Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Lavender
I have yet to use this module, but I was just reading about it in the Camel book. $ perldoc Benchmark brian On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 04:44:17PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the scri

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > > manually as described above. Read the man page on update-rc.d (symlink > > management program), also read the Debian faq at: > > When I just manually remove any links in an rcX.d directory, is that a way > to disable servers etc. at startup? You g

Re: Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Percival
Excellent! Thank you all for the quick answers. I had no idea that fetchmail could run as a daemon. That is definitely the best way to do it, as I don't want to have multiple crontab entries (to run it every five minutes), and I don't want to disable other error mailings from cron (via MAILT

Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Hunter H Marshall
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:45:05PM -0700, Matheson wrote: -> I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from -> http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start -> X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes -> back to the login screen. Does any one

RE: diald

2000-03-23 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I recall that when I originally set up my diald connection, there was an option that stopped diald altogether if a number of attempts failed. Make sure this is turned off. Otherwise... what do you have as a diald.options? Brooks > -Original Message- > From: John Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > >

Re: S3 Trio3D/2X

2000-03-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:19:08 +0200 (EET), Tolga KIlicli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I had that problem; you're probably running slink, right? So you probaby have XFree86 version 3.3.2, or something like that. There's no support for S3 Trio3D in that version of X, but you may upgrade to version

Re: S3 Trio3D/2X

2000-03-23 Thread James Sasitorn
Well XFree86 3.3.6 has support for the S3 Trio3D/2X under the SVGA server. i have mine setup at an 800x600 display. you need to explicitly set the video memory to 4096 or use the option SW_CURSOR to get a non white block cursor.. james On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Tolga KIlicli wrote: > I know it is st

Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-23 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:59:47PM -0700, Charon wrote: > > Friends.. I an in terrible need of help, and I know how much people hate > questions about soundcards, especially AWE64s, but you are my last > resort.. Really, I've found AWE64's work just fine and dandy. > I've tried to get my AWE64 P

Squid ACLs does not work

2000-03-23 Thread sgaerner
Hi, I have some problems with squid and its ACLs. I'm using Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.2.13 and squid 2.2STABLE5. My ACL section in /etc/squid.conf looks like the following. acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl SSL_ports port 44

Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I have Awe64 and managed to get it to work. Here is how I did it: 1. isapnp it. WHen you run pnpdump, you'll get 2 files: isapnp.conf and isapnp.gone. .gone file will tell you where NOT to put the card. Based on that information, make hte .conf file appropriately. I found that my card works perfect

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
I prefer changing the name of the script in /etc/init.d (eg no xdm becomes with me: mv /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/init.d/xdm-not). Works fine. Ron On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > > manually as described above. Read the man page on update-rc.d (symlink > > management program), also read

Re: S3 Trio3D/2X

2000-03-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I know it is still the same problem for you but my card does not work even > in 320x200 with 16 colors... > I have tried framebuffer but it didnot work either... > > Do you know any driver or anything i could do with it? I've helped someone on irc with this card recently. Basically, if you look

Fresh frozen install

2000-03-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Where can I find instructions and/or packages to install frozen? Something similar to what can be found in http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html for slink. Thanks, Antonio.

RE: Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Mar-2000 Percival wrote: > I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I > still cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout > emailed to me. > > I am trying to run fetchmail to check some remote e-mail boxes several times > an hour, and it work

Re: Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:49:09AM -0800, Percival wrote: > I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still > cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me. > > I am trying to run fetchmail to check some remote e-mail boxes several tim

Re: Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Percival" == Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man > pages, but I still cannot figure out how to schedule a job and > NOT have the stdout emailed to me. I am trying to run fetchmail > to check some remote e-mail b

Re: Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Percival! On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Percival wrote: > I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still > cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me. Quoting from the crontab(5) manpage: If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), m

gshutdown for non­root users? / gdm blank screen

2000-03-23 Thread Dr. Michael R. Semple
Hello, I've just returned to Debian (potato) after a short (6 month) excursion into RedHat 6.1. I work for SAP (of R/3 fame) which has released R/3 for Linux, but only on RedHat. Foolishly, I thought I should make the transition in order to install a test system at home. I must say that I don't

Re: Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread kometboy
I am using a 740 and it works very well. To set a 740 up, you need to go tohttp://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html and download the 'epson740.tar.gz.' file provided on the page. After untarring, uncompressing the file, you need to transfer the 740 related files to the /usr/lib/gh

AccelStar Permedia II AGP

2000-03-23 Thread Brian
Hi, Has anyone successfully installed this card? I'm using Slink 2.1r4. I see the card on the list here: http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html "AccelStar Permedia II AGP . XF86_3DLabs" Although, I cannot get it setup using XF86Setup or xf86config. The card isn't listed and th

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-23 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote: > > > Hi Rodrigo! > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Bart Friederichs
> manually as described above. Read the man page on update-rc.d (symlink > management program), also read the Debian faq at: When I just manually remove any links in an rcX.d directory, is that a way to disable servers etc. at startup? Bart

Re: Unresolved symbols potato and kernel 2.0.36

2000-03-23 Thread markm
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:34:53PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > Not sure if you know this but you can't compile 2.0.x modules with > > 2.2.x kernel. Just get the 2.2.x version of *everything* and you > > should be right. > > It's more specifically gcc you need. I used gcc272 and all was >

S3 Trio3D/2X

2000-03-23 Thread Tolga KIlicli
I know it is still the same problem for you but my card does not work even in 320x200 with 16 colors... I have tried framebuffer but it didnot work either... Do you know any driver or anything i could do with it?

RE: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
> Phoenix writes: > > 2.2 is potato... > > No. 2.2 will be potato when it is released. 2.2 does not exist yet. Hmm. Is that right? The newsletters have been referring to potato as "a.k.a. release 2.2" since it's been frozen. Is it actually 2.2 now, or will it not be 2.2 until it's released? An

diald

2000-03-23 Thread John Anderson
I've been trying to get Diald to connect correctly. The 1st time I configures it, I got a connection. Now, all it will do is say there is a slip connection, but it will not start ppp. I have a typical internet connection, dial up to our service provider. Does anyone have any suggestions or has a

Oh no, not another AWE64 question

2000-03-23 Thread Charon
Friends.. I an in terrible need of help, and I know how much people hate questions about soundcards, especially AWE64s, but you are my last resort.. I've tried to get my AWE64 PnP card working for many days now, to no avail.. first I tried using OSS modules as many other people suggested when I r

Cron help?!?

2000-03-23 Thread Percival
I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me. I am trying to run fetchmail to check some remote e-mail boxes several times an hour, and it works very well, but I end up with TOO many e-

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Petr Cech
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:09:23PM -0500 , Eric Weigel wrote: > I've thought about compatibility links, but like you said, they're both > libc 6.0. LD_PRELOAD > Overall though, there doesn't seem to be a lot of broken stuff. A friend is bitching about broken aplix(sp?). Thing is, it works on RH6

RE: Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Mar-2000 Christian Rishøj wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about > changing the background and the font types. > all needed files are in /etc/X11/xdm. read them and you should figure it out. man pages for xdm and friends will als

RE: Unable to bind port??

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Mar-2000 Mike wrote: > I Installed debian Frozen the other day using the base floppies ans > downloading the rest. I chose the profiles I wanted, and the install > went fine. Then the problems startedgnome was so slow it took at > least 5 minutes to start and 3 minutes for any program to

RE: pcmcia

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2000 pplaw wrote: > debs, > > how do i get my pcmcia card bus to work on a new e-machine > lapbox? here's the boot error message: > > "starting pcmcia services: > modules/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/tcic.0: init_module: device or > resource busy" > I don't know the answer. However, w

RE: c c and more c

2000-03-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Mar-2000 Evan Moore wrote: > 2 quick questions: > > 1. has any1 written a wrapper for malloc and free that will provide some > usefull output for checking that all memory has been freed? > search the web, many partial solutions exist. The only good one i have ever used was purify. It is

Re: dc390 what does it mean?

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Lavender
Do you have a dc390 Tekram SCSI controller installed? What sort of controller are you using? brian On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:08:50PM +1100, Pikuan wrote: > i just bought a debian 2.1 r 4 CD > i was installing from cd, pressed enter at the main menu. it does all the > initialisation when it rea

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote: > /etc/init.d/ is where i have to put the script > > what do i type? sshd or run sshd To execute the various daemon commands try: /etc/init.d/sshd [start|stop|restart] > > /etc/rc[RUNLEVEL].d is what i don't understand > Sym links in the /etc/rcX.d dire

Re: Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Jason Christensen
I've had great luck with the Stylus 740. The color output is just as good using apsfilter with Debian as it is using the windows drivers. I even got it working on the USB bus with the USB backport from 2.3.x kernels to 2.2.x. Jason On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000

Re: Remote Printing

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Lavender
I believe the answer lies in the /etc/lpd.perms That is the print server that will recieve the jobs. It is commented well, but the time I tried to make it so I could print from one Linux box to the other, I could not print from the print server to itsself. Then of course you have to configure the r

Re: OT - International E-mail

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: > If one server strips the 8th bit, then that's it. Gribberish. Is there > anyway to get around this? man mime. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: > But I think for businesses, "official" means a customer-help line from > the selling company. Plenty of people will sell you Debian with support. > Along the same line, what to companies like Corel, and Storm do if > customers find something wrong with the Debian distro undernea

Debian Perl Modules

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Lavender
I was taking a look at the perl modules on my debian system, and I noticed that there are a couple of Debian perl modules. In fact I once built a newer version of perl on my debian system, and I noticed that apt, and I believe dpkg stopped working. My Question: Is it possible to build a new ver

Re: Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:11:49AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > >I see that Epson Stylus printers are supported by ghostscript, for >example, but in the list of supported printers I didn't see the 740 >in particular... Would there be any problems? Or, would I be able

Re: Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Allard
I've got a Stylus 740 and have no problems at all. The Printing HOWTO Support Database says that the 740 is "Mostly" rather than "Completely" support: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112 I'm not sure what is missing to keep it from being "Completely" supported.

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Weigel
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > > have? > > They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so

Re: Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: > How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about > changing the background and the font types. Make sure you have XBanner installed, and edit the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad A -- Andrew Sulli

Sendmail question

2000-03-23 Thread Jeff Hopkins
Title: Sendmail question Hi, I tried posting to Sendmail's NG with no success.  Maybe I might find the answer here.  I am using Sendmail 8.10 running Woody(doing great).  I tried RH because of a hardware requirement, but switched back within two days.  Dselect is a very handy tool.  I missed i

Re: Rename files

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Kasunic
Thanks to everybody who helped. I've got all my files like I want them now. Robert

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:48:24PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Vitux wrote: > >You need to specify the amount > >available to linux, after the kernel has taken > >what it needs. > > I don't believe this is true. At least, I have always specified the > full amount of RAM. It's a proble

Re: Netscape Plugins

2000-03-23 Thread Craig Kelley
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, L.U.S.T List wrote: > OK I am useing Debian and Storm Linux with the standard packages. > This is something that I have never gotten to work. > > I do have the plugger system installed and working right. But I have > tried to install Flash and realplayer to no luck. My n

Re: buy debian linux

2000-03-23 Thread Hecubus
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:33:10AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? > Interesting subject, but I have some problems with the concepts you > express... ;) Like, open your mind, man.

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Hecubus
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Switching to Debian was necessary because the store didn't sell slack. Yeah, most stores don't sell Slack. Anyone store that would proport to sell it is probably marketing False Slack, which is better than nothing, but not nearly as fulfilling as the

defraging

2000-03-23 Thread James Sasitorn
any recommendations/reviews on defraging software? A quick look at freshmeat shows: defrag e2defrag james

Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Christian Rishøj
Hi, How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about changing the background and the font types. /Christian

Re: pass boot disk kernel parameters?

2000-03-23 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! You're right. I suggest the ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.12-1999-1 2-09/resc1440.bin image. There's probably a 2.0 kernel on this, but you can compile an own 2.2 kernel, as I said. Just pay attention that the important drivers aren't compiled as modules

Re: System map doesn't match kernel data

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Mognet
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:27:20AM +0100, steve doerr wrote: Hello, > I get the following error on boot: > > parport_enumerate} {parport_enumerate_R2gig_8ccc39f1} > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.14 does not match kernel data. > > But when I look in my messages log, what's below is the only thin

DVD Ram drives and GNU/Linux - Debian

2000-03-23 Thread John Gould
Hi everyone, Has anyone tried to use a DVD RAM drive with Linux? The SCSI version seems a nice idea, they take a 5.2 GByte double sided disk costing around 22 GBP (UK pounds). The drives cost about 389 GBP, have resonable access times (120mS DVD-RAM, 85mS DVD-ROM and CDROM) and will rea

Re: buy debian linux

2000-03-23 Thread Christian Surchi
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Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:20:18AM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > Along the same line, what to companies like Corel, and Storm do if > customers find something wrong with the Debian distro underneath? The same thing that RedHat and SuSE, etc, do when they find something wrong with an upst

esound, lesstif, debian issues

2000-03-23 Thread Lepus
Hi. First of all, it is quite interesting that I didn't get a single reply on my question about the esound dependency problems. Am I he only one who would like to use Gnome and Alsa at the same time under Potato? :) Well, anyway. The other thing... I downloaded the "Fractint for motif" (Xmfract)

buy debian linux 2

2000-03-23 Thread aconjure
한국어 버전 보다는 영문어 버전을 구하고 싶습니다

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >Along the same line, what to companies like Corel, and Storm do if >customers find something wrong with the Debian distro underneath? They probably talk to their liaisons among the Debian developers (I assume such exist) or else they file bug rep

buy debian linux

2000-03-23 Thread aconjure
이 메일을 받는 사람이 한국어를 할줄 아시는 분이 었으면 좋겠군요 제가 물어 볼것은 데비안 리눅스 씨디 세트를 구입하고 싶다는것입니다. 구입이 가능한 한국어 사이트를 가르쳐 주시면 좋겠군요. 구입이 가능한 한국어 사이트가 없다면 직접 거래는 안 됩니까? 빠른 답변 부탁드립니다.

Re: bad dependencies in postgresql (potato)?

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Brealey G.) wrote: >i'm trying to install postgresql in a potato box, however, the configuration >script bombs out with a message concerning the non-existence of the file >'/etc/timezone'. is that a missing package? or is it something that got >replaced somewhere in the w

Re: Netscape Plugins

2000-03-23 Thread Christopher Judd
> OK I am useing Debian and Storm Linux with the standard packages. This is > something that I have > never gotten to work. > > I do have the plugger system installed and working right. But I have tried > to install Flash and realplayer > to no luck. My netscape 'about plugins' screen shows

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> thanks, i'd already thought of that. but i'd assume there has >> to be a more convenient way. debian can't possibly be built on >> just the packages and dependencies i

Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to > read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own > mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or > some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one > have

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> there are several packages included in debian archives that are >> outdated. instead of installing the outdated ones, in some >> cases are useless to me, i want to co

Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (esoR ocsirF) wrote: >I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to >read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own >mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or >some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> potato and woody are just code names. The actual "unstable" is >> bleeding edge, and frozen is the next release. Currently potato >> is frozen (a la Debian 2.2) and woody is the new >> unst

Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine

2000-03-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Esqueci de dizer que não uso Windows no meu computador. :) Ou seja, não tenho nenhuma DLL do Windows. Caso voce monte seu C: a chance de funcionar é muito maior. Quoting Eduardo Marcel Macan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:21:57AM -0800, Paulo Henrique Baptista de

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: >Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: >> I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? >> (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I >> get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't >> accept

Re: Installing old packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matheson) wrote: >I can't get the new version of WindowMaker to work, but I was wondering >if there was a way to install the old version (the one on the CD of >Debian Slink). Is this possible? How about: dpkg --force-downgrade -i oldpackage.deb -- Colin Watson

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Steverud) wrote: >Phoenix Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jonas wrote: >> > Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find >> > your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. >> >> For anyone who's interested, I took this route since it would

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Vitux wrote: >If you specify the amount of ram reported by the >bios, you will probably get an error like the one >you're describing. You need to specify the amount >available to linux, after the kernel has taken >what it needs. Try specifying 4-8 Mb less than the >actual amount, and yo

Netscape Plugins

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I am useing Debian and Storm Linux with the standard packages. This is something that I have never gotten to work. I do have the plugger system installed and working right. But I have tried to install Flash and realplayer to no luck. My netscape 'about plugins' screen shows them installe

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
>leave POP3 in place. Which MTA is the best given my limitation? Try XMail : http://www.maticad.it/davide ftp://ftp.maticad.it/pub/misc/mailsvr.zip XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an SMTP server, POP3 server, finger server, multiple domains, no need for users to have a

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Waldner
ok, please don't lart me for not line-breaking correctly, I'll do that myself: lart($self) ;-) On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:20:47 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-115

Re: Real Player 7

2000-03-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Go to the RealPlayer7 directory, and run the three shell scripts in that directory. Should work then. Worked for me anyhow. Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi, : I Installed REalplayer 7 using the installer, and after that I was : unable to start netscape anymore: only bus e

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Waldner
first of all you have to understand that the MTA has nothing to do with POP3, a MTA will only do (E)SMTP If you want to do the quick&dirty approach (which is not very scalable and secure) you could simply add each user as a real user to the system, and create aliases from the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: Install problems (pre-depend-error, python)

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Thomas" == Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install debian (potato, from march 13th) for the > first time and have two problems: I already have a small running > system, and wanted to add several packages at once. Dselect says > the following and refu

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marshal writes: >> I think the "no support" part is more of a "no OFFICIAL >> support". > debian-user is quite "official". > I think that they mean that there is no paid support. They're > wrong: while support fro

Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I see that Epson Stylus printers are supported by ghostscript, for example, but in the list of supported printers I didn't see the 740 in particular... Would there be any problems? Or, would I be able to use all its features? THank you very much, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini In

OT - International E-mail

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
If an e-mail is written in a multi-byte character format, say like Chinese, there is no garuntee that it will get to the other side properly, is there? If I recall correctly, mail is like packets. They are moved from server to server. If one server strips the 8th bit, then that's it. Gribberish.

bad dependencies in postgresql (potato)?

2000-03-23 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i'm trying to install postgresql in a potato box, however, the configuration script bombs out with a message concerning the non-existence of the file '/etc/timezone'. is that a missing package? or is it something that got replaced somewhere in the way to the current version? how can i set it up so

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Phoenix writes: > 2.2 is potato... No. 2.2 will be potato when it is released. 2.2 does not exist yet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: > I think the "no support" part is more of a "no OFFICIAL support". debian-user is quite "official". I think that they mean that there is no paid support. They're wrong: while support from Debian itself is only available free there are many who sell Debian support. Check www.deb

Newbie: Install problems (pre-depend-error, python)

2000-03-23 Thread Thomas Guettler
I tried to install debian (potato, from march 13th) for the first time and have two problems: I already have a small running system, and wanted to add several packages at once. Dselect says the following and refuses to install: pre-depend Error .. fix it and run [I]nstall again But it doesn't

Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an NT server to linux. We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can handle all of the DNS and network stuff through the firewall, but I drop the ball at ma

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
Excuse me, for a kernel compilation I think it's better to use after 'make menuconfig' (or 'make xconfig') to use 'make-kpkg' (make a .deb package of kernel). For docs see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz (if the lacation is the same of slink (2.1). (After 'make menuconfig' usually I edit Makefile

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Alex" == Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and > installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to > complete the system and have following questions: > (1) updated the kernel to (official release

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi, here´s some answers :) >(1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which >packages do I need ? Well, to start off with, you can dowload the kernel-source2.2.14.tgz from http://www.kernel.org/ Once you have this file, place into /usr/src and with "tar zxvf kernel-source2.2.14.tgz" yo

System map doesn't match kernel data

2000-03-23 Thread steve doerr
I get the following error on boot: parport_enumerate} {parport_enumerate_R2gig_8ccc39f1} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.14 does not match kernel data. But when I look in my messages log, what's below is the only thing I see and I can't find the above error in any of my logs. (I might mention my p

Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to complete the system and have following questions: (1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which packages do I need ? (2) I can't found the KDE packages in .de

Re: Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Wintrich
Hi, put a new drive (same size or biger) in your system. the new drive must only be low-level formatet (adapter-bios function). Then start your linux-system and make $> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 or similar In assumption sda is your old and sdb your new drive. It's tested with linux, N

Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi!   I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to complete the system and have following questions:   (1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which packages do I need ?   (2) I can't found the KDE package

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Vitux
> Val Dokuzovic wrote: > >found out that I can not install > >it on my laptop. ... Turned to my sons old PC NEC Ready 60 Which laptop do you have? what leads you to the conclusion that you can not install linux on your laptop? In my experience, very few laptops actually entirely resist installa

Scanning emails for viruses (exim)

2000-03-23 Thread Graham Ashton
Can anybody help me to use exim to filter incoming emails for viruses, using a virus scanning package such as McAffee's VirusScan? Any success stories, or alternative techniques, would be helpful - I'm still at the "how should I go about this, and what should I get hold of?" stage. I've seen the

how to upgrade from kerneld to kmod?

2000-03-23 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Greetings!, When I boot up, I get a warning message that kerneld is obsolete and I should use kmod instead, if I was using kernel 2.2.x.(I am using 2.2.x) I would like to know how I can accomplish this upgrade. thank you. __ Get Your Priva

mutt and Turkish

2000-03-23 Thread Patrick
Hi all, Does anyone know of instructions in ENGLISH on how to make Turkish fonts display in mutt? All I can find are things in Turkish that I just don't have enough grasp of the language to understand. -- Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-23 Thread Onno
Dear George, Would you be so kind to send me more info on your statement? Sincerely. Onno At 10:25 PM 3/22/00 -0800, George Bonser wrote: > >For two months T1 payment you can get wireless at T1 speed that will work >over that distance with no problem. > > > >On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrot

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