Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one us

Re: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.

2000-06-24 Thread Destrius
-clip- > > I suddenly got the above error message last night. I don't recall doing > > anything to my X installation at all. > > But you upgraded your box, right? -clip- I don't remember seeing anything X-related in the list of packages upgraded, tho. But sometimes I'm blind like that. :P -clip-

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be > great.It would be ne

problems using pci ethernet adapter

2000-06-24 Thread David C. Ables
hello all, I have a new linksys etherfast 10/100 card (actually I have two, but I'll only be using one to share a ppp connection until I get a cablemodem that should use the tulip driver, but I can't get it to compile. I have the source for it (pci-scan.c/h, tulip.c, kern_compat.h from www.scyld.c

I can not connect to my ISP.

2000-06-24 Thread G0DModE
Hi! I`m tring to connect to my ISP, by "pon" command and minicom. In two cases I can`t connect. 1) First way I`m connecting using "pon", this is log from /var/log/ppp.log: - CUT - Jun 25 00:17:08 g0dmode pppd[715]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 25 00:17:09 g0dmode chat[716]: abort

Unusualproblem with LILO.

2000-06-24 Thread G0DModE
Hi! My friend has problem with can`t manage. He says that when he start comp. and lilo prompt appears, he can`t do anything, because system is writing on the screen this string: 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01

Re: postfix help

2000-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 10:00:22PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 04:04:00PM -0500, Charlie Kroeger wrote: > > >One to look into is ddts.org. > > > > humm. I saw a caterpillar and a bug..no links no nothing. what? > > > > http://ddts.org > > Hmmm... odd. Use http://www.ddts.org t

Re: Creative Riva TNT2, xserver?

2000-06-24 Thread John Carline
Nick wrote: > which xserver should i use with the > 3D SoundBlaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32mb video card? http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/Status21.html#21 -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:54:38AM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > thanks a lot for the reply > (1) booting with the 'c' key held down doesn't work. It boots to MAC OS > after checking the cdrom, then my two hard drive partitions (one of which > is empty, the one if want to put debian linux

Creative Riva TNT2, xserver?

2000-06-24 Thread Nick
which xserver should i use with the 3D SoundBlaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32mb video card?

Re: boot error

2000-06-24 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:32:31AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > But the message comes at bootup. AFAIK, the root FS is always mounted > read-only in the first instance, and is then remounted read-write later in > the boot sequence. I think this is so. > So this looks like a problem in the base De

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-06-24 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 09:26:19PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://residence.educities.edu.tw/kbt01 Some Taiwanese git bugging us here or what? This stuff is annoying. What can be done about this apart from extending our .procmailrc further? :( -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linu

named -> bad referral?

2000-06-24 Thread Will Trillich
i've been getting log entries like this lately: Jun 22 04:35:30 server named[21839]: bad referral (net !< EXODUS.NET) Jun 22 04:35:30 server named[21839]: bad referral (net !< EXODUS.NET) is that bad? can i make it stop? i also managed to get into ndc and make it do a dump, but i can't find the

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Mike Brownlow
Eric G . Miller wrote: > Thanks all for the info, haven't been keeping up with the proliferation > of web formatting standards... > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > Despite all of this, my lynx (2.8.3rel.1) from unstable doesn't display > > the tags like you're

Re: OpenGL stops X

2000-06-24 Thread Mike Brownlow
Seiichi Ariga wrote: > When my X stopped, I did rlogin from other computer > and killed almost everything except processes like > init, those k* things and internet related damons. > But I couldn't erase my stopped screen or go back > to terminal. So I had to reboot my system. Yep. > Now, I have

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Thanks all for the info, haven't been keeping up with the proliferation of web formatting standards... On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > Despite all of this, my lynx (2.8.3rel.1) from unstable doesn't display > the tags like you're saying Eric. Which version do you h

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Mike Brownlow
Colin Watson wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > >Surfed over to salon.com with the links browser and showed up all > >over the place. So I looked at the source, and sure enough, there was > > all over the place. Now it's my understanding that browsers are > >supposed to ignore tags they don't u

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Re: Install problem

2000-06-24 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:25:01AM -0700, chunjiang fu wrote: [...] > from the linuxmall. But I got a problem when I > installed it on my intel-486DX66(HD:2.1G, Mem: 21M). > At the begaining: it could not be booted from the CD. A 486 BIOS probably won't support booting from CD. > I made a flopy d

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level. this is not hard to do. you can specify the config file to use with the -config switch. so you could specify a config file with auto-login options and alternatively a "

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be great.It would be neat for a home user since the "admin " part is really happening no

[lcdproc] problem with contrast

2000-06-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
Note this email is going to both the lcdproc mailing list and the debian mailing list. I did what you said, and here is the problem: leko:/etc/init.d#./lcdproc start Starting LCDproc: lcdproc. Invalid parameter: "--contrast Invalid parameter: 200" It seems to be treating the "--contrast 200" d

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and > xdm can still run on tty7. > so you have this script and xdm running at the same time. this is not a problem, but i like having everything in one place. > It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. > you

GDM and gdmchooser

2000-06-24 Thread Scott Graves
How do I invoke the gdmchooser in order to choose which host I wish to login to? I can't seem to get this feature to work. Thanks, Scott

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> There is something that I always asked myself about the differnet display > managers. Why do they not handle the login window as an external > application ? you can find something like that on freshmeat ("XDM-External Greet"), but the url is dead ... -( however, the external greeter concept of xd

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and xdm can still run on tty7. It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. So my question is: who really needs a patch to xdm? -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. "Real hackers mostly th

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > > i became interested in automatic login, too. > > Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they > want an auto login? Whats wrong with using startx instead?! > i've written a auto-loging s

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it > for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it > seems

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Sven> Hi all I wanted to know why that when changing runlevels from Sven> say 2 to 3, the KILL links of _3_ and not 2 get executed before Sven> starting the START links of 3...? Marshal> I think because K comes before S. So switching run levels Marshal> only runs the scripts in the runlevel dirc

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they want an auto login? Whats wrong w

dselect installation problem

2000-06-24 Thread Stefan Qvickstrom
Hi,   I'm trying to install Debian. I got an old CD from a friend of mine, installed it and got my network (through a cable modem) to work and then was able to apt-get what I needed. After that I did a dselect and got a bunch of files downloaded. When I try to install though the following ha

RE: Install problem

2000-06-24 Thread Bill Barnes
This sounds familiar, so here is my experience using libranet.com, a debian 2.2 distro bought directly from Libranet. It seems that support at Libranet correctly diagnosed this as a hardware problem. Installed without a hitch on a machine comprising AMD K6/400, 96mb, 40x Acer CD-ROM. Failed j

RE: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bill Barnes
>= Original Message From Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > > >ps: are there already other implementations of x-based auto-login? ;-/ > libranet.com has done a nice distro of debian 2.2 which includes an auto-login. >pps: please cc me, as i unsubscribed from the lists due to a l

OpenGL stops X

2000-06-24 Thread Seiichi Ariga
Hi, I got some questions regarding mesa. I have TNT2 and the newest (I'm writing this at Sun Jun 25 10:20:38 JST 2000) mesa packages from unstable. Sometimes, my X server (xserver-svga 3.3.6-8) stops while running OpenGL applications like Quake3 demo (linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86) or my own applicati

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-24 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:38:55PM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote: > > Hi all I wanted to know why that when changing runlevels from > > say 2 to 3, the KILL links of _3_ and not 2 get executed before > > starting the START links of 3...? > I think because K comes before S. So switching r

annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it seems not to be directly b

Install problem

2000-06-24 Thread chunjiang fu
Dear debain/linux team: I am a new user of linux. I just bought the CD set from the linuxmall. But I got a problem when I installed it on my intel-486DX66(HD:2.1G, Mem: 21M). At the begaining: it could not be booted from the CD. I made a flopy disk, it worked well untill to the step "installing the

Re: more upgrade woes

2000-06-24 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [please CC: any replies to -user] > On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:24:10PM -0400, Maitland Bottoms wrote: > > What should the permissions and ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix be to make > > the X server happy? > > drwxrwxrwt2 root usersgroup 1024 Jun 24

WTF

2000-06-24 Thread p . b . burton
Hi. Last night I did much apt-get upgrade by including frozen on my sources.list. I have basically 2.1 (slink) installed from cd from _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_ book. The problem is: I use procmail. Before "upgrading" I had man pages for procmail and procmailex. This morning I go to edit my

Re: iMac: boot Debian Linux from CD-ROM

2000-06-24 Thread Philippe
Hi Ethan, thanks a lot for the reply (1) booting with the 'c' key held down doesn't work. It boots to MAC OS after checking the cdrom, then my two hard drive partitions (one of which is empty, the one if want to put debian linux on!) I tried both CDs, either holding down the 'c' key all the time,

3Button Emulation under X

2000-06-24 Thread Ross Hamilton
Hello all, A newbie to Linux, I installed slink a couple of months back and shortly thereafter got a somewhat usable X-server up and running using XF86Setup. I say 'somewhat' because although I am certain I specified the option during installation, I was to date been unable to get 3-button em

Everywhere "Segmentation fault" I see .

2000-06-24 Thread G0DModE
Hi group! I have Debian 2.1r2 (Slink), recently I have installed linuxconf and XFree 3.3.3.6. In two cases I have the same problem. When I`m starting linuxconf or xfree86, XF86Setup or the other file from XFree 3.3.3.6 package it writes: "Segmentation fault" . P.S The same problem I have with XFre

Re: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.

2000-06-24 Thread Graham Ashton
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0800, Destrius wrote: > Or rather: > > # X(or startx, initx, etc.) > X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. > > I suddenly got the above error message last night. I don't recall doing > anything to my X installation at all.

Free Domain Name

2000-06-24 Thread scott
come on ~~~come on~here has free domain name http://§K¶O.°Ó·~.tw 202.178.182.51

Re: Suggestion: more frequent list archive updates

2000-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am currently not subscribed to debian-user simply because I don't >have the disk space to handle all the messages. So what I do is read >it via the archives. The problem is that there is a day or two lag >between a message being sent and it appearing in

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: >Surfed over to salon.com with the links browser and showed up all >over the place. So I looked at the source, and sure enough, there was > all over the place. Now it's my understanding that browsers are >supposed to ignore tags they don't understand -- which links is cl

postfix or sendmail "tempting"

2000-06-24 Thread ago
Hi all! I've got the job to make accepting mails to an e-mail address a bit unusual. What's unusual. I will explain. When a mail arrives to the address it shouldn't appear in the /var/spool/mail immediately. Because there is daemon which scans the mailbox all the time and as soon as it sees a ma

Error in syslog

2000-06-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Can anything be done about the following error? Jun 24 10:22:55 deb pppd[1058]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Andre Berger
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry, use kill -9 $(pidof communicator-smotif.real) or something like that. Andre > Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > From man 1 bash: > >Command Substitution > >Command

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 24, Mark Phillips scribbled: > Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > > > > I'm sure that a fix has already been posted, but this works for me > > > (replace the code above with this): > > > > > > for d in /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 24, Mark Phillips scribbled: > Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use > > Mozilla in the meantime :) [snip] > And the problem seems to be with a syntax error at the line > > for f in (cd $d;ls -1

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Andre Berger
Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > From man 1 bash: >Command Substitution >Command substitution allows the output of a command to >replace the command name. There are two forms: > > $(command) >or >

Capturing terminal contents

2000-06-24 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello the list: The simple objective is to, for the most part, copy error messages from x terminals for submission to the mailing lists. Examined archives and duly noted references to import, xv, imagemagick, xgrab, etc and reviewed the man pages. These procedures seem to work, more or less, but

Re: CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Bill wrote: B> Hi all, B> I'm trying to model a circuit, actually a high powered inverter and I'm B> trying to find a simulation program to do it. All the W9x programs I've found B> so far are demos, not able to handle all the components. Does anyone have any B> idea

Re: Problem with IDE hd after instlalling potato with kernel 2.2.15

2000-06-24 Thread markm
Hi Wojtek, > However now, after the upgrade sometimes I receive the series of errors: I don't think it is the ugrade / scratch install difference. I think this may be due to a possible kernel bugs. > QUOTING FROM /var/log/syslog > Jun 21 19:42:36 wzab kernel: hdb: read_intr: status

Re: CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bill donno if any of these works etc.etc... spice comes from berkeleydonno the url... here some collections... http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/source/electronics/ http://www.staticfreesoft.com/ ( aka ElectricEditor ) http://www.kegel.com/linuxeda/ have fun linuxing a

Re: Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Robert Norris
> A tag has no end tag, so it doesn't need ..., and the SGML > shorthand .. wouldn't be legal... > Ouch, just noticed 's. Those aren't needed either are they? There > isn't even an environment for the tags! You're looking at XHTML - HTML redefined in XML. In XML all tags must have end tags.

WD 7197 SCSI on potato?

2000-06-24 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear List, I have just purchased an IBM 315 server, which is intended to be used as an Internet server running Debian. I have tried to install with the 'frozen' disk set, but am unable to properly detect my SCSI interface which is a WD-7197. The boot messages give: failed init WD-7000 (amongst othe

CAE/SPICE for Slink/Potato

2000-06-24 Thread Bill
Hi all, I'm trying to model a circuit, actually a high powered inverter and I'm trying to find a simulation program to do it. All the W9x programs I've found so far are demos, not able to handle all the components. Does anyone have any idea as to where I can find sims for Linux and their acc

Offtopic: html gurus ... is valid ?

2000-06-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
Surfed over to salon.com with the links browser and showed up all over the place. So I looked at the source, and sure enough, there was all over the place. Now it's my understanding that browsers are supposed to ignore tags they don't understand -- which links is clearly not doing -- but what