Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote: : Hi! : : Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an : CGI executed by apache? : : I want apache to be able to run the following... : : void main(void) : { : while (1) { : fork() : } : } : :

Re: crontab

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: : : On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: : > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: : > : > : how do i run a program every 10 minutes? : > : -gnana : > : > Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details. : > : > Since most people hate bei

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, John wrote: > >Are you sure you're not confusing the kernel headers in /usr/include/linux > >with the actual kernel source tree that is usually placed in > >/usr/src/linux? > > > I may well be, but what is certain is that /usr/src contains o

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with > a modem (PPP). OK. > I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one > ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard > and router) have the

Re: ?complex args pass to other app w/o changing?

1999-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
zhaoway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > for a call: make CXXFLAGS="-O2 -do-strength-reduce" LD="-s" > i want the wrapper (above "fake" make prog) to pass the CXXFLAGS=.. et al > to the real make prog (say, make_real). How about this: alias make='make CXXFLAGS="-O2 -do-strength-reduce" LD=-s' (Pu

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
Bernhard Rieder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > test.c: --- > #include > > char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; > > int main () { >return printf("%s\n", mktemp(template)); > } > --- As others have noted, you cannot pass

Re: apache + cgi

1999-10-18 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an >CGI executed by apache? > > I want apache to be able to run the following... > >void main(void) >{ >while (1) { > fork() > } >} Perhaps you can set the ulimit ma

Re: Sound Blaster Live Value...

1999-10-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Erich Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ > ( I actually have a "value" but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) Yup. > P.S. Can someone point me to a complete hardware compa

Re: modprobe errors return

1999-10-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. > > Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep > Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more re

apache + cgi

1999-10-18 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an CGI executed by apache? I want apache to be able to run the following... void main(void) { while (1) { fork() } } And after too much time of CPU usage and/or child processes,

scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)

1999-10-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've given up on starcalc 3.0 for my gradesheets for a couple of reasons (scaling, hanging on start), can't use wingz reliably (it crashes, has lost data, and has scrambled the file irretrievably when crashing, as well as losing sort ranges at random, and gnumeric isn't even close to ready (b

Anancron report (daily)

1999-10-18 Thread eric k. wolven
Sorry I didn't include on my previous message that I'm running potato. Anancron started reporting the "error" below after a "deslect-upgrade last week in which I included the htdig-wwwoffle combo to try it out. > /etc/cron.daily/htdig > DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified er

RE: modprobe errors return

1999-10-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: > Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. > > Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent > than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep > Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent t

Newt0.30 in potato

1999-10-18 Thread Robert Rati
There was a posting on here a while ago about a fix for newt0.30 dependency problmes a little while ago, but the message archives don't seem to have caught up yet. Does anyone remember what the solution was? I know where to get the package to fix the problem? It's starting to get annoying not be

Re: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

1999-10-18 Thread eric k. wolven
Hi! I've been getting this on anacron for several days. Tried to re-install htdig package but still getting this: > /etc/cron.daily/htdig: > DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified Since I'm a relative newbie with no programming skills (sigh!) can anyone tell me of a fix for this

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! [Details of how to get]

1999-10-18 Thread John Foster
Keith Harbaugh wrote: > Just thought it might be worthwhile to document a little more precisely > some experiences with Netscape 4.7 [not 4.71, as John later corrected]. > > The following command, or its ftp equivalent, fetches the file in question: > > wget > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communi

Virus Alert and Ipfwadm Dcc Send

1999-10-18 Thread Peter Good
Be aware all ppl on this list, One of the emails from Robert Boyd in the emails from the last 24 hrs, contained the Happy99 virus.   And with regards to Ipfwadm and dcc send on the slave machine, I find it works perfectly now if i connect to port 6667 of the irc server, and no other.   I t

Robert Boyd's Email and Ipfwadm

1999-10-18 Thread Peter Good
Be aware all ppl on this list, One of the emails from Robert Boyd in the emails from the last 24 hrs, contained the Happy99 virus.   And with regards to Ipfwadm and dcc send on the slave machine, I find it works perfectly now if i connect to port 6667 of the irc server, and no other.   I th

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-18 Thread John Foster
jh wrote: > > Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux > books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will > need to buy online, so I can't browse. --

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Luc wrote: > Art Lemasters wrote: > > > > I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with > > a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one > > ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux syst

Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE

1999-10-18 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Thanks to all who gave me hints so far. I'm going to try them out on Saturday, as I'm very busy now. I'll mail to you if I need further help. Kind Regards from Germany, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Stephan Hachinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Sent: Sund

modprobe errors return

1999-10-18 Thread Pollywog
Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18

Anyone got a makefile or Imakefile for lesstif &| viewkit :(

1999-10-18 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Folks, Yesterday I grabbed the viewkit for linux SW from www.viewkit.com and really would like to get started. The SW came with no examples or makefiles. I was trying to get this stuff running, as I have an interview with a company TOMORROW that uses viewkit. I sent mail to the "viewkit.com

Re: crontab

1999-10-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > > : how do i run a program every 10 minutes? > : -gnana > > Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details. > > Since most people hate being told to RTFM (why?), here's the easy way > out: Because some man

Diamond 770 & X Window

1999-10-18 Thread Joe Block
Does anyone have a working config file for the Diamond Viper 770? I'm running slink if it matters. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: crontab

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: : how do i run a program every 10 minutes? : -gnana Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details. Since most people hate being told to RTFM (why?), here's the easy way out: # edit a "here" document and make it the crontab # probably wise to

Linux Debian para equipo Amiga

1999-10-18 Thread JOSE RANGEL
Buenas tardes amigos... Quisiera su apoyo y colaboracion para conseguir el debian-linux M68 para un equipo Amiga. Realmente conozco poco de linux, pero lo que estoy experimentando en pc es realmente interesante y quisiera hacer lo mismo en mi equipo favorito(Amiga). es por esto que las pregu

crontab

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
how do i run a program every 10 minutes? -gnana

[Vincent_Gaines/admin@unifirst.com: Linux Kernel Compile]

1999-10-18 Thread Hanno Wagner
Could you please help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #"Da fragt man sich dann:

SB Live Value

1999-10-18 Thread Erich_Newell
-- Forwarded by Erich Newell/genserv/mesaaz on 10/18/99 01:46 PM --- From: Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/18/99 08:16 PM GMT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:(bcc: Erich Newell/genserv/mesaaz) Subje

ipupload

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hello, I am connecting and disconnecting to the net over a modem line. My ISP gives dynamic IPs. I want to upload the IP that I get from my ISP to a website so that my friends can come to know if I am online. I also want to upload the information that I am going offline when I disconnect. I have

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-18 Thread John
on 17 Oct 99, Brad wrote...(inter alia)... > >Please put plank lines between the quoted text and replies, it makes things >easier to find > >On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, John wrote: > >> >> According to the Howto the kernel should be in /usr/src/linux - it >> >> seems to be in /usr/include/linux/2.0.36

no pon/wvdial

1999-10-18 Thread pplaw
debs, pon used to work until i downloaded lots of files from the site and then installed wvdial, which seems to start the pppd. i switch tty's and ping the isp. nothing happens. here's /var/log/ppp.log: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 using interface ppp0 cannot determine etherne

Newbie guides on new site

1999-10-18 Thread Muhammad Yusuf
Hi all. I've put a very basic and brief guide to using Debian for newbies on my site at http://gnulinuxguides.tripod.com/ It may be of some use. If any of you have any comments or suggestions, I'd welcome them. I plan to add more, time willing. Thanx. ___

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "brian" == brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You will have to convince LILO of it. :-) >> From my lilo.conf (which does much the same thing... the IDE drive is > for mp3s and my archived debs): > | disk = /dev/sda > | bios = 0x80 this was quite complicated t

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> >> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root >> partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? > All you need is just to install lilo. this machine has be

Thanks for all the advice.

1999-10-18 Thread jh
Just wanted to send a general thanks to the group for the advice on shutting down my computer and buying a debian specific book. My book is on the way. I'm ready to join the big leagues. (Or at least triple A) Jeff

Connecting BNC to 10/100BaseT segment...

1999-10-18 Thread Tomislav Renic
Greetings from Winnipeg! Here's an outline of my situation: Currently we have a 10Base2 (BNC) network cable running through our building. We want to wire one computer lab with RJ45 cable and preferably install fast ethernet cards in each of the machines with time. So, for the meantime, we wi

Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to enable sounds in wmaker but wsoundserver segfaults everytime I execute it. Is it working for anyone out there? (I'm running Potato). -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Re: Emacs20 install error

1999-10-18 Thread Ian Winter
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote: > I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink > system with the following steps: > > 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 >[leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] > > 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20

Re: XML tools/info in Debian ?

1999-10-18 Thread Luc
http://www.xml.org/ Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > are there packaged docs/info/tools in Debian in order > to start learning XML and related technologies? > > any help/links/advices are greatly appreciated > > thank you > > OK > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECT

XML tools/info in Debian ?

1999-10-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All are there packaged docs/info/tools in Debian in order to start learning XML and related technologies? any help/links/advices are greatly appreciated thank you OK

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Luc
Art Lemasters wrote: > > I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with > a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one > ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard are you on a dedicated connection with a fixed i

Re: RAM Problems....

1999-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Brant Wells" wrote: >HI all: > >I have a Pentium II 333 w/ 96 megs of ram. However, when I'm running Debian > >2.1, or any other Linux distro, I only show 64 megs of ram... What do I do?? > >Current Kernel=2.2.1 I thought 2.2 series was supposed to get this right. Add an app

Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Art Lemasters
I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard and router) have the same IP address...two have private addresses and one publ

Re: Sound Blaster Live Value...

1999-10-18 Thread Liacopoulos
Here's the list: http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? > ( I actually have a "value" but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) > > Thanks, > Erich > > P.S. Can som

Sound Blaster Live Value...

1999-10-18 Thread Erich_Newell
Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? ( I actually have a "value" but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) Thanks, Erich P.S. Can someone point me to a complete hardware compatability list? Does one exist? ===

RAM Problems....

1999-10-18 Thread Brant Wells
HI all: I have a Pentium II 333 w/ 96 megs of ram. However, when I'm running Debian 2.1, or any other Linux distro, I only show 64 megs of ram... What do I do?? Current Kernel=2.2.1 Thanks, Brant Wells __ Get Your Private, Free Email at ht

Re: [Off Topic] latex section question

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Fabian
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am writing a very large document in latex. And I need to use > something like this: > > \subsubsubsection > > But latex only goes to \subsubsection. I have already used \part > as well. * `\part' * `\chapter

Re: [Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting T.V.Gnanasekaran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use > windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? What an odd question. When I started using linux, I sent/received all my emails via Pine running on W3.1 using IMAP on a Sun.

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > dependencies for program design. > Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. rick --

Re: Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

1999-10-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sun, 17 Oct, 1999 à 05:24:34PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > Greetings ppl, > > I have recently started to use Midnight Commander a lot on my consoles, but if > I telnet/ssh into my box remotely, I can't seem to get a lot of the > function keys When the function keys are unavailable under mc, yo

Graphic interface to PostgreSQL

1999-10-18 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi Are there any Graphic interface to PostgreSQL? thanks At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ phone: 351 39 791170

Re: Sound Module for Kernel 2.0.36

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me the name of the sound module for the slink/potato kernel? I assume you mean 2.2.x. It all depends on the chips in the soundcard (or on the mobo). For example, I use: soundcore sound uart401 sb opl3 (Intel RH) soundcore

Re: Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Thanks, I tried another video card and worked. Quoting aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ive had similar probs like that, usually for me it ended up being a bad > rescue disk, and/or lilo got curropted somehow (reinstalling lilo fixed it > for me). some kernels used to crash for me at that point

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:30:31PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root > partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? > > The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it > because I can't g

Re: eth1 can't be loaded

1999-10-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
I decided to take the pig headed approach and try each module in ..net in turn. The de4x5 worked and I use that now. I added it to /etc/modules and just put the IP and route details in /etc/init.d/network as a kind of appendix and all is well. Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens B.

Re: Strange Cron Job

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mmmm... > > Can somebody tell me what this means... > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 15 00:40:08 1999 > >Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Received: from root by WEASEL with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) > >id 11c1y8-j6-00 > >

[Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? -gnana

Potato: dpkg errors??

1999-10-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Just yesterday I did the following potato upgrade: apt_0.3.13.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deb ldso_1.9.11-4.deb libc6-dev_2.1.2-5.deb libc6_2.1.2-5.deb libglib1.2_1.2.5-1.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb locales_2.1.2-5.deb Today, I upgrade the following from potato: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.6

Re: external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
Oops. I feel a little silly. Almost right after posting this message I installed and ran a version of the 2.2.12 kernel I compiled with plug-and-play included and the modem works fine now. Thanks anyway. Richard Weil wrote: > I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. I

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > jh wrote: > > > > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > > installs. Is this the rec

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-18 Thread Erich_Newell
Thank you very much.I'll be posting to the list how my install / setup of everything went as soon as I receive the software. -- Erich From: "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/15/99 01:12 AM GMT Please respond to debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], d

InterScan Virus Alert

1999-10-18 Thread interscan
InterScan has detected a virus TROJ_SKA in your mail traffic on 10/18/1999 18:04:58 with an action moved.

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Robert Boyd
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Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Robert Boyd
latex -- > From: Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian-user > Subject: Re: Flow chart drawing program > Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 3:09 PM > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainl

Re: kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread Jonathan Heaney
virtanen wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > Add deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty to your > > /etc/apt/sources/list > > should be: > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > By the way, > > where to get these addresses in general? > Could someone put somewhere a database f

Re: 100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3Com 3C905 series seems well supported. This card is actually flaky during > install under windows, but runs very well with Linux. The 3Com Etherlink > (ISA) works well also. Either one has been trouble free. I think any > NE2000 card will do as well.

Re: eth1 can't be loaded

1999-10-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Take a look at the output of dmesg and see if there are any other messages being generated which might indicate the problem. Perhaps it wants an IRQ it can't get? Have you installed any new hardware into the machine? Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Does this look like a hardware failure on a N

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 11:46:47AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:14:03 +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > When calling mktemp I always get a segfault. This short program was used > > for testing. > > > > #include > > > > char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; > >

RE: 100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Paul McHale
Christian, 3Com 3C905 series seems well supported. This card is actually flaky during install under windows, but runs very well with Linux. The 3Com Etherlink (ISA) works well also. Either one has been trouble free. I think any NE2000 card will do as well. -paul -Original Message- Fr

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-18 Thread David Teague
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, jh wrote: > Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux > books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will > need to buy online, so I can't browse.

100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Christian Ericsson
Can you recommend a good NIC running at both 10Mbit and 100 Mbit that Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 have device drivers support? The NIC must also be a selling product today (I don't want old stuff!)?

hda: irq timeout

1999-10-18 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Oct 18 16:30:47 Winona kerne

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Joe Block
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Ben Wong wrote: > Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also > a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and also a > directory > named unstable? They're aliases. stable always points to the current stable distri

Re: NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?

1999-10-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Oct, Alex V. Toropov wrote about "NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?" > I've removed file /usr/bin/test (from shellutils) > What is the simple and correct way to reinstall package (or just missing > file) > without removing package? > > Alex > > You can just download the shelluti

NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?

1999-10-18 Thread Alex V. Toropov
I've removed file /usr/bin/test (from shellutils) What is the simple and correct way to reinstall package (or just missing file) without removing package? Alex

Re: Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread aphro
ive had similar probs like that, usually for me it ended up being a bad rescue disk, and/or lilo got curropted somehow (reinstalling lilo fixed it for me). some kernels used to crash for me at that point(2.1.xx), so reinstalling the kernel may help too.(or in my case with the crashes downgrading ke

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-18 Thread zhaoway
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Just to clarify: > > GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages > (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is called > GTK--. What 'bout the Perl/Python Gtk/Tk/Qt/KDE bindings? Just curious. I use Perl/Tk to develope sm

?complex args pass to other app w/o changing?

1999-10-18 Thread zhaoway
i want a wapper for make that do "make -j -l 10.00"-like things. so i need the wrapper (pretend as make) to pass args to it to the real make program. that is for a call: make CXXFLAGS="-O2 -do-strength-reduce" LD="-s" i want the wrapper (above "fake" make prog) to pass the CXXFLAGS=.. et al to the

external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. I'm running a Potato system with the 2.2.12 kernel on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I have never gotten the modem to work with Linux before, but I have used it with Windows. The problem is this: when I run Minicom (or anything else that re

Re: Sound Module for 2.0

1999-10-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/sound.o On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me what the name of the kernel module for sound is in > version 2.0.36? > > Thanks, > > bw -- charge World Trade Center Bakunin SEAL Team 6 semtex Echelon triple-DES reefer t

Re: Using dinamic librarys

1999-10-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MF> How do I compile a program to use dinamic libraries (.so)? By default any library you link against (with the -l switch to cc/ld) is dynamically linked. So, if you need to use libm.so, the standard math library, you'd just use a command something like

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: : > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 : > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due : > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) : > : > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unsta

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1999-10-18 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
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Re: scheme

1999-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 14:07:19 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I need to use scheme for a some class I have I am taking, so I was > wondering what scheme compilers are available for linux, There are several Scheme compilers and interpreters already packaged for Debian. For the course on concepts of

Re: nfs + setgid problem

1999-10-18 Thread Dietrich Clauss
Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's over knfs, with a patched 2.2.12 kernel on the server. > Applying the knfs patches to my 2.2.12 kernel did do the trick. Thanks, Dietrich -- Dietrich Clauss < [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~dc2/ >

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > with it. > > -Todd > > ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and > a entry in sou

scheme

1999-10-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I need to use scheme for a some class I have I am taking, so I was wondering what scheme compilers are available for linux, and how can I run the programs from within xemacs? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slink->potato and missing packages

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Stenner
So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages missing (from the ftp site, according to apt). Some of them look rather important (tcpd, etc). Two questions: 1) out of curiosity, how does this happen? 2) what

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:17:27PM +, RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: > what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering > if i should go slink -> potato ) Potato is newer stuff. The trade-off is that it is less stable - hasn't been tested as thoroughly. Potato is almost read

Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a Debian machine that the monitor stopped to work and my friend tried to change the video card also and now it isnt booting. The boot stop at the line ... Ok, now booting the kernel. This is with kernel 2.2.12 and with a rescue floppy with 2.0.36. Wha

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1999-10-18 Thread Jens-Erik Bruecken
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Using dinamic librarys

1999-10-18 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I compile a program to use dinamic libraries (.so)? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:14:03 +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > When calling mktemp I always get a segfault. This short program was used > for testing. > > #include > > char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; > > int main () { >return printf("%s\n", mktemp(template)); > } Quoting the fine

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of > your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there > any software which can measure hard drive performance? Me Yes, not that I noticed hdparm itself and (more c

Re: ok to move /home to /raid/home

1999-10-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Charles Lewis wrote: > > Trying to set up a samba server for administrative use and since all my > space is on the raid volume (/raid) I thought it would be a good idea to > move /home to that volume, but being new to linux I'm not sure what kind of > implications that would have. Anyone see any p

/etc/hosts manpage

1999-10-18 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi everyone. I'm going to file a bug report about this, but I thought I'd try and gather a little more information first. I'm running potato, and I just noticed there is no manpage for the /etc/hosts file. I don't remember if there was one for slink (could someone please let me know if there is,

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: > > I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, > > and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering if i should go slink -> potato ) thanks you - r

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