Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:12:05AM -0400, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they > say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a > SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at > $15 (plus postage).

Re: LS-120 "Super Rescue" floppy

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > I'm trying to make a "super rescue" floppy on an LS-120 floppy. Good idea! Norton Utilities for Windows does this with a Zip drive. > If I leave the first line in /etc/lilo.conf > > /dev/hdd1 Definately not what you want. In my exper

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've installed different board, it's not booting either. Both boards I've tried had i430VX chipset on them, I'm no longer sure about the original board (can't get it to boot, sure that it will not work after picking it up from trash) Are there any bugs in 2.2.10 connected to VX chipset? Andrew -

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1999-07-23 Thread Harold Hartley
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SAMBA: %G substitution wrong

1999-07-23 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I posted a simular question in the samba lists, but still no answer, maby you know this. When I use 'include = \etc\smb.conf.%G" in the smb.conf configuration file. the %G is somtimes substituted as nogroup. (nogroup is the gid of the user nobody.) When this happens, a user from a group ca

LS-120 "Super Rescue" floppy

1999-07-23 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'm trying to make a "super rescue" floppy on an LS-120 floppy. At work we have several machines with no "standard" floppy drive configured thusly: +--- master --- /dev/hda (hard drive) +--- IDE0 --| | +--- slave (no connection) | | +--- master --- /dev/hdc (

Re: SVGALib

1999-07-23 Thread Chris Dion
Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > Does anybody know where can I find a good FAQ about SVGALIB, or (that > would be better) can explain me, how to run svgalib as a normal user? My understanding is that svgalib must run with root privileges. More info: http://siva.usc.edu/~brion/linux/svgalib-dev-faq-2.html

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread John P. Hogan
the book has been published through New Riders and I have seen it in 1 local bookstore. The book is GPLed, has a single CD distro and sells for $24.95 with a portion of that going to FSF.

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Jul 1999 22:16:00 +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: >> Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane >In fact, your line length should be even smaller than that to allow >for quoting. RFC 1036 (I think) says 72 columns.

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Matt Kopishke wrote: >> I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape >> Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. > >Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get >bus errors trying to login

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Colin" == Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin> Havoc Pennington´s Debian Tutorial (would be good to have it as Colin> a package, is there already one?), The tutorial has been extended by Ossama Othen and John Goertzen (IIRC), and will be published as a book. As the tutorial is G

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Buddha Buck writes: > >If InfoMagic CD's were not reliable, it's because they were cutting >their CDs (to shoehorn Debian into their toolkit CDs), and not taking >the same quality control as we do when developing our official CD >images. > >If InfoMagic is now shipping Official Debian CDs, then

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Matt Kopishke wrote: > I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape > Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i haven't gotten it to

shell script to run dns (TZO) signon client when ppp redials

1999-07-23 Thread Nate
I've tried to get this dynip client TZO.Signon to startup automatically everyime my isp cuts me off and wvdial redials. I put the shell script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/, but it will not update dns to my dynip. What am I doing wrong here? Thank you. -- NatePuri ("natedawg") Certified Law Stude

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane In fact, your line length should be even smaller than that to allow for quoting. RFC 1036 (I think) says 72 columns. -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > b) having a table of contents and index ( <- index might be hard ) >> ^^ >> >> Not too much if the base is SGML or (La)TeX. > That makes me happy. It will probably be in debiandoc-

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Dieter" == Dieter Jdger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dieter> They use a perl script to rewrite outgoing mail. Now I looked Dieter> at the doc and found that option, which can be used Dieter> to make a director rewriting the address or not. My idea is to Dieter> allow rewriting for outgoing mai

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Andrew; > > I suppose that my first thought would be to BIOS differences... > Have you already checked for "memory holes" and "shadow memory"? Yep, did that check, everything was ok. > > What is the size difference between the two kernels? > The 2.0.36 is 406K, 2.2.10 is 495K. Both kern

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Have you compiled the kernel with > APM: Poweroff on shutdown > enabled? Linux doesn't do this unless you tell the > kernel to do so in the config before you compile it. > > --Evan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Where can I Find AP

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Michael" == Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael> What do you mean by ASCII links? You just mean references? Michael> I don't mind providing and ASCII version, but I think that Michael> for ease of navigation, well designed HTML (as a final Michael> version) would be best. If

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Halis" == Halis Osman Erkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Halis> As it seen your APM daemon is not working. Which is only needed, if one wants to suspend the box. It is not needed for poweroff on shutdown (apmd will be killed long before anyway, so it has no effect). Ciao, Martin

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen> Yup, also, when you get a custom module from CPAN, put it in Stephen> /usr/local/lib/site_perl, the proper place for downloaded Stephen> modules. This is the default place, when installing modules manually (or through CPAN.pm). S

HP Deskjet 420C - compatible?

1999-07-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
Anyone know if the HP Deskjet 420C is compatible with Linux? The hardware HOWTO says the 400 series is compatible so I think it should be, but does anyone know for sure? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookre

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread Bill Leach
I too am woefully ignorant of apt... You should not need however to put on hold any package installed using dpkg if the package that was obtained is a later release than listed in the available. I have done this nearly countless times without ever using hold and no problem has ever come up. On

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: >> >i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't >> >really see one. did anyone else figure this out? >> It's the glibc from unstable. > >but i thought there were several posts from people claiming that "it worked >just fine for t

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Bill Leach
Andrew; I suppose that my first thought would be to BIOS differences... Have you already checked for "memory holes" and "shadow memory"? What is the size difference between the two kernels? While I am ignorant of the majority of the differences between 2.0- and 2.2- kernels is there any chance t

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Matt Kopishke
I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. -Matt- ---++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.state.me.us | The mind is not

Re: X whacks PPP in Debian's Slink

1999-07-23 Thread John Hasler
Brian Wildasinn writes: > So here's the problem: PPP works fine except when XWindow is running! You may have an IRQ conflict between your mouse and your modem. What port is your modem on? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

SVGALib

1999-07-23 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Does anybody know where can I find a good FAQ about SVGALIB, or (that would be better) can explain me, how to run svgalib as a normal user? thanks ruoso

defrag

1999-07-23 Thread Cheshire
I wanted to defrag my file system but on the command 'defrag /dev/hda5' and 'e2defrag /dev/hda5' I get: [e2]defrag: bad magic number in super-block Feedback welcome and appreciated. |cheshire|

Re: RMail & POP config

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:46:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could the knowledgeable people here please point me to some information > sources > on this topic, and if possible, send me an sample .emacs file ? The simplest thing is probably to install and set up fetchmail (there's a GUI c

Re: PPP Connection Problems

1999-07-23 Thread paul . walton
On 23 Jul, Cheshire wrote: >> > Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATZ^M) >> > Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: expect (OK) >> > Jul 20 00:51:38 cheshire chat[304]: >> > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: OK >> > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: -- got it >> > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshir

Icecast

1999-07-23 Thread P. van Tilburg
Hi all, I wanted to experiment a little with icecast, so I apt-ed icecast-server and icecast-client (1.0.0). I went to www.icecast.org, read the FAQ and gettin started and started... I set up the server with default values, (port: 8000 client, poort: 8001 encoder and poort 8002: remote admin) /

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-23 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Steve Lamb | | On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:11:58 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: | | >What is there that BBEdit can do that Emacs can't? | | Emacs isn't an editor. Agreed. It's an editor-builder. -- Gravity brings me down.

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
> >i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't > >really see one. did anyone else figure this out? > > > >- p2-266 128mb ram > >- kernel 2.2.9 > >- glibc 2.1.1-13 > > It's the glibc from unstable. but i thought there were several posts from people claiming that "it

Re: PPP Connection Problems

1999-07-23 Thread Cheshire
> > Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATZ^M) > > Jul 20 00:51:29 cheshire chat[304]: expect (OK) > > Jul 20 00:51:38 cheshire chat[304]: > > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: OK > > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: -- got it > > Jul 20 00:51:48 cheshire chat[304]: send (ATDT7770591^M)

Re: Monitoring precise data in and out of eth1

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 10:56:15AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > My ISP is wireless which means a 24/7 service which charges for usage over > 600 Megs of days in and out in a month. The connection is via an antenna > and thence an rj45 cable into a NIC. > > The NIC is eth1. Is there

README: Reporting Bugs

1999-07-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
We appreciate the bug reports you, as users, submit to the bug tracking system. It helps us improve the software. When you do find a bug, and wish to report it, please: * Use one of the bug reporting tools: `bug' or `reportbug'. You can set your EDITOR environment variable, and it will

Re:dselect error message

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re:dselect error message" > On 22 Jul, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 22 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "dselect error message" >>> I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when >>> everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option

Unable to remount root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Ramiel G.
We have a server that after getting rebooted never came back up now it just hangs on the message: "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode." it is able to mount it at first try but not the second I cheked the fstab and it's correct this is an Intel N440BX MB w/P3 chip using Symbios NCR58

Solid Web Browser for Sparc

1999-07-23 Thread Mike Lieberman
I have 'arena' running on the Sparc station, but is clearly a browser of limitted capability. The netscape4 base package doesn't seem to provide a runable binary and the Netscape Java packages need a netscape 4.5, which does seem to be avaiable for the sparc. Does any user who is running on a spar

gv with neXtaw anyone?

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
I'm trying to build gv using neXtaw, but it segfaults. Linking to neXtaw works fine with Xaw based apps for me, but I'm not sure about replacing Xaw3d with neXtaw. Is this at all possible or am I getting somthing wrong here? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re:dselect error message

1999-07-23 Thread paul . walton
On 22 Jul, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 22 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "dselect error message" >> I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when >> everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option to the default serv >> er (debian.org I think) in order to get Netscape amo

Re: mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

1999-07-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting shaul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: mc > Version: 4.5.1-1.1 > > I have another mc (midnight commander) question. > How can I terminate an ftp connection made from within mc ? > The fact that I can not terminate such a connection at will has 2 > implications for me: > 1) I am holding an u

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David Karlin wrote: > > > You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding. A good PPP (or other > > network) connection is necessary for any browser to work. Um, yes, I meant in the context of viewing pages on the Internet. Sorry to mislead. > > No browser > > can work independently of that,

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
> > On 23-Jul-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > Check out www.infomagic.com. > > > > The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they > > say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a > > SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format > > OK regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM & Outlook) > > - for me, reading: > > Don't do that! The sta

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists" > > Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + > > In reply to:Lee Elliott > > Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> On 22-Jul-99, you wrote:

RE: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Check out www.infomagic.com. > > The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they > say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a > SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at > $15 (plus p

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread J Horacio MG
> > > Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with > > > a "bus error." This usually happens when I close a Netscape window > > > (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape > > > window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Check out www.infomagic.com. The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at $15 (plus postage). You can subscribe for updates at $10 a p

X whacks PPP in Debian's Slink

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Wildasinn
Hi, Installed Debian-2.1, "Slink", without anytroubles via an essentials cdrom, then installed the rest via ftp. Everything got downloaded, installed, and configured without any errors whatsoever. So here's the problem: PPP works fine except when XWindow is running! No ping packets return from my

Dvorak

1999-07-23 Thread qxm
How do I change my keybaord over to Dvorak on an already set up slink install? thanks -- Matthew McFarlane -

Re: dselect or apt installation profiles?

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jul, Ralf Mueller wrote about "dselect or apt installation profiles?" > Hello, > > there are preselections for the dselect programm in which several > packages are selected. > > Where are this profiles and how can I manipulate them that I can define > my own 'preselections' beacause I w

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:47:43AM -0400, Larry Huffman wrote: > I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make > sure. > > What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian > system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if

mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

1999-07-23 Thread shaul
Package: mc Version: 4.5.1-1.1 I have another mc (midnight commander) question. How can I terminate an ftp connection made from within mc ? The fact that I can not terminate such a connection at will has 2 implications for me: 1) I am holding an unused connection to the server until its timeout cl

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > Obviosly one of the partitions is not found. Any idea why? > > Andrew > > > Well, I might have spoken too quickly with my last post :-) > One other thing to check for is that ext2 support is compiled into the > kernel. It is kinda hard to tell what might be going

New kernel causes kernel panic

1999-07-23 Thread Marc Dubrowski
Hello everybody, I'm a newbie in compiling kernel, and I don't know exactly what problems are caused by 2.2.x kernels I've tried compiling one, and the make menuconfig, make dep make clean and make ran just fine. It was the kernel provided with slink's packages: kernel-2.2.1. I don'yt know if it'

xcircuit - it does not respond to the kbd.

1999-07-23 Thread shaul
Package: xcircuit Version: 2.0a6-3 >From time to time xcircuit does not respond to the kbd. To be more specific, it seems to ignore it. It does respond to the mouse, though. I believe that this happens if I quit xcircuit and then activate it again, as if it remembers that it was running at least

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:24:06PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) > > We still need an ASCII document that tells newbies about lynx or > Netscape in that case, IMO. Agreed. >

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:36:06AM -0700 In reply to:Mark Wagnon Quoting Mark Wagnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mark Brown wrote: > To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does > this look? Messed up threads and

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [update]

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:22:03PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] > Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0300 > > In reply to:Da

ANSI telnet program

1999-07-23 Thread Daniel Maupin
I need to know if their is any ANSI art compatlible telnet programs avalible that will work with Debian. I just have to play on the new Userfriendly bbs :) I looked around and couldn't find one. Thanks -- Daniel Maupin AMA#588800 "One World, One Web, One Program" Microsoft Marketing Add "Ein V

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Obviosly one of the partitions is not found. Any idea why? > Andrew > Well, I might have spoken too quickly with my last post :-) One other thing to check for is that ext2 support is compiled into the kernel. It is kinda hard to tell what might be going on here without kno

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Most of the time when I see this problem, it is because there is no support for the drive compiled in the kernel. Did you check the following under the Block Device section of menuconfig when compilinf the 2.2.10 kernel? Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK su

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Halis Osman Erkan
As it seen your APM daemon is not working. The result from the ps aux command points the query you have just entered. It means PID 2169 is your ps aux commands PID. Not APM's PID. So you must have re-compile kernel with advanced power management support APM. Or a little bit chance try to start ap

Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected

1999-07-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > Well, see the questions above. Try moving the articles into the > outgoing directory and running slrnpull from the command line. Try > looking in the system logs in /var/log to see if any information went > there. Aah! I found a log in /var/spool/slrnp

RMail & POP config

1999-07-23 Thread arifi
Hi, I am trying to setup Emacs/RMail as my main e-mail client, and I have a dial-up connection to the internet. The mail server is POP3. I browsed the emacs manual but what is said there about rmail and pop3 did not talk to me that much. Could the knowledgeable people here please point me to so

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: >I set the APM option in the kernel 2.2.10. >if I do "halt", my box act like the use of "reboot" : it reboots >using the shutdown of windows95 act as i want : power off the computer >the command : >#ps aux |grep apm > root 2169 0

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hi, for your question : This is a summary of what I have done: I set the APM option in the kernel 2.2.10. if I do "halt", my box act like the use of "reboot" : it reboots using the shutdown of windows95 act as i want : power off the computer the command : #ps aux |grep apm ro

Re: default font for Xaw - Applications

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: >Since I installed Xfsft all the text-widgets of Xaw-applications are >nearly unreadable (Xaw uses a tiny awful font). Where can I set the >default font for _all_ applications ? Technically, in your .xdefaults file. Take a look at editres, it will give

Re: modem line speed

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > I have 33.6k modem, but windoze reports 56700bps, I have tried to set > with > the string W2, and it still reports 56700bps. Hopefully, linux will > give me > a correct value. Invoke chat with the -r option from your /etc/ppp/peers/my_i

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: >i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't >really see one. did anyone else figure this out? > >- p2-266 128mb ram >- kernel 2.2.9 >- glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Monitoring precise data in and out of eth1

1999-07-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, My ISP is wireless which means a 24/7 service which charges for usage over 600 Megs of days in and out in a month. The connection is via an antenna and thence an rj45 cable into a NIC. The NIC is eth1. Is there a term for measuring data throughput on a NIC and how would I set about doin

modem line speed

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I determine what modem line speed I currently have. I have 33.6k modem, but windoze reports 56700bps, I have tried to set with the string W2, and it still reports 56700bps. Hopefully, linux will give me a correct value. Thanks. Shao. --

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found >the following article in the Linux Gazette >(http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for ... >-- Hans They us

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What do you think about: > > a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) > > b) having a table of contents and index ( <- index might be hard ) > What about using/modifying/enhancing dwww -- I think it would be good to t

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + In reply to:Lee Elliott Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: > > >> An observation from this Newbie may be related: > > Sorry to have peeved you, I do

smbfs vis ncpfs

1999-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, because I couldn't solve my ncpfs-problem to let users mount their Novell-drives at request themselves via an /etc/fstab-entry I wonder if this is possible with smbfs. Did I understand it right that it is possible with smbfs to mount Novell and Win drives. I didn't used Samba yet and I'm

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane > mail clients can display that without problems. Most Unix mail clients > do *not* do word wrapping in either display mode (spacing may be To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does th

Re: Dselect 'project'(RE: the dselect debate)

1999-07-23 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > read 'Why so much hate?' posted some days ago in this mailing - list. > we could put in contact each-other by this mailing-lists for an initial > project about Dselect. Try have a look at apt-find and see if that is better and probally make sugestions for improving th

dselect or apt installation profiles?

1999-07-23 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, there are preselections for the dselect programm in which several packages are selected. Where are this profiles and how can I manipulate them that I can define my own 'preselections' beacause I whant to install identical debians on several machines and don't want to run the dselect-proce

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK > regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM & Outlook) - > for me, reading: Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, an

Re: Buddha's Dselect' way

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:02:57PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > Wichert Akkerman and Ben Collins (et alia) have announced a design > and technical specification fo DPKGv2, which will presumably replace > dpkg and dselect. The intent is to replace dpkg only. As you said, there are already othe

Slink - kernel compiling problem (2.0.36)

1999-07-23 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, I've just tried to compile a new kernel in my Debian slink (upgraded from hamm). The command 'make-kpkg kernel_image' finished with the following message: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.36 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.0.36 not in control info make: **

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Have you tried simply running lilo? and/or rdeving the 2.2.10 kernel to > whatever it > should point to? Apologies if you've already done all this. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, I ran lilo (I even recompiled the 2.2.10 kernel and created the boot disk, still it panics when bo

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Halis Osman Erkan
1) you must have APM (advanced power management) support in kernel. 2) on the fly ; before poweroff / halt -p there must be the deamon apm working. To test just write # ps aux |grep apm if these are ok . it will poweroff Halis Osman ERKAN On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote:

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
Have you tried simply running lilo? and/or rdeving the 2.2.10 kernel to whatever it should point to? Apologies if you've already done all this. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller > went bad) and now,

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> In that case, it looks like a kernel bug in 2.2.* series. What did > /var/log/kern.log say?? Can you send us the error msg when it is trying > to mount the harddisk?? use dmesg > error.log There is no error message through dmesg > error.log because kernel panic occurs while trying to mount th

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > just a guess... maybe you have pluged your harddisk into a different slot. it > might have changed its name from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 > > > Have you tried to use the motherboard bios to re-detect all your harddisk?? > Have you tried to mount the linux root fs when you booted with > the

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
just a guess... maybe you have pluged your harddisk into a different slot. it might have changed its name from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 Have you tried to use the motherboard bios to re-detect all your harddisk?? Have you tried to mount the linux root fs when you booted with the rescure disk?? O

kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller went bad) and now, for some reason, when I'm trying to boot my 2.2.10 kernel, I get kernel panic while mounting root fs. I can't reproduce the exact message right now, but it seems that while booting it's doing a normal partitio

Re: ssltelnet problem

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dieter J?ger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: > >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

default font for Xaw - Applications

1999-07-23 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Since I installed Xfsft all the text-widgets of Xaw-applications are nearly unreadable (Xaw uses a tiny awful font). Where can I set the default font for _all_ applications ? Bernhard -- __ ___ // )___--"""-. \ |,"( /`--"" `. Bernhard R

Re: PIM's

1999-07-23 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Brian Schramm wrote: > Ok. maybe this is asking for a lot but I like to use my equipment until it no > longer runs! I run Debian Linux for all my machines and use the KDE desktop > system for my address book and schedualer. My problem is I want to use my > portable for this

Re: x windows problem

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Alfalfa Sprout wrote: >Hey. I think I setup the mouse as the wrong type in xf86config (I wanted >to use XF86Setup, but when I try to go into that, all I get is a scrambled >screen). When XF86Setup finds an old XF86Config file, don't use i

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bakosi Jozsef wrote: >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. >> Try WXftp GTK+ by Alexander Yukhimets. It is

Re: ssltelnet problem

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: >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

Re: A problem:SIOCADDRT :Invalid argument

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > solar wrote: > > default: Host name lookup failure (problem :() > > Are you connected to the Internet in any way? If so, do you have a > nameserver supplied in /etc/resolve.conf? One way to avoid this error is to add a line in /etc/hosts

Re: Installation suggestion: recommend recompiling kernel

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > I was just thinking about the fact that the answer to many questions > that I see on the list (mostly "how do I get sound?") is "recompile your > kernel". Also the fact that recompiling the kernel is pretty much > recommended in any situation. In some

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