disabling ports

1999-08-19 Thread Paul Miller
How can I disable ports 515 and 6000 on my external ethernet adaptor? -- I'm ip masquerading an internal network and I only want those services running on the internal network. Thanks -Paul

problem about downloading

1999-08-19 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: I'm always using Netscape for downloading, but connection is not perfect sometimes. I'm just wondering if there's anything like Getright, which resumes downloading files at anyn time. Sincerely Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: About rlogind, rshd and terminal information

1999-08-19 Thread Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the value of $TERM in these two situations? $TERM is xterm at all times. -- Christoffer Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data.

Re: About rlogind, rshd and terminal information

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:02:03AM +0200, Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen wrote: > Now here is where the plot thinkens: > > This is only a problem if I rsh from an HPUX to linux, not > from OSF1 or SunOS. And another thing that mystifies me is > this. If i rsh to the machine from an HPUX machine and

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
Another cheer for Python! I ported a C++ daemon that wouldn't compile cleanly on Pair Networks' FreeBSD systems (old version of GCC and the STL) to Python in two days (my first Python program!) and: * code was 200 lines of code vs 500 of C++ and all in one file instead of 5 files of C++ * code ra

Re: apt with smbmount

1999-08-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > Is there any way to get apt-get to work on an smbmounted CD rom? > > I'm considering installing personal web server on the '98 box and > > serving up the CD as http or ftp if smbmount won't work. > Yes, but that wouldn't work either, because no mic

Re: Apache: unable to use authentification

1999-08-19 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ernest Johanson wrote: > Marc, > > Try checking the file permissions on your password file. It needs to be > readable by the user the web server runs as. It was me that has the problem :) But the permissions are all right. The problem with this problem is that Apache does n

Re: Strange (?) boot-up messages

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:40:46AM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > Hi there, > > here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit > further... That attitude seems to be the minority these days, judging from the recent flamefests on Slashdot. > > Now, I've been puz

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:52:48AM -0700, root wrote: > Hello, > I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. > I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused > I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost

Re: apt with smbmount

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:08:07AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is > smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box. > I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but > 'apt-get install ' is broken because the

Re: Default Dir in X11

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:37:03PM -0400, Kelly Lesperance wrote: > Hi, > > Since I installed Debian, I've had one problem. The default directory for > anything (an xterm, a Save dialog, etc) is /usr/bin, not the user's home > dir). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. How do you start X

About rlogind, rshd and terminal information

1999-08-19 Thread Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen
Hi. I have a very weird problem, that I hope somebody can helt me with. The setup is as follows: I am introducing debian-linux into an environment made up of HPUX, SunOS and OSF1 machines. On peoples desk there is an X-terminal, and a couple of HPUX machines host these Xsessions. I have the disti

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Eberhard Burr
virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a FAQ. You need a more recent version of XFree. > > You can download it with apt-get from: > > > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ > > > > There is no apt-get available. The machine is not netted (yet). > > Where is it there? > > I can use an

Problem with LILO

1999-08-19 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: I have Debian on /dev/hda1, and Window95 on /dev/hda5. My /dev/hda1 is 2G, therefore lilo doesn't allow me to boot /dev/hda5 for the 1024 cylinder problem. By the way, I try to keep /dev/hda1 as the active partition. What can I do to boot /dev/hda5? Also, after reading the lilo documentat

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: > > Why C/C++? Because I'm too lazy to learn Perl :) > So look into Python. All the glory of C++ w/o the mess. Honest, it is worth the week of effort. class Foo: def __init__(self): self.i = 1 self.string = 'hi' f = Foo() prin

VMware on debian: module compilation

1999-08-19 Thread Regis Duchesne
Hi guys, >Bob Nielsen wrote: >> >> 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 enoug

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Tom
Why C/C++? Because I'm too lazy to learn Perl :) On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Brian Barrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:16:05PM -0400, Tom wrote: > > I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for > > C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complica

Re: Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-19 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about "Searching in the mailing list archive" > > Hi! > > > > Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? > > > > http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page. > but don't click on the "Search" button at

Default Dir in X11

1999-08-19 Thread Kelly Lesperance
Hi, Since I installed Debian, I've had one problem. The default directory for anything (an xterm, a Save dialog, etc) is /usr/bin, not the user's home dir). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kel

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Barrett
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:16:05PM -0400, Tom wrote: > I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for > C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and > involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you > know what I mean).

RE: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Tom wrote: > > Hi all (soory if this comes twice), > > I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for > C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and > involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you > kn

Re: debian penguin

1999-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hallo i've collected some links of penguins... the print shop wanted a postscript file... ( never found one that worked but )... here's my collection...points to all the places I know about http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Marketing/penguin.txt have fun alvin > Hallo halli ! > > where has

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Bob
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:59:06AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > We are re-releasing "slink" in a month or so w/ 2.2, new X, new pcmcia, etc. So potato will stay 'unstable'? -- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R.I., USA Learning..OpenBSD

CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Tom
Hi all (soory if this comes twice), I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you know what I mean). Any help would be gre

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-19 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but that changes the window manager for all > users, and it doesn't even start the GNOME panel! I know... my fingers are fast at typing ^x from pine... Have not finished my response to it. Anyway, Editing ~/.xsession nev

Re: setting up PLIP

1999-08-19 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I got plip to work in accordance with the LG-article. I just had |> one problem with nfs-filesystem and permissions. |> |> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: |> |> > Has anyone else taken a look at the LG article, gotten plip to |> > work, or know of any plip resources? Me too, and I used

Fonts and Wordperfect 8

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
Since several of you on the list seem to be having better luck with WP8 than I am, I'd like to ask a couple of questions: 1. How do you get the included fonts on the CD-ROM to show up in Wordperfect? I've heard rumors of a 'font installer', but I can't seem to find anything and the 'Fonts' menu in

Re: /dev/floppy0 does not exist

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Gore
> I think you are mixing up the mount point and the device. > /floppy/vfat or /floppy/minux would be the mount point. These > directories exist on your root partition. (If they don't the mount will > fail!) The device is still /dev/fd0. So to mount the floppy once it > is formated the command

Re: Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about "Searching in the mailing list archive" > Hi! > > Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? > http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page. -- Brian ---

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about "TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions" > Hi! > > Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the > TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system > doesn't know "xterm-debian" of course > > I don't think this was intended, so I

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-19 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* > > unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more > > importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security ho

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:33:25AM -0700, Henning Olsen wrote: > "Alex V. Toropov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Your machine isn't seeing any incoming packets. > I'm using bnc-cables, and the linux is in the middle. I've tried to chang

debian penguin

1999-08-19 Thread F .Kunkel
Hallo halli ! where has the smart debian penguin gone ? the new debian logo dos not seem to have anything in comon whit linux or gnu at all. who did decide to change the logo ? why did he/she/they so ? who has designed the pengui and who the new logo ? by flo! -- ---

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Peter S Galbraith writes ("Re: Xterm "): >Changes to files in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ get wiped >out at your next upgrade because they are not designated as >conffiles. > >I don't know if setting this in /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm (which >is a conffile) will override the setting in >/usr/lib/X11/

No such file

1999-08-19 Thread James Frey
Hola, I have an expect script which won´t run. I checked the libraries needed with ldd ./expect and everything's OK. Expect runs fine outside of the shell script. The script is: #!../expect -f set password [lindex $argv 2] spawn passwd [lindex $argv 1] expect "*password:" send "$password\r"

Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_)

TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know "xterm-debian" of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing something. Or how do you guys deal with that? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Ma

RE: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to > 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have > Trident 4Dwave-based card.) > > I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a >

HELP: problem with serial ports....

1999-08-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the following problem, i can't acces the serial ports on my portable... support of the serial ports (dump) is compiled in the kernel, setserial gives back the right info, i can connect to the serial port using kermit, but nothing goes through, and after i made an echo to the port or

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-19 Thread Debian Mail
> You can sync them, so that users can use the windows dialog to change > the samba and unix password. See the comments im smb.conf about > password sync. What windows dialog do you mean? Anyway, I set unix password sync = true and tried to change passwords using smbpasswd. But I always get smbp

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need > > is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble > > while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind o

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread jfoltz
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 01:16:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: > > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. > > dmesg from the command prompt. > > Shi

Q: pts? vs ttyp?

1999-08-19 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I had a problem recently with running out of available ports on a server. I switched to UNIX98 in trying to resolve the problem. So far, I haven't had a problem, but now I notice that some people who access the server connect as pts/? And some connect as ttyp?. All pts connections are made with tel

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
I'm not an expert, and I haven't tried it (-yet) but I gather it is possible to tell dselect that you want to get some stuff from potato. Dselect IMHO is really good at handling depencies... Maybe some of the wiz'es know what the latest Xserver-svga depends on?! Regards :-) Vitux Error is human;

C++ compiling problem

1999-08-19 Thread Robert Kerr
Okay, here's the situation. I'm porting a large project to Linux. Some of the libraries we have to use were compiled with an older version of egcs (I'm pretty sure it was 1.0.3). So, they expect the libraries (specifically libstdc++) that come with that version of egcs. Okay, so I installed the

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > Stavros wrote: > > > hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. > > 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles > > connecting via telnet to other machines. > > Right. Well, you'll just have to change this one. I don't like it either > but it

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Jim
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > No, you're thinking of .profile and .bash_profile, which are only read in > login shells. True. (Same holds for .bash_login. Note that only one of these is ever read: the first one found, in this order: .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile.)

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > > > The card is as follows: > > > > > > > > Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk > > > > > > > > On-Board Memory 8MB > > > > Board mapping D800 > > > > RAMDAC speed 230 MHz

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need > is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of packages are needed to solve

Re: glibc 2.1.2 and slink

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:28:26PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev > > packages) from potato on slink? > > Why not just install the glibc 2.1 package from potato instead o

Re: /dev/mouse: not supported by device -Not solved

1999-08-19 Thread vw
Is there any other name than "Serial Mouse" on the mouse? Are you absolutely positive it's on ttyS0? Just making sure... Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Davide Anchisi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:19. august 1999 18:14

gcc_2.91.1--0pre1

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi! I tried to build gcc_2.91.1--0pre1 and the following error: /usr/src/gcc-2.95.1/src/libobjc/gc.c:37: gc.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/gcc-2.95.1/src/libobjc/gc.c:55: gc_typed.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [gc_gc.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving dire

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks for the info. The UNIX checkups software you mention is the same that might get packaged for Debian, depending on the license I presume. Even if it didn't get packaged, it would be nice to have the .dsc and .diff.gz files such that one could download checkups, apply the diff and build a pr

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
> You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you > need is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you > trouble ;-) > Good luck > Vitux > > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: virtanen [SMT

alsa starts, then disappears; play works, aplay fails

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I have a weird problem where ALSA appears to start, but then remains unavailable. When I try to use "aplay", it doesn't work. But when I use "play", (through "sox") it does. Check this out: mass ~ > sudo aplay Aplay: version 0.3.2 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Err

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:27:27AM -0500, Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *- On 19 Aug, Stavros wrote about "Xterm" > > > > 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but when i start a new > > xterm the ~/.bashrc isn't being read. > > > > .bashrc is only read in a 'login' shell

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > The card is as follows: > > > > > > Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk > > > > > > On-Board Memory 8MB > > > Board mapping D800 > > > RAMDAC speed 230 MHz > > > > > This is a FAQ. You need a mor

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:12:27AM +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: > > > I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the > > gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: > > > > /usr/bin/gnome-session & > > exec icewm-gnome > > > >

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-19 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) > > - manufacturer has `free' Linux software which may be packaged > for Debian soon (All I have found in the source are lines > like: CheckUPS II BASIC V3.23Copyright (c)1985-99 by

Re: glibc 2.1.2 and slink

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:28:26PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Hi! > > Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev > packages) from potato on slink? Why not just install the glibc 2.1 package from potato instead of building it yourself? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Best 2.2.x for Slink?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 08:43:25AM -0700, tjm wrote: > It's time to upgrade. Is there a recommended > version of the 2.2.x kernel to use on a slink > system for the least amount of problems, or > should I just go for the latest that I can > find? At this time, stability is more important > than

apt with smbmount

1999-08-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box. I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but 'apt-get install ' is broken because the symlinks on the CD aren't followed. Is there any way to get apt-get to w

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read > on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due > to the different glibc dependencies. Errr..not exactly. As long

fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-19 Thread root
Hello, I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to 'local_domains=' and restarted exim, but

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Stavros wrote: > hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. > 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles > connecting via telnet to other machines. Right. Well, you'll just have to change this one. I don't like it either but it wasn't up to us. Some debian policy or other

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > The card is as follows: > > > > Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk > > > > On-Board Memory 8MB > > Board mapping D800 > > RAMDAC speed 230 MHz > > > > And the monitor is: > > HL 7870S Hyundai 17 > > > > 1) > > > > Does anyone know, which

Re: /dev/mouse: not supported by device -Not solved

1999-08-19 Thread Davide Anchisi
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > /dev/mouse is a symlink (via ln -s) from whatever is your mouse. So if your > mouse is on com1 it should look like > > /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0 > > a ps2 is psaux. The mouse is a Serial Mouse. /dev/mouse i's already: /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0 and even trying:

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> The card is as follows: > > Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk > > On-Board Memory 8MB > Board mapping D800 > RAMDAC speed 230 MHz > > And the monitor is: > HL 7870S Hyundai 17 > > 1) > > Does anyone know, which card I should select: > > a) Mattrox Millenium II > b) Mattrox Millenium II

SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
I recently had the same kind of problem (only with a lot crappier hardware). What I did wrong was choosing relatively conservative values for hsync and vsync, which X calculated to give me, yes, 320x200. I then thought, what the heck, i can't use 320x200 for anything anyways; so what have I got to

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> It should be /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy0 > > > I just tried to mount a floppy for the first time since /dev/MAKEDEV > > upgrade broke my box awhile back, and I get the message: > > > > mount: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist > > ---end quoted text--- >Agreed, but that's the erro

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
(Now the power problem seems to be solved. (Came back to this damn machine after some rest. My other debian box works well.) The power shut-off seems to be related to that windows-button 'let windows take care of power'...) Now again to the video-card and monitor. The card is as follows: Mat

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Raymond. I have kernel 2.2.5 on my slink load and it works just fine. On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to > 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have > Trident 4Dwave-based c

Re: rsync from a cron script [SOLVED]

1999-08-19 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Mike whenever you see Permission denied it means the calling function lacks the proper ownership to use this funtion. Do some detective work and find out what user(s) can call rsync. I bet it's just root who can do it. Make sure cron is acting for root. Or I am all wet. That happens a lo

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Stavros wrote about "Xterm" > > hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. > 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles > connecting via telnet to other machines. See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian > > 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but whe

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:04:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > problem. Slink is "2.2 ready". > Not according to http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 OK. I'll guiltily rephrase the answer: I have not encountered any trouble running kernels 2.2.3 and 2.2.9 on a

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > > > I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a > > list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/#errata *Just* w

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Stephan Engelke wrote about "Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2" > > problem. Slink is "2.2 ready". (I did check the kernel readme > afterwards an noticed that all packages are current enough.) > Not according to http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 The packages on

Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Stavros
hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles connecting via telnet to other machines. 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but when i start a new xterm the ~/.bashrc isn't being read. thanks.

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > > I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a > list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. I'd rather not go to > potato just yet, so is there a set of instructions for running slink on > 2.2? http://www.debi

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Raymond, On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:23:51AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a > list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. I'd rather not go to > potato just yet, so is there a set of instructions for running slin

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Marc Mongeon
Is this a card with two network ports? Unless I'm mistaken, "10BaseT" refers to the RJ-45 (telephone-like) port, while the BNC port should be called "10Base2" or something. You need to change the port using either switch settings on the card, or a software utility that came with the card. My memo

Strange (?) boot-up messages

1999-08-19 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit further... Now, I've been puzzled by some messages I find in the boot sequence and by a particular message I find in the syslog: When I boot the system, as soon as the klogd is started here comes the following m

Re: [OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!

1999-08-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
| It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven | *threads*. A thread is essentially the same process running at a | different location, but using the same memory. ps, top, etc. don't know | about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. | | Bottom line: StarOffice i

Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based card.) I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. I'

Re: rsync from a cron script [SOLVED]

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 08:39:42AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is > intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts > on both ends (different accounts). > > Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't

Re: apt-0.3.10slink11.deb

1999-08-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Robert Varga wrote: > Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? > > It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't > find it there... although it is still in the packages files. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/ still has it. -Remco

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-19 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Joe Emenaker wrote: > > For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* > unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more > importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without > having to wait for the next official release of Deb

Re: Wie Reply-To Tag in E-Mail einfuegen

1999-08-19 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Hi Andreas! Wrong list :-) Go to Setup/Config, look for Customized-Headers and add 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hallo, > > ich benutze Pine als Mail-Client und frage mich, wie ich ihm > beibringen kann, daß er ein "Reply-To"-Tag einfügt. Da si

[OT] One file of Staroffice got lost-please help

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I had temporarely RARed my Staroffice, and now one file of the archive got broken. I'd be very happy if someone could please send me this file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if it's not too big) It's libvcl516li.so or something like that from the /lib dir. Thanks for any help! Stephan Hachinge

Re: DHCPcd problems - No valid Server response

1999-08-19 Thread Buter
Used wrong email-address. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renald > > Hello, > > I'm at the end of my wit here... I can't get my Linux box (running > slink) > to communicate with the DHCP server at my office. > > Windows 95 no problem. > > Static IP under Linux used to be no problem. >

DHCPcd problems - No valid Server response

1999-08-19 Thread Cwts
Hello, I'm at the end of my wit here... I can't get my Linux box (running slink) to communicate with the DHCP server at my office. Windows 95 no problem. Static IP under Linux used to be no problem. (I updated to kernel 2.2.10 and to the dhcpcd 1.3.x package) Sigh Renald

Re: Tekram 390u2w scsi

1999-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi marcus > I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the > base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to > boot, it says "LI", nothing more... And it stays like that forever. for reference... see /usr/doc/lilo* easiest

apt-0.3.10slink11.deb

1999-08-19 Thread Robert Varga
Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't find it there... although it is still in the packages files. Robert Varga

Wie Reply-To Tag in E-Mail einfuegen

1999-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, ich benutze Pine als Mail-Client und frage mich, wie ich ihm beibringen kann, daß er ein "Reply-To"-Tag einfügt. Da sich meine Mailadresse kürzlich geändert hat, möchte ich bei Mails, die ich noch von der alten Adresse schicke, dieses einfügen. Viele Grüße Andreas.

Tekram 390u2w scsi

1999-08-19 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to boot, it says "LI", nothing more... And it stays like that forever. I have a Tekram DC-390U2W scsi adapter, a IBM U2W 9GB harddisk and

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Alex V. Toropov
> Yes - the windows-machines can see each other in the windows-network. > (Workgroupname Olsen as the domainname at the linux box.) > The windows pc's can ping each other, but not the linux. > > I'm using bnc-cables, and the linux is in the middle. I've tried to change > the T's - no effect. > The

Re: [boot messages too fast to read.]

1999-08-19 Thread Henning Olsen
Alexander Jankowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past >too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. > > Use Shift + pgup/pgdown before you logon to see the messages. Henning Olsen ___

RE: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Bernd Stegelmann
Alexander Jankowsky wrote on Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:14 AM: -- snip -- > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. -- snip -- Try SHIFT a

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. dmesg from the command prompt. Shift-PGUP/PGDN for console scrolling. -- Steve C. Lamb |

OT: A suggestion

1999-08-19 Thread Bernd Stegelmann
Could u please send the questions and replies directly to the list? That would make automatically sorting much easier! Thanx Bernd -- , }\ o ) _.-` `-. Thanx ( ( \`'./ (o)\

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