Fw: Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...

1999-02-28 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
This is my second request for HELP! with a FX001D Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, mabe this time I will catch the right person or users that can help me out here... I am hopeing that someone that also has a CD-ROM drive the FX001D can help me out here, in configuring the cd-rom drive, so that when at bootu

Re: Last gasp at CD-RW

1999-02-28 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
OK, I put that line in my lilo.conf file. When I tried to mount /dev/sr0, it mounted my cd-rom drive; I couldn't mount my cd-rw with sr0, sr1, or scd0, or scd1. So I unselected the scsi cdrom option in menuconfig. Thus, only scsi emulation and generic scsi were selected. At boot it appeared to r

Help

1999-02-28 Thread Pat Neumann
Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then it tells me that it cannot find the 8 bpp color setting and there for am unable to start

Debian Kills Disks

1999-02-28 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Debian Geeks: Before you get upset let me declare that I'm a Linux/Debian newbie geek wannabe. I've only recently (a month ago) became interested in Linux. I've spent most of the time reading everything I could find. I have d/led a few distros to get a feel of Linux. I have two computers, a

Re: What is LINX?

1999-02-28 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > I have never heard of linx hugely off-topic, LINX is a big network access point (like mae-[east|west]) in the u.k. (london internet exchange?) .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy e

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Phillips
> Were you a Linux user back when Slackware (or SLS) was the ONLY > distribution? Corel has now announced that they are going to produce > their own distribution. That might put a bit of a hurt on Red Hat. Has anyone suggested to Corel, that they base their new distribution on Debian? Cheers,

Re: Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards wrote: > Hello > > I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. > Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system > date and time using 'date'. > > Can anyone give me an example with an

samba 2.0 troubles

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping someone could help me with. My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's an ether problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbcl

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:44:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > Hm, but there

there is something like Syscom in debian?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want a tool in wich I can use menus to add and delete users, and maybe to do other administrative tasks. I need that because I will have some new administrators in my land and they do not understand UNIX. So it will be esier to teach them a menu driven tool. What I am looking is for somethin

Problems with my HD

1999-02-28 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
Hello everyone, I used Fdisk which showed me this below, and would like to know if someone can tell me what cause's this type of a problem, and how to eliminate it from happening again... My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive... /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors units = cylinders of

A menu like tool to admin debian?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want a tool in wich I can use menus to add and delete users, and maybe to do other administrative tasks. I need that because I will have some new administrators in my land and they do not understand UNIX. So it will be esier to teach them a menu driven tool. What I am looking is for somethin

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
> But certainly it should work as a helper application (if not as > a plugin). Yes, if it works on the command line I think it should work as an helper application. Maybe you can do some debugging by specifying `strace acroread %s 2> acroread.log' as your application in netscape. If you don't find

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, King Lee wrote: > > > Sorry, bad choice of words. I hope that if debian gains "market share" > > Red Hat may not be so dominant. > > Well, I am not sure that Red Hat being so dominant is anything Debian can > change unless the

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Christian van Enckevort wrote: > I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, > but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with > acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). > You may try to edit

What is a NIS Server?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
What is a NIS Server? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread D Richards
Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards

What is LINX?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
What is LINX? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Kurz wrote: > > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > > an e

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > In other words, the value is the process and not the content. > > > > > > What do mean by content here? The software? > > > > I'm saying the 'process' has been positively influenced by the > > 'politics' (the Soc

Re: SoundBlaster 16 and midi

1999-02-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 and midi Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:01:32PM -0600 In reply to:Roy-Anders Larsen Quoting Roy-Anders Larsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP, or model SB4171 (I believe it > is referred to as model CT4171 by the user ma

RE:

1999-02-28 Thread illusion
The source tarball (from www.samba.org) comes with a script (mksmbpasswd.sh) to do so. In 2.0.2, the default location for this file is /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd. I may have just gotten lucky, but the samba 2.0.2 debs from potato installed the smbpasswd file by default (I think). As for

RE: Sound Access

1999-02-28 Thread illusion
Dave, If I recall correctly, it's "adduser audio username" I had the same prob when i set up my machine Dave Harden wrote: > Hi guys - > > I'm a old linux junkie [slackware then Redhat], but new Debian user. > Looks like by default the audio devices are only accessible by root - > what's th

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi Patrik, I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). I do use a libc6 version of netscape (version 4.07 from slink), so I

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Christian Kurz
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > an editor - it's far, far more than a mere ed

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > an editor - it's far, far more than a mere editor. It has

root.bin doesn't work

1999-02-28 Thread Werner Reisberger
I tried to install debian over NFS on a systems without any OS but failed. I installed several times Linux (suse and redhat) without problems but I don't know how to solve my problem with debian: I am able to start booting with the rescue disk (2.0.34) on my PC (P II, Adaptec 2940 UW) but after i

Changing From in exim

1999-02-28 Thread mcclosk
Hello. |> I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want |> it to. When I send a message, my local username is filled in in |> the From: line instead of my username at my ISP |> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). In the file /etc/exim.conf (at the very end of

SoundBlaster 16 and midi

1999-02-28 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP, or model SB4171 (I believe it is referred to as model CT4171 by the user manual), and I cannot figure out how to make midi work. It works fine in DOS/WfW3.11 and WAV files work in linux. It seems to get detected fine with isapnp. My system is a 486DX33 w

Re: help for samba.conf

1999-02-28 Thread Dan Pomohaci
illusion writes: > I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba > server from > the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought > everything > was set up right. > I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network.

Re: Managing multi display hosts

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:22:38AM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for > me... > > I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat > it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the > -di

Re: SOLVED: Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Alan, Point taken; sorry about coming off so hot at first. :-) Thanks for offering the solution. On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, you wrote: > >I'm sorry that my response upset you, but try not to overreact next time. > >Alan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
I had also problems with acroread (the rendered image looked scrambled), but never investigated it futher. But a quick look in the bug tracking system (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/) gave me a bug report with a workaround added that might help: > Package: acroread > Version: 3.02-0.1 > > This is wh

Re: mouse is not working in console mode

1999-02-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: mouse is not working in console mode Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 09:22:20PM +1100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > After I upgrade my system to slink, my mouse is not working in the > consol mode anymore. Any ide

Re: Problem with MPEG3s

1999-02-28 Thread Stefan Baums
I just rechecked the situation: In fact, "simply" killing my sound apps, removing the modules, going into suspend, coming back, reinserting the modules, restarting the sound-apps does the trick. But still, you wouldn't want to do that after every MPEG3 title you play... (BTW, even if I start, say,

SOLVED: Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread surak
> Alan > > I'm not sure what you are refering to re: aversion to security, > but in any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you > could be less accusatory and more helpful; after all, we're all here to > enjoy the benefits of the global knowledgebase, rather than picking on >

Remote upgrade RedHat 5.1 => Debian 2.1

1999-02-28 Thread Erik Forsberg
A friend of mine has a RedHat 5.1 machine running at a remote location, and now he's thinking about installing Debian on it. Is it possible to do that on remote, without anyone sitting feeding the machine with a CDROM and telling it how to partition disks and such things ? \EF

Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I am trying to get acroread and netscape to work together. It should be possible to use acroread as a plugin (it is listed as a plugin for PDF in netscape). However, if I select that plugin (nppdf.so, which apparently should run acroread), netscape crashes when I try to view a PDF-file. In fac

Re: Help with Procmail configuration

1999-02-28 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:20:30AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am running fetchmail and procmail to get my mail off of a ppp. I am a > single user and I wish for my mail to go into a global directory I setup > for mail '/Mail.and.New/Mail/Inbox'. In the procmailrc I setup the > following v

Installation tips for Thinkpad 770?

1999-02-28 Thread leegross
I am in the process of upgrading from a Thinkpad 760C to a 770 and have been experiencing problems installing Debian on the 770. I have tried installing from DOS but the system panics when it tries to mount the root filesystem: . . . Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >

Re: Changing From: in Exim

1999-02-28 Thread mark david mcCreary
>I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want it to. >When I send a message, my local username is filled in in the From: line >instead >of my username at my ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > >Which setting do I have to change? Robert-Jan You need to

Re: DPKG

1999-02-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 17:54:12 +, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I've downloaded libstdc++2.9-dev and g++ 2.91.61. > They Depend on each other. That's correct. > When I run dpkg i libstdc++2.9-dev, it says depends on g++. > And when I run dpkg i g++, it says depends on libstdc... . >

Re: LCP EchoReq over and over again

1999-02-28 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Stuart Miles writes: > On 27 February 1999 at 13:30, "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this > >message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log: > > > >[...] > >Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id

Problem with MPEG3s

1999-02-28 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all! My system is an HP Omnibook 5500 CT running Debian Slink and the Linux 2.2.2 kernel. The following are the sound modules I use (inserted by "modprobe cs4232") Module Size Used by cs4232 2408 0 uart401 5904 0 [cs4232] ad1848

DPKG

1999-02-28 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
hello, I've downloaded libstdc++2.9-dev and g++ 2.91.61. They Depend on each other. When I run dpkg i libstdc++2.9-dev, it says depends on g++. And when I run dpkg i g++, it says depends on libstdc... . In other words I can't install them. How can I solve this problem with dpkg. Is i

Re: cdrecord errors...

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hello again, I have remade the image, about five times or so. No luck :( I was using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.01 to try and burn it from windows. One interesting thing I noticed however, was the while in windows, it didn't just kill the CD like normal, it hung at a certain point in the

Re: cdrecord errors...

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been trying to burn a particular image to CD for the last 4 > hours now. In the process, I have killed 5 CD's from the same bundle. > cdrecord gets about 25-30% done with the burn, and then it gives output > like this: [err

Sound Access

1999-02-28 Thread Dave Harden
Hi guys - I'm a old linux junkie [slackware then Redhat], but new Debian user. Looks like by default the audio devices are only accessible by root - what's the 'correct' debian way to grant users access to them? TIA, dave Dave Harden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (412)688-8870x143 Pager: (888)643-07

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread pat
On 28-Feb-99, Mark Brown took time to write : >> 3) No documentation on how to load/use the original programs that loaded >> when installing. That is, can I load again the program that allowed me to > > Hmm... This problem seems to apply to all the distributions I've tried. > They have a nice

Re: More xfstt help needed.

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Willer
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, James E. Starr wrote: > Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all > advise and puting FontPath "unix/:7101" as the last line in my > XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz. > I got as far as "xfstt &" but I received the error msg

Managing multi display hosts

1999-02-28 Thread Chris Frost
I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for me... I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the -display flags and such, but would like to be able to move a running program

Changing From: in Exim

1999-02-28 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want it to. When I send a message, my local username is filled in in the From: line instead of my username at my ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Which setting do I have to change? Thanks, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/28/99 1:04:48 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you could be less xdm.options is a file in slink. hamm used a config file in /etc/X11.The change is the same in either case. -Jay

More xfstt help needed.

1999-02-28 Thread James E. Starr
Hi Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all advise and puting FontPath "unix/:7101" as the last line in my XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz. I got as far as "xfstt &" but I received the error msg "cannot open TCPIP port 7101, better try another

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread John Galt
There is a movement afoot to replace the imprecise usage of metric prefixes. The three-power-of-ten usage would retain the regular prefix, but the ten-power-of-two would be the first part of the prefix, with the last syllable replaced with bi: thus kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte. It sounds kludgy

Go \latex package?

1999-02-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, Is there a default place to put this? and furthermore, is there an update programme I need to run to get \latex to recognise it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societ

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "Lewis, James M. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It depends on which def of 1k you use. I suspect the > linux utilities use 1024=1k. Read the fine print to see what the drive > manufacturer uses for 1k. They don't need any fine print. There's a global standard for what "k" and "kilo" mean.

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
> I've experienced the same with a supposedly ~4.3GB seagate, which both the > BIOS and Linux read as 4.1GB... your guess makes a lot of sense, and its > consequence is that we're being fooled by HDD manufacturers. No, you're not. You're just not paying attention to how we computer users use

Help..can't delete broken links, directories et all!!

1999-02-28 Thread Roddie Rod
Hey guys, Finally have the perfect Linux box for me and what happens!? My two year old unplugs the Box while I'm getting coffee (she's in hacker training)!! Anyway, now I a gig or more of broken symlinks, directories and files. Most are in /usr/lost+found but some are in /usr/lib/* and /usr/man.

Re: Help with Procmail configuration

1999-02-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:20:30 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I also setup some filters > > :0: > * ^Subject:.*S-News* ^^ You probably want 's.*' here. 's*' only matches 'ss', 'sss' etc., no 's'[anything]. > /Statistics/S-News > :0: > * ^Subject:.*SEMNE

NOte on PRocmail Configuration

1999-02-28 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I meant to say that everything keeps going to backup while nothing is going into Inbox or the filters Lance

Help with Procmail configuration

1999-02-28 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am running fetchmail and procmail to get my mail off of a ppp. I am a single user and I wish for my mail to go into a global directory I setup for mail '/Mail.and.New/Mail/Inbox'. In the procmailrc I setup the following variables: MAILDIR = /Mail.and.News/Mail LOGFILE = _logfile VERBOSE = yes

Re: Gnome programs crash

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:44:50PM -0500, Matthew Cocker wrote: > After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I > get the following error message > > gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions > > Any ideas

Re: pkzip and libg++.so.27

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:33:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files. > I moved pklin251.exe to /usr/local and, according to pkware's site: > # chmod 755 pklin251.exe > # ./pklin251.exe > > result: > # can't load library libg++.so.27 >

Re: pkzip and libg++.so.27

1999-02-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 14:33:31 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files. Any particular reason you're not using the "zip" and "unzip" packages from non-free? > result: > # can't load library libg++.so.27 > > eventhough: > > $ dpkg -L libg

Re: Problema con dselect

1999-02-28 Thread A. Gustavo González
Hola /Hello, Pienso que lo que ocurre es que durante la instalación no has cargado el módulo correspondiente iso9660. En la etapa de instalación correspondiente a la carga de los módulos seguramente vendrá un módulo iso9660 o similar y otro vfat para montar particiones DOS/Windows de 32 bits. Es co

pkzip and libg++.so.27

1999-02-28 Thread homega
I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files. I moved pklin251.exe to /usr/local and, according to pkware's site: # chmod 755 pklin251.exe # ./pklin251.exe result: # can't load library libg++.so.27 eventhough: $ dpkg -L libg++272 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2.8 /usr/

Re: debian and RH

1999-02-28 Thread David Z. Maze
Ben Cornett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian BC> to be technically superior to the RH distribution. I was BC> wondering if anyone would care to elaborate on that a bit for me. -- Debian packages only depend on other packages. AFAIC

Hamm - X11 Colormap puzzle

1999-02-28 Thread Terry Carney
Hi. I have been using X11/Fvwm95 with the default Debian color settings for some time now. Recently, apparently out of the blue, the server has begun failing to allocate some of the default colors - the most obvious being the dark cyan background and the Fvwm pager. I am also currently using up-

Re: fstab setup

1999-02-28 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
First, make an empty directory somewhere for your new file system to live on top of. If you use an existing directory, everything in that directory will be invisible until you unmount (softwarewise) your new drive. Edit /etc/fstab, any editor. Make a line that looks just like the one for your oth

Re: newbie needs clarification

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:06:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting James E. Starr([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > clarification. One post said to put "fontpath Unix/:7101" in the > > xf86config file. Another said > > not to do this, put it in .xinitrc. Which is correct? > > p.s. I've looke

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:52:09PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: > Calling up the man page on xconsole does not give me any clues as to > how to prevent a user from having it appear in their logon. I've read the man > page; what else would you expect of me? xconsole is just a program to display

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Now, I have a few problems with it. > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs an editor - it's far, far more than a mere editor. It has support for compilation and intera

help for samba.conf (2)

1999-02-28 Thread Dan Pomohaci
I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux server but they are not permited to access it. Not even to see the directories shar

Gdm hangs and don't log in

1999-02-28 Thread Andrea Novara
Hi! Just a little question: I've just installed GNOME rpms, including gdm. Have configured /usr/etc/gdm/gdm.conf, created all the dirs required and mentioned in docs. Now: gdm uses PAMs, right? Si

acm question

1999-02-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I tried to run acm, and I got the following message. Sound is not available for server virge:0.0 But my sound system works fine Any ideas?? Thanks Shao Zhang - Running

Re: Gnome programs crash

1999-02-28 Thread navindra
Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I > get the following error message > > gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Just a comment: On Debian (unstable

upgrading to slink from hamm

1999-02-28 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What update procedure should I use in order to upgrade to slink from hamm? Just point dftp to the new ftp directory and upgrade? What are the main differences between the two releases (ie: smail vs exim), that I need to look up to make sure they work after upgrading?

strange problem...

1999-02-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have had this problem for many many times, and it never happened in windoze When I do a search in Netscape, altavista or geocities, if I typed two words, and press search, it is ok, when I press next ten matches, it then truncated the second word, and returns no result fo

Re: help for samba.conf

1999-02-28 Thread illusion
I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba server from the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought everything was set up right. I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network. Then I added the following lines t

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Peter Ludwig
I've just gotten my mail down, so sorry for the lateness of this :) A Short Linux History (by me) In 1992/3 I was looking at getting myself a new operating system, well after chatting to a couple of friends, I heard about "debian linux", now I hadn't heard of linux before so when I found it was

mouse is not working in console mode

1999-02-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, After I upgrade my system to slink, my mouse is not working in the consol mode anymore. Any ideas where I should start looking into the problem?? Thanks. Shao. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: Problema con dselect

1999-02-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Feb 1999q, Jean-Georges Carbonnier wrote: > Hola, > > cuando instalo la ultima version de linux (debian) desde CDROM todo va > bien hasta que llego a la parte de instalacion de los paquetes > software. El programa dselect me pide la fuente, le digo CDROM, luego > me pide el "block device ty

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-28 Thread Jiri Baum
Bal K. Paudyal: > As root, I typed the following: > > "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". > > I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not > exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as su > but it does not work! There

Re: dselect

1999-02-28 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, jelmar andree: > I'v download some packages (.deb) and with dselect after , A, U, S and > then I(nstall) i get the following message; "-no filename at -e line 12 > chunk18" . That sounds like an error in a shell script. Which package is it installing when it gives that message? Are there

Re: rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-28 Thread Jiri Baum
Andreas Rapp: > I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root Try the `su' command with the -c switch. > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) You can set fetchmail to send the e-mail to another user (using

Two smarthosts in exim - solved

1999-02-28 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, some time ago, I have asked on this list how to switch smarthosts in Exim back and forth, since I use two ISPs. I didn't want to have two completely separate config files, since they'd be likely to get out of sync. I finally figured out how I can do it: using the ${lookup...} expansion. So

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options probably has the line > run-xconsole > > which, when commented out (#) will get xdm (the program that provides that > "login banner") to stop starting and running xconsole. If you use hamm this would probably be /etc/X11/config. See

Re: LCP EchoReq over and over again

1999-02-28 Thread Stuart Miles
On 27 February 1999 at 13:30, "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > >Hi, > >I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this >message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log: > >[...] >Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4e magic=0x30c5f >b97] >[...] > >As you see,

help for samba.conf

1999-02-28 Thread Dan Pomohaci
I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux server but they are not permited to access the files from Linux server. This is my

Off Topic: Video Card Recommandations

1999-02-28 Thread Abercromby James SSgt 31CS/SCBBD
I a very shortly going to be building the following linux box: AMD K6-III 450 mhz FIC-PA-2013 MB w/!28 meg PC100 SDRAM I do alot of work with TeX/LaTeX and the GIMP I want to buy the best video card I can for 175 dollars or less; I was thinking about the Matrox Millenium or Mystique until ever

cdrecord errors...

1999-02-28 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hello all, I have been trying to burn a particular image to CD for the last 4 hours now. In the process, I have killed 5 CD's from the same bundle. cdrecord gets about 25-30% done with the burn, and then it gives output like this: Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > I am not sure how gaining market share improves Debian. I think you could > say that Debian is better than Red Hat for servers. In other words, get > the message over that Red Hat might be easier for the single-user desktop > but Debian is the proper

Re: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS

1999-02-28 Thread Shao Zhang
It may be a bug, but I am not sure. You can fix it by using the http port. That is, change your sources.list to http://ftp.us.debian.org... hope it helps... Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

fstab setup

1999-02-28 Thread kurgan
My Linux system runs off of a small (170 MB) hard drive. I added a larger (app. 700 MB) hard drive in order to load all the Debian packages that I would like to get. However, Dselect tells me that I don't have enough room to load the packages (which total approx. 450 MB). My first thought was

Re: Last gasp at CD-RW

1999-02-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stephen Pitts wrote: >On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:38:08PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> >I'm still trying to install CD-RW, an HP IDE version. I've compiled th >e ^^^ >> >scsi emulation, scsi cd-rom. >> I can't answer your specific quest

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Well, I apologise: it seems I did indeed have the file mentioned. I've changed the entry and it fixed the problem I had. Thanks for the help; even though the reponse was less than friendly it was still useful. On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[adjusted to lo

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: > OK, so the two leading distros are redhat and debian. debian, on the one > hand, is run as a voluntary organisation etc, whereas redhat is (or is going > the way of) a corporation, in the sense that it employs programmers, is very > far ahead of any of the

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Alan I'm not sure what you are refering to re: aversion to security, but in any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you could be less accusatory and more helpful; after all, we're all here to enjoy the benefits of the global knowledgebase, rather than picking on others for

HD as backup device.

1999-02-28 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have decided that since hard disk are cheaper then large volume backup devices to get a 10GB Hard disc as my backup device. Is there any software that is available for HD backups (including incremental backups and compression). I mean higher level then tar. Thanks OZ P.S. If you wonder wh

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