Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Matthew Guenther
Just my $0.02: As a case study; up here in Canada we have an outdoor outfitters store called Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC). It is similar in structure to DUA that has been proposed in that to shop there you have to buy a five dollar membership, but with that membership you gain voting privil

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On 19 Jan 1999 16:55:29 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Shawn writes: >> I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller >> of Debian products. Such a business could focus on >> pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support. > Exactly! This is just

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "ChL" == Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ChL> Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, even if they can't or do not have the time to

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > 7) Safe inter-dist upgrades, rexx-slink, bo-slink, hamm-slink and others > > As well as making dselect safer to use for these upgrades should you > > choose to go that way (not recommended!) > > Why are you saying not recommended? Are yo

Re: Debian package to read Excel XLS spreadsheet

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Shand
i'm pretty sure that star office will do this. other then that i am not aware of anything. http://www.stardivision.com/ adam. On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, eric scroger wrote: > I need a program that can read Excel xls spreadsheet and possibly export > > data to a text file. Anyone know of such a be

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:30:23PM -0600, KFR wrote: > I'm looking for a qmail debian binary package. Is there such a beast? Do you > know where i might find it. The qmail license does not permit the distribution of binaries without the prior approval of Dan Bernstein. Since he hasn't approved s

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "ChL" == Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ChL> Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code ? Laurent

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection !!SOLVED!!

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JS" == Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I was being stubborn on wanting to print on screen the parameters JS> that are sent to these script, the /dev/null hint and both Martin JS> and Shaleh last replies show me how to see the results I JS> pretended. If you really want output, yo

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection !!SOLVED!!

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
all of you were right, the scripts were running all the time I was to dumb to find out the solution. I was being stubborn on wanting to print on screen the parameters that are sent to these script, the /dev/null hint and both Martin and Shaleh last replies show me how to see the results I pretende

need someone to explain compiling Apache modules for apache 1.3.x

1999-01-20 Thread Shaleh
Hi, do to various issues, I need to compile my own Apache and modules (some machines here run Debian, other RH, others bsd). I would like to know how best to compile Apache so that I can load DSO modules via its conf and also to compile 3rd party modules when needed (hopefully w/o re-compiling Apa

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
> > So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more > > traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect? > > mirror?!?! You want to mirror the entire 700 meg binary-386 directory and > then install it?? Ik. Yes you do have a point here. The advantage of doing this of course is,

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Shaleh
> > Hmmm?? this is a beginer's question, but how to avoid the output from being > redirected to /dev/null? > There is no good way. If you need the scripts to tell you something, have them store it in a file. the ppp scripts could be run via an X app, so you would not see them anyway. It also

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
>>> "JS" == Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >JS> And I'm able to run both ip-ip/ip-down scripts. > >So what makes you think they are not run when you dial in? I'm echoing the $* and not getting any feedback. >You know that they run with redirected stdout and stderr to /dev/null? No.

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 04:54:19PM -0500, fantumn Steven Baker" wrote: Hi Steve, Glad to see you are still amongst the ranks of Debian users. I am not the most knowledgable person on this subject, but when I say the name fantumn, I couldn't resist answering. You might get a better answe

install script

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
I know this is going to sound cheesy to all you hardcore guys out there, but is there a way to bring back the install script that comes with slink at the beginning of the install process? It's the script that let's you choose certain categories of packages rather than searching 1 by 1 for packages

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
>Jorge Sousa writes: >> I can dial to my ISP without any trouble but the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down >> scripts never fire . > >Are you sure they are not running? They are run with stdout redirected to >/dev/null, so you won't see any output. >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Danc

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JS" == Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> And I'm able to run both ip-ip/ip-down scripts. So what makes you think they are not run when you dial in? You know that they run with redirected stdout and stderr to /dev/null? Insert a "touch /tmp/i.am.up" into ip-up to check if they are

RE: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Datei

1999-01-20 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Actually, Winzip (since 6.x anyway) can handle the format fine. It takes a couple passes, though, and I've had problems sometimes with Linux trying to read the results, but if the objective is just to unwrap a package to see what's in there it will work... > -- > From: Shaleh[SMTP:

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Mike Garfias
Odin spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > > I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present > > time, but it would be a plus. > > I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well > > supported with Linux ? > > > > Thanks in advance. > I've had go

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Shawn writes: > So that's what I think we should focus on. -- What is the best way to get > Debian out to the world? And I think the best way is to form Debian, Inc. (probably can't call it that) and start selling value-added services and support. -- John HaslerThis posting is in

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Jorge Sousa writes: > I can dial to my ISP without any trouble but the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down > scripts never fire . Are you sure they are not running? They are run with stdout redirected to /dev/null, so you won't see any output. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
Thanks, Andrew. That took care of it. After that, I booted from the rescue disk, configured pcmcia support, and I was on my way. Brian > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Martin Adrian Cater > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 3:52 PM > To: Brian Morgan > Sub

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread debian
<2CENTS WORTH> Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore front on Technology >Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> >> I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present >> time, but it would be a plus. >> I'

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Odin
> I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present > time, but it would be a plus. > I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well > supported with Linux ? > > Thanks in advance. If you found a yamaha model that's affordable, _Get_it!_ Those are exce

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
>> Any hint?? > >Make sure that logging is enabled in the ppp conf files and then look in the >log files for any errors. Also, did you try running the scripts yourself? Do >they run happily? > Logging is on, and i'm not getting any errors, the last 4 lines of /var/log/messages say .Conne

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Ian Eure
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present > time, but it would be a plus. > I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well > supported with Linux ? > Whatever you do, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy a HP ATAPI cd-rw.

Re: SB PCI128 problem

1999-01-20 Thread Kevin Doherty
And thus spake Ben Jorgensen, on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:40:04PM +0100: > I'm trying to get my sound card to work.. > > Here is some info from dmesg.. > [...] > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > Sound initialization started > Sound initialization complete > PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev

Debian package to read Excel XLS spreadsheet

1999-01-20 Thread eric scroger
I need a program that can read Excel xls spreadsheet and possibly export data to a text file. Anyone know of such a beast? Eric -- Eric Scrogerhttp://www.novare.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214.720.0700 code monkey http://

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
An addendum to my 2 previous posts. I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, installs and configures base system OK. I chose not to configure PCMCIA support this time, and I've stopped getting the "problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz" error mess

what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present time, but it would be a plus. I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well supported with Linux ? Thanks in advance. Pf -- --

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hey, I have a Memorex CRW-1622 2/2/6 CD-RW and it works great. If you get it and need help setting it up, feel free to email me. It's only EIDE, but you can buy it for about $230. HTH, Steve /\ / \ /\ / /\/\ \ /\ Steve Beitzel / /\

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Shaleh
> Any hint?? Make sure that logging is enabled in the ppp conf files and then look in the log files for any errors. Also, did you try running the scripts yourself? Do they run happily?

Re: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
>Why are you not using the Debian provided pon/poff scripts? Cause I'm a fool, I didn't knew about these scripts until you now. OK, now I´m doing it through pon/poff >Make sure the >scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} have chmod +x and no syntax errors, they may >be running and dying. /etc/ppp/i

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the current slink > distribution. Yeah. astroman:/etc# cat /etc/debian_version 2.1 astroman:/etc# (apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade) 2>&1 | grep upgrade 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly i

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:05:34AM -0800, Morgan Fletcher wrote: : But neither of those packages, as installed on my system, contain ldd: : : $ dpkg -L ldso libc6 | grep -i ldd : /usr/lib/lddstub : /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the curr

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:28:25 -0800, you wrote: >"Preuss, Maik" wrote: >> Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche >> entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? >> >I'm just curious as to wether there is a german? yes >language list we could >direct these kind of query's to. There

Re: printing problems

1999-01-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, John Cuson wrote: > last week i started working on printing to a networked printer that uses > an hp jetdirect card. i can get the print jobs to the printer, but the > output is not appropriately formatted. when i simply lpr a test file, > it appears that i am not getting li

Email encryption within netscape

1999-01-20 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, sorry for my offtopic question, but I can't remeber. What was the name of the app which enables secure-encryption support from within netscape communicator. Yours Marcus

RE: ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Shaleh
On 20-Jan-99 Jorge Sousa wrote: > Hi all, > > > I can dial to my ISP without any trouble but the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down > scripts never fire . > > I'm using a ppp-on and ppp-off scripts to start/close the connection, > these are just normal ppp scripts. > > thanks in advance for any hint

Re: SB PCI128 problem

1999-01-20 Thread Daniel Elenius
Ben Jorgensen writes: >I'm trying to get my sound card to work.. >... >Ensoniq?? But the IRQ is correct. yes, it IS indeed an Ensoniq...(Creative bought them and used their chipsets, or something) > >I read in the Sound-HOWTO and in the kernel docs and in the later it said >that all should have t

RE: trouble installing debian (any version)

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with the same results "problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz" Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not s

No ldd?

1999-01-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I have no ldd executable. I installed slink onto a tabula rasa i386 PC a few days ago, using 3.5" floppies for the base system. Once I'd installed the base, I did an `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade`. What I didn't realize, or think to look for, is that the slink base install included an /etc/apt

ip-up script won't fire after conection

1999-01-20 Thread Jorge Sousa
Hi all, I can dial to my ISP without any trouble but the /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down scripts never fire . I'm using a ppp-on and ppp-off scripts to start/close the connection, these are just normal ppp scripts. thanks in advance for any hint. Jorge Sousa -

RE: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Datei

1999-01-20 Thread Shaleh
> He would like to know whether he can also extract DEB files under Windoze, > possibly from within a graphical (GUI) program. If Winzip handles ar packed files, then it can be used. a deb is an ar package containing two tar.gz files. Winzip does handle tar.gz fine. So worst case is he ar extr

Re: Moving the filesystem

1999-01-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:12:15 -0600 (EST), Steve Beitzel wrote: > I recently bought a SCSI Hard Drive (thanks much to all who gave >me recommendations -- I'm glad I didn't waste the $$ on a U2W), and I was >wondering the best way to go about moving my entire filesystem to the new >drive. I h

Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:28:25 -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: >> Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche >> entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? > >I'm just curious as to wether there is a german? language list we could >direct these kind of query's to. or wether there is someone G

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> I *do* understand what you're saying, but I disagree. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" What, in your view, is "broke" about the Debian development model? I like the proposal of a Debian User's Association (Mark Phillips' proposal). But to really "go after the market", it takes a for-pr

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-20 Thread Jeff Katcher
"Preuss, Maik" wrote: > > Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche > entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? > > Maik Preuß > > Tel.: +49-0172-3721363 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I'm just curious as to

Multiple xdm/kdm logins

1999-01-20 Thread MallarJ
Okay, here's one I haven't seen mention of... I'd like to have 2 login screens come up when kdm (or xdm) starts up - one that I can log in as root on, and another for my normal user account (which I use most often). I've seen reference to multiple displays in the X docs, but it isn't very clear o

trouble installing debian (any version)

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: "There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz" at the end of installation. When I reboot,

S3 Virge AGP supported by XFree86?

1999-01-20 Thread Michael Stenner
Does anyone know if XFree86 supports the AGP versions of the S3 Virge cards? I'm looking to cheaply replace a fried Mystique and am wondering if I should go AGP or PCI. I have checked the hardware compatibility list and it makes no reference to PCI/AGP, so I don't know if it even cares.

Moving the filesystem

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hey all, I recently bought a SCSI Hard Drive (thanks much to all who gave me recommendations -- I'm glad I didn't waste the $$ on a U2W), and I was wondering the best way to go about moving my entire filesystem to the new drive. I have my whole filesystem on one partition, /dev/hda1. TIA

Re: starting X apps as root

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Robert Vollmert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a comfortable way of starting programs as root when I'm logged > in as a normal user? Look into the sudo package. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) > about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ > > >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. > > Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. > > >It needs

Re: mount problems

1999-01-20 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:55:11PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote (in part): > sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy. > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted. Try "fuser -v /rex". I can reproduc

Help with smail!

1999-01-20 Thread J.L.Gomez Dans
Hi! Sorry if this message has appeared before, but since the problem is in smail, I can't be too sure :))) --- Forwarded Message Follows - - - - - - - Date sent: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:27:47 + From: "Jose L. Gomez Dans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Co

starting X apps as root

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hello, is there a comfortable way of starting programs as root when I'm logged in as a normal user? Currently, I start an xterm, su to root and use that xterm to start other programs. I'm thinking of an application I can run as root which will allow me to start other programs (a `root menu'), som

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Tom, you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. >It needs to have it's boot files on the active partitio

Thank you!

1999-01-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi good fellas, I just wanted to thank everybody who helped me. I now got netscape running just fine, re-compiled the kernel (even successfully) :-) and have a nice and clean system. Kind regards Frederick

SB PCI128 problem

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Jorgensen
I'm trying to get my sound card to work.. Here is some info from dmesg.. [...] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Sound initialization started Sound initialization complete PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 [...] If it was found shouldn't it say something there? /proc/pci says: [...] Bus

Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-20 Thread Preuss, Maik
Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? Maik Preuß Tel.: +49-0172-3721363 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel compilation - niggling issue.

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Ali Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only problem I have now is that an error message comes > up near the end of the boot sequence: > Cannot load char-major-10 > (It repeats -- i.e. it is shown twice.) AFAICT this correlates > to misc.o, and I didn't select anything that needed th

Re: mount problems

1999-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex > > > > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy. > > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted. > > Are you sure that you have an *empty* /rex d

How do I get RAID 1 to work?

1999-01-20 Thread Bruce Jackson
Could someone please help me to get RAID1 to work under 2.0.36. I have compiled the kernel with RAID support. When the computer boots up the md driver and RAID 1 are loaded. The problem happens when I try and mdrun /dev/md0. If I use the mdutils package, I can create the /etc/mdtab entry. If I

Re: Kernel compilation - niggling issue.

1999-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I've just (for the first time) tried to compile the kernel > (2.0.34) on this hamm box. I was a bit nervous, being rather new > to this linux thing, but all went quite well once I realised > that I had to move the old /lib/modules/2.0.34 directory before > building & installing the new kernel.

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Re: Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread Ed Boraas
> >Debian IS international, AFAIC, and because of that, we are facing >terminology problems, even in English 'versions' close as >Canadian/American. Let's just take on our own to make sure the main >topic of a message is clearly outlined by more than s ingle term. > >Esperanto anyone? Certe! Se

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Re: mount problems

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex > > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy. > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted. Are you sure that you have an *empty* /rex directory before you

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, fantumn (Steven Baker) wrote: > > First, was wondering _what_ the differences between gcc and egcs were. > It is mostly a matter of version Somewhere in /usr/doc/gcc (sorry, don't remember exactly where) I found a recommendation

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Deb...

1999-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Henning Makholm writes: > If that's the only problem, then why not simply > > 1. keep the Debian development structure as it is. > > 2. someone who cares about it forms a company that produces CDs from >the official CD immages and markets them, shrink-wrapped and with >lots of pomp, circ

Kernel compilation - niggling issue.

1999-01-20 Thread Ali Graham
I've just (for the first time) tried to compile the kernel (2.0.34) on this hamm box. I was a bit nervous, being rather new to this linux thing, but all went quite well once I realised that I had to move the old /lib/modules/2.0.34 directory before building & installing the new kernel. The only p

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Deb...

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you want to go the corporate route, get Red Hat. If not, > > stick with Debian. What's the problem? > As far as I'm concerned, the problem is that I see that the Debian > dist, a great one (if not the greatest) for technical and ethical > re

Re: Debian 1.3.1 PPP connection problems

1999-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
When pppd tells you that it sent LCPs but received none and that all received chars had bit 7 equal to zero this generally means that you didn't successfully negotiate the login. The main clue here is that when you type to a login prompt your characters are echoed back to you. That's what's happ

Re: Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread Jack A Walker
In America, publicly held companies are owned by their share holders but private companies are owned by their owners. ;^) Jack To: Greg Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: J

Help with smail!

1999-01-20 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
--- Begin Message --- Hi! First, please send a copy of any answers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason will become obvious in due time... :) I logged into my debian box today, and found no mail. Being subscribed to this list, this was a bad omen. No mail has arrived in the past two days

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Jernej Zajc wrote: > Being a Caldera newbie I find Debian idea so interesting that > I'll probably switch. Point is, there is absolutely no > commercial interests driving the development into one direction > or the other. Developers have total control over what and how is > go

Debian on Dell PowerEdge 6300 problems

1999-01-20 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Has anyone been able to install Debian on a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server? I am running into trouble during the scsi detection part of the boot procedure. I tried the aic7xxx=no_probe option but I still have problems. Apparently people have had success with RedHat but I have problems with RedHa

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Christian Lavoie wrote: > - Debian will lose its spirit if it goes itself for-profit. > - A for-profit corporation based on Debian itself will eventually try > to influence/own it. (Consequences: See previous comment) > > Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlle

Re: Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread Christian Lavoie
> > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > > > > > I starting to think this whole mess started on a word understanding > > > > problem. I wouldn't name such an organization a 'corporation', =P > Written by someone in a Europeanish timezone ^ Looks like my timezo

printing problems

1999-01-20 Thread John Cuson
hi all- i'm new to this list, and have been messing around with linux for 7 or 8 weeks now, so i guess i'm an experienced newbie. last week i started working on printing to a networked printer that uses an hp jetdirect card. i can get the print jobs to the printer, but the output is not appr

Re: KDE Installation Problems

1999-01-20 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/20/99 3:01:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Me again. Well i got another problem. Im trying to install the kde desktop and i've run into a problem that i dont know how to fix. What i have done so far to reach this error message that ill post is.

Re: HELP! Sound recorder for (Debian) Linux with signal level indicator

1999-01-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Wojciech Zabolotny hat gesagt: // Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All! > > Does anybody know about the sound recorder for Linux with signal level > indicator? I have to digitize some signals from biomedical > experiments, recorded on the tape recorder. I need to control the mixer's > gain because

Re: Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Greg Vence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > > > I starting to think this whole mess started on a word understanding > > > problem. I wouldn't name such an organization a 'corporation', =P Written by someone in

Re: Linux Problem

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:48:01 -0800, Nuno Donato wrote: > I have seen some screenshots, and now I have it. But I don't know how to > put it to work. I only see a Dos-like shell. If I've understood you correctly, you have completed the installation of the base system (as per ftp://ftp.debian.or

Re: help with EXIM setup

1999-01-20 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:09:30AM -0500, Michael Lea wrote: > At 10:46 AM 1/20/99 +, you wrote: > >Can anyone point me in the direction of a setup guide for Exim MTA? I'm > >wanting to set up a simple mail system for 1 or 2 users using a dial up > >connection, with mail delivered to my system

Re: X11 and libc5 conflict

1999-01-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Major A wrote: > I came across the same problem as some of you trying to run libc5 programs > on debian. The problem is not solved by simply getting a libc6 version of > the program, as for a number of programs such a version simply does not

X11 and libc5 conflict

1999-01-20 Thread Major A
Hi there, I came across the same problem as some of you trying to run libc5 programs on debian. The problem is not solved by simply getting a libc6 version of the program, as for a number of programs such a version simply does not exist. The problem is that libc5 programs that use libXt.so.6 or

Linux Problem

1999-01-20 Thread Nuno Donato
Dear Sirs from Debian, I am e-mailing you, because I have a doubt in Linux, and I don't know how to solve it. I have seen some screenshots, and now I have it. But I don't know how to put it to work. I only see a Dos-like shell. How can I run AfterStep or other shell to have a Windows like she

Re: roaming access

1999-01-20 Thread Allan Peretz
Alex: To get your roaming access working, did you have to do anything special on the client side? I've spent many hours trying to get this to work with the Perl Apache::Roaming module. For some reason, Netscape uploads and downloads settings but nothing changes (preferences don't apply). I've e

Re: UML Software for Linux

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 13:15:22 +, Mamoun Alissali wrote: > I'd like to know if there is any (free) software for UML under Linux. Go to http://www.dejanews.com, select "Power Search", enter "Linux UML" as keywords, and "comp.object" as forum, and read the responses on a similar question on

install Problems

1999-01-20 Thread Stefan Thull
Hi, I just tried to install debian 2.o from CD I have made the rescue-disk and it recognizes the harddisk, the floppy the cdrom-drive but than the boot process stops after a line md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 the same happens if I try to boot directly from the CD; To start with the res

Re: Moving Users Passwords to Debian

1999-01-20 Thread Butch Kemper
I must have been asleep when I tried it the first time. It took two attempts to make it work this time: 1. Failed to observe that all characters between the : are part of the password, even the " character. 2. Copied all characters between the : in the password of

Re: help with EXIM setup

1999-01-20 Thread Michael Lea
At 10:46 AM 1/20/99 +, you wrote: >Can anyone point me in the direction of a setup guide for Exim MTA? I'm >wanting to set up a simple mail system for 1 or 2 users using a dial up >connection, with mail delivered to my system via SMTP from my ISP. However, >I'm completely new to MTA's, and find

About glib and gtk

1999-01-20 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm currently using potato (never had big problems!). My problem is that i have gtk 1.1.11 and 1.1.12 installed yet when i install libgtk-imlib-perl (for example) it tell's me that libgtk-imlib-perl needs libgtk 1.1 but libgtk1.1 is not available! Whats missing? -- Mario Filipe

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Michael Lea
At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? >> > >> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping >> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads >> > in [..

Re: Help I am unable to get my xwindows as user to run.

1999-01-20 Thread Kent West
Mike Carter wrote: > Date sent: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:36:36 -0600 > To: "Mike Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > debian-user > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:Re: Help I am unable to get my xwindows as user to > r

Video card

1999-01-20 Thread Peter Eades
I am thinking of upgrading my current s3 trio 1 mg video card to sothing a bit nicer (Feed up with "unable to alocate default background" messages) and was wondering if anyone had any recomendations for cards which "run well under Debian" 2D/3D might be nice?? Any thoughts? Pete

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jernej Zajc wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > [snip] > > Debian provides different levels of rpm support. > > > > 1) The rpm program is available as a Debian package, and it can > >install/uninstall rpms. This method of use is not advised, > >however. RPM keeps a database of which packages

UML Software for Linux

1999-01-20 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Hello, I'd like to know if there is any (free) software for UML under Linux. For the moment I'm using a commercial software under Windows. If there's no such software I think I'll propose it as a student project, but then I have a few question : 1) Would there be any legal/copyright pro

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