? (I have > > compiled the kernel with ppp support compiled in and as modules) > > Do I have to download a new ppp source or binary? if so where from? I am > > using latest ppp, from slin

Re: Vedr: New installation - Xserver failure

1999-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >The Xserver can's start. > >It's looking for a file, that doesn't exist: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE > >It shouldn't look for that file - but for the XF86SVGA, I guess. > > > >I guess there is a configurationsfile somewhere, in which I have > >to change

Re: flashing LEDs: LILO & keyboard

1999-01-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Major A ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi there! > > This is a serious problem I have had in the past few days. After > installing the latest Debian distribution on a PC, I recompiled a new > kernel, and installed it with LILO. Now the machine boots correctly, but > when the LILO prompt appears

Re: roaming access

1999-01-18 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:57:49PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: > I have tried to get roaming to work with netscape and experineced some > very basic problems. > > I can not pass the auticentication - netscape keep re-asking for my > passwd. > > My /etc/apache/httpd.conf was automatically change

Re: Is there document describing preposed Directory Tree structure?

1999-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Aalto) writes: > Hi, I'm looking fore a document that would propose of suggest a > directory tree structure for a Linux system. It seems that various > distributions use different directories and I find this confusing. Look at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ This is what De

Re: PGP public keysevers?

1999-01-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:33:50PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: : Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp : documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed : nslookup etc.)... The one serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to work (just tried it,

RE: 2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Jan-99 Frankie wrote: > What steps do I have to take to ensure kernel support for ppp? (I have > compiled the kernel with ppp support compiled in and as modules) > Do I have to download a new ppp source or binary? if so where from? I am > using latest ppp, from slink/potato (v2.5-2 I think)

Re: fetchmail smtp error

1999-01-18 Thread vaidhy
Hi, I had the same error and this is what happened: It doesn't hurt to try and telnet localhost at port 25 to check if sendmail is working. However, the reason for the denied permission is you have to specify that your machine is also called as localhost. PS: I use exim and the setup questi

Re: Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

1999-01-18 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Carl, you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 22:33 (received 17.01.99) about : _Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?_ >Why can't the same process (init?) that >autochecks the root partition, just automatically check the others >instead of warning me? You might want to read man fstab. AF

2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
What steps do I have to take to ensure kernel support for ppp? (I have compiled the kernel with ppp support compiled in and as modules) Do I have to download a new ppp source or binary? if so where from? I am using latest ppp, from slink/potato (v2.5-2 I think) thanks in advance for any help, Fran

fetchmail smtp error

1999-01-18 Thread Matt Garman
I'm trying to get mail from my server, and fetchmail is encountering some error. 161 messages (1 seen) for at students.uiuc.edu (902152 octets). reading message 1 of 161 (1390 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from studen

dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-18 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i have a system running linux debian hamm with kernel 2.0.34. this system has 2 IDE drives. linux is installed on the 1st disk and boot using lilo. i have windows NT on the second disk which is set as a slave IDE disk. when i try to boot windows NT from lilo i get the an error message from

PGP public keysevers?

1999-01-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed nslookup etc.)... Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Supp

Is there document describing preposed Directory Tree structure?

1999-01-18 Thread Jari Aalto
[Pleade CC; because I'm not in this list] Hi, I'm looking fore a document that would propose of suggest a directory tree structure for a Linux system. It seems that various distributions use different directories and I find this confusing. Is there any pa

Re: Tape Backup And Block Size

1999-01-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First, it'd help if you wrapped the lines in your posts. Those long lines make it look like crap in a lot of newsreaders. | Does anyone know how to find out what the proper block size is for a | tape drive? I have an Exabyte 8200 scsi tape drive (8mm 2

Tape Backup And Block Size

1999-01-18 Thread Jameson Burt
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do, avoiding working with an actual blocksize. I sent this almost verbatim to another person on December 31, 1998. Over the years, Exabyte has sold about 1 million tape drives, so there are many on the market used, including the 8200 whic

Re: CR key broken ?

1999-01-18 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Sounds like bad terminal emulation. I find that NCSA (and the related >Clarkson CUTCP) telnet have pretty poor terminal emulation. I run CUTCP ... >I can't suggest a better DOS telnet though. I'm used to the Lan Workplace I remember liking the DOS versio

Tape Backup And Block Size

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know how to find out what the proper block size is for a tape drive? I have an Exabyte 8200 scsi tape drive (8mm 2.5 gig), that I bought used with no documentation. I've looked at the exabyte home page, but did not see any mention of block size. I've tried to backup with dump, but

Re: XEmacs beta builds

1999-01-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Scott, I dont know if someone does XEmacs debian packages for CVS snapshots but I know that there is a project for Debian CVS snapshots. Jim Pick is the leader of the project. I forgot the URL now. Better to wrote to him. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quo

MAJOR Problems in dselect.

1999-01-18 Thread CJ
hi, (Thanks pann) OK, something went really wrong during dselect process and I need help. After I install the base system and went ahead to dselect(after reading the dselect for beginner manual of course). I am new at dselect so I accidently selected and installed alot of pa

XEmacs beta builds

1999-01-18 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
Does anyone maintain .deb files of the recent XEmacs betas? I know someone does this for the Enlightenment CVS snapshots, so I figured a similar thing for XEmacs might exist. Thanks. SJG

RE: missing KDE pixmaps

1999-01-18 Thread Mark Herrick
> > I've installed KDE and got it up and running without problems. However, > many > > of the KDE apps have broken icons in the toolbars - eg kedit, kfm etc. > If I > > start kedit from an xterm it spits loads of messages about "empty > pixmaps" > > in ktoolbarsomethingorother. Does anyone have any

Re: economy mode printing?

1999-01-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs > > in debian? > > As root, hpset econo should do the trick It will, for certain HP printers. Very probably not for the HP 710C that I have, which ac

Re: How do I install Wordperfect 8?

1999-01-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Gregor Giesen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one > > big > > file. It worked for me. > > The 7 files also work. You must gunzip all files; netscape should do it > automaticly. > Then you must

Re: economy mode printing?

1999-01-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs > in debian? As root, hpset econo should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer S

Re: missing KDE pixmaps

1999-01-18 Thread Wesley Simon
Mark Herrick wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed KDE and got it up and running without problems. However, many > of the KDE apps have broken icons in the toolbars - eg kedit, kfm etc. If I > start kedit from an xterm it spits loads of messages about "empty pixmaps" > in ktoolbarsomethingorother.

roaming access

1999-01-18 Thread Karsten Bolding
I have tried to get roaming to work with netscape and experineced some very basic problems. I can not pass the auticentication - netscape keep re-asking for my passwd. My /etc/apache/httpd.conf was automatically changed when I installed libapache-mod-roaming_0.9.1-1.deb and if I look in this file

Re: Script..... cvs......

1999-01-18 Thread Andreas Sliwka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I need a hand with scripting... ive got a script that 'want' to update cvs > things. But sometimes i get messages like: > "cvs [update aborted]: connect to anoncvs.gnome.org:2401 failed: Connection > refused" > > The script goes on ignoring the messa

Re: Dselect; Finnish kbd; Imagemagick problem

1999-01-18 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, per_adua32 wrote: > Question 1: > > I read "Debian User's Guide Edition 2" and therein > it is said that after one has selected the packages > one wishes to install it may be necessary to run the > installation step "over again until all the packages > are installed." > > I

no pam in login??

1999-01-18 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Someone here told me that debian wouldn't be 100% pam? 2b exactly it was login he were refering to. Is that possible that login doesn't care about pam? Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - Benutzerberater des RUS +49-711-685-4828 pgp : 0xE7BCBEBD 53 5F 48 0A 0D 3E 4A 38 A8 11 B1 AF BE 0

Re: Help with 2 LAN Cards

1999-01-18 Thread Chris Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for reading this e.mail. > > I am looking for some help. I currently have 2 LAN cards, using the "lance" > driver. How do I get the 2nd card to configure? > > I am missing the step required to set up "eth1", I believe I can get tcp/ip > running after that. >

Re: Help with 2 LAN Cards

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Nigel: Look in /etc/init.d/network. In there you will see a series of variable definitions and network commands. Create the same setup (in that file with different numbers) for your second NIC. Then reboot, and away you go Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for reading this e.m

Re: dosemu and freedos

1999-01-18 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > virtanen wrote: > > > If I run some dos-programs using freedos and dosemu, do I need to install > > my dos-programs on a dos-formatted partition, or is it possible to use my > > linux-partitions? > > > > I've done it both ways. I have one client

Help with 2 LAN Cards

1999-01-18 Thread ntodd
Thanks for reading this e.mail. I am looking for some help. I currently have 2 LAN cards, using the "lance" driver. How do I get the 2nd card to configure? I am missing the step required to set up "eth1", I believe I can get tcp/ip running after that. This is part of an exercise I am doing to se

Re: Debian images

1999-01-18 Thread servis
*- Anthony Wong wrote about "Debian images" > Let's take a look at the new slackware site first :) Especially this > URL: http://www.slackware.com/logos/ > > Any similar things for Debian? I definitely will put a Debian banner > on my site if they exist. > http://www.debian.org/logos/, funny hu

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-18 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Peter Bartosch wrote: > > Hi! > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it is the ID (only ?) which determines the boot in this case. > > in SCSI-cases true, it's the id which determines the boot-drive > normally you could only boot from drives with id 0 or 1 (i know this > correctly from DOS, but not

Re: Local network

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Eades
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Local network" > > > > I've got 2 pc's at home. > > 1 win95 and > > 1 Linux / win95 > > > > Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the > > ability to share files. That is: - we share printer, modem and fi

Re: Local network

1999-01-18 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Local network" > > I've got 2 pc's at home. > 1 win95 and > 1 Linux / win95 > > Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the > ability to share files. That is: - we share printer, modem and files on the > hard-drives. > > Can I set t

Debian images

1999-01-18 Thread Anthony Wong
Let's take a look at the new slackware site first :) Especially this URL: http://www.slackware.com/logos/ Any similar things for Debian? I definitely will put a Debian banner on my site if they exist. -- Rgds, [ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ UIN: C30E6 ] Anthony. [ http://icqtrack

Re: Local network

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Eades
Sorry of course that should be samba

Re: Local network

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Eades
Down load the smba package, read the instructions and enjoy. Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post > > I've got 2 pc's at home. > 1 win95 and > 1 Linux / win95 > > Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the > ability to share files. That is: -

Local network

1999-01-18 Thread faoho
Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post I've got 2 pc's at home. 1 win95 and 1 Linux / win95 Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the ability to share files. That is: - we share printer, modem and files on the hard-drives. Can I set the win95-pc up to accessing the modem

Re: smail mail

1999-01-18 Thread homega
Fine, but AFAIK the smail command can only be used as root. As a normal user do: runq -v George Bonser dixit: > > smail -v -q > > or smail -q > > the -v lets you watch it try to deliver the mail. > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, tracheotomy bob wrote: > > > I've read the documentation but I can'

Re: Filenames vfat-fs

1999-01-18 Thread Armin Wegner
> > I mounted on my notebook the win95-partition as shown: > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 -t vfat > > It seems to be with no problems. But in each win95 is a directory named > "Program Files". I can't change in this dir, because it's a space in > the filename. Has it a way to change in this dir

? Linux stranded ?

1999-01-18 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Is it possible that Linux strands on certain occaisons? After installating Linux, I run and download several programmes from FTP. After closing and before I could login as root, I got the following message: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes I switched to the second user

missing KDE pixmaps

1999-01-18 Thread Mark Herrick
Hi, I've installed KDE and got it up and running without problems. However, many of the KDE apps have broken icons in the toolbars - eg kedit, kfm etc. If I start kedit from an xterm it spits loads of messages about "empty pixmaps" in ktoolbarsomethingorother. Does anyone have any suggestions as t

economy mode printing?

1999-01-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs in debian? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+

Re: terminal based schedule program

1999-01-18 Thread Pere Camps
Frank, > Here's a sample page to try out with lynx (I'm on a winbloze box at the > moment and can't see how it works with lynx): > http://www.extropia.com/cgi/Calendar/4.0/calendar.cgi I've just checked it out. It doesn't visualize very well... :-( > If you are looking for a personal

Re: CR key broken

1999-01-18 Thread Rich Harran.
I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but I've seen similar things over a slow telnet connection when I've eg. been editing mail messages. If this is the same thing, the problem is just with updating being slow. If there are a lot of lines to move down, this takes ages, and you don't see

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #73

1999-01-18 Thread Thomas MANGIN
unsubscribe --    Today's thinking : I'am not able to think Today .. (Recursively)  Thomas MANGIN    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maitrise Informatique de Lyon  [EMAIL PROTECTED] +33 6 60 97 91 01 http://www.kernel.org http://themes.org http://www.berlin

cc-header [Re: Dselect ...Finnish keyboard]

1999-01-18 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Peter Eades, Stardate 170199.0005: > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i586) > CC: debian-user list Is that a bug in mozilla or rfc-ok? I just saw this because my ^TO debian didn't catch this Email. Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - Benutzerberater des RUS

Re: Dselect ...Finnish keyboard

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Eades
per_adua32 wrote: > > Good Day (or night) everyone, > > I recently installed the base system of Debian, > and intend soon to use Dselect to install the > standard installation. > > Question 1: > > I read "Debian User's Guide Edition 2" and therein > it is said that after one has selected the pa

Re: Debian Weekly News

1999-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 20:08:35 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > > I found this great link from LWN. > > > But, then I went back to the debian home page, and coundn't find it... > > > > I think the Debian Weekly News is a great addition to our community too. > > To address y

Re: Debian Weekly News

1999-01-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 20:08:35 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > I found this great link from LWN. > > But, then I went back to the debian home page, and coundn't find it... > > I think the Debian Weekly News is a great addition to our community too. > To address your concern, the DWN seems to be

Dselect ...Finnish keyboard

1999-01-18 Thread per_adua32
Good Day (or night) everyone, I recently installed the base system of Debian, and intend soon to use Dselect to install the standard installation. Question 1: I read "Debian User's Guide Edition 2" and therein it is said that after one has selected the packages one wishes to install it may be

Re: Netscape 4.5 & Bus Errors

1999-01-18 Thread Art Lemasters
I also noticed that libBrokenLocale.so.1 is a symlink to libBrokenLocale-2.0.7.so, which is there. Art On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:29:33PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > I'm running slink (frozen), and all the libraries appear to be > there. ...still getting bus errors. > >

Re: looking for comment on HP-710 printer

1999-01-18 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Eric! Thanks for your comments, they are just I was looking for Best wishes, Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picas

Re: AMD K6-2 / Bogomips problem

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 11:13:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think i have a problem with one of my new K6-2 box. > I have two boxes : same motherboard (ASUS P5A) , same amount of memory > (128Mo). > Same output of /proc/cpuinfo for both > > *except* for bogomips. > > One is a 350MHz and

Re: CR key broken ?

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 10:00:24AM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > The terminals are DOS based machines running NCSA telnet clients, and worked > just fine to Debian 1.3.1 ? The problem started following my upgrade to 2.0. > > The problem.. > > At the Linux prompt all is well, nothing appears to be w

Re: How to use mingetty instead of getty ?

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 09:40:15AM +, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > about it on a Debian 2.0 box. Why is Debian using getty as the default > instead of mingetty which is the default in a Red Hat box ? Good question. I change it on all my machines. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [

Re: lowmem install

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 08:11:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now my next problem is getting the ppp software to recognize com 7 as > a valid com port. Com 7 is 3E8 IRQ5. Err, no that's COM3 in DOS nomenclature; the IRQ is irrelevant. Edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial to set the IRQs or s

Re: still fighting for normality

1999-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 06:51:11PM +0100, Paolo Pedaletti wrote: > /dev/hdc5 /mnt/E vfatrw,conv=auto,user,exec,noauto,async,umask=000 > 0 0 Urg, permanent mounts under /mnt, and subdirectories too. Red Hat be damned. > before or later I will change the umask to a more secure one. > Bu

Re: Setting up diald.

1999-01-18 Thread Peter Eades
Chris Hoover wrote: > > I'm having to reset up my system after a hard drive crash, and am having > a hard time getting diald setup. I've tried to set it up using the > provides scripts and examples, but they don't seem to be working. I > remember when I first set it up, I was directed to a good

update-menus broken

1999-01-18 Thread Benjamin Suto
My update-menus binary seems to have broken. Whenever I try running it (or removing packages, or adding packages that add menu items), it immediately gives me the following error: edgy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# update-menus Aborted An strace shows something like this: open("/etc/menu-methods/menu.co

which pop3 daemon?

1999-01-18 Thread Eric
Any opinions on which of the few POP3 daemons are best/most secure? Thanks, Eric.

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