Re: Crash-URL

2000-05-23 Thread Shao Zhang
try this: hello, please click me!! Regards, Shao. Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! Unfort

Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the > cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp? If you are going to have two have two ethernet cards in your machine, this is fairly easy and a number of responses have already touched on how to have d

RE: Modem Setup

2000-05-23 Thread Jay Kelly
I need help in getting my potato box to see it. When I run wvdialconfig it only checks com 1 and com 2. How do I get linux to look on come 3 and 4? -Original Message- From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:56 PM To: Jay Kelly; debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Rati
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I seem to have moved the SCSI Ids around and dropped the transfer rate and it appears to work great. Thanks again! Rob > Andrew Weiss wrote: > > ID of 0 is usually reserved for a boot drive in many SCSI bios'es. > Don't use 0 with a CDROM. Make that har

Re: lp.o module will not load

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
Try modprobe'ing instead of insmod'ing (assuming you've done a depmod on the new modules0. Or insmod parport first; I think that is where the unresolved symbols point to. Or possibly parport_pc. At 10:12 PM 5/23/00 +, Pollywog wrote: >I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a mod

Re: encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > I have got a perl script that are encrypted. > It looks like something like this: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Filter::decrypt ; > [EMAIL > PROTECTED]@^C6oxOp<=9p(35p+=8p&:-^^"7L^D-;?p&=(^UE_Ap&:-^^";"^WE&$^Y6R/^_!7L^F,= >

encrypted perl scripts

2000-05-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have got a perl script that are encrypted. It looks like something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use Filter::decrypt ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^C6oxOp<=9p(35p+=8p&:-^^"7L^D-;?p&=(^UE_Ap&:-^^";"^WE&$^Y6R/^_!7L^F,= ^Q17?p<=9^BoQL^\,1)^^67L^Q" )^

Re: Modem Setup

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:01 PM 5/23/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >Hey, >How do I install a modem. I looked at the man page and tried isapnp buty I >couldnt figure out how to use it. Im using a PnP 33.6 Wisecom Modem. I also >looked at the howto's and it was very little help. >Any help would be great. Depends on the mo

Re: Ethernet installation

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:54 PM 5/23/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >Im sorry to ask this again, what do I do to add another ethernet card to my >box. I want to add a Kingston to eth1 and I cant remember the way to do it. Am I right in assuming you are talking about a pci card? As I recall, Kingston cards use tulip.o, an

Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote: (snip) > Also a heads up: some cable-modem providers require you to use a particular > hostname as part of the least request; I can't recall if RR is like this or > not. FWIW, RR in Columbus, OH isn't. -- Mark

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

2000-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joey Hess wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-dpkg-0004/msg2.html > > Okay, but that issue assumes that a package leaves a bomb in its > prerm. There is no way to protect yourself from such trojan packages > anyway, wether you use rpm or

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:30:42PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. > >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and > >the clock always got

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
I recompiled the kernel and this time I did not elect to put printer support into the kernel; I am using modules. That did the trick. Also, I could not get apsfilter to get things working, but I got things working using RedHat's Printtool. thanks -- Andrew > I'm far from the most expert on

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor > has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting? IMHO, vim.

Re: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
I've used a LaserJet 4M with JetDirect for years, and I assume a JetDirect card on one HP printer is pretty much the same as another. Here are the printcap entries I use: ascii|caxton_ascii:\ :lp=:\ :rm=caxton:\ :rp=text:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ERRORLOG:\ :sd=/

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:51 PM 5/23/00 +, Pollywog wrote: >Thanks, I had all of those things installed, so I am stumped. >I am going to try putting printer support in as a module, maybe that will >help. I'm far from the most expert on parallel ports -- until recently, I hadn't touched one in years -- but I did

Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:54 PM 5/23/00 -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: >I'm in need of a little help. Tomorrow the cable company is coming to hook up >my cable modem (HURRAY). Anyway, I have been told that they (road runner) use >dhcp to assign the ip addresses. I know from some pages I have seen that linux >will work

Problems with ncurses programms

2000-05-23 Thread Francois Fayard
Hello, I have some problems with programms that uses ncurses (I think this is the source of the problem). I use rxvt (But there is the same problem under xterm), and when i run dselect or when i use vim inside mutt, that background of my term becomes black wheras I use lightyellow as background

printtool v. apsfilter

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
I could not get apsfilter to work on my Epson Stylus Color 740, but Printtool seems to have gotten it working. Is there some trick to using apsfilter? -- Andrew

Re: lp.o module will not load

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
I just recompiled my kernel from fresh source and the errors stopped. Then, I installed printtool and surprise, a test page was printed. :) I need to find out how to enable EOF, because the page was not ejected, though it printed perfectly. thanks -- Andrew On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote: >

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread ferret
Oh the other hand, my WDE 18310 SCA LVD drive won't talk to my Adaptec controller, or (when I tested it at work with a dual-channel drive) it worked on the LVD connector but not on the ultrawide connector (using a SCA adapter. I have been told that in general LVD drives will not work on normal con

libapache-mod-ssl doesn't work with OR without SSLv3...

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm trying to get libapache-mod-ssl working. When I try to connect via https to the server, Netscape tells me that there's some strange network error or that the server is misconfigured basically, that the response came back garbled. So, I found this on DejaNews: 6.1.3) I downloaded a ver

Re: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

2000-05-23 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 17:57, A. Scott White wrote: > I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct > card. has anyone ever done this? Yup, doing exactly this. See below. > I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is > the IP of the Je

how do I get high uid support

2000-05-23 Thread Cliff Draper
Hi, My group just recently switched to using 32-bit uids. My understanding was that kernel 2.4 would support that. I compiled 2.3.99pre8, rebooted, and tried a high uid user. And it failed ("setuid: Invalid argument"). Further reading suggested that I'd need to go to glibc 2.2 (I'm currently u

Ethernet installation

2000-05-23 Thread Jay Kelly
Im sorry to ask this again, what do I do to add another ethernet card to my box. I want to add a Kingston to eth1 and I cant remember the way to do it.

Re: lp.o module will not load

2000-05-23 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, you seem to not have compiled the parport module. You can find it under General Setup in menuconfig. hth, Rolf On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a module and this is > what I get when I insmod the module. What could be wrong, and i

Re: xdm headache

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you login as user when login-in with xdm? If that's so, that user might be out of quota! What is says at the login screen will probably have to do with Xbanner, the config files of Xbanner are quite understandable, so it shouldn't be much of a problem editing them. Ron Rademaker On Wed, 24 Ma

Re: cpu arch performance

2000-05-23 Thread Andreas Oeldenberger
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it rates as 2600 BogoMIPs. This would seem to imply that on a per MHz > basis, the m68060 is the equivalent of two PIIIs. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.html -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!

lp.o module will not load

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a module and this is what I get when I insmod the module. What could be wrong, and is it a problem with this kernel? #insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_or_block_R7098ea8a

xdm headache

2000-05-23 Thread Jordan Howarth
Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card. After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything (finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a f

Re: cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)

2000-05-23 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:54:20PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: What cdrecord options should I use in order to make the disk readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? the cd-rom drive must be capable of reading cd-rw disk, and as a very general rule only those wit

Modem Setup

2000-05-23 Thread Jay Kelly
Hey, How do I install a modem. I looked at the man page and tried isapnp buty I couldnt figure out how to use it. Im using a PnP 33.6 Wisecom Modem. I also looked at the howto's and it was very little help. Any help would be great.

Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

2000-05-23 Thread A. Scott White
I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct card. has anyone ever done this? I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is the IP of the Jet Direct card, here is my current setup: printcap: # lp|s

Re: RFC okay, i hereby volunteer.

2000-05-23 Thread Svante Signell
OK W. Trillich, I'm listening. Was just away for the weekend. Since I started the discussion about the Debian home page content I'll try to assist you wherever and whenever I can. Svante Signell w trillich writes: > from the private support i've gotten over my 'HFTFMADBUFE' > rantings, i can

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? Not sure what you mean by "this program". Downloading programs, etc, in and of itself, should not crash Microsoft Windows. Yet we all know that Windows can crash at the simplest things, so that's no guarantee. I t

Re: dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Hoover wrote: (snip) > Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the > cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp? (snip) You tell the DHCP client to grab an address from the ethernet card which is plugged into the cable

Re: Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

2000-05-23 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering > at the daemon. > > I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use > in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some > wa

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have never set up printing in Linux. I just added a printer (Epson Stylus >Color 740) via parallel port and I have no idea where to begin. >I installed apsfilter and then magicfilter and apsfilter indicates that >/dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 etc

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the we had this topic already several times on this list ... seems to be quite common. libz has the confusing name zlib1g. libxpm is xpm4g. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is th

Re: Auto starting a script

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Creating the symlinks will do, I think they'll run as root. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote: > The following are the pertinent sections a script (and the script it calls) > which I want to auto start for run levels 2-5. startup.sh simply calls > tomcat.sh with a "start" p

Re: cpu arch performance

2000-05-23 Thread Ashley Clark
* Lee Elliott in "cpu arch performance" dated 2000/05/23 22:49 wrote: > Hello list(s), > > Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running > Debian on m68k. > > The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP > rating of 99.something. The x86 system

dhcp && cable modem (somewhat urgent)

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm in need of a little help. Tomorrow the cable company is coming to hook up my cable modem (HURRAY). Anyway, I have been told that they (road runner) use dhcp to assign the ip addresses. I know from some pages I have seen that linux will work with road runners dhcp, but I have a different pro

Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering at the daemon. I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some way to stop *new* spam from places that aren't on the bl

Re: "/etc/tmac.man.local" snippet - `man' output as one long Scroll.

2000-05-23 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
Cool! Thanks, I've been annoyed at the very same thing. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I find it annoying that when I view a man page from either the > emacsen or on a tty, it is broken into pages, when it should really > be one long scroll. If you add the following sn

cpu arch performance

2000-05-23 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello list(s), Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running Debian on m68k. The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz system and it rates as 2600 BogoMIPs. This would seem to impl

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
Thanks, I had all of those things installed, so I am stumped. I am going to try putting printer support in as a module, maybe that will help. -- Andrew On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Tue, 23 May 2000 21:22:25 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > :: said: > > As far as

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I have never set up printing in Linux. I just added a printer (Epson > Stylus Color 740) via parallel port and I have no idea where to begin. > I installed apsfilter and then magicfilter and apsfilter indicates that > /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 etc are not installed,

`dired-man-locally' for XEmacs.

2000-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
If you put the following in your "~/.emacs" (or your "~/.xemacs/init.el if you prefer) you'll be able to put the cursor over a man page filename in `dired', and push `l' to display it in the emacs manual viewer. This works for XEmacs. Anyone know a way to make it work with GNU Emacs? If so

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Tue, 23 May 2000 21:22:25 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: As far as I remember, this is what you need: 1) A kernel with support to parallel port and printer; 2) A spooling software (lpr or lprng); 3) A filter, like magicfilter or apsfilter. I tried both, and magicfilter seemed

"/etc/tmac.man.local" snippet - `man' output as one long Scroll.

2000-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I find it annoying that when I view a man page from either the emacsen or on a tty, it is broken into pages, when it should really be one long scroll. If you add the following snippet to your "/etc/tmac.man.local", the `man' pages will no longer be paginated. For postscript output, it will s

can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Pollywog
I have never set up printing in Linux. I just added a printer (Epson Stylus Color 740) via parallel port and I have no idea where to begin. I installed apsfilter and then magicfilter and apsfilter indicates that /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 etc are not installed, yet I can see they are installed. The Prin

Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-23 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, after collecting a heap of files necessary to install X11 (potato), I am stuck. For xbase-clients and fvwm (why is it called fvwm2 in package comments, but not listed as fvwm2 as *.deb and in Packages?) those two packages are required: libz1 and libxpm4. I searched for them in the Packages f

Auto starting a script

2000-05-23 Thread A. Scott White
The following are the pertinent sections a script (and the script it calls) which I want to auto start for run levels 2-5. startup.sh simply calls tomcat.sh with a "start" parameter. Questions: - Can I accomplish this by simply placing a symbolic link to startup.sh called S99tomcat in rc[2-5].

root can't view manpages (incl. strace)

2000-05-23 Thread Brian Stults
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root, I get the following: man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I've included the output below. If any

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? Isn't that a "risk" that you take every time you start Windows? :-)) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specia

root can't view manpages

2000-05-23 Thread Brian Stults
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root, I get the following: man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I've included the output below. If any

Re: kdm

2000-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm running potato. When I run kdm, it doesn't read my .xsession file. How > can I correct this? > in /etc/X11/Xsession.options: allow-user-xsession should do the job. > Also, some of the instructions given for installing kdm don't fit with the > debian file layout. Where can I read about debia

Re: RFC - corel installation

2000-05-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dominic Blythe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any body else ever had problems with corel installation? It might be worth posting this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the modified subject line (because RFC is jargon for something else). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fa

kdm

2000-05-23 Thread Kendall Shaw
I'm running potato. When I run kdm, it doesn't read my .xsession file. How can I correct this? Also, some of the instructions given for installing kdm don't fit with the debian file layout. Where can I read about debian's X file structure? It's especially difficult because KDE doesn't seem to offe

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and >the clock always got skewed. Do you want that when you're in X or on the console? Three thin

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Mats Rynge
Steve Lamb wrote: > Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of "Simple > Text Editor..." Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any > of those three words. Fox X I would use Nedit. Very easy to use and great highlighting. Actually, this is the only o

So much for wishful thinking...

2000-05-23 Thread t.bedlam
Amazing how these things start. :) Well, Steve, I hope this teaches you there is no such thing as a friendly joke when Emacs is in the line. (So to speak.) If the FSF or the GPL did not exists, Emacs would still be a tax-deductible charity. (...under the bill of rights...) On Tue, May 23, 2000

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from > >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great > > First off, potato is the same as frozen ... > > The distributions are: > > sl

Re: ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Robert Waldner
Cisco´s have a built-in accounting capability. Simply enable "ip accounting output-packets" an all interfaces (eg Ethernet0 and (Serial0 or BRI0)). Then write a simple script that telnets to the cisco, enables, and does "show ip accounting". Et voila, all you have left now is the aggregation of the

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:49 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: >> Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a >> pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in >> fact. > > Hey, don't tell me.

Re: Re[2]: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've had no problems with installing potato, however upgrading has been a pain in the ass. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 9:46:23 AM, Ron wrote: > > First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from > > compared to slink, I wo

Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: > Have you perhaps never used emacs? I have. > Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a > pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in > fact. Hey, don't tell me. Tell all the Em

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:37 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, because were are still on simple editor. Again, I fail to see how > Emacs qualifies since it isn't simple nor is it a text editor. (Please note that I changed the subject line a couple messages back, to remove the 'simple'.) Ha

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:21:36 AM, Frank wrote: > Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using > VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27) > (official wichert debian package) Hmmm. I guess I'm just set in my ways because... work: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 8:41:46 AM, John wrote: > Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got changed to "text > editor with best Perl syntax highlighting", without a concomitant change in > subject line. (X)Emacs certainly qualifies, despite it's editing functions > being only a subset

Re[2]: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 9:46:23 AM, Ron wrote: > First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from > compared to slink, I would advice you to use potato, except if you need a > really stable and secure system, I don't have stability security problems > with potato, but slink i

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Steve Lamb hat gesagt: // Steve Lamb wrote: > Vim. I've not seen a problem with its highlighting that didn't also > improve the readability of my code when I got in the habit of getting it to > colorize right. The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is > something like this: >

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't ultra2 usually LVD interface? If it is LVD you probably won't be > able to use it on the narrow channel. Not true. My Seagate Barracuda ST39173LW is LVD and works fine on my 50 pin 2940U adapter (using to 68-to-50 pin adapter). (scsi0) found at PCI 18/0 (

Re: OT. Debian w/s in schools - info needed.

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Lindsay Allen at 23/05/00 09:54:58PM: > > I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school. We have a > Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very > receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually > breaking away from you-kno

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:40 PM 5/23/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? Probably. In my experience, any time you do *anything* with Windows, you risk crashing it. But that's probably not what you meant. Downloading isn't the issue -- a Debian download is no diffe

power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
Hello all, I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and the clock always got skewed. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any good tips or suggestions? Thanks, Matt

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great First off, potato is the same as frozen ... The distributions are: slink = stable = 2.1 potato = frozen = future 2.2 woody

cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)

2000-05-23 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've burned a potato image (disk 2) on a cd-rw disk. What cdrecord options should I use in order to make the disk readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? I've tried in a 8x and wasn't able to read even it works fine on a 44x one. Thanks,

Re: dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like a bug in some script used by dselect where the existing of a file is testing, but there is no file to test for its existence. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brent McMillan wrote: > I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked > recently, but I can't find it in t

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
> If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? For sure, meant that Windows will not ever run on Your machine ;) Davide -- Feel free, feel Debian !

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Using windows is risking to crash windows ;)) But with downloading debian you don't risk more or less than when downloading any other thing. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s un

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from compared to slink, I would advice you to use potato, except if you need a really stable and secure system, I don't have stability security problems with potato, but slink is the official stable and it might be more stable. Ro

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:33 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >Hello All, >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great There is no one "should". The reason why there are different distributions is because they fit different n

Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread TheChucklinTrain
If i download this program do i risk crashing windows?

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread ferret
Isn't ultra2 usually LVD interface? If it is LVD you probably won't be able to use it on the narrow channel. If it isn't LVD, where do you find these drives? On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote: > > > Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controll

Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great

FTP and GNOME

2000-05-23 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hi: I'm not sure if it's an off-topic, but I want to create an icon to an FTP address in the GNOME desktop, but I can't. If I create a URL pointing to an FTP site, I get a Netscape window, and actually I expect to get a GMC window. I know that GMC has FTP support, and it's possible to create an F

gs, wmaker debs? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?)

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs >available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/~branden/plans.txt. It seems like the move to the

dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked recently, but I can't find it in the archives or my inbox. I just tried to install a few packages using dselect. dselect is set up to grab the packages off a cd. As far as I know I've done nothing differently, however, I when I hit

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread John Gould
Yes, I believe you can. You can set the transfer speed in the setup of the AHA2940 card from CNTRL-A at boot up. You can also use SCA drives with either UW or U2W, if you can obtain these. They have 80 pins and need external termination and ID setting, but there is an adaptor that you can buy for a

Re: Adaptec SCSI controller

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
In the kernel is a driver for the aha 152x, so it should work. In other words you stand a chance and it is possible! Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mark Carroll wrote: > I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand > a chance of getting it working with my syste

Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
>> (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. > > Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are > certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been > using a different Perl mode in Emacs. I haven't noticed any issues, but I don't make huge usage of here documents, and I te

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 11:28 AM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of "Simple > Text Editor..." Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any > of those three words. Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got c

Re: dhcp

2000-05-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
dhcp-client is indeed the package you want. Post the error messages you get during install. In order to run a gateway for your external interface you'll want to set up IP Masquerading and then have all your other boxes point to your linux box as their default gateway. In order to get IP Masq. goi

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 7:39:16 AM, Jesse wrote: >> (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. > Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are > certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been > using a different Perl mode in Emacs. Not to mention I fail to see how Em

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 6:57:22 AM, Keith wrote: > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor > has the *best* Perl syntax

Re: ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:59:59PM +0200, Litzler Mihaly wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Cisco1600 router connecting to an ISP. > I would like to count the network traffic of this router, but not like the > way of mrtg does, because I want to know all downloaded or uploaded MBs on > all IP addresses in

Adaptec SCSI controller

2000-05-23 Thread Mark Carroll
I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand a chance of getting it working with my system (currently upgraded to 'frozen')? If so, which SCSI driver (kernel module, whatever) should I be using? I haven't managed to get it to do anything so far; it'd be nice to know th

RE: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread JoeCool
I have this same type of problem when I try to use SCSI tape backup. I get simular error messages and the machine's load goes pretty high and sometimes needs to be rebooted. I have had no luck getting the tape backup to work. this is the error i get: -- May 3 14:23:23 taz kernel: SCSI host 0 abo

ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Litzler Mihaly
Hi, I have a Cisco1600 router connecting to an ISP. I would like to count the network traffic of this router, but not like the way of mrtg does, because I want to know all downloaded or uploaded MBs on all IP addresses in my C class using this router in a time period (for example in a month). Has

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