Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Scott Au writes: > Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 > second pause) etc. You almost certainly have an IRQ conflict. Run 'setserial -g /dev/ttyS*' and post the result. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Adam C Powell IV said: > Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five > seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients > when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for > fsck... From man mount, under the heading "Mount opt

NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have /var/spool/mail nfs mounted on my client machines, so users on the clients can use movemail to get their mail, and so mail sent to the client machines will go to the universal spool on the server. Unfortunately, when the server goes down, even root cannot log in to the clients,

Printing to serial port?

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have a StarMax (Pmac 4400 clone by Motorola) with a LaserJet 1100 connected using "PowerPrint", which is a mac serial to parallel interface which comes with MacOS driver software. How can I print to the serial port? I tell printtool to use device /dev/ttyS1, and when I print, it say

Re: kernel question

2000-01-07 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 06:57:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 5 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "kernel question" > > I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. > > Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a > > regular kernel source tarbal

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:56:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/7/2000 12:56:05 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're cer

Re: Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
Robert Varga wrote: > > If you have suidmanager installed, then you have this file. If you don't > have, no probs, no need to install it. > > But if you have it installed and you don't do these changes in suid.conf, > then suidmanager will upon every restart clear the suid bit of the suexec > bin

Re: RAID trouble with SMP kernels

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
aphro wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > hazels >Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built > the kernel with > hazels >the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3. > hazels > > hazels >If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. > > ouch!!!

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dave Erickson wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with > my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? When I got a Umax SCSI scanner two years ago, the SCSI card didn't work and there were no plans to add support for it. It's similar to an Ad

mail question

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
I can't seem to figure this one out. What can i do to get the mail system on one machine to send a mail to the mail server? ok, i know its worded weird so i'll explain whats going on i have 2 main servers at this isp, 1 does mail and secondary Domain name serving, the other does web, primary dom

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Alisdair" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alisdair> No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask Alisdair> him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could Alisdair> report it as a kernel bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have Alisdair> higher priority th

quake 2 3.20

2000-01-07 Thread Simon St-Pierre
hi my name is simon st-pierre and im not able to find a patch for quake2 v3.20 and my computer crash over the internet i dont know if you have a 3dfx patch for this please write back   Simon

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Along the same linesthis is the one mechanism of mac/sun/other(?) >floppies that I would like to see somehow on x86 machines. I would much >rather have a 'soft' eject button like on a cdrom or a software eject >like the

users belonging to 32 groups and proftpd

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
i had a strange problem last night i am in the process of setting up a website for a customer with a very complex directory structure and 2 of the accounts belong to 32 groups, but when i try to ftp in(to the latest proftpd pre9 i believe?) it gives write access denied to some of the directories, u

UMAX Scanner

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Erickson
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? I suppose I will get a new SCSi card if I have to but I would like very much to use the one I have as the Scanner is the only SCSi device in my system. Thanks. -- Dave Erickson "Expect

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:56:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/7/2000 12:56:05 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're cer

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread MallarJ2
In a message dated 1/7/2000 12:56:05 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not > going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the th

Re: Soft ejects (was Re: umount - URGENT)

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Gary Hennigan said: > My SGI is entirely "soft button". If it crashes sometimes I can't even > turn the power off on it, I end up having to unplug the stupid thing > to reset it! That's excessive, of course, but I'd like to see something along the lines of the option on most ATX BIOSes to have a m

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Wayne Topa said: > Try a paper clip, strightened out, and inserted into the little hole > in the front of the CDROM drive. Works on the 3 I have. I thought you weren't supposed to do that while the system is powered up. Something about possibly damaging the hardware. Is that no longer a problem?

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: > > >> This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses > >> only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) > > > >Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do

Re: su no longer working after dist-upgrade

2000-01-07 Thread Marc D Chapman
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > I reported the problem to the packages' maintainers (su and sudo) but > apparently the problem of su and sudo not resetting resource limits to those > of the target account is not that grave as I expected. su and sudo will > leave your rlimits be as you

Re: Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Varga
> > > put 4755 in /etc/suid.conf in the line of /usr/lib/apache/suexec instead > > of 0755, and change apache-common to user. > > I don't have an /etc/suid.conf. Is this a package that I should have > installed, but don't? (I broke my installation early on so I got a very > minimal set of packa

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:42:30 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: >> This sounds reasonable, as the effect also appears when cdparanoia uses >> only 20 % of the CPU. (K6-2 350 / 64 MB RAM) > >Hrmph. So the solution is Don't Do That Then. hrmph. so what for us who Already Did[1]? How to ease the pain?

Soft ejects (was Re: umount - URGENT)

2000-01-07 Thread Gary Hennigan
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about "Re: umount - URGENT" > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: > >> while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > >> media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You

To the developers of apt-get. Thanx!

2000-01-07 Thread John Gay
I've been fighting with my Linux box for quite some time. I recently installed apt from a corel CD I got from a magazine. I must say, I am very impressed! After fighting with limited success with dselect and dpkg, I really like apt. The first thing I did was to fix my slightly broken installation

Re: Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
Robert Varga wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > I can't figure out how to get suexec working under debian (latest potato > > as of last night). The suexec binary seems to be installed in > > /usr/lib/apache, but I don't get any message about it being found in my > > error.

Re: cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about "cron reports re: suidregister" > Hi all- > > I keep getting the following report: > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered > but not installed > > I took a look at the man page for s

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: umount - URGENT Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:58:50PM -0500 In reply to:Carl Fink Quoting Carl Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: >| > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing >| >

Poor Modem performance

2000-01-07 Thread AU,SCOTT CHUONG
After installing and running minicom, I've noticed that my modem, a BOCA ISA 28.8 modem is incredibly slow. Dialing my ISP shows text being received with periodic pauses. Example: Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 second pause) etc. I'm running on a old 386-

RE: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Wiard
> while it's a good habit to deman successful umounts before removing > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not > going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing > out. Sure the os will complain, but you'll have the disk in your > hand. thous this is

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about "Re: umount - URGENT" > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: >> while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing >> media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not >> going to damage it by just p

RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-07 Thread Paul McHale
> Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: > IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h > BIOS Revisao 2.02 Ender. Base DC000h > FIRMWARE Revisao E.0 Soma Verific 4B81h > HD ID 0 and PORT 80h > Here is something from a previous post that might help:

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread virtanen
Try to see, if there is someone in some other console using it anyway. If 'anybody' is cd'd on your cd's directories you cannot umount it I think. Use in every console 'cd' to take the user to 'the home'. CD insn't anybodys's home at your computer? Then using 'su' umount it by giving 'umount d

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think > > that > > the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not > > cpu-utilization, this could be fi

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:00:35PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/

Re: powstatd problem

2000-01-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mary Honeycutt wrote: > I purchased a CyberPower 500SL and since they recommend > powstatd on their web site, I installed it. The problem > is powstatd will not recognize that the UPS is connected > to ttyS1. powstatd -t reports low power and shuts the > computer down. `powstatd -t` (test

cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-07 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all- I keep getting the following report: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered but not installed I took a look at the man page for suidregister. Since I can't find movemail anywhere on my system (let alone in the expecte

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not > going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing > out. Sure the os will

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > I've just fallen into serious trouble: can not umount my CD-ROM - it > is reported as beeing used. I'm sure it is not, what may have > happened is that I was examining it's contents with `mc' which died > suddenly. > I desperatly

Re: Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > I can't figure out how to get suexec working under debian (latest potato > as of last night). The suexec binary seems to be installed in > /usr/lib/apache, but I don't get any message about it being found in my > error.log (the apache documentation say

newbie fetchmail problem THANKS

2000-01-07 Thread Johannes
thanks for your help! i only had to change the local_domains-line in my exim.conf. now everything works fine. johannes

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the > same place. > > $ dpkg -l | grep slrn > ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) > That's the one I have, which no longer works. Anthony -- Anthon

Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
I can't figure out how to get suexec working under debian (latest potato as of last night). The suexec binary seems to be installed in /usr/lib/apache, but I don't get any message about it being found in my error.log (the apache documentation says I should). When I try to enable it by setting a Use

Re: umount - SOLVED

2000-01-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Thanks to everybody, who wanted to be helpful. The answer I needed was this one: Dave Sherohman wrote: > lsof should give you the pid of any processess using it. Then just bring out > the kill -9... It WORKED! Thanks a lot! Blazej

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread pseelig
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. (...) > I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows > the answer - give it ASAP. > Try "man fuser" and learn how to find out which process is still blocking the device.

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Blazej Sawionek said: > I've just fallen into serious trouble: > can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. > I'm sure it is not, what may have happened is that I was examining it's > contents with `mc' which died suddenly. > > I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Robert Waldner wrote: > I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think > that > the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not > cpu-utilization, this could be fixed via the priority), behaving like a > interrupt-generator when ripping, of

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Todd Suess
Perhaps a reboot would free the device? I know it's drastic, but you did say RIGHT NOW. Regards, Todd At 05:52 PM 1/7/00 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: maybe mc is hasn't died completely? with ist working directory pointing to the the cdrom? or you have another wd to the cd anywhere else...

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread I can. Thank you.
if anyone has a shell open that is is within the directory structure of the cd then it will report as being in use when you try to unmount it. make sure every account logged on to the machine is in a different directory (ie home directory) and you should be able to get the cd out On Fri, 7 Jan 200

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Waldner
maybe mc is hasn't died completely? with ist working directory pointing to the the cdrom? or you have another wd to the cd anywhere else... On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 17:47:37 +0100, Blazej Sawionek writes: >I've just fallen into serious trouble: >can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used

umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I've just fallen into serious trouble: can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. I'm sure it is not, what may have happened is that I was examining it's contents with `mc' which died suddenly. I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows the answer - give

main page

2000-01-07 Thread Jozef Sovcik
Hello, Don't you think that adding link to http://www.libranet.com/petition.html from your main page could help also Debian ? Jozef.

LINUX installation - Debian Distribution

2000-01-07 Thread Ailton Santos
Friends, I need assistance for to install a LINUX 2.0.29 at my machine using a Debian distribution. Configuration: Machine - 486DX2, 66MHZ, RAM-16MB and HD-1GB(SEAGATE ST31230N. Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h BIOS Revi

ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2

2000-01-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've found another error, that has to do with my previous question, perhaps this will help someone to supply me with an answer. When the script is finished another error occurs: Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation. This 'll probably have

Re: Staroffice and gtop

2000-01-07 Thread Brian J. Stults
Yes, I've noticed the same. When I do a "ps aux", I get staroffice using 236MB of memory. It's certainly not true. What I actually get is 7 instances of staroffice using 33.7MB each. I've been assuming that this really indicates it's using 33.7MB total. That still means staroffice is a hog, bu

Re: Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
aphro said: > any of the v3 3dfx cards should do this but not in XF86 3.3.5. Note if > you use XF86 4.0 chances are none of the games will work(until they are > updated for XF86 4.0). You are correct. Glide3 versions are not currently available. > or you could get a Matrox G400 and use openGL a

Re: Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
well, again its not a hardware issue but a software one. to do 3D rendering in a window you have 2 options(as far as i know) 1) use XF86 v4.0 (which is alpha) 2) get the developers edition of OpenGL AcceleratedX (about $300 i think) any of the v3 3dfx cards should do this but not in XF86 3.3.5.

festival- volume too low

2000-01-07 Thread Pollywog
What is the best way to increase festival's output volume? This is what I have in /usr/lib/festival/siteinit.scm: (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'linux16audio) (define (SayText text) "(SayText TEXT) TEXT, a string, is rendered as speech." (utt.play (utt.wave.rescale (utt.synth (eval (list 'Utteranc

Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
aphro said: > well wasnt the black magic card a special card? dual processors on the > board or something? It's definitely not dual processor. It was one of the first V2 cards out, though, and I think it _may_ have been the first one with 12 MB RAM on it, but I'm not sure about that. (You could

Re: newbie fetchmail problem

2000-01-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: newbie fetchmail problem Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 08:51:18AM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| *- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about "newbie fetchmail problem" [snip] >| > poll pop.styria.com proto pop3 >| > user johannes-t

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the same place. $ dpkg -l | grep slrn ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:18, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 200

powstatd problem

2000-01-07 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Hi, I purchased a CyberPower 500SL and since they recommend powstatd on their web site, I installed it. The problem is powstatd will not recognize that the UPS is connected to ttyS1. powstatd -t reports low power and shuts the computer down. If I change back to the default ttyS0 the test repo

Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

2000-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On 7/1/2000 Paul Miller wrote: As I said in my original post, I have put all the appropriate libraries on the root image. They are in the /lib directory. I have checked this at least one million times (slight exageration). So any more thoughts are welcome, thanx. you need to run ldconfig root

Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

2000-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 07:36:27AM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > As I said in my original post, I have put all the appropriate libraries > on the root image. They are in the /lib directory. I have checked this > at least one million times (slight exageration). > > So any more thoughts are welcome, t

Re: gethostbyname() cannot find host

2000-01-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: gethostbyname() cannot find host Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:55:51PM + In reply to:Phillip Deackes Quoting Phillip Deackes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| I keep getting emails in my inbox, (addressed to root but arriving in my >| inbox because I have set this up in my alia

Re: Newbie needs help :-)

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Armin Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But - ofcourse - problems appearing at once: > At the mo, my main-prob is, that kde says upon start, that > it cannot connct to xserver. hu ? under dselect there are Can you tell us the entire error message ? > Where can i find (despite the debian.org)

Re: newbie fetchmail problem

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Johannes Tax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). > reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't > like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster! > fetchmail: SMTP transaction

Re: newbie fetchmail problem

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jan, Johannes Tax wrote about "newbie fetchmail problem" > hi, > > i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i > have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this > message: > > 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets).

scsi-device: how deatache?

2000-01-07 Thread Gerhard Kroder
hi, it's somewhat known already how to attache a scsi-device to a running system (echo "add..."> /proc..), and it works well. but what if you deattache a device. i want to move my external dat-streamer to some other machien. is there any harm with just plugging it of an runnung system? i expect s

Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

2000-01-07 Thread Paul Miller
As I said in my original post, I have put all the appropriate libraries on the root image. They are in the /lib directory. I have checked this at least one million times (slight exageration). So any more thoughts are welcome, thanx. aphro wrote: > > i believe that it is *bash* complaining that i

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot? Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:28:45AM -0800 In reply to:Mihaly Gyulai Quoting Mihaly Gyulai([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: >| >| >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is re

newbie fetchmail problem

2000-01-07 Thread Johannes Tax
hi, i'm very new to linux. recently i got my ppp-connection working, now i have a problem with fetchmail. whenever i start fetchmail i got this message: 62 messages for johannes-tax at pop.styria.com (156274 octets). reading message 1 of 62 (1857 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like rec

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: > Q. How can I set 'e2fsck' to run, whenever I want ? umount the partition, and fsck it. If it's your root partition, or /var (which has this nagging tendency to not be unmountable due to being busy) then the safest way I know requires a reboot, and requir

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' > because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. > How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Ton run e2fsck on a partition at boot the last field in /etc/f

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: > >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' > >Usualy e2fsck should automaticaly be run on demand at boottime. Do you use > I use this config for more than 3 months, and there w

Newbie needs help :-)

2000-01-07 Thread Armin Steiner
Dear friends, i am brandnew to Unix, and followed an advise, that debian is the best unix-distribution to get. so i did. Erased this windows things from my old computer and put debian on it :-) But - ofcourse - problems appearing at once: At the mo, my main-prob is, that kde says upon start, that

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:40:56Nico De Ranter wrote: >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' >> because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. >> How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? >Normaly the filesystem will automaticaly be che

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' >> because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. >Usualy e2fsck should automaticaly be run on demand at boottime. Do you use >the -f option (skip fsck on reboot) w

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > > > can get it temporarily at ... > > > > Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i38

ISDN SyncPPP problem

2000-01-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'm trying to configure ISDN on a Debain 2.1 machine 2.2.13 kernel (isdnutils 3.0beta2). I got HiSax in the kernel as well as support for my Teles card. I create some scripts to start it (I've edited the scripts a bit after updating from Debian 2.0 and a 2.0.34 kernel, where it all worked fine). S

Savage4 in linux?

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
False advertising? maybe.. I have been getting (so far, 3) co workers to have a linux box at home, and the newest one(also a newbie to computers) has an athlon 550 with a savage4 16MB. i knew XF86 did not support it, but SuSe 6.3 advertised savage4 support, and i knew SuSe had a past with program

Re: being hacked via ssh with X11 forwarding?

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
ssh automatically tries to connect to a remote X server when a conneciton is established, to disable this behavior(for good) recompile ssh with the configure flag --without-x to make sure nobody can connect to your X server or use your ssh client to connect to a remote X server. dont think anyone

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:50:20 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: >Could someone test this on their machine for me and see if it occurs? I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think that the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not cpu-utili

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
well wasnt the black magic card a special card? dual processors on the board or something? i am not suprised if such a card is not supporte dunder linux. i recently skimmed over a review of the new dual processor ATI board that supports win98 *only* (not even NT) i dont like vd3 because it seems

server gone

2000-01-07 Thread Ramesh Ragineni
Hello Can you help me what i should do to avaoid this server gone away while iam mirroring... Thanks Ramesh

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
John wrote: >I have only just seen your message. The error is in the email program >made available to me by my ISP when I signed on some 20 months ago. >I had noted the problem with incoming mail, but did not think it would >affect outgoing mail onto other machines. If I've caused any dif

Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects

2000-01-07 Thread Paul Miller
John wrote: > > on 05 Jan 100, Howard Mann wrote... > > > > > > >> 2. For some time now when booting, I get the message > >> 'SIOCADDRT - invalid argument'. It appears to cause > >> no problem - nevertheless, I'd like to understand exactly > >> what is referred to and make any correct

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Matthew Dalton
... this is Debian, everything should 'just work'! I haven't used leafnode on Debian. I installed it on a RedHat machine, but from a tarball (ie not with an rpm). I had to change the permissions/owner of a few files and directories before it worked properly (some things have to be writeable by the

X-Configuration for NEC XE21

2000-01-07 Thread Hagen Finley
Thanks to Shawn, Marcin and Howard who replied to my question regarding X configuration scripts & documentation. With their help X is up and looking sharp. However, I am having a little trouble matching my desktop to my screen size. At work, where I am conducting these lofty experiments, I am using

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:18:51PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > Yes, I have. The strath.* newsgroups have files in > > /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and are listed in > > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk too. > > Have you tried running 'texp

Re: Xwindow hassles, helphelp

2000-01-07 Thread Michael Dahlberg
Steve Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having a terrible problem with Xwindows in Debian. > Last night, I configured it for a voodoo3 card. Now, > it boots straight to a graphic log-in screen and from > that to a blank green win95color screen. > THere are no icons. No combination of mouse k

Re: leafnode problem

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
[reformatted] On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:17:19PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > I'm trying to use leafnode to access my university's nntphost, which > > requires authentication. It appears to connect okay, but it doesn't > > ever fetch any articles: > > Have you

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Alec Smith said: > Well, the only company I know of selling a Voodoo3 is 3Dfx/STB. So if you > don't like 3Dfx, you might have to go take a look at one of the other > graphic chips like the GeForce 256. Oh, I like 3dfx. It's STB I'm a bit sour on. But if they've (semi?) merged, then that prett

is base2_2.tgz in unstable/disk-i386/current corupted?

2000-01-07 Thread Stan Brown
I can't get this file to ungzip and tar corectly. I get bad tar header. Am I doing something wrong, or is the file corupt? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a

being hacked via ssh with X11 forwarding?

2000-01-07 Thread debuser
>From my Linux box at work, I was using ssh to connect to my personal ISP. I had X11 forwarding turned on. When I went to log out I got this message: Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate... The following connections are open: X11 connection from shell.schwa.net port 1087 Is someone

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-07 Thread Alec Smith
Well, the only company I know of selling a Voodoo3 is 3Dfx/STB. So if you don't like 3Dfx, you might have to go take a look at one of the other graphic chips like the GeForce 256. At 10:22 PM 1/6/00 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: aphro said: > i'd reccomand one from STB/3Dfx, since they now ar

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
aphro said: > i'd reccomand one from STB/3Dfx, since they now are working directly to > support linux their stuff is sure to work(but even the other brands should > have no trouble) I'm a little wary of that combination... My existing V2 Black Magic is an STB card and it seems to have been orphan

Re: Staroffice and gtop

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
you sure you did not read that incorrectly? lcdproc and gtop and virtualy every other program gets its processing info from the same place, biggest program ive seen is E, on a freshly installed SuSe 6.3 machine it sometimes took over 220MB of memory. nate On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote

Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
i believe that it is *bash* complaining that it cannot find libnucrses.so.4 a quick check what bash needs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin] ldd bash libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x40014000) libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4003f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.s

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
i'd reccomand one from STB/3Dfx, since they now are working directly to support linux their stuff is sure to work(but even the other brands should have no trouble) i have a vd3 ..dont know what brand or model since its not mine(on loan) but it works fine..quake3 and unreal tournament both fly nat

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