GNOME 1.0

1999-03-28 Thread MallarJ
Just curious, how's the .debs of GNOME v1.0 coming? -Jay

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread John Heaton
> Today' London "Sunday Times" feature "Innovation" (pp 10-11 of "News > Review", http://www.sunday-times.co.uk ) has an article by David Hewson > (of "Linux, the Program from Hell" fame) entitled "Linux wins backing of > computing giants". ... > Now that vmware is out ( http://www.vmware.com ) peo

login, dvorak, #

1999-03-28 Thread Mike Brownlow
Hi, I'm having some trouble logging in on the console with the dvorak keymap loaded. I have a '#' in the password and it's being treated like a backspace. This doesn't happen for other login's (ssh, telnet, etc.). I ran "loadkeys dvorak". Is there a special setting for console logins? I

Re: PHP & Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-28 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > > replaced by apache-1.3.6-compatible ones soon. > Hmm... how soon? I've got a few other modules compiled for 1.3.6 and PHP3 are I'll probably compile php3 against 1.3.6 tomorrow, and upload it, so it should be available on the mirrors in a couple of

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:31:54 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >Well, I hope that one day file-rc will be the default package because it's >really good. I use it without any problems, it's really great... I second this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

RE: probleme to my ati carte 2x pro a losse my driver

1999-03-28 Thread Benoit Joly
salut, qu'est-ce que tu veux dire? je comprend pas ta question.  

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like > > dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at > > which

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > > You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any other > > commercial software pre-packaged for Red Hat. > Well, such software won't make it into Debian then... I guess... I don't care if FireHunter is not part of Debian, but you have to

Booting Problem with Linux 2.0 from CHIP

1999-03-28 Thread H.Peters
We are trying to install Debian Linux 2.0 which we got from CHIP. After running through the installation and when the system should boot for the first time the following message occurs: Loading linux. Uncompressing Linux... Out of memory ...System halted (Our System has 48MB of memory)

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
I don't know how may packages there are. I have come over a few already. I do read documentation, and often I HAVE seen mentioned putting stuff in rc.local which has confused me. I do not want people to stop reading and thinking. But there are people outt here that would enjoy using Linux but have

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> "... iso9660 not supported by kernel" is there. Why? iso9660 is a filesystem type. The kernel's complaining that it doesn't have that module installed, and so can't read the filesystem. > . configuring device driver modules > . fs modules : hpfs, ncp, smbs, umsdos, vfat Select iso9660

Re: Rewrite headers using exim/sendmail?

1999-03-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:56:32AM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > is it a (simple) way to get headers rewritten using exim or sendmail (would > prefer exim since I have it working now) to what an email client puts in the > "From' field? > > Lets say I send mail with: "From [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Oh, this would really rock if it would work for xdm; if I could say "only > > > start xdm once getty has grabbed all the virtual co

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-28 Thread Kent West
> Nick Rudd wrote: > > yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering > if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 > without reinstalling windows. > > Chris Smith To my knowledge, No. But maybe some utility (like Partition Magic or Norton Utilities?) m

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread apilgrim
Just my 2 cents: I don't lose anything when using Linux as a server. I have it set up as for web testing, and it works like a hose. In fact, I wouldn't run anything else on a server. Period. Unfortunately, there are web development and multimedia apps that I use that are not ported to Linux.

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Oh, this would really rock if it would work for xdm; if I could say "only > > start xdm once getty has grabbed all the virtual consoles listed for this > > runlevel in inittab." > > H

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Kent West
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > > Apologies for duplicate postings, but I'd like to make sure I sound > a diverse population. > > Today' London "Sunday Times" feature "Innovation" (pp 10-11 of "News > Review", http://www.sunday-times.co.uk ) has an article by David Hewson > (of "Linux, the Program from

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
George Bonser wrote: > > What type of integration are you thinking of? > > Drag and drop from a spreadsheet, word processor, or graphics program ... > the embedable opject idea. Having the mail program be able to directly > render some standard wp formats, show graphic items within the document, >

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
As far as physical space goes, an actual computer case can get pretty small...My curiosity was piqued with Linux especially becasue I could simply run X over my network here @ home, no need for a video card even. Hell, if I weren't runnig a scsi system, a bare-bones install would only require a mo

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Kent West
Lev Lvovsky wrote: > the question is tho, other than electricity consumption, what's so wrong > with running more than one computer? 1) Up-front cash outlay for the second computer (important to poor folks like myself) 2) Physical desk space. Other than that, I'm all in favor of having two or thre

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > You got me there. So it means nobody packages it for Debian? Well, so the > > solution is to make the whole Debian distribution compatible with RH just > > for > > the sake of one package? Isn't it better to repackage it for Debian? No that > > I'm wi

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > you imagine you get all those spiffy packages in Debian from? It's from > > hundreds of people EDITING EVERYTHING so that you can just type dpkg -i > > package.deb and enjoy the way it works... > > > > marek > > No, Marek, you reread my original. Joe

Re: X-window client?

1999-03-28 Thread Kent West
David Bartholow wrote: > > I need to get to my debian 5.2 system from my Er, "debian 5.2"? No such animal. > Windows NT workstation. Is there a free x-windows > client for windows that anyone knows of? Yeah, it's called Mix or something like that. I believe it can be found at www.microimages.co

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > The problem is that there has been a lot of talk about new standards, putting > it in rc.boot, creating a jungle of sym links etc. Take a look at this thread! > :) Err... : yeah, :-))) marek

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > dist vendor does for you all you need, for the open community needs, it > > takes > > a system administrator to manage the machine and such a person should RTFM - > > ALL OF THEM... And, IMO, the way of loading programs and devices is quite > > ele

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation

1999-03-28 Thread Eduardo Manso
Hi, Can you help me?! I'm trying to install the 2.1 version of the Debian GNU/Linux and having some troubles... Everything runs well till 'dselect' is called for proceed whit packages installtaion. From this point on, only frustrations! "... iso9660 not supported by kernel" is there. Why? All th

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-03-28 Thread Dietmar Schultz
Hi, when I want cdrecord to do some writing on my Yamaha CDR 102 it complains: Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Function not implemented. shmget failed Once it worked and I use the same options - since they where still in the bash history. In the meantime I've

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Netscape mail (I know, I know) is already standard in most enterprises. > There is also Ishmail (commercial) and others. Qualcomm told me that there > will be a Unix version of Eudora when you see Satan skiing down the icy > peaks of Hell. > > What is REALLY needed

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Michael Stenner
I have to agree completely that there are SERIOUS holes that need to be filled. A short list of things that I miss every day (a suitable equivalent would be ok): egrep sed afterstep xv (not too big, not too small) tgif . . . Oh, "lose with _linux_"... my bad. I'm just making the point that the

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any other > >> commercial software pre-packaged for Red Hat. > > Well, such software won't make it into Debian then... I guess... > > > > Correct. Maybe in non-free if the company will let Debia

LILO & non-BIOS scsi card

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hello, OK, in my attempt to get my system back to normal after ditching Red Hat, I'd like to iron out some problems with LILO. First an explanation of my system: IDE hard disk being used as /boot, and /home SCSI hard disk being used as /root SCSI host adapter that is ISA, and does not work wit

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Jerry Lynn Kreps
mmm I must be delusional. I haven't booted my Win95 side in months (When SuSE 6.1 with the 2.2.x kernel comes out I will reclaim that space for Linux) so how am I keeping my checkbook balanced and reconciled? Must be a phantom copy of cbb. I do my symbolic math with MuPAD 3.4 instead of Math

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about "Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?" > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > >> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: >> >> > You don't have to. Just get the src rpm >> > >> > marek >> >> You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP F

Think I got the 501 error fixed.

1999-03-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
After playing around awhile I tried changing visible_name in /etc/smail/config from "HAL" to "2xtreme.net" and I think everything works now. Christopher

TrueType Fonts

1999-03-28 Thread Doug Dine
Hi All, Has anyone had success using TrueType fonts in X? I installed the TrueType font server but only received a message that my font database was corrupt. Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless _

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
The problem is that there has been a lot of talk about new standards, putting it in rc.boot, creating a jungle of sym links etc. Take a look at this thread! :) On 28-Mar-99 Marek Habersack wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > >> This is the sad truth. If this simple task shall

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > You don't have to. Just get the src rpm > > > > marek > > You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any other > commercial software pre-packaged for Red Hat. Well, such software won't mak

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 28-Mar-99 Marek Habersack wrote: > Hmm DOS/Windows and OS/2 are PC operating systems, Linux is Unix and > administration doesn't have to be "user friendly" - for your home needs, your > dist vendor does for you all you need, for the open community needs, it takes > a system administrator t

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> not configurable and were only designed to be run an a Red Hat system. > > Hmm... did you read the Debian Policy manual? > > > > I'm confused, what does the policy manual have to do with compatibility > between Red Hat and Debian init structure and

Fixing "501: Sender domain must exist" errors.

1999-03-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
My machine name is "HAL" and when sending email to many places I get errors like: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mail failed, returning to sender To: cbarry Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:23:32 -0800 (PST) X-From-Line: MAILER-DAEMON Sun Mar 28 11:23:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: from HAL by HAL

Re: Kernel Compile Error

1999-03-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > Try running "dpkg -l|grep gcc", and make sure that you have gcc installed > instead of/in addition to egcc. If memory serves, there are problems > related to compiling the 2.0.x kernels with egcc, and so they have > #error directives set up in order to disallow it. >

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about "Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?" > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> >> You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. >> > You don't have to. Just get the src rpm >> > >> >> Read what George said, that doesn't work for things like

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. > > You don't have to. Just get the src rpm > > > > Read what George said, that doesn't work for things like Applixware or > other commercial programs that DO NOT HAVE SRC RPM. Those also tend to > have har

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 12:49:27PM -, Ted Harding wrote: > However, can I ask people what they would use for "music composition, > accounting and personal finance"? I'm aware of good programs for > creating musical scores which can also generate MIDI output, but I'd > hardly call them top-fligh

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about "Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?" > On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> >> >> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> GB> Because there are several commercial software packages distributed >> GB> in RPM format for

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
OK, my personal take on this: I've been using a linux box for a couple of weeks after the PS in my windows macihne died (well, using *only* linux). I used that time to learn a whole lot of stuff about linux, and also see just how many apps I could replace from my windows box. I'd honestly like

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My > question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get > Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition? > Should I just have it moun

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. > > > > Ciao, > > Martin > > Yeah and then edit everything to put stuff in different places (and hope > something somewhere dosn't have a location hardcoded

The real world .. (was RedHat=MS...)

1999-03-28 Thread Tommy Malloy
Although I do not agree that RedHat and ms are in many way the same. There are important things, for Debian, or any distribution, to learn from the comparison. The simple fact is that there is a direct correlation between name recognition and market share. Achieving substantial increased

Re: PHP & Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Marek Habersack wrote: > > Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work > > with > > Apache 1.3.5? > > I don't think they're available. However, Apache 1.3.6 is in the current > distribution, and I think (but I'm not su

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in > >the > >absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two > >st

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > This is the sad truth. If this simple task shall continue to be complicated, > vendors will create packages for their "distribution of fancy". My problen > is that this is already the case with some vendors. I never thought when I > switched to Linux

Re: login package source?

1999-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:51:26AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I'm having problems with the newgrp command. Whenever I try to change > my primary group with it, as a user, I get: > > % newgrp - audio > getgroups: Invalid argument > > I suspect something in my environment is causing the problem

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Seems to me adding stuff to rcS.d would jeopardize using single mode booting > as > a tool when somethiing in your default runlevel won't run right? > > Still, it might be the replacement of rc.boot. > > After my initial posting in this thread

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GB> Because there are several commercial software packages distributed > GB> in RPM format for the Red Hat layout that are NOT available in > GB> tarball format. > > You can always convert a r

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
ahh, cool! I also messed around and found that the '--rcfile' option worked. thanks for the help! -lev On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > You can use the the "-" option, as in "su -", to get a similar effect. > This causes the your new session to use through the new user's startu

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like > > dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at > > which priority to place a

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marc Haber wrote: > On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote: > >Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. > > How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be > loaded before any disks are mounted)? Well, you must have at least / moun

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if > there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without > reinstalling windows. I don't think so. Why would you want to? Will --

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > >> The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with > >> Debian and RedHat to agree on one standa

Re: Rewrite headers using exim/sendmail?

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Mar, Christian Dysthe wrote about "Rewrite headers using exim/sendmail?" > Hi, > > is it a (simple) way to get headers rewritten using exim or sendmail (would > prefer exim since I have it working now) to what an email client puts in the > "From' field? > > Lets say I send mail with: "

Re: X-window client?

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
At work (tech support of UCLA's ISP), we run a linux server for certain things, and many of the em-ployees like to run Xwindows on the windows machines...without a doubt, Xwin32 is the best Xwindows client for win32, but you have to pay a big amount of money for it. Or you could get the demo vers

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with > >> Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:00:16AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > > I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in > > the > > absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the > > two > > startup f

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with > > Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It > > will probably be abstracted and have symbolic names a

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > > > 1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent? > > HP FireHunter for example. You got me there. So it means nobody packages it for Debian? Well, so the solution is to make the whole De

login package source?

1999-03-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'm having problems with the newgrp command. Whenever I try to change my primary group with it, as a user, I get: % newgrp - audio getgroups: Invalid argument I suspect something in my environment is causing the problem, since it seems to work ok for other users, and root. I've had trouble like

Re: PHP & Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
Marek Habersack wrote: > Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work with > Apache 1.3.5? I don't think they're available. However, Apache 1.3.6 is in the current distribution, and I think (but I'm not sure) that the php3 packages will be replaced by apache-1.3.6-compa

Re: free output vs. ps aux: not the same?

1999-03-28 Thread Chris Frost
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:52:24PM -, Ted Harding wrote: > "free" is misleading. After you've been running for a bit and several > processes have been run and closed, their code & data persist in memory > in case they are needed again. If anything new needs memory, then the > memory space of so

multi-volume tar?

1999-03-28 Thread Vincent Murphy
i would like to create a (big) tar archive which spans multiple zip disks. is this possible? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 "With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited o

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
This is the sad truth. If this simple task shall continue to be complicated, vendors will create packages for their "distribution of fancy". My problen is that this is already the case with some vendors. I never thought when I switched to Linux a couple of months ago I would have problems like this

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
Seems to me adding stuff to rcS.d would jeopardize using single mode booting as a tool when somethiing in your default runlevel won't run right? Still, it might be the replacement of rc.boot. After my initial posting in this thread I must say that Debian, and maybe Linux in general, has a com

Rewrite headers using exim/sendmail?

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, is it a (simple) way to get headers rewritten using exim or sendmail (would prefer exim since I have it working now) to what an email client puts in the "From' field? Lets say I send mail with: "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and my local account is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". What is the "correct" way to

Re: sources.list for slink CDs?

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: H> I have two disks that have supposedly been made from the official MH> distribution (i386 binary) and a third disk that contains non-free, MH> non-US, gnome and some more goodies. MH> How does my /etc/apt/sources.list have to look like for all

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GC" == G Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GC> I think you are right, though, that it is the list software and GC> not the MTA that is silently discarding my mail. Also note that the list software doesn't see the SMTP envelope (it is not passed on final delivery). GC> My From: field is not

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> Because there are several commercial software packages distributed GB> in RPM format for the Red Hat layout that are NOT available in GB> tarball format. You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. Ciao, Martin

Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-28 Thread Nick Rudd
yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without reinstalling windows.   Chris Smith

debian 5.2

1999-03-28 Thread Bruce Sass
> I need to get to my debian 5.2 system from my ^^ So, is support for RedHat so poor that RH users need to ask for help from the Debian community? ;) later, Bruce

kernel/network problem

1999-03-28 Thread Grégory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I've got a 2.2.4 kernel, a 3c905BTX2 network card (bus matering enabled). I am using potato. My 3com card is compiled a a module. My problem is that quite often my network hangs. Usually, a "ifconfig eth0 down; sh /etc/init.d/network" is enough to restart it. But, why do I need to do tha

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
Sorry! - http://www.netbank.com/ G.S. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
FWIW you might want to check out [EMAIL PROTECTED] (is that corny or what?). It's actually pretty neat & you can do _everything_ through a browser. Download options are MS-Money, Quicken or comma delimited ASCII. Of course there are a lot of potential reasons not to like it including being used

Re: dhcpd

1999-03-28 Thread shaleh
> > Hello. > > I cannot figure how to use the dhcpd client. Any tips ? > Make sure you installed dhcpcd and NOT dhcpd. dhcpd is for servers giving out IPs, dhcpcd is for clients. If you are running a 2.2.x kernel (or late 2.1.x) get dhcpcd-sv from potato.

Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

1999-03-28 Thread William R Pentney
Thanks to those who answered my question about MS-DOS partitions. My question now is this: I can split my MS-DOS partition a second time to get Debian some more space. What would be the best way to add this partition? Should I just have it mount it on bootup? - thanks, Bill

dhcpd

1999-03-28 Thread Eric Bazin
Hello. I cannot figure how to use the dhcpd client. Any tips ? I'm using a box that shares W95 and Linux. I recently subscribed to an Internet connexion through tv-wire. Technically, it means an Ethernet card connected to a wire-modem, and using dhcp to get all the IP address, gateway, dns server

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Jeff Katcher wrote: > Hi all > > I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from > the command line? What about such a simple command: mpack -s "Subject of the message" filename recipient_address Additionally you may use the "-m" option to split the b

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like > dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at > which priority to place a new service. You can just say "this service > must be

Re[2]: X-window client?

1999-03-28 Thread athos
George wrote: >> Windows NT workstation. Is there a free x-windows >> client for windows that anyone knows of? GB> Not that I know of. The closest you can come is VNC. Well, it's not quite Free, but there are a couple at Tucows (look in http://www.tucows.com/xwinservernt.htm (well, actually, you

Re: Kernel Compile Error

1999-03-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 08:08:44PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all- > > I was trying to compile the 2.0.36 kernel on my slink system to include > support for sound. > > I went through the make xconfig deal and typed make dep and make clean > without incident. However when I tried to make zImag

upgrading with 2 CD's

1999-03-28 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I just got my slink CD's, and started trying to upgrade (from hamm). I can't find anything, in the Release Notes or elswhere, that says how to deal with multiple CD's. The closest thing is the file README.multicd which seems to be talking only about installs, not upgrades, and all it says is to be

free output vs. ps aux: not the same?

1999-03-28 Thread Chris Frost
I've been noticing a greater difference between the outputs of free and ps with regard to my used memory and am really beginning to wonder what's going on... Here's what's going on: I'm running 2.2.1 on an x86 box and as the system has been chugging away the amount of free memory has been dwindlin

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Mar-99 Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "(Ted Harding)" wrote: >> and it does seem that the accounting/finance area is thinly served. > > This is the primary "missing piece" for me, at least in terms of a > home, desktop system. While there are some personal finance programs > available such as Gnucash

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 11:35:07PM +, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > right, I usually use 'su' w/o the user specified, as I normally wanna get > root priveleges...problem is, my PATH's aren't set. With RH, you could do > an 'su -l', and get the PATH of the user you were switching to. Is there > a swi

Red Hat, HP & Linux...

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
First I'd like to thank all respondents to my "Coupla quick questions..." message, I've a much better handle on those things now :-). I was really surprised to learn that HP's Firemonkey or whatever it is was a Red Hat specific product. I worked as a contractor at HP a while back and got to know

Re: X-window client?

1999-03-28 Thread Richard Harran
whoops, messed up the first posting. Also missed the Exceed free evaluation url: http://www2.hcl.com/html/forms/nc/exceed/request.html like I say, I don't know what strings are attached to this Rich Richard Harran wrote: > > There is Exceed. It's commercial, but you can order a free eva

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote: >>Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. > >How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be >loaded before any disks are mounted)? /etc/rc.b

Re: X-window client?

1999-03-28 Thread Adam Lazur
George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, David Bartholow wrote: > > I need to get to my debian 5.2 system from my > There is no such thing as Debian-5.2 heh, he may mean RedCra^H^H^HHat... > > Windows NT workstation. Is there a free x-windows > > client for windows that anyo

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-03-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Mar-99 Guido A.J. Stevens wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I wish I could find that "Heinz Ketchup" article again. It was Red >> Hat's president saying that their #1 mission is to make Linux=Red >> Hat. If you send someone out to get Linux, he wants to be 99% sure >> t

DOS partitions on a pure-linux box

1999-03-28 Thread Damon Muller
Hi friends, One of my HDs recently died, corrupting a few essential system files on the way. It didn't distroy the system, but it is no longer as 'perfect' as it was. Given this, and the fact that I want to update to slink, I've decided to do a complete new install on a new 6.4G HD, and copy accro

Re: Netscape 4.51 won't start

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Mar, Jason Dawe wrote about "Netscape 4.51 won't start" > I just installed Debian 2.1, and the installation went smoothly up until > netscape. If anyone has any advice, please tell me! Here are the details: > > I downloaded and extracted communicator-v451.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz > f

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > and it does seem that the accounting/finance area is thinly served. This is the primary "missing piece" for me, at least in terms of a home, desktop system. While there are some personal finance programs available such as Gnucash etc, there is nothing remotely as good as Q

  1   2   >