Re: Lilo Question

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks for the reply Jason, but it didn't work, probably because of the boot block I have installed (per directions). Here's a copy of my lilo.conf file, maybe you can suggest how to edit it properly? cheers > Everyone goes through this, its a rite of passage. :) > > > > > My problem now is t

Netscape, IMAP and compact folder (fwd)

2000-12-03 Thread Debian Ghost
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:22:58 -0500 (EST) From: Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Netscape, IMAP and compact folder On occasion, when using IMAP, my netscape will fail to compact the folder if

Re: smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory

2000-12-03 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > umount and remount .. It works! Why the hell is it that smbumount does not work while umount works just fine? > smbfs is VERY unstable i would never trust it to anything ... I don't trust it very much either. I mostly use it to transfer files f

Re: X at boot time

2000-12-03 Thread Francis Irving
You can also use gdm (Gnome) or kdm (KDE). They replace xdm and serve the same function, but are prettier. On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:03:11PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > You could install xdm. It starts towards the end of the boot > process and gives you a graphical login that brings you > di

Re: (no subject)

2000-12-03 Thread Francis Irving
This can be quite fiddly to do. If you're using Windows 95/98, you can configure Lilo (Linux Loader) to let you dual boot. If you're using Windows NT/2000 you may find you need to use the free program BootPart under NT to add an option to let it boot into Linux (depending on what order you inst

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread Francis Irving
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:18:43AM -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 01:43:50 -0800, Erik Steffl said: > > > the nmap shows: > > > > 785/tcpopenunknown > > > >the netstat confirms: > > > > tcp00 jojda:785jojda:3984 TIME_WAIT > > tcp

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-03 Thread Francis Irving
Konqueror, which comes with KDE2 (in unstable Debian) is very good; feature full and still low footprint. KDE2 itself isn't very low footprint though... On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out >

Postgres Port Problem (and other port issues)

2000-12-03 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, everyone. So, here's the problem: In a nutshell, Postgres doesn't seem to be listening on port 5432 (which is where everything seems to be looking for it). Nmap confirms this, plus none of the stuff that lsof lists as being owned by postgres seems to deal with a socket (here's the dump

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > The only thing I really need javascript for (and probably the only > thing I really need netscape for), is my bank. Although this is > academic for now, anybody know if there are alternatives to javascript > for this type of content ("choose account", "choose cr

system.map wrong ?

2000-12-03 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, Somehow I have a messed up system.map file. Could someone tell me what this file is/does, and how I can fix mine? I get this result from a ps -ef : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work_data> ps -ef | grep netscape {no_halt} {init_task_union} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.15 does not match kernel da

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 04 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Dec 03 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does exists a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? > > apt-get install anancron That should have been "anacron", instead. That's what one gets when he tries to write to reply

RE: Lilo Question

2000-12-03 Thread Jason Holland
Hi, > After hours and hours of aggravation I was finally able to get both > Windoze and Debian installed on my wife's compaq presario. Because of > partioning problems (I think) I had to install win98 in the first > partition and it finally worked fine. I will copy some of the files from > the CD

Lilo Question

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
After hours and hours of aggravation I was finally able to get both Windoze and Debian installed on my wife's compaq presario. Because of partioning problems (I think) I had to install win98 in the first partition and it finally worked fine. I will copy some of the files from the CD to drive, as su

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, jakemsr wrote: > works as a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial > adapter. I've got the mouse/adapter in "com2". /dev/mouse is a symlink Why did you put it in COM2? Plug the mouse into COM1/ttyS0 and smylink /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0. Then give gpm a shot. I d

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when exactly does it hang? ive seen a lot of hangs on startup if a > working DNS is unreachable. > > nate > > Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making > > all open netscape windows unuseable

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 03 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does exists a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? apt-get install anancron []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.us

Re: smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
umount and remount .. smbfs is VERY unstable i would never trust it to anything ... nate Francois Gouget wrote: > >I had a Windows fs mounted on ~/smb via smbfs. The Windows machine > got put in suspend mode, then woken up, but now I canot access the > directory anymore: > > $ ls smb > ls:

smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory

2000-12-03 Thread Francois Gouget
I had a Windows fs mounted on ~/smb via smbfs. The Windows machine got put in suspend mode, then woken up, but now I canot access the directory anymore: $ ls smb ls: smb: Input/output error $ smbumount smb Could not open smb: Input/output error When I do 'ls ~' I don't even see smb anymore

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On 3 Dec 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making > all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly > potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris Hm, I have problems with netscape misbehaving,

Re: gcc error

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Willi Dyck wrote: > > Hi list, > > i'm trieing to install gnapster 1.4.1a > doing ./configure i get the following: > > loading cache ./config.cache > checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking whether make sets ${MA

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
did you get the adapter *with* the mouse? there are many adapters that are not compadible with brands other then the mouse they come with, and some can't even be converted at all for some reason or another(only had that with 1 trackball though). in short, if the adapter didn't come with the mouse,

Re: kde2

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Eileen Orbell wrote: > > Anyone know where to get kde2.deb from? I added to my sources-list the > line shown on the kde website: > debian-user@lists.debian.org > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde2 > But this returns errors.. > Failed to fetch ftp://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/kde2/binary-i386/Pack

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
when exactly does it hang? ive seen a lot of hangs on startup if a working DNS is unreachable. nate Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making > all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly > potato. Any patches/work

Re: OT: LBA, LILO, repartitioning

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
so from what i see.. linux works win32 (i can't bring myself to say the full word it gives me the chills) does not. what does win32 say when you try to boot it ? sounds like you may just have to reinstall that .. or try fdisk /mbr ? or get a boot disk and do sys c: ? nate Jonathan Markevich

Re: [OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread ktb
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:03:34PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making > all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly > potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris > > > -- > To UNSUB

OT: LBA, LILO, repartitioning

2000-12-03 Thread Jonathan Markevich
OK, I threw LILO in there to avoid being *completely* off topic, but it is related... I had Windows refuse to load for an unexplainable reason the other day, and even my floppy drive INSISTS that the HD be set to LBA before anything works. The problem is that I've been running CHS for over a year

Re: fvwm jpg background

2000-12-03 Thread Michael Sauer
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, ktb wrote: > I see how to use the FvwmBacker module and FvwmBackerDesk to > set an xpm image as wallpaper but I don't see how I can use a > jpg as wallpaper with fvwm. Anyone know how to do this? > Thanks, > kent How about using xv or electric e

how to not log connections from localhost?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I tell inetd/tcpd to not log things like: Dec 3 16:59:07 localhost ssh[17364]: connect from 127.0.0.1 -chris

Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Jack Morgan
"J. Bruce Fields" wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > > I would say > > > > Avoid toshiba > > This isn't quite fair to Mr. Amsden, who it seems has a lot of experience > with linux on laptops, but--please be careful with statements that lump > together all laptops of a certain bra

[OT] Navigator 4.75 hangs, any patches?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread jakemsr
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:19:33PM +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > # cat /dev/ttyS1 nothing happens nothing happens after gpm -D either > You said two serial ports, but this one lists 4? Do you have a modem in there > as well? > Yes, there is a modem at ttyS3 I also tried everything on t

MySQL Error

2000-12-03 Thread John-Mark
I type as follows bash-2.03$ mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) bash-2.03$ Any ideas thanks jm

MORE repairing corrupted kernel to boot

2000-12-03 Thread lists
The debian installation disks also serve as rescue floppies. The way I read the installation menu is that if you mount previously initalized partitions, the installation will copy the kernel & base system onto the drive w/o disturbing other files. Is this correct? What about dpkg? Will a base in

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Well, after your suggestion I looked for logrotate and yes, it is installed. In the logrotate.conf appear the following lines: # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 because my potato system is younger than 4 weeks I will wait before doing anything. Thanks for

kde2

2000-12-03 Thread Eileen Orbell
Anyone know where to get kde2.deb from? I added to my sources-list the line shown on the kde website: debian-user@lists.debian.org deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde2 But this returns errors.. Failed to fetch ftp://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/kde2/binary-i386/Packages Unable to fetch file, ser

Re: fvwm jpg background

2000-12-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see how to use the FvwmBacker module and FvwmBackerDesk to set an > xpm image as wallpaper but I don't see how I can use a jpg as > wallpaper with fvwm. Anyone know how to do this? I can't tell you, how to do it with FvwmBacker, but, there's a nice tool 'setup

reinstall-->can't find modules w/new kernel

2000-12-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just reinstalled from Potato CD's to clean out some very messy stuff I had done to my system with Woody... :) I pulled out a custom 2.4 kernel package which had been made previously by make-kpkg, and installed it. There are a number of modules, including soundcore (for the ALSA driver I use).

Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > I would say > > Avoid toshiba This isn't quite fair to Mr. Amsden, who it seems has a lot of experience with linux on laptops, but--please be careful with statements that lump together all laptops of a certain brand. Experiences with a few representatives

ssl and libwww-perl question

2000-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lupa
libwww-perl supports ssl out of the box _kinda_ if Crypt::SSLeay is installed (or so the readme would have me believe). I dug around in dselect a bit and find only Net::SSLeay (which the doc says is better, but not compatible). The question is if anyone out there knows how to set debian packages u

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Thank you David! it was exactly your guess. After installing the gtk-engines-pixmap the error has gone. And my desktop theme is looking much better... :P On 03-Dec-2000 David Z Maze wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MC> I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the

fvwm jpg background

2000-12-03 Thread ktb
I see how to use the FvwmBacker module and FvwmBackerDesk to set an xpm image as wallpaper but I don't see how I can use a jpg as wallpaper with fvwm. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, kent -- "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you mus

Re: SCSI

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
I replied to the original author, but forgot to cc the mailing list... > There's plenty of literature with the Scsi Host Adaptor - little of > which I understand at the moment, but I live in hope. Will a Potato > installation recognize this board - I haven't yet recompiled the > 2.2.17 kernel for

Re: SCSI

2000-12-03 Thread Allan M. Wind
Please see http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/table.htm and see which matches your drive best. When you find the right one there will be a links to manuals etc. For instance: http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/dcas/dcasjum.htm On 2000-12-03 18:07:39, john gennard wrote: > The h

Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread dirk
I just got me a Toshiba 3440CT portege. I am struggling to get things working, but that's part of the fun. What I managed so far is to get X working, that is by far the most important. Sound on this thing is not so interesting, unless you hook it up to some decent speakers. Didn't try IrDA yet (c

Re: Mosaic work?

2000-12-03 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:30:30PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I dl the latest Mosaic for Linux and it tells me to uncompress and run > it. I did but it makes a request for a LibXt.so.6 file which is there. > Is this version viable? Are there others? Try the deb version, just apt-get ins

Re: Best Light Web browser??

2000-12-03 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested Chimera2, Express, Arena, and gzilla. Anything else out > there as a simple web browser capable of getting through the > gimp-manual? Of the lot, the only one that didn't crash after 30 secs > from Chimera2. > >

Re: PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
> I was given an old Pentium 75. It has two serial ports on the back, one > labeled "mouse" and one labeled "com2". No PS/2 ports. I can't seem to find > any real serial port mice, so I got a cheapo PS/2 (micro solutions, works as > a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial adapter. I'

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: [Very informative font discussion snipped] > What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is > > -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 > > which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:18:31 -0800, Tim Uckun said: > At 10:18 AM 12/3/2000 -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > > > > > > > >any ideas which particular package does it? > > > > > You can use update-inetd to remove or disable these entries > >in inetd.conf so the inetd daemon won't listen

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
use logrotate erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi to all! > > I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to > Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to > write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exist

PS/2 mouse on serial port?

2000-12-03 Thread jakemsr
Hey all, I was given an old Pentium 75. It has two serial ports on the back, one labeled "mouse" and one labeled "com2". No PS/2 ports. I can't seem to find any real serial port mice, so I got a cheapo PS/2 (micro solutions, works as a PS/2 on a PS/2 port with X), and a PS/2 to serial adapter.

Re: gcc error

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Willi Dyck schrieb: > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables. Output of `gcc -v´ is? scr

Re: scanner doesn't scan...

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Wollny
Ok, I have this line in the /dev/sane.d/mustek.conf file. But the thing still doesn't work. I don't understand why everythig seems to recognize the scanner except xsane. Le Saturday 02 December 2000 10:06 vous avez ?crit: > I think what Dirk meant was he's got an /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf which

Re: who listens on the port?

2000-12-03 Thread Tim Uckun
At 10:18 AM 12/3/2000 -0500, mikpolniak wrote: > >any ideas which particular package does it? > You can use update-inetd to remove or disable these entries in inetd.conf so the inetd daemon won't listen on these ports. To find the ports daemons not in inetd.conf try ls0f | gr

Re: IGRP vs OSPF

2000-12-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:27:45 PST, Peter Welte writes: >does anyone have any opinion as to which is better, >Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) or Open >Shortest Path First (OSPF), and/or know if a >Linux(Debian) router can be set up to use one or both >of them? I know OSPF from personal expe

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Kent West
Dale Morris wrote: I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? I would suggest making a directory

gcc error

2000-12-03 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi list, i'm trieing to install gnapster 1.4.1a doing ./configure i get the following: loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Jérôme Zago
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:07:30PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , > are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, > how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh > daemon? I've

Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
I would say Avoid toshiba Dell, and IBM laptops seem to work very well with Linux, and from what i gather from the catalogs elinux.com sends me it seems the new compaqs work well with linux. I have personally setup several dell latitude(not sure what model, but it had a celeron 400 128MB ram, 12G

Re: Sample crontab/at GUI

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
the GUI i favor most for crontab is webmin (www.webmin.com) web based administration, supports SSL as well. quite a nice package and works very well with debian 2.1/2.2(not sure about woody) nate Parrish M Myers wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been tinkering around with a gui for crontab and at.

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:07:30PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , > are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, > how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh > daemon?

Re: disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Nate Amsden
if you are looking for something system-wide the only way to do it is firewall. hosts.allow/deny only work for programs that are compiled with tcp_wrapper support. you can set the default incoming policy to deny, and an an accept statement for localhost. or setup a packet filtering firewall(i just

Monolithic kernels and init scripts

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Hi all! I´m a litte confused about init scripts from /etc/init.d when used booting from a monolithic (ie.e non-modularized) kernel (beeing new to debian *and* 2.2 kernels). It looks like (I haven´t digged deeply) those scripts `modutils´ and `kerneld´ from /etc/init.d are responsible for several

Failing Debian Installation

2000-12-03 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi All I have installed debian on atleas 20 diffrent computers, but now I have come across a problem I cannot solve. Im installing on AST Bravo P133MHz 128 Mb ram, onboard MACH64, PCI128, 3c905b, one 1.3 Gb disk and one 15Gb drive. All hardware should be compatible with Linux. Problems: * During

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 etc

2000-12-03 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:24:05AM +, john gennard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2000 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ** Original Message ** > > FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 11:47 AM > > TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SUBJECT: debi

IGRP vs OSPF

2000-12-03 Thread Peter Welte
Hello, does anyone have any opinion as to which is better, Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) or Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and/or know if a Linux(Debian) router can be set up to use one or both of them? So far, the majority of info i've found is from Cisco's site, and seeing as how I

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:41:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which > packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me > what the dependencies are? aptitude shows this directly.

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Rando Christensen
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: > > > of many reasons Debian is the only linux I use. > > > Also, those of us who read the lists understand what the reasons are, and > > > to my mind, they were sound, but up until recently, the `man on the > > > street' > > > still sees us as the last

disable remote connections to local ports?

2000-12-03 Thread Krzys Majewski
How can I set things up so that connections to a local port, say , are only accepted if they are coming from localhost? More generally, how can I shut off all outside access to my machine, except for the ssh daemon? I've got ALL: ALL in /etc/hosts/deny, and ALL: 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts/

SCSI

2000-12-03 Thread john gennard
I've not had anything to do with the Scsi interface. A little while ago in anticipation of trying it, I picked up a PCI board made by Iwill and called a 2930U+ plus a secondhand 2.1Gig IBM OEM harddrive (also a S/H CDRom Drive which I shall leave for the time being). There's plenty of literatu

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 etc

2000-12-03 Thread john gennard
I have started to receive lots of Digests (with different #xx numbers). The following is an example showing 'SENT' date as 12th Jan, 2000 - the others are dated Jan to Mar 2000. Can anyone explain why this could be happening. John. On Sunday 03 December 2000 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and MC> I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: MC> MC> "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in MC> module_path='libpixmap.so'" My guess on this

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
Sorry folks, my brain must have suffered a power-outage, I have posted the preceding message to the wrong list. Sorry.

Sample crontab/at GUI

2000-12-03 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, I have been tinkering around with a gui for crontab and at. I just wanted to get peoples opionions, 'cause I'm not satisfied with it quite yet. Images can be seen at http://home.earthlink.net/~monkey1s2/gcron Thanks Parrish Myers =

Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

2000-12-03 Thread Dexter Graphic
The site is a rich source of information on GNU/Linux laptops. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ But it's almost too much information and to general in nature to be of immediate use. I still have no idea how to go about comparing the hundreds of models listed and what each on

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and > I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: > > "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in > module_path='libpixmap.so'

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
That is true, but windows also does not like being installed on a scsi harddisk when booted from floppy. Some bioses can only set their bootsequence to A:, C:, SCSI or SCSI, A:, C:, so the latter works fine when windoze is installed because bios maps the scsi bootable drive to be no1 (just like lil

Re: logs

2000-12-03 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:33:05PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to > Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to > write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists > a wa

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0700, Rando Christensen wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: > > > ObDisclaimer: IANADD > > > > First off, I would like to apologize if this is not the right list to ask > > this question, and secondly, I would like to apologize if it is not > >

Re: Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:51, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:12, QBA wrote: > > Hi, > > Tar everything you want to keep, mount your win partition and copy your > tar-balls to it. > Where do your bookmarks come from? If they do from Netscape they should be > under /home/user/.kde Sor

Re: Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:12, QBA wrote: > Hi, > Tar everything you want to keep, mount your win partition and copy your tar-balls to it. Where do your bookmarks come from? If they do from Netscape they should be under /home/user/.kde > At last I decided to install Debian 2.2. Now I have RedHat6.2 i

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread scr
Sebastiaan schrieb: > > Oooops, forgot something. Swapping partitions is not the same as swapping > the disks. For this I used a bios swap in lilo: > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos > table=/dev/hdb > map-drive=0x80 > to=0x81 > map-drive=0x81 > to=0x80 >

Re: .gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread Jérôme Zago
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in > module_path='libpixmap.so'" Dunno about that. > "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" That means you can't play sounds on your box, because you don't have the right permissions.

.gnome-error

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Hello I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines: "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in module_path='libpixmap.so'" "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" What does they mean? Thanks in advance! Marce

Escape from RH

2000-12-03 Thread QBA
Hi, At last I decided to install Debian 2.2. Now I have RedHat6.2 installed and I don't know what to do with all my important files (about 1GB, specially don't wanna lose all my offline sites and netscape bookmarks). I have 8 partitions on my disk but wanna delete them and change their size. I hav

Re: reinstall windows?-SOLVED!

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
Got it!! Problem was I needed to format the partition using windoze, and it gave the partition a label. Thanks for the help :) Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm > > trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don'

logs

2000-12-03 Thread chiappa
Hi to all! I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? Thanks in

modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000

2000-12-03 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello Debian users, Is there anyone who could tell me why I am getting the message in the subject? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a Linux madison 2.4.0-test11 #1 Thu Nov 23 10:45:11 CET 2000 i586 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ Thank you, Chris -- "Man is distinguished from all other creature

Re: (no subject)

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilo will do that for you. > > is it possible to double boot windows and debian on a PIII pc, perhaps > using system commander? > > > sm Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"; name="Adjuntos: 1" Con

(no subject)

2000-12-03 Thread SPEROLEEM
is it possible to double boot windows and debian on a PIII pc, perhaps using system commander? sm

Re: Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > Clear as water, I understood everything you said ;-) (not a single word) > > > Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupiæ. Bill Gates > > pewnie nawet nie s³ysza³ o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z

Re: Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Dom 03 Dic 2000 18:44, pocztaonet wrote: Clear as water, I understood everything you said ;-) (not a single word) > > Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupiæ. Bill Gates > pewnie nawet nie s³ysza³ o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z > t± wasz± strychnin±. I zmi

Killing Post in innd

2000-12-03 Thread Hung Hin Lik, Shell
Hi all, Well, would anyone tell me how can I kill post in innd ? I have tried to remove the Xfer file and remove the entry in 'history' file, also I tried 'ctlinnd', but the post still be there, are there're any method I can kill the post ? Thank you ! p.s. Sorry for all

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Sebastiaan
> I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm > trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a > driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 > version. Will it work this way? > There is not much difference between win95 and w

Opinia

2000-12-03 Thread pocztaonet
Wiecie, co jest za darmo? - to, czego nikt nie chce kupić. Bill Gates pewnie nawet nie słyszał o waszym zakichanym systemie. Walcie sie na ryj z tš waszš strychninš.  I zmieńcie nazwę na 'dewiant" (hue hue hue..) -- Szybkość - Bezpieczeństwo - FTP - SQL - ASP - 100 MB dla Twojego serw

Re: reinstall windows?

2000-12-03 Thread Dale Morris
I made windoze a primary partition (bootable) on the 4.6hd. But, I'm trying to install win95 using a win98 startup disk. I don't have a driver disk for the cd rom, and win98 is the cheapie upgrade from win95 version. Will it work this way? Martin W?rtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I want t

Re: mouse middle button not working in X

2000-12-03 Thread Juha Erkkila
> Yes, I used to have "/dev/gpmdata" as well at one time. I tried it again > now and it does allow the mouse to work both in console and X. However, > the middle button still doesn't work, but I've gone back to a 2-button > genuine Microsoft mouse which can at least emulate 3 buttons (essential > f

man: hanging indented lists without space between items?

2000-12-03 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, As the subject says, I'd like to have a list with hanging indentation in a manual page. Basically, I want to see this list in xmms(1): * Audio MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (with mpg123 plug-in), * WAV, RAW, AU (with internal wav plug-in and MikMod plug- in), *

Re: dpkg dependencies

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
patd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pd> i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which pd> packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me pd> what the dependencies are? (1) Start dselect. (2) Find the appropriate Python package. Type '-' to remove i

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-12-03 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BP> If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs BP> an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be BP> allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having BP> spent some time in the recen

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