Xemacs 21 instellation problem

1999-08-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I Installed xemacs 21 on my computer together with xemacs20 and it worked fine. I then removed xemacs 20 to free the space and xeamcs stoped working. I tried to reinstall it from scrach but i kept getting an error massage from apt-get (smae message i got when i tried to start it after removeing xem

pipe-command problem with mailman and exim

1999-08-30 Thread Tero Tilus
Everything (=creating and configuring lists) seems to be workin and I think I have followed instructions, but still. When I'm trying to subscribe to list just created I encounter some problems. Confirmation is sent to the subscriber (to me, when testing), but by replying I get three times the follo

Re: dh_link for slink

1999-08-30 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > does it depends on glibc2.1? I'm running an almost pure slink box. No, it's a perl program and will work in stable. -- see shy jo

Re: dh_link for slink

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:30:05 -0700 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian User List > Subject: Re: dh_link for slink > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > I remember there were some po

Re: problems with libc5 netscape in potato

1999-08-30 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Bob Nielsen wrote: > Huh? I noticed that navigator was updated a few days ago, but it is > seems to use both libc5 and libc6: > > Those libs don't show up here either, but navigator still runs just fine > for me (some people seem to have problems with the libc6 version, but I > haven't). > > I

Re: Fresh install questions

1999-08-30 Thread Ron Stordahl
Nathan Duehr replied: > Ron, > > Due to various laws and licenses, the non-free and non-US packages and > directories are not on the CD-ROM's, for good reason. > > Answer "none" for the non-free and non-US stuff, finish installing your > packages selected, then change your Access method to APT go

Re: ipx problem with 2.2.x

1999-08-30 Thread Gregory T. Norris
There's an IPX overbroadcasting problem with all currently released versions of 2.2.x... very nasty, in my experience (saturates the network *very* quickly, crashed some switches, etc.). If you're willing to compile a custom kernel, check out the 2.2.13pre1 patch at your favourite kernel.org mirro

Re: problems with libc5 netscape in potato

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
Huh? I noticed that navigator was updated a few days ago, but it is seems to use both libc5 and libc6: $ ldd /usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40005000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4004d000) libI

Re: PAM and POP3 Server

1999-08-30 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Marcus Felipe Pereira wrote: > Do Debian (potato) distributes any POP3 server package with PAM > support? Yes, GNU pop3d (package gnu-pop3d), formerly known as IDS POP. Not a bad POP server, either, if I do say so myself. ;) -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - htt

Re: Linux router and NetMeeting

1999-08-30 Thread ferret
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think someone needs to write an IP masq helper module for Netmeeting. I > just got the port specs from M$'s site, and I'm looking into how to do it > right now. I'll post what I have in a few days (Don't have time to do any > coding during w

Re: Fresh install questions

1999-08-30 Thread Nathan Duehr
Ron, Due to various laws and licenses, the non-free and non-US packages and directories are not on the CD-ROM's, for good reason. Answer "none" for the non-free and non-US stuff, finish installing your packages selected, then change your Access method to APT go online and do an Update to get the

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-30 Thread Ernest Johanson
I just upgraded a potato system to 2.2.12 due to the 2.2.11 memory leak. The release notes say that the .12 kernel won't compile with gcc 2.95. I have gcc 2.91.66-2 on that system and it compiled ok, a few warnings but no errors. System came up with no problem and no memory leak. Ernest Johanson W

Re: dh_link for slink

1999-08-30 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I remember there were some posts on this subject some days ago but > didn't find a solution to this yet. I need to build ipx_1.0-5 from potato > in my slink. What is the best solution? > The reason I need this is sent in another msg. Install unstable's

Re: help

1999-08-30 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Beverley Eyre wrote: > I have Debbie GNU/Linux 2.1 that I got from the Linux Mall; 2 CD's. > I'll try you suggestion and get back to you. ---end quoted text--- Beverly, This may make a difference, since I don't remember what version of apt is used in 2.1 (I'm running an "unstable" version). Also

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-08-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:11:29PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: > I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem > from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I > can neither cut nor paste. > > Any idea what could be wrong? Hold down the SHIFT key when yo

problems with libc5 netscape in potato

1999-08-30 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I am running/testing potato. Most things work fine, but a few days ago netscape was replaced by a new version using libc5. However, this version crashes on my machine with a buserror. Doing ldd on the binary indicates that libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27 are not found. At first the were not

Re: TeK WYSWYG editor?

1999-08-30 Thread Colin Marquardt
* virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > Did You mean TeX? Then the answer is LyX. > It is really good and available with slink or hamm as well. Yeah, but don´t waste your time with a version under 1.0.x or kLyX (which is based on 0.12something

ftp can build data connection - masquerading problem?

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get', 'retr' or just a harmless 'dir') with a message like: ftp> dir 200 PORT comman

Re: Linux router and NetMeeting

1999-08-30 Thread ferret
I think someone needs to write an IP masq helper module for Netmeeting. I just got the port specs from M$'s site, and I'm looking into how to do it right now. I'll post what I have in a few days (Don't have time to do any coding during work days. :< ), and hopefully... I could also use someone to

PAM and POP3 Server

1999-08-30 Thread Marcus Felipe Pereira
Do Debian (potato) distributes any POP3 server package with PAM support? Thanks Marcus

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-08-30 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem > from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I > can neither cut nor paste. > > Any idea what could be wrong? Stef I can't help you but I can commiserate, an

Re: Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C

1999-08-30 Thread Danny Heap
I can now mount my Bantam Backpack cd from my Toshiba T4500C laptop. Thanks to George Sollish and www.torqe.net for their help. What worked was to load modules paride, bpck, and pcd and *then* to use the script at www.torqe.net to make the appropriate devices under /dev. It seems completely impl

Re: dhcpcd question

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> I added an "rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.*" to my dhcpcd start script. I know > that dhcpcd works well on redhat and does not suffer this problem. I've > looked through their start scripts and can't seem to find a major > differences in the way debian and redhat call dhcpcd. Any more ideas? OK... J

Re: PnP SB16 Problems

1999-08-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 30 Aug 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting an SB16 (Vibra 16 really) PnP to work with > debian, I tried configuring the kernel with the same options that CTCM > displays when you run it, then booting to DOS, running CTCM and then b

Re: Linux router and NetMeeting

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
This is because the router uses NAT and the packets arriving at your friend's computer appear to come from your router, not your NT server. I'm not familiar with Netmeeting, but if it tries to create a return connection, this may not work. Several other protocols do this and only some of them are

Proftpd is stuck...

1999-08-30 Thread Alex McCool
Hi all, I'm having some problems with proftpd. After I get it installed I get this for a message: Server is going down (Sun Jul 1 1999) or something similar After I correctly uninstall proftpd ( back to in.ftpd ) my server correctly lets ftp clients in via the builtin. No matte

Mozilla on Linux

1999-08-30 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi Everyone, I've setup Mozilla Milestone 8 on my Debian system, but when you resize a window or load a site, it's just way too slow. Unusably slow. When I tried Milestone 9 and Milestone 8 in Windows98, it was fairly quick and totally useable. Has anyone else noticed these differences? Is there a

No cut/paste on lynx

1999-08-30 Thread Debian Mail
I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I can neither cut nor paste. Any idea what could be wrong? Stef

Re: dhcpcd question

1999-08-30 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: ->My linux box should get it's IP address from a DHCP server, and it ->really does it perfectly UNTIL they move my PC to a different subnet I have found this problem too. ->(what seems to be happening quite frequently here)... When it happens

Fresh install questions

1999-08-30 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am trying to do a fresh install of Debian 2.1r2 using the 4 disk set. I am following 'Installing Debian GNU/Linix For Intal x86' as well as dselect Documentation for Beginners. After about a half a dozen unsuccessful installs I am now going to do this step by step, not proceeding when I receive

Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 > wm) I get "find: paths must preced expression Usage: find [path...] > [expression]" > > If I try this from a vterm () it works fine. I am NOT

Re: Dialin question

1999-08-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Douglas Eck wrote: > > I'm currently using wvdial and like it. Now I only have one phone > line with call forwarding and want to do the following with > demand dialing (note, I know roughly about all of the packages > required... I'd just like to get thoughts from anyone who > has done anything th

Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Michael Procario
Put the *.deb in quotes as in find / -name "*.deb" -print You want find to see the *. Without the quotes the shell expands *.deb to a list of debs which may or may not be empty. Th equotes prevent shell expandsion. _

Compiled Mysql

1999-08-30 Thread Lance Levsen
Does anyone run slink with Perl and libdbd-mysql-perl with a locally compiled version of Mysql? My problem is that perl refuses to connect. It know the mysql module is there: @driver_names=DBI->available_drivers; print @driver_names; outputs: ExamplePProxymSQLmysql but: my @data_sources=DBI-

Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 You have to enclose *.deb in single quotes. The type of terminal you are on will have no meaning, but whether there are any .deb files in your current directory will. :}

dhcpcd question

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I've faced what I could call a bug (I think) in dhcpcd, and I'd like to know if there's a known workaround for that... My linux box should get it's IP address from a DHCP server, and it really does it perfectly UNTIL they move my PC to a different subnet (what seems to be happen

tc4145 - Thomas Conrad - Token Ring

1999-08-30 Thread Ryan McKinney
Hello All, I, of course, need your help. I have several tc4145 Thomas Conrad ISA Token Ring 4/16mb NICs that I cannot seem to get Debian to recognize. I've searched all of the HOWTOs that I could find, and I am still searching the www to try and find ANYthing that I can an this topic. The sear

problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 wm) I get "find: paths must preced expression Usage: find [path...] [expression]" If I try this from a vterm () it works fine. I am NOT logged in as root in either case. Hmmm now it isn't even working in a vterm. (something

2.2.10 image & ethernet

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
I just upgraded a slink install to potato and am playing with the 2.2.10 kernel-image deb. (I can imagine Emeril saying, "Let's kick it up a notch. Bam!") Even though I placed 'alias eth0 ne2k-pci' in an /etc/modutils/ethernet file and ran update-modules, the kernel insists on loading the ne2 modu

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-08-30 Thread John Carline
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Pinguins, Hi Michelle, It sounds like you have one of Guillemot's older VooDoo cards. If it's like the Diamond Monster 3D that I had, it takes input from your 2D card and gives it a 3D boost. That's why it has a VGA-input (from your 2D card) and a VGA-output (to

Re: TeK WYSWYG editor?

1999-08-30 Thread Lev Lvovsky
if you mean Tex, Lyx is a great program that I used to make a whole scientific report (granted it took longer than if I knew the language, but I didn't have time to learn it). Debian.org has the packages... hth -lev On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > Hi there, > > do anyon

Re: Harddrive woes

1999-08-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, rick wrote: : I'm helping a friend set up Debian as a firewall/router for his : LAN. Troubles with the partition table or BIOS or something. : : fdisk sez: : :/root# fdisk /dev/hda : :Command (m for help): p : :Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 secto

Re: TeK WYSWYG editor?

1999-08-30 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Did You mean TeX? Then the answer is LyX. It is really good and available with slink or hamm as well. -hv

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Stavros" == Stavros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stavros> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, William Ono wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Stavros wrote: >> >> > have anyone faced any problems compiling the 2.2.12 kernel on >> potato? >> >> I'm sitting at a potato system running 2.2.12 righ

Linux router and NetMeeting

1999-08-30 Thread Carlos Santos
Here's my problem (please help if you can): I've setup a Linux to route between my intranet and the Internet (through a cable modem). I'm using IP Masquerading, which is working fine and has been for a long time. Now, i'm trying to connect to a friend of mine through Netmeeting and i can't get the

Harddrive woes

1999-08-30 Thread rick
I'm helping a friend set up Debian as a firewall/router for his LAN. Troubles with the partition table or BIOS or something. fdisk sez: /root# fdisk /dev/hda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 823 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes

Re: Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C

1999-08-30 Thread Danny Heap
Thanks a lot for your help. I'm still stuck, but (perhaps) making progress. > Install the base system from floppies. DO NOT configure the > 'paride' (parallel port) modules into the kernel. When it comes > time to install the packages, do this: Okay, I've installed from floppies, then invoked

TeK WYSWYG editor?

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, do anyone know a good WYSWYG TeK editor for Linux (much like Scientific Word for Windows)? In case you don't... Is there any program to convert from any of the 'regular' word processors to TeK (even if I'd have to do some 'fine tuning' on the TeK file later, it would be *a lot* easie

Compiling w/ libc5

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was wondering what would I need to do in order to compile a software I've got here linked to libc5 and not to libc6... I assume that just editing the Makefiles and changing 'gcc' for 'altgcc' would be much of a naive try, wouldn't it? What should I do then? The program also uses th

Re: WindowMaker for newbie.

1999-08-30 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Gay wrote: > > > around in the xdm directories, but couldn't find a file that seemed to start > fvwm95. There should be somewhere a file named window-managers. If you change in that file wmaker to be the topmost-one, it will be started first. (By the way, I'm regu

WindowMaker for newbie.

1999-08-30 Thread John Gay
Well, after my request for info about Enlightenment, I decided to go with WindowMaker due to my daughters 8bit colour limit. I installed it with little problem, except that dselect kept saying that WindowMaker suggested asclock and asclock didn't seem to be available. I ignored this as it was onl

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-30 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: > I came up with a better idea (I think). OK, I hope. > file, we all love file, right? file has a database of what various file > types look like, so it will tell you if text is C code, html, text, a > staticly linked file, or whate

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1999-08-30 Thread Person, Roderick
unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 "We're not that good. Everyone else just sucks!" - anon. Navy Seal

Re: Problem running X-Window with SVGA 16bit colors

1999-08-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote: > when trying to start X-Window in 16bit color mode an error message > appear saying that linear memory is required. What does it mean? > (I tryed changing resolution but this doesn't solve.) > > I've a Tseng Labs ET4000 video card with 1024 kb memory on

Re: mgetty

1999-08-30 Thread Robert Horvath
Thank you for your help! I appreciate it! Robert On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > The problem is that the machine which is dialing in is sending characters to > mgetty > which make it believe that a regular login session should be starting (like a > CRLF). > The machine dialing

Re: xterm

1999-08-30 Thread John Carline
Michael Stenner wrote: > > > B) you can find fonts with the (somewhat nasty... anyone know > something better?) program xfontsel. I'm not sure how "better" it is, but there's gfontsel. It's definitely a nicer GUI. John -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: ipconfig eth0:1 down doesnt do what i think it would

1999-08-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:56:56PM +1000, meridian wrote: > > Hi, > i have added eth0:1 with the ip of my static ip assigned by my isp, which > is only supposed to be up on the local network when my connection to my > isp goes down. however when my connection comes back up i get ip-up to run > >

Bantam backpack on Toshiba T4500C

1999-08-30 Thread Danny Heap
My brother-in-law loaned me his aging 486 Toshiba laptop since he had failed to install RedHat on it. It seems that the minimum install for RedHat far exceeds the 120Mb disk it has. I decided to try a minimal installation of Debian Slink. This machine has a 120Mb HD and 12 MB RAM, so this is a b

Re: Drivers for 3Com 3C90X

1999-08-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
You need the 3c59x driver, it includes 3C90x. /* EtherLinkXL.c: A 3Com EtherLink PCI III/XL ethernet driver for linux. */ /* Written 1996-1998 by Donald Becker. This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU Public License, incorporated here

ipx problem with 2.2.x

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some problems with ipx since I upgraded to 2.2.10/12. My system is generating a lot of colision with ipx interfaces created. Are there any known problem with ipx and 2.2.x ? I'm using slink, ipx_1.0-4, 2.2.12 custom kernel, build with ipx support as well as

dh_link for slink

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I remember there were some posts on this subject some days ago but didn't find a solution to this yet. I need to build ipx_1.0-5 from potato in my slink. What is the best solution? The reason I need this is sent in another msg. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the

Re: My own DNS with bind

1999-08-30 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Marcus Johansson wrote: > > Hi! > > I have 4 machines at home, and one of them is configured with ip-masq/forward > so I can have them all on the big net. And that works like a charm. I've also > set up a slave DNS on the ip-masq box, which all my clients use as their >

Re: HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-30 Thread Andreas Persenius
Quoting Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% > of capacity. The last time I was on the computer > I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any > other information. Any suggestions on what > I can chec

Re: Still can't get a DHCP address

1999-08-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I know there are complications using DHCP with more than one ethernet card. I personally am not that familiar with them. You said you tried switching your LAN to eth1. Do you mean by this that you switched the cables and ran DHCP on eth0? It may be that with the version of DHCP and kernel you're

Re: My own DNS with bind

1999-08-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can run your own DNS but if all your boxes there are Linux/unix boxes you could also run NIS which would be simpler. In order to configure BIND you need to write out all your host databases. This process can't be described in a simple email. I would refer you to the docs at http://www.isc.or

Re: mgetty

1999-08-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The problem is that the machine which is dialing in is sending characters to mgetty which make it believe that a regular login session should be starting (like a CRLF). The machine dialing in should start PPP immediately once the modem returns CONNECT. Horvath Robert wrote: > I have some probl

Lexmark Optra

1999-08-30 Thread Marcin Kurc
Have anyone installed Lexmark Optra S 1855? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

HELP: xv: can't load library 'libX11.so.6'

1999-08-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am running a just updated potato and when trying to run xv i get the following message: 16:30:51 yoda:~$ xv xv: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' with locate libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 and the rest works perfectly (xterm, netscape, eeyes etc...) so

Re: mail loop with exmh?

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
let me revise that--it is not a loop for the open mailbox. Closer inspection shows that exmh is not deleting mail from the spool after incorporation, causing it to be reincorporated every few minutes. I've been using exmh for about three years, with the same configuration (save for different p

Re: Why lynx asking for a password?!?

1999-08-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
Look for an "AuthType" configuration directive in one of the /etc/apache config files (probably access.conf). Read the Apache documentation in /usr/doc/apache for a description of this directive. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
If you're only interested in retrieving your POP mail from your ISP account, and sending mail out to the Internet (i.e., no local delivery to machines on a home network), then the only thing you need to configure is Netscape Mail. In your Netscape preferences set both your incoming and outgoing ma

boot from cd but load kernel from hd ?

1999-08-30 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello is it possible to boot from CD but then load the kernel and the root from harddisc (i.e. rescue root=/dev/hda1 boot=/dev/hdb3) ? The boot command does not seem to work on the LILO prompt. read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333

Re: Problem with cfdisk - need help!

1999-08-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 07:47:27AM -0600, Duggan Dieterly wrote: > i followed the instructions using FIPS to partition my hard drive. the > drive is a 25 GB drive. the partitioning of DOS partitions seems to have > > when i run linux cfdisk, i go to partition the hard drive to create linux > part

Re: Netscape

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Netscape is stable except for when I browse in multiple windows, then > closing any window may kill my entire netscape suite (downlaod,s collabra, > everything), it isn't only closing the original window that does it. I've seen exactly the same problem here... teh workaround I found was to start

Re: Problem with cfdisk - need help!

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> when i run linux cfdisk, i go to partition the hard drive to create linux > partitions, and i get the following message: > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition > Press any key to exit fdisk > > i can 'view partitions' with cfdisk. it shows me that there are 2 FAT32 > partitions

Re: Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-30 Thread John Foster
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > maybe you can use a binary editor to see the control fields it's puting in > your file. (vim -b your_file) Never used one of these. Thanks, maybe these will help. > I also think the dos2unix utility might solve your prob

Re: hardware...

1999-08-30 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> ) Stuff to consider: > ) * drivers don't exist for sound cards with Aureal chips > ) and the new Soundblaser Live. > > Drivers do exist for the SB Live. I haven't checked out the latest > versions which are supposed to add /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, but the old > version did work w/ CD audio. T

Problem with cfdisk - need help!

1999-08-30 Thread Duggan Dieterly
i am trying to install debian linux. i got the distribution from the 'Debian GNU/Linux Guide to Installation and Usage' book. i followed the instructions using FIPS to partition my hard drive. the drive is a 25 GB drive. the partitioning of DOS partitions seems to have worked okay. i am runni

mail loop with exmh?

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
My unread messages are breeding! My configuration for exmh has largely been unchanged for years, save for those needed to accomodate for the differences between FreeBSD and debian in .maildelivery. Suddenly, the messages oin the open mailbox are duplicating themselves every few minutes. And

Re: xterm

1999-08-30 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:21:50AM +0200, Csépes Zoltán wrote: > Now I have an other problem with installing X-windows system. > How can I get that the xterm doesn't appear with so great fonts. I have > an ATI Mach64 videocard and I use a fairly good DELL monitor, but I dont > know its sync f

Smail in an old debian distribution.

1999-08-30 Thread Joao Pedro Gonçalves
Hi, I'm a happy debian user with an old server that i haven't figured until this weekend that it was open relayed, and even worse, the version of smail it's currently using doesn't support relay options, my system is a Debian 1.2, and i really would like to stick on the libc5, the machine is quite

Couple of questions

1999-08-30 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
Just a couple of quick questions: Firstly, I'm running two machines in a LAN, which is connected to the rest of the world via a modem and IP Masq. Every tiem I connect to my provider, the following message appears in ppp.log: cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Is this anyth

[Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-08-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Pinguins, nice Weekbeginning to all. Today I have found a 3Dfx graphic card in my miracle sack (NIC's, graphic cards, IOcontoler, SCSI,...) and I do not know, what I can do with it. OK, on the card is written: MAXI Gamer 3D Super Video 3D Accelerator Board 45 mil

Re: Problem running X-Window with SVGA 16bit colors

1999-08-30 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Davide Anchisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian -user Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:34 PM Subject: Problem running X-Window with SVGA 16bit colors > Hi, > > when trying to start X-Window in 16bit color mode an error message > appear saying that linear memory i

Re: Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:17:15PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > > > Hi, is there a simple solution to move folders in > > /var/spool/mail/$user to /home/$user/mailbox, i'm working with exim and > > qpopper and symlinks seems not to wor

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-30 Thread Stavros
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, William Ono wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Stavros wrote: > > > have anyone faced any problems compiling the 2.2.12 kernel on potato? > > I'm sitting at a potato system running 2.2.12 right now, so it works just > fine for me.. > > Was there a speci

Re: Security Question

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > The only thing I recognize is tripwire, and that from reading it in > few posts, but it appears to be available only in rpm format, and as > source only. tripwire is available as .deb (section non-free/admin) at least in slink. []s, Mario O.de Menezes

Problem running X-Window with SVGA 16bit colors

1999-08-30 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi, when trying to start X-Window in 16bit color mode an error message appear saying that linear memory is required. What does it mean? (I tryed changing resolution but this doesn't solve.) I've a Tseng Labs ET4000 video card with 1024 kb memory on a 486 with 16Mb RAM and 32 Mb Swap. Do I need

Re: Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Foster wrote: > > system, however when I select the delimiter (tab) and export it, the > file that is ported to Linux has extra visible quotation {"xx"} > marks around each field. If there are extra not visible line controls maybe you can use a binary editor to see

kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-30 Thread Stavros
have anyone faced any problems compiling the 2.2.12 kernel on potato?

xterm1

1999-08-30 Thread Csépes Zoltán
Dear Sir, Now I have an other problem with installing X-windows system Under the Debian Linux 1.3.1. distribution. How can I get that the xterm doesn't appear with so great fonts. I have an ATI Mach64 videocard and I use a fairly good DELL monitor, but I dont know its sync

xterm

1999-08-30 Thread Csépes Zoltán
Dear Sir, Now I have an other problem with installing X-windows system. How can I get that the xterm doesn't appear with so great fonts. I have an ATI Mach64 videocard and I use a fairly good DELL monitor, but I dont know its sync frequencies. Yours sincerely, Zol

Bugs in tar?

1999-08-30 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
I am using tar for backups, and I want to use the incremental option of tar. There are two ways to do this. The first is the -G option together with -N TIME, which will tar only those files that have changed since TIME. The other is the -g SNAPSHOT-FILE option that will use SNAPSHOT-FILE to see wh

My own DNS with bind

1999-08-30 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! I have 4 machines at home, and one of them is configured with ip-masq/forward so I can have them all on the big net. And that works like a charm. I've also set up a slave DNS on the ip-masq box, which all my clients use as their primary DNS, and that works too. But where and how do I confi

Log files - large and queer

1999-08-30 Thread Brian May
My system is fully slink. Today I had to investigate why the root partition on my computer was full. I think I found part of the reason: my /var/log directory contains 18.5 Mb of files!!! -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7687296 Aug 30 18:16 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 1877347 Aug 30

Re: StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-30 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 5:37 PM Subject: StarOffice 5.1 > Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I > need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version > 4.0 under Debian

Drivers for 3Com 3C90X

1999-08-30 Thread Pieter Breedt
Hi there I'd be grateful if someone could tell me where to obtain these drivers from. Many thanks Pieter

Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?

1999-08-30 Thread Nico De Ranter
> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > Are those 10/100Mbit boards? Do you have any data on performance issues? > > I want > > to build a router with 10 10/100Mbit interfaces but I wonder whether a > > standard > > PCI motherboard can handle that amount of traffic > > > > Nico >

Re: PnP SB16 Problems

1999-08-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
I have one friends with SB16 vibra working with potato/2.2.x. I forgot how actually we did it. In kernel config we have CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m in /etc/modules we have # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that a

Re: PnP SB16 Problems

1999-08-30 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Mon 08/30/99 06:28AM, Andrew Clark wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting an SB16 (Vibra 16 really) PnP to work with > debian, I tried configuring the kernel with the same options that CTCM > displays when you run it, then booting to DOS, running CTCM and then booting > linux via loadlin (

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