Take a look!
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There are many rough edges to polish up, but the content and meaning is THERE.
And of course the meaning can always stand to be made clearer, by better choice
of words, and better English syntactic constructs...
Here's the site again:
http://www.geocities
You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run
ifconfig.
If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode.
ifconfig -a
or
ifconfig
- Original Message -
From: Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:44 PM
Subject: che
I need guidance in selecting a monitor (and video card?) for a compaq
prolinea 4/50. I'm just beginning and would like to at least run fvwm or
windowmaker. Any suggestions? Thanks.
add|ct|on wrote:
>my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
>wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
>16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
>make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
Thanks for the replys back concerning the problem that I had with TKDESK not
working correctly...
What I did was point the mouse to the bookshelf and clicked on the RIGHT
mouse button and it brought up some options, where I found File browser,
then I clicked it, and brought up the full TKDESK top
> my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
> wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
> 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
> make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
> partitions again? i
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to
> package it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>debfind
usr/bin/net/dnsutils
Appears to look up records in the dns.
--
see shy jo
hey all
I just installed Debian Slink Yesterday, and before I mangle things, I have
some general questions. I would prefer to
ask them off-list, though. Anyone willing?
-tf
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
partitions again? i'm a relat
Hello all,
I really, really like the debian distro and am plannin to get a voodoo3
very soon. I've been looking around and have noticed a beta X server for
the voodoo3 but it's in rpms :( I think i can use alien to convert to .deb
but this isn't totally error free is it?
If anyone has
I used the above attached .xawtv file.
xawtv starts up and displays a black screen with a thin line of static at the
top of the screen area.
Do I need to download some other version of xawtv, I'm running the potato
version. Thanks.
NatePuri
Certified Law Student
Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeor
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:26:52PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > copies of my latest efforts. The book is called "Linux Volume 1: ac to
> > > zcat, the basics"
> >
> > acat? What happened to ? :-)
> >
> > --
> > see shy jo
Hi
I run a 486-DX2/66, 16 MB Ram, two 1Gig SCSI disks and a CD ROM on
an Adaptec 2840 controller. I have a trident 9400 1MB video card,
and a KFC 15 inch monitor. This system WAS BEFORE a CRASH, running
1.1, wonderfully. zgv worked, out of the box. NOW, running Debian
2.0, installed from Cheapbyt
Ok... recently i felt the need to make my own boot disk. I've
gotten past a huge number of problems myself, but now i'm stuck.
When I boot, i get:
Loading...
Uncompressing Linux...
Invalid Compression Type (err=2)
System halted.
I used "make zdisk" to put the k
Hi, ppl,
Does anybody know how to test whether the network card
set to promiscuous mode. It is supposed to run it from
cron.
Thanks,
Eugene Sevinian
CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia
URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/
Phone: 374-2-344873
Howdy All :)
I'm looking for some software that will turn Windows NT/9X into an X
Server--where I can telnet in from a Linux station & run Windows apps
under X...
TCP/IP
MIRC32 ...
Anybody know of anything?
Thanks,
Brant Wells!
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > copies of my latest efforts. The book is called "Linux Volume 1: ac to
> > zcat, the basics"
>
> acat? What happened to ? :-)
>
> --
> see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
Tell me more! What does it do? Where
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Matthew Roberts wrote:
> I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm
> looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for
> Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian.
>
> I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:47:48PM -0400, Eric S. Blau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to
> potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly
> new to Debian?
Keep in mind that at this point potato = unstable. I
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:01:55PM -0400, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote:
> hi
>
> i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT
> recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately
> this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem?
It
>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> What is wrong here?
The device /dev/cdrom is typically just a symbolic link to whatever "real"
device your CD-ROM is on. You can straighten this out easily.
First, double-check to see if /dev/cdrom exists ('ls -l /dev/cdrom'). If
it do
I have been trying for a whole day to get nis to work, but it will not. I
have a minimal LAN with two computers. They both are running slink; the
server has been upgraded from hamm (2.0).
I have managed to make ypcat work, it is also possible to finger. But
when I try to login on the nis-clien
*- On 1 May, Eric S. Blau wrote about "How do I upgrade slink->potato using
apt-get?"
> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to
> potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly
> new to Debian?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ESB
>
>
I just had this happen to me the other day. It could be several things. I
haven't ruled them out completely though. First, it could be that you have a
bad drive or a bad controller. My computer was setup with two 6.2GB ide drives.
The first drive was on the first controller and the second dri
Hello,
I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to
potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly
new to Debian?
Thanks,
-ESB
You could try a ~/.fvwm95rc (which ?would? overide the /etc one).
The relavent sections of mine are:
AddToMenu /Debian
+ "Debian Menu" Title
# note I only use my own menus, you might want:
# Read /etc//menudefs.hook, for the autogenerated stuff
Read .fvwm95/menudefs.hook
Read .fvwm95/main-men
Subject: FW: using a remote drive with taper
Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 09:48:36PM -0700
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT
> System 2: K6 with no scsi :)
> Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x ke
hi
i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT
recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately
this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem?
does it take a whole lot of time to upgrade online, i mean just
downloading th
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 21:10:13 +0530, M.K.Pai wrote:
> Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ?
IIRC, smail, or perhaps exim is the default MTA, not sendmail.
Because qmail does not meet the DFSG, the criteria for inclusion in Debian
proper.
> Further, why is only the
Guys,
Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ?
Further, why is only the src pkg of qmail supplied ?
Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ?
I'd appreciate any insights.
M.K.Pai
hi!
i'm running a slink distribution with most packages from potato.
since two weeks i'm getting an error with less pipes and manuals.
it goes: "symbol 'ospeed' has bad size in shared object, consider
re-linking" - but less starts anyway. yesterday i had a similiar
problem with alien as i tr
On Sat, 1 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would hope that :
1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers
and complaining to the right people?
2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it
might scare the bilker scum into leaving us alone.
- Bil
I think the subject line says it all - I've seen too much spam
being forwarded through this list and I wonder whether anyone
official representing Debian actually enforces the advertising
policy and collects the money ?
Ivan.
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Madarasz Gergely writes:
> do you have an option "lock" to pppd ? it should be in peers/isp or in
> the options file.
It is in the distributed options file.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:52:54AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > copies of my latest efforts. The book is called "Linux Volume 1: ac to
> > zcat, the basics"
>
> acat? What happened to ? :-)
>
> --
> see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
This piqued my c
>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong "real" device.
What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd?
hda = primary master
hdb = primary slave
hdc = secondary master
hdd = secondary slave
Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt
Once you get it w
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I
> use the following command:
>
>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
>
> This returns then following message:
>
>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>
> What is wrong here? Is
Since I upgraded to Debian 2.1, fvwm95 has been acting up. The
FvwmButtons seem to be working okay, and the TaskBar shows up, but the
StartMenu doesn't work. The button is there, and putting the mouse over it
shows the "Click here to start" message, but clicking on it does nothing.
When I exit th
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Joerg Plate wrote:
> Append "exit 0" to "/var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst" and run
> "dpkg --configure --pending".
I wanted to remove it so I did the same to the .prerm script. Then ran dpkg
--force-remove-reinstreq --remove libtiff3g-dev
This got
Hello everybody,
I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I
use the following command:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
This returns then following message:
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the corre
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote:
>
> I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4)
> work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message:
>
> error in process filter: Wrong number of arguments: #[(list) "F @@[EMAIL
> PROTEC
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:15:27PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
>
> I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for
> a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK
> type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the
> con
> We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a
> Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports
I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5
kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it half-configured (sound
config tips welcome!:-)).
I must have messed up something using TKDESK, when I start it up a small
screen apears showing the name TKDESK and at the bottom of the tkdesk screen
you can see that it is loading all of the files needed...Then it puts the
small ICONS in the lefthand side of the main screen in the vertical
positio
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 14:31:04 -0700, Micha Feigin wrote:
> What program can create the configuration file,
`xkeycaps' is the easiest.
> and how do i load it?
With xmodmap(1x).
HTH,
Ray
--
Obsig: developing a new sig
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a
> > > while.
> >
> > Are you sure you use the same device file
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a
> > while.
>
> Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ?
> I mean /dev/ttyS1 fo
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:43:14PM -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> Can anyone attach a working ~/.xawtv file? I'm having a hell of a time
> figuring out which options I need to make it work correctly... I live in the
> US (CA) and can't figure out what TV type I use, etc. Help... Thanks...
NT
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat.
> I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon),
> I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like
>
> 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Su
I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat.
I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon),
I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like
05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success
05/01 20:47:09 yS1 wfr: error in read(): Succe
Hi all!
I'm thinking of upgrading to Potato, because I want to use some of the
newer stuff, (wine, for instance) that's compiled against glibc2.1.
Should I expect some of my self-compiled programs not function
correctly with glibc2.1? Just how exactly painful is it?
TIA
--
Arcady Genkin
"I open
I was putting a new computer together today for a friend. I needed to
partition a brand-new HD, and because I hate MSDOS's fdisk, I figured
I'd use Linux's rescue disk with fdisk.
Anyhow, I created the partitions alright, but can I create the file
system on them? Can I format a fat32 partition fro
Could someone tell me what can I do (sending this in an other place) ?
I have this output from XF86Setup, after manuelly changing the amount of my
memory in
XF86Config , and running it under X :
:/root # XF86Setup
X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
Major opcode of failed
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> copies of my latest efforts. The book is called "Linux Volume 1: ac to
> zcat, the basics"
acat? What happened to ? :-)
--
see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
Append "exit 0" to "/var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst" and run
"dpkg --configure --pending".
--
"I'm working on it." "There should be more math. This could be mathier."
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 08:29:28PM -0800, mao jud wrote:
> hi all !
> i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can
> convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i
> remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click & drag)
> i
"mao jud" wrote:
>hi all !
> i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can
>convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i
>remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click & drag)
>is already like copying, and right c
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0500 (CDT), sombody wrote:
>> And the data on the outer side passes the heads much faster than the
>> data on the inner side. But then, there is much more data on the outer
>> side, and a piece of data on the outer side will go round in the same
>> amount of time as
"James M . Mastros" wrote:
> 1) Are their any unusual noizes noticable either during or slightly before
>this lockup?
Not unusual as such, like say the sound of a HD crashing (been through
that) but there is a reproducible pattern. There is usually a heavy
disk load (possibly this just makes
System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT
System 2: K6 with no scsi :)
Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x kernels.
What I want to do is backup to the DAT from the K6, and I'd like to use
taper. I can tar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 just fine, and from
within taper I can do the variou
Run
pppconfig
as root. After running this program use
pon
to connect and
poff
to disconnect. See the man page for pppconfig.
hth,
kent
Jason Winters wrote:
>
> how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there
> something special I have to do to be adle to use it with
I guess I'm going to have to use the mail program in Netscape, since I can't
find any other descent X mail programs. However, I'm not sure how to set it
up. I have exim filters running that are sorting all of my mail into the
appropriate folders. I've set it up so that no mail should be left
> Dave Whiteley wrote:
>
> > Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a
> > similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC.
I use the following solution to let my mom shut down the PC from xdm:
** Step 1: a short Xaw program.
#include
#include
#include
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there
something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of
kde?
Jason E Winters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there
something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of
kde?
Jason E Winters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw
Problems solved, thanks for your responses.
Akop Pogosian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> Ok, I have installed the apache package from slink, run apacheconfig,
> used default answer for all questions. Now, I need to use server side
> includes. I looked in config fi
Hello everyone...
Just got a simple question here.
Is there a facility to do a text search on the list of packages apt
has in /var/state/apt/lists?
It doesn't seem to be a part of apt-get and I haven't seen too many
other utilities.
Basicaly, something like "show me all the packages that have
hi all !
i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can
convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i
remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click & drag)
is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting.
a
I'm trying to setup some firewalling rules, now that my Linux box has a
full-time ADSL connection to the Internet. I'm currently running kernel
2.2.7 (under potato), so I'm using ipchains in my (apparently feeble
) attempts to do this.
Ever since the ADSL connection was configured, I've noticed t
Brian Schramm wrote:
> OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk
> installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always
> comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I
> thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The
> man pages
Marcelo writes:
> He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his modem (motorola modemsurfr
> 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it doesn't work with 2.2.x.
Same pppd and libc in both cases?
> With 2.2.x the modem responds to "ATZ" but after that it hangs and stops
> responding to commands.
Does
OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along
with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the
person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all
users right away. The man pages and config files are no help. E
Hi,
someone here asked me this the other day, I couldn't find an answer
and I was left pondering. He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his
modem (motorola modemsurfr 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it
doesn't work with 2.2.x. With 2.2.x the modem responds to "ATZ" but
after that it
What exactly is the difference between the three types of windowmakers in
the unstable tree? (i.e., WM, WM-Debian, WM-Gnome?) I have switched
between the three of them without noticing any susbstantial differences,
and am curious. I'm not running Gnome, so that may contribute, but I did
try it
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a
Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed)
RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mod
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