Kernel panic VFS ...

1999-10-21 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I did something stupid today :( While recompiling my kernel to add scsi support for my cdrw I accidently forgot some ide stuff and now I can't boot. VFS: Cannot open root device 03.05 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This has been discussed before on this list and I p

Re: Purging mozilla

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 21/10/99 David Jardine wrote: ...wouldn't it be nicer if I knew what the deleted program had left on my system? well most programs do not run as root, this means that its literally impossible for the program to spew crap all over the filesystem after installation (unlike some other OSes

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:50:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with the SuS. Could you give me a URL > for this? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~}

Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? I am using potato.

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, October 21, 1999, 3:31:45 PM, Brian wrote: > I stand corrected. Are there any sample macros, perhaps with the > Debian version of slrn? I got it from the newsreader's newsgroup. There is a SLANG macro for checking signatures and then a SLANG wrapper around the editor for making them

installing on an ibm tp-i1452

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Su
hi everyone- i'm trying to install slink onto an ibm thinkpad i1452, and i'm having some problems when it comes to configuring pcmcia support. i allow all the defaults to stand (i82365 chipset, no special options), but the next thing it does (presumably probing for the pcmcia hardware?) locks the

Re: dpkg problem

1999-10-21 Thread Rik Burt
Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings. All I get is the segmentation faults. Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I > > run dselect or try to

Printer problem

1999-10-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have been trying to install an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer. I have installed the neccesary packages and run magicfilterconfig. I see my printer doing dmesg, it is connected and detected on parport0. When I try to print I get the following message: "lpr: connect: Connnection refused, j

popularity-contest broken pipe

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I installed popularity-contest (stable) on my machine and every day I get the following message from cron: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: /usr/bin/dpkg-awk: line 31: 2988 Broken pipe mawk $incf -f +/usr/lib/awk/dpkg-awk.lib -- "--exebase=`basename $0`" "--exedir=`dirname $0`" +"$

Configuring HP printer

1999-10-21 Thread Jacob Schmude
Try apsfilter rather than magicfilter. Note, only the version provided with potato seems to have any specific modules for the deskjets. The one that comes with slink seems to only have one module for the colored deskjets. After you get apsfilter installed, run /usr/sbin/apsfilterconfig to set it

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:57:43AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 6:11:37 PM, Brian wrote: > > Things I dislike about slrn: > > - poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP. > > This is not true. I have PGP support in SLRN, that is what a good set of > SLANG macros

Re: dpkg problem

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I > run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. > > I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my > system. > > Does any

fetchmail, sendmail, and mutt and sending mail with the correct a ddress

1999-10-21 Thread John Davis
Hello I thought I had my mail system setup correctly, but then I noticed a problem. When I send mail from my linux box (which is connected to the internet via ppp,) it sends mail as if its coming from suit.ntrnet.net which is wrong. Suit is my hosthame and ntrnet.net is my isp domain. Ntrnet doe

glibc questions in slink: crypt, linux threads

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Lavender
As I understand, Debian slink comes with MD5 crypt because of export restrictions. I want to have a real crypt so I went to a german ftp server, found glibc 2.0.7 source and I downloaded it. Of course the real crypt is in a separate tar file. I downloaded that too and unpacked it in the glibc sour

Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. > > I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but > although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail. > There's a fetchmail error message saying something like: "Can't even > send to ac" [my usern

dpkg problem

1999-10-21 Thread Rik Burt
In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my system. Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at most ma

ncurses: kernel make menuconfig complains

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: ncurses Version: N/A Severity: normal I got the following lines when trying to make menu config. How can I solve it ? Aren't dependency problems supposed to be fixed automatically by dpkg ? There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
* esoR ocsirF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I can't find anything on how to get dvips to generate 2400dpi > output. I believe the fault lies with the default printer selection but > when I changed config.ps (for texmf?) it complains about mismatched mode > ljfour and 2400 even though I specifi

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Things I dislike about gnus: > - last 10 times I tried running it, it always crashed on startup, > without giving any indication of a problem. xemacs completely died (no > response from anything) and I had to kill it. There have been problems > with t

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:00:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > The change was made in line with the SuS. Note that it is not possible > to write echo statements portably across platforms because of legacy > shells that do support options. That is why it is recommended to use > printf instead of e

Re: Where is smbmount?

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Oct, Stuart Ballard wrote about "Where is smbmount?" > Hi, > > What package do I need to install to get the smbmount command? I have > samba, samba-common and smbclient installed, but mount -t smbfs doesn't > seem to do anything, and there is no smbmount man page. > The packages are smb

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:47:09PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > > I have a little bit of a problem getting EXIM to work on > > a dialup-connected computer. > > For everybody's information, I could solve this problem > by the following line to the Rewrite section of /etc/exim.conf: > > [EMAIL

Re: modprobe errors again

1999-10-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Oct-99 Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system >> and >> again I get the modprobe errors below: >> >> Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent >> than >>

update: ssh stopped working

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Messinger
If you read my last post you know that ssh started acting up on my firewall. I could log in from the public side, but got no responce from the private side. In the last hour it has mysteriously started working again. I made no system changes at all -- it just fixed it's self. Does anyone know wha

Re: LILO hangs on hard drive boot

1999-10-21 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Onno" == Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:39 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Steve Doerr wrote: >> I've got Linux on a secondary IDE hard drive(secondary master). >> When I set BIOS boot sequence to D:A:SCSI all I get is "LI" and >> the system hangs. Any ideas? Can I spiff up th

wine.conf example?

1999-10-21 Thread tf
howdy guys, can someone kindly give me an example of a working wine.conf? I must be mangling something pretty bad... I have no windows partition anywhere, but I made a windows directory in /var that I point to... any help will be greatly appreciated... -- -t

Re: modprobe errors again

1999-10-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and > again I get the modprobe errors below: > > Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep This is a know bug in

Re: LILO hangs on hard drive boot

1999-10-21 Thread Onno
At 01:39 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Steve Doerr wrote: >I've got Linux on a secondary IDE hard drive(secondary master). >When I set BIOS boot sequence to D:A:SCSI all I get is "LI" and >the system hangs. Any ideas? Can I spiff up that boot record >without messing anything up, or is LILO corrupted? The s

XFRee86 3.3.2(.3-2) on an IBM Thinkpad 360

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
Hi. I need help...!! I have an IBM ThinkPad 360Cs, 165 meg hard drive, and 8 megs of ram. I installed XFree86 3.3.2(.3-2). If I tried to run the XF86Setup, the screen would go blank, and the only way I can get it back is to reboot my computer. If I do the CTL+ALT+BKSPC, I get the command pr

modprobe errors again

1999-10-21 Thread Pollywog
There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and again I get the modprobe errors below: Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 21 19:21:51 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more rece

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: >root, the command in /etc/ppp/ip-* should be preceded by a `sudo` >command, e.g. > >sudo fetchmail -d 600 It's `sudo -u ...`, forgot the '-u', sorry. -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 6:11:37 PM, Brian wrote: > Things I dislike about slrn: > - poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP. This is not true. I have PGP support in SLRN, that is what a good set of SLANG macros are for. > - no way to flag messages as important. Untrue, scorin

Laptop works... sort of, Part 2

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
There was one other problem that I forgot to mention: When the machine goes into a suspend while I'm running X, it will frequently (but not always) come back up with an all white screen and I haven't been able to find a way to recover from this without rebooting. (Text consoles remain available,

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Clarke wrote: >Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is >easier to understand than the "man" files. There is more documentation in /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc. It's more comprehensive, but it's probably not that helpfull if you just want

LILO hangs on hard drive boot

1999-10-21 Thread Steve Doerr
I've got Linux on a secondary IDE hard drive(secondary master). When I set BIOS boot sequence to D:A:SCSI all I get is "LI" and the system hangs. Any ideas? Can I spiff up that boot record without messing anything up, or is LILO corrupted? The system runs fine when I use a boot floppy. Any help

ssh stopped working today

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Messinger
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated! This morning when I tried to use ssh to log into my debian firewall from the private network I get no response. But I can telnet to my isp's server and then ssh back into the debian firewall from there with no problem. I have been ssh'ing into the fir

Laptop works... sort of

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
A couple weeks ago, I finally got a chance to install Debian on my laptop, a UMax ActionBook 320T. It works, more or less, but a number of problems remain: 1) Power management control #1 - APM seems to kick in at random intervals. Sometimes the machine will sit for 5-10 minutes without going to

ssh/ftp

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
All of a sudden I am unable to ssh or ftp into my linux box from my windows box. I recently upgraded a couple of things, primarily libc6. Truth by told I can ssh into my linux box but ssh takes about 30+seconds to connect. Ftp doesn't work full stop. That is unless, I first telnet to my uni account

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 21 Oct, 1999 à 11:05:21AM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > > > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript > > > (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion. > > > > What does dvips n

Re: Lynx and ATP with http proxy

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Baker
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Clarke wrote: > Hi, > Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when > I have to use a http proxy with my university. > set environment variables http_proxy and (if needed) ftp_proxy that'll do it for lynx -- | oOOooO /

CPAN Installed DBI Needs to be removed

1999-10-21 Thread John Foster
I recently discovered the CPAN perl archive and installation system. I did not realize that Debian renamed the DBI files to libxxxdbi.deb when incorporating them into the dpkg hierarchy records. So I decided to install several DBI files from CPAN as they seemed to be updating the system. It did wor

Re: rtl8139 in slink?

1999-10-21 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:42:48PM -0700, aphro wrote: > curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and > it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12 > currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the > rtl8139.c f

Problem with CMOS clock

1999-10-21 Thread prdecamp
Hi all - I couldn't find any reference to this sort of problem in the archives, and was wondering if anyone else had seen something similar. I am running Debian (installed vi the current stable release, 2.1r3) on an IBM PS1 Expert machine (486SX20). About a week ago I downloaded the source for

Re: Purging mozilla

1999-10-21 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 20/10/99 David Jardine wrote: > > >It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home > >directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran > > which according to my understanding of the > >manpages should el

Re: XConfig help!

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
Hey :) From: Tam Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This will be my second attemp trying to configure xfree86. I am a >newbie to linux and this is my first crack at X window so can you >guys give a little help before hose the whole system..hehe. Anyway >the favor is that if you are not busy, can you send

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-21 Thread aphro
look into the mgetty docs, you can setup linux as a dialup shell and/or PPP server. also look at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html looks like it has good info although i didnt use it to setup my PPP servers. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Charles Lewis
> > I have an an ensonique 1371, and it works good. I had to enable it (as a > > module) in the kernel (2.2), and add 'es1371' to /etc/modules so that it > > loads on bootup, but haven't had any problems so far except that I can't > > figure out how to get rid of some random DMA timeouts. > > Char

Unidentified subject!

1999-10-21 Thread Hartmut Oppermann
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Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 17:21:18 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > This command generates a file tree with a lot of html and gif files. My > question is: Is there any tool to generate a postscript file (for example) > starting from all those files? There is: "htmldoc". Unfortunately, it's a rece

Inchon International Airport Information

1999-10-21 Thread han
To whom it may concern Please refer to the attached news information for Inchon international Airport in Korea. This news letter(attached file) should be delivered to personnel who are related to airport business and are interested in our facilities/services. If this is mistakenly delivered t

gnome apt?

1999-10-21 Thread Aaron Solochek
Where is libapt-pkg2.5? I can't find it anywhere. I've tried different mirrors too. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-apt depends on libapt-pkg2.5 libapt-pkg2.5 does not appear to be available

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Charles Lewis wrote: > I have an an ensonique 1371, and it works good. I had to enable it (as a > module) in the kernel (2.2), and add 'es1371' to /etc/modules so that it > loads on bootup, but haven't had any problems so far except that I can't > figure out how to get rid of some random DMA timeo

Linux documentation

1999-10-21 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I am a beginner in Linux and I am interested in obtaining linux documentation for free (at least for the moment). Following one of the suggestions that appeared in the list, I have downloaded an online Debian Linux book from the O'Reilly site: wget -r --no-parent www.ora.com/cata

Where is smbmount?

1999-10-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
Hi, What package do I need to install to get the smbmount command? I have samba, samba-common and smbclient installed, but mount -t smbfs doesn't seem to do anything, and there is no smbmount man page. Even better, if possible, would be a way to get gmc (or kfm/konqueror) to dynamically browse wi

Re: XConfig help!

1999-10-21 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Tam Ma wrote: > This will be my second attemp trying to configure xfree86. I am a newbie > to linux and this is my first crack at X window so can you guys give a > little help before hose the whole system..hehe. Anyway the favor is that > if you are not busy, can you send me y

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Sorry, I put the quotes in the wrong place. It should be mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem $USER" Sebastian Canagaratna

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
After configuring exim by running eximconfig, you have to create a file called .fetchmailrc in your home directory. If you want to fetch mail from say postoffice.X.edu where your username is username your .fetchmailrc file would have set postmaster "username" poll postoffice.X.edu with proto POP3

Re: Lynx and APT with http proxy

1999-10-21 Thread peter karlsson
Richard Clarke: > Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when I > have to use a http proxy with my university. If the proxy is located at someserver.somewhere on port : export http_proxy=http://someserver.somewhere:/ at a prompt, or in your .bashr

Re: Debian and Microsoft proxy

1999-10-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
No, the M$ proxy server is not capable of ip masq, at least not in the linux sense of ip masq. As you've noticed, using the M$ proxy requires their own proprietary client software (suprised?). M$ does not release specs of how to talk to their proxy server. That said, I can assure you that the M$

XConfig help!

1999-10-21 Thread Tam Ma
Hi guys, This will be my second attemp trying to configure xfree86. I am a newbie to linux and this is my first crack at X window so can you guys give a little help before hose the whole system..hehe. Anyway the favor is that if you are not busy, can you send me your "XF86Config" file so I can exa

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato (revised)

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Boonstra
(revised with a forgotten step) Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-21 Thread David Natkins
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > "ekw" == eric k wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ekw> Ingo: Get the "kernel package" (dselect or apt-get) & install > > ekw> unpack kernel-source. etc. > > ekw> make menuconfig or xconfig > > ekw> then: make-kpkg clean > > ekw> then: m

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native sound support. It does not matt

Configuring HP printer

1999-10-21 Thread Micha Feigin
Is the support for HP printers only using the hp 550 module in magicfilter, or is there a newer module ? I am looking to configure a HP 815 (I think its 810 in the states). How do I use the diferent printer options? (resolution, double sided printing, printing quolity, etc) Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Charles Lewis
I have an an ensonique 1371, and it works good. I had to enable it (as a module) in the kernel (2.2), and add 'es1371' to /etc/modules so that it loads on bootup, but haven't had any problems so far except that I can't figure out how to get rid of some random DMA timeouts.

Unidentified subject!

1999-10-21 Thread searchen
I would like to know how I can configure my Linux-server so that I can call on it. The server is not always connected to the internet. I'm using ISDN to call in on my provider. So the server has a ISDN (Teles 16.3) card. I want to be able to use another computer with a modem or ISDN card to logi

Lynx and ATP with http proxy

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi,     Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when I have to use a http proxy with my university.   Thanks in advance Richard

Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is easier to understand than the "man" files. As I understand, exim is a local mail agent which uses SMTP? to send mail around the localnetwork. Fetchmail delivers remote mail, POP3 in my case, to this local network and th

Re: exim and +@domain

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Oct, Robert Waldner wrote about "exim and +@domain" > > I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept > all > + and deliver it to ? > Add the following in your Directors section above the localuser director. suffix_local: suffix = +* driver = localus

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-21 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Let me get this straight: Some person (Joe) writes to a list and you > get the mail. You hit "g" and Joe is not listed as a recipient? Yep, and I am unstead. (And I don't think metoo is even set, either) > > That might be some funky "reply-to" stuff that I haven't run > into. Sorry. > >

Looking for CuciPop info

1999-10-21 Thread rsluder
Hello Sir, We are looking for info on Cucipop Y2K compatability. I have tried contacting the author, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but he has not answered. If you could please point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Rick Sluder System Engineer Road Ru

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Oct, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote about "netscape 4.7 and download" > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch t

Re: Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-21 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Well, in my case wsoundserver revision 0.2.0-1 doesn't work at all. It ALWAYS segfaults. I'm using kernel 2.2.12 and the latest wmaker 0.61.1-1 running on Potato. Could anyone with the above setting please tell me if wsoundserver works for them? I want to see if I'm alone on this or if this is a

Update on modutils

1999-10-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
As a lot of you have experienced, the changes I made in modutils 2.3.5-1 managed to break a fair number of machines. I have just uploaded 2.3.6-3 to fix this. Let me explain what happened: In /etc/modutils/paths there were a lot of path-statements to set the default paths where depmod,insmod and

Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom, but haven'

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-21 Thread Michael Stenner
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:41:57AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to get mutt to, when replying to list, also reply to > > > the sender of the message? > > > > If you hit "g" to reply (instead

Re: Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

1999-10-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There is a link in the front web site "www.debian.org" to mail archives. Follow it. Erich Newell wrote: > Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days? > > I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond > V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live... > > ...

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x > > kernels? > > what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;) > > > > -gnana > > >

Re: What does Quality mean?

1999-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:44 +0200, Debian Mail wrote: > When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like: > >Release Quality Package (size) >stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5 (0.7k) > Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions. > >

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Right. What I wasn't sure of is whether the installer sets the directory permissions before prompting you to mount additional filesystems, or afterward. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:45:45PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > I set mine up as a sepe

Re: A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> shaul wrote: > > > > What is M-VIA version ? > > I have a no name NIC. It works with the standard ne module, though it is not > > perfect. The point is that the box has an attached diskette with a fet916.c > > file that I currently can not compile, and this file seems to do some > > thought > >

What does Quality mean?

1999-10-21 Thread Debian Mail
When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like: Release Quality Package (size) stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5 (0.7k) Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions. What does this Quality stand for? Stef

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Lutgens wrote: > > I had to use the back quotes`` Back quotes can't be nested, while $( ) does the same job and can be nested -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, > I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the > output of > > grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" > > to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. > > florida: 555-1212 you mean, in a shell variable? In bash and maybe sh this should

Re: How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: > > When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. > I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of > course, the

Re: How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Haude wrote: > Is there a way to tell dselect: "I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's > there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)"? > See "http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/equivs.html";. You can create any pseudo package with equivs which fools t

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:36:01AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes ('). Thanx, figured it out, and man did I feel like a dummy. About 15 minutes after I sent off the e-mail. Nevermind that I tried everything for an hour or two and read and read all d

How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel Haude
Hi, I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I use dselect, i

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:53:26AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: > What do you want in the variable? Multiple lines? > Did you try > set foo=$( grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" ) > Whats the greater context? > Andrew > I finally got it with export GREP_RESULT=`grep $LOCATION $HOME/roam.db

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript > > (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion. > > What does dvips need ghostscript for? It doesn't. All one needs ghostscript for is printing on

Re: Matrox G400 and X (was: debian-user-digest ...)

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 21/10/99 Rune Linding Raun wrote: xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist? The SVGA server supports this card, it is listed in the XF86Config program so you should have no problems. (if you do upgrade to Xfree 3.3.5) Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://ww

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-21 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:10:53PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) A friend of mine wrote a small script to see

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel Haude
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi > > printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on gho

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1820

1999-10-21 Thread Rune Linding Raun
hi xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist? sincerely rune linding raun

exim and +@domain

1999-10-21 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept all + and deliver it to ? &rw -- - ___ - Robert Waldner Junior Network Engineer // / ___ _/_ -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RW960-RIPE --- /--- / / / / /___/ / ---

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:51:48AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x > kernels? what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. > ;) If you mean Ensoniq, then the answer is "probably". I don't know the full range of c

Debian and Microsoft proxy

1999-10-21 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, I have access to the net via microsoft proxy which is capable of ip masq. However to used it on wintel boxes a client need to be installed. Once installed this which works fine. Is it possible to access the net (ip masq. not proxy web content) via the MS proxy server using debian. Is it

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:37:26PM -0800, Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the > output of > > grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" > > to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. value=`grep fl

Re: linux kernel compile

1999-10-21 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Vincent & Sylvia Gaines wrote: > First I would just like to thank the people behind the Debian > distribution. > I work with software and have been very impressed with the way they have > > organized their system distribution updates. to me ( still a "newbie") > dselect is a vital tool worth it's

Re: Setting default preferences for X

1999-10-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
No, set it in XF86Config: Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Matrox Millennium G200 8MB" Option "power_saver" VideoRam 8192 Of course, your board, video ram, etc... will differ. You can set the timeouts under the Screen

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