Re: /etc/postgresql files

2001-01-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:22:46PM -0800, Tino Ionescu wrote: > Hi , > Can anybody direct me please where is any documentation on HAWTO > configure the files from /etc/postgresql ?( postmaster.init ..etc) Each of those files should have quite a few comments. In addition you can look at the man p

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:32:20PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(. > I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check > with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available, > how well do they interroper

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread Tom Marshall
I don't have any experience with DSL, but I can tell you about the AT&T @home setup. Most of the networking stuff should apply to either, but you should *insist* on an external adapter with a ethernet connector to your box. I've been using a 5x86-133 machine for my linux masq gateway for about 4

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
D-Man wrote: > > I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(. > I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check > with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available, > how well do they interroperate with Debian? What are people's > opin

Re: Realplayer

2001-01-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
In order to get realplayer to install the new version, I edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer.postinst (also realplayer.prerm) to change references from /usr/lib/RealPlayer7 to /usr/lib/RealPlayer8. I ~/.also edited mailcap in the same way so that netscape would use it. Works fine. Bob On Sun,

Re: xdm doesn't start

2001-01-07 Thread Benjamin Black
Cameron Matheson wrote: I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up. It says "starting x display manger: xdm", but it never does. Anyone know why? (i'm running potato w/ x4) you might try having a look at /var/log/xdm.log to see why it's failing (if it is failing). also check and make sur

Re: DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Stults
D-Man wrote: > > I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(. > I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check > with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available, > how well do they interroperate with Debian? What are people's > opin

DSL vs. cable and LAN options

2001-01-07 Thread D-Man
I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(. I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available, how well do they interroperate with Debian? What are people's opinions/experiences with the

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:13:43PM -0600, John Foster wrote: ... > /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/gpmdata > I have selected /dev/gpmdata in Xf86Setup > I have selected /dev/psaux in gpm.conf > > Now the mouse works in All X windows apps including anything run in an > xterm window. > It will still o

/etc/postgresql files

2001-01-07 Thread Tino Ionescu
Hi , Can anybody direct me please where is any documentation on HAWTO configure the files from /etc/postgresql ?( postmaster.init ..etc) Thank you for your particpation. Florentin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail a

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Gray
> Colin Watson writes: cw> Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wrote a little perl script [1] that gets the names of the files from >> a tarball, then removes all the files and directories found inside the >> tarball. >> >> It comes in real handy when a tar arch

Re: didn't do it quite right...

2001-01-07 Thread John Carline
tom wrote: > Howdy Guys, > > I just ugraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.18 (hey, I'm slow...) on a > potato system. I did not do it the "debian way", however, and > I still appear to have 2.0.36 installed, and running top give > me ye olde "warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel > version" > >

Re: Realplayer

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > I did an "apt-get install realplayer" and was instructed > to download "rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm". I download > said file and finished the install. > > I then ran "/usr/X11R6/bin/realplayer" and was presented > with a registration screen. I entered my data

Realplayer

2001-01-07 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I did an "apt-get install realplayer" and was instructed to download "rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm". I download said file and finished the install. I then ran "/usr/X11R6/bin/realplayer" and was presented with a registration screen. I entered my data and was promply informed that this UNIX vers

Re: USB Trackball

2001-01-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 07 January 2001 20:20, Jens Gecius wrote: > Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Put in /etc/X11/XF86Config: > > > > > > Section "Pointer" > > >Protocol"ImPS/2" > > >Device "/dev/input/mice" > > >ZAxisMapping 4 5 > > > EndSection > > > > > > I have the

Re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: >On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:10:34AM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> That sounds like either you're using a strange terminal, or a >> less-capable vi clone, or both. Debian doesn't tend to give you strange >> terminals (log in to other Unixes from Debian, though, and you'll f

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wrote a little perl script [1] that gets the names of the files from >a tarball, then removes all the files and directories found inside the >tarball. > >It comes in real handy when a tar archive dumps into the currently >directory and makes a big mess. Of

Re: Apt needed

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > I got a bunch of "avi" type of "movies/animation". > Is there an apt that will play these? I thought xanim > would work but it doesn't. depending on the codec you can try avifile(search for it on freshmeat.net) it can play a lot of the newer codecs .. nate --

Re: didn't do it quite right...

2001-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:03:26PM +0100, tom wrote: > I looked at lilo.conf, made one change. Here are all the steps I > took: [snip] > 15. lilo It isn't clear to me from what you wrote: after you edited lilo.conf, did you then run /sbin/lilo to reread that file and rewrite the boot sector?

Re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:10:34AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' > > > >Also know how to :wq etc > > > >But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says ndd will > >delete N lines; but it d

Re: USB Trackball

2001-01-07 Thread Jens Gecius
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Put in /etc/X11/XF86Config: > > > > Section "Pointer" > >Protocol"ImPS/2" > >Device "/dev/input/mice" > >ZAxisMapping 4 5 > > EndSection > > > > I have the same model and I tested with 2.2.18 kernel and works OK > > (now I use

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
"Tibor D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "Malformed" line 13 >> >> It is:deb file://sources/x11 >> >> What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work > >No, it should be: >deb file:/sources/x11 ./ > >And don't forget to make the "Packages" file in that d

Re: edit apt-get sources.list (apt-get woes)

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Two problems, apt-get has stopped mounting my periph PCMCIA cdrom >(EXP). When I try apt-cdrom add, it prompts me to put in cdrom, but >then it complains that it is not a valid block device. Don't >understand why this has started happeing, as it used to work fine. Is /d

Re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' > >Also know how to :wq etc > >But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says ndd will >delete N lines; but it doesn't work. In insert mode, backspace key >often changes case of letters.

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

2001-01-07 Thread Ard Righ
([<> On 7 Jan 2001, some witty mortal wrote: <>]) (From experience using Mozilla from M16 -> latest nightly builds). > nice: > 1. auto URL completion (big whoop). URL completion is actually a "big whoop" as it A) saves a lot of time; B) Looking through the History to find that really wierd U

Installing Oracle on woody (chrooted potato)

2001-01-07 Thread Markus Fischer
Of course its not possible with the current available Oracle Database versions. This is true for 816SE, 816EE and 817EE (tested 'em all) because of the glibc2.1.3 dependeny. Because I was stupid enough to waste countless hours spending installing all oracle version above on woody over and over jus

FIXED :) Cannot Open /dev/dsp device

2001-01-07 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I have a Creative Ensoniq ES1371 sound card; loading the module fixed the problem :) dur, I shoulda thought to check this at the beginning :) Thanks everyone, for all your responses. I figured this out by reading the documentation several people suggested. Aaron yomama[57]% play ~/delay/dela

Apt needed

2001-01-07 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I got a bunch of "avi" type of "movies/animation". Is there an apt that will play these? I thought xanim would work but it doesn't. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread John Foster
Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:41:49PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > > To quote Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > ... > > # is to use "/dev/mouse" in XF86Setup and have "repeat_type=raw" in > > # /etc/gpm.conf and to top this off make sure that /dev/mouse is linked >

didn't do it quite right...

2001-01-07 Thread tom
Howdy Guys, I just ugraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.18 (hey, I'm slow...) on a potato system. I did not do it the "debian way", however, and I still appear to have 2.0.36 installed, and running top give me ye olde "warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version" I looked at lilo.conf, made

Re: Trouble Setting Up DSL

2001-01-07 Thread Terry Carney
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jason Dawe wrote: > During the install I loaded the Epic 100 module, and entered the above > values in the Configure Network option. I assumed this would be enough to > let me access the Internet. Are you using the same network card. If not, you may need to register your new h

Re: Trouble Setting Up DSL

2001-01-07 Thread aperrin
On 7 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: : * Jason Dawe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010107 19:32]: : > However, after completing the installation and rebooting I could not connect : > to any sites, nor could I ping any servers. For example if I do a 'ftp : > ftp.debian.org' it instantly tells me it is not fo

Re: Trouble Setting Up DSL

2001-01-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Jason Dawe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010107 19:32]: > Hello I have a DSL modem with a SMC EtherPower II Ethernet card. Before > installing Debian I used the Windows 'winipcfg' utility to find out my IP > address, DNS servers, Default Gateway, Subnet Mask and DHCP Server. Most residential DSL provider

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:41:49PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > To quote Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ... > # is to use "/dev/mouse" in XF86Setup and have "repeat_type=raw" in > # /etc/gpm.conf and to top this off make sure that /dev/mouse is linked > # to /dev/psaux. (look to my prior

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:53:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: # > I am trying to isolate a problem with my ps2 mouse. The pointer function # > does not work in console or xterm. It will cut and paste OK. I have # > checked all of the various configurat

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:53:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I am trying to isolate a problem with my ps2 mouse. The pointer function > does not work in console or xterm. It will cut and paste OK. I have > checked all of the various configurations and read all of the related > docs. I have determ

Trouble Setting Up DSL

2001-01-07 Thread Jason Dawe
Hello I have a DSL modem with a SMC EtherPower II Ethernet card. Before installing Debian I used the Windows 'winipcfg' utility to find out my IP address, DNS servers, Default Gateway, Subnet Mask and DHCP Server. During the install I loaded the Epic 100 module, and entered the above values in the

Re: Can sometimes ftp to debian.org -> apt-get update HOWTO???

2001-01-07 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:29:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > need step by step newbie lesson on updating from ftp site. TIA, dave http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html -Rob

Re: Please help newbie figure out anX.log debug effort

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
reconfigure X, your XF86Config is broken, i suggest using XF86Setup but you can probably use anXious or xf86config as well .. may be helpful to rename or delete your existing /etc/X11/XF86Config as well. or you can post the full contents of the file and maybe someone can help you with what changes

Re: Please help newbie figure out anX.log debug effort

2001-01-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You must provide a "Screen" section in XF86Config for at >least one of the following graphics drivers: accel It means what it says! >Fatal server error: >No configured graphics devices Here's mine (but you can't just copy it!): Section "Screen" Driver

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

2001-01-07 Thread Rob VanFleet
You would be better off to just apt-get install mozilla. It's virtually the same browser minus all of the netcenter registration crap, plus the debianized version seems to have a few annoyances fixed. -Rob On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:10:04PM +0200, irvine wrote: > > Hi all > > I was reading tha

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:51:55AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On the update-rc.d idea (in another message): this only turns things off if > the script they refer to is deleted. But I wanted to keep it around. You apparently didn't read the man page like I suggested: -f Force remova

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:46:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 01-01-07 16:54:37 EST, you write: > > << deb file:///sources/x11 >> > > Thanks for trying to help me Kevin. I tried your suggestion, > and it still doesn't work. Happy New Year. Just read the man page. Try

Re: USB Trackball

2001-01-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 00:31, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Put in /etc/X11/XF86Config: > > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"ImPS/2" >Device "/dev/input/mice" >ZAxisMapping 4 5 > EndSection > > I have the same model and I tested with 2.2.18 kernel and works OK > (now I use it w

Please help newbie figure out anX.log debug effort

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 8 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree8

Can sometimes ftp to debian.org -> apt-get update HOWTO???

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
need step by step newbie lesson on updating from ftp site. TIA, dave

Re: Packaging Policy.

2001-01-07 Thread Corey Popelier
> As others pointed out this is quit acceptable. But there is a but:) > Official packages are tested/screned, and at least uptill now I trust > them. Now comes some one I don't no, telling me he has fixed some > probs. Nice nice, but would I want to handover my system to this guy? > No, I wouldn

Re: xdm doesn't start

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up. It says "starting x display manger: > xdm", but it never does. Anyone know why? > (i'm running potato w/ x4) Maybe it started but didn't switch vts for you? Try alt-F7? Im not sure, I don't like booting in

xdm doesn't start

2001-01-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I installed xdm, but x doesn't start up.  It says "starting x display manger: xdm", but it never does.  Anyone know why? (i'm running potato w/ x4)   Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD

2001-01-07 Thread sg . au
Hello there. I have the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto0 0 Thanks, Brad. On Sun, 07 January 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > have you included a /cdrom line in your fstab? If the installation program > cannot find a cdrom itself, you

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Malformed" line 13 It is:deb file://sources/x11 What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work No, it should be: deb file:/sources/x11 ./ And don't forget to make the "Packages" file in that directory (with dpkg-scanpackages) (supposed you have

sources.list line

2001-01-07 Thread Antonio
I installed the base system of potato from a Win/Dos partition on local hard disk. Now, I`m tryeing to install the Packages (from the same partition) using the dselect. When I am updating (second step of the dselect), it protest about the line one of the "sources.list" file: deb

Re: debconf

2001-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:06:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > How does one go about changing the message priority in debconf? > > > > You may be looking for 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' -- without a bit more > > explination I can't tell for sure. >

Re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:53:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Malformed" line 13 > > It is:deb file://sources/x11 > > What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work Not claiming to be an expert here, but shouldn't it read: deb file:///sources/x11 Kevin

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-07 Thread Kent Nyberg
I find it much easier to mess with the initscript with the update-rc.d script. To remove for example xdm from the initscript you enter: 'update-rc.d xdm remove' If do do that, then xdm wont start from init any more. I dont know the exact command but you can do it the other way to, that is, you ca

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
> That installed a script(s?) in /etc/init.d, which start devfsd at > boot-time. Of course, you have to have the kernel automatically mount > devfs in /dev, which is available as an option in the kernel > pre-compilation configuration. If you didn't select it there, add > "devfs=mount" as an argume

Re: [debian-user] mutt w/IMAP4+SSL?

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > So it's just not compiled in (because openssl is incompatibel > to the GPL or some such nonsense). > > Yours, Rüdiger. ack. too bad..i don't want to have to compile it to install on 50 different systems :( guess i will use netscape for now . thanks nate -- ::: ICQ

Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

2001-01-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Arcady Genkin wrote: > | PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 > | PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > | ... > | hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, 29314MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(100) > ` > > Thanks!!! cool! glad it works :) > > The only question is whether I used the right patch. There se

Wishlist project ?

2001-01-07 Thread Tony Schonfeld
Good evening, With the risk of me repeter I like Debian but it is necessary well to acknowledge which one has as handicap the fact that when a release comes out, one is always late of a war compared to redhat and others on the freshness of the packages. I believed to understand that there was pre

Re: GCC and EGCS

2001-01-07 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:14:04PM +0100, staf wagemakers wrote: | On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: | > :: staf wagemakers writes: | > [snip] | > I'd call our version of gcc (2.95.3) a "prerelease", but not Red | > Hat's "2.96". | > | > The gcc people had to pu

re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??

2001-01-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I had similar problems with that 8bit problem with my deb 2.1 with diald... I fixed it with /ppp/options, the setting crtscts, or xonxoff I believe.. try settings these on/off see what it gives you... I'm sorry I cant remember more about it. (if I remember correctly its like local echo, if you h

Re: making a boot disk

2001-01-07 Thread D-Man
Is that 'lba32' option supposed to allow booting a kernel that is located after the 1024th cylinder? I always thought that was a BIOS limitation, not a LILO one. I can't use LILO for booting anyways because my BIOS doesn't allow booting off the second IDE bus. LILO hangs at "LI" when booting.

Firewall Rules

2001-01-07 Thread JD Kitch
I have 2 nics in my Linux box. One connected to my cable modem, and the other has a windows machine attached to it, which I do masquerading for. I need to be able to connection via VPN from the windows box to an outside host. Is there a way to easily determine what ports needs to be opened to ac

re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
I've got my PCMCIA modem dialing now. In DOS,with the old win31 terminal program, I can dial up my university ISP, and connect to a login prompt. Under Linux, when I dial in with wvdial, the login prompt screen flashes by without giving me time to enter text. The pppd takes over and starts dia

re: apt-get doesn't like line 13 in /apt/sources.list

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
"Malformed" line 13 It is:deb file://sources/x11 What is wrong? What do I need to get apt-get update to work

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Ross Boylan
At 04:31 PM 1/7/2001 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: Hi Ross! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available u

re: edit apt-get sources.list (apt-get woes)

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
Two problems, apt-get has stopped mounting my periph PCMCIA cdrom (EXP). When I try apt-cdrom add, it prompts me to put in cdrom, but then it complains that it is not a valid block device. Don't understand why this has started happeing, as it used to work fine. So, as a workaround I mounted the

RE: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread Brad Burns
Try 'x', but not in insert mode. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:04 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: re: How to get vi to delete characters Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering

Re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:03:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says > ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. It's referring to ESC [number] dd. > In insert mode, backspace key often changes case of letters. Del key > doesn't del

re: How to get vi to delete characters

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
Most of the time I can get vi to insert characters after entering 'i' Also know how to :wq etc But I can't figure out how to delete characters: my book says ndd will delete N lines; but it doesn't work. In insert mode, backspace key often changes case of letters. Del key doesn't delete anythin

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Rob Hudson
> On 20010107.0504, Ethan Benson said ... > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:44:38PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > > Hi > > > > if extracted GCC_2.95.2.1.tar.gz because i wanted to compile ProFTPd , and > > i want to undo it because i have no space left now in my root partition. How > > can i undo the e

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the # instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never # stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound, # root.video for all of /dev/v4l, etc). I'm using

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Mike
Mark Phillips wrote: > question 1: > does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to > when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method > to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and > zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or some

mpg123/splay v winamp

2001-01-07 Thread q
debs, some mp3's won't play on mpg123 (illegal audio-mpgeg-header) or splay (floating point exception), but will play on winamp on windoze. are these mp3s bad or is there another player i should be using. please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //

fixed: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem

2001-01-07 Thread Xucaen
good morning all!! It appears I installed all the packages except for the one I needed. netscape-smotif-476 is the one I needed, and it takes care of all dependencies. The descriptions for the packages at the debian web site is what confused me. thanks again for all your help!! xucaen > On Sa

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread iehrenwald
> > chgrp wheel /dev/somedevice > > chmod 660 /dev/somedevice > > > > and have it stick. (past reboots) > > With devfsd this is also very simple possible. Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits n

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:05:43AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Try finding the line in the file /etc/inet.conf and comment it out for the > services that you don't want to run. You may have to reboot then, or try > restarting the internet superserver - try a "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". You > m

dialup pp problemsq 2.1->2.2

2001-01-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
running: Kernel: 2.2.18pre21 OS: debian 2.2r2 using dialqd/pppd setings from 2.1 setup (which works) has the follwong uutput: (from messsages) Jan 7 10:41:31 zeek2 diald[153]: Calling site 192.168.0.2 Jan 7 10:41:32 zeek2 connect: Initializing Modem Jan 7 10:41:33 zeek2 connect: Dialing syst

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Zach Loafman writes: >> Yes... I saw a few Makefiles using -O9 and -O10. > You should never blindly use high optimization levels. For one, there > is nothing wired above -O3, so -O9 and -O10 both fall back to -O3, > IIRC. Yes, I think the reason to use -O10 is to use the highest optimization

When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread John Foster
I am trying to isolate a problem with my ps2 mouse. The pointer function does not work in console or xterm. It will cut and paste OK. I have checked all of the various configurations and read all of the related docs. I have determined that the problem did not exist prior to reinstalling my systems

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-07 Thread eechi von akusyumi
suggestion: cat file | sed s/search/replace/gi >file2;cp file2 file1; - Original Message - From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: Re: Command line search and replace > csj writes: > > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from t

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Zach Loafman
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. > >> > >> []s, Roger... > > > I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it > > doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I > > researched this for

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-07 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process Look at awk and sed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-07 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # No, but Andreas stated clearly that he don't want to use devfsd. And the above # are the internal names of devfs and the device drivers. The other names like # /dev/discs/disc0 and the like are the user friendly naming scheme which is # brought to you wi

Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-07 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:56:45AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? > Something along the lines of: > > replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process > > I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an > ".html" to

Command line search and replace

2001-01-07 Thread csj
Is there a tool to do a search-and-replace from the command line? Something along the lines of: replace "string one" "string foo" files-to-process I find it a bit of a hassle to keep 100+ files open just to change an ".html" to an ".htm." Note however that I intend to use the tool on other tex

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:52:17 +, sena said: > On 07/01/2001 at 16:31 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: > > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

2001-01-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
let me be more specific: nice: 1. auto URL completion (big whoop). 2. renders CSS, even if you turn javascript off (NICE) 3. it crashes less from what i've seen. bad: 1. they took away the "bookmark button". maybe this is small potatoes for some, but it's relevant to me. i liked being a

Re: ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:46:48 -0800, Mark Symonds said: > > Hi, > > Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows > box here. Following the instructions, I ran > make-pseudo-image and now have a file called > binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is > 634,220KB in size. Finally, I a

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Stefan Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). > > Anyone got a better idea ? What I do is ``chmod

strange cron.daily message

2001-01-07 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I'm getting this email with the subject Anacron job 'cron.daily from anacron every day. The body of the message says: /etc/cron.daily/status: {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 does not match kernel data. Can somebody enlighten me what

Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

2001-01-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ,[ dmesg ] > > | PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, > > DID=244b > > | PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > looks like the system doesn't know what kind of controller it is > try patching from www

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread sena
On 07/01/2001 at 16:31 +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: > What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to > original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. > IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). > > Anyone got a better idea ? > Debian has

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi Ross! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL. > > I've since discovered that the

Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

2001-01-07 Thread mikpolniak
On 07 Jan 2001 03:58:45 -0500, Arcady Genkin said: > I have an IBM ATA-100 30G harddrive, attached to a ASUS CUSL2-C (Intel > 815EP-based) mobo. > > The kernel is not even using the drive in UDMA mode. The performance > is *horrible*: every time I copy to the disk the CPU usage goes up all

Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

2001-01-07 Thread Tibor D.
Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote: Hi. I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? That's exactly what I tried today to set up, but I didn't get it really to work yet. But try to install slapd (openl

Re: GCC and EGCS

2001-01-07 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: staf wagemakers writes: > > > The latest gcc sersion 2.96 ( which is the default compiler on Red Hat 7 ) > > has > > a few bugs and isn't able to compile the Linux kernel. This version of gcc > > is > > only a pre-releas

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

2001-01-07 Thread Jens Luedicke
> > Hi all > > I was reading that there is a netscape > version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone > tried it out? Can anyone foresee any > problems in me downloading it and installing > on my computer. > > I'm using debian 2.2. There shouldn't be a problem with the installation. I would reco

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

2001-01-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reading that there is a netscape > version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone > tried it out? Can anyone foresee any > problems in me downloading it and installing > on my computer. I tried it. No problems installing it at all. BUT, I don't recommend

Re: gpm and wheelmouse

2001-01-07 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
> now the wheelie doodad is working happily in mozilla (not ns4 tho---gotta > play around some more) and xterm and who knows where else... > > One question...does anyone know if it's possible for the wheelie in xterm > (wterm) to scroll through the command history rather than up the scroll > bar?

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