Screen Saver

2000-05-19 Thread Jay Kelly
If my monitor goes black,(i.e. screen saver I think) how do I turn that off. The monitor doesnt shut off just goes blank. Sounds like the screen saver but I have no idea where to check..

TZ / time zones

2000-05-19 Thread w trillich
hmm. Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > On 18-May-2000 Nick wrote: > > i am having a difficult time changing from CEST to PDT/PST > > You have to run tzconfig. i have two tz* commands available, and they both allow selecting which continent, which country, and which locale in that country (if applicable)

RE: APM Disable

2000-05-19 Thread Jay Kelly
It look like the monitor doesnt shutoff, the led on the front of the monitor doesnt even change. I think whats happening is maybe a screen saver that black is coming on. How do I see if thats the case. -Original Message- From: Adam Shand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000

cdrecord and cdrdao

2000-05-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know why cdrecord recognizes -dev=0,3,0 and cdrdao does not recognize --device 0,3,0? I don't have a link to /dev/cdrecorder Lance

Re: Stuck...

2000-05-19 Thread w trillich
> Brian Hazelwood wrote: > > Good Morning, > > I new to Linux and intalling debian 2.1 for the first time. I have > not had any problems untill this point. After I am prompted for my > "debian login" and password, I recieve the date, time and copywrite > info. However after this I recieve a li

Re: [humor] opensource.microsoft.com

2000-05-19 Thread w trillich
# dnsquery microsoft.org ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63912 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; microsoft.org, type = ANY, class = IN microsoft.org. 2D IN NSDNS4.CP.MSFT.NET. microsoft.org. 2D IN NSDNS

[OT] Re: More headaches with mailagent config

2000-05-19 Thread Brad
For some reason i keep reading this subject line as "malignant config"... Probably a fitting epithet when things aren't working ;) -- finger for GPG public key. pgp02jfiyxqlX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ISDN and Sprint

2000-05-19 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:41 PM 5/19/00 -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: >I live in a Sprint controled area. How does Sprint "control" an area for ISDN? >They are offering a good deal on >ISDN for my area but I cannot find out if Linux can handle the ISDN >modem that they are offering with the service. The modem is: >

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

2000-05-19 Thread Russell Hires
Oops...I've got either a 2.2.10, 2.2.12, and 2.2.14. Tried em all. I've got the binutils and gcc versions required in Documentation/Changes ( I even checked using the commands listed in that file) If the file builds just fine on your computer...has the file changed between kernel versions? Has

Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Kruszyna
On 19 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Had you run `lilo' on the new drive before you tried to reboot? If > not, then what it was is that the kernel isn't at the same block > address as it was on the other disk... Yes, I followed the instructions at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Har

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jaye" == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaye> I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I Jaye> need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have a huge Jaye> set of backup batteries that I run all my radio gea

Re: making potato cds

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Zachary" == Zachary Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zachary> does anyone know how to make potato cds? Zachary> i found .raw files at debian.bilow.com Zachary> i was thinking i could put them on a cd to install potato Zachary> what do i need to do to make them into a inst

Re: emacs ignores certain commands in .emacs

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> I like emacs and prefer it to xemacs because of xemac's delete-key and Johann> backspace key behaviour which differs between the console and X Johann> environments. But I have a few problems which I do not understand.

Netscape and MS Intellimouse

2000-05-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Netscape used to have support for the Intellimouse in my Debian 2.1 box. Now I have a fresh Potato install (new hard drive), only a few days old, and the old ¨tricks¨ don´t work anymore. So far I have the line ZAxisMapping4 5 in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I also have some blurb i

Re: Trying to configure X

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
If you don't have the server installed it's quite normal you won't get it to work ;)) Just install the server (using either dselect or apt-get, try apt-get install ) and all should woprk perfectly. Ron Rademaker ---Some people say linux is difficult, they just don't know what they ---are talking

ISDN and Sprint

2000-05-19 Thread Brian Schramm
I live in a Sprint controled area. They are offering a good deal on ISDN for my area but I cannot find out if Linux can handle the ISDN modem that they are offering with the service. The modem is: Eicon Diva t/a modem I am planing on setting the link up on a 486 running debian striped to use as

Re: Deb. 2.2 setting up loopback/route

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Malte" == Malte Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Malte> i've installed a frozen 2.2 debian and encountered some problems setting Malte> up route & network loopback. First I found that a "nslookup localhost" wasn't Malte> working. Since no network is attached to the PC i und

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I also wonder if you still have a list of the selections held by `dpkg' in that machine? `dpkg --get-selections' `dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections' `apt-get dselect-upgrade' > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antonio> I haven't found any package c

Caller ID on Linux

2000-05-19 Thread Brent McMillan
Has anyone heard about software that will tell me if I have incomming calls and let me pick up the phone and answer the call? XCallerID and GNUVoice looks promising, but asside from the names, I can't find much info on either of them. Bell Canada offers an internet call display for windows, would t

Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Daniel" == Daniel J Kruszyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box Daniel> running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get Daniel> the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to Jay> another drive? This way in the event of hard drive failure I Jay> can swap drives and be right back up. If it is, how would I Jay> go about it? Don't use

Re: Deb. 2.2 setting up loopback/route

2000-05-19 Thread Lindsay Allen
>From /etc/network/interfaces # We always want the loopback interface. (This is commented out in case # you're configuring it by hand elsewhere, like in /etc/init.d/network. If # you're not, you need this line) # # iface lo inet loopback Uncomment that last line and all should be well. I was b

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> I recently tried using Corel Linux and Caldera on this one spare S> system I have at work just because I had received free copies of those S> CDs. After trying to get used to these "other" distributions I decided S> enough

Re: Wakup LAN - Good morning...up and at em

2000-05-19 Thread John Leget
I came across this on freshmeat a bit back maybe its what your looking for http://www.doornekamp.demon.nl/wakeonlan/ cheers Tom Warfield wrote: > > Okay i have a 3COM 905 card with the option of using the WakeUp lan feature. > My motherboard supports it and it is installed. Once the computer is

Re: HELP!

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Mattthew" == Mattthew Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mattthew> Please tell me how to unsubscribe from all debian lists Mattthew> (I am now using another account to access emails, and Mattthew> need to get rid!!) Send a message to the the lists's name with -request app

HELP!

2000-05-19 Thread Mattthew Russell
Please tell me how to unsubscribe from all debian lists (I am now using another account to access emails, and need to get rid!!)

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that 5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know if this has any

Re: Trying to configure X

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
Now I see why exec of XF86_SVGA failedthe file does not exist in /usr/bin/X11. This appears to be some sort of an install errorI was never asked to download that file and put it there, this should have happened automatically I would think when I choose to do a 'simple' install of an X Wind

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:41:55AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Read the M (as in RTFM) of raid!! > Ron Rademaker You mean the one about how to quote and trim mail messages? > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello All, > > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or t

xinetd

2000-05-19 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi, I'm considering to use xinetd instead of inetd. The computer is going to be connected directly to the net and has several users, so security and reliability is very important. So i would like to know if someone has experience of using xinetd in a server. There are problems about the integra

Re: Trying to configure X

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
I believe I have made all the correct selections using xf86config, but after that when I try startx here is what happens: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11XF86_SVGA failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server

Re: Mass install / Autoinstall

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah, so you're tricking lilo into thinking that /dev/hdc is /dev/hda. Very clever. At 07:26 PM 5/18/00 -0700, Tril wrote: >Here's a URL that explains how to install LILO onto a drive other than the >boot drive. Use the poorly documented features of lilo, "disk=" and >"bios=": > >"Installing hdc

Re: I'm an idiot

2000-05-19 Thread Justin Megawarne
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:31:20AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Alright, the subject is right!! > > Ron Rademakeker > > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > Wow you sure are friendly. -- __ _ __ _ Justin Megawarne [ Solitude ]

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Read the M (as in RTFM) of raid!! Ron Rademaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello All, > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right > back up. If it is, how would I go about

Re: Trying to configure X

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
/dev/psaux That's the mouse device you want (/dev/mouse might be a symlink to this check woth ls -l /dev/mouse). The server for the card should definately be XF86_SVGA, you should be a ware that there are diferences between the X server ad the driver for your videocard! Ron Rademaker On Fri, 1

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try: pt-get install pine It'll give youenough information to get a bit further Ron Rademaker PS. Damn when is someone going to read apt-ge's FM!!, perhaps we'll just have to put a few pages with apt-get info during install on the users screen, the amount of question that has to do with it ar

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
5, 1 rescue disk, 1 root partitin disk, 3 driver disks (you could do this with the good ols slink disk but you'll have to upgrade something that might give some problems regarding libc6 and perl. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I recently tried using Corel Linux a

Trying to configure X

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
Questions arising during xf86config: Mouse--I have a 3 button PS/2 mouse so I select "4 PS/2 Mouse". Since it has 3 buttons I choose not to emulate 3 buttons. So good so far, but now it asks for the full device name. I have no idea. It suggests /dev/tty00 which seems unlikely. Just pressing e

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Wagner
It's not too hard to find pine*.deb. Use Fast FTP Search. At 09:54 AM 5/19/00 +0800, Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta wrote: >Because Univ of Washington doesn't allow modified tarballs to be >distributed, and you have to modify the tarball's paths to be Debian >compliant. +---

Re: I'm an idiot

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Alright, the subject is right!! Ron Rademakeker On Fri, 19 May 2000, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > A number of you will have received strange messages (purporting to be Usenet > test or cancel messages) from my machine between 1700 and 18

Re: your mail

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Start browser GOTO http://www.debian.org/ Find subriction to mailing lists Ron Rademaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, William Paul Philibert wrote: > How can I subscribe to the mailing list? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are your sureyour ne hd has a MBR (master Boot Record)!? Ron Rademaker PS. To check this: RTFM (sorry, can't tell you which M...) On Fri, 19 May 2000, Daniel J. Kruszyna wrote: > Hello, > > I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box > running potato), and wh

Re: ISO IMAGE OF DEBIAN?

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Check the mailing lists of a few weeks ago, there was an URL where you can download iso-images of potato (if you can't find them, mail me, i still got it SOMEWHERE in my mailbox). Ron Raemaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, -={ Menno Slaats }=- wrote: > Does anyone know where I can download the ISO IMAGE

Re: ISDN question

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
A little more information would be nice... Wath ent (is going) wrong??? Checking your email adres I guess yoiur quite familair with linux / debian : SHAME ON YOU YOU DIDN'T GIVE ANY MORE INFO! Ron Rademker On Fri, 19 May 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: > We tried to set up a machine with ISDN th

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Jay Kelly wrote: Yes, and there's more than one way to do it, but the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini HOWTO should get you started on it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Tom > > Hello All, > Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way

Re: Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? > This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right > back up. If it is, how would I go about it? > "dd if=/dev/hd?x of=image-file" to save it, "dd if=image-file of=/dev/hd?x" to restore it (bew

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'd like to do a ftp/http install of potato on this system since we have > a fast connection at work. How many boot floppies are required to do > this kind of ftp/http install ? > basically two floppies: a rescue (boot) disk and a root disk. possibly you need the disk with additional driver modu

Clone of hard drive

2000-05-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right back up. If it is, how would I go about it?

Re: log file full of "-- MARK --"

2000-05-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:05:02 +0200 > From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Never seen this on any other unix system... > Precisely. What exactly is the reason for syslog to have this "feature"? I do not about author's motives, but I find this feature very useful. First, when the

Roulette game?

2000-05-19 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! Are the any roulette games available for Debian? /nisse

"generic-serial" and "serial"

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
In the install module section there are two choices which both sound like they could be the pc standard com1 and com2 ports: generic_serial (No description available) serial (No description available) Which one to pick ron

Debian-CD Image and Kernel versions puzzle

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am experimenting with installs of frozen potato and this is a puzzle (to me): Using a CD ISO image I downloaded of potato about a month ago I do a CD Boot to install the base system, then I select http for the access method. Doing so I end up with Kernel version 2.2.14. Using a new ISO image I

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-19 Thread Drew Bloechl
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debians > > According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on > windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Indeed it is. Note that what you want is probably freshmeat.net

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Ooops... >According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on >windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Sorry, I have mistaken freshmeat.net with .org! Sorry, all my fault! Just forget I ever posted these two post! :) Sven

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-19 Thread Damon Buckwalter
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debians > > According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on > windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Didn't you know? Scoop runs his stuff on a 286/12 with 640+384k of memory and Windows

freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debians According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Sven

installing gphoto

2000-05-19 Thread Nick
i am installing the free version of gphoto similair to photoshop but have encountered the following problem. i need to upgrade my libc6 libs but am prompted to replace ldso, i need the version 1.9.11-2.1 but can only find 1.9.11-2 on lycos and anything else.   anyone know of a good source for

Re: Kernel revision info command?

2000-05-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 19 May 2000 16:45:22 CDT, "Ron Stordahl" writes: >I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the >kernel? Or if you can't do it there, how? bash-2.03$ uname -a Linux WatchZwerg 2.0.38 #4 Sun Jan 2 23:48:24 MET 2000 i586 unknown hth, &rw -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAI

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Looking at the Debian home page, one get the impression that only the > now very old Slink distribution, with kernel 2.0.36, old X, old libc, > etc, released March 1999 is available. It's the official one, still. > The News section

Kernel revision info command?

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the kernel? Or if you can't do it there, how? Ron

Re: Crash-URL

2000-05-19 Thread Justin Megawarne
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:14:15PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately > when clicked on. It was stated on that very page that this would happen. > So then I tried it and it worked! Unfortunately I lost the URL. :*( > Anyone

Re: Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Kruszyna
Actually, come to think of it, even though the new drive wouldn't boot at first, it still got as far as "Loading Linux", so I guess it might not be a lilo problem after all. The boot process got to "Loading Linux", but not to "Uncompressing Linux". Changing the image= in my lilo.conf from /vmlinu

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of > the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. > Any downside to this,

RE: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Svante Signell
This is the kind of reply I was fearing, effectively shutting off the discussion. Please read the whole content of my message. The intent was NOT blinking text, images, animations, etc. It was about moving the best properties of the debian distribution and tools up front, also for newcomers to see.

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Svante Signell
Couldn't agree more with Gary. (I don't think this message was sent to any of the lists, only me. Gary, do you mind that your reply is forwarded? If so please send me a private mail.) Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quoting Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > L

power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Mason
I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. Any downside to this, will it ca

RE: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Mason
Best power has the best UPS's. We have a 3.1KVA that has 80,000 hours on it, I expect 80,000 more. The tech support is fabulous, I have used them many times. We have lousy power and nothing gets through. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497

Crash-URL

2000-05-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately when clicked on. It was stated on that very page that this would happen. So then I tried it and it worked! Unfortunately I lost the URL. :*( Anyone know of this? Perhaps it's something like "NUL" or so which supposedly is a

Crash-URL

2000-05-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately when clicked on. It was stated on that very page that this would happen. So then I tried it and it worked! Unfortunately I lost the URL. :*( Anyone know of this? Perhaps it's something like "NUL" or so which supposedly is a

NFS server setup problems...

2000-05-19 Thread Kelly Corbin
At boot, Debian tells me: Starting NFS kernel daemon: export 'blah':/'blah': Function not implemented nfsd nfssvc: Function not implemented. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I haven't found any package called dpkg-scanpackages. I searched the deb site, can't find it. can you be more explicit? Thanks Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Questions: > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade

Re: APM Disable

2000-05-19 Thread Adam Shand
> According to the only package I found on Debian's site concerning APM > (apmd): The Debian default kernel does *not* contain APM support, > because it causes problems on some computers. as of a few kernels ago in potato (at least a few months ago but i can't remember when) apm support *is* enab

Re:

2000-05-19 Thread Kent West
William Paul Philibert wrote: > How can I subscribe to the mailing list? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null This page: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe has instructions for "manually" subscribing, as well as a point&click interface for subscribin

I'm an idiot

2000-05-19 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A number of you will have received strange messages (purporting to be Usenet test or cancel messages) from my machine between 1700 and 1830 GMT today. I messsed up my news server configuration which managed to spam several people with these. Sorr

Re: chaningen the username on outgoing mail in pine.

2000-05-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
You might want to consider switching to mutt for your MUA. It makes the process much easier. Thus spake Kent Nyberg on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:52:21PM CDT > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine? > > the usual way

Re: APM Disable

2000-05-19 Thread Kent West
Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, > After a few minutes my monitors shut due to APM. Where do I shutoff APM? I > checked the bios and didnt see anything dor the monitor. > Any sugestion would be great > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null According to the only pack

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Basically what everyone > seems to be saying is: APC's newer products aren't so good, Tripplite is > ok, and Best Power has the best Linux support. > > Visiting each of these companies sites, I like: > > Tripplite OMNISMART 700 PNP UPS 120V. > AP

Re: chaningen the username on outgoing mail in pine.

2000-05-19 Thread Adam Shand
> > > Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine? > > the usual way to go is to configure your mta to do address rewriting. > > however, in pine you could add a custom header "From: blabla" - but this > > is not very clean. > > How do i change that in pine? I have cant find

Re: chaningen the username on outgoing mail in pine.

2000-05-19 Thread Kent Nyberg
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine? > the usual way to go is to configure your mta to do address rewriting. > however, in pine you could add a custom header "From: blabla" - but this > is not very clean. How do i ch

Re: dumbass wm question

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:10:42AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > so is there a full-on desktop that's pretty tiny? > if i want to know what time/day it is i can look at the clock on my wall etc I've tried a few different ones, and here's what I've found. KDE - resource hog FVWM95 - not bad, bas

Sorry (Re: MACHTYPE, HOSTTYPE variables)

2000-05-19 Thread Guentcho Skordev
Hello, Sorry for asking twice the same question. I see that both messages are in the list now... Bye Guentcho

MACHTYPE, HOSTTYPE variables

2000-05-19 Thread Guentcho Skordev
Hello, Which programs use the variables MACHTYPE and HOSTTYPE? Althugh I have installed slink on a 386, the values are: HOSTTYPE=i486 MACHTYPE=i486-pc-linux-gnu And now I see also: BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="01" [2]="1" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i486-pc-linux-gnu") Is there something wrong?

Re: Sound on a ASUS K7

2000-05-19 Thread Andreas Oeldenberger
Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the ASUS K7 motherboard is a AC'97 V2.1 CODEC, Analog Devices 3D > sound circuitry. > > Which selections do I have to do when compiling a new kernel to enable > sound? you either need a 2.3.x kernel or alsa >= 0.5.6 -- Hi! I'm a .signature viru

MACHTYPE, HOSTTYPE variables

2000-05-19 Thread Guentcho Skordev
Hello, What are HOSTTYPE and MACHTYPE used for? I have installed slink on a 386, but the values are: HOSTTYPE=i486 MACHTYPE=i486-pc-linux-gnu Bye Guentcho

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2000-05-19 Thread William Paul Philibert
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Wakup LAN - Good morning...up and at em

2000-05-19 Thread Tom Warfield
Okay i have a 3COM 905 card with the option of using the WakeUp lan feature. My motherboard supports it and it is installed. Once the computer is turned off the light on the card still stays onokay so know im reading about some kinda MagicPacket... I think i have the stuff setup right for the

More headaches with mailagent config

2000-05-19 Thread Tony
Hello, Here's my next set of problems with setting up mailagent: When mailagent starts to LEAVE, it wants to "execute" /var/spool/mail/uctpjac (my mail file), and in this execution it fails (see log entries below). Can someone tell me what this execution is, and what I need to do to get perform

Re: init - autostarts

2000-05-19 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Dominic! Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather Dominic> not be running? I don't know how good or sloppy solution this is, but I usually sim

Re: APM Disable

2000-05-19 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Jay! Jay> After a few minutes my monitors shut due to APM. Where do I Jay> shutoff APM? I checked the bios and didnt see anything dor the Jay> monitor. Any sugestion would be great How about setting your monitor's turn off time? Under X xset, under console setterm can do the job for y

DFE-570 TX Server Card confusion...

2000-05-19 Thread Kristian
Hi there again, dear fellow debian-using folks... Actually, running into some trouble right now with one of those D-Link PCI-based DFE-570TX "Quad Channel Server Card". Having just an ugly M$Win NT driver disk and a very poor documentation handy, I'm now desperately trying to get this thing workin

Re: log file full of "-- MARK --"

2000-05-19 Thread Sven Burgener
[snip] >>to show, that the system lives. :) >>if you don't like it, then supply "-m 1" to syslogd >-- will do. [snip] >Never seen this on any other unix system... Precisely. What exactly is the reason for syslog to have this "feature"? TIA Sven

Re: log file full of "-- MARK --"

2000-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > /var/messages has a "-- MARK --" every 20 minutes; why? > > > to show, that the system lives. :) > if you don't like it, then supply "-m 1" to syslogd Better yet, turn it off in /etc/syslog.conf like so: *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\

RE: Digest mailing list #543 ?

2000-05-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I've been getting the same message header since 04/06/00. I've complained to no avail as of yet. I think everyone is working to get potato out, and ignoring maintenance of the server. Brooks > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guido > Bozze

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC > products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much > narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more > expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but make

Re: DSL and DEBIAN

2000-05-19 Thread John Foster
> Ben Babich wrote: > > Hi, > does anyone know if there is support for dsl within debian or redhat? > > If not, will it be in the plan for the next release? > > Regards, > > Ben --- DSL requires no additional support in Debian other th

Re: Will KDE2 be in woody?

2000-05-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:44:55 +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard wrote: > it probably means that the package is obsolete; IIRC, there were KDE .debs > before the licensing issues were brought up. (the QT license is not > considered a `free license' by the Debian project, so it cannot be > included in Debian

RE: DSL and DEBIAN

2000-05-19 Thread Alec Smith
Be careful though, not all providers use an external "modem". I know that here in Ohio, Ameritech uses an internal PCI adapter. As far as I know, Linux doesn't support these internal adapters. On Fri, 19 May 2000, Paul McHale wrote: > DSL is typically connected to you computers via network. T

Digest mailing list #543 ?

2000-05-19 Thread Guido Bozzetto
The last message that arrived to me is the Volume 100 : Issue 543 that arrived without topics index :-( Is this correct or there are problems ? Thank you, Guido. -- ++---+ | Guido Bozzetto | Offic

Hard Drive Upgrade

2000-05-19 Thread Daniel J. Kruszyna
Hello, I just recently upgraded the hard drive on my Debian machine (an intel box running potato), and while everything copied successfully, I could not get the new hard disk to boot. I then changed my lilo.conf to point to "/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14" instead of the symlink at "/vmlinuz", and everythi

Re: init - autostarts

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc > when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? > > how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather > not be running? > man update-rc.d -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the ans

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