Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
It's in non-free, in source form, so you have to get pine396-src, pine396-diffs, and "roll your own" binary deb--there's been a few "non-official" binary debs built by various ppl, but I can't remember where they are, nor can vouch for their continued presence. On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:

Re: Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

1999-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: > Hello guys. > > Okay.. I got a little project to work on in few days and I would > appreciate some pointers and help on this one. > > Basically I am little familiar with the Masq system...but what I > would like to do is setup t

Re: xisp

1999-04-06 Thread v . polasek
On 6 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski responded very promptly: > >> "vp" == v polasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > vp> I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now > vp> when I run it as a "regular" user, xisp gives me an error message: > > vp> "/usr/sbin/pppd: using the name

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

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
Install package manpages-dev--that has manpages for most popular library functions. Also Deitel & Deitel's "C++/how to program" is a good reference--I got it for a class and like it a lot. As for getting a list of all functions in all libraries, that's asking QUITE a bit--most of Dietel & Deitel

SiS 6236 XF86Config

1999-04-06 Thread Carl Mummert
Getting these silly cards to work seems to be a recurring theme on this list. Hopefully, this message is enough that newcomers can just rtfm about it. Carl Mummert --cut-- How to get an SiS 6236 video card to work with slink: I performed these steps when I set up an SiS card earlier this year

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

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
AFAIK, your problem is neither new nor soluble: what's happening is that your pixelsize is too large for the default windowsize to fit within the screen boundaries--either set a higher resolution or live with it. The problem is not that your virtual resolution is too high, it's that your screen r

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Gary Singleton
--- John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: > > > --- John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What's the accepted method of sending a file to > a > > > person that MUST not > > > get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get > between > > > users th

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Holanyi Janos, jr.
Hi Chris, I'm glad that my idea worked for you. To be honest, everything you described suggested that you had a "problem" with the firewall. Also, you wrote that the were some "paranoia" messages during bootup... check tcplogd daemon about that. There is a "paranoia" option in the firewalls (used

Re: X busted after 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-06 Thread ktb
After I installed Slink I read that you were suppose to delete xbase, so I did and X wouldn't load. I got an error that said I needed some font. I just reinstalled xbase and it works now. I haven't been worrying about it but now that you bring it up I thought I would throw in my two cents. kent

loading Xwin32 & getting an Xterm

1999-04-06 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I've decided to start using Win9x for only multimedia applications (Sound Forge etc..), and as such, would like to start up an Xwindow session ffrom my linux box on the windows box as soon as the windows box boots up (read:I'm too lazy to telnet in, and set the DISPLAY variable). Is there

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to > automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at > the ISP :-) That would be the MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE configuration parameter from sendmail.cf, now, wouldn't it? -- Jonathan

netscape and libXpm

1999-04-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
because netscape kept giving my crap about illegal instructions in libBrokenLocale, which is in the libc6 pkg (thanks to the people who told me that BTW), i'm trying to run navigator 4.08 libc5. here's what happens: $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load libra

Re: help with lilo

1999-04-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I believe the BIOS routines are incapable of reading from any but the first two disks in your system. Do: zless /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz for more details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know how to boot windows off /dev/hdc1. I installed Win by > temporarly switching my disks

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:33:36PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try > pon, I get the following message: > > bob:vc-ty1:bob>pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file > /home/bob/.ppprc: Function not implemented I had this problem

Re: Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

1999-04-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I currently use this exact setup. You need to install the diald package as well as ppp. The main thing is getting diald configured. One main pointer I can give you here is to *not* try to use pon/poff to diald the connection up as this will not work. Once you get diald so it will bring up the c

Netscape 4.51 bug?

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone had an odd thing happen when they click the Netscape icon on the toolbar in Netscape 4.51? When I click it, the page which appears is all messed up with overlaps. This only happens with that URL and has only been occuring since I upgraded from ver. 4.5 -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE6

Re: Apt - Segmentation fault (Slink)

1999-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
I get tons of segfaults when I try to do too big a job (esy to do when you are running with 4M RAM and 6M of swap), or even after doing lots of memory hungry jobs (using dselect or apt == repeated calls to dpkg). Naturally I am assuming that the problem is with peaking out on memory usage. I ha

help with lilo

1999-04-06 Thread twedi97
Hi Does anyone know how to boot windows off /dev/hdc1. I installed Win by temporarly switching my disks, but I don't want to run the 'win-disk' as hda. Here is the part of my lilo.conf that defines booting windows: #Dos other=/dev/hdc1 label=win table=/dev/hdc Wh

Re: Laptop Shutdown

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 3:13:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've got an annoying problem with slink on a compaq armada laptop. > > About 4 out of 5 times when I shutdown (#reboot) the shutdown process > runs to near completion, then hangs with the message: > >

Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..

1999-04-06 Thread William R Pentney
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > my Dell Laptop (Pentium II 233, 80Mb, 64MB Swap). > SOLVED PROBLEM: I managed to change back the permissions on the > /tmp directory and surprisingly enough things start to work > agian, Nice. I do wonder what screwed /tmp up in the first > place thou

Re: Netscape immortal?

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 3:43:08 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This happens to me often with Netscape 4.51 and 4.08. Although it is > immortal when faced with a windowmanager kill signal, is has always > died properly when faced with a "kill -9 " > I'll second that

SCSI problem

1999-04-06 Thread Holtz, Mike IS
Hi, Trying to install Debian 2.02 and the rescue disk boot system is having problems with the aha2940 scsi adapter. Basically it sees it ok, but at the point where it goes to scan for devices it gets the following error: "Parity error during phase Message-In

Re: Laptop Shutdown

1999-04-06 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I would make sure that your kernel compile includes APM, specifically the shutdown option. I type 'halt' to shut mine down. Otherwise I type 'shutdown -h now.' This has the same effect. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Bob Hilliard writes: > I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try > pon, I get the following message: > bob:vc-ty1:bob>pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file > /home/bob/.ppprc: Function not implemented > I had used pppconfig earlier, and re-ran it after I got these >

WHO & Glibc2.1...

1999-04-06 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Hrrm, ever since I've upgraded to potato(and glibc2.1 thereby) my 'who' command has been semi-broken... it will run, but consistantly displays that no one is logged into the system. Anyone know what is going on? --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pa

Re: Apt - Segmentation fault (Slink)

1999-04-06 Thread feedle
I've had this exact same problem in Debian Sparc. apt segfaults whenever an update is ran. I have not recieved any replies to my problem, and have not been able to reproduce the results on any other (non-Sparc) Debian box, of which I have many. I originally thought the problem was a memory-relat

Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

1999-04-06 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. Okay.. I got a little project to work on in few days and I would appreciate some pointers and help on this one. Basically I am little familiar with the Masq system...but what I would like to do is setup this system as like this. I like the system to be a central g

Re: Netscape immortal?

1999-04-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi, > > I have had Netscape Navigator freeze up a couple fo times lately. I have used > xkill on the frozen browzer window, but I'm left with a netscape process > running > that I am not able to kill without rebooting. > > I have tried to kill it from root also.

kernel patch for ipchains in 2.0.x kernels

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
There is a kernel patch for ipchains for 2.0.34 kernel. Will this patch also work on the 2.0.36 kernel? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Double-Vision when increasing bbp

1999-04-06 Thread Kent West
At 01:15 PM 4/6/1999 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: >On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: > >> 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

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-06 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:05:55PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > Hello, > > My /usr/local directory is mounted in /mnt/local. > If I cd to /usr/local and type "ls .." it lists the contents of /mnt > and not of /usr as I would expect. Is this the normal behaviour? > All relative symbolic links

Re: upgrading my kernel to 2.2.x

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
Thanks for the link. I just decided I should wait and not upgrade the kernel just yet. There are some problems with slink when the 2.2.x kernels are used. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Netscape immortal?

1999-04-06 Thread wcaskey
I had that same problem with Netscape freezing up. It happens especially when I run Plugger 3.0 and it messes up for various reasons. The ghost process also tends to run up my system load until I can't run anything else. I've tried to stop it but it won't.

Re: upgrading my kernel to 2.2.x

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Apr-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Which 2.2.x kernel is considered stable? Are there any special things I >> need >> to do to upgrade from 2.0.36 or is the procedure still the same? > > They are all supposed

Apt - Segmentation fault (Slink)

1999-04-06 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hi! Apt segfaults before it's finished. I can install packages, but I'm not sure if apt update the package database. Not all packages are up-to-date, maybe there is a conflict with an old package, but I don't want to install new packages when apt segfaults. Oliver

Re: upgrading my kernel to 2.2.x

1999-04-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Which 2.2.x kernel is considered stable? Are there any special things I need > to do to upgrade from 2.0.36 or is the procedure still the same? They are all supposed to be stable. That's the point of the "stable tree" of

Laptop Shutdown

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
I've got an annoying problem with slink on a compaq armada laptop. About 4 out of 5 times when I shutdown (#reboot) the shutdown process runs to near completion, then hangs with the message: "Rebooting GDT: flushing all host drives. Done. I have to remove the batteries and power to shu

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

1999-04-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MF> How do I get help on c/c++ functions, including the library (.h) file MF> for them? MF> man query etc. ? (how do i search for it?) Functions in the standard C library generally have man pages in sections 2 or 3. Also, a terminology clarification that w

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Rob Lundahl wrote: > Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on > the xdm login. > > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > Are you booting using LILO? If so, add "single" as a paramete

Unidentified subject!

1999-04-06 Thread Dean Carpenter
IDE is not a good technology to use for RAID. You can only talk to one drive per channel at a time. So your read/write cycles would talk to at most two drives at a time, and never to both on one channel at once. IDE has (AFAIK) more system overhead - it's a dumber interface. Using Linux softw

Re: flexfax: customizing coverpages?

1999-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Daryl Williams wrote: > > hello, > > i have just set up a hylafax server and i would like to customize > the cover page. it currently prints a silicon graphics logo. > is there a way to change this? also the cover page does not > contain "company", "regarding", or "comment" information > although

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Finally, the pppd kept demanding a .ppprc file,... > > That's weird. I upgraded one partition to potato a week ago, and whenever I try pon, I get the following message: bob:vc-ty1:bob>pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /home/bob/.ppprc: F

Netscape immortal?

1999-04-06 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have had Netscape Navigator freeze up a couple fo times lately. I have used xkill on the frozen browzer window, but I'm left with a netscape process running that I am not able to kill without rebooting. I have tried to kill it from root also. No go. Still there! Does anyone have a "super-k

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Mon, 05 Apr, 1999 à 09:38:22PM -0700, J. Lee wrote: > I can boot from the floppy disk but has problem in booting from hard > disk. > Error message is: > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:07: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 Your kernel try t

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 11:51:56 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > 1) If you're using hamm - put "no-xdm" in your /etc/X11/options file to prevent xdm from starting On any system you sh

upgrading my kernel to 2.2.x

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
Which 2.2.x kernel is considered stable? Are there any special things I need to do to upgrade from 2.0.36 or is the procedure still the same? I am reading the ipchains HOWTO now because I will want to set that up. I am still using ipfwadm. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Britton Kerin
> bruce writes: > > Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, > > I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. > > And quotes: > > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > > that kind of disruptive asshole in pu

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Sean writes: > All poff does is execute a killall pppd command, therefore it requires no > arguments, as it will take down any pppd link, regardless of how that > link was established. He is using the ppp package from unstable. The poff in it is quite a bit more complicated, and he has found a bu

Re: Discussion with Pine developers & Debian Issues

1999-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
There are three issues with pine (in order of importance to Debian, imo): 1. Pine does not allow redistribution of modified binaries without explicit permission to do so. There are three fixes: Pine provides executables that do not require tweaking by Debian, then takes on the job of a Debian ma

Re: Double-Vision when increasing bbp

1999-04-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: > 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 tr

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
E.L. Meijer Eric" hat gesagt: // E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > However, vim is not standard. I routinely work on HP-UX these days > > and doubt that vim is installed there, for example. > > It usually is not too hard to go to a debian site, download the original > source tarbal, and compile i

Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..

1999-04-06 Thread John Stevenson
I get the same problems with gnome. I have also got an even weirder problem that I dont even know how to report. I had been running Enlightenment 0.15 with some of the gnome apps from www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main Everything was working fine, although as be

How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Rob Lundahl
Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on the xdm login. To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically to X windows? Rob _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Debian 2.0 and Iomega ZIP 100 //

1999-04-06 Thread Rob Lundahl
Make sure you have lp module unloaded. Use lsmod to list them. To remove rmmod. Also, make sure the kernel has lp services as a module. If lp shows up in lsmod then your ok as far as the kernel is concerned. Just remove lp with rmmod. Then the new zip drive use a new driver! It is imm.o, not ppa

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-06 Thread J.L.M.
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > However, vim is not standard. I guess I would respond, "why not?" It's not unavailable, by any means. The fact that it isn't bundled with your OS should not be a problem after the first day of operation. -- James http://ssdd.conservatory.com

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try this in your script: su -c fetchmail username This will run fetchmail using the .fetchmailrc in /home/username. You could do this multiple times for different users. Bob On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > It soun

Re: How ro set cmos clock to system time

1999-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think it may be a bad idea (and most likely unnecessary) to update >the CMOS clock every 11 minutes. These things have a finite write life >(or used to, anyway). The slink /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script will copy the syst

Raid 5 advice...

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
I want to put together a cheap server with lots of space, good reliability, performance is not critical. I was thinking of a Debian Linux system with say 4 UDMA 16-20g IDE drives. What is the best kernel and raid tools versions to be using for this, from a data security and reliability standpo

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
John Leget writes: > "poff myisp" refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the > following "/usr/bin/poff " i could not find a pppd process for provider > 'myisp' . none stopped" but "poff" by itself does work. You're right. There appears to be a bug in poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL P

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
> I missed the first post by Robbie but wouldn't it just be easier to use a > fetchmailrc that explicitly defines the relation of isp usernames to > local user names? Maybe if you have more than one isp username. My ISP won't let me have more than one, and all my mail is relayed anyway. Besides,

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
Hi csani, You're a genius! the ipfwadm -Mf command was rejected, but the others worked and now I'm back on the net! Can you please explain a little what was going on and why my config defaulted to allow_no_network_traffic_mode? What's the best way to permanently set the correct options? Many

Re: where is my kernel source?

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Marlon Urias writes: > After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I > tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. Don't believe it. The distributed kernel does support ppp. This is a bug in pppd: it often jumps to the conclusion that the kernel

"console" only groups and xdm

1999-04-06 Thread Gilbert Laycock
In order to allow users to use the floppy drive, cdrom etc on the machine they are sitting at, but not on machines they remotely log into, I set CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:cdrom in the login.defs file. Is it possible to achieve the same sort of thing using xdm (or wdm or kdm etc)? -- Gilber

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Dpk wrote: > If the file ~/mbox exists, pine will move your inbox mail to this > file. To maintain your mailbox in /var/spool/mail you can either: > > 1. (re)Move the file ~/mbox > 2. Disable this option in your ~/.pinerc by modifying the > disable-these-drivers l

Re: How ro set cmos clock to system time

1999-04-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: How ro set cmos clock to system time Date: Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:56:50AM -0500 In reply to:Christian Dysthe Quoting Christian Dysthe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I run slink and want to set the cmos clock to system time. My system time is > set with ntp, and I think

Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-06 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello, My /usr/local directory is mounted in /mnt/local. If I cd to /usr/local and type "ls .." it lists the contents of /mnt and not of /usr as I would expect. Is this the normal behaviour? All relative symbolic links that point outside of /usr/local stopped working also. I have to move other d

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Dpk
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html The above URL seems to need www.ompages.com. I looked at pine 4.05 back in October, and found that it no longer reads and modifies /var/s

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > However, vim is not standard. I routinely work on HP-UX these days > and doubt that vim is installed there, for example. It usually is not too hard to go to a debian site, download the original source tarbal, and compile it for personal use. I just did that with procmail on SGI. HTH, Eric

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 10:42:21AM -0400, eric Farris wrote: > Music is one of the things that keeps Windows on my machine at home. I > use a marvelous program called NoteWorthy Composer > (http://www.ntworthy.com/). it's a shareware program ($39) that produces > excellent output, both visual and a

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-06 Thread eric Farris
Music is one of the things that keeps Windows on my machine at home. I use a marvelous program called NoteWorthy Composer (http://www.ntworthy.com/). it's a shareware program ($39) that produces excellent output, both visual and aural. It has lots of nice features, and the interface is (imo) nicer

Re: /etc/rc.d/rc

1999-04-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: /etc/rc.d/rc Date: Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:58:18AM -0500 In reply to:ktb Quoting ktb([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 th

Re: XFmail - Anyone know anything?

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:21:32PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I know many Linux users "love" mutt and other ncursed software, but Linux > really needs serious GUI based email software. If XFmail is out of the loop I > truly do not know where to look for email software for Linux. I have looked

Re: Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic...

1999-04-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.3 & Kernel Panic... Date: Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:06:55PM -0400 In reply to:Brant Wells Quoting Brant Wells([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Howdy All! > > I've been working with installing the Kernel 2.2.3, and I have a > problem... After I run the 'make menuconfig' an

Re: Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:32:43PM -0500, Marouf wrote: > I've been asked at work to recommend a good PCI / AGP video card for a new > linux machine they are going to set up. What seems to be working good for you > guys. (Something less than a $120) Diamond Viper V330 AGP, with 4mb RAM (RIVA 128

Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-06 Thread thomas lakofski
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It's not just old PCs with discrete batteries -- I'm reasonably sure I've > seen photos of new motherboards with these lately. I was a bit surprised > myself. I think my ASUS Super7 board may even have one (but I don't have > the case open to check prese

Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:30:44PM +, thomas lakofski wrote: > is it quite an old pc? you might need a new battery on your motherboard, > the little lithium cr2032 one which supplies power to the rtc and nvram > when it's switched off. if the battery goes, it has trouble storing the > time.

Re: How ro set cmos clock to system time

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:56:50AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > 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

Re: Good notation program for linux

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 06:04:02PM -0400, DTR wrote: > 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 ch

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html The above URL seems to need www.ompages.com. I looked at pine 4.05 back in October, and found that it no longer reads and modifies /var/spool/mail directly. It copies the mail to its own mail file in my h

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 07:00:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > is restrictive, well, that is their problem and not something that the > entire Internet community as a whole should suffer for. And, as always, a ^^ > ZIP disk and next day air is a

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:47:49AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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 thin

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread Sean
All poff does is execute a killall pppd command, therefore it requires no arguments, as it will take down any pppd link, regardless of how that link was established. Sean John Leget wrote: > Hi, > > Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 > > "poff myisp" refuses to p

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 05:37:06PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > Major Advantages to using vim over nvi: > - multiple undo > - region select > - recordable macros > - :command history > - filename completion > - multiple buffers/split windows > - identifier c

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:44:00 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: >SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your >failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on >the internet at large. I've sneakernetted fi

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:37:54 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: >Okay, I guess this is a good thing, but what about when the permission is >given already? And what about when the "holding area" is unavailable, >such as with ISPs that give you enough server

do I need inetd?

1999-04-06 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a debian firewall with inetd still running the only services it offers are the internal ones: time, daytime and discard. Do I need them? Do any apps rely on them? Can I simply remove inetd altogether? feri.

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Marouf @ CS
I am having the same problem here, I am actullay using RedHat 5.2, on a Tecra 520 but most of the erorrs people are getting are exactly the same as I am getting. to check if the PCMCIA card is installed do a cat /proc/interrupts it should show you if the 3c589_cs is there or not. tha

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
Brant & others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap

X busted after 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I upgraded (at least, with CD 1) from 2.0 -> 2.1 last night, and everything seemed to be fine. I quit dselect, fired up X, and while running X, looked at some notes I had made preparing for the upgrade. I purged xbase, since it's been claimed that it's no longer needed. Everything still ran fin

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread ktb
John Leget wrote: > > Hi, > > Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 > > "poff myisp" refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the > following > "/usr/bin/poff " i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . > none stopped" > but "poff" by itsel

Re: New install: net unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
Brant & others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>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 cricicized the >Apple license. >The full >text of the threatening email can be found at >http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . I hope you two can work out your differences befo

How does Debian compare to SUSE?

1999-04-06 Thread Franz Kaufmann
Hello. I wonder how Debian would compare to Suse, as I have been using Suse all along, but recently discovered that the number of packages shipped with debian was much greater. Many thanks in advance, Bye.

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread Jor-el
Li, I think the message is saying that you have partitioned /dev/hda so that /dev/hda7 ends on a block that lies beyond the end of the hard disk. Things should probably work out correctly if you repartition your hard disk to fix this error. Regards, Jor-el On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, J. Lee wrot

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Jeremy
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, 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. Binaries are available from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/. Jeremy --- email : [EMAIL PRO

Re: /dev/isdnctrl Operation not supported....

1999-04-06 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Ries van Twisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hai, > > I'm buzy installing my Telis ISDN card on my Linux box. > Currently i'm running Debian with a 2.0.34 kernel > > When I do > > isdnctrl addif ippp0 > > I get a 'operation not supported by device' message back. > I have tryed lots and

Re: Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
write the disk1_4's to floppy, make a rescue disk and a drivers disk, and try to install from floppy and apt-get needed packages from ftp.debian.org is what I'd do in your situation. YMMV On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Mike Glass wrote: > Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > I added a user to the dialout group, > modified the permissions on all of the files in a reasonable manner, The pppd files are in the 'dip' group. Did you change them? > Now, I have modified the permissions on my modem a number of times, but > the pppd used to reply: Since pppd

Re: Exim delaying delivery of mail?--SOLVED

1999-04-06 Thread Curt Daugaard
This fixed it. My thanks to Greg Norris. On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:39:00PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > 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 d

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on the internet at large. I've sneakernetted files of a size that would make you blanch in my day, but I see no reason to do this as a matter of protocol,

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