Re: How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 10 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > don't expect many isps to support secure file transfers though its > not very common for end users to know how to do it so most don't > support it. (I run an isp and i WISH i could close off ftp). Which secure file transfer protocols are there (b

Re: Plexwriter 12/4/32(SCSI)

2000-11-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 10 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yeah!! i just got the cable today and it works great :) sofar just > used xcdroast which doesnt have an option for higher then 8X > recording so i havent tried 12X but 8X worked great :)) Burn the CD using the command line and specify -speed 12. T

Re: .deb

2000-11-10 Thread Valius
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:47:58PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:40:09PM -0800, thus spake Sathish C: > > > Hi All > > > > > > I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open > > > *.deb files? > > > > I

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > In Samuel Hathaway's email, 10-11-2000: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hmm... I ran the following commands... >> >> # cd /usr/src >> # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 >> # bunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2 >> # tar -xf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar

Re: Good SCSI card for Linux

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Lisi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jlisi >Incedentaly, where could I find a list of "OK" SCSI drives (from the jlisi >point of view of ext3fs) i dont buy drives base don what filesystem they use ..depends on your Sorry I wasn't clear about what I meant. Ext3 uses a special comand that tells the SCSI

Re: How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:57:57PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ethan Benson writes: > > i would also say that the admins are probably well aware of what they are > > doing and the security issues involved (unless they are REALLY dumb) they > > probably just don't care, or have thier hands tied by m

Got KDE packages, what to do next

2000-11-10 Thread kentsin
I have dl the KDE packages to my debian box. It has many packages, how could I make them aware to dselect? Rgs, Kent Sin === ·s®ö§K¶O¹q¤l¶l½c http://sinamail.sina.com.hk ¥ß§Y¤U¸ü SinaTicker http://sinaticker.sina.com.hk

Re: How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread John Hasler
Ethan Benson writes: > i would also say that the admins are probably well aware of what they are > doing and the security issues involved (unless they are REALLY dumb) they > probably just don't care, or have thier hands tied by moron managers who > demand total unsecurity. More likely it's Win95

Re: How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what does the ftp prompt say when you connect? sometimes that can give it away .. if your concerned about security then change isps. don't expect many isps to support secure file transfers though its not very common for end users to know how to do it so most don't support it.(I run an isp and i WIS

Re: Good SCSI card for Linux

2000-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jim Lisi wrote: jlisi >I'm looking for recomendations for SCSI cards for linux. jlisi >It neads to have bootable suport. jlisi >Initialy I will have a hd, cdrw, scanner, and posibly a tape and cdrom. i have only used adaptec scsi cards with linux, their 29/39 series of chips

Re: Plexwriter 12/4/32(SCSI)

2000-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yeah!! i just got the cable today and it works great :) sofar just used xcdroast which doesnt have an option for higher then 8X recording so i havent tried 12X but 8X worked great :)) thanks! nate On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Gregory T. Norris wrote: haphaz >I got one about a month ago. For whatever i

HELP : svc: bad direction 65536, droping

2000-11-10 Thread kentsin
Dear all: Urgently need help! My newly install stable box continuesly prompt on console : svc : bad direction 6553X, dropping request. Which module is giving this message? How could i solve this? It is very troublesome because it interrupt my work and I could not use the editor any more. T

Re: How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I'm trying to contact the sys-admin for my ISP because I don't like the > security they use for uploading personal web pages. (They use plain text ftp, > which is bad enough, but no, they have to do one better, they don't allow you > t

Re: Recomended NIC for router/server

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Phillips
Jim Lisi wrote: > > I am puting together a server/router/firewall mashine (yes its all those > together) > I am looking for recomendasions for a good NIC to use. It neads to be a > 10/100baseT My firewall/server/router machine has got eepro100's and I've never had a problem with them. The machin

How to contact administrator?

2000-11-10 Thread Jesse Goerz
I'm trying to contact the sys-admin for my ISP because I don't like the security they use for uploading personal web pages. (They use plain text ftp, which is bad enough, but no, they have to do one better, they don't allow you to even change your username/password so anyone on the network can sni

Re: Click To Focus: Answered w/compile

2000-11-10 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for the input. No, everything is ok there. First time in BB. Compiled the new deb dl and everything works fine... In fact, very nice. > Make sure your num lock, scroll lock or caps lock keys have not been > toggled. Jonathan

Re: synchronize dselect

2000-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
"Allan F. Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Oege" == Oege Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Oege> Is there any way I can synchronize my dselect requests with what >Oege> packages I actually have installed? > >This may help (in fact, it comes from the FAQ): > >$ dpkg --get-

[OT] anyone know anything about a heimdal pam module?

2000-11-10 Thread Brendan Cully
Hi, In the past, when I was running MIT krb5, I played around with a couple different PAM modules (Frank Cusack's and Naomaru Itoi [sp, sorry Itoi]) with mixed results. Does anyone know 1) whether those modules build against heimdal-dev 2) whether they work 3) whether they lack that security hole

Recomended NIC for router/server

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Lisi
I am puting together a server/router/firewall mashine (yes its all those together) I am looking for recomendasions for a good NIC to use. It neads to be a 10/100baseT (prob 100 only would be ok, since I'm useing a 10/100 switch). I also nead 2 10baseT NIC for two aDSL modems so I'm looking for

Re: disk hot-swap utilities

2000-11-10 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:11:26PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I recently had the opportunity to use a FreeBSD feature that I found > extremely cool. I had built a machine, set it up as a server, deployed > the server,

Good SCSI card for Linux

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Lisi
I'm looking for recomendations for SCSI cards for linux. It neads to have bootable suport. Initialy I will have a hd, cdrw, scanner, and posibly a tape and cdrom. Incedentaly, where could I find a list of "OK" SCSI drives (from the point of view of ext3fs) TIA, Jim

Re: Archive/kernel problems

2000-11-10 Thread Kaleb Daark
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:01:20 +1100 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Archive/kernel problems > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:49:49AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: > > > I have now downloa

KDE2

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a Debian Potato system fully up to date. OK. I read the reviews, I read the how install its. I installed the deb files. I cannot get any help on any kde aplication. There is no way that I can find to change the buttons arround on the windows. And there is no way to save the preferences

xconsole eats up RAM (a LOT)

2000-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
I am running unstable, kernel 2.2.17, I noticed that sometimexconsole eats up about 50% of memory as reported by top. it usually happens afterthere have been a LOT of messages, but messages stopped coming few hours ago and the memory usage by xconsole did not go down. any ideas? is that a bug

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there >> I way to rename them all at once? > >A little bit bash programming... > >for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done > >Yes,

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:07:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > you can do that in netscape as well... > > > > Before switching I tried to do it. I wanted the mail of each list in a > different folder. I thought of filtering by 'From', but in debian > lists

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there I way to >rename them all at once? > >I remember from my DOS days a command like "ren" (or is it "rename"?) that >would do the trick. Something like: > >ren *.html *.htm Somebody's already mentioned mmv

Re: Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 11/10/00, 6:57:06 PM, Eileen Orbell wrote: >> I have 3 files in my /etc/apache directory >> httpd.conf >> srm.conf >> access.conf > >Newer versions of apache only use the httpd.conf file. The others used >to be included into httpd.conf but now they're comm

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: csj> I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is csj> there I way to rename them all at once? $ mmv '*.html' '#1.htm' See mmv(1) for more info. The quotes are necessary, because you want `mmv' to do the wildcard expansion instead of

TOT: linuxy humour

2000-11-10 Thread C. Falconer
http://linux.freak.school.nz/tailoftux.html (btw - TOT means Totally Off Topic) -- Criggie

Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there > I way to rename them all at once? > > I remember from my DOS days a command like "ren" (or is it "rename"?) > that would do the trick. Something like: > > ren *.html *.htm > >

Re: 4-bit type

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:07:06AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > clo = cread & 15; > chi = cread & 240; Hex is easier: clo = cread & 0x0f; chi = cread & 0xf0; Chris

OT: Wildcard renaming of files

2000-11-10 Thread csj
I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there I way to rename them all at once? I remember from my DOS days a command like "ren" (or is it "rename"?) that would do the trick. Something like: ren *.html *.htm What's the Linux equivalent of this trick? mv only renames files

your server

2000-11-10 Thread Peter Welte
hey your server is down or something... your dad called... i'll try to see whats up . i may call you about 6 or 7 your time. peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

still have apache worries

2000-11-10 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I am still unable to execute SSI. I have battled this all day and no luck. Could someone please help me? I have 3 files httpd.conf srm.conf and access.conf If I attached them would this help someone to help me fix my problem. I added Options +Includes to access.conf and to srm.conf AddT

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 14:48, Robert Guthrie wrote: > As you may have figured out, having 2 NICs on the same subnet would not do > anything for you. The computer with 2 NICs would either recieve duplicate > packets, and have to do double the work (forwarding duplicate packets), or > it would h

kernel 2.2.17 and ide patch

2000-11-10 Thread tjm
Hello. I recently installed a 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org and I have this working OK. I have installed the ide patch from potato, selected what I wanted in the configuration, compiled and installed the kernel and it works, for a short time. After a while, it corrupts the screen and, although

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I had written: > Even more badly, I mv'd all modules in /lib to my ~/ directory > expecting the OS still to work assuming all relevant OS routines are > located in RAM. Bad idea - no 'cp', no 'mv' , no nothing, the system > is completely useless. I guess if I'm not able to get a small linux > syst

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Samuel Hathaway's email, 10-11-2000: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmm... I ran the following commands... > > # cd /usr/src > # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 > # bunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2 > # tar -xf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar > # cd kernel-source-2.2.17 > # make dep > # find

Re: openssh2.2 stops working

2000-11-10 Thread Craig Coles
I ran the server and client in debug modes, with results below. I'm not seeing anything wrong, or am I blind? Server; debug: sshd version OpenSSH_2.2.0p1 debug: Seeding random number generator debug: read DSA private key done debug: Forcing server key to 1152 bits to make it differ from host ke

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread Samuel Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Ben Collins wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:52:17AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I >>> have just switched from RH to debian, and in the process of trying to >>> compile nvidia and creative drivers have discovered that the kernel source >>> was not insta

Re: problems with XF4

2000-11-10 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:07:23AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > I have a Celeron-Something here, Intel BX chipset, I tested to run XF4 > with both a ATI Rage 3D Pro and a Matrox G100. I have tried to install > the /dev/agppart thing into the kernel (running 2.4.0-test10). Is there > some thing a

Re: openssh2.2 stops working

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
"Craig Coles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a few servers that I connect to using openssh v2.2 One of the servers > has started reporting errors in /usr/log/auth.log 'Faking authloop for illegal > user craig ' whenever I try to connect. Remotely from my client I get an > error > 'Permiss

Re: Fonts too big in XF 4.01

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
Ekkehard Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm using XFree 4.0.1 (the current packages on a woody system) with a > Voodoo3 2000 in 1280x1024 mode under HELIX Gnome. Everything was just > installed with apt-get, no special fiddling has occured. > > This is my situation with the fo

Re: Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > dpkg-deb: file looks like it might be an archive which has been > dpkg-deb:corrupted by being downloaded in ASCII mode > dpkg-deb: `/home/yves/APPLICATIONS/Packages/libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb' is not a > debian format archive > dpkg: error processing > /home/yves/APPL

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had somewhat similar problems. Mine was horribly bad static all over th > escreen any time there was a screen redraw. Considering I've a clock on the > screen, it was pretty much unusable. Try adding Option "NoAccel" to the graphics device section

Re: Strange Message

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:51:12AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: >> Every so often when logged into the console, I get a message >> looking like this: >> >> PAM_unix[28529]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) >> >> Can anyone tell me wh

openssh2.2 stops working

2000-11-10 Thread Craig Coles
I have a few servers that I connect to using openssh v2.2 One of the servers has started reporting errors in /usr/log/auth.log 'Faking authloop for illegal user craig ' whenever I try to connect. Remotely from my client I get an error 'Permission denied'. This was working just the other day.

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 10 November 2000 08:27, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Robert Guthrie wrote: ... An analogy that illustrated a wrong concept... > Exactly what I assumed. > ... and another bad analogy illustrating what really does happen on a single network (no gateway involved). > > I'm not to sure if

Re: Strange Message

2000-11-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:51:12AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Every so often when logged into the console, I get a message looking > like this: > > PAM_unix[28529]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) > > Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it a problem, and if so, wha

Re: Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/10/00, 6:57:06 PM, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I need a little help with apache and setting up the following code to > run. At this moment it is contained in my .hmtl file and nothing happens > other than the other html code I have in there >

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrew wrote: > >Something must have gone wrong because the system now complains about > >"unresoloved symboles" after the phrase " calculating module > >dependancies". > > > > This often happens - did you rm all the old modules first? > I know this is a little risky, so you probably should take

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-10 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:07:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > you can do that in netscape as well... > Before switching I tried to do it. I wanted the mail of each list in a different folder. I thought of filtering by 'From', but in debian lists 'From' is the author and 'Resent from' is th

Re: Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Eileen Orbell
If I include this line in my index file: All it wants to do is download the page to disk. The .html page does not even load. If I remove the line of code the pages loads fine.. ??? RegardsAt 07:19 PM 11/10/2000 +, you wrote: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a little hel

Strange Message

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
Every so often when logged into the console, I get a message looking like this: PAM_unix[28529]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it a problem, and if so, what can I do about it? \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[E

synchronize dselect

2000-11-10 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Oege" == Oege Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oege> Hi, Oege> I am not sure how, but somehow I really messed up my dselect requests. Oege> When i run [I]install, dpkg wants to remove a whole host of packages, Oege> among which gnome and X. From dselect I have tried to clear

Re[2]: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread mazaev . ml
Hi, I originally had a similar problem when trying to compile nVidia and SB Live modules. For some reason, the 2.2.17 source in Debian excludes modversions.h . I downloaded the regular kernel source from kernel.org, compiled a kernel from that, and everything works fine now. Also, I think

Re: Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need a little help with apache and setting up the following code to >run. At this moment it is contained in my .hmtl file and nothing happens >other than the other html code I have in there > > is preferable to #exec cgi.) -- Colin Watson

synchronize dselect

2000-11-10 Thread Oege Dijk
Hi, I am not sure how, but somehow I really messed up my dselect requests. When i run [I]install, dpkg wants to remove a whole host of packages, among which gnome and X. From dselect I have tried to clearly tell dselect that I want to install the packages it wants to remove, but that all doesn't m

Fonts too big in XF 4.01

2000-11-10 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, I'm using XFree 4.0.1 (the current packages on a woody system) with a Voodoo3 2000 in 1280x1024 mode under HELIX Gnome. Everything was just installed with apt-get, no special fiddling has occured. This is my situation with the fonts: - All "gnomish" fonts (window frame menus, file manage

Re: potato sendmail vs. hotmail.com

2000-11-10 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:21:33PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote: > hello > > i'm running a potato box with sendmail. one of my users complained that > whenever somebody tries to send him an e-mail from a hotmail.com address > (the hotmail web interface), he gets the following error message: > > (e-mai

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I'll forward to info I just sent our LUG: Be warned > > > From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm sure many (if not all) have already read the graet article on using hdparm - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 I did several tests here. the WD10

Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi, I need a little help with apache and setting up the following code to run. At this moment it is contained in my .hmtl file and nothing happens other than the other html code I have in there

Re: Problem with kernel modules

2000-11-10 Thread wulfie
I always set version info on all modules, which allows you to use old or non-kernel modules with a new kernel. As a bit of housekeeping I also rename the Debian modules dir before I "make modules modules_install". Don't forget to clean out /etc/modules to stop the system trying to load non-existant

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-10 Thread wulfie
Try Webmin instead - it's usually pretty accurate, it does authentication, and understands many different systems (Debian, RedHat, SuSE, FreeBSD, AIX etc, etc, etc), so if you like to tinker with several different Linux/Unix boxen you get a consistent interface across them all. I tried LinuxConf a

Re: Fetchmail, Procmail and multiple Email accounts

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Lisi
Glyn Millington wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:06:13PM -0500, thus spake Jim Lisi: Note: Please CC me, I am having problems with the email addrs subsribed to the list I am trying to setup fetchmail and procmail so that I can get mail from two email accounts and diliver that to my debian bo

Re: .deb

2000-11-10 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:40:09PM -0800, thus spake Sathish C: > > Hi All > > > > I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open > > *.deb files? > > Install Debian? Glyn This may be a flip answer, but Debian is much superior

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Majewski
> > to about 18Mbps, but I haven't felt it yet. -chris > >Linux does not swap enough. Remove some RAM :-) > >More seriously, I guess that if Linux has lots of RAM to play with > (here swap in use <10% RAM), and a big cache (30-50% RAM), you're not > going to saturate your disk bandwidth i

potato sendmail vs. hotmail.com

2000-11-10 Thread Stefan Ott
hello i'm running a potato box with sendmail. one of my users complained that whenever somebody tries to send him an e-mail from a hotmail.com address (the hotmail web interface), he gets the following error message: (e-mail addresses have been changed because of privacy issues) [ begin ]---

Re: .deb

2000-11-10 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:40:09PM -0800, thus spake Sathish C: > Hi All > > I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open > *.deb files? Install Debian? -- * None can love freedom hea

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Francois Gouget
On 10 Nov 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In case you guys missed this one, check it out. > > > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 > > > > I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. > > > > Mike > > Do you notice

sound - cannot set sampling speed

2000-11-10 Thread Gnanasekaran Thoppae
hi list, I have VIA686 onboard sound. I compiled 2.4.0-test10 kernel and it is working fine with alsaplayer. But I can't use other mp3 players like mpg123, xmms, freeamp etc. error msgs and observations: 0. mpg123 - 'Can't open /dev/dsp!' 1. xmms - sampling rate is not proper - plays songs fa

Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Maybe see the ifconfig manpage. -chris

Re: hdparm to increase performance

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In case you guys missed this one, check it out. > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 > > I just increased my harddrive throughput by 5 times. > > Mike Do you notice a difference though? I increased mine from about 3Mbps to abo

How to link libc.a instead of libbsd.a

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm trying to compile ssh on an old (slink and pre-slink) machine with some potato on it. I'm getting undefined references (e.g to _sigintr), which symbol indeed does not appear in /usr/lib/libbsd.a (this is the bugger being linked). On a whim, I did an nm on /usr/lib/libc.a and, what

Re: where is the lockfile command...

2000-11-10 Thread Walter Tautz
> > Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : it is used in the script > > : http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync > > : I tried loading lockfile-progs but it doesn't > : have the program. It does have lockfile-create but > : this clearly isn't the same program or more precisely the >

Re: .deb

2000-11-10 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Sathish C spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:40:09PM -0800: > Hi All > > I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open > *.deb files? > try: ar -x foo.deb this should give you a file called data.tar.gz which contains the binary files. /

Re: sticky bit, powersaving & hdd spindown

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've been meaning to ask you about you suggested power-supply quietening > technique. you said you moved the power supply outside the case, in order to > allievate the heat buildup inside the p/s case. > > yet on at least my machines, the powersupply has venti

Re: .deb

2000-11-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Sathish C wrote: > > Hi All > > I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open > *.deb files? > > Thnk u in advance > > Bye > Kilaru Hi, try "alien". This perlsript can convert between different packets (rpm, deb and tgz). I think its shipped with your distribution. Bye,

.deb

2000-11-10 Thread Sathish C
Hi All I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open *.deb files? Thnk u in advance Bye Kilarubegin:vcard n:Kilaru;Satish C tel;home:91-80-5215117 tel;work:91-80-8411438/9 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:[EMAIL PROTECTED] org:NetContinuum version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: test patterns for adjusting monitor?

2000-11-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Scott V. McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that this thread has got me interested, could anyone explain how > to use the test patterns? The short answer is I don't know, the long answer is, if you see a large rectangular grid on your screen, and it looks warped, twiddle the dials on you

After uprading to the latest KDE *.debs netscape 4.75 won't bold new messages any more

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, I have installed latest KDE debs and after that netscape won't bold out my unread messages any more. All messages do look like they are already read now. So where is the bug now, in KDE or in netscape ? Anybody got a similar problem ? TIA Michael Meding System is debian 2.2 with XF

Re: remote login advice / bonehead spelling [OT]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
will trillich wrote: > > we're lucky that webster and his cronies didn't get their > wish to start a whole new langauge after the u.s. split > off from the u.k... > > if you wanna discuss bonehead spellings, how about > calliope? > enough? > women? > once? >

install 2.2 with 2.2.13 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread laurent . vallet
Hi, sorry for my stupid question but how can i install debian 2.2 with the 2.2.13 (or 2.2.15) kernel ?? Thanks in advance for help. Laurent

Re: linking x11 programme failed

2000-11-10 Thread Damien
> I´ve succesfully installed Potato last week. It´s a real great release! > I´ve got some trouble to compile a programm which needs the X11 lib. The > linker returned, that there is no such a library: > > ld: can´t find -lX11 > debian draws a distinction between a library, and its development

Re: setting line breaks higher

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Eric wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:29:00PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > Which file is responseble for breaking lines in the bash(xterm)? > > I have looked for a sample.bashrc or anything simular (some > > distributions provide a sample file for a variaty of programs where > > you on

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Robert Guthrie wrote: > Okay, this I know about: > On an ethernet network every packet of information that is transmitted by a > computer is visible to all NICs on the network. For a NIC to actually accept > a packet for it's machine, the packet must be addressed to that NIC's MAC > address (the

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Stefan Janecek wrote: > > Mostly, I just share home out so that I have the same www bookmarks, same > > mail folders, and same custom scripts (under ~/bin) available to me. There > > are lots of issues when you do this kind of thing, though (you have to make > > sure your /etc/group and /etc/pass

linking x11 programme failed

2000-11-10 Thread Sven Garbade
Dear all, I´ve succesfully installed Potato last week. It´s a real great release! I´ve got some trouble to compile a programm which needs the X11 lib. The linker returned, that there is no such a library: ld: can´t find -lX11 Is this the wrong option or is there a package missing? Thanks, Sve

RE: 4-bit type

2000-11-10 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, You might try something like this... #include #include void main(void) { FILE *fpin; char cread; char chi; char clo; if( (fpin = fopen("FILENAME","r")) == NULL){ printf("Cannot Open File\n"); exit(1);

XF4.0.1, ct65554 16bpp @ 1024x768?

2000-11-10 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
After the XFree86 4.0.1e release, my xserver is again working, but I cannot seem to coax it into 16bit (1024x768) color. I have a Hitachi VisionBook Pro 7560 laptop with a Chips ct65554 videocard with 2M of memory. Even under XF3.3.6 it had to be coaxed with a modeline to display 16bit color, but

Q: Turn off Blackbox bottom bar?

2000-11-10 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm afraid I've lost the info from the gentleman who gave me the tip earlier on turn off BB bottom workspace/clock bar... Usually I file all Q and answers. I've loked at the BB home site and others but no go... Thanks, Jonathan

4-bit type

2000-11-10 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
here's my problem: i need to read a binary file 4-bits at time. is it possible to create a new type that is 4-bits wide? if so how do i go about it thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand t

Re: TSENG driver in X 4.0.1?

2000-11-10 Thread Andreas Rath
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:50:29 +0100 (CET), you wrote: >I am experiencing problems with my TSENG ET6000. I've just upgraded to X >4.0.1, and even though the X server starts up, the screen looks very >weird (eg. the mouse cursor is a rectangle, random black-and-white >rectangles on the screen etc), i

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2000-11-10 Thread makoto sugimoto
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Re: problems with XF4

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Simon
> I have a Celeron-Something here, Intel BX chipset, I tested to run XF4 > with both a ATI Rage 3D Pro and a Matrox G100. I have tried to install > the /dev/agppart thing into the kernel (running 2.4.0-test10). Is there > some thing as a "safe kernel" for testing this? Any known issues with the > 2

TSENG driver in X 4.0.1?

2000-11-10 Thread Peczoli Zoltan
Hi! I am experiencing problems with my TSENG ET6000. I've just upgraded to X 4.0.1, and even though the X server starts up, the screen looks very weird (eg. the mouse cursor is a rectangle, random black-and-white rectangles on the screen etc), it's absolutely unusable. (xdm even locks it up after

Re: subnets & 2 NICS in a mashine

2000-11-10 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Robert Guthrie spoke on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:29:24PM -0600: > On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > Robert Guthrie wrote: > > > Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup > > > is the same as mine... > > >

Re: Num lock activated by default, at start

2000-11-10 Thread Andre Berger
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:33:47AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Antonio Rodriguez schrieb: > > > > > > How do I make my numlock pad active from start? > > > Thanks, > > > Antonio. > > There should be an option in your BIOS, which says "NumLock statu

problems with XF4

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Koch
You can probably point out to me some hints or some obvious stuff that I simply did not think about... any hint would be appreciated. I have a Celeron-Something here, Intel BX chipset, I tested to run XF4 with both a ATI Rage 3D Pro and a Matrox G100. I have tried to install the /dev/agppart thing

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