Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

1999-10-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for the best overall if I make it $HOME again. Reasons: 1) That's what most of the bug reports are about. 2) That's what the upstream distribution doe

Re: Debian menu

1999-10-11 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Victoria Catterson wrote: > I accidentally deleted the Debian menu while playing with > WMakerconf. Is there a way I can get it back? First, edit the file ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu so it contains only the following. Don't include the ST

Modules source ?

1999-10-11 Thread shaul
Where can I find the modules source (*.c files) that were used to make the modules that are copied to /lib/modules/2.0.36/ by default ?

Re: vi: line wrap?

1999-10-11 Thread Francois Deppierraz
bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can anybody tell me to set the line wrap to 80 > in vi? > i can't find this type of info anywhere. > Thanks, Type :set textwidth=80 in command mode. -- Francois Deppierraz student http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch ICQ: 176 770 09

Re: Several Questions

1999-10-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, October 11, 1999, 4:15:36 PM, Todd wrote: > is find and good, because I can now use the built in kill command > in bash for various things, but I did have to fix the poff script > for ppp, because it broke when /bin/kill because /bin/skill. > Just in case anyone else had the same problem an

Several Questions

1999-10-11 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, I had a number of questions I have pondered all week, and thought perhaps someone might know the answer. Any help is most apprieciated. #1 After upgrading my slink box to potato a week or 2 ago, I started getting the following error every time I install a n

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-11 Thread Jordan Howarth
> "aphro" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aphro> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/q3test] dpkg -S libXt.so.6 xlib6g: aphro> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 aphro> xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 xlib6: aphro> /usr/lib/libc5-compat/l

Re: dselect has gotten hungry

1999-10-11 Thread Todd Suess
This is a known problem with menu, which has since been fixed. There is a thread called "VERY Strange Problem since last update" which contains the particulars. If it's not in the archives yet, there should be some info in the bug reports also. Todd I have noticed this also, using apt-get

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
w3m is available as a Debian package (included in potato, at least). On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 04:47:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at > > http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/. I've been playing with > > it > > r

I just am not doing something right.

1999-10-11 Thread Jim Ruby
I'm trying to get ipmasq working and I'm not doing something right. My win 95 machine ip is 192.168.207.111 the masq is 255.255.255.0 the linux machine is 192.168.207.110 My provider has dynamic ip address so it will change every time I log in. here is some output files ifconfig: eth0 Link

kernel 2.2 and smbmount 2.0.5a: Win95 bugfix?

1999-10-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I have become quite confused about the interaction of the kernel versions and the different versions of Samba and smbmount. I have just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel. 'make menuconfig' gave no choice by which to enable the Win95 bug workaround. At the same time, smbmount 2.0.5a, which seems to be the

Re: printcap (HP Laserjet 6P) and samba

1999-10-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a linux box that I'm trying to set up for file & print serving for > our university administration, but I fear that my ignorance/newbieness is > causing me some grief, and I'm craving some experienced advice. > > Anyone have an e

Re: how to remove a broken package (solved)

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
"Charles Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > After banging my head on this problem and becoming quite intimate with the > different options of dpkg and apt-get, I discovered what the problem was. In > order to disable apache, squid ,etc, one of my coworkers had added the line > 'exit 1' at

Re: Accessing RealPlayer broadcasts from Broadcast.com

1999-10-11 Thread Graham Williams
I have Debian GNU/Linux (Slink) with a 2.2.12 kernel on a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT which has a Crystal Semiconductor CS4237B Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound card. On boot I get the message: Sound initialization started at 0x220 irq 5 dma 0,5 This sound card may not be

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very WHoops. took a look :P

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at > http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/. I've been playing with it > recently and it's not perfect, but I'm very impressed. I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very impressed with how it han

Re: how to remove a broken package (solved)

1999-10-11 Thread Charles Lewis
Thanks for all the input... After banging my head on this problem and becoming quite intimate with the different options of dpkg and apt-get, I discovered what the problem was. In order to disable apache, squid ,etc, one of my coworkers had added the line 'exit 1' at the beginning of the scripts

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Robert Jones
Quoth Arcady Genkin on 11 Oct, 1999: > So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... If

Re: dselect has gotten hungry

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 02:57:54PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > lately I have the feeling that dselect has gotten more resource hungry. > After having retrieved packages CPU usage goes up to 100% for a "long > time" while dselect prepares install. It also races up and down a lot > whi

Re: how to remove a broken package (long)

1999-10-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
When *all* else fails, you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, and tell it that the package isn't there. Then install it again, and purge. At this point, all of its files should be removed, and you should be able to install normally. Again, this is the *last* resort, when playing with fire is all

Re: Can't print to remote printer

1999-10-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I had a couple working along the lines of printername:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/spoolname:\ :rm=:rp=raw where I had to create the directory /var/spool/lpd/spoolname. If you try to have multiple printers share that spool, things get flaky. Then again, lpd's

printcap (HP Laserjet 6P) and samba

1999-10-11 Thread Charles Lewis
I have a linux box that I'm trying to set up for file & print serving for our university administration, but I fear that my ignorance/newbieness is causing me some grief, and I'm craving some experienced advice. Anyone have an example printcap for an HP Laserjet 6P that has been shared on a remote

Re: Debian menu

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> I accidentally deleted the Debian menu while playing with > WMakerconf. Is there a way I can get it back? Try running 'update-menus' --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: nwpopup

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:07:08PM +, Brian J. Stults wrote: > I have my linux box set to access files and receive messages from a > netware server. When I get mail, I am notified if I have an xterm > window open. Does anyone know of a utility similar to nwpopup for > Windows that will pop up

dselect has gotten hungry

1999-10-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, lately I have the feeling that dselect has gotten more resource hungry. After having retrieved packages CPU usage goes up to 100% for a "long time" while dselect prepares install. It also races up and down a lot while packages are being installed, and has a lot of lasting peaks at 100% while

Debian menu

1999-10-11 Thread Victoria Catterson
I accidentally deleted the Debian menu while playing with WMakerconf. Is there a way I can get it back? Thanks very much in advance, -- vic catterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] to err is human; to moo, bovine

Re: getdate

1999-10-11 Thread zdrysdal
HI I did as you suggested and changed /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh to K50hwclock.sh and once rebooted the time was 20:00 instead of 0800... hence it didn't work. One of the 3 servers doesn't even have the S50hwclock.sh file. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 11/10/99 13:50:18 To: Zane Drysdale

Re: Smail rewrite From address

1999-10-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > I currently use a Debian machine as my main machine at work but am having a > problem with mail. The problem is that I need the from address to be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com but smail keeps making the From address > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because w

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:36:34AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > I noticed the same thing. It is broken as far as I can see. I added > the following line to my crontab: > > 50 ** 0/bin/rm -rf /home/tgakem/.netscape/cache You might want to try this instead: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ATTN: stalin users (slightly OT)

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Browning
Apologies for the slightly off-topic message, but I know of no other way to reach the Debian stalin users. The upstream author Jeffrey Siskind has asked if I could ask those who find stalin useful to send him a message stating such. He needs feedback to use during his evaluation to convince his

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
Netscape does not remove all cache through the browser preferences, as far as I've seen. Just do rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape/cache (careful, and include /home/username/.netscape/cache in your path to avoid deleting other important directories!) then mkdir /home/yourusername/.netscape/

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Bart Szyszka
> So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... I like the browser in KDE's K File Manage

Re: Smail rewrite From address

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
I once used smail (use sendmail now). If the "From" header rewrite problem is the same as it was, you can go to the www.debian.org site, follow the "Documentation" link, then follow the "FAQ-O-MATIC" link to find your answer. Yes, you can change a smail configs to rewrite the "From" header t

RE: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread simka
Hello, On 11-Oct-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > And this is because I deleted its contents manually several days ago. . > So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? I'm using netscape with wwwoffle (www offline explorer, a personal http proxy), and it works very well. If you in

user X session at boot

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Wood
Currently I'm using a modified Login.app to provide a login screen for 7 public netscape terminals. I'm wondering if there is a way to have X start as the guest user at boot time. I've tried using 'su -c' in init but unfortunately that doesn't seem to quite work. Mike Wood

Smail rewrite From address

1999-10-11 Thread Steve George
Hi, I currently use a Debian machine as my main machine at work but am having a problem with mail. The problem is that I need the from address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com but smail keeps making the From address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because we have a firewall (and for some other weird reasons)

Re: Lotus Notes

1999-10-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Jim Penny wrote: > This is far, far, far from my favorite topic. > > Has anyone been able to get the lotus notes binary to run > undeer Debian? > > If so, what was done? > > Thanks. > > Jim Penny > There is another alternative to trying to get Notes working under Linux an

Re: video accelarators under linux

1999-10-11 Thread Sean Johnson
Unless you don't have an AGP slot, and then I'd go with the Voodoo3 2000 PCI. Sean Alexis Maldonado wrote: > Hello! > > I think that a good choice would be a card with the Nvidia TNT2 chipset, > like the Diamond Viper V770. These cards have 32MB RAM on-board, and I have > seen them work very nic

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
i for one love netscape. mainly for it's roaming abilities. i setup mod_roaming on my main www server an can get my bookmarks and cookies and history files from any machine at any time. at home i use squid for my cache and i set my cache in netscape to 0. dont remember if netscape still caches th

HP All-in-one drivers

1999-10-11 Thread Marco van Beek
Dear All, I have been trying to track down Linux software to run an HP all-in-one LaserJet 3100. Under windoze it creates two virtual Comm ports that the OS talks to, one for the printer, one for the fax (in my case COM6 and 7). The hardware is connected to LPT1, which is monitored by the "je

nwpopup

1999-10-11 Thread Brian J. Stults
I have my linux box set to access files and receive messages from a netware server. When I get mail, I am notified if I have an xterm window open. Does anyone know of a utility similar to nwpopup for Windows that will pop up a little window telling me I have mail? I tried running nwpopup through

Lotus Notes Server and Debian

1999-10-11 Thread Jim Penny
Hi, I sent a very poorly worded request for information last Friday. Here is more detail: I am trying to run Lotus Notes Server release 5.011 for Linux. It is currently an unsupported beta >From the download site (www.notes.net) I have this statement. server will run on any Linux distribution.

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Gerardo Mauricio Sarria
I've heard about Jazilla. Maybe... On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy,

(no subject)

1999-10-11 Thread Glitterygal
try music match jukebox

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... Heh. Nope. No alternative. You learn t

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? > > Netscape's cache features never worked right. Netscape is a stupid and > terrible browser. So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some important features. I use lynx quit

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-11 Thread Paolo Molaro
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote: > ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community > pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in I will be there for a talk and I'll give help manning the booth when I'll have some free time. B

Re: vnc-problems

1999-10-11 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > xvncviewer is not actually an xserver in the sense that you type it > from a text console and it gives you a graphical console. All the > viewer does is allow you to view a vnc session started by the server. > Once you have a GUI to play with, xvncviewer

smail misconfigured?

1999-10-11 Thread Markus Reuscher
Hi all! I want to receive mails on my server with the addresse eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a cut from my smail/config: - visible_name=www.htu.tuwien.ac.at more_hostnames=localhost -domains hostnames=www.htu.tuwien.ac.at:htu.at:www.htu.at -

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? Netscape's cache features never worked right. Netscape is a stupid and terrible browser. --Ian Ehrenwald

LILO won't load win95, but no error...??

1999-10-11 Thread Martin Waller
Help me! I have win95 on /dev/hda1 with extended partition /dev/hda2 . Debian on /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdc1=swap, /dev/hdc2=/usr/local. lilo.conf= boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b read-only prompt timeout=100 vga=normal image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 label=linux other=/

potato

1999-10-11 Thread Matthew Kokidko
I'm interesting in downloading all of the files that would be required to boot from a cd and install potato. Are all of the required files in the directory: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ Thank you for your help please respond via e-mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vnc-problems

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:26:55PM +0300, virtanen wrote: > > I installed vncserver and xvncviewer. > [...] > > The second problem is that I cannot run xvncviewer on the local consoles. > Basically the server is working (as 'root'), because I can run a viewer on > a mswin machine to get an

Re: vnc-problems

1999-10-11 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: > Q20 Why can I only run vncserver/Xvnc as root? > > The most likely reason for this is that Xvnc can't create the unix domain > socket (the path for this unix domain socket is usually > /tmp/.X11-unix/Xn). Try making sure that users can write to this directory

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-11 Thread John Forest
Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able > > to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in > > it. I read in the manual ie "man egrep" that the lines are limi

Re: SB-PCI-64

1999-10-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Jordi wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > > > On jue, oct 07, 1999 at 07:08:56 +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: > > > > La SoundBlaster 64 PCI es realmente una Ensoniq 1371, no una > > > > soundblaster. Ponle

Re: S3 Virge AGP

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
check http://www.xfree86.org for the compadiblity list. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: vnc-problems

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q20 Q20 Why can I only run vncserver/Xvnc as root? The most likely reason for this is that Xvnc can't create the unix domain socket (the path for this unix domain socket is usually /tmp/.X11-unix/Xn). Try making sure that users can write to this direct

RE: Three questions

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
if linux had more documentation that would take more of the fun outta it!@ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett

S3 Virge AGP

1999-10-11 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I've an S3 Virge GX2 with AGP, and it seems to me, that causes some stability problems in my Slink box. Which X server is recommended? Is XF86-S3V 3.3.5 compatible with my card? Regards, Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1

Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by

1999-10-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 11 Oct, Fabrizio Polacco wrote about "Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by " > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man page

Re: Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:48:16PM +0900, Neil Parry wrote: > Does anyone know if there's an archive of old Debian src packages anywhere? > I'm looking for lilo_17 as I need to recompile for partition-rewrite support > which has been disabled in later versions. > > Neil Parry > Department of Co

Re: Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 11 Oct, Neil Parry wrote about "Location of old Debian packages?" > Does anyone know if there's an archive of old Debian src packages anywhere? > I'm looking for lilo_17 as I need to recompile for partition-rewrite support > which has been disabled in later versions. > Look at the bottom

Re: how to read the result of inittab

1999-10-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Mickael Vera wrote: > Hi, > > When I boot linux I can read on screen the > messages of the kernel and then the messages > produced by inittab > > When i am logged I can read the kernel messages > with dmesg but how can i read the messages > that follow. If go on the console

Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by

1999-10-11 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as > > a highligted and not hypens. What would be causing this? The > > relevant p

Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Neil Parry
Does anyone know if there's an archive of old Debian src packages anywhere? I'm looking for lilo_17 as I need to recompile for partition-rewrite support which has been disabled in later versions. Neil Parry Department of Computing & Communications University of Lincs & Humberside, UK. ___

Re: www connection????

1999-10-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
You are right: It is not working. The funny part is that yesterday it was. It stopped working after I changed the settings to CHAP as advised. Now it tells me the following when I pon (I don't hear the modem working) and plog afterwards: Please help! Please send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wil

Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:48:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > Ok. Less is my pager. Setting LESSCHARSET to latin1 fixed the > problem. But how do I fix this system wide without setting LESSCHARSET > in all systemwide shell startup scripts. The less man page says that if > LESSCHARSET is not

Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by

1999-10-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Oct, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by " > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as >> a highligted and not hypens. What would b

Re: Gateway option line for dhcp?

1999-10-11 Thread Dpk
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 01:23:35PM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: I recently set up a DHCP server on my local lan, as well as an internet gateway. I've searched through the man page of DHCP and the man page of dhcpd.conf.. does anyone know the "option" line to include into dhcpd.conf so

Re: www connection????

1999-10-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 04:06:39PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Well, I just did it, and it says: > lo: Link encap: Local Loopback > inet address: 127.0.0.1 > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNINGMTU: 3584Metric:1 > Etcetera, with all parameters 0. > > Which seems to me me

vnc-problems

1999-10-11 Thread virtanen
I installed vncserver and xvncviewer. The first problem is that I can run vncserver only only as 'root'. I gave the read and write access to any user to the directory as suggested in the faq file (/tmp/.X11-unix) But it didn't help. What to do next? The second problem is that I cannot run

Are there any plans to package the SDCC - freeware C compiler for 8051 and relatives?

1999-10-11 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I'm interested if there are any plans to package for Debian the sdcc (http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/1353) - a very good, rapidly developed freeware C compiler for 8051 and relative microprocs. -- TIA Wojciec

how to read the result of inittab

1999-10-11 Thread Mickael Vera
Hi, When I boot linux I can read on screen the messages of the kernel and then the messages produced by inittab When i am logged I can read the kernel messages with dmesg but how can i read the messages that follow. If go on the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) I can see the last lines but not the first on

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew Hately
Oki DZ wrote: > > Andrew Hately wrote: > ... > > I had intended to use it as an xserver for the rest of the machines on my > > network but the screen is so dim and unsharp I'm going off the idea. > > How do you set up xservers? I think I read a note about this on the sparc linux page; something

Group "adm"?

1999-10-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver) created by another process, as

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 03:22:12AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of > 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I > invariably get some huge number: > > 3,5Mcache > > And this is because I deleted its contents

RE: Three questions

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew Hately
> > The poor quality of documentation, such as these "how tos" > is one of the > > reasons why I recommend when ever I am asked whether a site > should move > > to linux to recommend that they don't. > > Although I didn't agree with the tone of this message, I > definitely think something > needs t

Re: /dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...

1999-10-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:39:23AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 10:16:37PM -0500, rich wrote: > > Howdy all, > > . > > monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt > /dev/lp0 > > bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device > > > > However, the output of 'lsmod' shows

Re: How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?

1999-10-11 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to remove an old kernel-image, the following error > occurs. > > Can't return outside a subroutine at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 > > How can I efficiently remove it? ...tried dpkg --force- and that >

Re: /dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 10:16:37PM -0500, rich wrote: > Howdy all, > . > monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt > /dev/lp0 > bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device > > However, the output of 'lsmod' shows that lp and parport are loaded > any ideas? > > Module Siz

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 08:09:58PM -0700, aphro wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/q3test] dpkg -S libXt.so.6 > xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 > xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 > xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 > xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0 > > looks like u ne

Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I invariably get some huge number: 3,5Mcache And this is because I deleted its contents manually several days ago. Now, even funnier. When I do "Clear Disk Cache" from

Re: How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can't return outside a subroutine at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 Post that subroutine here, I'll bet someone can tell you how to change it to make it work, especially since all you want to do is remove the package.

RE: More: Re: crontab reports: ....

1999-10-11 Thread Todd Suess
see man suidregister, or you can edit the /etc/suid.conf file directly and remove the offending lines. -Todd On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 11-Oct-99 Art Lemasters wrote: > > Allright, so what about the following? Do programs sometimes > > need to be unregistered as well? Is t

Re: Using linux 2.2.x with Debian 2.1

1999-10-11 Thread Todd Suess
I have been using a 2.2.12-3 kernel now with Debian 2.1, but I updated everything to potato, after installing slink. Other than a few minor quirks I must say I am very pleased with it. Todd On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I have read the errata conscerning Linux 2.2.x and D

Re: More: Re: crontab reports: ....

1999-10-11 Thread Lawson Daku Max
Pollywog wrote: > On 11-Oct-99 Art Lemasters wrote: > > Allright, so what about the following? Do programs sometimes > > need to be unregistered as well? Is the following a security > > problem on my system? > > > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > > suidregister: /var/list/.bin/multigram register

Re: video accelarators under linux

1999-10-11 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! I think that a good choice would be a card with the Nvidia TNT2 chipset, like the Diamond Viper V770. These cards have 32MB RAM on-board, and I have seen them work very nicely with Linux. We have run Quake II, and Quake-III-test with open-gl (glx) acceleration, and they work fine. I would

How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
When I try to remove an old kernel-image, the following error occurs. Can't return outside a subroutine at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 How can I efficiently remove it? ...tried dpkg --force- and that didn't do it. Art

my root filesystem is 21.6% non-contiguous...

1999-10-11 Thread rich
Is that bad? most of my other filesystems are in the 1.5% range. This seems to have happened after I through my /usr directory onto its own partition... shortly thereafter, I noticed that it was 20.9%. I thought that it may have been because I just moved a large chunk of it, but after a couple of w

/dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...

1999-10-11 Thread rich
Howdy all, I've had everything working great on my system for a long time, BUT with EVERYTHING compiled into the kernel - I had trouble a while ago using make-kpkg... the kernel_image worked fine, but modules_image didn't do anything but echo back some script... Anyway, I finally used the 'make mo

Re: Accessing RealPlayer broadcasts from Broadcast.com

1999-10-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
You need to go to Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications then look for the realaudio entry (if you have one). It should have something like: Description: RealAudio MIMEType : audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes : ra, ram x Application: realplayer %s -- +

Re: gdm locks me out!!!

1999-10-11 Thread Peter Solodov
Sergio Brandano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am running Debian potato. Everything was fuine > (sorry, I am using a terminal under WinNT now) > ... everything e > .. everything was fine until I u installed gnome. > At reboot , dg .. gdm takes control of the machine > and the keyboa

Re: potato broke X :(

1999-10-11 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, I sent in a bug report. I followed the instructions at > bugs.debian.org, so I hope I did it right... The bug report number is > 47105. Looks good to me; but you should, technically, have included the versions of the packages that xserver-svga depend

glms-1.03

1999-10-11 Thread Oz Dror
Has anyone had any success in compiling the package above under potato it uses a lib-applets package, which is not available -Oz -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Accessing RealPlayer broadcasts from Broadcast.com

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
broadcast.com has mostly windows stuff? ironic ..i heard that broadcast.com uses a few hundred linux boxes to host their content ! lol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet S

$PATH in X ?

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
I was wondering what the best way to set the path globally in X. e.g. i compile kde apps by hand and they all go into /usr/local/kde/bin and no matter what i do i can't get that into my $PATH for X. its in my /etc/enviornment and /etc/profile and i added it to /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup but still it d

Accessing RealPlayer broadcasts from Broadcast.com

1999-10-11 Thread Kristopher Johnson
I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 and RealPlayer 6.0.4.433 (Beta) installed on my potato system. I went to this page on Broadcast.com, to access a local radio station: http://www.broadcast.com/radio/Rock/WKLS/ They have a button for a RealPlayer broadcast. I hit the button, at which point Netsca

Re: Startup scripts

1999-10-11 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Here is another simple question that I cannot figure out. I want a program > to be started up at boot time alongwith all the other daemons. > > Which startup file should I modify for this ? You should create a startup

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-11 Thread Oki DZ
George Bonser wrote: > Yes, you can ipmasq to nat anything. It simply uses masquerades the given > source address to the outbound interface regardless of ip address. Hi, I tested a router between the server that serving nat and my machine the other day. But it didn't work properly. The question

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