virtual domains under exim

2000-01-04 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'd like to setup a virtual domain with exim. So far I've managed to make it able to accept emails for the virtual domain, but it now sends the emails to the local users. I'll give an example: The machine is named machine.org and has tons of local users that receive email to [

Quake 2 and glx/mga

2000-01-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Has anyone got Quake 2 to work with recent glx/mga CVS? Q3:A demo works well (and very quickly) on my G400, but Quake 2 doesn't even run. Running /usr/games/quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so loads Quake 2, and just before switching to ref_soft mode, it complains that it can't load li

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
> What utilities can I use to get past this error? it can be a damaged hard disk but i had this problem to, like a year ago, and disabled SMART for the offending harddrives and never had that problem again, so you might want to try that. alberto

Re: problem with symlinks

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
attached is the results of dpkg -S /usr it should list every package i have in /usr, there is a craplaod of them, probably around 500, here it is.. tkfont, olwm, netscape4, biff, xzip, lg-issue28, xtoolwait, vgacardgames, purity, lg-issue26, cam, aalib1, octave, quota, dftp, makepatch, lg-is

Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
x11.org is very different, xfree has almost no relation to the X consortium(at least until recently where they got on the board) www.xfree86.org is for XF86. nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Howard Mann wrote: howard >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: howard >> howard >> I've got the above card on my PC at the

Re: I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
an easy way to do this is to dial manually with minicom and then quit without resetting the modem and manually load pppd.(not sure what the command line options wuld be though maybe somene else can assist in that area) nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mallar >I need to connect to

Re: multi-processor kernel

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
im approaching 5 months runtime with 2.0.36 SMP. at least cpu 1 is always loaded with [EMAIL PROTECTED], the other does some of the rest, running a asus p2b-d i *think* (never actually seen the board) with 2 p2 233s, 128MB ram and 2x4GB ultra 2 scsi drives on an adaptec 2940UW running in software

Re: multi-processor kernel

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
links 2.0.34 can support SMP although i would reccomend at least 2.0.36 for SMP, you can always turn X off in redhat, although im not sure how to. probably somewhere in /etc/rc.d or maybe /etc/inittab nate On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zdrysd >Hi zdrysd > zdrysd >does slink with k

RE: libglide2x.so

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
i'll try that, i have DGA mouse disabled so i dont know if it will have any effect(with dga mouse on it crashes) thanks! nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Harlan Crystal wrote: harlan >to slow down the curser in Q3, you gotta use the console command harlan >"in_dgamouse 1" harlan > harlan > harlan >if y

Re: Error message when using 'apt-get'

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: rradha > -> libg++.so.2.7.2.8 rradha >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Dec 27 10:39 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2. rradha >7.2 -> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8 those are symlinks not actual files, for the above example the file libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8 libg

Re: Module query.

2000-01-04 Thread Hans
At 08:26 PM 1/4/00 +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: >Hans wrote: >> Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean? > >Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were >used you couldnt unload them -- see? No, I don't see anything. I load all the mo

Re: New to debian - adding a disk drive

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
this may be a bit complicated but once you get the hang of it it takes only a minute. there may be an easier way to do this i dont know this is how i do it. [begin] install the new drive, make note of the configuration, if it is IDE note that is it a master or a slave and is it on the primary or

Changing font size for xterm

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Fuller
What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc?

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc John> depended on "perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is John> that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404 John> installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in

Re: network troubles

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Marketsource Online wrote: suppor >a. Is there some sort of system configuration tool, like lisa/lizard, suppor >netconfig, etc available for Debian? I do enjoy editing .conf files and suppor >scripts but a frontend would be a big help considering how much time I suppor >spen

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
either your drive is misconfigured in the bios or by LILO (would be nice if you included full info on the drive that your getting errors on) but its more likely that the drive is failing, if its a recent IBM or Maxtor both companies have excellent diagnostics software for their drives, not sure ab

Re: UPS software compatibility

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: ron.st >I am considering buying a Tripp Lite OmniSmart 450PNP. They claim that ron.st >their PowerAltert V10.1.9 software supports Linux, however I would be much ron.st >more confortable if I knew for sure that it worked, and ideally was open ron.st >sourc

Re: I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

2000-01-04 Thread Marcin Kurc
Try minicom. and after you get connected start pppd. On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:11:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a > complex chat script. Can someone help me out? > > Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set

Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

2000-01-04 Thread Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on > it. Evidently, it isn't supported directly. (I'm using slink, by the way). > I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86 > servers either. www.x11.org appear

I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

2000-01-04 Thread MallarJ2
I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a complex chat script. Can someone help me out? Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window after connecting, so I can do the following: Login: Password: Challenge: abc93029 Response: [

Re: multi-processor kernel

2000-01-04 Thread Michael Procario
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2 > power supplies? SMP support in 2.0 kernels is not great. I tried it and had crashes about once a day. I am now running with a 2.2 kernel under Redhat on the same machine and it is very stable (mul

Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

2000-01-04 Thread MallarJ2
In a message dated 1/4/00 3:58:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > * Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed? Well, I hate to answer my own question, but I think I found the answer to it anyway. I guess XFree86 just hasn't updated their website - in like -

Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

2000-01-04 Thread MallarJ2
I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on it. Evidently, it isn't supported directly. (I'm using slink, by the way). I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86 servers either. There are, however, two that X11 packages that do s

multi-processor kernel

2000-01-04 Thread zdrysdal
Hi does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2 power supplies? We currently have our file server set up on redhat 6.1 running xwindows..but it crashes almost everytime we reboot. So I am thinking about putting debian slink on the machine and not running xwindows as we t

Black Magic

2000-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
OK, so I spoke too soon... I managed to get glide working last night, but only in software mode. I still can't get it to recognize my Voodoo2 Black Magic 3D card for hardware acceleration. Last night I was working with the rpms and raw source from linux.3dfx.com. Today I pulled the new Potato de

Re: split archives using tar

2000-01-04 Thread Howard Mann
"Michael W. Shaffer" wrote: > > I highly recommend using cpio in preference to tar if the archives are > for your own use and not public distribution to unknown platforms. The > command to use cpio would be: > > find directories_to_archive | cpio -ovH crc > /dev/sdz > > Cpio will automaticall

Anacron problem

2000-01-04 Thread Abdul Aziz
Following a system update I get the following message (e-mailed to root) from Anacron regarding job cron.daily: "nice: cannot set priority:Permission denied." cron.daily exits with nothing done. What needs to be done? I've only been using Debian a while and am a bit stuck. Any help appreciated an

Re: pointer trails in X?

2000-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Servis wrote: > Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail > in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost > focus of it. I've never found anything like this. However, the big-cursor package allows you to quadruple your cursor size, which ma

Installation trouble

2000-01-04 Thread Robert Smith
--boot:Uncompressing image...|Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - wouldn't fit intodestinationImage not found try again---I recieve that error when trying to boot from a floppy install disk on mysparcstation 10. i'm t

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-04 Thread John Foster
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should > John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other > John> packages. > > No, it should only be in the gmc package, as th

squidGuard: odd compile error

2000-01-04 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I get an odd error when compiling squidGuard. I had to change the -ldb to -ldb2 in the configure script to make it recognize BerkeleyDB 2.6.4 (Debian), but now it's giving me an odd error that I don't get. Here's the info: make: making all in src gcc -I.. -I. -I. -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include

RE: libglide2x.so

2000-01-04 Thread Harlan Crystal
to slow down the curser in Q3, you gotta use the console command "in_dgamouse 1" if you cat the quake3 file, you'll see that it sets this to 0 on startup in that file > -Original Message- > From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:15 AM > To: Dave Sheroh

Re: education warehouse, sound-video player

2000-01-04 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/04/00 at 11:49 AM, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: ... >without having to dump 5K-40K USA $ a year. Any way, seems to me that the ... Well, one gets to choose which end they are going to pay at, yes? I teach at a community college where expenses are $

Error message when using 'apt-get'

2000-01-04 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I get the following error messages when I use 'apt-get install', ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libg

New to debian - adding a disk drive

2000-01-04 Thread Joseph Norris
Hello group, I am very new to debian (mostly redhat). I have a server that is becoming more in need of disk spaces. I want to add a new hard drive. The hardware guy has added the hard drive and I want know a step by step process to get debian to recognize the hard drive. To sum it up, I need hel

Re: man -k doesn't work

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
I have no MANPATH set on my slink-r4 and everything works fine and when I set it to what you mentioned in your mail, it works as well. Maybe that means that the error is something else. Hope it helps ... - Konrad

Re: Module query.

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Hans wrote: > Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean? Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were used you couldnt unload them -- see? > Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except > master volume and tone con

Re: pointer trails in X?

2000-01-04 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail > in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost > focus of it. > (1) I am not sure but I believe that it is the WM business and that Fvwm has an option to do it. (2) Isn't xeyes do just that?

Re: .emacs file please

2000-01-04 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > I'm just coming to grips with emacs and discovered that most people have a > .emacs file with default settings that they can use. > 1) At least with XEamcs, probably with Emacs too, you can try Help->Samples. 2) You can look at Emacs Beginner's HOWTO, I belkieve the author append

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other John> packages. No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db script is also only i

ATHLON K7 AMD & Linux

2000-01-04 Thread Alexei Smirnov
Dear Colleagues, What Linux version and X-window competely compatible with AMD K7 Athlon having ATI Xpert video card ? Happy New Year, Alexei V. Smirnov, DULY Research Inc. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Deloy Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, > sector=2310168 > end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168 It seems to be a very bad hardware problem :

Re: Modem dials without reason

2000-01-04 Thread John Foster
Klaus Drews wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Klaus Drews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:09 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Modem dials without reason > > > > Hi there, > > > > I configured demand dialing with diald on my mac

network troubles

2000-01-04 Thread Marketsource Online
Greetings: I recently made a jump from caldera to debian and am in general very happy. I am, tho, getting hung up on a few points... a. Is there some sort of system configuration tool, like lisa/lizard, netconfig, etc available for Debian? I do enjoy editing .conf files and scripts but a front

python startup files

2000-01-04 Thread Douglas Bates
According to some python documentation I have read I should put commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into the file `~/.pythonrc.py'. I have done that but these commands do not seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system with ||/ Name

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-04 Thread John Foster
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.) > John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ... > John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install): > John> tryin

man -k doesn't work

2000-01-04 Thread Brian J. Stults
Hi, When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result: [anything]: nothing appropriate It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything". I have the environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile: MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man C

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently.

2000-01-04 Thread Joe Block
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently. > Date: Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:19:56PM -0500 > > In reply to:Todd Suess > > Quoting Todd Suess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >| Greetings all, > >| > >| Anyone else noticed that at times Communicator will just die s

Re: .emacs file please

2000-01-04 Thread Nitebirdz
Patrick, Check the URL I posted below. It contains an example of .emacs file, although this one is meant to be for the Windos version of the program. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~skx/win/NTEmacs2.html Nitebirdz -- It's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... L

How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Deloy Cole
Help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm getting this IO error when booting my debian linux machine.  And e2fsck won't fix it.   hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, sector=2310168 end_requ

howto send message open xterm

2000-01-04 Thread Brian J. Stults
Can someone tell me how to send a message to any open xterm? When I used to receive my email from a Novell server, a broadcast message would print to any open xterm when I received mail. Now I would like to add that function to my simple bash script local mail checker. Can someone suggest a simp

Re: Exim

2000-01-04 Thread Ronald Tin
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 03:14:02PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send > > any > > email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following > > error > > message. > > > > 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Jens Guenther wrote: > I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, > because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the > potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command > (it might have been "chown") did not support

Re: Problem with exim rewriting rule

2000-01-04 Thread Ronald Tin
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 03:45:36PM +0100, Klaus Drews wrote: > Hi Ronald, > > wich section you put this in ? the section after the comments "REWRITE CONFIGURATION", probably the same place as you put your rewrite rules? > > I am doing my rewrites this way: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: TeX, THANKS

2000-01-04 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:07:16PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > Go to an ftp archive and go into the proposed-updates for > slink. There was some sort of y2k problem with tex where > the make format or something to that effect failed. Anyway, the > updated package will work. In fact here is the

apt sources list

2000-01-04 Thread Stephen A. Witt
Now that Debian 2.1r4 has been released, I'm wondering what an appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list file should be. I have been using the following to pick up all the updates, etc. that have been made to the slink baseline: deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update

Re: problem with symlinks

2000-01-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: : On 4/1/2000 Sylwester Zelazko wrote: : : >While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files. : >Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way : >to recreate them except installing again ? :

UPS software compatibility

2000-01-04 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am considering buying a Tripp Lite OmniSmart 450PNP. They claim that their PowerAltert V10.1.9 software supports Linux, however I would be much more confortable if I knew for sure that it worked, and ideally was open source. It uses a DB9 cable to talk to the system, perhaps someone knows if th

Problems after upgrading to potato

2000-01-04 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I upgraded to potato and have the foll problems, 1. My mouse doesn't work after I boot and start X windows. I have to run gpm,gpm-mouse-test after I boot in to make my mouse work. Any ideas what I have to check in my init script so that my mouse driver is installed at boot time.

quake2 installation help

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I need help getting quake2 to install on potato. when I use the quake2/quake2-bin packages, I get errors (see below). Is there a doc that details how to get it installed with debian (preferably using the deb packages)? I really want to start playing quake2 again. Thanks, chris errors: When I

Re: pon problems with Potato

2000-01-04 Thread Douglas Baker
I also had this problem. The AT&F didn't work for me. After some digging, it looks like my 16550A was configured as a 16450. I re-ran setserial and forced it to a 16550A, and it was fine after that. -Doug On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I

Re: problem with symlinks

2000-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On 4/1/2000 Sylwester Zelazko wrote: While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files. Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way to recreate them except installing again ? this is why its better to use tar instead of cp but cp -

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building > process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I > would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when > the real packages eventua

exim error

2000-01-04 Thread alex
hi all: My exim have some errors,please help me In the /var/log/exim/mainlog I find this: 2000-01-04 17:38:01 1255we-00051d-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=procmail defer (-1): file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied and I can't find the "root" file in /va

Re: problem with symlinks

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
you may be able to copy them again, and tell it to overwrite existing files, that is if you have the old /usr still available, if not ..dont know what to reccomend nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sylwester Zelazko wrote: slz >Hi. slz > slz > While moving /usr partition to other location i copied link

Re: SMC EzCard 10/100

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
yeah, pain in the ass.. i had problems on 486s getting the network to communicate _at all_ i knew the nics were good and they were detected but i always got 100% packet loss for unknown reasons, and i had a p100 that failed after a few minutes using a pci NIC but runs for months with an ISA nic.

Re: split archives using tar

2000-01-04 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
This is not exactly what you were asking for, but you might try something like: tar -cvMf /dev/sdz directories_to_archive where /dev/sdz is replaced by the device for your Zip drive. The 'M' option should (according to the man page) cause tar to prompt you for the next disk when it runs out of

Re: Acer machines

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Oki DZ wrote: litban >Where can I get the list? all boards are supported unless its really obscure and based on an obsolete spec(which is nothing made in the past few years) litban >The Acers have the processors on daughterboards, so I think the same ones litban >would have

Re: libglide2x.so

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
sure, glad it worked! now if i could only get the cursor in Q3 to slowdown..moves too $##@ fast (waiting for loki to respond to my Q) nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper >I said: esper >> ..but I missed the link to the source. Time to dl that and see how it esper >> works. es

Re: Removing ttyS

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 Jan, Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote about "Removing ttyS" > If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and > after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the > command to use to remove it...??? > rm /dev/ttyS6 Brian Servis --

problem with symlinks

2000-01-04 Thread Sylwester Zelazko
Hi. While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files. Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way to recreate them except installing again ?

Re: split archives using tar

2000-01-04 Thread pseelig
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote: > I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux. Can I > run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100 > Meg tar files? If so, how do I do this? > Have you already tried "man tar"? To write a tar archive over mul

education warehouse, sound-video player

2000-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have been thinking lately that there is something missing in the free (software, etc.) community: Tools to educate any person that wishes to do so without having to dump 5K-40K USA $ a year. Any way, seems to me that the following will be needed, but if someone has a better idea it will be great:

Re: Removing ttyS

2000-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Shields WD9ESU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and >after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the >command to use to remove it...??? rm Mike. -- There's a lot to be

Re: Modem dials without reason

2000-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
Klaus Drews said: > I commented it out (as shown), but dialing goes on. In the manpages it says, > that I won't > have to restart cron after shanging jobs. So it should have worked. > > The logfile stats > Jan 4 14:56:43 coma diald[169]: Trigger: udp 192.168.0.1/138 > 192.168.0.255

Re: Removing ttyS

2000-01-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On 4/1/2000 Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote: If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the command to use to remove it...??? rm /dev/ttyS6 Ethan

RE: Modem dials without reason

2000-01-04 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
Well, Samba might, for one. Port 137 is used for netbios name lookups Port 138 is the netbios datagram service. This is for transferring information between hosts -Paul -- Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin > -Original Mess

split archives using tar

2000-01-04 Thread John Davis
Hello I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux. Can I run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100 Meg tar files? If so, how do I do this? John Davis

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Jens Guenther wrote: > > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 > > or gcc-2.95. > The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related. > Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package buil

Re: [O.T.] Architectures

2000-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:00:51AM +, Emile Schwarz wrote: > [O.T.] Architectures > Do someone can explain to me what could be O.T. ? Off-topic - not an appropriate topic for this list - because it's about hardware, not Debian. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid gru

Re: Problem with exim rewriting rule

2000-01-04 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi Ronald, wich section you put this in ? > I am doing my rewrites this way: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "${if eq {$sender_address}{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Tt Regarding to the docs, b and c stand for b rewrite the Bcc: header c rewrite the Cc: header S

RE: Modem dials without reason

2000-01-04 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi Paul, cron jobs are ok. The only one running from that you mentioned is exim. And it should only run every 53 minutes: # 53 * * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi I commented it out (as shown), but dialing goes on. In the manpages it says,

Removing ttyS

2000-01-04 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the command to use to remove it...??? Thanks for any help one may offer... Larry Shields WD9ESU AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr 44.92.0.60 InterNet BBS E

Re: can't connect to ISP!

2000-01-04 Thread John Hasler
Oki DZ writes: > There should be on the last line;... No there shouldn't. That would mean that he was demanding that the ISP authenicate to him. He should be *receiving* 'auth pap' from the ISP. However, it appears that pppd is not starting at the ISP. > ...have a look in your /etc/ppp/option

XF86Config for Tiedent ProVidia9685

2000-01-04 Thread Jonathan Chang
Hi all, I need the XF86Config for this video card (Tiedent ProVidia9685). If you have a working config file, please mail me a copy. Thanks in advance. -- Jonathan Chang Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

2000-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.) John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ... John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install): John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/conve

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! > > Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations. > > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 > or gcc-2.95. The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related. Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package build

Re: Thinkpad 365x

2000-01-04 Thread Debian user
Greg Starkes wrote: I have a 365xd (same deal, just has a cd-rom drive) and I found that it doesn't like kernels that are compressed with bzip. gzipped kernels work. I didn't have any problems with the tecra disk though. It's been a while since I ran linux on this laptop, but I believe it was a

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, > because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the > potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command > (it might have b

debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command (it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option

Re: Recommendations for a 220v (my local lines voltage) suitable UPS?

2000-01-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Shaul Karl wrote: >Can any one recommends a UPS that will be suitable for working with an >electricity supply of 220v/50Hz? Any device sold in a country should be usable with that country's power outlets. If you buy from abroad, where will you get support if it goes wrong? >I have also the

Re: Alsa on CS4236

2000-01-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jonathan Markevich hat gesagt: // Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I have the above card, and I know it works. For the life of me I can't get > it to accept the values. I had it working before, and my drive went > kablooie so I forgot how I set it up. > > Does anyone have this card with some tips?

Re: [O.T.] Architectures

2000-01-04 Thread Emile Schwarz
[O.T.] Architectures Do someone can explain to me what could be O.T. ? TIA (Thanks In Advance), Emile, France

Module query.

2000-01-04 Thread Hans
Running Slink with a 2.2.13 kernel. P200MMX box with an ISA SB64AWE. I compiled sound into the kernel and also used the ALSA drivers. When I lsmod the following appears... Module Size Used by snd-mixer-oss 3372 0 (unused) snd-pcm1-oss 12572 0 snd-card-sb

Happy New Millenium Year!

2000-01-04 Thread NWMedia
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May the New Millenium bring you Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity. Cordially, Tom Nelson Author & Director http://www.CoupleDanceWorld.com Please accept our sincere apologies if you have received this message more than once due to system failure.

Recommendations for a 220v (my local lines voltage) suitable UPS?

2000-01-04 Thread Shaul Karl
Can any one recommends a UPS that will be suitable for working with an electricity supply of 220v/50Hz? I have also the need for its power sockets leads to be shaped like an Y since this is the local standard. Is this a European standard?

Re: wmsound: Error on Play Event

2000-01-04 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, write(2, "Error on Play Event\n", 20Error on Play Event Not sure if your problem is very simple, but I've seen this message when 1) the sound set for the event does not exist and 2) when the /dev/dsp device is open by some other process maybe it was wmscope. I'm not sure what your situati

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

2000-01-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ about Ctrl-C having no effect ] > So... in conclusion: Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being > received. However, the shell isn't killing the running process > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Doesn't Ctrl-C work for any program at all? It does not work for a lot of inte

Re: installing apache from source

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Lavender
If apache that was installed was compiled with DSO support, then you should be able to add php support by going into dselect and and selecting it. DSO means Dynamic Shared Objects. Search your system for apxs which is the perl script that allows you to dynamically compile in modules. Then find yo

Re: libglide2x.so

2000-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
I said: > ..but I missed the link to the source. Time to dl that and see how it > works. Rolling my own libglide2x.so seems to have worked. Thanks for the pointer to the source. -- 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+

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