Wall and chatscripts broken

1999-04-05 Thread wb4mle
I have potato-current with kernel 2.2.5. Wall quit a while ago which stopped the echo "ip-up" script line. Now something (perhaps ppp update) has stopped the "report connect" from sending the data to the current screen. Any idea what may get this working again? Hate to use a 16k4 when I get 49-50k

Re: Potato and egcs

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:13:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > First, don't complain. One of the listed goals for potato on > > debian-devel (you do read that, don't you? potato is a DEVELOPERS RELEASE) > I was under the impression that there are

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread bruce
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric > Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say "he's just a nut", but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricici

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message > was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may > consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. > > Because I know that Eric is a firearms ent

Unidentified subject!

1999-04-05 Thread Jeff Rose
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Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-05 Thread thomas lakofski
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Richard Black wrote: > which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the time and date are > incorrect. I have also tried using date with similar lack of success. > > Two things that I have noticed is that hwclock is slow and hwclock > --show doesn't return anything. is it quit

Re: Double-Vision when increasing bbp

1999-04-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Up til now I've been living with a DefaultColorDepth of 8 in my > X Windows. (I figured I had plenty of other stuff to learn about Linux > first.) Now when I try to change it to 15 or 16 or 32 and restart X I > get double- or triple- or worse- vision. It's sort of like the vert

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:48:42PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message is this for-real? -vinny

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread thomas lakofski
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ESR wrote:] > > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > > that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize > > the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- > > and I will find a w

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Apr-99 Ed Cogburn wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> >> Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find >> it >> and I can't find a pine deb. oic. Well, I did not need it that much, I just recall that in another distro, it was installed by default and I used it when

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-05 Thread Randy Edwards
> as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 > so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. Thanks Helmut, but no, there's two different varieties of the SB 128 PCI according to the driver readme. You identify them with a 'lspci -n' command; according to the output I'm usin

email threat

1999-04-05 Thread bruce
Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I fe

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Oliver Elphick writes: > I presume you could do the same in /etc/ppp/ip-up/. Make that /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Exim delaying delivery of mail?

1999-04-05 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:21:41PM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: > I recently uninstalled procmail and started using exim's built-in filter > capability. The weird thing is, it often delays some of my mail. > For example, just now fetchmail indicated it had retrieved 111 messages. > But when I went

Exim delaying delivery of mail?

1999-04-05 Thread Curt Daugaard
I recently uninstalled procmail and started using exim's built-in filter capability. The weird thing is, it often delays some of my mail. For example, just now fetchmail indicated it had retrieved 111 messages. But when I went into my mail I had less than 15 in all directories in which I receive m

Double-Vision when increasing bbp

1999-04-05 Thread Kent West
Up til now I've been living with a DefaultColorDepth of 8 in my X Windows. (I figured I had plenty of other stuff to learn about Linux first.) Now when I try to change it to 15 or 16 or 32 and restart X I get double- or triple- or worse- vision. It's sort of like the vertical hold on a television

Re: online help on c/c++ functions/libraries

1999-04-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/5/99 4:49:28 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How do I get help on c/c++ functions, including the library (.h) file > for them? > man query etc. ? (how do i search for it?) > Is it possible to get a list of functions available on the system, > and/or

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread DTR
OK at risk of getting my ass flamed off here... I believe in using the right tool for the job. If you are serious about your music, buy a mac and cubase or some similar package. If you are just playing around, might as well go the cheapest route and pick up some shareware package as has already

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Pollywog wrote: > > Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it > and I can't find a pine deb. > > thanks I don't use pine, but I remember another thread about it. Because of a license issue, pine can't be distributed in binary form. There should be

where is Pine?

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] pgpuE74fAhaSS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-05 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > CONFIG_SOUND=y > CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=y as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. hope that helps, Helmut

online help on c/c++ functions/libraries

1999-04-05 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I get help on c/c++ functions, including the library (.h) file for them? man query etc. ? (how do i search for it?) Is it possible to get a list of functions available on the system, and/or a list of available c libraries (.h) and their coresponding funcions? Thanx _

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Robbie writes: > What I'm looking for is your "arrangement" which allows for fetchmail to > run when PPP is started. I'm guessing you just played with the systemwide > ip-up script? Just put the appropriate fetchmail command in a file in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, put #!/bin/sh at the top, and make it exec

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Robbie Huffman wrote: >On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> It sounds as if you should use diald to bring the link up automatically >> whenever a program attempts to connect to an external site. My own >> arrangement is for fetchmail to run whenever the link c

netscape plugins

1999-04-05 Thread MallarJ
Curious... There are alot of plugins available for netscape, but most don't specifically mention they are for linux - in fact, one of them I tried gave me an .exe. file to run to install. Well, obviously, this won't work with Linux... so, which plugins work for Linux, is there a repository for

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Craig Hancock wrote: > Wouldn't it be great if finale was orted to linux ...or ran under wine. ...RickM...

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Craig Hancock
Wouldn't it be great if finale was orted to linux "(Ted Harding)" wrote: > On 05-Apr-99 David B.Teague wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marcus Claren wrote: > >> Subject: Good notation program for linux > > > >> Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, > >> preferrably deb - pa

Re: Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic...

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:45:15PM -0400, Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy All... > > My Linux box is running on an ext2 partition. > > I use 'make install' , because it automatically makes the necessary changes > for > me, plus the fact that the last time I tried 'make zImage', it wiped out my > Hard

Re: Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic...

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:06:55PM -0400, Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy All! > > I've been working with installing the Kernel 2.2.3, and I have a > problem... After I run the 'make menuconfig' and then 'make clean; make > dep; make install'... I then make a boot file for the NT Boot Manager... > When

Re: kernel recompile (fwd)

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:40:33PM -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:23:53 -0500 > From: "John Sims SAS(IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: kernel recompile > > I am hoping tha

Re: file owned by what package?

1999-04-05 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > netscape navigator 4.08 keeps dieing on me because of an illegal instruction > in libBrokenLocale (apparently). > > i want to find out what package libBrokenLocale belongs to so i can (up/down) > grade and see if it fixes netscape. i'm going nuts without the abi

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Apr-99 David B.Teague wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marcus Claren wrote: >> Subject: Good notation program for linux > >> Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, >> preferrably deb - packaged? > > Hi Marcus: > > I too need a program that will notate music as well as >

Re: file owned by what package?

1999-04-05 Thread eric Farris
Debian's Packages web page (http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) will let you search the current release for a string (ie., a filename) and tell you what packages contain the string. Lynx is a remarkable lifesaver in these situations. a search for libBrokenLocale gives me this: FILE

Re: file owned by what package?

1999-04-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Apr, Vincent Murphy wrote about "file owned by what package?" > netscape navigator 4.08 keeps dieing on me because of an illegal instruction > in libBrokenLocale (apparently). > > i want to find out what package libBrokenLocale belongs to so i can (up/down) > grade and see if it fixes n

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Robbie Huffman writes: > I'm currently looking for a way to have a per-user version of ip-up. I'm assuming that you have multiple users dialing into a single provider account. Change 'pon' from /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} to /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} ipparam $U

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +0200, Marcus Claren wrote: > Hi! > I've got a very annoying problem. My X server seems to > think that my screen is bigger than it actually is. [...] > Some guy at irc told me that this could be due to > that I've set my virtual res too high in the XF86Config- >

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-05 Thread eric Farris
in your /etc/X11/XF86Config, look for the 'Section "Screen"' section (on mine, it's at the end.) in that section, you have listed the various 'Subsection "Display"' subsections, one for each resolution you card will/can handle. you need to make your "Virtual" setting match your "Modes" that you use

file owned by what package?

1999-04-05 Thread Vincent Murphy
netscape navigator 4.08 keeps dieing on me because of an illegal instruction in libBrokenLocale (apparently). i want to find out what package libBrokenLocale belongs to so i can (up/down) grade and see if it fixes netscape. i'm going nuts without the ability to look at the web. anybody have a

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > It sounds as if you should use diald to bring the link up automatically > whenever a program attempts to connect to an external site. My own > arrangement is for fetchmail to run whenever the link comes up, and for > cron to do a si

Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-05 Thread Richard Black
Hi in the past I have had no trouble setting my time and date. Now, alas, I cannot. Whenever I reboot, I my calander is a month off and the time is completely wrong (hours and minutes). A typical attempt is rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the t

X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-05 Thread Marcus Claren
Hi! I've got a very annoying problem. My X server seems to think that my screen is bigger than it actually is. I'm using wmaker, and when a program window drops out of the desktop I can usually maximize it and make it fit the desktop perfectly. So wmaker knows the size of my screen, I think. But wh

Strange IRQ conflict with pnp soundcard

1999-04-05 Thread Richard Black
Hi I am having trouble getting my sound card (SB 32 PNP) to work using IRQ=5. I can get it working okay with IRQ=10 though. What is kind of wierd (at least for me) is that before I upgraded to 2.2.1, I had it running via IRQ=5. Also (more importantly?), the /proc/interrupts has no mention of an

Re: ifconfig doesn't show virtual interfaces

1999-04-05 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:16:42AM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I bet you are running a 2.2.x kernel and your version of netbase is from > slink. It is a known problem. As you mentioned, the aliased interfaces > will work but will not show up in "ifconfig." An easy solution is to > upgra

Re: Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic...

1999-04-05 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All... My Linux box is running on an ext2 partition. I use 'make install' , because it automatically makes the necessary changes for me, plus the fact that the last time I tried 'make zImage', it wiped out my Hard Drive when I installed it. I just went back and looked at the setup in 'menu

reply to Eric Raymond's "Understand my Job, Please!"

1999-04-05 Thread bruce
I was off the net for a while due to a broken DSL, so this is my first opportunity to reply to Eric Raymond's "Understand my Job, Please!". Please read http://perens.com/Articles/EricsJob.html . Thanks Bruce

Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic...

1999-04-05 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All! I've been working with installing the Kernel 2.2.3, and I have a problem... After I run the 'make menuconfig' and then 'make clean; make dep; make install'... I then make a boot file for the NT Boot Manager... When I get the NT Boot Manager to go to Linux, Everything works fine, until i

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread David B.Teague
Hi I have an SiS 6326 up and running X, thanks to Carl Mummert. He down loaded the Xfree server for 3.3.3.1 XVGA16 and XVGA servers. He copied them over the 3.3.2 servers then edited the XF86Config file. We could not get the setup to run until we got that right, you likely will have to work in the

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread David B.Teague
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marcus Claren wrote: > Subject: Good notation program for linux > Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, > preferrably deb - packaged? Hi Marcus: I too need a program that will notate music as well as something that will take files from that notation an

RE: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
It appears Netscape 4.51 does not have the mailto problem. Also, my browser did not crash when I went to freshmeat.net but as I recall, it did not always crash. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285]

Having trouble setting up PPP client-server dialup

1999-04-05 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Hi all- Recently I've been trying to set up PPP between two machines running Slink, and I'm having a lot of frustration watching the PAP and LCP diagnostics seemingly slide by each other. I thought I had it made once I got PPP running on both machines, and had the one dialing up the other, but no

Re: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jerry Pournelle had this mentioned on his site www.jerrypournelle.com in > the letters section. Its to do with misconfigured smtp email setup in > Netscape - not having a user name or password setup right I think. Try > changing the setting and clicking on

Re: vim/ctags problem: Java keywords not highlighted

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Peters
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:13:46AM -0500, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > [vim no longer color hilights] > > Suggestions for where I should look next in my troubleshooting? (I > also decided to try another language, and wrote a "Hello world!" > program in C. That didn't have anything highlighted, eith

Re: what is cc1plus?

1999-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
never mind, i found it in g++. sorry for the wasted bandwidth. -a Aaron Stromas wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to build swig on debian 2.0.34 with gcc 2.7.2.3. the > configure script fails not being able to find 'cc1plus' while compiling > a c++ test file. what is cc1plus and in which package does

Good notation program for linux

1999-04-05 Thread Marcus Claren
Hi! Does anybody know of a good music writing program for linux, preferrably deb - packaged? TIA //Marcus

Re: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-05 Thread george . russell
Pollywog wrote: > > On 04-Apr-99 Kathy Miles wrote: > > Been away from the list for awhile and missed everybody. Running Debian > > 2.1 and everything is pretty stable except one annoying problem in > > netscape, and it happens in every version of netscape (4.5, older, newer, > > communicator, nav

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's "run-parts" on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
John Leget writes: > Hmm no help here then im running 2.2.5-ac3, potato, and i see its up to > version 2.3.7-2. I installed 2.3.6 from unstable. > I dont think that alone is the problem "run-parts" ( invoked in both > ip-up and ip-down ) does of itself not exit until all the scripts it is > tryin

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-04-05 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 12:18:04AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > > > I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither > > > my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE6

2nd Request - APT, Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-05 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. > Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. > > apt-cdrom add outputs; > > Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ > Unmounting CD-ROM > Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM > Identifying.. apt-cdrom

/etc/rc.d/rc

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
I just saw some code (linuxgazette)that will turn num lock on for all terminals. He said he put the code in his /etc/rc.d/rc file in Red Hat. What would be the analogous file in debian? I've had luck in the past enabling number lock in console but not X. Thought I would give this a try. Thanks,

Re: upgrade to slink

1999-04-05 Thread Sean
The easiest thing to do is to go to ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-2.0-i386 and download apt-get-1.8. After you get that installed, type (as root): apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Then wait. Depending on what you have installed this can take anywhere from a few hou

Re: Daylight saving trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Hi, Thanks. tzconfig helped. nram --- Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look at the man page for tzconfig. Make sure that your link > for > /etc/localtime is correct and that /etc/timezone has the > correct > information. Also run hwclock to check to see what your BIOS > is repo

Re: How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Kent West
Mark Ciciretti wrote: > If you install the vfat module it will allow you to access your MSDOS > partition. > > Johann Spies wrote: > > > I did not know about modconf. But when I run it on the newly installed > > base system, I get the same limited number of choices amongst the > > filesystem driv

vim/ctags problem: Java keywords not highlighted

1999-04-05 Thread Jonathan Hayward
One more thing that changed at the time of the upgrade... Vim no longer appears to have ctags functionality. I have tried downloading and reinstalling the ctags-exuberant package, and vim-rt and vim; the installation hasn't fixed this. Before I upgraded from hamm to slink, vim colored the keywor

what is cc1plus?

1999-04-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i'm trying to build swig on debian 2.0.34 with gcc 2.7.2.3. the configure script fails not being able to find 'cc1plus' while compiling a c++ test file. what is cc1plus and in which package does it live? tia -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp.

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Stefan Langerman wrote: > > Hi, > > dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the > soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my > question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and > make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Ar

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-05 Thread Sean
A tarball almost always implies source code. This being the case you need to go through the following steps: First you have to unpack it: tar zxvf if it any of these extensions {.tgz, .tar.gz} tar xvf if it has this extension {.tar} bunzip2 followed by tar xvf if it has this exten

Re: Printing Problem

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
George Bonser wrote: > > check your /etc/hosts.lpd and make sure that your new ip address or new > hostname is in there. Hi George, I don't have an /etc/hosts.lpd file. Where might I find its format? Would that be in the Net-3-HOWTO also? I'll go check. TIA --

upgrade to slink

1999-04-05 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I have a hamm CD. After install hamm, I upgrade kernel to 2.0.36. I heard people said they upgrade from hamm to slink or potato, I wonder except the kernel, what else I need upgrade. The upgrade note said some packages are split into several smaller ones. It seems there are a lot of things to

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-05 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the > soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my > question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and > make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are the

kerneld setup

1999-04-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I am trying to find out how to activate kerneld. I notice that in /etc/init.d/kerneld, there is a test for /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe before kerneld is loaded. In my system, this is not present and thus kerneld does not load. How do I get this to be set on boot? Thanks, Carlo <--

Re: Daylight saving trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Look at the man page for tzconfig. Make sure that your link for /etc/localtime is correct and that /etc/timezone has the correct information. Also run hwclock to check to see what your BIOS is reporting as current time. That might be why linux is confused. I'd start there. HTH. -Ian On Mon,

Daylight saving trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Hi, My linux machine does not seem to be daylight saving aware. I still have the old time as my system time. Setting date as root does not seem to help. I tried to look thru HOWTOs, minis, Documentation, FAQs I couldnot get any pointers. Will someone point me to some links/info pl? Iam runn

Re: Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-05 Thread Kent West
Mike Glass wrote:  Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions? -Mike You can either:  1) Boot from a DOS floppy that has the CD drivers so yo

My (hamm) installation tale (long)

1999-04-05 Thread Richard Losey
Hello... thought it might be instructive to pass along the things that happened to me when trying to install Linux on my Pentium-133. Some background: I have never installed any brand of Linux before, but I've dabbled in Unix and am somewhat familiar with Linux (some friends have it installed --

Re: junkbuster???

1999-04-05 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi again, Sorry to waste bandwidth with this :-( I've now figured that I should have used http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8000/"; for Lynx to work with the proxy, wget doesn't seem to mind but Lynx is more fussy. I'm not sure if it's just that I wasn't looking properly but the documentation didn't s

What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-05 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hi, dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the package etc. and make sure I am not messing up dpkg? Are there any conventions for that? Is t

Slink update from hamm

1999-04-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I got my cheapbytes debian 2.1 4 cd set and tried to upgrade. I downloaded the latest apt package (0.3.1) from ftp.debian.org and installed it. I ran the apt-cdrom program to set up the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Then I ran apt-get update. (I which I remembered to run the loging script first!)

Re: Trying to play a game....

1999-04-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/4/99 3:48:14 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I had that error too. You can't run Marlstrom in 24 bpp, it must be in 16 > or less. That should fix your problem. It took me a while to get it > fixed, so this might not be the answer that fixes that one

How ro set cmos clock to system time

1999-04-05 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I run slink and want to set the cmos clock to system time. My system time is set with ntp, and I think there is a way to set adjtimnex to sync the cmos clock every 11 minutes to the system time, but I can not figure out how it is done. My cmos clock is set to UTC. TIA ---

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-05 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I have one windows machine at home among many which I'm trying to > > transition to Debian but it has one card that I don't think will > > work with Debian. It's my Hauppauge WinTV card > > it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versi

junkbuster???

1999-04-05 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to use internet junkbuster and have it setup on port 8000 on localhost. Netscape works correctly now I have set the proxy information as does wget. However Lynx doesn't use the proxy. I have the env variable http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8000, and I have also tried with localhost:8000.

Re: Hardware Upgrade: More RAM or SCSI?

1999-04-05 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Jeff Hill wrote: > I've got a web server putting out just 10K pages and about 25MB a day. > Not much, but it's growing quickly and does get bogged down at certain > times during the day (seems about half is served between 2:30 and 4:00 > PM). > > Which is the better upgrade, m

Re: ifconfig doesn't show virtual interfaces

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I bet you are running a 2.2.x kernel and your version of netbase is from slink. It is a known problem. As you mentioned, the aliased interfaces will work but will not show up in "ifconfig." An easy solution is to upgrade the "unstable" version of netbase (it is very stable.) The only reason, I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 08:46:04AM -0700, Gary > Singleton wrote: > > No they don't! My wife routinely gets attachments > in > > the 300-600K range from her friend back home. > > Yesterday, her friend sent a couple of files > called > > something li

ifconfig doesn't show virtual interfaces

1999-04-05 Thread Werner Reisberger
According to the Aliasing Mini-Howto I set up two virtual addresses. The addresses are working but ifconfig swows only the one address of eth0 and not the other virtual ones for eth0:0 and eth0:1. The route command shows me that there is a host route to each IP connected with the virtual interface

Re: How do I install Debian? (solved)

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you everybody for your help. I found my mistake. I never used Lilo before on a hard disk and on this computer the creation of a boot floppy failed consistently so I used another computer's vmlinuz in combination with loadlin to reboot. As an act of desperation, I made the hard disk bootabl

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George > Bonser wrote: > > Look at the Linux package sendfile and the > preliminary draft of the RFC > > for the saft profocol. > > > > The way it works is this: > > > > I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86 (also: What do YOU lose with Linux)

1999-04-05 Thread Jerzy Kakol
-Original Message- From: Jesse Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:34 PM Subject: Ethics Violation in XFree86 >lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's >pervasively well-documented feature of supporting >multiheaded (multipl

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Ken McCord
Upgrade to XFree86 >= 3.3.3 to get Sis6326 support. Ken -Original Message- From: Antonio Ullan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 5:48 AM Subject: Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86 >Paul Lowe wrote: > >> "Antonio

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's "run-parts" on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Leget
Hmm no help here then im running 2.2.5-ac3, potato, and i see its up to version 2.3.7-2. I dont think that alone is the problem "run-parts" ( invoked in both ip-up and ip-down ) does of itself not exit until all the scripts it is trying to run finish. And since i have 3-4 doing various downloads o

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Please excuse the wrong email-address in the last email (Kmail trashed my settings). The correct address is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene

Alcune domande

1999-04-05 Thread Ercoles
Sono interessato a eqiupaggiare con Linux il mio attuale PC con Windows, a causa dei continui problemi in cui troppo spesso si incorre. Volevo, sapere se per convertire documenti .DOC da W95 ci sono problemi. Preciso che le estensioni dei documenti di cui sopra raggiunge 4 o 5 Mb. con immagini J

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi At the moment I got the task to build a firewall using Linux. As I am using Debian for my desktop system for over an year, I want to use it for the firewall-basic-system, too. But I have 2 problems: 1. I need an automated installation of the system. It is important that the installation of the

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's "run-parts" on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
John Leget writes: > ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's "run-parts" Actually, the bug is in pppd: it will start ip-down while ip-up is still running. This is fixed in pppd-2.3.6, which is in unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:43:46 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >The fact that these things are useless to you is seperate to their size. >There are small, useless attachments just as much as their are large, >useful ones. I don't think we should ignore larg

Re: How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Ciciretti
If you install the vfat module it will allow you to access your MSDOS partition. Johann Spies wrote: > I did not know about modconf. But when I run it on the newly installed > base system, I get the same limited number of choices amongst the > filesystem drivers of which isofs and msdos are not

Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-05 Thread homega
Damir J. Naden dixit: > Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, > > > which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are > > > slang1 (<<

Re: How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I feel embarrassed to ask this because I have done it before but now > > nothing seems to work. > > > > I have tried Debian 1.3.1 and Hamm , both from official CD's and with the > > same problem in both in

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Antonio Ullan
Paul Lowe wrote: > "Antonio Ullán" wrote: > > > Hello: > > My PC is running slink. I just have installed a SiS6326 AGP video card > > and I don't > > know how can I to configure X-Window. I have intented with XF86_SVGA > > server but only I get 320x200 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+, Ctrl-Alt-- > > do

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-05 Thread Shao Zhang
/usr/bin/vi should alwasy point to /etc/alternatives/vi you can modify the link to make /etc/alternatives/vi points to /usr/bin/vim then your vi should fire up vim. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

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