Sorry.. wrong list...

1999-06-04 Thread daniel
About my last e-mail sorry, I was sick and didnt know well what I was writting... I had mistaken the address Sorry to all

Network Card Complication in Kernel Compliation - Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 +

1999-06-04 Thread Russell Rademacher
Okay... I got a really annoying problem here. I have two Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA LAN Adapters. I basically wanted to have both activated and running in Linux. But I need to set it up so that I can use both at the same time. Right now... it seems that it only activates one, not two.

Mmm.. el mutt me vuelve medio loco

1999-06-04 Thread daniel
Ya lo tenia casi todo perfectamente configuradocon el mutt, pero cambie los archivos donde recibia los correos por directorios y ahora cuando veo las listas de los correos, excepto en el archivo de correo principal, veo en la lista de todos los correos, en lugar de ver de quien viene, veo la fe

Kerneld guilty of module descrimination

1999-06-04 Thread iehrenwald
Good [morning|afternoon|evening], Can someone give me a little help with kerneld and my sound modules? kerneld loads every module automagicly when needed, but not my sound modules. It was working fine then just broke one day. Probably when I got the new modutils. I have modutils 2.1.121-23 insta

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 4 Jun 99 14:31:06 GMT Camilo Alejandro Arboleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My name is Camilo. I am trying to compile the Linux kernel 2.1. . . . why? 2.2 is the current "stable" version. 2.1 is the previous development version, but all the features of

Re: TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 4 Jun 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, > telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and > worked before. It's the classic problem: > > In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) > > ALL: 127.0.0.

Upgrade of sp and sgml packages breaks validation

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
My recent upgrade of potato's sgml and sp packages broke the validation of HTML 4.0 documents. When I try validating a file known to be valid: nsgmls -s -c /usr/lib/sgml/catalog index.html I receive many errors along the line: nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/entities/HTMLsymbol:24:27:E: "402" is

Re: Amiga Harddrives

1999-06-04 Thread Brad
It's in the kernel docs, Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt tells all about the Amiga Fast File System. Note that you may have to recompile the kernel, i don't know if that filesystem is included in the Debian default. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Martyn Bampton wrote: > Hey all, > I've just got Debian w

Re: LyX & GhostView

1999-06-04 Thread Nuno Carvalho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a look for error or warning messages in the creation of the postscript. None error was echoed back. > Does viewing dvi work? It also doesn't work. > I can't remember for sure, but I had some problems with particular fonts in > LyX. Try installing tetex-extra

Re: Where to find Help? (follow Problem with a sound card OPL3-SAx)

1999-06-04 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Raphael Alla wrote: > > Hi, > > I posted the following message a few days ago, but with no success. > I don't know where I could find help in order to solve my problem? Do you know > any newsgroup, internet site where I could find some help? > Thank you >

TCP wrapper telnet breakage?

1999-06-04 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and worked before. It's the classic problem: bash-2.02$ telnet localhost Trying 192.42.172.1... Connected to HAL. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by

Re: PCMCIA broken after apt-get upgrade

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pat O'Brien wrote: > I have a Toshiba 2535 laptop, with a minimal Potato - X - Gnome install. > I got audio, ppp, and pcmcia going and decided to upgrade the whole > kitten caboodle to the latest stuff, so I apt-get updated, and apt-get > upgraded. When I rebooted, the kernel n

PCMCIA broken after apt-get upgrade

1999-06-04 Thread Pat O'Brien
I have a Toshiba 2535 laptop, with a minimal Potato - X - Gnome install. I got audio, ppp, and pcmcia going and decided to upgrade the whole kitten caboodle to the latest stuff, so I apt-get updated, and apt-get upgraded. When I rebooted, the kernel no longer recognizes the modem. Now I get the mes

problem booting linux

1999-06-04 Thread Arjen
I have some problems booting linux (Redhat 5.2). Every time i boot Linux, that hda5 wasn't unmounted cleanly. I believe he scans the harddisk than, but that gives a error, after which i must give my root-password, or press Ctrl-d. When i press Ctrl-d he shuts down, and if i type my password i'm put

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, first thanks for your time. Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > Hi, > >Hi all. >I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware >within it: >a sound board, modem, video, ... >but the software is for Windows and with few documentation... > >

Re: HELLO

1999-06-04 Thread Bob Brown
Hey, this is a good one {grin} . Why can't I think up a scam like this? - Original Message - From: some one <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 9:43 AM Subject: HELLO > DEAR SIR, > I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU ABOUT MY SELF WITH ALL THE FREEDOM, CAUSE I NEED A > HELP AND AN AD

Low memory installation

1999-06-04 Thread Gertjan Klein
I have a 386/4M that I want to install Debian on. I have copied all the required boot files (directory disks-i386) to the 386 through a parallel cable. When booting (using the standard install.bat) the process stops with the message "invalid compressed format (err=1)". As I've used this image

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, thanks for your time... " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > Hi all. > > I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware > > within it: > > a sound board, modem, video, ... > > but the

Where to find Help? (follow Problem with a sound card OPL3-SAx)

1999-06-04 Thread Raphael Alla
Hi, I posted the following message a few days ago, but with no success. I don't know where I could find help in order to solve my problem? Do you know any newsgroup, internet site where I could find some help? Thank you Raphael -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Problem with a

Re: In potato: Gnome session mgmt vs WindowMaker-gnome session mgmt

1999-06-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I'm running GNOME with no session management at all. My .xsession file has something like enlightement& panel Replace enlightement above with wmaker and that should do it. The only caveat so far to me is that the "lock screen" option of the panel doesn't seem to work unless the gnome-session is r

Re: ISPs

1999-06-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On 3 Jun 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Starting with pppd-2.3.7, you don?t even need the DNS addresses. Search > for the option "usepeerdns" in /usr/doc/ppp/README.gz and take a look > at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/scripts/ip-up.local.add This only works if the other end is set up to give you the DNS

Re: Groups

1999-06-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > come on, that's not very good idea to edit groups manually Why not? It's just a delimited text file. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA

Re: Basic install problems / alien problems

1999-06-04 Thread Kent West
adam wrote: > Hi, I am new to Debian (having migrate from RH). Since I am at work, I > do not have all the details of my problem with me and will have to > re-post this question if it is not specific enough. > > Essentially, I have attempted to install Slink on a Pentium machine > several times

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>No idea, and I doubt it. Isn't it a LILO problem? No, it is because the BIOS has to load the kernel, and because the kenrel starts in real mode, not protected mode. There is a thorough description in the archives sometime this earlier this year. Carl

Re: PPP problems

1999-06-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, K.Y.Lo wrote: > I have configured the CHAP/PAP chatscript to connect ISP with dynamic ip. > dont have no clue what does 'last messge repeated 11 times' mean? Just what it says. The last message (in this case, this message) > Jun 3 01:48:33 griz pppd[197]: sent [LCP ConfReq i

xemacs appearance

1999-06-04 Thread Ben Lutgens
When I first started using Linux, it was RedHat 5.0. The emacs it had with it was much more aesthetic than the one I have now. It was kind of a green and gold color scheme with small buttons and what not. My question is: wtf happened to that emacs is it an .Xdefaults/.xsesson issue? If so how do I

Re: In potato: Gnome session mgmt vs WindowMaker-gnome session mgmt

1999-06-04 Thread John Foster
"A.J. Rossini" wrote: > > Ok, I'm finally really annoyed. > > Is there a solution for disabling GNOME session management and using > WindowMaker's (or Enlightenment's, though it's not quite what I want) > session management? > > I'm posting to the debian lists, since I don't have time to bleed w

Re: apt-get configuration for multi cd set

1999-06-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How should I configure apt-get to use > 1) my 2 CD binary distribution > 2) ftp.debian.org See apt-cdrom. It´s easy. -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:31:06AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > > When I compile the kernel with the command 'make bzImage' the image > generated has a size of about 800.000 bytes, and when I try to install the > image using 'liloconfig' I get the error 'kernel too big', but I cannot

Excessive Ethernet Collisions (2.0.34 + tulip)

1999-06-04 Thread MJ Watson
We're using DEC Celebris GL6200 with 21143 tulip cards, and the only version of the driver that seems to work is v0.91 from the NASA website. This is also true on my 2.1 installation, which is not having quite as substantial a problem, but then it isn't running exactly the same suite of daemons (e

Ghost with Linux

1999-06-04 Thread Kelly Corbin
Has anyone used Ghost Software from Binary Research Ltd.? What it does is create a disk or partition image that can be installed to another machine. It is great for new machine rollouts where only one standardized machine has to be set up an all the rest can be set up in about 10 mins. I have tr

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > When I compile the kernel with the command 'make bzImage' the image > generated has a size of about 800.000 bytes, and when I try to install the > image using 'liloconfig' I get the error 'kernel too big', but I cannot > remove more drivers from the kernel without

Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink

1999-06-04 Thread Ryan Novosielski \[no vo sel skee\]
In ncftp, it is get -C. * Ryan Novosielski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bergen.org/~ryanov + inSite e'zine - http://www.teenvoice.com - EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + AAST Master 98 - http://www.bergen.org/AAST - EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + ICQ PIN Number: 3239479 -- WWPager: http://wwp.mirabilis.c

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was > "10baseT" but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no > trouble. :) Yes, no problems. In fact, I use the car

Amiga Harddrives

1999-06-04 Thread Martyn Bampton
Hey all, I've just got Debian working on my A1200 and would like to know how to mount the Amiga partions so the Linux side can access them. I've tried; mount -t ffs /dev/hda1 /amigadrive This doesn't work, well it can't as I have no clue what filesystem to use, I tried ffs to indicate the Amiga's

Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hello: My name is Camilo. I am trying to compile the Linux kernel 2.1. When I compile the kernel with the command 'make bzImage' the image generated has a size of about 800.000 bytes, and when I try to install the image using 'liloconfig' I get the error 'kernel too big', but I cannot remove mor

Enlightenment's mini-desktop windows

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm using Enlightenment 0.15.5 with GNOME, and every time I start up four mini-desktop windows appear at the top left of the screen (I have four desktops configured in E). I can't find any way of stopping these appearing, and closing them every time is becoming tedious. Can I remove them? -- alis

Re: getting around a firewall?

1999-06-04 Thread Leen Besselink
> others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to > securely connect to a remote server (Debian based) in shell.  I'm told > one way to do this is to tunnel ssh proxy through other port like http.  > What are other ways to achieve the end result?  I think I heard tell > that there

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Adam Rice
Quoting Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I installed Mozilla today on my potato system. It was very slow. I don't know > how to say this, but if this is how it is supposed to perform it is no better > than it's "dad" Netscape. In fact, it is "worse". Yep. Slow as molasses. But I found it wa

getting around a firewall?

1999-06-04 Thread adam
I have a little dilemma.  My work PC (windoze) is on a (gov't) network.  The firewall blocks all ports save http, ftp, telnet, and maybe a few others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to securely connect to a remote server (Debian based) in shell.  I'm told one way to do this i

In potato: Gnome session mgmt vs WindowMaker-gnome session mgmt

1999-06-04 Thread A.J. Rossini
Ok, I'm finally really annoyed. Is there a solution for disabling GNOME session management and using WindowMaker's (or Enlightenment's, though it's not quite what I want) session management? I'm posting to the debian lists, since I don't have time to bleed with a local install, and am and wil

CD-writing with IDE CD-RW

1999-06-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm trying to get my HP8100i CD-RW to function in Linux (it works okay in Windows), and I'm having problems with IDE-SCSI emulation. I've installed the SCSI emulation, SCSI support, SCSI generic support and SCSI CD-ROM support modules into my 2.2.9 kernel. lsmod gives: Module Siz

Re: I worry...

1999-06-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Well, I do not think the fancy gui is what these people need in RH. It is avoiding having to deal with distro spesific quirks and loose some time and money becuase they would have to look into something "new". This was what several told us. Finally we did find a company that took on the task even

Basic install problems / alien problems

1999-06-04 Thread adam
Hi, I am new to Debian (having migrate from RH).  Since I am at work, I do not have all the details of my problem with me and will  have to re-post this question if it is not specific enough. Essentially, I have attempted to install Slink on a Pentium machine several times (CD set) using pretty ba

Re: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 01:50:57PM -0500, James Frey wrote: > If I put: " /Date/ respaldo " in a file (respchk) and run > awk -f respchk well, awk needs to know what input to process: awk -f program.awk input.data or simply pipe the input to awk: cat data | awk -f prog.awk -- thomas.

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Armin Wegner
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 >compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Use 'tar xIf aaa.tar.bz2' in slink. The 'I' is for bzip2.

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Howdy, hi there is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) huh !?! pipes are your friend bunzip2 -dc aaa.tar.bz2 | tar xvvf - Nico OK

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all. > I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware > within it: > a sound board, modem, video, ... > but the software is for Windows and with few documentation... > I have some doubts: >

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 04-Jun-99 Jim Foltz wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried Mozilla Milestone 6 and found it nearly as fast as Netscape 4.5. > I > have an AMD K-5 133 with 32 megs mem and 120 megs swap. M6 is noticeably > faster than M5, BTW, though it still crashed a lot. > > It will run faster when they compile wi

Re: X problems in Slink

1999-06-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Jim just tried your routine on my debian potato system and looks like it works: before toplevel2 0 after toplevel2 134544432 after form and some window appears, no segfaults lesstif 0.88.1 egcs1.1.2 mesa 3.0 OK Hi, I've been having problems with my system, It's a long story

Netscape problem

1999-06-04 Thread Giorgio Gargiulo
If in my HTML page I insert same frames by using : in Netscape browser the height of frames is different from 69 pixel, 8 pixel etc. If I use Explorer the height is correct. Can I solve this problem? thank you.

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

1999-06-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:13:34 -0400 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

x up

1999-06-04 Thread tf
hi guys I've got slink, lynx,mutt, and I can connect. can someone give me the "direct route" to getting x up and running? In the past, with another distribution, I installed xfree86 3.3.3.1, and had things going pretty good. One concern I have is that my integrated sis5598 is supported. I'

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, I just tried Mozilla Milestone 6 and found it nearly as fast as Netscape 4.5. I have an AMD K-5 133 with 32 megs mem and 120 megs swap. M6 is noticeably faster than M5, BTW, though it still crashed a lot. It will run faster when they compile with the debugging directives removed. I am lookin

Re: Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > > > When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already > > supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it? > > They first get the book, "Linux Device Drivers"

apt-get/dpkg screwed up.

1999-06-04 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I get the following error message on my screen after I tried to removed ee after the installation of ee failed: $ apt-get -f remove ee Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ee 0 packages upgr

awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread James Frey
Thank you, Andreas - That was it. I just don´t know how to read. Jim

PAM trouble

1999-06-04 Thread iehrenwald
Hi, I'm having a little trouble with PAM on my bleeding edge potato system. When I am in a rxvt term and try to 'su' I get the PAM_RUSER error described in the NOTES.su file. But if I 'su' in xterm or Eterm, everything goes fine. I compiled rxvt with utmp/wtmp support thinking that would fix i

Re: EBCDIC --> ASCII|ANSI ???

1999-06-04 Thread Armin Wegner
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:28:40AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > Looking for something like "beav" that is more stream based. Ideas? It > needs to unpack packed fields and correctly translate binary fields too. To translate EBCDIC to ASCII or ANSI use 'recode'.

EBCDIC --> ASCII|ANSI ???

1999-06-04 Thread Greg Vence
Hey all, Looking for something like "beav" that is more stream based. Ideas? It needs to unpack packed fields and correctly translate binary fields too. TIA -- Greg. -- Build an On-line Store http://www.Countdown9199.com/ Referral: Greg Vence IBO: 2712303 If you like it, lets talk & get you a

Re: SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-06-04 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:26:13 +0200 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 01:16:54PM +0100, p wrote: >> I have bought (I had to) a new computer: >> It has a SoundBlaster PCI64 card, but ... >> pnpdump does not see any card, > >pnpdump is

Re: Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!

1999-06-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already > supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it? They first get the book, "Linux Device Drivers" by Alessandro Rubini, from O'Reilly. :-> > I mean,

HELLO

1999-06-04 Thread some one
DEAR SIR, I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU ABOUT MY SELF WITH ALL THE FREEDOM, CAUSE I NEED A HELP AND AN ADVICE TOO. FIRST OF ALL, I AM NOT A CHRISTEAN, I AM A MUSLEM. FROM 2-3 YEARS TO NOW I HAVE READ MANY EVANGELICAL BOOKS ABOUT THE JEASUS AND THE CHRISTEAN RELIGION, AND I BELIEVE THIS RELIGION AND I

Re: [Fwd: Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen]

1999-06-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Well, In my case .xsession-errors says: "xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0" I think I'm getting this because I'm not running gnome-session (too buggy still for me), just the gnome panel. Since the screen saver is actually run by gnome-session the panel then complain

Help with afbackup

1999-06-04 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi We have four machine here that we wish to backup (better: we NEED to backup). After trying amanda and not getting anything we switched to afbackup. There is one machine with the tape (the afserver) and four clients (including the server itself). We are trying to do the four backups. We start

Re: Unknown processes.

1999-06-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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

apt-get configuration for multi cd set

1999-06-04 Thread Frank Petzold
How should I configure apt-get to use 1) my 2 CD binary distribution 2) ftp.debian.org in this order? specifying file:/cd for the CD set seems inappropriate, because there are 2 CDs, and it should tell me which one to insert, just like dselect does, or go to ftp. Is this possible at all? Plea

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 09:50:55PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I > have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC > working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on > all my other Li

Re: glx and potato and g200

1999-06-04 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 11:53:49AM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 09:07:45AM -0700, Lawrence Walton wrote: > > 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

Re: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
>> What's the standard "#! " way to get a script running on both? ln -s >> /usr/bin/ /bin/ in Debian (and vice versa in other systems)? >> (please cc me) For Perl, the Camel book has something like this: | eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 $ | argv:q

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Alec Smith
give tar -xvvfI a try. Its the I which does the unBzip2ing on atleast slink. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) > > Nico > > -- > --

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Peter Makholm
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) The slink version of tar does this. >From the manual: NAME tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility [...]

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Nico, On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 > compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) bzip2 -dc .tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - works with any tar; bzip2 -d uncompresses and -c sends output to stdo

dselect

1999-06-04 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! Is there any way of setting some flag to dselect so that the developer package is marked for install automagically? I have "lots" of diskspace, and it happens sometime that there is include files missing and I have to fire up dselect, find the cd's or download the package(s) and install th

[DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

1999-06-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? --

AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all. I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware within it: a sound board, modem, video, ... but the software is for Windows and with few documentation... I have some doubts: 1) My old modem worked only with isapnp and then setserial. How to aut

job search/resume posting

1999-06-04 Thread skibo200
Since your email address was listed on a related web site page or database, the following might be of interest: Would you like to find a new job or post your resume online? Would you like to fill your job postings as soon as possible? Visit http://www.onlinejobstore.com and

solved: local mail delivery

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Flipse
Or, at least hopefully it's solved... :) had to be running fetchmail as root, as several people pointed out to me. Also had to add a couple of extra lines to the config file so that it would not reject non-matching addresses. final .fetchmailrc looks something like this: #cat .fetcmailrc poll

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-04 Thread pasi savilaakso
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > 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

Re: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>BTW: Can somebody give me a clue why awk is /usr/bin/awk in Debian (also >e.g., ksh) (and /bin/awk in most other systems I've seen)? >What's the standard "#! " way to get a script running on both? ln -s >/usr/bin/ /bin/ in Debian (and vice versa in other systems)? >(please cc me) Debian tries to

RE: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Huggel, Andreas
> What's happening? 1) $ awk '/Date/' respaldo Runs awk with the program-text "/Date/" on the input-file respaldo. This program is only a pattern. The default action is to print the entire line of the input-file to the screen if the pattern matches. 2) $ cat respchk /Date/ respaldo $ awk -f

Re: local mail delivery

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Flipse
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:48:45PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: >Unfortunately, that seems to not be the case...all of the mail is >deliverd to the account which invokes fetchmail. The To: header points >to a local user, but is not delivered to that user. Are you running fetchmail as ro

Re: sendmail.cf problems

1999-06-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:34:43PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I recently installed sendmail on my server and when it finised reading > the config file it yielded this error: > "read .cf line 440 'unknown option MaxHeadersLength" > Any idea what this need to be set to. Should I just disable the l

Re: Unknown processes.

1999-06-04 Thread ktb
Christian Dysthe wrote: > > 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 >

Re: gtk1.2.3

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>FILE PACKAGE >usr/X11R6/include/X11/Intrinsic.h x11/xlib6g-dev >usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/X11/Intrinsic.h oldlibs/xlib6-altdev This same info is in Contents-i386.gz , which you can download and grep locally . C

Re: gtk1.2.3

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Flipse
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:04:05PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: While ./configuring gtk I get an error. It looks for Intrinsic.h What package is this file in, is there a .deb package ?? If you go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages, one of the fields there will do a file search for a str

Re: installing debian

1999-06-04 Thread ktb
"Keith R." wrote: > > ive ben trying to install debian linux on an older 386 of mine > an ibm ps/2 model 56slc > it has a micro channel architecture > > when i place the boot disk in it goes through every thing seemingly well > except it doesnt pick up the scsi drive and host adapter thats part

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Alec Smith
Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was "10baseT" but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no trouble. :) On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote

Re: local mail delivery

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>Unfortunately, that seems to not be the case...all of the mail is >deliverd to the account which invokes fetchmail. The To: header points >to a local user, but is not delivered to that user. Are you running fetchmail as root, as the procmail manpage suggests?

local mail delivery

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Flipse
Alright...got a question...probably has an easy answer, but it's got me stumped I have a virtual hosting system set up; all of the email to my machine is put into a single user mail account at a fulltime host. I then grab this mail using fetchmail and, theoretically, it should be delivered t

sendmail.cf problems

1999-06-04 Thread John Foster
I recently installed sendmail on my server and when it finised reading the config file it yielded this error: "read .cf line 440 'unknown option MaxHeadersLength" Any idea what this need to be set to. Should I just disable the line? -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I > have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC > working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on I've been using the potato release fo

Re: Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > I installed Mozilla today on my potato system. It was very slow. I don't know > how to say this, but if this is how it is supposed to perform it is no better > than it's "dad" Netscape. In fact, it is "worse". > > I really hope it is my system, but

dpkg-source gives getcwd() error (Potato)

1999-06-04 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, I upgraded to Potato on 22/5/99 and am having trouble with dpkg-source. icarus:~/dnlds/lilo# dpkg-source -x lilo_21-5.dsc dpkg-source: extracting lilo in lilo-21 shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory icarus:~/dnlds/li

installing debian

1999-06-04 Thread Keith R.
ive ben trying to install debian linux on an older 386 of mine an ibm ps/2 model 56slc it has a micro channel architecture when i place the boot disk in it goes through every thing seemingly well except it doesnt pick up the scsi drive and host adapter thats part of the mother board. any hints

WindowMaker .60 .deb for Slink yet?!?!

1999-06-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
Subj? Please build a WM .60 deb for Slink, please! I'd compile it myself, but I'm stuck with this libwraster incompatibility problem. :^( -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)

gtk1.2.3

1999-06-04 Thread Mark Bathie
While ./configuring gtk I get an error. It looks for Intrinsic.h What package is this file in, is there a .deb package ?? Thanks, Mark Bathie Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com

X problems in Slink

1999-06-04 Thread JHarsh
--- Begin Message --- -FW: X problems in Slink- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:10:46 -0700 (MST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X problems in Slink Hi, I've been having problems with my system, It's a long story bugut to make it short I have a new mother

Mozilla is..errm..slow?

1999-06-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I installed Mozilla today on my potato system. It was very slow. I don't know how to say this, but if this is how it is supposed to perform it is no better than it's "dad" Netscape. In fact, it is "worse". I really hope it is my system, but then again, why would only Moxilla be slow like that

Debian on Dell Inspiron

1999-06-04 Thread Alec Smith
Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on all my other Linux systems. Alec

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