Re: awk progfile

1999-06-03 Thread Brad
> Lazarus Long wrote: > > > I don't know awk, but: > > > > 1) you want > > #!/bin/awk Actually, you probalby want /usr/bin/awk on a Debian system. "which awk" to find out. The space shouldn't matter, although it might. Also, i don't think that you can specify the fil

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
On 03 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > How will the Debian community be able to fight in a market like this > > in the future? > One suggestion, if you're worried, is to make a voluntary donation to > Debian. Most of the vendors of Debian disks offer the facility to do > this when you buy the

Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it? I mean, if I want to, say, make a program to grab pictures from my unsupported digital camera. Could I get some program to 'filter' the serial port or wh

Re: GNOME vs KDE

1999-06-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Daniel González Gasull wrote: > > > > > What I want is some > > > links about comparisons between GNOME and KDE. > > > > > > http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/ > > Huh? Read the question again. > It's not a

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Keith Beattie
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Please tell me I am wrong! :) > Not that this is any real consolation to you, but pessimistically speaking, everyone takes the same risk when depending on any piece of technology. Unless you are the maintainer of that techno

Re: awk progfile

1999-06-03 Thread James Frey
Thanks for the quick response, I'm amazed. Yes, I did that, with the same results. Forgot to mention I´m using slink, and it does the same thing with HPUX. Lazarus Long wrote: > On Thursday, June 03, 1999 at 13:50:57 -0500, James Frey wrote: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Mailer:

Re: telepites

1999-06-03 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
I cannot understand your message. Please, resend your message in English. I would prefer in Portuguese. But most of the Debian users don´t speak my country´s language. If you want some help. Send your message using a language that everybody understand (English).

undefined symbol: _fxstat when using NAG FORTRAN with potato (only)

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
I have an application that runs fine on hamm and slink, but on potato it says undefined symbol: _fstat The application was compiled with NAG FORTRAN 95, and the symbol is referenced by a shared library that was provided with the compiler. I've verified that _fstat is a system routine of some s

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
>> We had a hard time finding someone willing to do our Debian server. All >> of the ones we contaced to get our web server built told us they felt "more >> confident doing a RH install" or they said: "RH is pretty strong in this >> ares", >> and some of them even had some nifty deals for us if we

Re: movie and such

1999-06-03 Thread dyer
Aaron Solochek wrote: > I'm sure this has been addressed here before, but I missed it. you can always search the list archives at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ you can search by keywords (mpeg, avi, etc). Very helpful. > I'm > looking for a nice program to watch .mpg's, avi's and such

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:12:27AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP > modem but not a winmodem. I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell > if it's a winmodem. Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls > it a se

Re: LyX & GhostView

1999-06-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 03:28:16PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > . > P.S. Please reply to me since i'm not on this ML at the moment. > Please also reply to the list as I have a similar configuration and can't get LyX to view or export Postscript. Thank, Jon

Unknown processes.

1999-06-03 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, after having been logged on my box for a while I have a lot of these processes running. I do not know where they come from (I am still a newbie), and I have the feeling they slow me down. What are these: 275 ttyp0S 0:00 bash -rcfile .bashrc 7343 ttyp3S 0:00 bash -rcfile .bas

Re: New Riva TNT Linux drivers

1999-06-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steve Kondik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | im running the new code now. its great, quake2 rocks, but the code is still | a little choppy. and i could only get the xserver started in 16 or 32 bpp, | and at 32 i got segfaults. at least its an effort. That's good to hear. Dave Schmenk (the devel

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks a lot Oleg. You have helped a lot of us!! On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:12:27 -0500 (EST) > > From: Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: PCI modem > > Re

PIIX Triton

1999-06-03 Thread Dpk
I am 'attempting' to install linux on a very old Pentium 90, however when it boots a Slink boot disk I receive the following error: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x01f0-0x01f7 hda: ERROR, PORTS ALREADY IN USE This error stems from the file, drivers/block/ide

Re: help! install with DOS-lost HD on boot

1999-06-03 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/03/99 at 01:34 PM, David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout >> due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've >> lost my Linux driv

bug reporting

1999-06-03 Thread Mary K. Honeycutt
Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux and tried to build a package on my slink system using a potato source package (apsfilter-5.1.1). I couldn't build it with dbuild as the error message said that the diff file was larger than expected and exited. When I used just the source and used deb-make/build it q

Re: Mission critical Debian

1999-06-03 Thread David N. Welton
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:18:25AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Is there any list of people using Debian for mission critical > > > applications? Such a list wouldn't necessarily have to include > > Not that I have seen. There is the general linux-biz website and m-tech.ca > Ummm ... master.deb

Re: help! install with DOS-lost HD on boot

1999-06-03 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/03/99 at 01:34 PM, David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout >> due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've >> lost my Linux driv

Re: SMC 1211TX NIC

1999-06-03 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 04:22:01PM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > Does anyone know if Debian GNU/Linux support > an SMC 1211TX NIC. ( any kernel version ) > > > Peter > Peter, Yes, the SMC1211TX is supported as a 'mislabeled' Realtek RTL8139. I know the newer 2.2.x kernels i

SMC 1211TX NIC

1999-06-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Does anyone know if Debian GNU/Linux support an SMC 1211TX NIC. ( any kernel version ) Peter begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+ 416 929 1056 tel;work:1+ 416 929 1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.GenXl.com org:GenX Internet Labs adr:;;238a Gerrard St. East;Toronto;ON;M

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread John Hasler
shaleh writes: > *ALL* PCI modems I have seen are windows modems (winmodem is actually a > USR tm). Multitech reportedly sells a non-winmodem PCI modem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: SVGA server

1999-06-03 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Okay you Slink-masters out there; is [pppconfig] part of the default > "recommended" install? Pppconfig is priority optional, but it is in base, so it is hard to see how anyone could manage to not have it. > I believe you can get pppconfig by intalling the pppconfig package.

2.2.9 killed my G200 ?

1999-06-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I upgraded my slink, running kernel 2.2.5 to 2.2.9. After that the kernel started complaining: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4 And wat's worse, my Millenium G200 AGP died completely (probably because of that.) Does anyone has any idea, what might have coused such a problem ? 2.2.5 work

Re: New Riva TNT Linux drivers

1999-06-03 Thread Steve Kondik
im running the new code now. its great, quake2 rocks, but the code is still a little choppy. and i could only get the xserver started in 16 or 32 bpp, and at 32 i got segfaults. at least its an effort. steve On 06/03/99 @ 01:05PM, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Has anyone taken the plunge and ins

New Riva TNT Linux drivers

1999-06-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Has anyone taken the plunge and installed all the new Riva TNT OpenGL stuff? Any gotcha's? I've been using the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 server for quite some time with my TNT card and haven't had a problem. I've been waiting for EONS for a GLX implementation to allow me to display results from my SGI visua

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
>> 3. I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows >> world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on >> where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any >> suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-) ). "apt-ge

Re: Weird su problems

1999-06-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:14:22AM -, Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: >> > It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize >> > for >> >> Yes, it is shellutils package, and to fix it, just make /bin/su suid root. >> > Yep,

awk progfile

1999-06-03 Thread James Frey
Hola, I can't get awk to run from a program file. From the command line, awk '/Date/' respaldo works fine. If I put: " /Date/ respaldo " in a file (respchk) and run awk -f respchk it hangs. If I put: " #! /bin/awk " on the first line and try to run it with ./respchk I get "No such file

Re: ps/2 model 90

1999-06-03 Thread Peter Allen
"Gary L. Hennigan" wrote: > > Peter Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Ok, I give up, > | having found an old ps2 90 lying around I decided to set it up to > | do all the dogs body tasks like email etc. I have got everything > | working except X. What graphics card is the default one in thi

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-03 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:26:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote > John P. writes: > > Maybe things have changed since I installed PPP, but on my home system > > /etc/ppp is owned root:root and has permissions 700. Users who are in > > the dip group can use PPP, because pppd is owned root:dip and has >

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread David B.Teague
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: [snip] > there are several PCI modems usable under linux, i believe. > Find below how to do it > >***INSTALLATION OF V90 PCI LUCENT VENUS BASED MODEM*** > [snip] I am delighted to have this information. Would you please name other PCI mod

movie and such

1999-06-03 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm sure this has been addressed here before, but I missed it. I'm looking for a nice program to watch .mpg's, avi's and such. What app(s) do/does this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I do not really know if this belongs here, but I could not find anywhere else > seeming more "appropriate" for this than among Debian users. > > I have chosen Debian for my personal use, lately my company has chosen Debian > on several servers (in

Re: program to extract CD info

1999-06-03 Thread Damien Love
Hi Ian, On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 07:34:09PM -0500, Ian Setford wrote: > > I am writing a script to encode and name mp3's for my computer. I believe > I can use "cddbcmd" to query the CDDB database but how can I extract the > "disk-ID" and other information from the actual CD-ROMs so I can pose t

HylaFax, ksendfax

1999-06-03 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, I've installed HylaFax And I use KsendFax as a gui-interface. When I try to send a fax message the faxlog of ksendfax say's password. What does this mean, wich password ?? I've put the following line in the preferences of ksendfax sendfax -n -h '@@Host' -c '@@Comment' -x '@@Enterprise' -

Re: technical mail setup question (and a little of what was: calling Philip Hands)

1999-06-03 Thread Anders Hammarquist
[Please CC me, I don't follow debian-user] > attention now (especially those of you advocating using your isp's > relay.) to a very real technical question in debian-user (please > follow-up to his question there): > > Allan M. Wind has a local LAN, I have a dynamic IP, both of us have the > prob

Re: man problems

1999-06-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: man problems Date: Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:07:10AM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon Quoting Marc Mongeon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man > pages. I've never had to do anything special before to see man pages >

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:21:55 -0600 (MDT) > From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian > Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100 > > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Ol

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:12:27 -0500 (EST) > From: Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: PCI modem > Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:23:43 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient lis

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was DG> doing. Did you read http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml ? DG> My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not found", and DG> indeed there's no such thing on

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The problem is not that it's a "winmodem". The winmodem was an ISA device which didn't represent itself to the system as a serial interface but rather had a more low-level interface which required your host CPU to do a lot of the work a modem generally does on its own. The problem is simply that

Re: Weird su problems

1999-06-03 Thread Chris
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 05:14:22AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 03-Jun-99 Chris wrote: > > It looks like some element relating to su has been broken. I apologize for > > Yes, it is shellutils package, and to fix it, just make /bin/su suid root. > Yep, that did the trick. Thanks! Now, my next

IDE CD-RW + SCSI CD-ROM Problem

1999-06-03 Thread Tim Buller
System is on slink/i386 I have a Acer CDRW 6206A CD-RW attached as the primary master on the IDE bus, as well as a Pioneer DR-U16S CD-ROM attached to an SCSI bus. Both devices seem to be recognized as sr0. Relevant messages from the kernel are: sym53c876-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > I don't know why the dimm went bad. I wouldn't think it's because the > > > 100/66MHz issue. > > > > I would surprise me too. I also run PC100 memory at 66 MHz with future > > upgrades in mind. > > old SDRAM had 5V voltage, PC100 is 3.3V But the

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-06-03 Thread Ryan Novosielski \[no vo sel skee\]
What I did was downloaded x11amp (from x11amp.bz.nu) in RPM format and then used alien to install the redhat package as a debian package. Alien is available in dselect, should you not have it... nifty thing. * Ryan Novosielski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bergen.org/~ryanov + inSite e'zine - h

glx and potato and g200

1999-06-03 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have installed the glx-g200_0.0.19990602_i386.deb libgl1_0.0.19990602_i386.deb libgl-dev_0.0.19990602_i386.deb debs and am not having any luck getting them to work, the module and path is listed in the XF86Config, anyone have a idea why glx.so is not loading? My Box is Potato-fied to the new

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-06-03 Thread Ryan Novosielski \[no vo sel skee\]
ZIP drive support is under SCSI (it is a SCSI low-level driver). Why not upgrade to 2.2.9, I believe there were sound issues in 2.2.1. * Ryan Novosielski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bergen.org/~ryanov + inSite e'zine - http://www.teenvoice.com - EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + AAST Master 98 - ht

cannot mount CD-ROM - pls help

1999-06-03 Thread rathon
Hi, When installing Debian2.0, my cdrom is detected(/dev/hdc)and no problem installing from cdrom. After installation, if I try to mount the cdrom using: %mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom (as root) I get an error saying something like, not s iso9660 device, maybe an isnmod driver. How do I fix

Re: sendmail and isp relay (aka anti-spam)

1999-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Although it may be true that some web servers might not like the envelope sender that isn't your main problem. If your ISP is flash.net you need to use their smtp server. If smtp.freewwweb.com would relay mail for anyone who put their return address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] then they'd be a spammers

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread shaleh
*ALL* PCI modems I have seen are windows modems (winmodem is actually a USR tm). At least you did not pay for it (-:

Re: Leased pppd LCP ConfReq trouble...

1999-06-03 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Alexey G. Khramkov wrote: > I'm configuring leased line to my ISP. ISP has a Cisco router. When I > try to connect the pppd hangs up the line after 10 (by default) sended > LCP ConfReq packets. No other messages in /var/log/ppp.log with debug > and kdebug 7 options in /etc/ppp/

PCI modem

1999-06-03 Thread Robert Rati
I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP modem but not a winmodem. I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell if it's a winmodem. Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls it a serial interface card (same thing windows calls it until you give it dr

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > > > > > Nope. > > > > I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that t

Re: SVGA server

1999-06-03 Thread Kent West
Paul Nesbit wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > Configure XF86 > > > Configure PPP > > > Rebuild and customize Kernel > > > Upgrade to most recent dist. > > > > > > Does this order of ops sound good? > > > > > > > Personally, I would probably configure ppp before XF86; it's easie

Re: Changing IP address

1999-06-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > IPADDR .103 > NETMASK 255.255.255.240 > NETWORK=.96 > BROADCAST= .111 > GATEWAY= .101 > > on my linux system. The thought was that I could use 4 bits to define > my network (FF.FF.FF.F0) and with the number 101, 102, 103, it would > define the block between .96

man problems

1999-06-03 Thread Marc Mongeon
I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man pages. I've never had to do anything special before to see man pages after installation. What follows is system information and some shell dialog (all commands executed as root, "i>" is what I typed in and "o>" is the system

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was doing. I put "exec gnome-session" in the .xsession file, copying what Matthew said. (I suppose copying someone who's having problems may not be the best thing to do, but what the heck.) My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not

Re: Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HvdB" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In addidtion to the answer you got: HvdB> out the dependencies and get the files from either HvdB> place. However, apt needs a packages.gz file for the directory HvdB> in order to know what is in the directory. I haven't figured out

XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-03 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I have upgraded my Slink XFree86 to 3.3.3 using the debs. I have two questions about this. 1. Since this uses XFS should the fontpaths be defined in the config file for XFS instead of XF86Config and if so what should the top of XF86Config look like (ie the bit where it calls XFS) ? 2.

LyX & GhostView

1999-06-03 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, On LyX when I try to view a document as Postscript it shows GhostView without any text (nothing appears)! What could it be ? I'm not using the LateX preamble. I've installed: LyX 1.0.1-1 tetex-base 0.9.981113-1 tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2

Re: GNOME

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AJF" == Andrew J Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AJF> However, I am currently running with Debian 2.0, and I am AJF> wondering if someone could please advise this newbie as to AJF> whether or not this installation would work for me ? Frankly, I don't know, as we didn't try this. If you a

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MMD> a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec MMD> gnome-session" in the .xsession file) Check ~/.xsession-errors for clues about why it didn't start properly. MMD> c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the ab

Re: Deb v2.1 vs. potato question

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GW" == Gregory Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> The install was very smooth. I installed with the Web server plus GW> option. I am close to having the base system operational. I have GW> been working on my IP Masq commands and it seems a lot of the GW> discussions on IP Masq are on 'ipcha

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JHM" == J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHM> I've been checking around and I've got libgnome 0.30.1-5 JHM> installed, and the only header in /usr/lib/glib/include/ is JHM> glibconfig.h (no gnome.h in there nor anywhere else). As for the gtk devel package, you also need the libgnome

Re: Mission critical Debian

1999-06-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm using it for two mission critical point-of-sale support applications for a Fortune 10 company. In fact we have used Linux in one of these roles since mid-95 (starting w/ Slackware and migrating to Debian later.) Plans for others are in the works. Slackware was a mess, but Debian is very elega

building gzilla, need libjpeg

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I downloaded the latest gzilla sources and tried to build them. I got an error, file libjpeg.h not found. What package includes this??? === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-03 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, moron wrote: > I've been trying a lot of things, with help from you out there, and come to > the following conclusions. Am I right? > > 1: The so-called 'default' in 'Xserver' is more than that. If you try > 'startx -- -bpp 16' and the default doesn't have this depth it does

can't rename lockfile ...

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I never had this problem with efax before: --- $ fax send 426191 jan.ps jan.ps is postscript... efax: Thu Jun 3 16:01:09 1999 efax v 0.8a (Debian release 08a-4) Copyright 1996 Ed Casas efax: 01:09 Warning: local ID (0331-461310) has non-standard characters efax: 01:09 remov

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > How about: > $ kill `pidof gtt` The problem is that pidof gtt shows nothing. $ pidof gtt $ $ kill `pidof gtt` kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec] Johann ---

RE: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Thursday, June 03, 1999 5:16 AM, E.L. Meijer (Eric) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > > Nope. > > Please explain why you think PC100 shouldn't be in a 66MHz board. Do you > > have

sendmail and isp relay (aka anti-spam)

1999-06-03 Thread Allan M. Wind
Hi, Right now I send out mail using my local smtp server which works fine with typically a single drop. This, granted, looks like spam and that's why I was considering using my isp as relay. This is where sendmail fun begins. My machine sits on a local lan and has been named master.localnet wit

Re: Deb v2.1 vs. potato question

1999-06-03 Thread shaleh
> > Hello, > > I have one server on 'bo' (I think) for about 18 months. I decided it > was time to update and build a small server to load the new (maybe just > newer) version of Debian. I ordered the cd and got Deb v2.1 > > The install was very smooth. I installed with the Web server plus > opt

Re: help! install with DOS-lost HD on boot

1999-06-03 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout > due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've > lost my Linux drives, though. I am hoping someone could point out where I > screwed up, and suggest a way to avo

Deb v2.1 vs. potato question

1999-06-03 Thread Gregory Wood
Hello, I have one server on 'bo' (I think) for about 18 months. I decided it was time to update and build a small server to load the new (maybe just newer) version of Debian. I ordered the cd and got Deb v2.1 The install was very smooth. I installed with the Web server plus option. I am close to

potato probs...

1999-06-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, migration to potato went fine with a little prob: Setting up slib (2c5-3) ... ERROR: In procedure gsubr-apply in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...): ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.3" "/usr/share/guile" ".") dpkg: error p

Re: ???RealPlayer installation???

1999-06-03 Thread scratch
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, rich wrote: > I'm trying to install RealPlayer 5.0 on slink (no .deb package, right?) If you mean Realplayer G2, there's a deb in unstable. Just check out www.debian.org. The package has been renamed to "realplayer" (the older version is still "rvplayer" in stable i guess). -

Solved: Re: ssh problems after kernel upgrade

1999-06-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
mea culpa! I found the problem. (sshd on server was down :-( ) thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21

Re: Changing IP address

1999-06-03 Thread David Coe
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Dan Willard wrote: > > > You are correct that your ISP is clueless. Going by the numbers that you > > sent, your home network and theirs are one network with the same network > > number and broadcast number. And why your router calls out whenever a > > broadcast

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
THREAD: -- On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will >>it work on a >> computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? >Nope. Really? I thought that the ONLY difference between SDRAM for 66mhz and PC100 SDRAM for 100mhz was the access time (8ns vs 10ns). If they are both 72pin dimms, SDRAM (NOT ECC), and

Re: ssh problems after kernel upgrade

1999-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 08:53:19 -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > You don't give the output of 'ssh -v server', so it's difficult to provide > > you with useful advice. > (server box): > SSH Version 1.2.25 [i486-unknown-linux], protocol version

Re: ssh problems after kernel upgrade

1999-06-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 08:38:39 -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > I'm having some strange ssh problems after a kernel upgrade. I > > installed 2.2.9 and now I can't connect to my server with ssh. It refuses > > my connection. > > You do

Re: ssh problems after kernel upgrade

1999-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 08:38:39 -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm having some strange ssh problems after a kernel upgrade. I > installed 2.2.9 and now I can't connect to my server with ssh. It refuses > my connection. You don't give the output of 'ssh -v server', so it's difficu

ssh problems after kernel upgrade

1999-06-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some strange ssh problems after a kernel upgrade. I installed 2.2.9 and now I can't connect to my server with ssh. It refuses my connection. What could be happening? Where should I look for info? Where is the logs of ssh? What have ssh that relates with kernel?

Re: Mail Relay for Debian

1999-06-03 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > I host several domains and would like to have my DNSs get and hold mail > when remote WAN host drop off line. I had been using sendmail, but it has > become MUCH to complicated for this task. I am looking for a simple, yet > con

quake under debian ?

1999-06-03 Thread Alan
hello people, I was wondering if someone would be able to tell me how to fix a problem with quake under debian 2.1. When i execute qwcl.x11 , i get a message that says Segmentation fault .. what have i done wrong ? thanks Alan.

Apache web server

1999-06-03 Thread José
Hi all, Which module support "XBitHack full"? Regards, Espe -- José Luis Rivas López Area Ingenieria de los Procesos de Fabricación Dpto. de Diseño en Ingenieria E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales. UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO Campus Universitario s/n, 36200 Vigo, ESPAÑA Teléfon

Weird PPP problem

1999-06-03 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I have just installed Slink on my laptop with KDE 1.1.1 debs on top of that. I am having a weird problem with KPPP. If I run as root it works fine but if I run a a user it fires up the modem OK connects to the access router and starts the ppp deamon. The weird thing is that then it NAKs the a

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-03 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ares wrote: > Either that or look under /var/run for a file like gtt.pid. bash-2.02$ l /var/run total 17 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 2 19:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 May 25 23:16 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Jun 2 18:16

Re: ssh and libgpm2.so (potato)

1999-06-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:43:47 -0400, David Gaudine wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh (not ssh2) on potato. It can't find libgmp2.so. > That sounds suspiciously like something that should be in the > libgmp2 package, but that package is installed. This is a known bug in libgmp2 which is in the

MS keyboard

1999-06-03 Thread Dalfini Silvio
Ciao, ho installato Debian v2.0r2 con kernel-2.2.9, ma non riesco a configurare la mia MS Natural Keyboard USB. Ho letto il file HOWTO-USB-KBD nel kernel-2.2.9.tgz ed ho eseguito il file mkmap, ma poi non sono piu' in grado di andare avanti... Grazie per l'ascolto. Hi, I'v

telepites

1999-06-03 Thread cipo
Udv. mindenkinek. Teljesen uj felhasznalo vagyok, illetve lennek, ha sikerulne beuzemelni a debiant. A Chip magazin 14.szamanak CD lemezeit hasznaltam. Hardver. Pentium II Celeron 300 128 RAM 4Mb VGA Voodoo2 CD radios Soudblaster 2 floppy Ket merevlemez. Az elson van a mostani Win 98. Az uj vincsir

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > > > Nope. > > I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would > still be usable when I get a new motherboar

modprobe problem in potato

1999-06-03 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
I have problem with modprobe in potato. When I run #modprobe sound it returns conf:73: missing module argument but insmod soundcore; insmod sound workfine. This use to work before I upgrade packages today! Chanop -- Chanop S

Re: Mission critical Debian

1999-06-03 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Surprisingly, I wasn't able to turn up any results when searching > Debian's lists for this, but, to sum it up, my query is this: > > Is there any list of people using Debian for mission critical > applications? I am using it for building firewalls. One of

Re: apt-get proxy

1999-06-03 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Michael" == debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Also once I have downloaded/upgraded using dselect to Michael> apt-get how do I configure apt-get to use the MS-proxy on Michael> company lan, which doesn't require authentication You can either set the ftp_proxy and http_proxy

Socks

1999-06-03 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: Laplink and DOS?

1999-06-03 Thread joop . vson
> > I've got a Debian-box, a small laptop with DOS, and a Laplink cable. > > > > What is an easy method to connet the Debian-box and DOS-box with the > > Laplink-cable so that I could easily at least copy files from the othe > > machine to the other? > > > > (The Debian box hasn't got any DOS-par

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