Re: Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
I kind of understand this (is it C?), but I still don't know how to use the answer I get from the user when they select an option from the menu. Please help, Thanks everyone, Cameron matheson John Hasler wrote: > > This GPL: > > # include the user interface functions > > # Global options >

Re: Printers in Linux

2000-03-02 Thread S.P. van Noort
> Get a newer version of magicfilter -- mine (Version: 1.2-37) supports > the 720C, which is what I use. I've got magicfilter 1.2-37, but I didn't find a dj720c. There is however a driver pbm2ppa-720 which is installed by pbm2ppa, maybe you ment that? On the homepage of HP however I found this

Powerchute diffs for deb ?

2000-03-02 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Has anyone tried to debianize PowerChute Plus ? I intend to create a patch that would put config, log, pid and init files into appropriate places when converting from rpm to deb with alien. But maybe someone already has done that ? Sergey.

Re: Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
John Hasler wrote: > > This GPL: > > # include the user interface functions > > # Global options > # The variable $BACKTITLE specifies the back title. > # The variable $DIALOG_OPTIONS, initialized here to --clear, provides > # options you want on the command line of each dialog invocation. > # T

Re: Printers in Linux

2000-03-02 Thread Paul Huygen
"S.P. van Noort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to buy a (not to expensive color) printer which will be used on a > Linux-only-box, and I wonder of any of you has some good ideas about > it. [..] > The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o. > HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880 [..] > I ca

Which is preferred? kbd or console-tools?

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
Given the level of confusion over keyboard mapings mentioned in recent posts, and the fact that I have to manually re-run /etc/init.d/key* to get *my* preferred keymap up (swapped ctrl/caps-lock), and my generally not knowing why there are both kbd and console-tools packages -- what are they, what

Re: minimized icons?

2000-03-02 Thread Marshal Wong
Are you using enlightenment? Marshal > "ethan" == ethan mindlace fremen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debians, When I was using slink, the minimised icons for > netscape were what I expected- the blue triangle with a wheel, > or mail icon. This was neat because the mail icon woul

Re: Kernel 2.2.14 and Xserver

2000-03-02 Thread aphro
when you go back to the older kernel does it fix it? i can't think of any way the kernel would affect the path of the system.. nate On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Tim Ryder wrote: jawse >I updated my kernel to 2.2.14 and it blew out my path jawse >statements. Also when i run X i get the standard jawse >xi

Re: Off topic: Free POP3 email

2000-03-02 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Mar-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote: >> >> Thank you, >> Joe Bouchard >> >> Powered by Debian GNU/Linux >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null > > Check www.gmx.net out for this. No spam, pop3 available and web interface. A > pro > account also support SSL fo

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-02 Thread fairfax
"...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume. I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this. Last night I recompiled the kernel (a potato system, I had been using the default 2.2.14 ker

new release

2000-03-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Approximately when should we expect the new release? And what kernel is it expected to have? Thanks, Antonio.

Re: samba

2000-03-02 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I did a grep usera /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the usera is in this file. However, this smbpasswd file has the 0700 permission, is this the problem? The usera also try to change the samba password using smbpasswd and here is the error message: read_socket_with_timeout

problem with cvsweb

2000-03-02 Thread John Davis
Hello I need help configuring cvsweb. I installed cvs and cvsweb to my webserver. I created a small repository and I can add and remove files. However, when I use cvsweb to read the repository, it can not output the change logs for the individual files. i.e, http://www.skink.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb i

Re: Update this morning killed local login. (I think I foundit)

2000-03-02 Thread John Foster
Todd Suess wrote: > Just for the heck of it, I decided to see what was happening at the > end of the kernel boot > sequence when it went to check for a valid Xwindows config. I checked > the following and > this is what I found. > > blackhole:/etc/alternatives# update-alternatives --display > x-w

tin, leafnode -- news hangs on post

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
I'm using leafnode and tin for locally-stored news reading. I can read groups and articles but I post. On submitting an item, on the first instance I get a message that there was an error posting the message. If I then resubmit, tin lists on the status line "Posting article...", and hangs. I h

Re: adding parallell ports

2000-03-02 Thread Riku Saikkonen
"Bruno Van de Casteele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >probably a general question, but I have an ISA card with a parallell >port on it. Do I just add it to my configuration and will Debian 2.2 >recognize it (there are jumpers on it, I will set the correctly)? Or is >something more needed? If you us

minimized icons?

2000-03-02 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
Debians, When I was using slink, the minimised icons for netscape were what I expected- the blue triangle with a wheel, or mail icon. This was neat because the mail icon would change when I had new mail. Now, with potato, they're all little black spiders. Is there any way to change it back to i

Re: Off topic: Free POP3 email

2000-03-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
Joe Bouchard wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of > folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you. > > I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is > doing pretty well. Until now she hasn't had her own email, but I > guess it

[Fwd: Warning: could not send message for past 1 day]

2000-03-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
> Joe Bouchard wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask this question to a group of > > folks I know I could trust, so I wrote to you. > > > > I set my 12 year old daughter up with her own Linux box, and she is > > doing pretty well. Until now she hasn't had her own email,

Re: What happened to e-conf?

2000-03-02 Thread Sven Gaerner
Cyrus Patel wrote: Hi all, I just installed E on a new computer and found out that e-conf is not in the unstable dist anymore. I used to change my key bindings using this tool. Is there now an alternative way to change my key bindings? I checked all the E settings menus and I couldn't find a way.

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:25:22PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Nathan Tenney
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I once had my usual "qwerty" keymap replaced with "azerty" following an > update. That took a while to diagnose > > I had the same problem once, frustrated the heck outta me. - "Clot

Kernel 2.2.14 and Xserver

2000-03-02 Thread Tim Ryder
I updated my kernel to 2.2.14 and it blew out my path statements. Also when i run X i get the standard xinit screen with no window manager. If i run the window manager from the xinit screen then it works. All of the files appear to be in order in the /etc/X11 folder. Any suggestions Tim Ryder

Debian on a G3

2000-03-02 Thread Brad Nation
I am trying to get Linux installed on a grey G3, specifically on one of 2 SCSI drives. The drives are connected via a 68 pin SCSI ATTO card from Apple. I have tried YellowDog and LinuxPPC and both have failed. Where can I or what do I need to do to download a copy of "Potato" and see if it w

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-02 10:59:25, Doug wrote: > I was under the impression that the append line was used when the > networking is built into the kernel (not in modules). You pass config info to modules via setings in /etc/modules.conf. Perhaps, you need to "force settings" (opposed to relaying on pnp confi

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > >

Re: Printers in Linux

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-02 16:37:03, S.P. van Noort wrote: > I've looked around, among others at > www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, but as far as I can see the > only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the > HP 610C . But for 30 US$ more, I have a HP 710 C which shou

Re: Printers in Linux

2000-03-02 Thread Bruce Mobarry
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:37:03 +0100 (CET) S.P. van Noort wrote: >I want to buy a (not to expensive color) printer which will be used on a >Linux-only-box, and I wonder of any of you has some good ideas about it. >I've looked around, among others at >www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, bu

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > > > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > > > symlinks, etc). > > There used to be a very help

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Doug
Thanks for the reply jeff. I was under the impression that the append line was used when the networking is built into the kernel (not in modules). Should I add this into lilo.conf even if I am using modules? I guess an additional question would be if I should compile the networking into the ke

Re: problem mounting NT share

2000-03-02 Thread Brian J. Stults
I've attached the debugging information... Not sure what to include, so I'm including everything. "s2.txt" is debugging for the share that I can mount, and "s3.txt" is the debugging info for the share I cannot mount. The response I get is: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access de

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Grendel wrote: > ** On Mar 02, Todd Suess scribbled: > > > > Greets ppl, > > > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > > log in to the console. I had just rebooted after the update, and was > > watching > > the ker

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) > > Ye

Re: xi accelerated x

2000-03-02 Thread aphro
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Tim Ryder wrote: jawse >Has anyone ever used Xi accelerated x with debian for jawse >laptops? jawse >If so, is it really worth using a commercial x server jawse >or can I tweak xfree86 and get equal if not comprable jawse >performance. i installed accelx5 on a slink laptop for

.pfb .pfm font files

2000-03-02 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have an archive of ps fonts from back in 1996. They have pfb and pfm extensions (for each font name there is a pair of files like foo.pfm and foo.pfb). Are these fonts usable with X? I'd imagine they were, because I have a directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont with a bunch of .pfb fonts. If yes

Re: problem mounting NT share

2000-03-02 Thread aphro
turn up debugging in samba and include it in your post it makes it VERY difficult to debug with just "it wont work" in the email. nate On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 >My university just switched from Novell servers to NT. There are two bs7452 >servers containing discs to whic

Re: problem mounting NT share

2000-03-02 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Here is how I do it: smbmount-2.1.x //machine/drive -U username -W networkname -c 'mount /mntpoint -u 1000 -g 1000' My university is onu.edu so for network name I use onu. This works. There may be other ways of getting it to work too. The W is for the workgroup. You will have to know what the w

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Jeff Layton
The instructions I sent were for drivers compiled into the kernel. If you are using modules, you'll have to do something like in the Ethernet howto, in particular, you'll prob. have to pass the IO port and IRQ... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Doug wrote:

Re: Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Jeff Layton
Read over the Linux Network Administrators Guide, you need to pass some parameters to the kernel to let it know that it needs to look for 2 cards. The NAG is kinda old, but that piece of it still applies: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag/nag.html For instance, I have a firewall w 2 3c503 cards in

Re: Update this morning killed local login

2000-03-02 Thread Tres Hofmeister
I have what sounds like a the same problem as the original author. It looks like xfree86-common, kde, and kdebase (among others) were updated when I ran apt-get this morning on my potato box. kdm now fails to start, because /etc/init.d/kdm can't find /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config. Was this

upgrade of libc6 fails

2000-03-02 Thread Werner Reisberger
Trying to upgrade libc6 2.1.1 to 2.1.3 I get the error message thar dirname is called with too many parameters and pushd isn\'t found. Any ideas? Werner

Network problems after compile of 2.2.14 kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Doug
Hello, I hope this is the right area to ask this question. I have a system I plan to use as a firewall eventually. Currently I am trying to get the networking (using two 3C509 network cards) to work. Originally my system was using the 2.0.36 kernel and everything seem to work fine. eth0 con

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Grendel
** On Mar 02, Todd Suess scribbled: > > Greets ppl, > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > log in to the console. I had just rebooted after the update, and was watching > the kernel boot messages, when I saw something strange pop up. It was similar > to

Re: xi accelerated x

2000-03-02 Thread Heikki Henriksen
Tim Ryder wrote: > Has anyone ever used Xi accelerated x with debian for laptops? If so, > is it really worth using a commercial x server or can I tweak xfree86 > and get equal if not comprable performance. I've tested LX5.03 - Xig's Accelerated X for laptops on my old Toshiba w/ Chips&Technologie

adding parallell ports

2000-03-02 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
Hi, probably a general question, but I have an ISA card with a parallell port on it. Do I just add it to my configuration and will Debian 2.2 recognize it (there are jumpers on it, I will set the correctly)? Or is something more needed? -- Bruno Van de Casteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] N.P. Puam [

problem mounting NT share

2000-03-02 Thread Brian J. Stults
My university just switched from Novell servers to NT. There are two servers containing discs to which I have access. One of them gave me no trouble at all. I used this command to mount the shared drive: smbmount //server1/shared /mountpoint. However, I could not get the drive on the other s

Library version

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I'm working on a project that is encountering some problems with libstdc++ versioning. Some vendor-supplied libraries are linked against a certain version of libstdc++ (libstdc++.so.2.8). Well, my system has these libs: libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0 libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0 libstdc++-3-l

XDCMP Problem w/GDM

2000-03-02 Thread Chad Walstrom
I'm having a rather serious error today. I provide X desktops to thin clients on my network. They use gdm to log in and have been successful in doing so until very recently. Two days ago, I added a new harddrive to the system and moved files over to it using the 'find -mount -print | cpio -p -v

Xdmcp with gdm problems

2000-03-02 Thread Chewie
I'm having a rather serious error today. I provide X desktops to thin clients on my network. They use gdm to log in and have been successful in doing so until very recently. Two days ago, I added a new harddrive to the system and moved files over to it using the 'find -mount -print | cpio -p -v

xi accelerated x

2000-03-02 Thread Tim Ryder
Has anyone ever used Xi accelerated x with debian for laptops? If so, is it really worth using a commercial x server or can I tweak xfree86 and get equal if not comprable performance. Tim Ryder Developer FreeRide.com = Tim Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Printers in Linux

2000-03-02 Thread S.P. van Noort
I want to buy a (not to expensive color) printer which will be used on a Linux-only-box, and I wonder of any of you has some good ideas about it. I've looked around, among others at www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi, but as far as I can see the only printer that is sold in The Netherla

Re: Update this morning killed local login. (I think I found it)

2000-03-02 Thread Todd Suess
At 09:53 AM 3/2/00 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:46:37AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > > Greets ppl, > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > log in to the console.  I had just rebooted after the update, and was watching > the kernel bo

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Todd Suess
At 09:53 AM 3/2/00 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:46:37AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > > Greets ppl, > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > log in to the console.  I had just rebooted after the update, and was watching > the kernel boot messa

Re: Dual Ethernet Cards

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-02 07:35:01, Jason Laster wrote: > Any suggestions would be helpful. I haven't as of yet taken the old > card out to eliminate a conflict. The only thing that I had to do was create an alias per card: $ grep eth /etc/modutils/aliases alias eth0 3c59x alias eth1 3c59x Then `update-m

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 23:42:37, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) Yes, that would be more like it. > There's a utility to recreate the lost+foun

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > > > But, the problem was not this. I have talked with the manager and it > > > explains me the problem wrong. After talking with the technical staff, I

network accounting

2000-03-02 Thread Michael Meskes
I'm looking for a tool similar to net-acct that enables me to log all traffic that floats by. Hoever, I do not want this to be logged to the machine in question but to a different machien (my one) via network. Michael P.S.: Please CC me since I'm not subscribed here. -- Michael Meskes

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Paul Check
I also had some bizarre behaviour last night after an update on a potato machine. Unlike your situation, everything boots fine and I can log in on X, but I only get a console. After poking around for a little while I figure that the problem is probably a switch to use the x-window-manager utili

Re: Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:46:37AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > > Greets ppl, > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer > log in to the console. I had just rebooted after the update, and was watching > the kernel boot messages, when I saw something strange pop

Re: slocate_2.1-4 problem

2000-03-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Mar-2000 Colin Watson wrote: > > ... by any chance? (Otherwise, quote the error messages or no-one can > help you. "messed up" is no good ...) > > I posted a patch for this to bug #56981 and debian-devel the night > before last. I had to purge the problem version and install the prior one

Re: latest Debian kernel

2000-03-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote: >Hi! >I have been searching, but to no avail, to find the latest Debian kernel for >my Amiga 2000. Would you know of where I might be able to download this? >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am sorry but I have never used Linux on a M68K platform. I have taken the liberty of C

Re: fvwm95 and icons

2000-03-02 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:56:02 +0100, de profundis Jose Alberto Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritas scribat lobo> Hi!, lobo> lobo> I run Debian slink and use fvwm95 window manager --I know it's a little lobo> primitive, but very robust and easy to handle. I have however a silly problem

Update this morning killed local login.

2000-03-02 Thread Todd Suess
Greets ppl, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, and after that I can no longer log in to the console.  I had just rebooted after the update, and was watching the kernel boot messages, when I saw something strange pop up.  It was similar to the following (going from memory) Checking for va

Re: Dual Ethernet Cards

2000-03-02 Thread Ralf Sinoradzki
Hi ! I don't know, if this will help you ... I had some problem with two ethernet cards. (100Mbit PCI and NE2000 ISA, but no tulip ...). Then I compiled the PCI card into the kernel and the ne2000 as module and everything was O.K. ciao, Ralf.

Re: xfs-xtt configuration

2000-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:59:09AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there is mkttfdir in fttools package. > Thanks! > > My new question... After I successfully generated the fonts.dir file, > and added >FontPath"unix/:7101" as others have sa

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I havent access to a newsgroup server. :( Quoting Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > > Thanks, > > I discovered this after a Google's search. > > But, the problem was not this. I have talked with the manager

Dual Ethernet Cards

2000-03-02 Thread Jason Laster
I seem to be having trouble getting my second ethernet card to work. (Linksys that should use the tulip driver in a PCI slot). I have tried several different configurations of both cards (the other is a generic ISA NE2000) With the tulip driver listed in the conf.modules as eth0 I "modprobe eth0".

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:37:01PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:22:06PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase > > > letters in bash or some other wa

[OFFTOPIC] job offerings in Germany

2000-03-02 Thread Michael Meskes
I don't want to spam this list, so I give details only on private mail. Just a short summary. We are looking for consultants in the Linux/Debian area. The company resides in the western parts of Germany so the offer also hold for Linuxers in the Netherlands or Belgium and of course to everyone els

Problem with potato installation, Where can I find the description of kernel's boot parameters?

2000-03-02 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to block the autodetection (at the boot time) of device located at 0x280 , but without blocking possibility of loading the module with this iobase. The problem is that the WD8003 netcard is located there, which locks the system during the startup of potatos installation kernel (pro

Re: Mutt, mailing lists, and senders

2000-03-02 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth J.H.M. Dassen Ray", > You need to change the setting of the 'index_format' variable. It defaults > to "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s" >^ >+- list-from > whereas you seem to want >"%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4l) %s" >

ISDN cards, I-modems

2000-03-02 Thread John Gould
Hello everyone, I wonder if I could ask your advise? I have to install a machine in our Hongkong warehouse to connect into the UK via dial up over ISDN. I intend to use Slink on a 486/PI type machine at the Hongkong end, the UK end already has dial up via ISDN into a Windoze RAS serv

How to create a mirror of "source" "binary-i386" & "binary-all"?

2000-03-02 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I just bought a new 18,8GB disk, and would like to put a snapshot of potato distribution on one of its partitions. I'm interested in copying "source", "binary-all" and "binary-i386" directories. Is there any tool available to make such job easy? (I know, that I can use the "wget" with soph

Re: transfering to new HDD

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > > symlinks, etc). > > partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, forma

Re: xfs-xtt

2000-03-02 Thread kmself
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:22:06PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase > > letters in bash or some other way? i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF > > this.tff 215 times > > You can u

Re: slocate_2.1-4 problem

2000-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Did anyone else have a problem installing the latest slocate package? >I think it is messed up and won't install correctly. # Preparing to replace slocate 2.1-3 (using .../slocate_2.1-4_i386.deb) # ... # === # ===Erro

Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems

2000-03-02 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I just bought a Compaq Armada 1500c and have installed both the Debian 2.1 and 2.2 base systems on it. However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0 an

potato install woes

2000-03-02 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I tried to install potato on a Compaq Armada M700 notebook and experienced some problems (I think I solved them, this is just for documentation purposes): - When installing base2_2.tgz there is a broken pipe: zcat base2_2.tgz | tar x which hangs almost instantly, according to tar, the

Re: The perfect X text editor

2000-03-02 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:13:33 +1030 Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs >> every time aren't you? > No. What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it > in? Gnuclient is a small tools that tells a running ins

Re: ps2-mouse problem: solved

2000-03-02 Thread Johann Spies
After I sent my previous message I read the Busmouse-Howto. I did not realize before that the ps/2 mouse would be treated as a busmouse. After recompiling my kernel, the mouse is working now. Johann -- Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa Tel/Faks 033-346-1

Re: Optic fiber to ethernet.

2000-03-02 Thread Fitsch
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a networking neophit. Excuse me. > > What device do i need to link a optic fiber to an ethernet ?? > > Thanks. > > -- > __ > > Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. > > Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-m

Re: can't display remote X jobs after potato

2000-03-02 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:41:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sure it's just yet another one line config change to get my box working > the way it was before the "upgrade," but this time I haven't been able > to find it. > > Whether by passing xauthority, ssh, or plain old "xhost +", I

Re: 3COM Drivers-

2000-03-02 Thread Didi Damian
It's supported by the Linux PCMCIA package. Check the list of supported cards: http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS The Linux PCMCIA page is at: http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ Tom Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know where i can find a driver for the 3COM 575BT card? I

Re: Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread John Hasler
This GPL: # include the user interface functions # Global options # The variable $BACKTITLE specifies the back title. # The variable $DIALOG_OPTIONS, initialized here to --clear, provides # options you want on the command line of each dialog invocation. # The variable $DIALOG_TEST can be se

Re: module problem

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 19:40:42, Dale Morris wrote: > I've been trying to install debian 2.1. When I configure network modules > and try to add the module 3c59x I get a fail message, ...init module, > device or resource busy.. What do you mean by "configure network modules"? Perhaps, your module was alre

Re: The perfect X text editor

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-02 14:13:33, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs > > every time aren't you? > > No. What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it in? $ man gnuclient|head -9 |tail -2 gnuserv, gnuclient, gnudoit - Server a

Re: XDMCP broken after X upgrade

2000-03-02 Thread David Karlin
Hi, On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:46:42PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Edit things in /etc/X11/xdm - I think it was pretty obvois IIRC. Oddly, it > was decided that xdm is some kind of security risk - I personally don't > see why.. > > Jason The config file in question is /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. B

Re: dhcp docs

2000-03-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-01 21:02:21, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm looking for information on setting up a dhcp server. Does > anyone know if a howto or something like that exists? I went to > linuxdoc.org and did not see one, but it might be named something > else. dhcp was pretty easy to setup with the man pa

RE: Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 01-Mar-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to write a script that asks you which ROM you want to start > up with snes9x (along with sound and joystick options). Right now I > have the following: > > dialog --backtitle "Super Nintendo" --title "Snes9x Options" --shadow > --menu

Re: Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread Matheson
sorry, I don't know how to read from the file. Thanks, Cameron Matheson Carl Mummert wrote: > A simple solution (though not very robust): > > Append the string '2> /tmp/choice' to the dialog line, then look > in /tmp/choice to see the data. stderr is file descriptor 2, > and the 2> file synta

Re: how to change window-managers?

2000-03-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:41:00PM +, john smith wrote: > hi, > > before I used gnome I was using icewm and in the system menu I could > choose whatever window-manager I like from fvwm,icewm,sawmill, etc now when > I installed gnome, I had to edit my Xsession file to include one window >

Re: The perfect X text editor

2000-03-02 Thread Mark Phillips
> You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs > every time aren't you? No. What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it in? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\___

slocate_2.1-4 problem

2000-03-02 Thread Pollywog
Did anyone else have a problem installing the latest slocate package? I think it is messed up and won't install correctly. -- Andrew

module problem

2000-03-02 Thread Dale Morris
I've been trying to install debian 2.1. When I configure network modules and try to add the module 3c59x I get a fail message, ...init module, device or resource busy.. I'm using a cable modem to connect to my local Cox ISP. I have been able to install this module in both Mandrake and Redhat on

Using 'dialog'

2000-03-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to write a script that asks you which ROM you want to start up with snes9x (along with sound and joystick options). Right now I have the following: dialog --backtitle "Super Nintendo" --title "Snes9x Options" --shadow --menu "Wh ich ROM do I load?" 0 0 0 1 "Final Fantasy V" 2 "Ch

Re: netscape -remote doesn't work...

2000-03-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:13:14PM +0100, Pontus Lidman wrote: > Hello, > > I've wondered why my gnome mini-commander can't open URL's, and I have > tracked the problem to this point: > > willynilly:~% netscape -remote openURL http://www.av.com > netscape-remote: not running on display :0.0 > >

Re: XDMCP broken after X upgrade

2000-03-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Karlin wrote: > I'm guessing that some new configuration file might have been inserted > during the X upgrade. Am I on the right track? Has anyone experienced > this, or know how to fix it? Edit things in /etc/X11/xdm - I think it was pretty obvois IIRC. Oddly, it was

XDMCP broken after X upgrade

2000-03-02 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I updated X on my slink box from www.debian.org/~vincent and everything seems to have gone smoothly, but now when attempting an XDM login from another machine, I get the message: "XDMCP: Manager unwilling. Host unwilling." I'm guessing that some new configuration file might have been insert

Re: dhcp docs

2000-03-02 Thread Sean Johnson
Chris Hoover wrote: > > I'm looking for information on setting up a dhcp server. Does anyone know if > a > howto or something like that exists? I went to linuxdoc.org and did not see > one, but it might be named something else. > I suspect the best thing at the moment would be the following:

Re: xfs-xtt configuration

2000-03-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:02:53AM -0800, aphro wrote: > while im sure inet/ works good i use tcp/ which also works. Yes, but isn't it slower than unix sockets? Does xfs-xtt even use /etc/X11/xfs/config? I haven't messed with it since I don't read Japanese (and there are no English docs). I'd gu

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