Re: help with GNOME

1999-03-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, John Finlay wrote: > I upgraded my debian installation from 2.0 to 2.1 using dselect and ftp. > I figured I'd try GNOME so I installed most everything I could figure > out that was GNOME related. (I find this installation process really > clumsy and error prone. Is there any w

Instalacion de XBF

1999-03-21 Thread Miquel
Hola a todos: Recientemente, he instalado la versión Debian 2.01 Hamm y me he encontrado con el problema de que no puedo configurar correctamente la XFree porque tengo la APAC Intel 740A. He leido todos los mensajes referentes a este tema sobre configuración del server, etc. En un FTP he e

Re: Linux Boot Disk (needed)

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
> Can someone drop in an email, either a disk image or a site to get a disk > image for a Linux boot disk(OS on ramdisk that is), that supports mounting > a vfat drive? The Debian boot disks should. Try: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin (you'll ne

help with GNOME

1999-03-21 Thread John Finlay
I upgraded my debian installation from 2.0 to 2.1 using dselect and ftp. I figured I'd try GNOME so I installed most everything I could figure out that was GNOME related. (I find this installation process really clumsy and error prone. Is there any way to indicate that I want to install all of GNOM

fmirror problems

1999-03-21 Thread Chris Brown
Hello, I'm having a real bear of a time with trying to mirror ftp.us.debian.org using fmirror. I know I have the config script set up right, and when I run the command "fmirror -f /etc/fmirror/debian.conf" from console everything looks good. The problem is after only a few hundred Kbytes

A menu entry for a colorized Midnight Commander ?

1999-03-21 Thread shaul
What has to be written in .menu/mc so that mc will appear with colors when started from the menu in fvwm2 ? I currently have: [23:28:27 shaul]$ cat /usr/lib/menu/mc text Apps/Misc mc none "Midnight Commander" /usr/bin/mc [23:44:49 shaul]$ cat .Xresources ! ~/.Xresources XTerm*colorMode: t

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 21 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Heikki Vatiainen writes: > > > Escape sequence is probably the correct quess. I just > > downloaded the page and one of comments had this signature: > > > -- + ++ATH0 > ^ > > Space added by me to protect modem owners. My guess is your > > modem saw the t

Re: Newcomer to Linux

1999-03-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 21 Mar 1999, Bala Iyer wrote: > I am a newcomer to Linux. Wants to learn. Down loaded all the files. Read > everything many times and tried to install several times. Spend about 70 hours > so far but failed to understand where it is going wrong. I will be thankful > for any help. I have a Penti

Linux Boot Disk (needed)

1999-03-21 Thread Jayson Baird
Can someone drop in an email, either a disk image or a site to get a disk image for a Linux boot disk(OS on ramdisk that is), that supports mounting a vfat drive? (some boot disks give me an error that the kernel doesn't support vfat). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks alot.

HardDrive for MP3 player

1999-03-21 Thread Jesse Lee
heres what I've found: a toshiba  4.32GB INT UDMA HDD 8.45MM SGL 13MS 4200RPM . would this be a good drive to use for a car MP# player? It costs about 180 Us dollars. theres also a 2 gig drive for about $150. They are both 2.5 inch drives.   Would this be a good choice? If so, what are the p

Re: compiling 2.2.3 problems

1999-03-21 Thread Dpk
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make zImage gives me the following error gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Heikki, Actually, the triple-plus signal is part of the Hayes modem command protocol. It tells the modem to enter its command state and interpret any subsequent chars as operational commands. Thus, triple-plusATH will cause a hang-up. Any modem adhering to this standard, which includes all

Newcomer to Linux

1999-03-21 Thread Bala Iyer
I am a newcomer to Linux. Wants to learn. Down loaded all the files. Read everything many times and tried to install several times. Spend about 70 hours so far but failed to understand where it is going wrong. I will be thankful for any help. I have a Pentium 166 with 32MB memory with 2.1 HD. I hav

Gpm fills my syslog.

1999-03-21 Thread Linus Nilsson
Hi. I'm having trouble with gpm filling my syslog with annoying messages like: Mar 21 17:59:24 e316 gpm[3255]: Error in protocol Mar 21 17:59:53 e316 last message repeated 558 times Mar 21 17:59:54 e316 gpm[3260]: Error in protocol Mar 21 17:59:54 e316 last message repeated 17 times Mar

dumb cron problem

1999-03-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hi all, Out of the blue about ten days ago I started getting an odd error from cron every morning. Looks like some kind of shell escaping error with find (i've attached today's) in /etc/cron.daily/standard. However, all of the find lines in that script are commented out. I imagine there's some

Re: netstd in potato?

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I notice that netstd is no longer in potato. Has some other package > replaced it? It shows up in dselect as obsolete/local. > > Bob > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AM

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Ugh, I'm following up myself since I think I got it wrong about whose modem was closing the connection. I wrote: > Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > I've got a weird one, folks. > > Not really, it's just a feature in your modem :) What I should have said is "

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread John Hasler
Heikki Vatiainen writes: > Escape sequence is probably the correct quess. I just > downloaded the page and one of comments had this signature: > -- + ++ATH0 ^ > Space added by me to protect modem owners. My guess is your > modem saw the three plus signs and hung up. Sounds likely, but any m

Re: Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files

1999-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files Date: Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:13:18PM +1300 In reply to:Lloyd Blythen Quoting Lloyd Blythen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm installing Debian gradually; until I get it online I have Windows, > in its own partition, set up for Internet u

Re: Slink upgrade broke printer configuration

1999-03-21 Thread John Maheu
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Mike O'Donnell wrote: I also have noticed some strange printer behaviour. I use magicfilter, and have periodically had a printing problem with ps files after the upgrade. Once it produced another page with junk on it and the other time it printed several extra pages. Have you

Re: lock user account after 3 bad logins?

1999-03-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > how do I can specify how many times a user can write a bad password > before the system disonect that account. And of course after the account > is lock, how do I unlock it. > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Sorry for the late

Re: missing lsof

1999-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: missing lsof Date: Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 06:25:13PM +0100 In reply to:Matus fantomas Uhlar Quoting Matus fantomas Uhlar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > i used lsof and i miss it too much; > why is there only lsof for 2.0.35 available ? > Get the debmake and debget packag

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > I've got a weird one, folks. Not really, it's just a feature in your modem :) > I've got a debian slink box serving as router for a network connected > to the internet by a dialup ppp connection. It does some masquerading > for the other systems on the local network,

Re: downgrading libc

1999-03-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > What packages do I need to get and where do I get them to downgrade libc? > I need java, straoffice and other things to work.. > > //ben > -- > http://surf.to/anTiX > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

LaTeX / Tex ...

1999-03-21 Thread Sami Dalouche
I just want to know if LateX / TeX has Desktop Publishing capabilities. (Image Wrapping...). If not, is there another soft which can do it ? Thanks. -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.3

Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink (and gnome panel problems)

1999-03-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
Try using the command "ldd `which panel` ". This should tell you which libraries that the panel are looking for. Personally, I compiled GNOME from source, but used the configure command 'CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnome" which enabled optimizations without debugging information and

Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I've got a weird one, folks. I've got a debian slink box serving as router for a network connected to the internet by a dialup ppp connection. It does some masquerading for the other systems on the local network, which include another slinkbox and a redhat 5.2 system. Yesterday, following the

Re: Off Topic -- little motherboard

1999-03-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > can I get a small MB? The smallest I have found is about 9.5 X 9.5 inches. > I'd like to find one thats about 7X6 maybe or 7X7. All it needs to have is > one or 2 pci slots, 2 serial and one parallel port, usb would be nice. I'd > like it to be have the p

Re: fonts in *terms ...

1999-03-21 Thread Adam Shand
> -- Both are proportionally spaced, and your terminal program will >probably fail to deal well. My guess is that you get >intercharacter spacing equal to the widest character in the font >(more likely than not a capital M). ahh, okay that makes sense. > -- You haven't specified bol

Re: when installing the kernel-source

1999-03-21 Thread Guido A.J. Stevens
To follow up on this thread: how do I configure sound? When running make menuconfig for the kernel, I'm not being asked for irq or dma settings. Trying to pass command line arguments, I must be doing something wrong: wiz:~# modprobe sound irq=10 /lib/modules/2.2.3/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter i

compiling 2.2.3 problems

1999-03-21 Thread pjintel
make zImage gives me the following error gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_p

Off Topic -- little motherboard

1999-03-21 Thread Jesse Lee
can I get a small MB? The smallest I have found is about 9.5 X 9.5 inches. I'd like to find one thats about 7X6 maybe or 7X7. All it needs to have is one or 2 pci slots, 2 serial and one parallel port, usb would be nice. I'd like it to be have the ppga celeron socket but I would settle for

Re: Perl Instruction

1999-03-21 Thread Ed Slocomb
>Does anyone know if there are any good sites on the web for learning >perl? I really want to learn it soon, but don't have any extra money >to buy any books right now. Go to your local library and ask for "Learning Perl," (Schwartz and Christiansen, O'Reilly & Associates, aka "The Llama book"

Re: Netscape mail - multiple "profiles"?

1999-03-21 Thread John Leget
Hi, I have a simplistic ( not to efficient possibly) idea, 1) Setup netscape - rename "~/.netscape" to say "~/.profile1" 2) Setup netscape again rename "~/.netscape" to say "~/.profile2" 3) create a symlink "~/.netscape" to point to the profile you wish to use create a script to do chang

Re: Debian and Kernel Releases

1999-03-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 20 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> If you follow the kernel mailing list you'll see that even the current >> 2.2.3 kernel still has quirks. On some machines here I can't even run >> it, the NFS server keeps d

Inquiry informations

1999-03-21 Thread FJS
I'm an italian librarian and programmer. I Would like to know about Linux and especially where i can download a good Linux Freeware with a very good user friendly graphic interface, all about linux Faq and Documentation in italian (or english) language. There is an University with a serve

Installing mysql

1999-03-21 Thread wax_man
Can someone tell me which packages I need to get mysql installed? I looked up the packages, and it listed about 7 mysql packages. However, when I tried to install all of them with apt, I was told that some of the packages conflict, so I'm not sure which ones I need. TIA, chris

to further the desktop discussion...

1999-03-21 Thread Jayson Baird
>THAT is what is going to kill Linux ... forget the desktop, they need a >consistant system interface to avoid the Unix problem. In a small sense Linux does have it's own standard. The linux kernel used by RH is in base form the same as Slink's. Also, if you can program and keep your wits about yo

Re: SMBMOUNT Problems...

1999-03-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > > Howdy All... howdy :) > I have started having an SMBMOUNT problem, mounting a shared folder off of an > NT Server machine...It was working before I had to re-compile my kernel > 2.0.34 to have vfat & sound support...The only other change I've made

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1999-03-21 Thread fockface dickmeat
>From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-Users >Subject: Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point? > >> Would such a redhat CEO consider the ideas of the Linux Developers >> as important as the marketing strategies of his new parent company? > > > To be fair, RH has

SMBMOUNT Problems...

1999-03-21 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All... I have started having an SMBMOUNT problem, mounting a shared folder off of an NT Server machine...It was working before I had to re-compile my kernel 2.0.34 to have vfat & sound support...The only other change I've made, is I've added my NT Worksation Partition to the /etc/fstab

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1999-03-21 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All... I have started having an SMBMOUNT problem, mounting a shared folder off of an NT Server machine...It was working before I had to re-compile my kernel 2.0.34 to have vfat & sound support...The only other change I've made, is I've added my NT Worksation Partition to the /etc/fstab fi

Re: is this normal ? (on my debian)

1999-03-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, mao jud wrote: > i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem, > but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that. > there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ... > > is this normal or can someone pls

is this normal ? (on my debian)

1999-03-21 Thread mao jud
hello LIST ! i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem, but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that. there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ... is this normal or can someone pls help and explain things to me ?

Re: libpam-pwdb: optional ???

1999-03-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 11:16:50PM +0100, Alexander N. Benner wrote: > Hi > > I couldn't log in anymore today after an upgrade to the current potato > snapshot. > > After triing for a while I found out that login tried to use pam_pwdb which > was not installed. > > There seems to be no depends on i

Re: Gnome and Enlightenment

1999-03-21 Thread Rootguru
From: Kevin McEnhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have been trying to get Enlightenment 0.15 installed and working with gnome >1.0 since I heard the announcement on Slashdot last week. In the process, I >have upgraded to potato and have started following gnome-stage-2 by adding the >line `deb http://www

Gnome and Enlightenment

1999-03-21 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy I have been trying to get Enlightenment 0.15 installed and working with gnome 1.0 since I heard the announcement on Slashdot last week. In the process, I have upgraded to potato and have started following gnome-stage-2 by adding the line `deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unsta