Activating swap

1999-01-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Evening all. I am trying to setup a secondary swap partition on a different IDE controller in my system. I partitioned the drive, inserted /dev/hdc5 noneswap sw pri=0 0 0 into the fstab ( I may be putting the pri=0 option in the wrong place, but it works with the first swap partition) Bu

Re: [LPRng] Remote Printer and if filters

1999-01-29 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:58:58PM -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > Here's what I'd guess to be a simple one. You are correct. But problems always look simpler _after_ they are solved ;-). > I've recently purchased a print server from Lantronix (LPS1-T) and I'm > able to print to is using a >

Re: "Could not find kernel image" and other install problems

1999-01-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I've managed to answer a few of my own questions, so I thought I'd post the results. See at the bottom, under the numbered questions. There is a very odd discrepancy between the parition numbering from fdisk and the rest of the system; if anyone could explain it I'd love to hear. I also believe

Re: Printing with 2.2.1

1999-01-29 Thread Jim Foltz
Did you try killing and restarting the lpd? On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 12:19:30PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I'm having trouble printing with kernel 2.2.1 (also 2.2.0). I changed > /etc/printcap to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1. When I try to print, I > get the message: > > jobs queued, but ca

RE: Compaq Contura 430C and Debian

1999-01-29 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Well, I had high hopes... Any ideas why the install (rescue) floppy would come up with the LILO prompt, then get to Loading root.bin and say Boot failed? Happened on two different disks, the frozen/resc1440 and resc1440-safe, the stable/resc1440... Afterwards if I ctl-alt-del it gives a floppy er

Re: Sendmail config problem

1999-01-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Thanks, that worked! -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Let sendmail's local delivery work as before, and add this line to > your sendmail.mc: > define(`SMART_HOST', `mailhub') > > where mailhub is the name of your firewall machine. send

[LPRng] Remote Printer and if filters

1999-01-29 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Howdy All!! Here's what I'd guess to be a simple one. I've recently purchased a print server from Lantronix (LPS1-T) and I'm able to print to is using a fairly simple /etc/printcap entry: lps|Lantronix Print Server LPS1:\ :rm=lps_260923:\ :rp=lps_260923_pcl:\ :sd=/var/spoo

apache-common 1.3.4

1999-01-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
Anyone know where the package for apache-common 1.3.4 is? *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

help...system reboots before install can even start

1999-01-29 Thread Eric
I've been working to get Debian (and actually redhat too, for testing purposes) installed on a friend's computer. However, every time he tries to boot the rescue disk (or any install kernel i.e. using the boot.bat or even redhat's install) his computer reboots after he sees a few kernel messages.

Master Boot Record Wars

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I think the 98 install on my Pentium may have trashed LILO. I cannot active the LILO menu with any combination of ctrl/alt/shift. I think I can recover w/ the recovery disk. Yes, Windows doesn't ask, it just takes. Specifically, it takes the master boot record -- it likes to assume that it's t

Re: trouble setting up kde 1.1p2

1999-01-29 Thread Stef Coene
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I've downloaded all the *.deb files for the new kde from ftp.kde.org, and > placed them in a new directory: /usr/local/kde. I am running slink, but > downloaded potato version (only choices were potato and hamm). > When I run dpkg -i kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb,

Re: slink, vim, and syntax

1999-01-29 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 03:17:31PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Since moving to slink, syntax hiliting has ceased working. In addition > to the default now being off in /etc/vimrc, it seems that the files have > been moved to /usr/share/vim/syntax, while the program still expects >

Re: Upgrading

1999-01-29 Thread Jiri Baum
Evan Parry: > What's the recommended method for upgrading from hamm to slink? Step 1: wait until slink is Stable As far as I gather, there's nothing special about upgrading to slink, but presumably there'll be a document somewhere about it once it's released. Jiri

Re: Self referencing

1999-01-29 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > Everything for both Debian and Red Hat seems self referencing. How do I > start using debian packages?... If you just want to get a single debian package onto a non-debian system, you can probably use ar. If you do # ar x whatever.deb you'll get three files: a format version file

Re: A package to convert postscript to "RTL?"

1999-01-29 Thread Jiri Baum
> Rafael Kitover wrote: > > > > Just guessing here, but sounds like some sort of printer language (like > > PCL is the printer language for hewlett packard *jets). You might want > > to install magicfilter and ghostscript and see if they support it. > > OK I installed magicfilter, and looked thr

slink, vim, and syntax

1999-01-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Since moving to slink, syntax hiliting has ceased working. In addition to the default now being off in /etc/vimrc, it seems that the files have been moved to /usr/share/vim/syntax, while the program still expects them in /usr/lib/vim/syntax/syntax.vim Am i missing somethign, or is this a bug --

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread John Galt
install package "procmail", put in a .forward file to procmail, then set up a procmailrc file to move mail to various folders based on the "from" header. Works for me... On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists >

trouble setting up kde 1.1p2

1999-01-29 Thread Brian Morgan
I've downloaded all the *.deb files for the new kde from ftp.kde.org, and placed them in a new directory: /usr/local/kde. I am running slink, but downloaded potato version (only choices were potato and hamm). When I run dpkg -i kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb, I get a dependency error, sayi

Loading modules in slink install

1999-01-29 Thread Dylan Thurston
I'm trying to install slink on a new machine, and something odd is happening: I can't configure the drivers. Whenever I try to load a module, I get the error from modprobe like this: /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/lance.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Obviously this isn't a useful bug report, b

Re: CD-RW Howto?

1999-01-29 Thread vaidhy
> From: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just received my SCSI CD-RW (Yamaha CRW4416SX). > The CD-Writing-HOWTO does not mention the RW disks. > > Anything special with them? > > Unlike a PD-CD, I don't think the device is seen as just another > hard disk. Is the only differenc

Re: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Brian, you wrote on: 29 Jan 99 at 10:16 (received 29.01.99) about : _RE: netscape_ >The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 >version under: >ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ This is the version, which will run without a

Re: Debian package to read Excel XLS spreadsheet

1999-01-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: > At 11:38 AM 1/27/1999 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > >On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > > > >> 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

Re: Question re fvwm95 generated menu

1999-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Archibald wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but I have a quick question re the main generated > menu in Debian's fvwm95. What I want to do is configure it so that when I > click on one of the submenus (say `Apps' for instance) it stays up, > regardless of where else on the screen/the main menu I t

RE: more kernel messages ...

1999-01-29 Thread john
Hi Shaleh, > > I changed '/etc/modules'. Now it says 'auto'. I also compiled the > > auto module loader into the kernel. When mounting my WinNT drive > > through '/etc/fstab' it notices that vfat.o must be loaded. When > > doing this I get some 'module not found' errors. Where did I screw > >

RE: more kernel messages ...

1999-01-29 Thread john
Hi Shaleh, > > I changed '/etc/modules'. Now it says 'auto'. I also compiled the > > auto module loader into the kernel. When mounting my WinNT drive > > through '/etc/fstab' it notices that vfat.o must be loaded. When > > doing this I get some 'module not found' errors. Where did I screw > >

Re: mod_roaming for apache - won't load (slink)

1999-01-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:22:31PM -0500, Kevin Cheek wrote: > > Syntax error on line 100 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so into server: > /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_roaming.so: undefined symbol: stat > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started >

Re: mod_roaming for apache - won't load (slink)

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:22:31PM -0500, Kevin Cheek wrote: > Does anyone know what am I doing wrong? I'm not sure what you are doing wrong, but I can tell you that if you are willing to upgrade to the potato apache 1.3.4, you can use the mod_roaming package (in potato as well, compiled against 1

mod_roaming for apache - won't load (slink)

1999-01-29 Thread Kevin Cheek
I'm using slink. I grabbed version 1.0.0 of the mod_roaming module for apache from http://www.xs4all.nl/~vincentp/mod_roaming/ (it is supposed to let you use apache as a "romaing access server" for netscape clients). When I try to start apache with this module, the /etc/init.d/apache script says:

Printing with 2.2.1

1999-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm having trouble printing with kernel 2.2.1 (also 2.2.0). I changed /etc/printcap to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1. When I try to print, I get the message: jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. However, 'ps ax' shows: 117 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd 120 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd The

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-29 Thread Tim Heuser
Harrison, Shawn wrote: > [snip] > ... Win95 setup steals the master boot record without asking (those > big, fat, greedy . . . well, you know), so I found I had to install > Windows first. > > Once that was done, I went back to installing Linux on its partition, and > gave it the master boot re

Re: smbmount and Linux 2.2.0?

1999-01-29 Thread servis
*- On 29 Jan, Peter Karlsson wrote about "smbmount and Linux 2.2.0?" > Where can I find a smbmount that works with Linux 2.2.0 in a Debian archive? > None of those I've found seem to work (the kernel complains about it being > the wrong version). > > Please reply with cc to me. I just answered th

Wishes and ideas...

1999-01-29 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Here are some wishes and new ideas I've piled up in last days: Many people periodically upgrade their systems using apt as I do. One thing I would like to have is a log file showing what changed on my system after each apt-get run, extracting the relative portions of the changelogs of the

FWD: Printing with HP DJ-500

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I said: When I'm printing with my HP DJ-500 printer, it will frequently get to within approximately 1 paragraph of the end of the document, then it hangs. I have to force the paper to eject, and then write the last few lines by hand -- or else copy in a "dummy paragraph" at the end of the document

RE: Printer Setup

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
>That's what it was... magicfilterconfig kept telling me that a printcap >already exists and would exit unless --force. that can be confusing to >someone who knows squat about linux printing. That's a good point - thanks for bringing it up. It would be helpful if magicfilterconfig would print a m

Re: CD Burning

1999-01-29 Thread freyd
On 27 Jan, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: >> >> I am very new Linux user. I have taken the time to download the raw files >> from >> the debian-cd mirror site closest to me. I wanted to master my own CD that >> way. >> I unfortuneatly only have a DOS/Windows95 machine to work with. Does anyone >>

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jan 1999q, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > > decompress this? > > Use bunzip2 (in the bzip2 package)

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-01-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm using apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. It gives me about 90 > MB to download. I'd like to find a list of the files it needs and then > download them at school, where my internet connection is much faster. So, > my question is: where does apt-get keep a list of t

Re: Sendmail config problem

1999-01-29 Thread Richard A Nelson
Let sendmail's local delivery work as before, and add this line to your sendmail.mc: define(`SMART_HOST', `mailhub') where mailhub is the name of your firewall machine. sendmail will then forward any non-local mail to mailhub -- Rick Nelson C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL

Re: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Brian, you wrote on: 28 Jan 99 at 15:10 (received 28.01.99) about : _netscape_ >I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it. >When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get >the following error: >"can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'" You can ei

Re: kernel source

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Robert, you wrote on: 28 Jan 99 at 15:06 (received 28.01.99) about : _kernel source_ >I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source code anywhere. >There is no /usr/src directory on my system. What package do I need to >install? Thanks, Enter dselect, press "space", t

Re: Installation

1999-01-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:53 (-0500), Michael W. Wernicki wrote: > 1. OS/2 2GB > 2. WIN 95 1GB > 3. Debian 1GB (inprocess) > 4. Boot Manager 10MB > > I would like to use the Boot Manager that comes with OS2 to boot Debian. > Anyone out there done this. Any lessons learned? Ho

smbmount and Linux 2.2.0?

1999-01-29 Thread Peter Karlsson
Where can I find a smbmount that works with Linux 2.2.0 in a Debian archive? None of those I've found seem to work (the kernel complains about it being the wrong version). Please reply with cc to me. -- \\// Peter - http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat95pkn/

apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-01-29 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi, I'm using apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. It gives me about 90 MB to download. I'd like to find a list of the files it needs and then download them at school, where my internet connection is much faster. So, my question is: where does apt-get keep a list of the files it needs? Than

Re: Compile 2.0 Package under 1.3?

1999-01-29 Thread Oscar Levi
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:39:45AM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > How can I compile the newest Smail Debian source under Debian 1.3.1? > Doing > dpkg-source -x *.dsc > and > ./debian/rules binary > resultes in: > > /bin/sh: ./debian-defs.sh: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [insta

Re: how to install packages w/o package file?

1999-01-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:38 (-0600), Brian Morgan wrote: > Could someone illustrate for me how to install these .deb files easily > without using dselect? If the packages are in your working directory: dpkg -i kdebase_981026-pre1.1-1_i386.deb etc. Luck, -- your man pann

Debian network consultant desired in MA

1999-01-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Hi folks, I hope this is an appropriate message to send to this list. I'm searching for an consultant to help us configure a mixed environment of Debian, Solaris and NT. The work will involve setting up file sharing, password synchronization, third party package installation, printer configurati

Installation

1999-01-29 Thread Michael W. Wernicki
Hello: I have a system with three primary partitions as follows: 1. OS/2 2GB 2. WIN 95 1GB 3. Debian 1GB (inprocess) 4. Boot Manager 10MB I would like to use the Boot Manager that comes with OS2 to boot Debian. Anyone out there done this. Any lessons learned? How do I do it?

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to > sort my mailing lists i'm using mutt and sifting > through my mail manually is now quite a chore i > would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into > there own mailbox when fetching mail perhaps a copy > of a

Sendmail config problem

1999-01-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I'm trying to set up sendmail on a server behind a firewall. It can only resolve DNS within the firewall. I want it to deliver mail to addresses within the firewall (all one domain) and pass on mail for the rest of the world to a gateway which does have external DNS. The problem is that while lo

RE: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
That is the libc6 version, it is sometimes called glib (GNU_lib). *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Morgan w

Re: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Brian Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 | version under: | ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ | I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the | wrong place?

Re: Upgrading

1999-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Evan Parry wrote: > What's the recommended method for upgrading from hamm to slink? Other than waiting for slink to be released? :-) The APT package is quite good, you might want to try it as dselect method. Be careful with the X packages, some of them changed their names,

how to install packages w/o package file?

1999-01-29 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm fairly new at using debian and I don't yet know how to install packages any other way than using dselect. I'm trying to install the newest kde, and have browsed to the appropriate deb distribution on ftp.kde.org, but the directory doesn't contain a package file. Is there a simple way to insta

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-29 Thread ivan
At 11:48 AM 1/28/99 -0800, David Stern wrote: >On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:17:34 CST, Andrew Ivanov wrote: >> > Howdy, >> > >> > Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a >> > "decimal"? >> >> 0x11A is in hex, and to convert it to dec is >> 1*16^2 + 1*16^1 +10*16^0 >> (A=10,B=

CD-RW Howto?

1999-01-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I just received my SCSI CD-RW (Yamaha CRW4416SX). The CD-Writing-HOWTO does not mention the RW disks. Anything special with them? Unlike a PD-CD, I don't think the device is seen as just another hard disk. Is the only difference with plain CDR that I can re-format and start over with cdreco

[Fwd: reading /usr/doc files]

1999-01-29 Thread krosigk
Try it with zless or use the direct to the standard output option of gunzip. Richard Lyon wrote: > You can use emacs and the auto-compression-mode. > > ie. >M-x auto-compression-mode > > > Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do > > I just have to go in

Printing with HP DJ-500

1999-01-29 Thread Harrison, Shawn
When I'm printing with my HP DJ-500 printer, it will frequently get to within approximately 1 paragraph of the end of the document, then it hangs. I have to force the paper to eject, and then write the last few lines by hand -- or else copy in a "dummy paragraph" at the end of the document. I s

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On a similar topic, I notice that if I do a --revision.1.0 and later a --revision.2.0, that the --revision.1.0 still shows up as being installed. Is there a way to remove it without causing problems with 2.0, since there is only one /lib/modules/2.x.x directory? I got arount this by cp'ing the mod

RE: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Brian Morgan
The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 version under: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the wrong place? Brian > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL P

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > decompress this? Use bunzip2 (in the bzip2 package). And get 2.2.1 instead of 2.2.0. For future upd

Re: New Install

1999-01-29 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
> I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle > Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help > me in that area? You won't have any luck with the Montego any time soon :( Though if you ever happen to find out otherwise let me know!! Ev

Re: System unusable

1999-01-29 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I just d/led and installed the latest xfree86 packages from | http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86 in an attempt to solve a problem | I had with X freezing my screen. It appeared to be pretty stable and to | fix the problem, so I rebooted. After I boot,

Re: how do I get removed from this list

1999-01-29 Thread ivan
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe At 11:45 AM 1/27/99 -0600, David J. Fasching wrote: >I have repeatedly sent remove requests to the addresses listed on the debian >web site, yet I still receive the digests. Can anyone help? > >Thank you, >David Fasching >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >-

Re: Modem freezup

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > Every once in a while my modem won't respond to "pon" I have > tried to see a pattern in the freezeup but haven't found one. > ... > I see the message says the modem is locked up by "pid 829" but I have no > idea what that means. It means that pppd, running with pid 829, has locked

Re: Garbled screen

1999-01-29 Thread ivan
There has been a lot of discussion on this subject this month and last month (IIRC). Try searching the Debian list archives - you'll find many different solutions. As it happens, I have tried every solution as it has been proposed but I still have to reboot to reset the terminal :( Has anyone com

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

1999-01-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> > > >So it is obviously a conflict between the S3 and my serial port. The > > > > card is a S3 Virge with a 86C325 chip. Does anyone know what might be > > > > causing this? My old card is an extremely old VGA. > > > > > > Which com port is your mouse on? > > > >It's on /dev/ttyS0 (COM

Re: New Install

1999-01-29 Thread servis
*- On 29 Jan, Daniel A. Nelson wrote about "New Install" > I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle > Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help > me in that area? > You will need a real modem. Winmodems will NOT work under any o

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-01-29 Thread Tom Allard
You can use the dwww package to read /usr/doc (and man and info) through your web browser. rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.

Re: New Install

1999-01-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle > Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help > me in that area? Not sure about the sound card ( I'm going through the sound setup right now, and it seems like your card is supported by the

New Install

1999-01-29 Thread Daniel A. Nelson
I am planning on installing Slink on my home system (Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98) when it is classified as stable. My system is a 450 Mhz Dell. I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help m

Irc via Proxy

1999-01-29 Thread UF Marpaung
Hi All, How using irc client via proxy server / sock4 ? which irc client must i use ? IrcII or BitchX ? Thanks for help... UF Marpaung

Re: 2.2 with IPmasq and LP

1999-01-29 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/29/99 01:47 AM +0100, Dietrich Kraus wrote: >On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote: >> My initial install of the kernel 2.2.0 was not too good. I have to admit, >> I do not keep up with the development kernels, only the stable ones... so I >> felt very newbie-ish upon the

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread homega
Patrick Colbeck dixit: > > :0: > * ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?mutt-users(-request)[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck > spool/Mutt couldn't mailboxes be emptied by cron if kept within /spool? TIA -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quis c

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

1999-01-29 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:34:43PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Which com port is your mouse on? > > > >It's on /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), all other details are set to standard > > settings. > > Hmmm. Don't know then, unless some how your video card is being allocated > IRQ 4. Have a look in t

apt forgets to install?

1999-01-29 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
I use the apt method in dselect. I have no trouble selecting and downloading the various packages, but upon completion they just remain there! a 'dpkg --pending --configure' fails to install anything. I went through and did an apt-get install on each package individually and had no problem (that

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Branden Robinson: > I don't know yet exactly how the new font and static library packages > will be handled. I want to build developer consensus on a solution. I have one possible solution here: deb http://master.debian.org/~sanvila frozen main [ The above is an apt-like line ]. Yes, these are

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-29 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, why don't you turn that option off in the bios? It will make life a whole lot simpler. just a suggestion. don't let windows dictate what you do with your computer. Paul On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Continuin

Subscription to debian-user list

1999-01-29 Thread Daniel Kahraman
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subcription to debian user

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Re: converting numbers

1999-01-29 Thread Michael Laing
> Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a > "decimal"? I use 'dc' for this sort of task, for example: plum:~$ dc Invoke the program 16 push 16 on the stack i pop 16 from the stack and set it as the input radix 11A push 0x11A o

Re: Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Michelle Coelho writes: > Do you reckon the problem to be due to the fact that I've a 16450 UART, > though I seriously don't think so I do. These things aren't usually even real 16450's, but some anonymous Korean ASIC designer's emulation thereof. > I have a 33.6 internal modem (not connecte

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

1999-01-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:13:04AM +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 08:50:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > >So it is obviously a conflict between the S3 and my serial port. The > > > card is a S3 Virge with a 86C325 chip. Does anyone know what might be > > > c

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

1999-01-29 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 08:50:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >So it is obviously a conflict between the S3 and my serial port. The > > card is a S3 Virge with a 86C325 chip. Does anyone know what might be > > causing this? My old card is an extremely old VGA. > > Which com port is your

Re: Debian GNU/Linux a TCP Workhorse?

1999-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to find references to examples of Debian GNU/Linux >systems handling heavy Internet or other network traffic. Can any of >you give me any URLs or anecdotes? How many simultaneous accesses >have your serve

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Sat Jan 30, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists > i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i > would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when >

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists > i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i > would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when > f

Re: Debian GNU/Linux a TCP Workhorse?

1999-01-29 Thread Peter Corlett
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to find references to examples of Debian GNU/Linux > systems handling heavy Internet or other network traffic. Can any > of you give me any URLs or anecdotes? How many simultaneous > accesses have your servers handled? I would like to present

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
> If all you want is to convert to decimal, use this short C-program: > #include > > void main(int argc, char **argv) This is undefined. main should return an int. > { > while (*++argv) printf("%s == %i\n", *argv, strtol(*argv)); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); > } Matthew -- Elen sil

mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread cooking
G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when fetching mail perhaps a copy of a .muttrc might be helpfull for the comma

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] CRC errors & 33.6 3 COM external modem

1999-01-29 Thread Peter Corlett
Person, Roderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > been spending time upgrading hardway. I aquired a 33.6 3Com > external modem. Quite a boost from my old 14.4...I quess If I did > get so many F#$ CRC errors. I found that my USR Courier did exactly the same thing - lots of suspicious PPP errors w

Re: Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon

1999-01-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:17:32PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: > The problem? Well, I can't connect to my ISP, though my modem is dialing > out..I can here it do so, and I can hear the screeching sound. > > I ran pon 4 times. The first time plog gave me this: > chat: expect (CONNECT) > chat: ^M

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

1999-01-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:12:47PM +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: >As I mentioned before, my mouse wasn't working when I installed a S3 > Virge card with 4 megs on my debian box. After trying everything I could > come up with, I decided to try again with the old card. Ta-Dah! the mouse is >

Re: 2.2.0 kernel broke sound

1999-01-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:39:35AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Before upgrading to kernel 2.2.0, I had sound working perfectly. I > have a SoundBlaster AWE 32 plug'n'play (ISA). With my 2.0.x kernels, > I used isapnp, then loaded sound as a module (automatically by > kerneld). > > With the 2.

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Helge Hafting
> I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > decompress this? Get bz2cat/bunzip/bzip2, from the bzip2 package. bz2cat will decompress to stdout, much like zcat. Useful for patches and compr

Re: Dselect reinstalls kernel

1999-01-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 03:43:55PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > As someone else suggested, be sure to use the `--revision=foo' option to > make-kpkg, and that should solve the problem. It's never failed me > here. But depending on what you make your --revision, dselect might still upgrade it.

Re: this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback

1999-01-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:08:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did see some SIO. type error whiz by during boot. I had the > /etc/init.d/network script in verbose mode and it occured after the > 'route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' line. Thanks for taking a peek at this. > > route add -ne

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jan 1999q, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade > > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg > > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :( > >

[off-topic] EUROPEAN STRIKE OF INTERNET USERS: Sunday, January 31st

1999-01-29 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Next sunday the netizens of France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, are going to protest against our expensive telecom companys with a strike of ***NO CONNECTION*** to Internet. The list of european organisations that support the strike is at http://www.ar

Re: mutt trashes mail

1999-01-29 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Mike Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:33:00AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have > > just been leaving mail in the mail spoon. Mutt > > has a habit of trashing that file. > Check +mbox. The default behaviour o

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-29 Thread Helge Hafting
> Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a > "decimal"? You'll find it in any C manual, or try "man strtol" for the strtol() function. If all you want is to convert to decimal, use this short C-program: #include void main(int argc, char **argv) { while (*++argv) pr

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