Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On 16-Mar-99 Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> >> I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the >> official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) and >> especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-16 Thread homega
Laurent PICOULEAU dixit: > > > > * ^To:.*debian-user-digest* > > this line matches > ^To:.*debian-user-diges it doesn't match the one above this line. > ^To:.*debian-user-digest > ^To:.*debian-user-digestt > ^To:.*debian-user-digesttt > ... > Not really what you mean, isn't it ? Yes, since it

Re: Subject: Potato, sendmail, glibc 2.1, and libdb2

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > *sigh* > > Here's what I know thus far... > > potato's sendmail and glibc 2.1 seem to get along fine (at least on this > box) ! Those of you with problems all seem to have also installed the newer > libdb2 > > I was fortunat

Re: Please help RTL 8029

1999-03-16 Thread wtopa
Subject: Please help RTL 8029 Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:19:32PM +0100 In reply to:Piotr Perko Quoting Piotr Perko([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, > I'M LOOking for drivers for that Eternet device for Linux Slackware > 2.0.34. > Please help me - i don't know where i can fi

Printing Problems Con't

1999-03-16 Thread wax_man
First off, let me say thanks to those of you who helped me get remote printing to work. Now, I am still having a small problem with the remote printing. Nothing will print from netscape. I can print using the lp command, and with most programs (xemacs, tkrat, etc). Any idea what might be going

[off topic] The truth about 'C++' revealed...

1999-03-16 Thread Mark Phillips
The truth about 'C++' revealed... On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine. Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using t

Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 16 Mar, 1999 à 07:37:26AM +0100, Michael Bonetsmueller wrote: > I can't find make-kpkg (neither locate nor dpkg -S finds anything), > and so I compiled the kernel using the > make config zImage modules modules_install zlilo You forgot make dep > routine. > > Now I get unresolved symbol

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 16 Mar, 1999 à 11:01:00AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > XRDLAB dixit: > > > > > As mentioned earlier, the mail is received on the spool > > correctly. But procmail does not seem to be doing its job. > > > > Well, here is something which might help in troubleshooting. > > > > 1. As so

grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-16 Thread Jay Barbee
Well... I am not sure what is going on. I have never had this much problem with a modem. I have two serial port that are detected (with serial in the kernel or as a module), but I cannot get one light to flicker. I have try two different modems (external) and two different serial cables. I have

CDROM Error/warning [Part II]

1999-03-16 Thread Ian Ehrenwald
Hi everyone I posted a message to the list a few days ago reguarding an error from the CDROM I was seeing when I was booting. I wans't sure of the error. Well I copied it: [normal boot stuff] Mounting local file systems... /dev/sda1 on /c type vfat (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda2 on /d

Warning trying to NFS mount from Solaris Sparc to Linux x86

1999-03-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I have some directories exported under my x86 slink box, and I was trying to access them from under a Solaris. I can mount them, but there is an message: WARNING: No network locking on myserver:/myexport: contact admin to install server change which worries me somewhat. Could not find muc

Re: Please help RTL 8029

1999-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:19:32 +0100, you wrote: >I'M LOOking for drivers for that Eternet device for Linux Slackware >2.0.34. >Please help me - i don't know where i can find it. It's already in your kernel. The rtl8029 is NE2000 compatible. Later kernels have a ne2k-pci driver. Greetings Marc

emacs20 crashes

1999-03-16 Thread Michael Procario
I have just upgraded from hamm to slink, and I have a problem with emacs20. It crashes with this error message. [222]hepc06_bash> emacs20 assignment.m4 & [1] 12469 [223]hepc06_bash> free(): invalid pointer 82addb8! realloc(): invalid pointer 8212fe0! I also have xemacs and emacs19 installed wit

RE: ftp-ing permissions not set correctly

1999-03-16 Thread Brian Morgan
> "Brian" == Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- > Brian> I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as > Brian> default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? > Brian> Debian? The specific us

Newbie having bad problems with EIDE drive

1999-03-16 Thread Leif Steinhour
Hi: I've been trying for the last week to get my new (3.2G) IDE hard drive working properly. LILO will not load (for most configurations, I get as far as "LI"), and I can't seem to edit lilo.conf: when I edit it in "rescue" mode using the Red Hat 5.0 disks and then restart the system it keeps r

Re: MIT-SCREENT-SAVER

1999-03-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:16:13AM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > > When I use ssh and run licq remotly I keep getting > > Xlib: extension "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" missing on display "host:10.0". > > That's bizarre.

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-16 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ares wrote: > You may also have a power quality problem, or a problem with the system > power supply. That sounds plausible, and should be the first thing one checks if a system is flakey after adding hardware. also Digital circuits use more power as the clock speed incre

Re: KDE: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual

1999-03-16 Thread Markus M. Schneider
> I get this error when trying to execute certain KDE programs from an > xterm in KDE. > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual I had the same problem. It was solved by downgrading from qt1g_1.42-2.deb to qt1g_1.42-1.deb Markus.

Re: Acrobat plug in crashes netscape

1999-03-16 Thread Markus M. Schneider
> my acrobat reader plugin to netscape crashes it. When using the Acrobat reader plugin netscape crashes with a message concerning the libBrokenLocale. Therfore I've tried to prevent the netscape wrapper to load this libary. This can be done by uncommenting the line NO_LD_PRELOAD=yes in the /etc/n

Re: X 3.3.3?

1999-03-16 Thread shaleh
unofficial debs are at master.debian.org/~vincent The X maintianer is working on official ones.

Re: xfs and fonts

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:51:07AM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: > Does xfs need to be running in order to have the fonts installed > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* in your system or with the references in > /etc/X11/XF86Config is enough? > > I suppose is the later. I don't quite understand

Re: MIT-SCREENT-SAVER

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:16:13AM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > When I use ssh and run licq remotly I keep getting > Xlib: extension "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" missing on display "host:10.0". That's bizarre. I think that means something on the remote end is trying to start a screen saver on your loc

X 3.3.3?

1999-03-16 Thread Robert Wooldridge
Does anyone have any idea when a package (.deb) will be available for XFree86 3.3.3? I have a Matrox G200 which wants it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread maillists
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:40:30AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > > > 2) Edit /etc/init.d/xdm and insert an 'exit 0' at the top of the file. > >Xdm will not even start or listen with this option. > > > Thanks for these suggestions. I'll get an eye on these possibilities ASAP. Or just d

Re: Why not Debian? (real-time proto with linux!)

1999-03-16 Thread Florian Steffen
I never seen a deb package of the real-time kernel, but it very easy to recompile a kernel under debian, so the process must be the same with RT-Linux, just apply the patch and recompile the kernel. If you are looking for commercial RT-Linux, I have seen at LinuxWorld a company that sells a distri

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ares wrote: > You may also have a power quality problem, or a problem with the system > power supply. > I would definitely try using memory from a different dealer, and failing > that, I'd put a decent UPS on the computer. Actually, I have a UPS on the computer. :-> The po

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-16 Thread Ares
You may also have a power quality problem, or a problem with the system power supply. I would definitely try using memory from a different dealer, and failing that, I'd put a decent UPS on the computer. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Jason D. Michaelson _/ _/ _/

Re: Acrobat plug in crashes netscape

1999-03-16 Thread ray
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:52:19PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, > > my acrobat reader plugin to netscape crashes it. > > Any hint? I'm having a problem that may be related. In my case the problem started last week when I was mucking around trying to get KDE working. A couple

Re: setting network for DHCP

1999-03-16 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:06:12PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > Is it possible to setup a laptop to use DHCP on a network rather than a > static IP address? If so, how is that done? Install dhcp-client. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be spec

Subject: Potato, sendmail, glibc 2.1, and libdb2

1999-03-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
*sigh* Here's what I know thus far... potato's sendmail and glibc 2.1 seem to get along fine (at least on this box) ! Those of you with problems all seem to have also installed the newer libdb2 I was fortunate in that my socks access died, and I have been unable to download/install libdb2 ;-}

Re: Debian GNU Iinux 2.0

1999-03-16 Thread homega
Karl Steup dixit: > Hallo! > Ich brauche dringend Ihre Hilfe,nach dem booten login,hänge ich,welche > Kommandos muss ich eingeben um mit dem Programm arbeiten zu konnen? > > Vielen Dank für Ihre Untstützung > Karl Steup Hallo, I need your help urgently, after the lo

Problems with rvplayer and sb16 vibra

1999-03-16 Thread Dominique Kaiser
My machine is a quite old Dell P90 with no PnP-BIOS (or at least the clumsy Dell setup doesn't offer any PnP options) I'm running slink with potato updates, kernel 2.2.2-ac7 Soundcard is a 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' ISA-card according to pnpdump. As pnpdump only offers me 8-bit DMA channels, I set th

setting network for DHCP

1999-03-16 Thread Brian Morgan
Is it possible to setup a laptop to use DHCP on a network rather than a static IP address? If so, how is that done? We have DHCP server setup in 3 or 4 subnets on our campus, and I'd like to be able to "plug-in" on any of those subnets and obtain an ip address. Thanks, Brian =

Re: OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-16 Thread ray
First of all, you may find that chasing this just isn't worth your time. The difference between 95Mhz & 100Mhz bus just isn't that great. You might also try overclocking to 95x4.5=427Mhz. General stuff: Whenever I run into a problem like this the first place I go is to Dejanews. The group comp

Why not Debian? (real-time proto with linux!)

1999-03-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My supervisor walked into my qube and started asking questions about the computer in my office running linux. He asked which version of Linux it was running (debian? whats that?) Seems that there is some interest here in trying to use linux at least in a prototype here because NT is to fragging b

Re: lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-16 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Freels) writes: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. > > I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the > upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version un

Re: German NFS-Server

1999-03-16 Thread Jens Ritter
"Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo! > > Does anybody know a debian-mirror in Germany that I can access via NFS? > I already tried the ftp-mirrors but always got a time-out message. > Could it be that I just tried the wrong Paths? Or do those servers > (ftp.de.debian.o

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 15 Mar, 1999 à 08:20:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > > > There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm > > even > > if it was installed. Why ? Well sometimes I'm trying to adv

Re: Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 19:02:57 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I sometimes get email with docs attached in base64 - presumably some > Windows format? No. Email isn't guaranteed to be 8-bit clean in general; thus, binaries need to be encoded to ensure they don't get mangled. Base64 is one of the

Re: Static binaries :how to create

1999-03-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The main trouble is you have to create an app from source to statically link it. But yes, you're right. I'd think twice about using lots of static apps though. Not only does it increase your disk space usage it also increases your memory usage. I suspect your main problem is that you have apps i

Any way to read docs in base64?

1999-03-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
I sometimes get email with docs attached in base64 - presumably some Windows format? Is there any way to read this in linux? I imagine there must be but have no idea what it is. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/book

Re: Connect script failed

1999-03-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Mar 1999q, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > Thanks for the reply and helpful offer; yes it was garbled. I've now > > discovered there should be a space after the colon (ogin: achc). > > How did it get garbled? pppconfig shouldn't do that. > -- > John Hasler

RE: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-Mar-99 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the > official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) and > especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section, but they do not > ship nonUS. try www.linuxm

Re: ftp-ing permissions not set correctly

1999-03-16 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Brian" == Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- Brian> I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as Brian> default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Brian> Debian? The specific user? ProFT

Re: kernel panic, no init found

1999-03-16 Thread Jianming YOU
Hi, Paul, Thank you very much. I followed your suggestion. Here is what I did and what I got: Boot from a floppy, with kernel 2.0.35 login as root > mount /dev/hda2 /mnt > cd mnt > rm vmlinuz > ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 vmlinuz > ls -l sbin/lilo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50708 Feb 2 17:31

ftp-ing permissions not set correctly

1999-03-16 Thread Brian Morgan
Using slink, apache, proftpd. When I ftp files to my /var/www directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Debian? The specific user? Thanks, Brian

Debian GNU Iinux 2.0

1999-03-16 Thread Karl Steup
Hallo! Ich brauche dringend Ihre Hilfe,nach dem booten login,hänge ich,welche Kommandos muss ich eingeben um mit dem Programm arbeiten zu konnen? Vielen Dank für Ihre Untstützung Karl Steup

qmail + mutt + fetchmail problems

1999-03-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Well I decided to install qmail upon suggestions from various people. I got the package source and compiled the .debs fine. Then, upon reading the docs, I found out that the "Maildir" format is preferred. So I set out to get that working in Pine. No go. I search the UW pages for info and see m

Re: how to run compiled programs?

1999-03-16 Thread Peter Makholm
"Rick Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it compiles but i get the "command not found" error mesg. > what am i doing wrong? The program is probally not in you path. Try "./a.out" instead of just "a.out" -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator på den eneste mod

MIT-SCREENT-SAVER

1999-03-16 Thread Ramiel Givergis
When I use ssh and run licq remotly I keep getting Xlib: extension "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" missing on display "host:10.0". Could someone tell me what this means? I tried using licq& > /dev/null but that did not get rid of the messages. Thanks Ramiel Givergis, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.relm.

Re: Connect script failed

1999-03-16 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > Thanks for the reply and helpful offer; yes it was garbled. I've now > discovered there should be a space after the colon (ogin: achc). How did it get garbled? pppconfig shouldn't do that. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: how to run compiled programs?

1999-03-16 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/16/99 11:48:46 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i can't seem to run the programs i compiled > ie int main(){printf ("Hi, world!\n");} > > it compiles but i get the "command not found" error mesg. > what am i doing wrong? > > If you compile a prog

Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-16 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I am looking for somebody selling Debian CD sets containing beside the official images the non-free (the part which is freely redirstributable) and especially nonUS. Cheapbytes announced the nonfree section, but they do not ship nonUS. Does anybody know a reseller? Thanks. --Rainer.

Re: how to run compiled programs?

1999-03-16 Thread Florian Steffen
If compiled your program without options, the generated executable is called a.out. To run it type ./a.out. If you have specify a -o option (to name your executable), use ./your_name Rick Hunter wrote: > > i can't seem to run the programs i compiled > ie int main(){printf ("Hi, world!\n");} > >

Re: how to run compiled programs?

1999-03-16 Thread Dpk
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Rick Hunter wrote: i can't seem to run the programs i compiled ie int main(){printf ("Hi, world!\n");} it compiles but i get the "command not found" error mesg. what am i doing wrong? Most likely you are typing the command name incorrectly or you need to sp

Drive test Utility

1999-03-16 Thread Chris Brown
Does anyone know of a package or utility that exercises and surface scans hard drives? (IDE in particular) I've got a system that will be co-located a 1000 miles away and I'd like to burn in the system before shipping it out. I've had a drive failure before so I'm especially interested in givin

how to run compiled programs?

1999-03-16 Thread Rick Hunter
i can't seem to run the programs i compiled ie int main(){printf ("Hi, world!\n");} it compiles but i get the "command not found" error mesg. what am i doing wrong? please help!!! Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: netstd_init bug ?

1999-03-16 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> this is in /etc/init.d/netstd_init -> -> test -f /usr/sbin/routed || exit 0 -> -> that causes to exit if routed exists; shouldn't be there -> -> test -x /usr/sbin/routed && exit 0 aha i'm wrong :( -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread William Lacy
There is a lot- I do my best and don't get nearly all of it read. A lot of times I don't absorb what I do read properly which was the case with reading "the great x reorganization". I guess that other things told about removing xdm and xfs but I only remember the xbase thing, which I did. I real

netstd_init bug ?

1999-03-16 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, this is in /etc/init.d/netstd_init test -f /usr/sbin/routed || exit 0 that causes to exit if routed exists; shouldn't be there test -x /usr/sbin/routed && exit 0 ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; c

RE: Screen Capture Program

1999-03-16 Thread eric Farris
looks like xv does a decent job; i'll use it. thanks to all those responding. -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist Frostburg State University www.frostburg.edu Wealth is not acquired by taking the most from others, but by giving the most a

Re: Screen Capture Program

1999-03-16 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, eric Farris wrote: > How can i capture a (fullscreen/window/rectangle) of my X desktop and > save it as a file? it's time for me to show off WindowMaker to those > less fortunate than i. > > I have xwpick, but it doesn't work with TrueColor. i'm running > 1280x1024x32bits. >

missing lsof

1999-03-16 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, i used lsof and i miss it too much; why is there only lsof for 2.0.35 available ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz "To Boot or not to Boot, that's the question." [WD1270 Cavi

Re: Found the CGI bin?

1999-03-16 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Thanks folks... =) NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin? > > /usr/lib/cgi-bin >

Screen Capture Program

1999-03-16 Thread eric Farris
How can i capture a (fullscreen/window/rectangle) of my X desktop and save it as a file? it's time for me to show off WindowMaker to those less fortunate than i. I have xwpick, but it doesn't work with TrueColor. i'm running 1280x1024x32bits. Anyone have/know of a program that can accomplish this

Re: quickie Question

1999-03-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On 16 Mar 1999, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > I dont have 2.1 and won't be able to get it for a few weeks (i'm in > the UK). Where can I get apt from, and how does it differ from dftp ? The best place to get apt for hamm is from slink's upgrade-2.0-i386 directory. APT is also a dselect method, but t

sendmail broken

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
Sendmail seems to have broken with the last upgrade. I get errors like: Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument Warning: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Cannot create database for aliase file /etc/aliases whenever I run newaliases. Attempting to send mail results in

Re: Where's the CGI bin?

1999-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: : I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin? The answers to your virtual host questions can be found at http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html I deleted your first mail a bit too quickly. The answer to your cgi-bin question

Re: quickie Question

1999-03-16 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, archangel.8eight8.net.ph wrote: > i have a quickie question for those who have already tried slink. is > apt and apt-get already built w/in the "base" or "required" field ? Yes, in Debian 2.1, apt is in "base".

Backing up a Linux Machine (and NT)

1999-03-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, How do I back up our linux server (Debian slink) using a HP SureStore DAT8 tape drive. The Dat Drive is an external box attached to the linux server via an adapted scsi card. This is probably a simple questiong to answer, but I cant find the right info. Which packages should I use to bac

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please don't slam people for not reading everything. That is why you > are needed- because they don't have time, or maybe they just aren't > capable of understanding everything- again, that is why you are n

How to correct suidmanager errors..

1999-03-16 Thread Jay Barbee
I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package. I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what has happened and how to handle it I would appreciate it. --Jay Barbee >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) >From: root (Cron Daemon) >To: root >Subject:

Re: Sound-config with isapnp

1999-03-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Kurt Stallknecht wrote: > I ve problems with the configuration of an Aztech soundcard. The > first straightforward try wasn t very satisfactory, so I wanted to > start a second one with isapnp. I downloded it from Red Hat and > installed

OT: System stable at 95MHz, unstable at 100MHz

1999-03-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
Last month I upgraded my system with a bunch o' new parts. Here's what I got: ASUS P5A Super-socket-7 motherboard AMD K6-2 400MHz processor 128MB PC-100 RAM IBM 4.5GB SCSI-2 drive (2.5GB for Linux, 2GB for Win) I moved over a lot of my old parts, like: Diamond Stealth 64 (S3 Trio64 chip)

Re: Playing Sound

1999-03-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
Cuno Sonnemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can also play .au files only as root, how can I change that. > Put yourself in the audio group in /etc/group -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotte

Re: Sound-config with isapnp

1999-03-16 Thread Andrei Ivanov
isapnp is availible on debian site. Its in the Admin directory of stable. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Lit

Use the source luke

1999-03-16 Thread Shaun Lipscombe
I really really want to install Gnome, but the only reason I haven't done so yet is because I cannot decide whether to install by source, or by .deb. Normally I wouldn't worry about this, as I used to use another distribution (name not mentioned to protect the guilty) and so I had no choice. I r

Re: RPC: Program not registered (mount command)

1999-03-16 Thread Norris Preyer
Ben Frame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a new debian 2.1 install... and when I try to use > the mount command, I get: > > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > I've never seen this before and don't know what it means. > I've got NFS and IPX installed into the kernel. If anyone

Re: Where's the CGI bin?

1999-03-16 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "Where's the CGI bin?" > I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin? > Look in /etc/apache/access.conf or try 'locate cgi-bin'. -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody unt

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread ivan
At 11:02 AM 3/16/99 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >George Bonser dixit: >> >> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33762,00.html >> >> Looks like Caldera is building a nice linux install wizard ... called >> lizard. They say they might open-source it. > >They "might"? I thought everything develo

Obtain hostnames from IP addresses

1999-03-16 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hello! Does anyone know how to obtain hostnames (e.g., skywalker.termol.uv.es) from IP addresses (e.g., 147.156.6.236). I've written this program: #include #include #include #include int main() { int l; char addr[]="147.156.6.236"; struct hostent *ph;

Re: procmail

1999-03-16 Thread Matt Folwell
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 06:53:25AM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote: > Hi, I want to setup procmail to forward every email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > here is my .procmailrc > > :0 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > benoit > > :0

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Bonser dixit: >> >> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33762,00.html >> >> Looks like Caldera is building a nice linux install wizard ... called >> lizard. They say they might open-source it. > > They "might"? I thought everything developed under L

RE: Sound-config with isapnp

1999-03-16 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, why dont you use the isapnptools package in debian? it's a great package :), and it should work very well... so throw away your .rpm... Benoit On 16-Mar-99 Kurt Stallknecht wrote: > Hello, > I ve problems with the configuration of an Aztech soundcard. The > first straightforward try wasn

Sound-config with isapnp

1999-03-16 Thread Kurt Stallknecht
Hello, I ve problems with the configuration of an Aztech soundcard. The first straightforward try wasn t very satisfactory, so I wanted to start a second one with isapnp. I downloded it from Red Hat and installed alien for the translation into a debian-package, but it didn t work. In the man-pa

procmail

1999-03-16 Thread Benoit Joly
Hi, I want to setup procmail to forward every email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] here is my .procmailrc :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] benoit :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] benoit the first command work ok... the

Re: Choosing a database package

1999-03-16 Thread sjb
I believe mySQL and PostgreSQL would both fit your needs. I'm not sure which languages you are familiar with but Perl probably has the best balance of ease and functionality. There are interfaces to get Perl working with postgresql/mysql and also interfaces to get perl working with GTK. Hope this

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-16 Thread Richard Lyon
> I hate to ask, but... why??? I duplicated this for the sake of making > sure this script would work, and it brought my system to it's knees. > A classic troll technique.

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > George Bonser dixit: > > > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33762,00.html > > > > Looks like Caldera is building a nice linux install wizard ... called > > lizard. They say they might open-source it. > > They "might"? I thought everything developed under Linux has to be GPL'ed, > and t

Re: Connect script failed

1999-03-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Mar 1999q, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > Mar 15 17:12:57 achc chat[1139]: expect (ogin:achc) >^ > > This looks like /etc/chatscripts/provider is garbled. Could you send me a > copy of that file? > -- > John Hasler

Re: interesting

1999-03-16 Thread homega
George Bonser dixit: > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33762,00.html > > Looks like Caldera is building a nice linux install wizard ... called > lizard. They say they might open-source it. They "might"? I thought everything developed under Linux has to be GPL'ed, and thus open source!

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-16 Thread homega
XRDLAB dixit: > > > As mentioned earlier, the mail is received on the spool > correctly. But procmail does not seem to be doing its job. > > Well, here is something which might help in troubleshooting. > > 1. As soon as I dial-up and the ppp link is established, the root >does not do a fetc

kernel module dependencies

1999-03-16 Thread G. Crimp
I compiled a kernel with NLS and iso9660 as modules. When I tried to mount a cd I got a message saying that iso9660 was not supported by the kernel. Tried installing iso9660 with insmod and got a bunch of unresolved symbol errors all relating to nls. If I run 'insmod nls' first and then

Re: Sound solution

1999-03-16 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/15/99 5:14:00 PM, you wrote: >I may be wrong, but from my experience with OSS you don't have to use >isapnp at all. >Thats the reason OSS is out on the market: It replaces isapnp, in a more >efficient way. You still need to compile kernel, though. Just read the >README file that comes with OS

Re: Remote Unix printer - Permissions

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely > with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble > connecting to the printer from linux clients. > > I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers > to

Re: Please help RTL 8029

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Piotr Perko wrote: > Hello, > I'M LOOking for drivers for that Eternet device for Linux Slackware > 2.0.34. > Please help me - i don't know where i can find it. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Piotter. > THX I do not know anything about Slackware but use

Re: StarOffice Installation Error

1999-03-16 Thread John Leget
Hmmm, Also running 2.2.3 and potato having a somewhat similar problem StarOffice has died R.I.P :(. Anyhow the following error message comes up when i try to run it "An unrecoverable error has occured, All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program start" Yuk reminds

Re: Iomega zip drive

1999-03-16 Thread Conrado Badenas
Alessandro Z wrote: > After compiling the kernel including: > --> scsi support=yes > scsi disk support=yes > Iomega Zip support as a module > parallel printer as module > and running lilo to use the new kernel I get an error when trying to > install ppa: What about rebo

more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-16 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
I have seen that people get the advise to add a line in lilo.conf that tells how much RAM the system have, if they have more then 64 mb, and that it is possible to have a larger harddirve then the BIOS can handle. I just would like to ask two simple questons about this: Q1 I have a motherboard

Re: Where's the CGI bin?

1999-03-16 Thread L. Besselink
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin? > well, mine is in /usr/lib/cgi-bin (I can't check I'm not home right, now), I think. What I do remeber it is, in a /lib dir somewhere and very likely on /usr Hope this helps. > NatePuri

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