Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-15 Thread Craig McPherson
I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a "bus error." This usually happens when I close a N

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-15 Thread ktb
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm" > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: > >> Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch > >> "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching > >> consoles with ctrl+alt

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm" > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: >> Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch >> "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching >> consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xter

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-15 Thread Gareth
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: > Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch > "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching > consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I > poked around in the packages at the Debian site but c

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-15 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 05:05:39 +, you wrote: >On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 23:26:35 -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE > > X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.02b14) > > X-UIDL: d2077d16c3127d4bf73a47a47027a8d9 > > > As one Debia

Switch console in xterm

1999-06-15 Thread ktb
Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't find anything. I don't even know w

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-15 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer > rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button > while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this > by moving the mouse. But I can't Are you sure this isn´t

Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-15 Thread Kent West
I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the documentation to see how to test the sound. "The Linux Sound HOWTO; Installation (p15 of 26)", section 4.3 states that there should be a "/dev/sndstat" file. Th

Kernel patching

1999-06-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. (Sorry, forgot to include the meaningful subject: message below) > I've just applied 2.0.35, 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 patches to my 2.0.34 kernel. > Now as I compile the kernel, I get these errors: > > setup.c: In function `Cx86model': > setup.c:286: `Cx86_mult' undeclared (first use this functi

error compiling kcrontab

1999-06-15 Thread Pollywog
What am I missing, some oldlibs stuff? Making all in pl make[4]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/kcrontab/kcrontab/doc/pl' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/pollywog/kcrontab/kcrontab/doc/pl' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pollywog/kcrontab/kcrontab/doc

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Yup, it's at http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/ Thanks. I don't know how I overlooked that. I noticed in the README for libpam-ldap that you need to use some secure socket mechanism if you really want an ldap setup to be secure. Is there a doc somew

re: Kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-15 Thread debian
I run Debian, I am running on 2.0.36 and have my Stallion Brumby 4 card working (Intelligent ISA Multiport Serial Card) Anyway, I installed 2.2.10 source, and edited /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/drivers/char/istallion.c to show my cards io port and address range. Compiled in the support for the card, in

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I've just applied 2.0.35, 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 patches to my 2.0.34 kernel. Now as I compile the kernel, I get these errors: setup.c: In function `Cx86model': setup.c:286: `Cx86_mult' undeclared (first use this function) setup.c:286: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once setup.c:

questions + remarks about slink

1999-06-15 Thread Xander van Wiggen
Hi, I'm using debian (2.1) for quite some time now and I really like it. However, I needed newer versions of some packages so I got the diffs,dsc's from potato and rebuilt them myself. If I upgrade in the near future to potato, will my own glibc2.0 linked packages (potato version!) be replaced by

Re: Trouble with PPP and gatewaying

1999-06-15 Thread Alec Smith
The firewall machine appears to be connnected. ppp0 is listed with the IP and such in the output of ifconfig. However I can't seem to get anything out from the firewall machine to the rest of the world. I can connect with all my machines internally on the LAN. I ran the commands listed in the ipch

Re: XF86Setup doesn't work

1999-06-15 Thread Martin Traxl
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > XF86Setup is a GUI version that will also produce the XF86Config file, but > some people have been having problems with the 3.3.3.1 version segfaulting > (myself included). xf86config does work very well. I think the problem isn't XF86Setup. Maybe it's the xserv

Re: X window setup

1999-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm new to this list and Linux. I am having trouble with the X window > installation. I have a PowerSpec with Cyrix 166 chip (i turned the cache > off like the instructions recommended) and an old IBM VGA monitor. The > installatiion program won'

Re: acroread --why can't package be installed?

1999-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 15 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about "acroread --why can't package be > installed?" > > When I type > > # dpkg --list acroread > > The package lists with the letters "pn" at the start of the line. > > Such packages will not install, and there is an error message > > "no

Re: Two installations on the same system

1999-06-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
> Is it possible to install two different versions of Debian on the same > system (in different partitions, of course!) ? If I do that, do I need a Yes ! Of course. > second swap partition? No. You can also use the same partition for home directories and temp. > > TIA, > Bruno. > > > -- > Unsub

Re: Danger of software patents in Europe

1999-06-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
What's a software patent ?? -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.34.83.16.76 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ : 25529539 | \\ -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--//

Re: XF86Setup doesn't work

1999-06-15 Thread Brad
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > You have to run xf86config to configure the X once you installed all the > needed files. That will produce the XF86Config > Andrew XF86Setup is a GUI version that will also produce the XF86Config file, but some people have been having problems with the

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:31:09PM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > > SCSI support > > SCSI disk support > > SCSI CD-ROM support > > SCSI generic support > > Don't compile them as modules. Compile them into the kernel. I've never > managed even to compile these modul

Re: X window setup

1999-06-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hello everyone, > > I'm new to this list and Linux. I am having trouble with the X window > installation. I have a PowerSpec with Cyrix 166 chip (i turned the cache > off like the instructions recommended) and an old IBM VGA monitor. The > installatiion program won't detect my monitor or card

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:15:10PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I really need ATAPI CDROM support though. One of the main uses of > > my PC is as a CD rip/encoder, and emulated SCSI doesn't appear to > > support cooked ioctl, so cdparanoia doesn't work. > cdparanoia does work. I, too, have

Re: Hylafax

1999-06-15 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Thorsten Manegold wrote: > Hi, > > > > Can anyone tell me how can get Hylafax to work. > > I use the following line: > > sendfax -n -h '@@Host' -c -x '@@Enterprise' -d '@@Name'@'@@Phone' > > '@@Fname' > > I use Ksendfax as Gui. > > > > I've installed Hylafax-server and HylaFax-client, and i've ru

Strange NFS/networking problem

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel Dorau
Hello there, I have a problem with my network and I hope somebody can help me here. I'm running slink with kernel 2.2.9. I have a NFS related problem I think but I cannot solve it. I'm mounting my mail directoy from another debian slink 2.0.36 box via NFS. Since I'm using kernel 2.2.9 on my mail cl

Re: repartitioning Windows

1999-06-15 Thread Kirk Hogenson
per_adua32 wrote: > > Partition E: > Recycled > ffastun.ffa > ffastun.ffl > ffastun.ffo > ffastun0.ffx > > Partition F: > Recycled > ffastun.ffa > ffastun.ffl > ffastun.ffo > ffastun0.ffx > > I suppose my question is this: > > How important are these files? > > Can I safely delete them (wh

Re: An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Charles B \(Ben\) Cranston
Joe Emenaker wrote: > I eventually recovered by installing a brand-new Debian on another partition > and replacing the hosed /lib, /bin, and /sbin directories with the ones from > the new install. Ug. > Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your > ld.so, ld-linux,

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > >I have, however, recently run into a problem. Since I upgraded, I can no > >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote > >server has

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-15 Thread Lex Chive
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > > how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? > > try xmix and aumix on the console. Dont forget to change the volume of the PCM channel too, not only master (aumix -w

Re: Configuring exim

1999-06-15 Thread Lex Chive
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:53:48PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. > > > Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as > > > far as I can tell), but there is now an optional POP3 service > > > available. Since

Re: email redirection

1999-06-15 Thread Lex Chive
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:32:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > You might try this in the .forward file of your home directory: > > ---begin .forward > > # Exim filter <<-do not remove! > > deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---end .forward Actually this is even easier, the .forward only need to

Re: An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:59:31AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > So... again... I make my annual cry to the package gods: > > Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your > ld.so, ld-linux, or libc, that breaks login (so there's no way to get into > the system after a

Re: repartitioning Windows

1999-06-15 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
> > >Partition E: >Recycled >ffastun.ffa >ffastun.ffl >ffastun.ffo >ffastun0.ffx > >Partition F: >Recycled >ffastun.ffa >ffastun.ffl >ffastun.ffo >ffastun0.ffx > Hey There, Get rid of those files. They are MS Find fast files - findfast is suppose to make your MS Office files open faster. If y

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> >I have, however, recently run into a problem. Since I upgraded, I can no > >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote > >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host"). > >I'm not sure if this started happening when I installed potato, or wh

Re: Compaq Deskpro 6000 install trouble

1999-06-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
George Bonser wrote: > > I sort of remember seeing this problem here but a search of the mailing > list archive has not turned up anything helpful. I am trying to install > slink on a Compaq 6000. When the install kernel starts to boot, it probes > both IDE interfaces and reboots. The problem I

An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable' bad idea. It

X window setup

1999-06-15 Thread anandd
Hello everyone, I'm new to this list and Linux. I am having trouble with the X window installation. I have a PowerSpec with Cyrix 166 chip (i turned the cache off like the instructions recommended) and an old IBM VGA monitor. The installatiion program won't detect my monitor or card (I think the

repartitioning Windows

1999-06-15 Thread per_adua32
Hello, I have a question about partitioning. I recently bought a computer with a 6.4gb harddisk. At the moment it has 4 partitions: 3 x 2gb and one 0.4gb. I want to use the last 2 partitions to (2gb + 0.4gb) to install Linux. Since buying this computer I have not installed anyt

RE: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've recently upgraded, and remembered reading that some of the networking packages were split up. I opened the packages.gz file (in dists/stable/main/binary-i386) and searched for "telnetd". I found that telnetd is now its own package. I'm about to "apt-get" it. You probably need to do

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:11:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw > > > > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ba

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw > > > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, > > >or too many mounted file systems > > >

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Seth M. Landsman
I've gotten the IDE-SCSI emulation working in a 2.2 (2.2.9?) kernel and have a lilo append line which allows the CDRW (a new Smart and Friendly, JVC repackaged) to live on sg0 while the CD-ROM lives on hdd. This works flawlessly. I've burned to this drive under linux (only a couple of ti

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Chris Flipse
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: >I have, however, recently run into a problem. Since I upgraded, I can no >longer ftp or telnet to my machine. ("421 Service not available, remote >server has closed connection", and "Connection closed by foreign host"). >I'm not

Re: I compile crappy kernels

1999-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Craig McPherson wrote: > Well, I can't seem to compile a kernel that doesn't generate an > endless stream of error messages when I try to boot. Here's what I > get (repeated until I reboot): > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c,errno=8 > request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork fa

Re: Two installations on the same system

1999-06-15 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:59:30 +0200 (CEST), Bruno Goncalves Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Two Linux partitions] >This is exactly what I want to do. I just tried to do it, but wasn't >totally successful because I didn't configure lilo correctly. >I was using the unstable version and when I trie

"BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so"

1999-06-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
I started getting this from several binaries (mysqld, for one) immediately after upgrading to the latest packages in 'unstable' (it had been about a month since my last update). Anybody know: 1) what's causing this. 2) what I can do in the short-term to fix it 3) when it will be fixed in the p

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:31:09PM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > > SCSI support > > SCSI disk support > > SCSI CD-ROM support > > SCSI generic support > > Don't compile them as modules. Compile them into the kernel. I've never > managed even to compile these modul

Re: ip-up scripts not running

1999-06-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Jun, Joop Stakenborg wrote about "Re: ip-up scripts not running" > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:42:12PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [...] >> >> Also, I connect several times during a session: is there a way to >> start fetchmail from ip-up only if it's not running already? >> > > I

ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-15 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello! I have been using Debian for a while now (before that I used RH5.1). I really prefer Debian, its packaging system, and the fact that it works so nicely from a shell. (You don't need to load X before configuring stuff.) IPMasquerading and the like was a lot easier to set up. I have, however

Re: shell programing

1999-06-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Jun, Keith Beattie wrote about "Re: shell programing" > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: >> >> Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? >> i need bash and cshell. >> Thanx > > My favorite reference for bash is http://www.gnu.o

Re: ip-up scripts not running

1999-06-15 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:42:12PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: [...] > > Also, I connect several times during a session: is there a way to > start fetchmail from ip-up only if it's not running already? > I run this from ip-up.d, it is a shell script: ---

Netscape - Real Audio oddity

1999-06-15 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, this is a bit off "pure Debian topics", but it concerns packages I recently installed sohere goes: I have NS 4.6 and the latest Real Audio Player (G2) installed ( I am running potato). When I click on a link with a Real Audio extension the player opens and plays just fine. But if I store

Re: shell programing

1999-06-15 Thread Keith Beattie
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? > i need bash and cshell. > Thanx My favorite reference for bash is http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/ ksb

Fw: shared libraries problems

1999-06-15 Thread Konstantin Machow
- Original Message - From: Kalaev, Maxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'linux-chainik' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:08 PM Subject: shared libraries problems > Linux Chainik - http://www.dkd.ot.lt/hompag/linux > > Hi! > skipable_part(){ > First, I'd like to ask what is pre

Re: xlib6g-dev problem

1999-06-15 Thread Horvath Robert
Thanks for your help. I appreciate it a lot. The problem has been solved. Robert Hovath On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Eric G. Miller wrote: > You probably need to tell gcc where to look for the X libraries and probably > where to look for the includes as well. You need to pass it flags like -lXaw > (

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On 2.0.x kernels, the SCSI emulation help specifically says to > > disable ATAPI CDROM support beacuse it will be used over SCSI > > emulation. Thus it's my understanding that a device _already_ > > detected as ATAPI CDROM will never be detected as SCSI emulated. >

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. > > Have you done this this way successfully before? Something along these lines, yes. > On 2.0.x kernels, the SCSI emulation help specifically s

Problems with modutils

1999-06-15 Thread Alexander Koch
Hallo. After having installed modutils and having made some bad things I don't remember (not seemingly as bad that day) my modules setup is somewhat broken. On a modprobe I get the following: ---> desire ~ # modprobe isdn conf:50: missing module argument <--- Note the blank line. I have a /etc

Re: network printer??

1999-06-15 Thread Jens Ritter
Peter Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, this is kind of a newbie question, I know, but , um.. > how do I go about setting up a network printer? or more accurately, > what is the debain equivalent to the redhat printer-tool? > for those not farmiliar with printer tool, it's a simple interf

Re: shell programing

1999-06-15 Thread Jim B
I've found this site to be particularly helpful: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/ - Original Message - From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: shell programing > Is there any good online document for shell programing u

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Armin Wegner
> SCSI support > SCSI disk support > SCSI CD-ROM support > SCSI generic support Don't compile them as modules. Compile them into the kernel. I've never managed even to compile these modules. I got errors. Armin

Almost There...

1999-06-15 Thread jeff k
Thanks to the help of E.Paris and Shaleh, I've got my problem pretty much narrowed down; hopefully someone can get me through the last bit. I am using an IBM 755Thinkpad with a Megahertz XJ1144 modemcard. The modemcard is not a winmodem as was suggested to me-- Eloy Paris dug out a XJ1144 card h

Re: shell programing

1999-06-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 18:09:12 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? > i need bash and cshell. I haven't come accross a good complete shell programming tutorial, but I learned some tricks from "Intermediate Bourne Shell Programmi

Re: how do i modify the kernel for apm / ipmasq

1999-06-15 Thread shaleh
> > i want to modify the kernel for ip masq and apm how do i go about it? > my system is a 486 120 32 mb ram 4 hdd just installed from debain floppys > have nothing on it so what do i need to get? > Get: source for kernel 2.2.10 and the following packages: kernel-package bin86 gcc ncurses-de

Re: remove files sensibly

1999-06-15 Thread rp941372
> Hi all: > > How would I enter a command (or write a simple script) that would do: > > FOR EACH FILE *.elc IF THERE IS CORRESPONDING *.el, DELETE IT > > Are there any good online resources about writing similar scripts? I found this web page, under the Unix shells section in Yahoo: http://www

shell programing

1999-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? i need bash and cshell. Thanx

Re: ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. I compiled my > kernel 2.3.5 (I haven't had time to download 2.2.10 yet) with > SCSI emulation as a module and the following SCSI options: > > SCSI support > SCSI disk support > < > SCSI tape support > SCSI CD-ROM suppo

apt-get cache deleted-->apt-get not working anymore

1999-06-15 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! Since I was running out of disk space, I realized that under /var/cache/apt/archives there were all the packages I've been tinkering with since I last updated the system. I wanted to install a new package, which would in turn update some others. apt here works by ftp. However, apt refu

Re: network printer??

1999-06-15 Thread Kent West
Peter Moody wrote: > hi, this is kind of a newbie question, I know, but , um.. > how do I go about setting up a network printer? or more accurately, > what is the debain equivalent to the redhat printer-tool? > for those not farmiliar with printer tool, it's a simple interface that > allows > one

ide-scsi support

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm sorry for going over this again, but I've looked at the logs of the previous discussion and nothing helps my situation. I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. I compiled my kernel 2.3.5 (I haven't had time to download 2.2.10 yet) with SCSI emulation as a module and the following SCSI op

Re: smail immediate delivery

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel Daboul
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Max wrote: > AFAIK, smail will not work properly with libc later than 2.0.7t. I > had the same problem as you and was forced to switch to exim. But I > don't regret the switch because exim is an actively supported MTA that > performs better and is easier to configure than ex

Backup and reformat

1999-06-15 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm shortly going to reformat my harddisk to remove my Windows partitions (yay!) and I want to make a complete backup of my entire Linux system. If I create some tar.gz archives from / and store them on CD-R, will I be able to use the rescue disk to format and mount the new partitions, and just re

Re: XF86Setup doesn't work

1999-06-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Hi all. I've recently installed Debian on my system and i would like to use > X11. But the moment i start the configuration file, it changes to virual > mode and i can't do anything anymore. So i still don't have a > XF86Config-file to start X. > Is there anybody who has it, and would like to

Rescue disk changes from 2.0 to 2.1

1999-06-15 Thread Robert Rati
Why does the 2.1 rescue disk not allow you to install to a esdi drive when the 2.0 rescue disk does? At boot time, the kernel on the 2.1 rescue disk sees the drives, so the kernel is basically the same as the 2.0 kernel, but there are no devices for esdi drives (eda, edb, etc) in /dev once the res

Help me get apt-get through this ftp firewall

1999-06-15 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I want to give apt-get access to some ftp sites but the login procedure for the ftp firewall in the company is kind of bizarre. Here's how it goes: $ ftp ftp-fw Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_employee-id Password: remote_password Account: my_employee-password In the first line, "Name," ther

Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR

1999-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Albert Claret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As strange as it seems, Infomagic has decided to (for some reason) not >include Debian in their June Linux Developer's Resource 4 CD-set. In their >website, http://www.infomagic.com/catalog2.htm#linux, they state that >the

Re: acroread --why can't package be installed?

1999-06-15 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 15 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about "acroread --why can't package be > installed?" > > When I type > > # dpkg --list acroread > > The package lists with the letters "pn" at the start of the line. > > Such packages will not install, and there is an erro

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-15 Thread Bernhard Dobbels
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? try xmix -- Bernhard

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-15 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you mean the Debian *package* psgml, note that it doesn't work with > xemacs (all versions), it depends on a flavour of (GNU-)emacs; Yes, but there really is no reason it couldn't be made to work. I thought the main reason the Debian package was

Re: imagemagick compile

1999-06-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 19:49:47 +1000, Tim Burgess wrote: > gcc -o example -O -I/usr/X11R6/include/magick -L/usr/X11R6/lib example.c > \ > -lMagick -ltiff -ljpeg -lX11 -lz -lm Make that gcc -o example -O -I/usr/X11R6/include/ -I/usr/X11R6/include/magick \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib example.c

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 01:32:32PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote: > That's not really what I'm looking for. What I want is not the list of > .deb's, but the .debs themselves. What I'm trying to do is to create a ZIP > disk which holds everything I need to replicate my setup. If I do the > above, I s

imagemagick compile

1999-06-15 Thread Tim Burgess
I'm compiling a *very* simple example.c program that uses the imagemagick library (which in turn uses many other libraries), yet I get a compile error with libICE: gcc -o example -O -I/usr/X11R6/include/magick -L/usr/X11R6/lib example.c \ -lMagick -ltiff -ljpeg -lX11 -lz -lm /usr/bin/ld: w

soundcard too silent

1999-06-15 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? Armin

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-15 Thread Armin Wegner
> But I had never heard of mice dying like that, nor had I lost one in the > last 5 or so years. What causes it? Hi Jonathan, my mouse is new. It's two weeks old. Armin

SV: Webmasters Wanted!!! We'll pay you...

1999-06-15 Thread vw
This kind of crap is NOT welcome on the Debian-user mailing-list, su butt off!! Viggo Wichmann > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:15. juni 1999 03:23 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Webma

glibc2.0 and 2.1 on same machine?

1999-06-15 Thread Jon K Hellan
Is it possible, using LD_LIBRARY_PATH or suchlike, to have glibc2.0 for programs which require this, on a machine which has been upgraded to glibc2.1? My first experiments were not successful. Any tips? Jon

Re: how do i modify the kernel for apm / ipmasq

1999-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
You'll need to download/install the source files for the kernel image of your choice (2.0.36, 2.2.9, etc...). Suggest you read/skim the kernel HOWTO, and the debian docs on creating a custom kernel (since the "debian way" is a little different - but easy). Then cd to /usr/src/[insert kernel vers

Compileproblem lftp

1999-06-15 Thread Bernhard Dobbels
Hi, I tried to compile lftp myself, but always got the same problem. Viking:/tmp/lftp-pre2.0.0-990611# /usr/local/bin/lftp Warning: getcwd() failed: Success Segmentation fault well, i have some more info. I did a strace ./lftp and there's something wrong with the terminal info getting or so. S

XF86Setup doesn't work

1999-06-15 Thread Arjen
Hi all. I've recently installed Debian on my system and i would like to use X11. But the moment i start the configuration file, it changes to virual mode and i can't do anything anymore. So i still don't have a XF86Config-file to start X. Is there anybody who has it, and would like to send a copy o

email redirection

1999-06-15 Thread kat
hi ! our sysad told us we use exim on our server, can someone please tell me what should i do so that all email that i get in this box will all be re-sent to my @usa.net email add w/o its headers beging re-written ? thanks, kathy PS: if its possible, those w/c i can do all by myself w/o "root"

Re: sysklogd & /dev/log

1999-06-15 Thread kerkhoff
Thanks for reply, Joey. Both daemons seem to start fine, but do not seem to be logging anything. 'plog' returns nothing, probably because ppp.log is empty. Okay, /dev/log is a socket, but do you have any idea why it is not being created? -rw-r- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 a

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-15 Thread vandeveb
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:09:20AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Yea, this one stumped me for quite a while to. From section 5.3 of > > the Slapd administrators guide: NOTE: The DN pattern specified > > should be "normalized", meaning that there should be no extra >

how do i modify the kernel for apm / ipmasq

1999-06-15 Thread matthew lamb
i want to modify the kernel for ip masq and apm how do i go about it? my system is a 486 120 32 mb ram 4 hdd just installed from debain floppys have nothing on it so what do i need to get? ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Vi

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-15 Thread Andreas Voegele
>> Not good. If the html is hacked so that links work while it is >> compressed, then when someone UNcompresses it, the links will >> break. This would certainly be a surprising effect of unzpping >> html files. > Then don't do that! :-) > My point is that files should

RealPlayer G2 under Debian

1999-06-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
Is anyone using RealPlayer G2? I downloaded it tonight and installed it in my home directory. It runs when I click on a link that's a real audio type file, but then it responds with this error: Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. I'm not running any other apps that

Re: hhhelllpppp?

1999-06-15 Thread Alexander S Polyakov
Brian is right . I had the same problem and no way to solve this unless buy a new one . Hopefully , modems are cheap now . On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 15 Jun, Jeremy Ellison wrote about "hhhelll?" > > > > after some "tinkering" that it can't recognize my Zoom PCI-bus mo

Re: hhhelllpppp?

1999-06-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Jun, Jeremy Ellison wrote about "hhhelll?" > > after some "tinkering" that it can't recognize my Zoom PCI-bus modem >for some reason. I went thought the pppconfig and set up first with 99.9% chance that you have a winmodem and it will NOT work under linux. See http://www.o2.net/~gro

hhhelllpppp?

1999-06-15 Thread Jeremy Ellison
Dear, Volunteer     First I'll start with that ZDNet said that installing Debian Linux is by far the most difficult I found it was totally easy I just followed the instructions in the install man. which were online and easy to find, thanx!         Next comes my problem: I installed the most

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-15 Thread Tatsuya-SOGA
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