Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Ben Messinger
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Adam Shand wrote: > > > i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else > > down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then > > BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off. > > upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care.

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Adam Shand
> i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else > down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then > BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off. upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care. it gets really bad. just to reiterate. there is n

Re: chroot

1999-10-13 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, 13.10.99 00:18 -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory $ ldd /bin/bash libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40018000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40058000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005c000) /

fortune problems?

1999-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
For some reason, when I run fortune I get this message: fortune: no place to put residual probability (0%) This happened after I ran the newest wine which caused a kernel panic. I had to do a hard reboot to get the syatem back. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?

libqt and qt are they the same !?

1999-10-13 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi Maintainers, could anyone please solve the dependency-conflict of libqt1.44-6.3 and qt1g-1.44-6.1. Both seem to contain the same - maybe in different minor versions, but nevertheless some packages depend on qt1g (tuxeyes) some on libqt1g (kdebase) Maybe i am the only one... Would be nice, to

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-13 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:06:35PM -0300, Pablo De Napoli wrote: > Hello! Hi, > > I think that we should consider: > > 1) Create some easy-to-use tools for making debian packages ( not for > experts I mean) in order that everybody can make a debian package and > so debian is updated faster (or

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks. apt.conf will handle it. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, > > running dselect with the apt method, I get asked "Do you want to er

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Marcin Kurc
I'm trying to start up LUG here - Fort Wayne. So far, I just have maybe 5 people interested. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:58:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 13 Oct, Marcin Kurc wrote about "LUGs etc." > > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > > >

The NU seminars

1999-10-13 Thread NU
From:The NewAmerica University (NU). To:NU participant with the password [_ _ _R.S.] (If you do not want to renew your membership, put REMOVE and click REPLY. If you are not sure that you ever send us an email asking for information,please request for a copy, and we will send you the data). U

How to make custom HTML tags for asWedit?

1999-10-13 Thread John Foster
I need to be able to make customized HTML tags in asWedit. or Netscape Composer, or CoffeeCan HTML Editor++. Any suggestions, or other progs that will allow this? This is something that I was able to do with HotDog in the Windows World. I am trying to avoid using any thing to manage my site that re

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

1999-10-13 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:31:40PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Joop Stakenborg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > At the moment I am using a Sound Blaster vibra16x pnp card, > > this card is not really supported by OSSFree (kernel) > > or ALSA. > > I have this card. It works fine for me, but it

Re: qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
Oops, found them as soon as I sent this message (always happens). They are in /var/log/mail.*. I was looking for something like /var/log/qmail. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Gerry On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato.

Pine4.20

1999-10-13 Thread Mats Johansson
Are they any unoffical deb out there with Pine 4.20 as it was with Pine4.10? //Mats E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I think you do an "apt-get clean". Don't know how to automate it; try > apt.conf(5). Isn't there a command like 'apt-get autoclean' ? Does that automate it? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Grou

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:52:53PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AO" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AO> have you looked into portsentry ?? ( same folks as logcheck )... - > AO> on my todo list > > Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I > ha

qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato. It runs fine, but I cannot find where it is keeping its log file(s). Anyone know where they are? Or does it not keep a log by default. Thanks, Gerry

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, > running dselect with the apt method, I get asked "Do you want to erase > the downloaded .deb files (Y/n)?" On the other system, I am not asked, > but I would like to cha

Re: debian-security: another new mailing list

1999-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Keith Harbaugh wrote: > This is to announce the establishment of a new debian mailing list: > > debian-security, > > for the discussion of all aspects of security > significant to the Debian system, including cryptography. How can it happen that this list was made without the se

Re: debs to reinstall glibc

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Brian J. Stults wrote about "debs to reinstall glibc " > Can someone tell me which deb files are needed to reinstall glibc? I'm > using potato. If you need more information, just let me know. I assume > I can just download the files and then use dpkg to reinstall. > libc6 Since

Re: boot disk

1999-10-13 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote: > I am having problems creating a boot disk as the resc1440 on the cd is > too large for my 1.44M floppy. I do not have a bootable cd-rom. What > should I do? I am using the cd from the Linux World Expo. that was > handed out. Also, what do I use for the

debs to reinstall glibc

1999-10-13 Thread Brian J. Stults
Can someone tell me which deb files are needed to reinstall glibc? I'm using potato. If you need more information, just let me know. I assume I can just download the files and then use dpkg to reinstall. Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (5

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-10-13 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Markus Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote : > > Install the APT package with dselect (last one you'll ever need to > > install :-). Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list (change the mirror if > > necessary): > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread John Foster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > >server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > >from Debian if you rename it to the proper c

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and make sure your baud rate is set to 115200 or 57600. You might also want to add the lines: bsdcomp 15,15 deflate 15,15 vj-max-slots 16 To juice up compression. Hope this helps. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:38:27PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hy there,

Re: Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I don't quite understand what is wrong here, but I know that FIPS makes 2 DOS partitions. When I FIPSed my hard drive (back in the days) I then deleted the new partition and made 1 linux and 1 swap. Hope that is relevant. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:37:31AM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > Hello, >

boot disk

1999-10-13 Thread raymond ferrari
I am having problems creating a boot disk as the resc1440 on the cd is too large for my 1.44M floppy. I do not have a bootable cd-rom. What should I do? I am using the cd from the Linux World Expo. that was handed out. Also, what do I use for the drivers is this the boot(file) or install(file). Pl

Re: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Pollywog wrote about "RE: How to tell what is binding a port?" > > On 13-Oct-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> >> Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use >> and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound >> to the port? /etc/services po

ipmasqadm portfw not working to Sun

1999-10-13 Thread Michael Laing
I am running linux 2.2.12 w/potato netbase and glibc2.1 on my ipmasq'ing slink machine. Port forwarding works great to internal linux boxen. I can't get it to work to my Sun (Solaris 7) tho... tcpdump shows the packets going to the sun but nothing comes back. I am just setting up this Sun so I ca

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux >server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer >from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH >faster and more s

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
It appears to be a new feature but I have the same version of both dselect and apt on both systems. I'd like to add this to the older system as well. Everything is completely installed. Bob On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:37:46PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-10-13 Thread Markus Fischer
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote : > Install the APT package with dselect (last one you'll ever need to > install :-). Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list (change the mirror if > necessary): > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Run `ls -i /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /sbin/mke2fs'. You will see that they are the same inode - therefore they are the same file with two names hardlinked. Bob _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 aphro <[EMAI

RE: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Oct-99 Brian Servis wrote: > > Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use > and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound > to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what > smbd handles but I am getting the follow

Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hello, >Please forgive me for this newbie question. I >am new to linux and >Debian. > I have a question regarding installation. I have a >13 gig hard drive >which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could >dual boot Debian >Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program, I >

Re: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use > and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound > to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what > smbd handles but I am getting th

How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what smbd handles but I am getting the following errors in the smb logs: [1999/10/13 11:

Re: cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: > Hi, > > i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a > stable, with some unstable packages. > copy of errors: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such file or dir

Re: cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote about "cannot start "make menuconfig"" > Hi, > > i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a > stable, with some unstable packages. > copy of errors: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such f

Re: DHCP problem....

1999-10-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, ok. Well the first thing is you want to use the newer client, (dhcp-client-beta if you're running slink, dhcp-client if you're running potato). Using the newer client is necessary because this client does not go into the background until it gets an address (or times out, but let's hope/assume

Potato On CD

1999-10-13 Thread David Natkins
Does anyone out there know of a way to get potato on CD. The CD's I have only have slink. I don't have a CD burner and find CD's a convient way to keep a back up of my system. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474

cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
Hi, i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a stable, with some unstable packages. copy of errors: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such file or directory what could be the problem? Bruno Van de Casteele N.P. Puam

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
Yes, I am from Indiana. Rob On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > > -- > Marcin Kurc > Indiana Institute of Technology > System Administrator >

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Marcin Kurc wrote about "LUGs etc." > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > Hi Ho! I am at Purdue. Purdue has a LUG, their home page is at http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/PLUG/. Branden Robinson, the Debian Xfree86 maintainer, is also at Pur

LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Marcin Kurc
Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Trident 3dImage975 and X

1999-10-13 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all: I have what I hope is a quick question. I'm having trouble getting X to work using the SVGA server with my Trident 3DImage 975 Card. The VGA 16 server works fine, but as you can imagine looks slightly less beautiful than I would like. I'm using the X that came with Slink, although I

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
i dont know but i've always used mke2fs to format a linux ext2 drive i see mke2fs and mkfs.ext2 are 2 different binarys on my debian 2.1 server. try usin mke2fs instead of mkfs.ext2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator h

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
i may be wrong but i think the esound daemon does this, not though in the way you say. i believe, apps send the output of the audio to the daemon and the daemon opens /dev/dsp and outputs it there. any number of apps can talk to the daemon and the daemon can/will output sound from multiple source

netscape installer

1999-10-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to install communicator 4.71 from the tar ball but got confused with a handful packages laying around with names netscape* or communicator*. Which packages do I need to install communicator 4.71 from tar.gz file? I deleted a message about this by mistake and

Re: Install /usr/bin files

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
try this: dpkg -S /usr/bin it spitsout a screenfull of packages for that dir. never tried that before, that rules dpkg can do that. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Inter

Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-13 Thread rafael
hy there, I've just installed debian slink and I'd like to upgrade it to potato, but my internet connection is very slow. I have a usr sportster 28800, and on my redhat 6.0 (on the same machine...) I can do downloads from ftp.debian.org at least at 3.0 K/s, and on slink, only 956 B/s, if

Re: A RedHat6.0 User

1999-10-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Li Bing-QCH1550 wrote: > > I am a new Linux fan. However, I choose RedHat as my first try. Who knows > about the redhat email-list? > Use Debian. Their mailing lists are easier to find! ;-)

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
i have no complaints about netscape either. Sure it can crash..lockup. But it has never..once.. brought down the system. never brought down X either. i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then BAM

Re: trouble with mod_pyapache

1999-10-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I'm apparently having trouble loading mod_pyapache in both apache and > apache-ssl. Apache refuses to start with the module line uncommented > (yes it's installed!), giving a Segment violation. I'm wondering if I > need some other module or if there is a conflict. I

Re: DHCP problem....

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
sounds like a DNS issue, run a reverse lookup on the IP and see what comes out. you can also add this line to your /etc/resolv.conf domain yourdomain.com that will cause the system to search the local domain when you ping a hostname. for me if i pinged the host galactica, resolv.conf would automa

Re: Commercial Debian - For those that requested a link

1999-10-13 Thread peter karlsson
> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/11071.html Or even http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19991012 -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: A RedHat6.0 User

1999-10-13 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Li Bing-QCH1550 wrote: > I am a new Linux fan. However, I choose RedHat as my first try. > Who knows about the redhat email-list? Hi Li Bing: I want you to read my diatribe, but I do give the information you requested, below. I own some stock in Red Hat, but I recommend D

Re: cannot route after adding more interfaces

1999-10-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: [ snip ] : 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0:7 : 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 26251 eth0:11 : 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2233

Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Bryan Walton
Hello, Please forgive me for this newbie question. I am new to linux and Debian. I have a question regarding installation. I have a 13 gig hard drive which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could dual boot Debian Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program, I split my ha

Commercial Debian - For those that requested a link

1999-10-13 Thread Paul McHale
Here is a summary: "SGI, VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly Associates, and the Debian Project are coming together to place another retail distribution of Linux on the market, but this one has a twist: it's non-profit." I didn't have a link from pointcast, but I did find this one: http://linuxtoday.com

Re: Pent. III

1999-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> Is there any possibility of problems that would >>arise if Linux is >> installed on Intel Pentium IIIs? >I haven't found any yet I have a potato/slink system >running on a PIII >450 with 256M RAM (kernel 2.2.12) and its very smooth >and stable > >Its runs samba, apache with mod_include, mod_jse

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I knew about Esound, but I need something that: - Split input (microphone, etc) to multiple processes - Works with existing programs (eg. Quake) This is probably a wishlist item for ALSA, but I was wondering if anyone already knew on a *kernel* patch that does the mixing at the /dev/dsp level.

Re: potato ALSA won't compile

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I am using Linux 2.3.19, with ALSA 0.4.1b. I have an sb16. make_kpkg modules_image returns the following, even after I leave a freshly-compiled source tree in /usr/local/src/linux: make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsadriver/kernel/pcm1' make[5]: *** No rule to make target `/u

Re: Job Control?

1999-10-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then I think I am in trouble... > I chose to run dselect on an xterm as su root. > So, if I kill that window to install a new version of afterstep, > what i am currently running, am I up the creek? > Oh, boy. > Now

Re: fetchmail

1999-10-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:53:23PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a popper that works like fetchmail but can retrieve all > mail that are destined to a domain (ie: the one that runs the popper). > > The connection would be like this: > > [Internet]---[sendmail]--[modem]--//[m

Re: X and backspace (sometimes)

1999-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Please use < 80 character lines] On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:14:36 -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have somewhat of an odd problem. In X some apps have a backspace > capacity such as Xemacs and Gnome-terminal while others do not (Netscape, > xterm). What might be causing this and what can I do

Re: no /dev/dsp Continued

1999-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: ... >06:19:14 Buddha: /dev > ls audio >crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Sep 13 20:33 audio >06:19:37 Buddha: /dev > ls mixer >crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Sep 13 20:33 mixer >06:19:43 Buddha: /dev > ls dsp >crw-rw 1 root audio 1

Re: chroot

1999-10-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:18:19AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > has anyone tried to use this command? I'm trying to build a > personalized distribution and need this command so set things up. I > think I need it anyways. Whenever I try to us it, I get > > chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No su

no /dev/dsp Continued

1999-10-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Maybe I should rephrase the question here. I have sound to some extent. I can play *.wav files and CD's from tcd. A couple of apps will not work though. Timidity gives me an error of 'no /dev/dsp' and IBM's ViaVoice gives me the same error. I have performed a MAKEDEV /dev/audio in the /dev di

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-13 Thread peter karlsson
> Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of > upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or > conflicts), like dselect does? I don't think so. I was thinking about filing a wishlist bug

X and backspace (sometimes)

1999-10-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have somewhat of an odd problem. In X some apps have a backspace capacity such as Xemacs and Gnome-terminal while others do not (Netscape, xterm). What might be causing this and what can I do to solve this problem? Lance

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 & X

1999-10-13 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Andrew: I don't seem to be having the same kind of problems with the DS 3D 4000. However, configuring X was slightly touchy. I had to use a combo of xf86config and "touched it up" with XF86Setup I finally settled on 16 bps with 800x600, 1024x768, 640x480.

printing fonts

1999-10-13 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
Hello, I'm having a debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.4 (parport included) and lprng with magicfilter setup. A few days ago I upgraded my StarOffice 5.0 to 5.1 and tryed to import the addressbook. I tryed it using diferent "charactersets" for the database. And after this I had problems to print special ch

dhcp on potato

1999-10-13 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! Why isnt CONFIG_FILTER defined in the kernel (2.2.12) distributed with Potato? The DHCP server requires that option, so if you want to use the dhcp package included in Potato, you have to recompile your kernel with that option. Sure, it's easy and fun to recompile a kernel, but I cannot se

Write protected mailbox problem

1999-10-13 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi all, Just a short question about mail. I am using exim/fetchmail/mutt I have all mail from the debain lists going into a mailbox "debian-user". This is done with a .forward file in my home dir. Fetchmail is run every 3 minutes or so whenever I am hooked up to my provider. Now I sometimes hav

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

1999-10-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops - you're quite right. > fdisk /MBR from a dos boot disk...? >>From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>This is a guess based on your description of what happens. It almost >>sounds like you may have, at one point, had this line in your lilo.conf >>f

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-13 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:23:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: [...] > BTW, what is ipchains? Is that the equivalent of ipfwadm? [...] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html Art

fetchmail

1999-10-13 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm looking for a popper that works like fetchmail but can retrieve all mail that are destined to a domain (ie: the one that runs the popper). The connection would be like this: [Internet]---[sendmail]--[modem]--//[modem]---[a popper] |

Re: I'm a BEGINNER

1999-10-13 Thread Oki DZ
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > > WHat is the meaning of "check a website with Linux OS"? > > I think it means "can I connect to the internet with Linux?". I believe it means: I want to check out some web sites that run on Linux. He'd like to feel the performance, I guess. Oki

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-13 Thread Oki DZ
Andrew Hately wrote: > I think I read a note about this on the sparc linux page; something like > 1) make a device for the mouse with mknod > 2) install the sun X server binary. > 3) startx > 4) optionally install olvwm, xdm, etc > > > ie: when you are logged in, actually you > > logged in into

Re: Pent. III

1999-10-13 Thread Oki DZ
Gareth wrote: > I haven't found any yet I have a potato/slink system running on a PIII > 450 with 256M RAM (kernel 2.2.12) and its very smooth and stable Are there any motherboards to avoid? > Its runs samba, apache with mod_include, mod_jserv and mod_php, proftpd > and netatalk as its main ta

Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?

1999-10-13 Thread Oki DZ
Brian May wrote: > > I will assume you have (not sure from your description). > > [ host ] <> [ router] <> [ NAT ]??? Yes, and then from the NAT to the Internet. > I am afraid I have no idea why it want work. Can you provide more > details as to what you mean "it didn't work properly

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread John Foster
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:21:06PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Anyone know of a kernel patch that basically lets any number of processes > > open /dev/dsp any number of times? > > > > Basically, a microphone splitter and a speaker mixer in one? I know this > >

Re: Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, we swam to atlantis wrote: > Hello. > > I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to > work with Potato, but have had no luck. > > I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following: ... It might be easiest to start with 'm

RE: DHCP problem....

1999-10-13 Thread J.M. \"Jersey\" Miszczyk
Hello Phil, I am not that much worried about the other machines on the network, since they are Win systems and I am installing Samba on my machine but.. my machine does not even know itself :(. If I put some sort of static IP address into "hosts" file this IP address is used when I try to p

Re: Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya.. is the dj and lpd directory owned by lp and writable by group ?? and I'd guess you should make /dev/lp a symlink to /dev/lp0 if your printer is connected to the parallel port -->> erase your /dev/lp as you have show below -- it is NOT a char device ) -->> also change your printcap sta

Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 & X

1999-10-13 Thread TotalNIC Hostmaster
I'm having problems with one of my machines running X. It is very unstable freezing the whole machine requiring a hard reset ramdomly (Sometimes I resize a window and it happens) as well as on startup of certain programs (Halo scren saver and xzed amongst others) and I was wondering if it could be

Need help setting up printer

1999-10-13 Thread we swam to atlantis
Hello. I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to work with Potato, but have had no luck. I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following: In /etc/printcap i've written #LOCAL djet812C lp|dj|deskjet:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\ :

trouble with mod_pyapache

1999-10-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'm apparently having trouble loading mod_pyapache in both apache and apache-ssl. Apache refuses to start with the module line uncommented (yes it's installed!), giving a Segment violation. I'm wondering if I need some other module or if there is a conflict. I have the AddHandler python-cgi-scr

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-13 Thread Miles Bader
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, what with apt, console-apt I rarely need to use dselect. Even though I > have no problem using it. Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of upgrading a particu

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

1999-10-13 Thread shaul
I have managed to work around it by using mke2fs that was running from an old (Hamm ?) rescue disk. I can not say for sure but it seems to me that there is a difference between the current (unstable) mke2fs output and the old (Hamm) one. For example, the current version says the superblock backu

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > > > I know it should be possible, but I've never seen it done. > > > > I've heard that esound or something like that (from enlightenment) can > > do that, but I've not played with it myself.

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > > > I know it should be possible, but I've never seen it done. > > > > I've heard that esound or something like that (from enlightenment) can > do that, but I've not played with it myself. Anybody else? > I heard the same thing, but the programs have to be written to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

1999-10-13 Thread shaul
I too gave /var 30MB when installing Debian for the 1st time. I think it is worth mentioning because I took this figure from the Debian-FAQ. I think it should be changed before potato is released. In view of today disk sizes I would change it to 100MB. Some other changes I would do for the figure

A RedHat6.0 User

1999-10-13 Thread Li Bing-QCH1550
I am a new Linux fan. However, I choose RedHat as my first try. Who knows about the redhat email-list?

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-13 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 10:22:45PM -0500, Brad wrote: > you don't, check out console-apt or gnome-apt. Yes, what with apt, console-apt I rarely need to use dselect. Even though I have no problem using it.

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:21:06PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Anyone know of a kernel patch that basically lets any number of processes > open /dev/dsp any number of times? > > Basically, a microphone splitter and a speaker mixer in one? I know this > would take CPU time, but I'd lik

Re: cannot route after adding more interfaces

1999-10-13 Thread David Coe
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, when I add an additional interface, eth0:7 which isn't used > before, the routing tables change to the following: > > 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0:7 > 100.100.100.0 *

Re: no /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread John Miskinis
Hello Lance, -> I also get the error when trying to start ViaVoice. I have -> a SoundBlaster PNP16. What is dsp? Is there a way I can -> get the device /dsp on my system. I just went through this. Assuming that you have (made) a kernel with sound support, login as root and perform: cd /dev

Thinkpad 560 - suspend/resume wierdness, tried MANY things...

1999-10-13 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I've been quiet, as I got sound and my ppa (imm) zip drive working! For the past couple days, I've tried everything I could find on the web the Thinkpad 560, and it's APM problems. I even downgraded my BIOS to the 1.1 version. I built many kernels, even 2.2.0 on the slink CD. (Which has

chroot

1999-10-13 Thread Marshal Wong
has anyone tried to use this command? I'm trying to build a personalized distribution and need this command so set things up. I think I need it anyways. Whenever I try to us it, I get chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory I put bash in $NEWROOT/bin/ but no go either. doc

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