Re: AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

2000-02-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Bradley Bell wrote: > I would try this: > make sure you have frozen (potato) in your /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US fro

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Michael Meskes wrote: > > Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I > was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. AFAIK parallel ZIP-drives are *dead* slow! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Hello

2000-02-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
fnice wrote: > > I have been using linux for a little bit now, and I am trying the > different versions out like redhat 6.1, and mandrake 7.0 , So anyway I > would like to know if there is a ISO download for debian's latest > version ? the ISO would be the full download of the software :o) ... I'M

Re: hard disk error

2000-01-30 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
filesystem) readonly. You should take a look the helptext for "Use multi-mode by default" in the "Block devices" section of the Kernel-configuration. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: licq question

2000-01-28 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought > I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options > dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get > a new message. The strange thing to me is

Re: Very frustrating

2000-01-22 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
The format is: prog This is an example for an rxvt with 9x15 font (white on black) and a green cursor and 500 lines scrollback-buffer. prog rxvt xterm rxvt -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -fn 9x15 -sl 500 You can find all this in the icewm-docu. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
n Athlon 550 MHz. I have downloaded the newest driver > version (1.08 as opposed to 1.06 in the kernel) and will try with that. > I will also try to compile the kernel with just -O to see if it survives > :). Once I could trace a similar error back to a bad cable. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
wenty machines though. If you know any webpages on the topic you could also send them to me. Thanks in advance! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: how many users per apache proc?

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
aphro wrote: > > thanks for all the replies ..i have a better idea ..sorta :) earlier i > caught my server with 18 active connections running on only 2 processes(18 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > idle servers) running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21

Re: max processes

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
of disk activity you did something wrong. Hope it helps! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Lilo

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Mats Johansson wrote: > And the problem is that the LILO prompt comes up on the on screen and > the boot prompt also comes up becouse i use the prompt option but i > can't typ anything it is very strange and when scroll look is down it > come up alot of *interrupted* messages as it should but i

Re: max processes

2000-01-19 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
safe? running linux > 2.0.36+securelinux patch My common sense tells me that that depends on your hardware. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Installation problem: how to recognize hard drive?

2000-01-19 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
s possible! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Some modems can be configured to believe they're in the wrong country and > ignore the blacklisting thing. ALMOST ALL modems can be switched off and on again :-) And this is legal! A german user who has made good experiences with switching off/on his modem before red

Re: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote: > > After installing slink on my old 386, I salvaged a Pentium box from work > that was to be sent to the trash. I have very little experience with > Pentium motherboards since I've only owned a 486 and 386. The problem is > the motherboard (and ASUS motherboard)was stri

Re: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
oard (and ASUS motherboard)was stripped of everything except a > 1.44 floppy and the chip. Now I want to rebuild this machine so I don't > have to run slink on the 386 (sloow...). My questions were: Please tell me *which* ASUS board you have. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: To which package belong files?

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Bruce Sass wrote: > > dpkg --help | less > I must have been blind!

File registered but not installed

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
and _NOT_ deinstalled). And the files I'm talking are not created by programs in normal operation, but were *installed* with the packages. Especially concerning config-files there is no difference between "deinstall" and "purge" with some packages. How come? - Konrad Mierendorff

To which package belong files?

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Hi, I'd like to query the "dpkg-database" to which packages some files on my system belong. Thanx in advance! - Kornad Mierendorff

Re: Kernel error?

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
unting a bug that might have been found already. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
. IMO people should be able to break their system easily if they are stupid enough to remove *truly* essential packages. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: samba copy permissions

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Paul McAvoy wrote: > I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I > want to put/remove files into it and have problems. I then have to telnet > into my linux box and fix the permissions. Kindof a bummer, but at least the > unix box is visible from windows. It is

Re: max open files kernel 2.2.10

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Carel Fellinger wrote: > Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. > But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still > wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent, > then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the o

Setting up 20 equal linux boxes -- More questions

2000-01-12 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
who use the computers are not so evil. If everyone has her own background image to play with they won't try to spy out passwords ;-} If you there are HOWTOs, FAQs, manuals or other resources on the web that answer all these question, please tell me! Thanks a lot!! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: segmentation fault

2000-01-12 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
If it were reproduceable (maybe you should ask someone else to reproduce it -- not me though as I'm not running potato) I would suck and install the latest deb and report a bug if the seg-fault is still there...

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
ly. When you did the checks be carefull to remount the root partition: # mount -o remount,rw / Then change the runlevel again: # init 2 If you follow this procedure you don't have to reboot _at_all_! Hope it helps... - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Robert Waldner wrote: > I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think > that > the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not > cpu-utilization, this could be fixed via the priority), behaving like a > interrupt-generator when ripping, of

Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
advance! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: screen green; no icons

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Steve Winston wrote: > > I get only a green screen in X with no icons. I configured X in slink for my > voodoo3 card. When I type startx, I get a screen the color of a typical > win95 green, nothing else. Any suggestions anyone? Help. > thanks, sTeve W. Is this the first time you use X or did you

Re: man -k doesn't work

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
I'm sorry to ask this question, but did you run mandb as root?

Re: man -k doesn't work

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
I have no MANPATH set on my slink-r4 and everything works fine and when I set it to what you mentioned in your mail, it works as well. Maybe that means that the error is something else. Hope it helps ... - Konrad

Re: Module query.

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Hans wrote: > Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean? Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were used you couldnt unload them -- see? > Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except > master volume and tone con

Re: How do I install additional modules?

2000-01-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
x27;t know about that ... Hope it helps ... ... write again if not! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Lilo

2000-01-02 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
tuations but not in any case. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Navigator on slink

1999-12-31 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
tor manually before you should delete all the old files manually otherwise you should just remove the "netscape4" package and install it again with the right communicator archive in /tmp. The user specific data should not be affected. Hope it helps ... - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4 -- It worked !!!

1999-12-30 Thread Konrad Mierendorff

Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4

1999-12-29 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
m to be much documentation on this. (My approach was to put the output of "dpkg --info" executed in a for loop over all packages in one file, but that didn't work :-( ) Please help me if there is an easy to build Packages.gz files or give me a pointer to some usable information. Thanks in advance - Konrad Mierendorff