Re: where is linux-utils?

1999-04-12 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't seem to have a "linux-utils" package installed and it is not listed on > the Debian website. Is it called "debianutils"? I have that. AFAIK you have to look out for the "util-linux" package. so long Helmut

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-05 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > CONFIG_SOUND=y > CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=y as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. hope that helps, Helmut

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-25 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Chris Reay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The process appears to > be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at > all, and after a while finds "too many errors ..." and returns to the > dselect menu without installing the packages. Hi Chris, IMHO there are two possibl

Menu access to /usr/doc

1998-11-07 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless). but the laborous method of tangling through several subdirectories was something quite itching, so nex

Problems compiling

1998-11-06 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Mario Filipe writes: > Hi Everyone > > Can someone explainwhy the following happens : > > 14:53:09# gcc -O2 -o iwconfig iwconfig.c -lm > /tmp/ccc10981: In function `float2freq': > /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `pow10' > /tmp/ccc10981: In function `freq2float': > /

Sysvalues - memory usage?

1998-11-05 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, just beeing curious i'm interested about the meaning of following displayed sysvalues. after boot, free shows: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 39056 22428 16628 20028 1316 8968 -/+ buffers/cache: 12144

worse off with debian 2.0?

1998-10-10 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
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ISDN-Setup

1998-09-19 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi there, this is a request for approval (or corrections) and some questions. After i read on this list about problems with autoup i decided for a clean new install of Debian 2.0 instead. Having carefully backed up all my personal settings etc. all went rather smooth. But when i installed the i

Special (Chessfriends) Question!

1998-04-29 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, hoping to be not the only member of the ICC (Internet Chess Club) here I am asking for advice for the setup of xboard for connect to ICC. Problems: 1. it seems my password (using an .ics file) was not transmitted (or too fast to be recognized?). 2. the manpage to xboard says that more pa

Install Mailsystem HELP! continuation

1998-04-19 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi it s me again, this is just to prevent you from proposing things I allready have done. Saturday: making up my mind I decided the true error to be - From the manpage smail(8): If the -bd option was used, thenbind() failed: Address already in use implies that

Install Mailsystem HELP!

1998-04-18 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hello, debian fans (I hope so) out there trying to set up a mail system I have run into problems. 1st: I have dialup connection to an ISP using ISDN (ipppd) and have all of that running and tested (ftp, www, etc.). In my attempt to give the last remnants of B.G. on my computer a farewell I just

Patience, this will get longer

1998-04-06 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Since January I am trying to learn a bit about Linux, and beeing lucky to find answers to most questions either in the online documentation or else searching the www. There are still two thing that bother me, 1st: though I´ve read all install files, manpages and docs of fvwm2 several times I just c

Programming hints.

1998-03-20 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Beeing busy to write a programm I would like to add a routine that forces it to shut down orderly (closing files etc.) when recieving a SIGTERM from the system, because the program itself is doing work that will keep it going for months at least. Can somone tell me of already existing programs wher