Soundcard Installation Problem

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Ludwig
I've done some searching and found that linux is seeing my soundcard, but the driver is not available (?). It seems that OSS/Linux has the driver available, but it is not yet available in OSS/Free (the story of my life really it seems , try to get a free piece of software running and I need to pur

Re: vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 21:04 +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I have (well, had) a set of customised vim syntax command in the > /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/synload.vim file. I just upgraded to > vim[-rt] 5.4.21 and lost all my syntax settings. Is the file > likely to be backed up anywhere or an

Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

1999-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Eberhard Burr writes: > Most likely, your isp like mine rejects everything with an envelope-from > that differs from what you've been given as mail address by your isp. In > smail, cou can add a line with your local logname as trusted user. Mine requires only that the envelope-from address be in h

How to put parport before printer at boot?

1999-08-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I was reading a HOWTO the other day on Zips and it was mentioned that if the printer is loaded before parport (or ppa, I don't remember which) that parport will say that the port is busy and won't recognize the Zipdrive. I believe this is happening when I boot so I was wondering how I change th

additinoal Netscape symtoms - XmScrollBar size warning

1999-08-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Another Netscape Communicator symbol I see not infrequently is this warning: Warning: Name: hscroll Class: XmScrollBar The scrollbar minimum value is greater than or equal to the scrollbar maximum value. Warning: Name: hscroll Class: XmScrollBar Specified slider size is greater th

firewalling (ipchains) question

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi! I'm playing around with firewalling a bit and would like to know if I got this little (not real world) task right: I tried to setup the ipchains so that the only thing 'marvin' should be able to do is using smtp with host 'laus'. Is the following correct for my wish? ipchains -P input REJ

additional Netscape error symptoms - Xlib: unexpected async reply

1999-08-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Has anyone else seen this problem? Sometimes Communicator will pop up an error message window so small that the only thing visible is the window manager's frame around it. When I expand the window, it has about a dozen copies the following message: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence xxx)

Help? Problems with serial port

1999-08-13 Thread rir
On a SMP slink system with a 2.2.10 kernel I am logging the following from mgetty. The "Interrupted system call" makes me think this is not just a chat script problem. I am not sure what I should be looking at to fix the problem. If mgetty is not run minicom works fine to dial out. /var/log/mg

RE: power surge causes a problem

1999-08-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: > Last night there was a power surge in the area and my computer rebooted > several times. This morning, I used 'vi' and I get this error: > > Warning: Color name "black" is not defined > > > What does it mean and how can I fix this? I now know if only affects use

Re: vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
:help mysyntaxfile Personally, I don't bother with that stuff, and just edit the default global syntax files directly (they're owned by me, not root). I know I shouldn't do that; however, because I tend not to trust dpkg, I compile & install vim myself (into /usr/local/), and therefore don't have

Eterm delete key

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that Eterm doesn't delete to the right anymore. The delete key prints out a tilde (~) and beeps at the shell prompt. However, xterm still deletes properly, and the console works fine. I've just upgraded a whole load of packages with apt, so possibly something might be broken. Wh

Re: vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, August 13, 1999, 1:04:25 PM, Alisdair wrote: > Anyway, I guess this is probably my fault for doing things wrong, > but where else can I put these syntax settings? I'm sure I didn't > concede to overwriting these files on install, and I don't want to > lose the settings next time I upgrade.

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

1999-08-13 Thread Nathan Duehr
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: > Let me start off my saying that I am new to Debian. Previously I've > been using RH since v 5.1. I swithched over to debian because I was led > to believe the packaging was more stable and robust. I've done a basic Packaging IS more stable and robus

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Dave Swegen
I just got a Voodoo3 card which is also only supported in 3.3.4. What I did was simply boogie over to the nearest xfree mirror and pick down the SVGA server binary and simply replace the old 3.3.2 binary. Works a treat. Cheers Dave On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

vim syntax files

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I have (well, had) a set of customised vim syntax command in the /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/synload.vim file. I just upgraded to vim[-rt] 5.4.21 and lost all my syntax settings. Is the file likely to be backed up anywhere or anything? Anyway, I guess this is probably my fault for doing things wro

Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates Date: Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:14:39AM +0200 In reply to:Thomas Keusch Quoting Thomas Keusch([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi! > > I just tried to incorporate http://security.debian.org into my apt > sources.list once again - and

Re: why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Noah L. Meyerhans writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Linuxconf uses the GPL. Is there some non-technical reason why there > > is no Debian package for Linuxconf? (I just have this idea that > > Debian suffers from NIH -- dare

Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header

1999-08-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Eric" == Eric G Miller wrote: Eric> My ISP just changed their mailer, and they will no longer accept Eric> mail that doesn't have a valid "Sender" header. Are you sure it is about the sender header and not the SMTP envelope? Eric> Since I have a home system with no domain name, my Sender he

Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Thomas" == Thomas Keusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas> dante:~ $ apt-get update Thomas> Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages Thomas> Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40). Looks like a network problem. Could you reach the site with a web browser? Ci

Re: hard drive error

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Miller
Is there anyway to redirect the output? Perhaps pipe it into mail. -Paul On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Steve Gore wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:15:05AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > I just want the errors reported. This one may not serrious, but I've had > > others -- ie, Linux can read/write to

Re: Incredibly off-topic modem question

1999-08-13 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've got a mountain of Prac V.34 > modems and I need an AT command reference (cable modems have spoiled me > :) > > Anyone have an on-line favorite? Nathan, IMHO this isn't that far off the mark! When you need this

Re: why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:02:51AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Linuxconf uses the GPL. Is there some non-technical reason why there > is no Debian package for Linuxconf? (I just have this idea that There's been a package in experimental for quite some time, and there are now packages in unst

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:25:50AM -0700, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have experience with the following? > > > > > > 1. Running AcceleratedX with Debian. > > > 2. Running Xfree86 3

Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-13 Thread Eberhard Burr
Joseph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to intervene even if > the FS is not unmounted cleanly? Three possible solutions (one and a half, that is.): 1) get a UPS and remove the main switch from the pooter. When your parents switch off t

Re: magicfilter and 1200 dpi

1999-08-13 Thread Eberhard Burr
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to install my new LaserJet 4000 printer with > magicfilter, and found that there isn't a filter for a 1200 dpi > printer. Is there a way to modify an existing filter (I'm thinking of > the psonly600-filter, which works with

Re: help with emacs

1999-08-13 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 05:04:29PM -0400, Javier Pinto wrote: > anybody suggest what to do? Yeah, try vim, and mutt. -- "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Ben Lutgens (pgp public key is "blutgens" available @ hkp://pgpkeys.mit.

Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions

1999-08-13 Thread Martin Uecker
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:41:30AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: [...] > Rick, if case-sensitivity *is* your problem, and you are using Apache, > there is a "spelling" module that is supposed to get around it, at a > cost in efficiency. It´s called "speling".

help with emacs

1999-08-13 Thread Javier Pinto
Hi there, I have recently reinstalled debian from the cheap*bytes distribution (2.1). I run emacs 19.34.1 (I don't use 20.3.2 because I read mail with vm, which, the distribution I have, does not run on version 20... The problem i have is that the emacs session gets terminated with a "Segmenta

Re: major slink -> potato problem

1999-08-13 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-08-13, George Bonser écrivait : > I recently (this morning) upgraded a very old slink system that has sat > unused for a long time to potato. It seems that somewhere in the upgrade > process bash got deleted. See From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Developers , D

Re: SCSI errors in xmcd (more info)

1999-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >I am running xmcd with a Yamaha CD writer connected to an Adaptec 2940UW >SCSI card. > >About twice a second throughout playing a CD I get these errors in the >xterm from which I started xmcd: > >CD audio: SCSI command error on /dev/cdrom: >Opcode=0x42 Statu

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-13 Thread rick
Newsgroups: local.debian-user Path: rick From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Tin - error in regex Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) X-No-Archive: yes Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:35:55 GMT I've installed the latest unstable Tin, tin pre-1.4 release 19990805 ("Preach

Re: Netscape/X key/mouse binding problem

1999-08-13 Thread Tim P. Gerla
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > Don't know exactly what's going on but I had the same problem recently. What > fixed it for me was two things: > 1. Getting the latest version of netscape-base-4 (4.61-18 I think). > 2. Restarting X after doing the instal

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:25:50AM -0700, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience with the following? > > > > 1. Running AcceleratedX with Debian. > > 2. Running Xfree86 3.3.4 with Debian. > > 3. Having them both available on one mac

deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-13 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hi! I just tried to incorporate http://security.debian.org into my apt sources.list once again - and it didn't work once again. This is my sources.list and what I get out of it when running "apt-get update": == dante:~

Re: Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am in the market for a new computer and I've been looking at Advanced > System Laboratories (www.aslab.com) as a possible source. They include > the Matrox G400 card in all of their systems (along with AcceleratedX). > Xfree86 supports the G400 card

Slink + 2.2.10 == problems?

1999-08-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, After I upgraded to 2.2.10, tcplogd is getting crazy. It's spawning a lot of processes (+30) without apparent reason. Is there some problem running tcplogd with 2.2.10? I running netbase 3.12-2, from the errata page on Debian site. Also, I can't run ipx anymore (I'm almost sur

Re: problem loading ne module

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Miller
"Ivan J. Varzinczak" wrote: > >I'm trying to load a module for an ne2000 adapter > by insmod and I got the following message: > >/lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open >/lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init >/lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unre

apt-get upgrade list of downloads

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've got a potato system at home (this box, letdown) which is 100MB of downloads away from being up-to-date. Since I've only got a slow 2K/s link, for which I pay by the minute, I'd like to take advantage of my University's lab to download the files, then use apt-get from local disk. The apt-get u

Re: ProFTP denying write

1999-08-13 Thread Ernest Johanson
The AllowAll directive has to do with who is allowed to access the files referenced in the block. The one you want is AllowOverwrite. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:48:43 +0800 > From: S

Re: dhcp server + slink + kernel-2.2.10

1999-08-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Marc Dubrowski wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to set a slink box running 2.2.10 to serve dhcp for one of > > its network cards. It'll be a masquerade box. > > Where can I get a working dhcpd package for slink+2.2.1

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior [ Fixed ]

1999-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: unpredictable gcc behavior [ Fixed ] Date: Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:53:49AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink > system > Date: Wed, Aug 04, 1999 a

Re: problem loading ne module

1999-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: problem loading ne module Date: Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 02:00:34PM - In reply to:Ivan J. Varzinczak Quoting Ivan J. Varzinczak([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi folks: > >I'm trying to load a module for an ne2000 adapter > by insmod and I got the following message: > >

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Then you should email the authors and tell them not to insist on > having exact kernel headers in /usr/include/linux. It's an assumption > which is not true on Debian GNU/Linux. They should allow you to specify But it is true on every other Linux distr

samba "can't become user" affliction w/ potato/2.0.X: fix

1999-08-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Dear fellow users, As our dear samba maintainer hasn't had time yet to provide a samba package for potato which will work for those still running a 2.0.X kernel, I've built a set of them. I just built the latest 2.0.5a versions to fix the security problems. You may get these packages by adding the

Re: why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:02:51AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Linuxconf uses the GPL. Is there some non-technical reason why there > is no Debian package for Linuxconf? (I just have this idea that > Debian suffers from NIH -- dare I say "RPM"?) I believe it is being considered for incorporat

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 01:02:45AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:26:27AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > You have to have the kernel source, or at least the headers part of > > it, in /usr/src/linux. Sometimes that's not enough (I'm not familiar > > with the vmware Makef

Re: Upgrading to potato ...

1999-08-13 Thread Lex Chive
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:26:14PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > I have two machines. Machine A is connected to the internet and is > running slink and i want it to continue running slink. Machine b is not > connected to the internet but i would like it to run potato. > > My id

Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread markzimm
I am in the market for a new computer and I've been looking at Advanced System Laboratories (www.aslab.com) as a possible source. They include the Matrox G400 card in all of their systems (along with AcceleratedX). Xfree86 supports the G400 card in version 3.3.4. but it appears that potato is only

Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

1999-08-13 Thread Eberhard Burr
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you get anything on the exim.conf file that you actually can hack > into submission, I'd appreciate your either sending it on to me or > posting it here. (preferably both:) > My problem is that my ISP requires the login name on the from: > address be

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 06:27:10AM -0400, Jeff Flowers wrote: > Is there any problems downloading and installing Wordperfect for Linux > on Debian 2.1 (Slink)? I just need to know before downloading a 28 MB > file. I think you'll need to install the xpm4.7 package before installing - that way you'

[OFF TOPIC] What on earth is this?

1999-08-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I have calendar(1) set up to give me the events, holidays, anniversaries etc. of the day when I login. Today it gave me this: 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 Huh? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SSound card

1999-08-13 Thread Gerald . Preissler
GaryG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have trouble making kernel for sound card > any suggestions > Yes. Please be more specific in your message: Which soundcard are you using, which kernel, which selection did you make when you configured your kernel, is there a problem with the compile, what err

Re: Netscape/X key/mouse binding problem

1999-08-13 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Tim P. Gerla wrote: > (I'm not a subscribed member of this list, so please Cc: any replies. > Thanks!) > > Recently I've been having a strange problem with Netscape and X. I'm running > the latest potato stuff. When I start netscape, I get this: > > ... > Warning: translat

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

1999-08-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well, I havn't gotten it working yet, but apparently some people have. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Flowers wrote: > Is there any problems downloading and installing Wordperfect for Linux > on Debian 2.1 (Slink)? I just need to know before downloading a 28 MB > file. > > TIA, > > Jef

Incredibly off-topic modem question

1999-08-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've got a mountain of Prac V.34 modems and I need an AT command reference (cable modems have spoiled me :) Anyone have an on-line favorite? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

1999-08-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:14:41PM +1000, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: > system, and after rebooting, tried to install updated binaries using > dselect,apt from the unstable-main archive. You should not use unstable unless you are willing and able to handle major breakage. Your problem seems to be relat

power surge causes a problem

1999-08-13 Thread Pollywog
Last night there was a power surge in the area and my computer rebooted several times. This morning, I used 'vi' and I get this error: Warning: Color name "black" is not defined What does it mean and how can I fix this? thanks -- Andrew

Re: why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > Linuxconf uses the GPL. Is there some non-technical reason why there > is no Debian package for Linuxconf? (I just have this idea that > Debian suffers from NIH -- dare I say "RPM"?) > Apparently linuxconf is incl

Re: hard drive error

1999-08-13 Thread Steve Gore
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:15:05AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > I just want the errors reported. This one may not serrious, but I've had > others -- ie, Linux can read/write to certain sectors -- on previous hard > drives. I'd like to know about all errors before I lose the hard drive. > ---end q

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:26:27AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > You have to have the kernel source, or at least the headers part of > it, in /usr/src/linux. Sometimes that's not enough (I'm not familiar > with the vmware Makefile so I can't tell for vmware) and you have to > do this: > cd /usr/inc

why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Linuxconf uses the GPL. Is there some non-technical reason why there is no Debian package for Linuxconf? (I just have this idea that Debian suffers from NIH -- dare I say "RPM"?) -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Governm

Re: dhcp server + slink + kernel-2.2.10

1999-08-13 Thread Marc Dubrowski
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I need to set a slink box running 2.2.10 to serve dhcp for one of > its network cards. It'll be a masquerade box. > Where can I get a working dhcpd package for slink+2.2.10? > Can someone help me sending some config s

Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions

1999-08-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michelle Konzack wrote: > MK> > MK>Maybe some of the Links in your sites upper-case and the files on your > MK>server are lower-case? UNIX is case-sensitive, Windows not! > MK> > MK>hope this helps > MK> > MK>dennis > MK>> [I moved your reply to the standard location, Webmistress!] > > > Hey stop

Re: package update log?

1999-08-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:27:36 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > if it exists, It's debian-changes (for stable) and debian-devel-changes (for unstable); both @lists.debian.org. > please just give me the directions to subscribe to it! ;-) http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe HTH,

Re: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups

1999-08-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pollywog wrote: > > On 12-Aug-99 Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > >> > >> On 11-Aug-99 Jim wrote: > >> > Hi. As the subject suggests, I get strange freeze-ups on my machine. > >> > Yes, > >> > it's definitely frozen... I can't ping it from my lan, and nothing > >> > responds... no

package update log?

1999-08-13 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was wondering if there's a maillist where the package manteiners post their update log... If not, I think the Debian people could think of that... Just, everytime a package update is uploaded (either to the stable OR unstable distribution) they would send the changelog.DEBIAN file

Re: Problems with X

1999-08-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:50:07AM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've been fiddling with my XF86Config file to get the GLX module > working properly, and I've obviously broken something, somewhere. > I'm not sure if it's in the configuration file, but now X refuses > to blank, suspend or switc

Re: Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing

1999-08-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
I just installed another PCMCIA network adapter and now the MAC address is stable so it was indeed the card. Thanks to all who helped ;-) Nico > > OK, I did some testing: rebooted from Linux to Windows and the other > way around a couple of times and got the following peculiar results: > > 1

Fwd: Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Raphael clancy
How about "slay." The package discription advertises that it kills all of a users processes. I've never tried it though... really... ;) R. Raphael Clancy LAN Admin. Dept. of OBGYN 505.272.6374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message --- kill `ps axu|grep '^USER\>'|sed -e 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'

Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: >Hi there, > >I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes >at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a >little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at >6h00 am was started once for

Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions

1999-08-13 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hey stop, > > I am using WinNT 4.0 and some different Servers, > but ALL Web-Servers are case-sensitive !!! > > > Webmistress Michelle > > Good night. > It was a long day for me. > Oh, sorry i should think before answering

Re: CS 4232

1999-08-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 04:57:06AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > a week ago or so, I asked about getting CS4232 sound card to work in > Linux. I got some responses and tried without luck. > I dont have /dev/mixer and > cat /proc/sound

Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Dan Everton
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:31:53AM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes > at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a > little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be starte

Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
kill `ps axu|grep '^USER\>'|sed -e 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'` at least, that's what *i* would do.

problem loading ne module

1999-08-13 Thread Ivan J. Varzinczak
Hi folks: I'm trying to load a module for an ne2000 adapter by insmod and I got the following message: /lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open /lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init /lib/modules/2.2.10/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt /l

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior [ Fixed ]

1999-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system Date: Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:29:13PM -0400 In reply to:Timothy Burt Quoting Timothy Burt([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello All, > > I just last week installed slink 2.1_r2 on a new machine and am now > havi

Re: killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Guilherme, > I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes > at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a > little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at > 6h00 am was started once for each minute between 6h00 and 7h00..

killing ALL of a user's processes at once

1999-08-13 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at 6h00 am was started once for each minute between 6h00 and 7h00... OK, it was

Re: hard drive error

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Miller
I just want the errors reported. This one may not serrious, but I've had others -- ie, Linux can read/write to certain sectors -- on previous hard drives. I'd like to know about all errors before I lose the hard drive. -Paul On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Steve Gore wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 06:2

Re: Newbie Q: Mail-howto

1999-08-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings ye stout Debians > > As a newbie I'm a little confused about all the different apps and the > terminology involved in sending and receiving mail. My question is: is there > a mail-howto enabling a newbie to get his mail-stuff working or at least

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

1999-08-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Aug 1999, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: > Hello, > > > Let me start off my saying that I am new to Debian. Previously I've > been using RH since v 5.1. I swithched over to debian because I was led > to believe the packaging was more stable and robust. I've done a basic > install of slink of a CD

Re: mapping mail names to user/account names

1999-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Ferd writes: > there is just one more question. Does it somehow interfere with pop or > imap? I don't run pop or imap, but I can't think of any reason why it should. /etc/aliases has been in Unix for decades. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: eth2 problem

1999-08-13 Thread Paul Miller
"Ivan J. Varzinczak" wrote: > >SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument >SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument >SIOCADDRT: File exists >SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument >SIOCADDRT: File exists >SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device >eth2: unknown interface. >SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation

Installation Stalling

1999-08-13 Thread Jeffrey Haluska
Ok here is my basic layout of my system Cyrix 200 48 megs of ram TX Pro Motherboard 3.5" Floppy drive Primary Master hd 120 meg Conner Secondary Master hd 81 meg NE 2000 PCI Network card Some PCI Video card Yeah, I know the hds are kinda small...anywayz. I put in the rescue/installation disk and

Re: mapping mail names to user/account names

1999-08-13 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
John Hasler wrote: > > > In short, I'd like to do some user name mapping that's it. The mail > > should be received by an existing user of course. > > Put lines like this in /etc/aliases: > > john.hasler: john Thanks a lot to all of you! Seems to work. However, there is just one more question.

accessing samba server across switch

1999-08-13 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
Oh my god, it's time to ask this question, Hi there, is it possible to access a samba server across a switch or router so that the client is on one side and the server on the other side (physically) of the wire? We ran into this problem because our network group decided to exchange the repeater a

Re: Wordperfect for Linux

1999-08-13 Thread Martin Waller
Worked fine for me, but since you can't use lots of options in the free version (equations, etc.) I deleted it. Martin From: Jeff Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there any problems downloading and installing Wordperfect for Linux on Debian 2.1 (Slink)? __

Re: SV: Newbie Q on NMU (was: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgr ade)

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Who would upload if not the developer and not the maintainer? > Just curious... Normally each package is maintained by _one_ developer. If _that_ developer can't upload a needed bugfix (vacation, netdead, busy, ...) some other debian devoloper will do a NMU. -- I con

How to start cfengine's cfd automatically?

1999-08-13 Thread jtr
Hi, is someone working with cfengine and has a working script which starts its daemon cfd on bootup? If so, I would appreciate very much if he/she would send me a copy. (Any other hints are welcome as well of course). Thanks in advance, joachim

Trouble with chmod

1999-08-13 Thread Enrico Fracasso
I changed all my filegroup in "user" by mistake; Do you know how correct them without deinstalling-installing all package or reinstalling the OS? thanks -- Enrico Fracasso C.d.L in ingegneria elettronica Universita' di Trieste

SV: Newbie Q on NMU (was: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgr ade)

1999-08-13 Thread vw
Sorry, phrased it wrong: Peter Makholm: "Non Maintainer Upload, it's when the debian developer can't upload to fix a bug." Who would upload if not the developer and not the maintainer? Just curious... :-) Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer >

magicfilter and 1200 dpi

1999-08-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I just wanted to install my new LaserJet 4000 printer with magicfilter, and found that there isn't a filter for a 1200 dpi printer. Is there a way to modify an existing filter (I'm thinking of the psonly600-filter, which works with the LJ 4000) to get the 1200 dpi capability? BTW, apsfilt

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system Date: Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:29:13PM -0400 In reply to:Timothy Burt Quoting Timothy Burt([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello All, > > I just last week installed slink 2.1_r2 on a new machine and am now > havi

[Debian: Install] Harddisk partitioning

1999-08-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have a IBM DAQA 33240 with 3095 MByte. Now I like to install Debian 2.1 on it but I do not know, in which partitions. My problem is, that I do not know the size of the root and use prtition, because I need to install many source for compiling and Software development. Where must I pu

Re: Newbie Q on NMU (was: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgr ade)

1999-08-13 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Debian developper ofcourse. Goto section Documents on debain webpage and take a look at debian new maintainers' guide and debian developer reference about these topics. Chanop. On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 01:27:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Who would upload if not the maintainer? > > Vit

Re: make slink SMP-clean?

1999-08-13 Thread Eberhard Burr
Norris Preyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using slink with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel, and top (from procps > 1:1.2.9-3) works just fine: I have installed 2.2.7 because I was nervous about some filesystem problem reports with Adaptec controllers. > 10:36am up 5 days, 14 min, 1 user, load ave

Newbie Q on NMU (was: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgr ade)

1999-08-13 Thread vw
> Who would upload if not the maintainer? > Vitux > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Peter Makholm [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:13. august 1999 12:28 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown >

Re: Netscape/X key/mouse binding problem

1999-08-13 Thread Dan Everton
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:33:44PM -0500, Tim P. Gerla wrote: > (I'm not a subscribed member of this list, so please Cc: any replies. > Thanks!) > > Recently I've been having a strange problem with Netscape and X. I'm running > the latest potato stuff. When I start netscape, I get this: > > ... >

SCSI errors in xmcd

1999-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am running xmcd with a Yamaha CD writer connected to an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card. About twice a second throughout playing a CD I get these errors in the xterm from which I started xmcd: CD audio: SCSI command error on /dev/cdrom: Opcode=0x42 Status=0x1 Msg=0x0 Host=0x0 Driver=0x28 Key=0x5 Code=

Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their >word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I >first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to >fix

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