Re: Iwill scsi 2935uw

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:06:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body > > Hi All, > > I've been trying for a while now to get linux installed on my machine. > > It's an IWILL 2935UW. There is a stuff at the card web site www.iwill.net > that will help with re

RE: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread David Karlin
> To: Julian Gilbey > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: SupraExpress Modem problems > > > Julian writes: > > - the /var/log/ppp.log file showed that the intial connection had > > been attempted, and that after precisely 45 seconds, an alarm > > happened and the connection attempt

Re: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/release-notes/ch-installing

1999-07-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi: > can you point me to ther reference so I can > download the kernel-srouce-2.2.1.* packages > and compile and install them on my sparc10 > I have 2.0.35 running now but its lacking ipalias support. > I'm looking for the instructions after > make dep > like make

Re: Stock Kernel Option

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 03:08:07PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to help what options/parameters were built > with the Debian stock kernel? > > which driver should be used with the NetGear FA 310tx network > card. > > TIA > > --- > tcp > > > -- > Unsubscrib

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-20 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen Pitts wrote: > Look at ext2resize on freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net..the search box is at the > top). > Although it says that it is ALPHA, you might try it. should i mention partition magic 4? on a debian list? blushing -- hafi

A probable solution for recent mozilla problems.

1999-07-20 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, Mark Eichin and Stephen Pitts were kind enough to do extra research on why doesn't mozilla start on some occasions. And Stephen actually got it all right :) If it is run by an ordinary user, mozilla can't write files in /usr/lib/mozilla directory, which is the $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME direc

Iwill scsi 2935uw

1999-07-20 Thread debian
Hi All, I've been trying for a while now to get linux installed on my machine. It's an IWILL 2935UW. There is a stuff at the card web site www.iwill.net that will help with redhat but nothing for debian, I've tried using the kernel supplied with that but it causes a kernel panic . (I wonder why.

Re: pager

1999-07-20 Thread Chris Carlson
There is a nice pager program at www.qpage.org. If you just want to use numeric paging, and your system doesn't use the TAP protocol for it, you can just dial the pager and enter the number via a quick shell script. Hope this helps. -Chris - -

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Leach
I'm in danger of displaying and attitude here... I use netscape but consider it to be the worst piece of software that I have on any Linux box of mine. GUI web browsers that I have used on Linux are all junk in my opinion! Lynx OTOH is a "typical" UNIX program. I have never seen Lynx crash, han

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the most common problem I have encountered when suggesting Linux as an > OS to other people is, that even though there is a wealth of docs out > there, new users don't know where to look for them. Newbies need to be told Indeed. Going a slight bit

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread John Hasler
Mark Brown writes: > Personally, I always found FAQ-O-Matics slow and hard to use, but they > are a good way of making it easy to keep a FAQ maintained. I say just the opposite: easy to use but insanely difficult to maintain. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EM

Re: Upgrading kernel to 2.2

1999-07-20 Thread Olaf Conradi
+---[ On Jul 20, Tadas scribbled ]--- | Hello all, | | How can I upgrade 2.0 kernel in Debian 2.1 (slink) to 2.2? Which | software should I upgrade? | | Bye, | | Tadas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +--->8 Have a look at: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel

Re: Multiple mail delivery.

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
Look at the '-m' option of fetchmail, in the fetchmail man page. If you install procmail, you can use it with fetchmail, and apparantly you can also use the /usr/lib/sendmail interface to do it. I know that several others here do what you are asking, so maybe they can give you their command line

Re: PPP Connection Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Marc Mongeon
See my comments below. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel

XFree86 with SiS 5597

1999-07-20 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, i'm having some problems with my video card... It's a SiS 5597, i've cofigurated it, and it is working well in 800x600 mode, but when I use it in the 1024x768 mode, there is some noise on screen, just a few lines, it's very boring... did Anyone else have this problem? or better, did Anyone else

XFree86 with SiS 5597

1999-07-20 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, i'm having some problems with my video card... It's a SiS 5597, i've cofigurated it, and it is working well in 800x600 mode, but when I use it in the 1024x768 mode, there is some noise on screen, just a few lines, it's very boring... did Anyone else have this problem? or better, did Anyone else

Stock Kernel Option

1999-07-20 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Is there a way to help what options/parameters were built with the Debian stock kernel? which driver should be used with the NetGear FA 310tx network card. TIA --- tcp

pager

1999-07-20 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a way to call a pager and leave a number to the pager in Linux? Thanks! --- tcp

ssltelnet problem

1999-07-20 Thread Konstantin Kivi
Hello All I have problem with ssltelnet that I tried to install recently. first I tried to install binary package from non-us.debian.org. I tried both stable and unstable ssltelnet crashed if I used -z ssl which I believe provides encryption Then I tried to get source package from the same pla

Re: dhcpcd

1999-07-20 Thread Ben Lutgens
> > Any ideas why it won't run? What kind of log entries are there? I am sure there is probbly a dhcp.log in /var/log somewhere. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- "We're associates of your business partner, Marcellus Wallace. You do rememb

Re: giving gnome a try

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JonesMB" == JonesMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JonesMB> It would be nice if downloading gnome would suggest that JonesMB> Window Maker or some other compatible Window manager. I JonesMB> attempted to use gnome, then decided to download Window JonesMB> Maker. As someone already said: there

Re: Upgrading to kernel 2.2

1999-07-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Jul, Tadas wrote about "Upgrading kernel to 2.2" > Hello all, > > How can I upgrade 2.0 kernel in Debian 2.1 (slink) to 2.2? Which > software should I upgrade? > > Bye, > > Tadas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *- On 20 Jul, Jim B wrote about "Upgrading to kernel

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On 20-Jul-99, you wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of all the various FAQ docs/manuals/guides that can be reached from the left hand frame at www.debian.org Bye LeeE > > What online docs? I am not sure which you mean; if you > give me a url or better description, I will see if they are available >

RE: vim question

1999-07-20 Thread Alexis Villagra
Please, unsubscribe me from this list. Thanks > -Mensaje original- > De: debian-user@lists.debian.org [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: 13/07/1999 8:09 AM > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: recipient list not shown > Asunto: Re: vim question > > > insert a single(or

Multiple mail delivery.

1999-07-20 Thread Gary van Blerk
Hi there,   Here's the story: I have a Debian 2.1 server, ppp connection to my ISP. I have registered a domain for mail I can retrieve mail using fetchmail without a problem. I do not have a static IP address. My server is mail.ipandm.co.za I have installed exim and configured it so it no

eepro100.c v1.08

1999-07-20 Thread Rick Salvador
Has anyone had any problems with this version? is it stable enough for a production machine? If not what version works the best? Rick Rick Salvador | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services| http:

RE: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Person, Roderick
Try wx_ftp. I think there is a deb. I got the tar version myself. It's the Linux version of ws_ftp Rod.. > -Original Message- > From: Bryan Scaringe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:53 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: STABLE graphical FTP cl

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
>> I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and >> supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. Netscape will work; use ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ and netscape will prompt you once for the password. Once you are connected, you use the 'Upload' command on the file menu,

Upgrading to kernel 2.2

1999-07-20 Thread Jim B
Hi, I'm currently running slink on kernel 2.0.37 and am looking into upgrading my kernel to the 2.2.x series. I remember having seen a page on the debian.org site which told of the pitfalls and considerations (i.e., what other software needs to be upgraded to remain compatible) of doing so; howeve

Warm LOADLIN boot hangs after syslogd

1999-07-20 Thread Dan Halbert
I have a new dual-boot Win98SE and an up-to-date slink system with 2.0.36, running on an Abit LX6. Win98 and Linux share a single disk. If I use LOADLIN, invoked from Win98, to boot the system, then Linux usually (always?) hangs while booting after starting syslogd but before klogd: ... Sta

Re: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread Pollywog
This is the init string I use for my SupraExpress external modem from /etc/diald/connect: MODEM_INIT="AT&F2&C1&D2&K3M0" Some Supra modems use &F2 instead of &F -- Andrew

RE: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jul-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > IglooFTP is somewhat more stable, but still not enough to be useful. > This morning, it kept dying of a "broken pipe". I had to boot to > Windows and run CuteFTP to find out that the site I was uploading to > was full. I can't believe that IglooFTP couldn't h

Upgrading kernel to 2.2

1999-07-20 Thread Tadas
Hello all, How can I upgrade 2.0 kernel in Debian 2.1 (slink) to 2.2? Which software should I upgrade? Bye, Tadas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

dhcpcd

1999-07-20 Thread Lopolito, Thomas
I've got a newly installed slink system with dhcpcd successfully installed. I installed dhcpcd_0.70-5.deb. At boot I get the message that dhcpcd is running. When I get to a term screen and run "ps" I find it is no longer running. If I manually start it in debug mode I get the message: dhcpcd:send

Re: mount/fstab question [WAS: Re: SV: Unidentified subject!]

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
>> Oki. I just put a 'defaults' there... What does nosuid,nodev and use do? >> Where is the man page for this? (Not the normal man fstab) The options are filesystem-specific. Try mount(8) and nfs(5) to see what options are available for the filesystem you are mounting. Skip the nfs page if you do

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:53:27AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and > supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. > > gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any > operation. I'm using the latest version

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and => supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. I use WXftp, a GTK app. Very nice, very stable. The WXftp web site address is: http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/WXFTP/index.html It

Re: login.app and 16 bpp?

1999-07-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 07:10:53PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried login.app and liked it's appearance very much, but it ran > the X server only with 8bpp. Is it possible to configure it to run > with 16 bpp? Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for something like this: Section "Scre

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Bakosi Jozsef
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and > supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. > > gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any > operation. I'm using the latest version, 2.0.2, but have

Re: Install Source Packages

1999-07-20 Thread Thomas
I had problems with dependencies with the perl upgrade in potato until I realized the "-base" packages for both 5.004 and 5.005 can coexist. So if you first install perl-5.005-base in the "base/required" section, then you can remove all of the other perl-5.004 (you can keep perl-5.004-base) pac

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "Michael" == Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael> I really have to step in here. The 'intuitive' argument is > Michael> habitually used to argue against *any* software that doesn't > Michael> conform in every way to the expectation of whoever is

login.app and 16 bpp?

1999-07-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I've tried login.app and liked it's appearance very much, but it ran the X server only with 8bpp. Is it possible to configure it to run with 16 bpp? Thanks in advance, joachim

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Just one more question... I still get the notorious "SIOCADDRT: Invalid > > argument" error on bootup. I've read all over the place that the > > solution to this is to comment out the "route add -net" line i

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Francois GELIS
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to > be using CPU or doing disk access--it just "pauses" for a few seconds > while starting. > > I tried an "strace xemacs" to see what system calls were being made. > During the

Re: ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
Sorry to reply to my own posting, but all I've had in response is one private email concurring that a working ppp under 2.0.x doesn't work under 2.2.x. Having played about with arp under 2.2.10, the problem seems to boil down to this: # arp -i eth0 -d 888.888.92.28 # arp -i eth0 -s 888.888.92.28

Re: gcc does not find stddef.h

1999-07-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
J.H.M. Dassen hat gesagt: // J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:37:36 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > make: *** No rule to make target > > `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stddef.h', needed by `main.o'. > > Stop. > > > So I suspect somehow my gcc setup is broken. > It

Re: PGCC

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:33:46AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:40:54AM -0500, Jeff Beley wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of a place to get pgcc debs? I've heard pgcc greatly > > > boosts > > > system performance. > > > > There are no debs,

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > add to /etc/crontab: What are the advantages of adding to /etc/crontab as opposed to /etc/cron.d? Besides that cron.d is Debian specific ("man 8 cron" tells this) of course ;) Just curious...

Re: giving gnome a try

1999-07-20 Thread JonesMB
Thanks for all the comments so far. So far it looks like the way to go is to install gnome and use Window Maker. It would be nice if downloading gnome would suggest that Window Maker or some other compatible Window manager. I attempted to use gnome, then decided to download Window Maker. Now I

mount/fstab question [WAS: Re: SV: Unidentified subject!]

1999-07-20 Thread Brad
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oki. I just put a 'defaults' there... What does nosuid,nodev and use do? > Where is the man page for this? (Not the normal man fstab) The fstab manpage refers you to the mount manpage. In there, it tells what nearly all the options for all the variou

Re: Diald auth problem

1999-07-20 Thread John Hasler
Robert-Jan writes: > It [diald] does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, > but the man pages say that I should not do this. > Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Add 'noauth' to the pppd-options line in /etc/diald/diald.options . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread John Hasler
Julian writes: > - the /var/log/ppp.log file showed that the intial connection had > been attempted, and that after precisely 45 seconds, an alarm > happened and the connection attempt failed. Nothing happened > between the "expect OK" and the alarm lines in the log. Sounds like the modem d

PPP Connection Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Cheshire
Hello all, I've a potentially elementary situation to present. I have an internal Zoom56k dualmode modem on ttyS2. I have, with the assistance of a linux friend of mine irl, got my internet connection working before, so I know it isn't the hardware but I'll just throw that in anyways. I've g

Re: 2_why_so_much_hate

1999-07-20 Thread Cheshire
Ok, I've been keeping an eye on this thread and thought I'd put in my thoughts as a new linux user, and debian at that. I hated dselect the first time I was thrown into it, but, I'd say on the third time with it I took a deep breath, read what was being displayed before me--yes, there are actually

Re: the dselect debate

1999-07-20 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Chris Dion wrote: > I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution > specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather > easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface > couldn't be improved somewhat. Is work on dsele

Re: eeek ... new debian HP look

1999-07-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Chad A. Adlawan" wrote: > > forgive me for the noise ... but i almost choked when i saw the new > www.debian.org ... then again i just love debian, who cares about the logo > ... i'll get used to it :) > Why aren't they using the lamp and swirl? I thought they had switched to where that wa

STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. gFTP is *very unstable* and usually segfaults with just about any operation. I'm using the latest version, 2.0.2, but have noticed this with all other versions I have ever used.

It's the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME (Was: Re: Mozilla)

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
The problem is that MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME (in /usr/bin/mozilla) points to a directory that only root can write to. It should point to ~/.mozilla instead. I've filed a bug to this effect. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stefan Nobis wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Keith G. Murphy" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KGM> If the Amiga folks are not going to use any of the GNU tools, or > KGM> dpkg/apt especially, that would be a perverse decision. In fact, > KGM> not making it based on/comp

Re: Partition table change

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:38:03AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > > I will update for slink soon. Just realised that my partition design isn't > too good (too small /home.) > > Is there any way to change the partion table without a complete reinstall? > > Just wanted to get rid of /usr, /home and /va

Second PHP3 Re: cold fusion & linux

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:33:55PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote: > I've heard of a product called 'php' which is supposed to be good, but > don't have any experience using it. > > FAQ is at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3 I ported a medium-size web site using IIS4/ASP to Apache/PHP3, and I was very impres

Squid seems to be the beter choide (Was Re: Proxy server with Apache)

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the proxy-server apache module would use a proxy server to speed up the serving of apache web pages. Squid is designed to do _exactly_ what you want, and I've heard very good things about it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.o

Re: Compiling php to slink

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to compile the latest php in a slink system. During > compilation i get the following errors: > > > -- cd apache && cc -shared -fPIC -DCOMPILE_DL=1 -I.. -I. > -I/usr/include/apache-1.3 -I/usr/include/c

Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread vw
> Good Idea! > Regards > Vitux > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Carl Mummert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:20. juli 1999 03:57 > Til: debian-user > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide

Re: the dselect debate

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:35:46PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote: > I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution > specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather > easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface > couldn't be improved somewha

gnome-session is not ready for prime time (Was: Re: giving gnome a try)

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:23:13PM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > I am tired of FVWM95 and its apparent limitations and lack of new > development so I am ready for a new window manager. Plus I wanna try > something new and maybe break my system :-) As another poster has said, WindowMaker is VERY nice.

SV: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread vw
Hi debians. I think what Wayne is getting at here is a "standard" of recommendations for supplying information when writing to this list. The point must be to express one's problem as clearly and concisely as possible, giving as much information on as little space as possible. I know from my own e

Re: PGCC

1999-07-20 Thread John Foster
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:40:54AM -0500, Jeff Beley wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a place to get pgcc debs? I've heard pgcc greatly > > boosts > > system performance. > > There are no debs, but it's pretty trivial to build from source - I'd > recommend using a CVS sna

Re: the dselect debate

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:35:46PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote: > I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution > specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather > easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface > couldn't be improved somewha

Re: 100 meg disk

1999-07-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 06:27:33AM -0400, geordie wrote: > hi > > i recently installed slink on a compaq 486 laptop w/ 4 megs ram and a 100 > meg hdd. dselect downloaded a _few_ packages for me, but during the > installation process the disk became full. i tried using dselect to > remove unwante

Re: cold fusion & linux

1999-07-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:33:55PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote: > I've heard of a product called 'php' which is supposed to be good, but > don't have any experience using it. > > FAQ is at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3 > > Chris Dion > > Benjamin E Frame wrote: > > > > I'm a big fan of Linux w/Apache

Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem

1999-07-20 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Notingher Petru wrote: > > Of course the cable is connected. Moreover, it works wonderfully with > Bill's stuff. Have you tried playing with the 'recording' settings? with my SB 64PCI board, for some odd reason if I don't have the channel selected for recording I don't get anything. Sounds stra

XF86Setup gives Segmentation Fault

1999-07-20 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hi, since 2 month I can't run XF86Setup, ech time I get a Segmentation Fault. I configured X with xf86config and it works now. Do someone know how to solve this ? Debian+kernel2.2.10+potato PII + Ati RagePro with 4Mo All my software are uptodate.

Compiling php to slink

1999-07-20 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm trying to compile the latest php in a slink system. During compilation i get the following errors: -- cd apache && cc -shared -fPIC -DCOMPILE_DL=1 -I.. -I. -I/usr/include/apache-1.3 -I/usr/include/c-client -o imap.so ../functions/imap.c /usr/lib/c-client.a -lc cd apache && cc -shared -fP

Re: cold fusion & linux

1999-07-20 Thread Chris Dion
I've heard of a product called 'php' which is supposed to be good, but don't have any experience using it. FAQ is at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3 Chris Dion Benjamin E Frame wrote: > > I'm a big fan of Linux w/Apache, but at work we use Allaire's Cold Fusion > (WinNT) for web-database interactio

Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I want to set up my Apache seerver as Proxy host. I'm really unexperienced in this topic and at first I want to describe my environment: There are different departments in our institute. The main department has a fast internet connection and uses a firewall and a proxy server. I work in a

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:25:26AM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > There are some tools out there to automatically maintain a FAQ. Maybe > something like the FAQ-O-Matic could be helpful, does anyone have > experiences with such a system? There is a Debian FAQ-O-Matic. It was unmaintained for a

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:29:42AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > I haven't looked at the XEmacs source code yet to figure out what it's > doing, or why. My unenlightened guess is that it's trying to open some > audio stream, retrying several times, and eventually giving up. > Does anyone kn

Re: Is IRC #debian used often?

1999-07-20 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:50:20 +0200, "J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 21:49:30 +, Brian Greenfield wrote: >> So, is it used -- it is undernet isn't it? > >It isn't; see http://www.debian.org/support#irc . irc.debian.org is on >OpenProjects (http://openprojects

Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem

1999-07-20 Thread Notingher Petru
Of course the cable is connected. Moreover, it works wonderfully with Bill's stuff. At 08:56 20/07/99 -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: >Petru NOTINGHER wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot. In fact, I chose the ES1370 and all the .wav files play. On the contrary, >> >> I have a problem with the audio CDs: workm

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: cron, crontab, etc. Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info o

Re: ncpfs and /etc/fstab

1999-07-20 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Andreas Tille wrote: >Hello, > >I played around something with ncpfs. I managed to get >an entry in /etc/fstab so that root is able to mount a >netware drive using mount. > Can You explain what kind of entry You've use ? Alex

cold fusion & linux

1999-07-20 Thread Benjamin E Frame
I'm a big fan of Linux w/Apache, but at work we use Allaire's Cold Fusion (WinNT) for web-database interaction. Has anyone found a way to use Cold Fusion with Debian (or another dist.)? If so, what packages do you use? I've heard about , is it any good? Allaire's site says that they plan to of

ncpfs and /etc/fstab

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I played around something with ncpfs. I managed to get an entry in /etc/fstab so that root is able to mount a netware drive using mount. Now I have some questions: 1) If I want to enable a user to mount a device I usually add the option "user" to the mount flag. Unfortunately this

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first > > > time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably > > > elementary, but I can't fi

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Buddha" == Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Buddha> interface being worked on right now is apt. Currently, Buddha> gnome-apt is a decent, working packaging interface. In my Buddha> opinion, it does not quite replace dselect (mainly because I Buddha> can't easily tell which packages ar

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Doug" == Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doug> password file (I don't even remember if it was an option at that Doug> time). I think the latest version set the system up to use Doug> passwords, but the file didn't have the users or passwords Doug> available. And it can't. SMB

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kristopher> Does anyone know what it's doing here, whether it's Kristopher> important, and whether there is some way to either make it Kristopher> work better No, not at all. Kristopher> or to turn it off completely? This is some

the dselect debate

1999-07-20 Thread Chris Dion
I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather easy to use and quite powerful. That's not to say that the interface couldn't be improved somewhat. Is work on dselect ongoing, and is the source available? If so,

SV: Download af linux

1999-07-20 Thread vw
Hi Debians. I'm answering this guy in danish, since he wrote his posting in danish. He's asking where to get a Linux os, and I tell him to check out www.debian.org, and also to read some info first. Der var du sgu heldig. Jeg mener at være den eneste dansker her (udover dig). Adressen er: http://w

Re: Mozilla

1999-07-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
"P. van Tilburg" wrote: > > I also, saw an mozilla binairy in /usr/bin, but if I start that: > > target(/1):~$ mozilla > *** Registering html library > Registered Ok > target(/1):~$ > > and I get my prompt back, nothing happens? This has been asked before on the list - nobody seems to know why,

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sorry to appear dense but I find that man page incomprehensible. Thanks for decyphering it! Patrick - Original Message - [snip] > >From `Manual page crontab(5)' line 110: > >Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Fol­ >lowing a range with ``/'' specifies ski

Re: SB64 PCI + CD audio Problem

1999-07-20 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > Thanks a lot. In fact, I chose the ES1370 and all the .wav files play. On the > contrary, > > I have a problem with the audio CDs: workman (or XPlayCD) seems to play them, > but I have no sound from the card. TkMixer has no influence on it. > > Have an idea ? Well, i

Re: Diald auth problem

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 12:13:57PM +0200, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with diald. Diald connects and then disconnects with the > message: > > peer refused to authenticate > > It does work when I remove "auth" from the /etc/ppp/options file, but the man > pages say t

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how. > > How do I do this? Hi, ??? >From `Manual page crontab(5)' line 110: Step v

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-20 Thread John Hasler
Doug Young writes: > I think resolv.conf is set right .. first line is just server homepage, "server homepage"? That makes no sense. Please post a copy of the file. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dan

SV: Unidentified subject!

1999-07-20 Thread Anders . ohrt
Oki. I just put a 'defaults' there... What does nosuid,nodev and use do? Where is the man page for this? (Not the normal man fstab) Anders Öhrt -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: John Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

XEmacs has slow startup

1999-07-20 Thread Kristopher Johnson
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to be using CPU or doing disk access--it just "pauses" for a few seconds while starting. I tried an "strace xemacs" to see what system calls were being made. During the slow part of startup, here's what it was doing: setitimer(

SV: SV: Enlightenment

1999-07-20 Thread Anders . ohrt
No docs with the machine, it's an old thingie I found lying around here. The gfx card seams to be VLB (that's the black 16 bit ISA-looking thing with an AGP looking thing after it, isn't it?), and might be an S3 (there is a logo with 3 thing that might be 'S' and a '3', but it's not the standard S3

Re: cron, crontab, etc.

1999-07-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:09PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I want to schedule a command to run updatebd every 6 hours. The man pages > for cron and crontab don't have any useful info on how. > How do I do this? Add the following line to your crontab (use the crontab -e command):

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