Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

On 07/25/00 00:34:13 -0400, David S. Jackson wrote: > Then, check your monitor default dot per inch output with: > > xdpyinfo | grep resolution > > It will probably say 75x75 dots per inch. David, You wouldn't happen to know where xdpyinfo gets its info? More to the point, where might one chang

Re: superformat not working in potato?

On 25-Jul-2000 Brian May wrote: > at least, I don't consider this a test kernel myself (I assume you > mean 2.3.x, or is that 2.4.x now?). I had a problem mounting CD's and floppies with kernel 2.4.0 test2 and also using superformat. It seems to have been fixed now. -- Andrew

Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:10:27PM -0700 Albert Kinderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using xfs and xfstt. After the most recent apt-get update and > upgrade to frozen, the default fonts in X are huge. X and xfs are at > 3.3.6-10. > > What happened and how can I get back to some reasonabl

Re: apt-get source?

On 07/24/00 22:15:33 -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > You're way off. ::grin:: But that's okay. We'll get ya there. Here's the > relevant portion from my sources.list: > > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable

Re:

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > > Patrick J Draper wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm still having trouble with my Debian 2.1. > > Awww, shucks! Bummer... > > > I've managed to get the system up and running and X11 is running of a > > fashion. > > Oh! Well, congratulat

Re: superformat not working in potato?

> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pollywog> Are you using one of the test kernels? I had problems Pollywog> like this one with test kernel 2, I believe. No - this is: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-co

PPP problems

When I first upgraded to potato via apt-get, I must have answered one of the config scripts wrong, because now when /bin/pon brings up ppp, the default route doesn't come up. Instead, there's already a default route to eth0. So I have to manually do the following: route add default ppp0 route d

fsck for UFS?? (fwd)

I sent this to the debian-sparc list ... but thought it might be worth copying to here too ... tks -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:51:54 +0800 (WST) From: Andrew McRobert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: fsck for UFS?? hi all One of

RE: Ethernet cards on network

hi   Have you set up your kernel's routing tables? You can check the current configuration with "netstat -r". You'll probably have to execute a couple of command to tell the kernel where to send network traffic, eg. something like this: #$> route add -net X.X.X.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 #

RE: 'deep' exim rbl filtering

On 25-Jul-2000 Ari Heitner wrote: > Someone must know how to do this. > > Exim has a lot of rbl support, but afaict from reading > /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz, that support only checks the delivering > system. Which doesn't do much good for those of us who use fetchmail to get > mail onto the

RE: Tape backup software?

I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ... depends what you're used to I guess. tks Andrew -Original Message- From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:47 AM To: Krzys Majewski Cc: Kelly Corbin; Debian Userslist Subject: Re

Re: [Re: editors and browsers]

I found that even W3's browser does not fully support cascading style sheets. Thomas Kirsch "I. Tura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. Are there any graphics based web browsers available for Linux other >than Netscape? If yes, are there "release versions" of these browsers? Arena. (http:

Re: [Re: editors and browsers]

I am using Mozilla and I am very dissappointed with it. It is quite unstable and the interface looks extremely boring. It is less usable than Netscape 4.7. I wish there were a browser that is for Linux what Microsoft Internet Explorer is for windows only without the proprietory extensions. Thomas

'deep' exim rbl filtering

Someone must know how to do this. Exim has a lot of rbl support, but afaict from reading /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz, that support only checks the delivering system. Which doesn't do much good for those of us who use fetchmail to get mail onto the local machine. (maybe i'm in fact wrong about

RE: superformat not working in potato?

On 25-Jul-2000 Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > Previously, I just typed in the following: > > --- cut --- > [501] [snoopy:bam] ~ >superformat /dev/fd0 > Measuring drive 0's raw capacity > In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, > add the following line to /etc/driveprm: >

Re: is someone collecting my outgoing mail?

On 25-Jul-2000 Ethan Pierce wrote: > The DNS server at my workplace went down and I lost a day and a half of > external email. I think after the list gets a certain amount of returns it > takes the recipient off the list. I had to re-subscribe to begin recieving > again. I had to resubscribe on

Re: Xemacs and cvs problem...

> "Alwyn" == Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alwyn> Hi, I'm using woody and helixgnome. When I want to access Alwyn> a remote cvs repository from within Xemacs over ssh I get Alwyn> the error in emacs that "No controlling tty was found and Alwyn> thus couldn't get p

Ethernet cards on network

Hello all,   This is my first time writing to this list so forgive me if I do anything wrong.   I have a problem with trying to get a server which is meant to be a proxy server up.   Everything works fine. The computer is able to detect the 2 3Com ISA Etherlink III cards inside and I am able

Re: is someone collecting my outgoing mail?

The DNS server at my workplace went down and I lost a day and a half of external email. I think after the list gets a certain amount of returns it takes the recipient off the list. I had to re-subscribe to begin recieving again. - Original Message - From: "Pollywog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: S/MIME MUA

> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Giuseppe> Hi, I am looking for a Mail User Agent that is able to Giuseppe> show S/MIME messages. I would like to avoid Communicator Giuseppe> Mail since it is in non-free. I am actually using mutt Giuseppe> but I just d

superformat not working in potato?

Hello, Previously, I just typed in the following: --- cut --- [501] [snoopy:bam] ~ >superformat /dev/fd0 Measuring drive 0's raw capacity In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm: drive0: deviation=142074 CAUTION: The line is drive a

RE: is someone collecting my outgoing mail?

On 24-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey list. > > Wierd. I just got a failure notice from some stange address, saying > that a post I sent to this list could not be delivered. Does this > sound like some little imp is collecting all of my outgoing mail? > > Am I being paranoid? Which lo

is someone collecting my outgoing mail?

Hey list. Wierd. I just got a failure notice from some stange address, saying that a post I sent to this list could not be delivered. Does this sound like some little imp is collecting all of my outgoing mail? Am I being paranoid? Which logs can I check, etc? I don't usually leave exim runnin

Re: Tape backup software?

Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tar! > -chris > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote: > > > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking > > for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the > > "best". Any input would be appreci

Audio CD's won't play

How do I get my music CD's to play? I'm running Debian Woody. My cdrom is a Plextor SCSI. I've got scsi support built into the kernel. I added generic scsi as a module. My sound is working. I noticed after I installed that I had no /dev/sg* files so I ran makedev and said to install generic s

Re: apt-get source?

Mark Wagnon wrote: > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main source > ^^ > Is this how it's done, or am I way off here? You're way off. ::grin:: But that's okay. We'll get ya there. Here's the relevant portion from my sources.list: deb-sr

Re: mailbox postprocessing

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:05:08PM -0400, Nakul Hoelz wrote > Hello, > I have a 2 mail servers for our domain, both running debian gnu > linux. > The first one has a DNS mailexchange value of 0 the other has a DNS > mailchange value of 5... > i.e. all email should be pouring into the main mail

Re: init.d

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:03:17AM +, R K wrote > I've been having some problems getting startup scripts to work. > Particularly with MySQL (latest binary release). From what I know, you're > supposed to put the script in /etc/init.d and make a sym-link to /etc/rcX.d > right? In any case,

Re: problems with xfs

Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > > I recently installed Xfree 4.0, and its working pretty good; but may > problem is that my Xfs stopped working. The initialization script > (/etc/init.d/xfs) freezes when I try to start it. > Any ideas? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROT

Re: lock-up with thrashing

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > It wasn't perhaps a cron job running 'find ...' to update the database > for the locate command? That tends to bring most activity to a near > halt until it finishes. You can correlate the scheduled time of the > cron job with the time this was going

RE: Back up ideas???

Well, I have a Linux box in our department where all are M$ boxes. I installed samba (2.0.7) and used cron to mount the shared M$ folders and tar'ed the mounted filesystems into backup directories on the Linux box. This was done during lunch when I was quite certain the M$ machines were not in use.

Re: My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

+ André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (3) Create a file emu10k1 in /etc/modutils with the following contenst: > > alias char-major-14 emu10k1 > > Why not use /etc/modutils/aliases? The file is part of the modutils package. I guess, if you install a new version your changes to that file

Re: exim/procmail & mutt: some mboxes read as 'new', others don't

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:40:49AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > based on various patterns found in incoming mail, i have my ~/.procmailrc > splitting it up to various mbox's in ~/Mail. when i run mutt and 'c'hange > from mbox to mbox, it defaults to the next mbox with new mail -- or it > should, b

apt-get source?

I'm trying to retrieve the sources for mutt with apt-get, but I'm having a problem. I'm not sure that I'm doing this right. Well actually I know I'm not cuz it's not working :) I thought that I can just append "source" to a seemingly all-inclusive entry in my sources.list, but that doesn't seem to

Re: Compressed mailboxes with mutt

On 07/24/00 08:41:11 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > AFAIK you'll need to download the patch and apply it. Use > > apt-get source mutt > > to get the mutt source ... > okay, I'll try that. Thanks -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Place to add local fonts

Hi, what will be a good place to add some extra fonts? Two possibilities came to my mind: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/extra or /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/extra. Any recommendations? Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

Once upon a time, I heard Albert Kinderman say > I am using xfs and xfstt. After the most recent apt-get update and > upgrade to frozen, the default fonts in X are huge. X and xfs are at > 3.3.6-10. I bet you have xfonts-100dpi installed somewhere! Try remove the package or put path to xfonts-75

Re: Sound..should be easy, but...

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:59:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > alias sound-slot-0 sound > alias sound-service-0-0 sb > alias sound-service-0-3 sb sound-service-0-0 is the mixer, right? But what is sound-service-0-3? Is there a complete list of these somewhere? The Documentation/sound/Introduct

Re: Tape backup software?

Tar! -chris On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote: > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking > for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the > "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI tape > backup drive. THANKS

Re: Back up ideas???

I've never administered anyone but myself so you might want to take this with a grain of salt but, what if you mounted the various filesystems on a unix machine and tar'ed them? -chris On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I am trying to set up a flexable backup system. Thi

Re: Sound..should be easy, but...

I installed the same card recently. In my /etc/modutils/options I have: options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x31f and in /etc/modutils/aliases: alias sound-slot-0 sound alias sound-service-0-0 sb alias sound-service-0-3 sb -chris On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, adam b. wrote: > Okay, I

Re: init.d

Check in /etc/inittab to see if your default runlevel is indeed 3. -chris On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, R K wrote: > I've been having some problems getting startup scripts to work. > Particularly with MySQL (latest binary release). From what I know, you're > supposed to put the script in /etc/init.d

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

For what it's worth, the package I got completely failed to install the plugins and mime types, I had to run the relevant scripts by hand. Unfortunately I can't remember if it was an aliened rpm or a deb, but it looked like the packager included the scripts and then forgot to run them. Though I

Re: A java environment for me

JDE (runs inside emacs). -chris On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey, debian guys, > > Which java development tools should I get? Debian have anything for > java 2? I looked at Jbuilder foundation, but that puppy is *huge*. > > how 'bout emacs support?

Huge X-fonts in Frozen

I am using xfs and xfstt. After the most recent apt-get update and upgrade to frozen, the default fonts in X are huge. X and xfs are at 3.3.6-10. What happened and how can I get back to some reasonable size fonts? Al -- Albert Kinderman California State University, Northridge Dep

A java environment for me

hey, debian guys, Which java development tools should I get? Debian have anything for java 2? I looked at Jbuilder foundation, but that puppy is *huge*. how 'bout emacs support? any ideas? -- Spend less time composing sigs. -tom

Re: Good 2D PCI card?

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in > linux/xfree86. Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit 3dfx still makes PCI version of some of their Voodoo cards. I've been told that they're almost as good at 2D as Matrox, and

Re: problems with xfs

> Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > > > That works, but it doesn't fix my xfs, i need to run it! > > Do you have any other ideas? > > please excuse my ignorance but whats the difference between xfs & xfs-xtt? > > I have not looked at it for some time now but to the best of my knowledge

Re: Search in dselect

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to also search the description of the packages in > dselect. I mean the description to the right of the package name? Look into dpkg-awk and grep-dctrl. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

How do I ..... ( mailboxes and poping )

ok after a couple of replies i realised i probly hadnt supplied enough info, so heres a whole heap There is an account on the machine i am installing for every user, however there is only one box on the pop server (not mine in any way) that stores the mail for all the name/addresses untill i pop

Re: Good 2D PCI card?

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in > linux/xfree86. Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit Try to find an 8MB or larger Matrox Millennium II PCI. Ian

Squid

Has anyone seen this problem? I'm running squid in a mostly MS shop here, and some SSL connections through squid just don't work. I get things like: Jul 24 18:03:10 squid1 squid[6774]: sslReadClient: FD 27: read failure: (104) +Connection reset by peer Jul 24 18:03:10 squid1 squid[6774]: sslReadCl

Re: mail forwarding

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:50:31PM -0400, Nakul Hoelz wrote: > the mta is sendmail... Not my area of knowledge, I'm afraid. > the reason for the secondary is for it to take over all functions of the > primary > in case it goes down... There was a discussion on the postfix-users mailing lis

Re: StarOffice5.2 install needs Adabas D... Any Tips??

Art Edwards wrote: > > The adabas data base is part of the Sun suit of free software. look for > it on the Sun site. Incidentally, I have Star IOffice 5.2 working both > with and without adabas. -- Did you have to install other libs, etc

Re: Where can I find gnumake?

Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a program that I want to compile. According to the INSTALL I need > to run gnumake. And to my suprise I could not find this program anywhere > on the Debian ftp sites. Any help? On most GNU systems make = gnumake. Just install the "make" package a

Where can I find gnumake?

I have a program that I want to compile. According to the INSTALL I need to run gnumake. And to my suprise I could not find this program anywhere on the Debian ftp sites. Any help? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Elec

can't find lib*.so

Hi all! I have a program that uses libXaw.so.6 library, but it doesn't start because it does not find the library. The library is installed in /usr/X11R6/lib. In /etc/ld.so.conf there's a record "/usr/X11R6/lib" X is running without any problems... Is there something else I may set not right?

Good 2D PCI card?

I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in linux/xfree86. Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit thanks! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:23pm up 6 days, 22:51, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

S/MIME MUA

Hi, I am looking for a Mail User Agent that is able to show S/MIME messages. I would like to avoid Communicator Mail since it is in non-free. I am actually using mutt but I just discovered that it handle PGP/MIME (rfc2015) and not S/MIME (rfs2633-4). Do you have any suggestions? Please send reply

Re: editors and browsers

* Pat Mahoney | | I heard a rumor that eazel (or was it helixcode?) was writing a file | manager/web browser called "nautilus" for gnome. So far it's | vaporware AFAIK. This is hardly a rumour, I think; check http://nautilus.eazel.com/ Whether Nautilus is vapor or not really depends on your def

Re: Tape backup software?

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:43:42PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking > for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the > "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI tape > backup drive.

Tape backup software?

Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI tape backup drive. THANKS! Kelly -- -- K

Re: editors and browsers

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:32:48PM -0500 Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:32PM -0400, Thomas Kirsch wrote: > > 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially > > any that would run also on Windows? > > I believe mahongony is an em

Re: XF86Setup with ATI Rage Pro 128

James said, > Hi, > > I'm having trouble using XF86Setup to configure my > system - namely because the graphics card is not > included in the card list. I'm using an older version > of XF86Setup, I guess, but I was wondering if there > was a relatively easy way of creating an XF86Config > file wit

Re: analog.cfg

hi ya joey... yes...just about every package is ported to debian... but i seldom use it ( am a slow learner i suppose )... hate *.rpm even more but sometimes its better than *.tar.gz files... ( my preference )... i do my silly install/admin methods so that i can maintain several distributions

Re: My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Steve Thanks for your reply. > As far as getting modules to load at boot, just put whatever modules > you would specify after modprobe into /etc/modules. > I have no experience with your sound card, but it seems that any true > SB should not be too difficult,

Re: Does Debian Support DSL?

Dan, Not familiar with the Intel Pro/DSL 2100, but I recently had good success with installing DSL over a FlowPoint 2200 DSL router between Debian (Potato) and the provider. The provider's installer didn't know much about Linux, so he established the connection over a laptop with Windows2K. It wa

Re: analog.cfg

In case you folks are unaware, analog is a debian package. Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya petr... > > have a look at my install notes... > > http://www.linux-consulting.com/Analog > > c ya > alvin > > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Petr Danek wrote: > > > Hi all, > > i have installed analog, but can?t

Re: Mass instalation

"J.T. Wenting" wrote: > > if they are all identical, set up one and create a disk-image. There are > several tools to deploy a full image to a harddisk (though maybe not > linux-based). I have no pointers, but searching the web might turn up > something. Look at dd & gzip or bzip2 -- Joe Block

Re: analog.cfg

hi ya petr... have a look at my install notes... http://www.linux-consulting.com/Analog c ya alvin On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Petr Danek wrote: > Hi all, > i have installed analog, but can´t find analog.cfg. So any information - > example of this file and where it should be placed will be very h

Re: StarOffice5.2 install

I believe you need to chmod it for an executable first? >>> Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/24/00 05:02PM >>> In linux, you just ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin (from that dir) and it runs an extracter/installer. There are installation instructions on the SO website, also, but that's just

Re: StarOffice5.2 install

In linux, you just ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin (from that dir) and it runs an extracter/installer. There are installation instructions on the SO website, also, but that's just about all it says. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/download.html#install -nicole > http://tzo.linux.tucow

Potato and emu

Running Debian Potato (frozen) and Slink KDE I have an SB Live 1024 Player and a recent version (2721) of the Emu sound module . Should I get any output from cat /dev/sndstat? All I do get is 'No such device'. There is definitely a 'sndstat' in /dev and I do get sound when playing a CD. Ba

Re: StarOffice5.2 install

Hi I found Staroffice for download from tucows at http://tzo.linux.tucows.com/x11html/adnload/019-010-009-004_4144.html At this point my only internet access is via Lose 98. That will change shortly. So, I used IE4, clicked on the Linux SO 5.2 download link. What I got was a 61 MB file file nam

Re: mail forwarding

Hello and thank you for your reply the mta is sendmail... the reason for the secondary is for it to take over all functions of the primary in case it goes down... this means that any .forwards on the primary need to be duplicated just as on the primary and it also means that I don't w

Cold Fusion for Linux on Debian?

Has anyone tried to install Cold Fusion server for Linux on Debian yet? This is what happened when I tried: / Failed! cfexec - cannot execute. Cold Fusion would not initialise. --/ Please provide links if you have them. Thanks.

RE: Mass instalation

if they are all identical, set up one and create a disk-image. There are several tools to deploy a full image to a harddisk (though maybe not linux-based). I have no pointers, but searching the web might turn up something. > -Original Message- > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Mass instalation

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:31:09PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I have to install 80 PCs (+/- the same hardware) with Debian. > What tools can help me on this? > Thanks,Paulo Henrique > > -- > Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: editors and browsers

On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:28:32PM -0400, Thomas Kirsch wrote: > 1. Are there any "WYSIWYG" email editors available for Linux? Preferentially > any that would run also on Windows? I believe mahongony is an email client that uses wxWindows toolkit and runs in windows and linux. I don't know about

Re: mail forwarding

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:40:09PM -0400, Nakul Hoelz wrote: > I have a 2 mail servers for our domain, both running debian gnu > linux. > The first one has a DNS mailexchange value of 0 the other has a DNS > mailchange value of 5... > i.e. all email should be pouring into the main mail machine

XF86Setup with ATI Rage Pro 128

Hi, I'm having trouble using XF86Setup to configure my system - namely because the graphics card is not included in the card list. I'm using an older version of XF86Setup, I guess, but I was wondering if there was a relatively easy way of creating an XF86Config file without having to install the n

Bogus BogoMips with new kernel?

Hello, I recently (this weekend) reïnstalled potato on a laptop, pentium 120, which used to have a couple of months old version of potato on it. It used to have a bogomips rating of about 48, if I remember correctly. Now, suddenly, with the default kernel (2.2.17...pre6 somethingorother, it used t

Rdist question

Hello everyone, I'm having a little trouble w/ distfiles for Rdist. I want to duplicate directory "web_site" from host "source" to host "target" in path /tmp on "target". I found I could do this by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...] rdist -c web_site target:/tmp/ However, I can't get it to work using

mail forwarding

Hello, I have a 2 mail servers for our domain, both running debian gnu linux. The first one has a DNS mailexchange value of 0 the other has a DNS mailchange value of 5... i.e. all email should be pouring into the main mail machine for our domain somehow though email ended up on the secondar

Upgrading to Potato on-line: any tips?

** Reply to note from Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:09:04 +0100 I did just that a few weeks ago and ended up with a non-bootable system! I had been running a standard Slink system and I discovered that after the dist-upgrade it hadn't upgraded the kernel and the old (2

drivers for IntelliMouse Explorer

Does anybody knows anything about driver drivers for IntelliMouse Explorer (the one with 5 buttons)?

mailbox postprocessing

Hello, I have a 2 mail servers for our domain, both running debian gnu linux. The first one has a DNS mailexchange value of 0 the other has a DNS mailchange value of 5... i.e. all email should be pouring into the main mail machine for our domain somehow though email ended up on the secondar

Re: My first ever incursion into sound isn't very successful

** Reply to note from Kai Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:11:02 +0200 Thanks for your reply but it doesn't really answer my questions. I have the basic sound system working but what I cannot do is to get the emu module to load automatically on demand. Barry Samuels

Re: problems with xfs

Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > That works, but it doesn't fix my xfs, i need to run it! > Do you have any other ideas? please excuse my ignorance but whats the difference between xfs & xfs-xtt?

Re: RPM Packages

try alien to convert rpm to deb packages!!! On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > Does anyone know of a program that let's us run rpm packages??.. > > = > Shel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ- 23454126 > AIM- CacheMonet > > __ > Do You Yahoo!?

Re: problems with xfs

That works, but it doesn't fix my xfs, i need to run it! Do you have any other ideas? On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, MC_Vai wrote: > Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > > > I recently installed Xfree 4.0, and its working pretty good; but may > > problem is that my Xfs stopped working. The initializatio

RPM Packages

Does anyone know of a program that let's us run rpm packages??.. = Shel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

RPM Packages

Does anyone know of a program that let's us run rpm packages??.. = Shel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Search in dselect

Is it possible to also search the description of the packages in dselect. I mean the description to the right of the package name? -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +---+ "There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate | ! | superiority of t

Re: grep crashes machine

Frodo Baggins wrote: > Christian Pernegger scripsit: > >Hallo! > > > >I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > > > ># cd / > ># grep -r * stuff > > > >it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The > >last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scannin

Re: problems with xfs

Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > I recently installed Xfree 4.0, and its working pretty good; but may > problem is that my Xfs stopped working. The initialization script > (/etc/init.d/xfs) freezes when I try to start it. > Any ideas? Yes I used to had the same problem, just remove it from

Shaper for ISP

Hi all, I have to install shaper in a Linux box to an ISP that wants to shape it client to maximum 64k. What I can do? I know that Linux can shape traffic. Where to put it?

problems with xfs

I recently installed Xfree 4.0, and its working pretty good; but may problem is that my Xfs stopped working. The initialization script (/etc/init.d/xfs) freezes when I try to start it. Any ideas?

Re: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21-Jul-2000 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > that info was the reason of my question! I read that also in Changes and > > as I didn't find ppp-2.4 for debian I just held the upgrade for now! > > > > any success Pollywog? > > I am using PPP 2.3.11 with

Re: Matrox G400 not supported in kernel?

Here is the console section from "make menuconfig" in my 2.2.16 kernel: [*] VGA text console [*] Video mode selection support < > MDA text console (dual-headed) (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] Permedia2 support (experimental)

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