Re: books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

2000-04-25 Thread Brian
Dennis Gearon said: >Any recommendations on books for the above subjects? I -do- know where >to buy them through, though. http://www.addall.com/ will find the >cheapest books on the web. Perl: (O'reilly books) Learning Perl Programming Perl Perl Cookbook (in that order; read them all. if yo

DOSEMU?

2000-04-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi all, I've been playing with DOSEMU a while back, but I never really configured or used it. Well, now my dad asked me to add some functionality to an old Borland Pascal program he uses in his lab. (He's a physicists.) Since it's going to be used under DOS and won't run under NT (accesses the

Re: Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-25 Thread pplaw
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Jean-Philippe_Gu=E9rard?= wrote: > >I am a bit unsure of what you use to access your floppy drive from > >the Desktop. To access a floppy drive, you probably need to mount it > >first with "fdmount" or "xvmount". > > -- > Jean-Philippe Guérard > // and "mount /dev/fd0 /" (but wi

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? > I think they're virtually the same right now. There have been a few minor upgrades lately to packages in woody that are probably not in potato, but nothing major. It's very unlikely that there would be an

Re: books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 2:33:44 PM, Dennis wrote: > Any recommendations on books for the above subjects? I -do- know where > to buy them through, though. http://www.addall.com/ will find the > cheapest books on the web. O'Reilly, O'Reilly, O'Reilly. They are the best reference books for th

books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

2000-04-25 Thread Dennis Gearon
Any recommendations on books for the above subjects? I -do- know where to buy them through, though. http://www.addall.com/ will find the cheapest books on the web. -- Dennis K. Gearon (Kegley) Scientific Instrument Technician, Scho

RE: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
There is no prob with having fat16 after fat32 partitions but using fdisk (windows-dos version) you can only have 2 partitions - logical drives aren't included - i.e. 2 primary or 1 primary and one extended, Linux fdisk I think can have up to 4 primary partitions, you prob could be related to the b

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? Thus spake Brian J. Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > > > -- > > -- > > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. > > Unfortunately, > > they are for XF4. A

cron.daily

2000-04-25 Thread zdrysdal
Hi if i put in my own script into the /etc/cron.daily directory does that mean that the script will run on a daily basis? Also, some of my debian servers are comming up with a mail message saying that it cannot find a script to run... the message is generated from cron.daily. I have tried l

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > -- > -- > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, > they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would > LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. > I don't know if there a

Re: Terminating on signal 15?

2000-04-25 Thread Ron Farrer
Hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I get this message when dialing in my ISP with my PCMCIA modem. > > Apr 25 20:56:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pppd[752]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid > 0 > Apr 25 20:56:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pppd[752]: Removed stale lock on ttyS2 (pid > 727) > Apr 25 20:56:32 [EMAIL

Re: Corel/Linux OS

2000-04-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-04-24 15:58:40 -0700, Angel M. Hernandez écrivait : > I'm using Linux OS from Corel and I'm having problems trying to access my > floppy drive from the Desktop. Please can anyboby help me? Also I would like > to buy a instructions book, if there is any, about Debian Linux. Thank you. You

Re: Terminating on signal 15?

2000-04-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Hans wrote: > What does signal 15 stand for. I searched the net, but to no avail. Anyone? >From "man signal": SIGTERM 15 A Termination signal where "A" means: Default action is to terminate the process. "apropos signal" would have found it for you. - Bru

Terminating on signal 15?

2000-04-25 Thread Hans
I get this message when dialing in my ISP with my PCMCIA modem. Apr 25 20:56:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pppd[752]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Apr 25 20:56:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pppd[752]: Removed stale lock on ttyS2 (pid 727) Apr 25 20:56:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pppd[752]: Serial connection establi

kernel-source*14-5_all.deb and make-kpkg

2000-04-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
The directions to install a kernel using make-kpkg are more or less clear to me if doing it with a kernel*tar.gz one, because it unpacks the make instructions. Now, what to do when it is a .deb one? I tried make menuconfig as indicated before in an earlier thread, but there aren't any make rules. I

XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Paul Kallstrom
-- -- I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. Paul E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-25 Thread Marshal Wong
> "montefin" == montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <...snip...> > My partition table looks like this: > / 50Mb 23Mb Available /usr 512Mb 190Mb Available /var 50Mb 21Mb > Available /home 150Mb 56Mb Available swap 50Mb > I've tried upgrading with apt-get, but it compla

Re: Modules & name resolution

2000-04-25 Thread Kovacs Istvan
Hello! Thanks to John Pearson and Eric G. Miller for their replies. [modules not loading] On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:32:21 +0930, John Pearson wrote: >Or, run modconf which will allow you to do the same thing in a >more GUI way. Tried it, but it loaded the modules at boot time, and not in an on-dem

Re: HELP: Linux die with cann't get free page message

2000-04-25 Thread kmself
Sounds like a memory or swap problem. Post the contents of /proc/meminfo Do you have swap enabled? How much? On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:48:57AM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi all > Today at morning, when I come to my Linux (Debian stable) machine > it was dead. All the screen was fill up w

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread kmself
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:55:03PM -0400, David Teague wrote: [...] > The locate command can only locate files that the user running > updatedb can see. I find locate to be useful if you make it run with > root priv. Some claim this is an invasion of privacy and a security > hole. This is true o

Re: psutils and Postscript manipulation

2000-04-25 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Viktor, On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > is there good > documentation of the Postscript file format, so somebody could write a > short perl script? There is a book called "The Postscript Language Reference Manual" from Adobe Systems Inc. published by Addison Wesley. This bo

bad NICs vs bad routing question: potato

2000-04-25 Thread Stan Kaufman
I'm setting up a gateway box with potato on a scavenged P75 box with one newer Intel EtherExpress 10/100 PCI NIC (eth0) and two older Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ISA NICs (eth1 and eth2). Target topology is a DMZ network and an internal network, both masqueraded to the outside. However, I've got pro

RE: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote: > Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but > about 1000 times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 > seconds) which works by examining the filesys every few hours? > could be this which is running find Steven and Oswal

Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote: > > There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be > Fat16. Is this true? Not sure about that, but i've seen WinDOS 98 have troubles with two FAT32 primary partitions -- it read C: (hdb1) ok, but D: was

Re: giving access

2000-04-25 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > Hello, > > How do I give permission to a non-user account to use the modem (thru pon > isp) and other hardware devices? (e.g. printer, etc) Dialup access could be instant through diald if these 'non-users' are on the same

giving access

2000-04-25 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hello, How do I give permission to a non-user account to use the modem (thru pon isp) and other hardware devices? (e.g. printer, etc) Thank You. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: Potato and DLink NIC

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Is your DLink NIC an ISA NIC, not a PCI NIC? If so, you may need > to use isapnptools. It is an ISA NIC, but since it's in NON-PnP mode, I shouldn't need configuration. It didn't under a Slink Install. Thanks, Brooks

Re: Potato and DLink NIC

2000-04-25 Thread Stan Kaufman
"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > Greetings, > I tried to do a fresh install of Potato from a CD I burned from > ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ which is "a test > version of the Potato i386 Net-Install CDROM, which features just enough to > get you on the 'net, from

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Steven Satelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000 > times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by > examining the filesys every few hours? > could be this which is running find > > -Original

Potato and DLink NIC

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I tried to do a fresh install of Potato from a CD I burned from ftp://ftp.kando.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ which is "a test version of the Potato i386 Net-Install CDROM, which features just enough to get you on the 'net, from which you can download the rest (automati

RE: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000 times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by examining the filesys every few hours? could be this which is running find -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: missing curses?

2000-04-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:10:55 +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > i tried installing MySQL the other day, and configure stopped with the > message "no curses" - the previous three or four lines of output were > "looking for tgetenv" here and "looking for tgetenv" there... Any particular reason you'r

layout of a debian CD distribution ?

2000-04-25 Thread Mark
Hi there.   I am downloading debian from ftp.uk.debian.org and my question is.   How do the directories and packages have to organized in order to make a bootable /installable debian CD. The debian I am downloading is the potato bundle.   Thanks in advance.   Mark Sanchez.  

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread montefin
Bob, np. I intended to use -r. Below your post is a response to the same question from another list member. All I can say is it seems to work for me. Next time I'll try it again without the -r. I'm sure I'll have occasion to. montefin "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote: > > montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: itz> However, that's not how it seems to work on potato. I noticed itz> that after the installation I got /etc/alternatives/awk pointing itz> to /usr/bin/mawk and /etc/alternatives/awk.1.gz pointing to itz> /usr/man/man1/mawk.1.gz. Since I prefer gawk, I di

Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail

2000-04-25 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Erik! Erik> I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages Erik> every day (large share from this list ;-)) I would like to Erik> have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail Erik> messages on a per mailbox bases. I think that procmail can do that job. Here's an

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NOTE: If you get a large block of type that mentions a SUPERBLOCK error > and tells you to do the '-b 8193' thing. Well, that's how you got that > message, right? Instead I did this: > > e2fsck -r /dev/ (my /var looks like /dev/hda7 With e2fspro

Re: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Mats Ström
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Mats Ström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am trying to get X working on S3 trio3D card. My XFree86 is > > version 3.3.6 which supports the trio3D. Unfortunately it is > > very picky about its modelines. There some recommended mode- > > lines in the ma

magicfilter vs. apsfilter

2000-04-25 Thread andreas . klemm . ak
Hi ! Browsed through the Debian mailinglist archive concerning apsfilter. Interesting ;-) Concerning your question ... apsfilter 5.4.1 will support gs 6.01 + hpdj driver + additional 3rd party driver from internet. Using anonymous cvs you are able to checkout a -current snapshot of my developemen

RE: Debian posters

2000-04-25 Thread Andrew Weiss
Title: RE: Debian posters -Original Message- From:   Richard B. Kreckel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:   Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:34 AM To: Debian Development Cc: Wichert Akkerman Subject:    Re: Debian posters And put it under /data/, please.  The infamous `Constitutio

Re: Problem connecting with ISP - update

2000-04-25 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi, Thanks, but I've still not managed to make it work. Maybe I'm not doing this right. I tried it like this: CONNECT \d\c "" ppp but that didn't work. I tried to take \d and \c out, tried to toggle quiet mode (\qppp), put ppp within quotation marks, but nothing worked. Am I missing somethin

S3 cards and LX motherboards (was Re: Xproblem - modelines?)

2000-04-25 Thread Dan Halbert
Your problems with S3-based video cards and XFree86 may not be due to misconfiguration. I have a S3 968 card, and though it worked well in one of my machines, I could not get it to work in another one. I got black screens only. Do you have an LX motherboard? After some Dejanews searching (LX & S3

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:26:11PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > > First thing I did when the machine came up again was upgrading from > 2.2.9 to 2.2.14. This is scary. > > BTW: What's the best way to keep up with glitches like this if you > don't follow devel and kernel lists? I think probably

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

2000-04-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks Pat. I think the full sequence that caused my problems was: Options/Reconfigure (but didn't restart) crash in Math Panel restart lyx, but article class no available because reconfigure didn't work properly After using Options/Reconfigure I have to cp /usr/X11R6/share/lyx/text

Re: problem with gnats aliases and exim

2000-04-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:46:56PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> freefall ~ $ 2000-04-21 16:27:32 12ik1U-0001bx-00 Neither the >> system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid >> for local delivery of | /usr/lib/gnats/

Re: local mirror dist.

2000-04-25 Thread John Stevenson
You can use apt-move to add downloaded debs into a local cache, it can also be used to grab and sort all the debs for a particular distribution 'apt-move mirror'. Johnny. Harry ten Berge wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use dselect/apt with a local mirror of a debian site to > update/install new mach

Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lowell Voelker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32 > from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first > 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian? Yes, just so long as you can boot the kernel from somewhere

Re: need some procmail help

2000-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mithrandir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have still some problems with procmail, it will not deliver the mail as > wanted, does anyone can help please?? as attachment there are my .procmailrc > and a file called mail which is a copy off the mail as they arrived to root > (and not the user). >

Re: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mats Ström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am trying to get X working on S3 trio3D card. My XFree86 is > version 3.3.6 which supports the trio3D. Unfortunately it is > very picky about its modelines. There some recommended mode- > lines in the manual: What manual is that? Something originating

Re: Problem connecting with ISP - update

2000-04-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Guðmundur Erlingsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > No, I don't think that this is a problem, it didn't work before I > changed the permission (I changed it according to the PPP-Howto, to 740) > so there is something else going on. The thing is that ppp doesn't seem > to start up on the server,

RE: GDM root login?

2000-04-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
It also says somewhere in the docs that the AllowRootLogin option is ignored if PAM is configured/working on the system. You might want to check the PAM config... Christian > -Original Message- > From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:03 AM > To:

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:47:37PM -0700, montefin wrote: >> >> It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on IDE >> boxes, had a recurrent filesystem corruption problem. I was on kernel >> 2.2.12 when I upgraded

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Harry ten Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: >> Where can I get nptdate? >It's in 'xntp3'. ntpdate is a part of the complete 'time server suite'. At least in potato it's broken up into server and client. There is a ntpdate (client only) deb. -- Philip Lehm

Re: Need a list of installed *.deb packages

2000-04-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Olaf Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: > > Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages > presently > > installed on my 'puter? > > Yes there is a command: dpkg --get-selections | more > --> get a list of package

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify > depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your > examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies. Huh...download the source too ? You can edit the

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote: > I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was > wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux > distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning > to customize and modify it, but ha

Re: user still logged in...

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:44:48PM +0530, vipin Aravind wrote: > I got the right person , look /var/run/utmp holds the entry for the login > shells and all > the processes in its group . I found it from the windows m/c from where I > held a telnet session > with the linux m/c and I gave a hard

Re: Modules & name resolution

2000-04-25 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:02:42PM +0200, Kovacs Istvan wrote > Hello! > > I've just installed potato, re-compiled the kernel, and now (some of) > my modules will not auto-load. I can load them with modprobe and/or > insmod. I have to load the driver for my Initio SCSI card, SB AWE32 > sound card

RE: user still logged in...

2000-04-25 Thread vipin Aravind
I got the right person , look /var/run/utmp holds the entry for the login shells and all the processes in its group . I found it from the windows m/c from where I held a telnet session with the linux m/c and I gave a hard reset to my windows m/c . I booted back on my windows m/c and then h

Re: 486/slink networked with?

2000-04-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
>I was running mandrake 6.0, but I have rh 6.1 at present. I > want to replace it with debian. Would slink be the best choice for > compatability issues, or would potato be the wiser choice. potato is the better choice, because it is a glibc 2.1.3 system - slink is "only" 2.0. rh 6.1

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and > discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can > I disable it? > it's a cron job. edit /etc/cron.daily/* to get rid of it. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux

Re: Problem connecting with ISP - update

2000-04-25 Thread Guðmundur Erlingsson
Hi, No, I don't think that this is a problem, it didn't work before I changed the permission (I changed it according to the PPP-Howto, to 740) so there is something else going on. The thing is that ppp doesn't seem to start up on the server, and I have no idea how to get it started. When I use min

Re: XFree86-4.0 and xauth

2000-04-25 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:10:59PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I upgraded to XFree86-4.0 recently, and now xauth doesn't seem to work. i don't use XFree86-4.0 yet, but here's guess or two. > I usually use ssh to work on my unix account at work and to do so, I > have a script that looks like thi

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:47:37PM -0700, montefin wrote: > Philip, > > To follow up on Nathan's reply, and only because when I upgraded Red Hat > from 6.0 to 6.1, I earned the dubious title Mr. Fsck-it, here's my 2 > cents: > > It seems the linux kernels from about 2.2.7 thru 2.2.13, and only on

Re: user still logged in...

2000-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:56:10AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > The "who" command displays user james as being logged in like this: > > pat tty3 Apr 24 09:52 > james0Apr 19 20:24 > > User pat is logged in but james logged out sometime on april 19. Apparently > though something

Re: /var/lib gone

2000-04-25 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 06:58:56PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once > > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro. > > Um, all the dpk

missing curses?

2000-04-25 Thread Dominic Blythe
not the best example of a question as i'm a hundred miles from my linux box right now, but... i tried installing MySQL the other day, and configure stopped with the message "no curses" - the previous three or four lines of output were "looking for tgetenv" here and "looking for tgetenv" there

GDM root login?

2000-04-25 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi there, folks... Having some difficulties with pre-compiled GNOME packages on potato, I rather decided to build GNOME 1.0.55 myself. So by now, most of the stuff actually works fine, only problem left is that the GDM display manager doesn't allow login as 'root'. Starting with the docs, I read t

HELP: Linux die with cann't get free page message

2000-04-25 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all Today at morning, when I come to my Linux (Debian stable) machine it was dead. All the screen was fill up with "cann't get free page" messages (May be something like that). I doesn't react on anything. So I had to hard reset mashine. Now it's running on as usual. But I can't understand what

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-25 Thread Harry ten Berge
Chris Mason wrote: > > Where can I get nptdate? > It's in 'xntp3'. ntpdate is a part of the complete 'time server suite'. Usually 'ntpdate' is only used to synchronize if you have big time-differences. The ntpd can only synchronize if the difference between the local client and the time-server i

486/slink networked with?

2000-04-25 Thread russell simmons
I am a newbie, and I have a base install of slink running on a 486 dx33 with a 210 mb hd and 12 mgs of ram. I am going to network it with my main box soon. This box is a dual boot windoz/linux install, 166 mmx overclocked to 200 with a 5.2 gb hd (1gb for linux), and 96 mgs of ram. I wa

procmailproblems

2000-04-25 Thread Mithrandir
Hi all ;)) I have some problems with procmail, it will not deliver the mail as wanted, does anyone can help please?? as attachment there is my .procmailrc. The user doesn't get any mails anymore :(( The procmail is installed with sendmail and called through the .forward with "|exec /usr/bin/procma

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Mike Cook wrote: > Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and > discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can > I disable it? You probably don't want to do that, it is updating your locate database. See "man locate" for more inf

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:32:54 CDT, Mike Cook writes: >Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and >discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can >I disable it? That´s probably updatedb running updating your locatedb :) It is called via /etc/cron.daily

Re: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:32:54AM -0500, Mike Cook wrote: > Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top > and discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can I > disable it? > > Thanks That's the 'updatedb' cron script running. You probably don't want to

Re: server usage

2000-04-25 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:27:35PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > Anyone set up with and either or ? > > Does anyone use and/or have comments about using 'd applications on > ? (that's Redhat Package Manager, there's a lot of apps in that > format). Speakable comments? Use alien. That's what

find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Mike Cook
Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can I disable it? Thanks

Potato it is!

2000-04-25 Thread montefin
Thanks for the advice to my earlier "Frozen, Potato or Woody?" post. I've decided to take all of it. I ordered a 4-pack of Frozen CD's _and_, while they're enroute I'm going to get my feet wet with apt-get and potato. I've moved stuff around on my little 814Mb hard drive and made 208Mb available

Problem upgrading gtk

2000-04-25 Thread mtellez
Hi, I am using slink for a while, but now I tried to upgrade manually (I go to debian package homepage, select a package to download, and download all the dependences) to potato. I started for upgrade window maker and because of it I have to download several packeges, mostly graphical libraries. A

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Apr-00, 23:02 (CDT), Andrew Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was > wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux > distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning > to cust

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread dstarner98
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote: > Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status? It should be unnessecary. > doesn't work. Is there any way to modify deb packages to change their > dependencies since some of the packages are plain stupid... they depend on > perl

Re: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread mtellez
Hi Olaf, I don't what is wrong with the floppy installation method but, Why don't you use PLIP for install the packages? Is a lot faster than floppy. In linux gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/lg_toc43.html) are a great article about that. I hope this can help you.

server usage

2000-04-25 Thread Dennis Gearon
Anyone set up with and either or ? Does anyone use and/or have comments about using 'd applications on ? (that's Redhat Package Manager, there's a lot of apps in that format). Can additional source files for applications be included into some kind of master Deb packaging system, so it's rev le

Re: module errors

2000-04-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:55:36AM -, Pollywog wrote: > I just started getting these errors after updating potato: > > Apr 25 03:17:00 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more > recent than /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep > Apr 25 03:17:00 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more

Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Andrew Weiss
I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning to customize and modify it, but haven't really yet... other than Windowmaker graphi

module errors

2000-04-25 Thread Pollywog
I just started getting these errors after updating potato: Apr 25 03:17:00 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep Apr 25 03:17:00 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep Apr 25 03:17:00 lilypad

Re: Problems - Installing Packages from the A:

2000-04-25 Thread David Z. Maze
Dulan Tevesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DT> I'm having problems installing simple packages with debian. I'm DT> currently running it on a laptop w/out any internet connectivity, and DT> its only way to get packages installed is via the A: floppy - What's an "A: floppy"? If you mean "floppy disk

Re: problem with installation program

2000-04-25 Thread Geopoliticus
Steve, I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my book. I do however have SCSI peripherals. What I eventually ended up doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great! I know that is not what you are looking for. Something I ran across

truetype font encoding shift?

2000-04-25 Thread w trillich
i converted a couple truetype fonts from mac format (via mac application 'tt converter') to pc format, and sent them to the debian box. works like a charm, except the encoding seems to have slipped two characters, rather consistently... ABCDE becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] xyz becomes v

Re: control panel/installation tool

2000-04-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
Sending this mail to the list alone is sufficient. On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:36:23PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote: > I was wondering if there was a control pane or version/package > monitoring system that made installs a little less painful. Sure, it's > great to use and know the guts of the worl

control panel/installation tool

2000-04-25 Thread Dennis Gearon
I was wondering if there was a control pane or version/package monitoring system that made installs a little less painful. Sure, it's great to use and know the guts of the worlds best OS, but I'd rather USE it to make money or show off great content as a server. It's cool, But I don't want to hir

problem with installation program

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Burns
Dear Linux users: I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is that I cannot get the installation program to start. It would seem that

NFS re-export crashes client

2000-04-25 Thread Andy Roosen
I figure this has to be as good a forum as any to start with :). Potato machine 'ruth' is re-exporting some directories served by an SGI O200 using the userspace NFS daemon to 'r001'. Whenever a process on r001 tries to read certain 'cluttered' directories (like most well-used home directories), ho

RE: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Mats Ström
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote: > what are the vert/horiz frequencies? My monitor is noninterlaced SVGA 1025x768 at 60Hz capaple of 31.5-48.5 Horizontal55-90 Vertical The by XF86 supplied modelines demand: 1024x768hsync freq 56.48 kHzvert refresh rate 70.07 Hz 800x600

Re: your mail

2000-04-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:08:10AM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > simple question, where do you put lines for the modules you want to > autoload in debian? ie my winmodem and audio device You have a winmodem that works with Linux? Congrats! Anyway modules that you want loaded at boot and to remai

RE: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
what are the vert/horiz frequencies? -Original Message- From: Mats Ström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 02:34 To: Steven Satelle Cc: 'Olaf Meeuwissen'; 'Debian User List' Subject: RE: Xproblem - modelines? On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote: > check your settings f

Re: update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:21:25AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > However, that's not how it seems to work on potato. I noticed that > after the installation I got /etc/alternatives/awk pointing to > /usr/bin/mawk and /etc/alternatives/awk.1.gz pointing to > /usr/man/man1/mawk.1.gz. Since I prefer

RE: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Mats Ström
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote: > check your settings for the moniter vert & horiz frequencies I think I safely can say that we tried that... The problem is that our monitors simply cant handle vert & horiz frequencies that high. //Mats Ström - I'm a .signature virus! Cop

Re: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Mats Ström
On 25 Apr 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I know it should work and that's what's buggering me! When I try with > the SVGA server all I draw is a blank. The screen turns black and > after a few seconds the monitor seems to go into power saving mode. I > kill the server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and t

ntfs mounting

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
Hi, does anyone know how to mount a ntfs partition in linux, i have installed the ntfs modules but linuxconf only lists my msdos filesystem not my ntfs or fat32 file syses, what lines do i need to add to fstab so they are automounted on boot

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