Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-14 Thread aphro
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: homega >would this imply the performance would be any different than if compiled homega >it in the kernel? Or, ppp, or other services which can be used oftenly. the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is: 1) if you think you may nee

problem with HylaFax

1999-11-14 Thread Pollywog
Anyone know what the problem is here? I purged the package and then reinstalled it but the problem did not disappear. Starting HylaFAX daemons: faxq/usr/sbin/faxq: Symbol `TIFFFaxBlackTable' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking /usr/sbin/faxq: Symbol `TIFFFaxMainTable' has dif

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > .. > to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that > I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just > sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) You could enlar

Re: apt-get kernel-update?

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I was wondering if there are any plans from the Debian folks to > allow something like "apt-get kernel-update", which would > automatically update the kernel. > Won't apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.13 do it or am I missing something ?

kernel compile and modules

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to build a new kernel (2.2.10), and would like to go over the steps for compiling (not make kpkg) as I'm not sure about them: # make config (or menuconfig) here I have a doubt about the options which can be configured as loadable modules instead of compiling into the kernel. Say I

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
Noah L. Meyerhans said: > I'm having a problem that seems to be related to NFS on potato. Here's > the setup: > /home is mounted via NFS. When I run WPrefs, the configuration tool > included with Window Maker, I get the following error: > "Could not open Window Maker domain > (/home/frodo/GNUstep

Re: emacs and word processing

1999-11-14 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M-x ispell-change-dictionary from emacs or xemacs does not work. (X)emacs > reports: "no match". Maybe you need to add your dictionary to ispell-dictionary-alist (not sure what the right way to do this is, though) It should also help to set the va

Re: Also, where does xdm redirect the X server output?

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> Also, where does xdm redirect the X server output? /var/log/xdm-errors and /var/log/xdm.log ?

Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows

1999-11-14 Thread Jutta Wrage
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did that by putting "exec pppd" in a script (/usr/local/bin/ppplogin) >and "/usr/local/bin/ppplogin" in /etc/password as the replacement for >the "/bin/bash" of the username that I had set up for connecting via >PPP. I did something simi

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid said: > > The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: > > there's no free space left at the end of the drive. > > > > Why's that? > > I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system wi

Idea to prevent those long package listing downloads with apt-get (maybe this should be on debian-devel...)

1999-11-14 Thread Russell G. Howe
Maybe I should have posted to debian-devel, but I'm not subscribed and I get enough mail as it is. I had this idea when I was sitting there watching 768K of package listing for unstable trickle down my flaky, slow modem connection at about 1K/sec, paying my 1 pence per minute to British Telecom w

Re: /usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-14 Thread Kevin Heath
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 12:52:28PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc > drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Nov 14 12:33 src > > Could someone explain the difference? I tried setting chmod g=+r+w+s > /usr/src, but that apparently d

Re: What replaces netdate in potato?

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
peter karlsson said: > I noticed that netdate has been removed from potato. What should I use > instead? ntpdate -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
Alisdair McDiarmid said: > The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: > there's no free space left at the end of the drive. > > Why's that? I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a homemade 2.2.9 kernel and a 9 Gb drive. Windows could see the enti

blackbox and blackbox-menu

1999-11-14 Thread debian mailing list
A few months ago (in the middle of test week, so I didn't get the chance to ask then), I did an `apt-get dist-upgrade`, which installed version 0.51.3-1 of blackbox on my potato system. A couple of days later, when I started X (don't really use it that often), the root menu was shaved down from th

Re: Help with kernel log

1999-11-14 Thread Krug Tech
I'm connected with the cable modem. This thing is not coming from inside for sure. It's not the firewall itself because I even tried to disconnect the cable from the modem and then it stopped. What does this log mean? Has anybody seen this? Milan >How are you connected to the internet. It looks

Re: X window!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> > I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid > > information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run > > "startx" and it gave me this error message: > > It would only happen if you dit not configure it ok (assuming that the > video board is supported b

Real world IP address of a machine behind a firewall ?

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
I am behind a firewall and/or Proxy server (I still have to learn what is the difference between those 2 and when to use each). 1) How can I find out the IP address that the Proxy server shows to other hosts on the Internet when I am connecting to them ? Is this address fixed ? 2) Does any one ca

depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root

1999-11-14 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, This is the second time this has happened. I upgrade from slink to potato and everything works fine. I run apt-get upgrade for the second time, some stuff gets downloaded, and all hell breaks loose. Next time I restart I get almost a whole screen of this during startup: depmod: /lib/modu

Re: getting source

1999-11-14 Thread b-
thanx for the information. On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > > try adding: > > deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://ftp.pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US > main contrib non-free > > to your /etc/apt/sources.list change

tracing the HD access

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to optimize my partitions locations for the maximum of speed Is there a utility which can trace the partition access (in order)? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 05:28:44 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > > There could be a problem with doing it that way, if you are a KDE user. > > I use KDE, so I installed two versions of QT, from source. That all

Re: /usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
MK>I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've noticed a MK>difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and the MK>new one, /usr/src. MK> MK>drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc MK>drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 N

/usr/src and file permissions

1999-11-14 Thread David J. Kanter
I've created/moved my /usr/src to its own partition. However, I've noticed a difference in the permissions between the old /usr/src (/usr/oldsrc) and the new one, /usr/src. drwxrwsr-x4 root src 1024 Oct 16 00:18 oldsrc drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Nov 14 12:33 src C

Re: Help with kernel log

1999-11-14 Thread charlesiii
How are you connected to the internet. It looks like someone is sending you spoofed ip addresses. On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Krug Tech wrote: > I have a debian system which is always connected to the Internet and I use > it as a firewall (forwarding, masquerading, etc.) I couple of days ago > kernel st

Official CD copy

1999-11-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I want to make a copy of my slink official cds for my brother in law. what's the best and safest way, from win 98? i have a burner, but i haven't installed it yet in Linux. thanx antonio.

Re: web email packages

1999-11-14 Thread Randy Edwards
> What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I > find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, Debian has IMP packaged for it, which is a really slick web-based IMAP E-Mail package (it's in potato, not sure about slink). IMP's pretty slick. Myself, my prefer

Re: Special Rates For Hong Kong Hotels (Nov. 1999)

1999-11-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Is it time to cut off all mail from Hong Kong to this list? I thought this list was supposed to have a standard for handling advertising, but I repeatedly see advertising from Hong Kong. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postilion and the img libs.

1999-11-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am using Postilion installed for the deb. On the Postilion site the img libraries are recommended to have Postilion show images inline. I can not find the img libraries available for Debian, and I am not able to make the source compile on my potato box I get "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l-l".

Re: Writing to multiple CD-Rs

1999-11-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've got a SCSI Plextor CD-ROM and 4 SCSI Yamaha CD-RWs in a server > I'm working on. > > I want to copy audio and data CDs to multiple CD-Rs simultaneously. > Does anyone know of some software that will do this automatically, or > will

Writing to multiple CD-Rs

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've got a SCSI Plextor CD-ROM and 4 SCSI Yamaha CD-RWs in a server I'm working on. I want to copy audio and data CDs to multiple CD-Rs simultaneously. Does anyone know of some software that will do this automatically, or will I have to roll my own from cdrecord and suchlike? Can I simply dd if=/

Help with kernel log

1999-11-14 Thread Krug Tech
I have a debian system which is always connected to the Internet and I use it as a firewall (forwarding, masquerading, etc.) I couple of days ago kernel started logging this message: IP fw-in deny eth0 UDP 127.0.0.1:8777 255.255.255.255:9777 L=70 S=0x00 I= (this one is different every time) F=0x00

Re: named (bind)

1999-11-14 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Daniel Roesen wrote: droese >The published NXT exploit breaks chroot for at least Linux/Intel, droese >Solaris/SPARC, FreeBSD 3.2 and OpenBSD 2.5. from what i saw from the post on bugtraq it still wont do much if the server is not being run as root ? mine is run as user/group

mutt 1.0i

1999-11-14 Thread Michael Perry
Here is a question that kind of perplexes me. I just installed mutt 1.0i from the debian package and now get colors which are not defined in the global Muttrc file or in my user's .muttrc files. When I used the prerelease versions, I got the colors I wanted. I know that mutt will use the system

apt-get messages?

1999-11-14 Thread m_shapiro
I am thinking of upgrading from slink to potato, but my disk space is very limited. Linux is installed on a 200 MB drive which currently has only 15 MB free. Quite a few of my programs and files are on my DOS/WIN disk with symlinks to them. I have created a directory tree on these disks with a s

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mfluch> apt-get install libqt1g libqt2 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libqt1g libqt2 > 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > There could be a problem with doing it that way, if you are a KDE user. > I use KDE, so I installed two versions of QT, from source. That allows me to > use KDE and only use QT 2.x to build Licq, without affecting KDE. A

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > >> The description is the one that corresponds to qt1g, but I installed >> licq 0.61-1, and if I try to configure it: >> >> h0rus:/tmp# dpkg --configure --pending >> dpkg: depe

ALSA modules have unresolved symbols

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm trying to get my dodgy old ISA SB16 to work with ALSA instead of OSS/Free, and having difficulty with the alsa-modules-2.2.13 package. I have sound support built into my 2.2.13 kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/alsautils] # lsmod Module Size Used by soundcore

Re: NIS

1999-11-14 Thread Ramin Motakef
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ramin Motakef wrote: > > > Hi! > > Don´t know if this is our problem, but after a recent ubgrade of a > > slink box the +::: entryies in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on this box > > where missing. > > > > I didnt notice this at first, as i was logged i

Re: ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP)

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Sergey Lishchuk wrote: > Hi > > What X server must I use to make potato work with > ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP) video card? VGA16 works, but > I need larger resolution. SVGA does not work. I tried > to install manually the SUSE package XFCom_Rage128, > but unsu

Re: sound blater live

1999-11-14 Thread SGaerner
Download the source (emu...tar.gz) from opensource.creative.com. Run tar xzf emu...tar.gz (before running tar create a directory, an older version untarred anything to /usr/src; it's not so nice) You need the kernel sources installed under /usr/src. cd run make ; make install If it fails check th

sound blater live drivers installation

1999-11-14 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello. How can I install sound blaster live! driver ?? Please help me !!!

sound blater live

1999-11-14 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello. How can I install sound blaster live! driver ?? Please help me !!!

converting unicode ttf to cp1252 type1

1999-11-14 Thread Philip Lehman
I'm trying to convert a bunch of true type fonts with unicode encoding to type1 with microsoft-cp1252. I'm afraid it has to be cp1252 (or adobe-fontspecific for that matter) since I need them for word processing and standard latin encoding is not enough. As I understand it, iso8859-1 does not def

sound blater live

1999-11-14 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello. How can I install sound blaster live! driver ?? Please help me !!!

ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP)

1999-11-14 Thread Sergey Lishchuk
Hi What X server must I use to make potato work with ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP) video card? VGA16 works, but I need larger resolution. SVGA does not work. I tried to install manually the SUSE package XFCom_Rage128, but unsuccesfully. Thank you! Sergey aTHhH

Re: 2.2 kernel ?

1999-11-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 19:48:04 -0500, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: > Do you know when is the 2.2.* kernel based debian coming out? The code freeze for "potato" (the current "unstable" tree which uses 2.2.x kenels) has been rescheduled for mid-January (see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/07/16

Special Rates For Hong Kong Hotels (Nov. 1999)

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Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > The description is the one that corresponds to qt1g, but I installed > licq 0.61-1, and if I try to configure it: > > h0rus:/tmp# dpkg --configure --pending > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of licq: >

Re: named (bind)

1999-11-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
> setup a chroot'd enviornment for bind (named -t i believe) and you won't > have to worry too much about the NXT bug .. The published NXT exploit breaks chroot for at least Linux/Intel, Solaris/SPARC, FreeBSD 3.2 and OpenBSD 2.5. Relying on a chroot-jail is naive... Best regards, Daniel

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 01:03:58 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Well, as I said, it's not there: > > > > ncftp ...-free/binary-i386/libs > pwd > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/ > > ncftp

2.2 kernel ?

1999-11-14 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, Do you know when is the 2.2.* kernel based debian coming out? Suresh --- Suresh Kumar.R Lecturer Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering Trivandrum - 695 016 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > [...] > > Well, as I said, it's not there: > > ncftp ...-free/binary-i386/libs > pwd > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/ > ncftp ...-free/binary-i386/libs > ls > giflib3g_3.0-5.2.deb

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El sáb, 13 de nov de 1999, a las 11:51:25 -, Pollywog dijo: > I don't know if you can get 1.42 but 1.44 is at: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.44- > 6.1.deb > > If you really need 1.42, I believe it comes on the Slink CD's but I am not > certain

Re: Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:11:05PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > > > Is there any way to *record* the audio that's playing to /dev/dsp? You'd > > think it'd be as simple as cat /dev/dsp > myaudio, but

Re: telnet to debian

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Solochek
Because ssh is only in the non-US distro... Something to do with cryptography inport/export law. I don't know much about it. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam Babak wrote: > Why use non-US Debian if I'm in the US ? > thanks guys for your help. > > Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > Well... I woul

Re: telnet to debian

1999-11-14 Thread Sam Babak
Why use non-US Debian if I'm in the US ? thanks guys for your help. Aaron Solochek wrote: > Well... I would say add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > > Then, run dselect, update, then select search ( use / ) for ssh.

Device driver image woes

1999-11-14 Thread Drew Bell
I'm re-installing slink from CD after deciding to partition differently. Install goes fine until I try to configure device driver modules (which is suggested as "Next"). For a brief second before the screen changes to the module select window, I see "Segmentation Fault" at the bottom, then install

Re: telnet to debian

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well... I would say add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US Then, run dselect, update, then select search ( use / ) for ssh. I think there are 3 ssh packages. The ones you want are obvious by the description. This is easi

Re: telnet to debian

1999-11-14 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Sam Babak wrote: > I was given a job to administer sendmail v8.7 on Debian/Linux and I am > new to Linux. wow , great! In everybody's opinion , if you're new to linux , stick to redhat for awhile...and then try debian ... but looks like you're like me ;-) > location. When

telnet to debian

1999-11-14 Thread Sam Babak
Hi, I was given a job to administer sendmail v8.7 on Debian/Linux and I am new to Linux. I must be able to telnet since the server is at a distant location. When I telnet to the Linux machine in order to add email accounts, I get connected and it tells me that I have new mail and it disconnect.

Re: getting telnet and ftp working

1999-11-14 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: amwalk >Any ideas why this is not working? amwalk > to test, hit mv /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.deny-DISABLED and try to telnet/ftp in ..it should let u in, by default i think debian sets ALL : PARANOID in hosts.deny so it wont let u in unless u have an e

Re: restarting inetd

1999-11-14 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: amwalk >Hello, greetings. amwalk >to send it a SIGHUP, but I don't know the exact command. Could someone amwalk >please help me out? kill -HUP or you can try killall -HUP inetd nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-

thanks! (was: find -exec)

1999-11-14 Thread aphro
thanks for the massive response i got from my find -exec question i ended up going with martin's suggestion of find . -type t | xargs chmod ug+wx ..it executed a full 2 minutes quicker then using find -exec. thanks again!! woohoo. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

telnetd and ftpd solution

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
well, I found the problem... of course, 'twas my own stupidity that caused it :-) The hosts.allow file needs to have a newline after the last entry in order to work. If I wasn't half asleep, I would've thought to look in /var/log/daemon.log before I posted :-) Sorry, about the wasted bandwidth fo

getting telnet and ftp working

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Thanks, to those that answered my previous question.. I have another question... the reason I wanted to restart inetd is because I am trying to get telnetd and ftpd working. I added the following entries to inetd.conf: ftpstreamtcpnowaitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftp

I have broken dselect.....Hlp plz

1999-11-14 Thread Nun Yobiznez
I have done interesting things.I was running potato before it was frozen and, after hearing of a freeze, went to ftp.debian.org to get the latest updates. I was using dselect and selected all packages from the availability list. I removed the recommended removal or hold packages and went t

Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore

1999-11-14 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13 Nov 1999, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: > >> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could > >> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping > >> 131Mb. > >> Is

Re: restarting inetd

1999-11-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello, > > I am a former redhat, turned debian user, and was wondering if someone > could inform me how to restart inetd... I am so used to redhat's > /etc/rc.d/init.d/ scripts, that I've never started/stoped/restarted > services any ot

restarting inetd

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Hello, I am a former redhat, turned debian user, and was wondering if someone could inform me how to restart inetd... I am so used to redhat's /etc/rc.d/init.d/ scripts, that I've never started/stoped/restarted services any other way. By reading the inetd man page, I know you have to send it a SI

Re: getting source

1999-11-14 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Nov, b- wrote about "getting source" > hi, > > hope i'm sending this to the right person. > > how can i get access to the source for debian packages? specifically, i'm > looking for the source for debian's "dump" package. i thought i send a > note to debian before contacting the author

Re: find -exec

1999-11-14 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:48:49PM -0800, aphro wrote > What i wanna do ..is 2 things > > find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644 > > find all directories in a directory tree and chmod them 775 > > and i'm trying to do it with the find -exec command. For the directory > part i did

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-14 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 01:29:23AM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote > > "B" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > B> Start xvidtune from a console/xterm window. Press the "show" > B> button. It will output the current modeline to the console/xterm. > > The loaner monitor that I have been gi

Re: getting source

1999-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/11/99 b- wrote: how can i get access to the source for debian packages? specifically, i'm looking for the source for debian's "dump" package. i thought i send a note to debian before contacting the author, in case there is a standard way users can access the source code for the binary de

getting source

1999-11-14 Thread b-
hi, hope i'm sending this to the right person. how can i get access to the source for debian packages? specifically, i'm looking for the source for debian's "dump" package. i thought i send a note to debian before contacting the author, in case there is a standard way users can access the sourc

menu: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm recieved signal 6

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: menu Version: 2.1.4-3 [05:24:08 shaul]$ update-menus Cannot open file /home/shaul//.twm//system.twmrc-menu Update-menus[10729]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm recieved signal 6. [05:25:12 shaul]$ ls .fvwm/ menudefs.hook post.hook [05:25:18 shaul]$ ls .fvwm/ menudefs.hook post.hook [05:2

Re: c++ problem (gcc)

1999-11-14 Thread Andrew Chung
> i tried to write a small c++ using iostream. > When i compiled it I got a linker error that it couldn't find cout and > relations. Do you have one of the libstdc++ packages installed?

ptys and /dev/pts

1999-11-14 Thread Keith Harbaugh
I've just switched to potato, and still don't have it entirely working (mainly in that X can't find its fonts), but while I am waiting to figure out a solution to that, here's two small questions: Can anyone explain the following behavior: $ tty /dev/tty0 $ script Script started, file is typescri

Re: stopping x from starting automatically

1999-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello, > > Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and > /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by > default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this > default would be real easy, and would make Debian that much more > standard. > I

Clock mini-HOWTO

1999-11-14 Thread Keith Harbaugh
The subject of "how to adjust your clock" is a real FAQ on this list. I just ran across a "Clock mini-HOWTO" at . It seems to do a really excellent job of explaining the relations of the various hardware and software components concerned with time maintenance. I think it m

Re: web email packages

1999-11-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Nov-1999, Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I > find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, put I can also cc > it if necessary. > www.horde.org/imp and it is also available as a Debian package

Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer

1999-11-14 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 14 Nov, Micha Feigin wrote about "apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer" > Whats the us and downs of these to packages? > I need to use a hp 810c which I just bought. > which will be more apropriate? > Is there any documentation on using hp printers in order to get the > deferent capabili

Annoying Network card

1999-11-14 Thread Jon Hughes
First off, thanks to those who have been helping me on getting @home to work with linux here. really really appreciate it :) While I think the network settings are correct, my problem now appears to be the network card. HEre's what I have. The only card that apparently works with AT&T @home

Re: c++ problem (gcc)

1999-11-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Try $ g++ -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Tea and Water

1999-11-14 Thread fhtl
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apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer

1999-11-14 Thread Micha Feigin
Whats the us and downs of these to packages? I need to use a hp 810c which I just bought. which will be more apropriate? Is there any documentation on using hp printers in order to get the deferent capabilities from the printer (deferent quallity, resolution, papersize, twoside printing etc. ? Than

c++ problem (gcc)

1999-11-14 Thread Micha Feigin
i tried to write a small c++ using iostream. When i compiled it I got a linker error that it couldn't find cout and relations. I tried it on a simple hello world and got the same result: micha:~/work/temp> gcc text.cpp /tmp/cc5OYXpg.o: In function `main':~ /tmp/cc5OYXpg.o(.text+0x4): undefined refe

depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root

1999-11-14 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, This is the second time this has happened. I upgrade from slink to potato and everything works fine. I run apt-get upgrade for the second time, some stuff gets downloaded, and all hell breaks loose. Next time I restart I get almost a whole screen of this during startup: depmod: /lib/modu

Re: Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:11:05PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > Is there any way to *record* the audio that's playing to /dev/dsp? You'd > think it'd be as simple as cat /dev/dsp > myaudio, but no. Is there a > program that will allow you to do this? I think the package you're looking

Re: Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:11:05PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all - > > Is there any way to *record* the audio that's playing to /dev/dsp? You'd > think it'd be as simple as cat /dev/dsp > myaudio, but no. Is there a > program that will allow you to do this? > > Thx in advance. >

Recording audio...

1999-11-14 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - Is there any way to *record* the audio that's playing to /dev/dsp? You'd think it'd be as simple as cat /dev/dsp > myaudio, but no. Is there a program that will allow you to do this? Thx in advance. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: