X works, but no mouse?

1999-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Brock
When I start X, it fails with the message: Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device) It's a PS/2 mouse, and it gets detected by the motherboard on bootup. XF86Config has "PS/2" for Protocol and "/dev/psaux" for Device Amy idea what is going on? I've run XF86Setu

RE: Samba completely crash my system!

1999-04-29 Thread Dan Willard
I'd say that it was most likely to be a scsi problem, check you logs and see if the are any messages about scsi being reset. Personally, I have had very little trouble with samba but my one of my scsi drives would occasionally spaz and kill whatever transfer I had been doing. Also what kind of c

slink and netscape/mozilla

1999-04-29 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok this is all on default slink install stuff from a 4-cdrom set purchased off of cheapbytes. netscape/mozilla gives errors in X just various stuff as well as hitting "enter" in the location textbox at top does nothing. i have to goto file->open to goto a webpage. i did not have to do this on

1.6 gig hard drive addition

1999-04-29 Thread Chuck Lackey
I now have a 1.6 gig hd to add to my Linux (test) box. This is an old 486 mb without LBA mode. All the drives (as yet) installed are 540 M or less. Can I add the 1.6 G without ontrack or similar programs? This isn't intended (at this time) to be a bootable drive. Thanks! -- Chuck Lackey [EMAIL PR

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: LILO - System.map conflict Date: Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:55:08AM -0500 In reply to:Fethi A. Okyar Quoting Fethi A. Okyar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I admit that I am crating a lot of trouble myself, just > poking in things and compiling new kernels, but thats the > beauty

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-04-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the > appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email > (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never > bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would be quickly up

Using Xapps on another Linux system

1999-04-29 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy: I'm looking for some help... I have Netscape installed on my Linux box & I need to get it to come up on my other Linux box using the XWindows system (Workshop)--(Linuxbox w/Netscape). I need netscape to run on the Workshop's XServer on display :0.0 (Workshop:0.0)... How c

Epson 740 printer configuration files !

1999-04-29 Thread Christian Meder
[Sorry for the massive crossposting. I found a lot of requests in the Linux newsgroups which indicates that the config files could be useful to a wider audience] On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:31:27AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > I got an epson 740 too. Some of the other epson drivers worked o

email from cracklib cron

1999-04-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would be quickly uploaded and I wouldn't need to bother. W

[offtopic] Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
Hi wolfgang, I'm sorry i forgot, but a better way to filter out your debian-user mail is on grounds of the X-Mailing-List header. Check out the list archives for an explanation. -- nico On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, wolfgang zeikat wrote: > > > hi scratch, > you didnt include > debian-user@lists.debi

mimedecode problem

1999-04-29 Thread Jan Krupa
I use debian2.0 and I cannot get mimedecode working. How it could be used? I tried 'mimedecode encoded_message' but it does not work. Any suggestions? Jan Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rm /dev/psaux

1999-04-29 Thread D Richards
Thanks very much. That seems to have done the trick. Duane On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:14:08PM +, Richard Harran wrote: > This should work: > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV busmice > as root. > > HTH > Rich > > D Richards wrote: > > > > I accidentally removed my /dev/psaux file which cont

Re: New kernel

1999-04-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Apr, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: New kernel" > *- On 29 Apr, Brian Schramm wrote about "New kernel" >> I would like to know what I need to do to upgrade from my kernel of 2.0.36 on >> Debian slink to kernel 2.2.x. If there is a web page dealing with Debian on >> this let me know >> >

Netscape hosed by upgrade

1999-04-29 Thread Debian project development discussion
While trying out apt-get, I allowed it to upgrade my system to match the current slink. Now Netscape doesn't work. I have tried various versions of Netscape & Mozilla, but they all fail with the message ``Aborted''. I suspect I need some library, but I don't know what. Any suggestions? I have r

Qmail question

1999-04-29 Thread homega
I'm currently using smail as a MTA, but I'd like to give another one a try as soon as I get my slink CDs delivered. I thought of giving qmail a try, but since there's no binaries (just sources), why is it packed as a .deb? will that work like a .tar.gz file, and which options should I pass to dpk

BLAS library?

1999-04-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library? The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS library, but this is for light development work on an old 486 and I'm not even sure the PPro optimized versio

Re: New kernel

1999-04-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Apr, Brian Schramm wrote about "New kernel" > I would like to know what I need to do to upgrade from my kernel of 2.0.36 on > Debian slink to kernel 2.2.x. If there is a web page dealing with Debian on > this let me know > http://www.debian.org. There is a link off of the main page abo

Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

1999-04-29 Thread Clyde Wilson
You might want to check out the Linux Router Project at www.linuxrouter.org/ and www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ He runs Debian from a 1.44M disk. Maybe you could adapt it? On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > Hi! > I'm trying to install debian on an ancient 386, with 8 Mb RAM,

Re: libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01

1999-04-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:56:57PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > What is the difference between libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01? > Have I installed an incompatible version of libpcre1? Hello, as far as I know, libpcre.so.1 should be a symlink to libpcre.so.1.01 . Regards, Robert -- Robert Vollm

what are the various i486 directories for?

1999-04-29 Thread Dan Christensen
I'm running slink on a Celeron 300 laptop. Looking around on my disk I discovered a few directories whose purpose I don't understand. Could someone explain what the following are for? /usr/i486-linuxchecker /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxchecker The r

Re: defrag

1999-04-29 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do i go about running defrag on the system. pre1st: Read this and decide if you realy want to do so, 1st: Make a backup, 2nd: Make shure the filesystem isn't mounted, 3rd: Start e2defrag /dev/??? # ??? = hda2, sdb4 etc... > I get either an answe

Re: rm /dev/psaux

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
This should work: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV busmice as root. HTH Rich D Richards wrote: > > I accidentally removed my /dev/psaux file which controls my mouse. Where do > I find out how to replace it. I'm running slink and use a PS2 mouse. > > Thanks > > Duane Richards > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Debian]: Ein paar Fragen

1999-04-29 Thread Bernd Mayer
"Martin T." schrieb: > > Reply-To: > Hallo Liste, > > ich habe ein paar Fragen, auf die ich noch nirgends eine Antwort gefunden > habe. > 1. Wie kann man sich die Groesse eines Verzeichnisses anzeigen lassen ? >(ich kenne nur "ls -l" fuer Dateien oder "df" fuer Partitionen) mit du, siehe m

Re: [Debian]: Aufgabensammlung

1999-04-29 Thread Bernd Mayer
Erkan Yanar schrieb: > > Hallo, > weis jemand eine nette Aufgabensammlung zur Shell-programmierung? > Gerne mit Loesungen, duempel Shell-maessig so vor mich hin > und wuerde gerne mal in Uebung kommen. > Hallo Erkan, 1. Konvertierung von einer CD voller icons *.ico nach *.xpm für KDE. 2. Durch

rm /dev/psaux

1999-04-29 Thread D Richards
I accidentally removed my /dev/psaux file which controls my mouse. Where do I find out how to replace it. I'm running slink and use a PS2 mouse. Thanks Duane Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

1999-04-29 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I'm trying to install debian on an ancient 386, with 8 Mb RAM, and a 40Mb Hard Disk. I'm running into problems, as the HDD is *very* small. So far, I haven't even installed the base system succesfully. I was wondering if there's a way to have a distribution that fits for this. I only wa

New kernel

1999-04-29 Thread Brian Schramm
I would like to know what I need to do to upgrade from my kernel of 2.0.36 on Debian slink to kernel 2.2.x. If there is a web page dealing with Debian on this let me know Thanks -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

scsi problems on HP NetServer LH II

1999-04-29 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have the above server running linux and all of a sudden I begin getting all sorts of SCSI timeout errors scrolling across the screen. It has 4 seagate drives in hot-swap configuration running from onboard AIC-7880 controllers. The machine has a NetRaid card but no devices are attached to it (no

Samba completely crash my system!

1999-04-29 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
HELP! This is my situation. I've an intranet with a Linux server that export via samba a Raid4 scsi disk to 2 windoz client. often during any kind of transfer Linux crash. solution: 1) kill windoz (not possible) :))) 2) don't use samba (see point1) 3) please help me to find a sol

recipe for sweet potato Hawaii cane candy casserole

1999-04-29 Thread sandy
please read about recipe Im sorry for the interruption Hello I am really sorry for the interruption but My name is sandy Young and I have a recipe for sweet potato Hawaii cane candy casserole. This recipe was given to me by my great grandmother. ( she used to make it every time we would go see

NFS problem

1999-04-29 Thread Horvath Robert
Hi, I might be dumb but I have installed the nfs-server package and my /etc/exports is as follows on the computer 152.66.73.163: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /home/rob 152.66.73.171(r

Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

1999-04-29 Thread ANShevin
Try going back to a previous version of ppp. I installed 2.3.7-3, and my ppp broke completely. Going back to whatever version came with hamm or slink fixed my trouble. Avi Shevin

Correct /etc/apt/sources.list for proposed-changes

1999-04-29 Thread Jerry Gardner
Someone posted a message a few days ago asking how to use apt to get the slink-proposed-changes. Someone replied with an answer which didn't work. Here's the correct line to put in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Then do apt-get update;apt-get upgr

Re: Unwanted routing table entries

1999-04-29 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Are you running slip? The default route is set in /etc/init.d/network The other routes will also be added from that file. Kernel 2.2.x automatically adds a route for each interface when it is activated. I use diald which creates a slip device to act as a proxy for the ppp connection. When traffi

Apache Server

1999-04-29 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
> Any idea roughly the minimum disk space I might need to install > Minimum RH configuration > and the Apache server ( to run the Apache server) . > > Thanks, > Benjamin >

Re: X over network

1999-04-29 Thread David Z. Maze
Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PNP> What client software do I need to run X over the network? Any X client (e.g. xterm, fvwm, xemacs, netscape, ...) can run remotely over the network. You also need an X server, which is the same X server you'd install to run X locally. It's also us

Re: Network newbie

1999-04-29 Thread Robert Kerr
Hey, that worked wonderfully. Now I have another question: I can telnet from one machine, running Debian 1.3, to another, running 2.1, and everything acts normally. When I do it the other way, from the Slink machine to the Bo machine, it takes forever to get to a login: prompt. What might be c

Apache Server

1999-04-29 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
> Any idea roughly how much disk space I might need to install Minimum > Debian configuration and the Apache server ( to run the Apache server) > Thanks, > Benjamin

Re: Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, > unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one > as a Debian package? Updates to wine are posted at a rate of about 2 per month, .deb's come out not quite as often. I always grab the source and

RE: pcmcia-source: what is it puking on?

1999-04-29 Thread Shaleh
On 29-Apr-99 Adam Shand wrote: > > hi, > > i've got the pcmcia-source 3.0.9-3 installed and debian/rules binary-modules > works just fine but when i try to run debian/rules binary-cs it always pukes > like this (it's linking against 2.2.7 but it's being doing agains 2.2.2 and > 2.2.5 as well): >

Re: X over network

1999-04-29 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > What client software do I need to run X over the network? What are the > hardware requirements? > > Is there a good HOWTO on running X over networks? yes, there is a mini-howto, it's called: Remote-X-Apps > > Thanks. > > NatePuri > Certified L

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please..

1999-04-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Jan >Muszynski wrote: >> So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is >probably fried. >> >> For more information see: >> http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm > >It was only a matter of time before a virus came along >which could >flash >your B

Invalid TSS:0038 installing slink on ASUS P5A-B/K62-300

1999-04-29 Thread Jim Skea
I'm trying to install slink on the following system MB: ASUS P5A-B, Bios 1008 Beta 2 Processor: AMD K6-2-300 HD: Seagate Medalist 4321 (Model ST34321A) Video: Trident TVGA 8900 CL-B, IMb The BIOS was flashed from 1007 to 1008B2 to get round a problem with boot-up errors caused by incorrect report

Compiling keyboard maps...

1999-04-29 Thread friddell
I finally figured out why I was missing so many necessary files. I ommitted downloading the 'devel' directory because I thought it was only developement tools like compilers and such. Plus the fact that it's the largest dir there at 208 mb. Now that my OS is up and running fine I have been tryi

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-29 Thread Bill Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not a Bad Idea (tm) but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button "Shutdown" > which kinda makes it easy. The Gnome menu has a "Settings-> Shut Down or Reboot" option which pops up a window saying you must be root to do this. Since I run Gnome as a user as one should, doe

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 4/29/99 12:06:22 AM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The best solution I've found: > > Create an applink in Desktop/Autostart (i.e. New->Application). In the > > Execute line put > > xrdb -load $HOME/.

X over network

1999-04-29 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
What client software do I need to run X over the network? What are the hardware requirements? Is there a good HOWTO on running X over networks? Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

request...

1999-04-29 Thread Stephanie Seago
Hello. My name is Stephanie Seago. I'm inquiring about some information for my client that is putting on a trade show in June 1999. Here's the scoop: They are giving away key chains with their corporate logo on it. They will be placed in a little box and when they open that box, they want the

ICQ-Java not working after upgrade

1999-04-29 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
I've updated my system to potato, but now Icq-java doesn't work anymore. When I call it it gives the following message: $ /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i586/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i586/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_va

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-29 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/28/99 11:34:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not a Bad Idea (tm) but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button "Shutdown" > which kinda makes it easy. > > I do like the shutdown button of KDE - but it would be more useful if you didn't have to log ou

Re: KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-29 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/29/99 12:06:22 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The best solution I've found: > Create an applink in Desktop/Autostart (i.e. New->Application). In the > Execute line put > xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults > and another one for .xinitrc. By the way, xrdb -m

Re: Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FTP search for wine_0.0.990328 produced a screenful of results. Try it for yourself. ;^) > Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, > unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one > as a Debi

Advanced Printer Control?

1999-04-29 Thread Marc Lepage
I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian machine with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng and samba, and can print to it from two types of client: 1) From Linux using BSD-style lpr. Text (notwithstanding line feed issues) and pos

Wine 990328 - can I still get it anywhere?

1999-04-29 Thread William R Pentney
Ack! I lost Wine 990328 trying to upgrade to the latest version, which, unfortunately requires glibc2.1. Is there anywhere I can the previous one as a Debian package? - Bill

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Excuse me for the previous mail, I get Panick. I solved it by typing : chmod -R o+r .* the first time to solve it I do only : chmod -R o+r * the solution is the solution of the problem. but it is always true : never use the .* without care. thanks and sorry.

SOLVED: Re: compiling with vfat option (fwd)

1999-04-29 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Thanks for all the help and suggestions. It turned out I had compiled my kernel with fat,msdos, and vfat built as modules, and I was attempting to load vfat before I loaded the others which were like "prerequisites" to vfat, thats why I was getting the kernel complaint at boot-up. ~~

Sound?

1999-04-29 Thread Greg Vence
What are the new sound cards supported by Linux? i.e. Blaster 128 and up or Yamaha... Thanx -- Greg. -- Build an On-line Store http://www.Countdown9199.com/ Referral: Greg Vence IBO: 2712303 If you like it, lets talk & get you an IBO.

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread wolfgang zeikat
hi scratch, you didnt include debian-user@lists.debian.org in the To: or Cc: headers of your mail, so it was impossible for my email client to sort your incoming mail into the "debianuser list" folder i assume you just put us listers in Bcc: i get a lot of mail (incl. the hundreds here) so it w

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote: > > > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real > > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb. > > (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's > real-m

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: > So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is probably fried. > > For more information see: > http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm It was only a matter of time before a virus came along which could flash your BIOS. I'll te

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:18:14PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > hello, > > never, never do : > chmod -R o+r .* > anywhere. (I do it in /home). > > After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for > users. > user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > hello, > > never, never do : > chmod -R o+r .* > anywhere. (I do it in /home). > Yes, never do this. The problem is that the expression .* matches the "." directory (current directory) and ".." and directory (one level up from current). The problem just get

Re: X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: | Stefano Stabilini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I am a brand newbie to Linux. | > | > I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect | > afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in | > partitions hda3 (lin

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
Am I being stupid? What about chmod -R u+w .* ? Or probably safer to do chmod u+w .* in individual directories. Are you sure that command below caused this problem? I would have thought that adding others read permissions would have no effect whatsoever on users write permissions. It

Re: X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
Stefano Stabilini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --D78322D6E3F8F4EE1691F9D4 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I am a brand newbie to Linux. > > I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard instal

I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for users. user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib . is there a way to solve this ? using apt-get and force to download all my pac

Re: Linux as NFS...

1999-04-29 Thread Brant Wells
Hey :) Thanx! I read the man pages on the exports file & I couldn't understand it... I think I see what I need to do now :) Thanx! Thanks Brant Wells Mitch Blevins wrote: > How would you tell the server which directories to serve? > > The exports file is already there. Just type the name

smail/exim/qmail/zmailer/... which MTA?

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Laing
Can someone make a recommendation to me of which to use? I am going to be handling email for 30-100 busy users. There are 3 domains, but only one user list, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using smail right now and a text '/etc/aliases' file, generally there is one a

Re: slink dir: binary-hurd-i386?

1999-04-29 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've read binutils 2.9.1-0.2 is broken or faulty, and the suggestion is > to get 2.9.1-0.3 > I found the package in ftp.debian.org/.../sid/main/bin/binary-hurd-i386 > what's the reason behind adding "hurd" to binary-i386? "hurd-i386" is the dpkg arch

Hey, Y'all, check out my new improved "Free Software Research Paper Project" web site!

1999-04-29 Thread R. Brock Lynn
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3328/paper/ That's the address. Give it a click! It's not the prettiest web site for sure, and it's not nearly even cranked up yet... so beware the rough edges... they are sharp. But have a look. I'd like to get some good feedback. Criticisms and complime

[SOLVED] Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
The Partition-Rescue HOWTO wasn't very useful to me, but I solved my problem while finding "gpart", a system util that I found on ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems. It tries to guess your partition table from the raw data on your HD, comparing it to conventional disk partition fin

Re: PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Jim Foltz
I've experienced lock-ups when installing Debian on a system with a ps2 mouse. I have to remeber to not move the mouse until I get the psaux support loaded (kernel module) and before running gpmconfig. You may have to rebuild your kernel for this support. The kernel module is called psaux. On Thu

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-04-29 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi & HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and co

Socks

1999-04-29 Thread segyetrading
SEGYE YANG HAENG CO.,LTD. Has been established in 1994 Korea to produce high quality of socks and tights in Korea. And also, we are exporting $4,000,000 annually for Japen, U.S.A and E.C market. Even small quantities, we are willingly supply socks and tights with your logo image, after reviewing

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

1999-04-29 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 06:23:13PM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail > from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors > logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages > it just sit

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
How about using 'chage'. I think you probably need to play with the -M and -d switches. BTW chage is in the passwd package. HTH Rich Arcady Genkin wrote: > > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry to bug you again, but I am still looking for the password change > solution... >

Re: PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > I recently bought a PS2 mouse and a PS2 adapter. I fitted the PS2 adapter > on the motherboard,and connected the mouse. Went to the bios and enabled > PS2 mouse. When I rungpmconfig the keyboard locks, when i go to the bios > and try to use the m

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry to bug you again, but I am still looking for the password change solution... The .bash_profile solution works, but then if the user changes his default shell from bash to smth else, I won't be able to force password change anymore... Is there any

setting domain - name

1999-04-29 Thread Thorsten Manegold
HI! I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess that's ok as I'm only using PPP? Does the local mail-delivery work without a fully qualifide name? >From my SuSE experience I know, that pine constantly complains wi

Re: New mailing-list created: debian-japanese (was Re: New mailing-list request (debian-japanese))

1999-04-29 Thread Francisco Limonche Valverde
Do`nt send me more messages¡¡¡ Fumitoshi UKAI escribió: > At Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:58:34 +0900, > Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would you create new mailing-list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > New mailing-list debian-japanese@lists.debian.org has been created. > Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Real need for upgrades?

1999-04-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Apr 1999, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > As I see it, releasing new versions can take place more than twice a > > year. While ppl are waiting for the next official release, they keep > > gradually upgrading their systems from the ftp server, so by the time > > the new release is official, they

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you create a user, touch a file in their directory called .newuser > In the .bash_profile or .profile or .cshrc or whatever have the script > check for the existance of this file. If found, it execs the passwd > command and then delete the .newuser

DMA memory shortage

1999-04-29 Thread John Leget
Running 2.2.6-ac2, potato , ASUS P2B-DS Dual 450, 128Mb, SCSI Disks ,IDE CDROM (hda ),ZIP (hdc) In my continuing crusade to get info from my CDROM for mp3's :), ive just come across the following Apr 28 21:33:22 gabriel kernel: DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA This po

Re: Why does ppp stall for no reason on 2.2.x kernels?

1999-04-29 Thread John Leget
Hmm, interesting i have been experiencing similar performance , potato, 2.2.6-ac2, 56K the bits burn down the line then suddenly fizzle, then pick up then die, may just be coincidence ie maybe just my isp acting up. Im rather trying to sort out another problem :) Brian Servis wrote: > Ever sin

X freezes!

1999-04-29 Thread Stefano Stabilini
I am a brand newbie to Linux. I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in partitions hda3 (linux) and hda4 (swap), the first two partitions are Dos16-big and host win 95. I successfully configured LILO so

PS2 and gpmconfig

1999-04-29 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
I recently bought a PS2 mouse and a PS2 adapter. I fitted the PS2 adapter on the motherboard,and connected the mouse. Went to the bios and enabled PS2 mouse. When I rungpmconfig the keyboard locks, when i go to the bios and try to use the mouse, the keyboard locks. And yes I'm sure I put the adpte

pcmcia-source: what is it puking on?

1999-04-29 Thread Adam Shand
hi, i've got the pcmcia-source 3.0.9-3 installed and debian/rules binary-modules works just fine but when i try to run debian/rules binary-cs it always pukes like this (it's linking against 2.2.7 but it's being doing agains 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 as well): if anyone knows what is causing this it would

help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

1999-04-29 Thread Daishi Harada
Hi, I appear to be having problems either identical or very similar to the one described by [EMAIL PROTECTED] previously on this list. The symptoms are: ppp connects just fine. name resolution, ping, traceroute work fine (udp stuff) tcp, however, doesn't. This seems defina

Re: Network newbie

1999-04-29 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi 1: run modconf as root, go into the subdir net an press enter on the ne200 module, the module should prompt you for a io adress enter io=0x300 or 330 depending of what you have. Then hopefully you can read Installation successfull on the screen. 2: Configure the network (/etc/init.d/network) /ni

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Arcady Genkin wrote: >Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. > >How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? > If you are using shadow passwords (/etc/shadow exists) look at `man 5 shadow', otherwise look at `man 5 passwd'. -- Oliver Elphi

Re: ipaccounting

1999-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:39:34AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's from the ipac package. You probably don't need it on your desktop, > > so just remove it (dpkg --remove ipac). > > The version in potato doesn't do this any more. It's upset that

testing... ignore

1999-04-29 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail folder sharing in Windoze & Linux

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
I use netscape mail in Windows and Linux, with a common mail directory on the windows partition (which is mounted by fstab). This seems to work fine, and has the advantage of having the same MUA on both OS's, although using NS for mail doesn't seem very Linux'y! (OT, similarly, I have a single bo

Re: boot record recovery??

1999-04-29 Thread scratch
Hi, I already tried to guess the partitions with fdisk, so i don't have the partition table anymore. Anyway, i KNOW what i wrote to it. I did "dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/hda", so it's the debian rescue disk that was written to the beginning of the hda drive. -- nico On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Benoi

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man shadow Thanks. I still have a question though. Example: testdummy:mbjdfWfNf6Eto:10710:0:0:7::: implies that the user's password expires after 0 days. But in practice this means that the user will have to change his password every day (time?) he l

Re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
add|ct|on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: > > poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password > mypasswd Since you are running it as root, it will attempt to delive the mail from your ISP to "root" user. This is a bad practice. My .fetchma

Re: Linux as NFS...

1999-04-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi All > > I was just wondering if there was a way to set Linux up as an NFS server > without all the hassle of creating an exports file, etc. etc... Just one > that I can install & go...??? How would you tell the server which directories to serve? The exports fi

Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? Thanks a lot! -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE

Re: GNOME install

1999-04-29 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I run slink and would like to know the best way (and easy) to get gnome : installed. : Are there .deb packages for gnome 1.0.x? : May I just get the .debs and install on slink or I need potato? Check out this url: http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-g

Re: PCMCIA warning

1999-04-29 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:51:58PM -0400, marvin stodolsky wrote: > With a 2.036 kernel and a US Robotics 33.6 modem + ethernet PCMCIA card, > the warning below (marked by <) during boot, and as later displayed > by dmesg. > cs: warning: no high memory space available!<<< ...

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