Re: ppp check.

2000-04-12 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:09:56PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote: > Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ? > I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so > that i do not get to expensive bills :) > So i would like one for linux :) > > I know its enough

Re: Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: > This is a newbie question to vi: > > I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so > that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the > wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrang

Re: fresh compile, "unresolved symbols" complaints

2000-04-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 03:33:21PM -0400, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > - message from George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > If so, did you possibly forget to move the old modules dir out of > > the way before installing the new modules? If you compiled some things > > into the kernel that used

Re: libdl.so.2 for bo?

2000-04-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:14:19PM -0800, Tom Kuiper wrote: > ./setup: error in loading shared libraries > libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system is 1.8.12. Is there a way > to upgrade without upgrading to a newer ve

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

2000-04-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:42:42PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > If you're talking about Net::FTP being unable to locate method > > Net::FTP->requires_firewall(), it was a bug in libnet-perl which > > has been fixed with version 1.0703-2, now in the archives. > > (Good thought, but no: Net::POP3 i

Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?

2000-03-31 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:36:00PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > use lib "/path/to/your/lib"; > > This will append to perl's include path. Otherwise, I think it's > hard coded. > > brian > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > > Not sure, but it looks like a recent Po

Re: W.M.L

2000-03-31 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:40:48PM +, Steve Arnell wrote: > Hello sorry to bother you on an unrelated matter but I am attempting to > produce a wml > web site for wap. Do you know if it is possible to get a windows based > version of the > markup language software? If so where can i get a cop

Re: which driver for Netgear FA310TX

2000-03-31 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:11:06PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used the one that came with the card (actually, I downloaded it from the > > web site) > > and that worked best for me. > > > > matt garman wrote: > > > > > Hello: > > > > > > I

Re: Modem problem

2000-03-27 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:19:00PM -0500, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: > > I just got a new computer and loaded Debian on it. I've managed to switch > modems (it came with a winmodem) and after about a week of struggle > managed to get it to log on to my ISP...and now I know why it was so > difficult.

Re: problem compiling a module!

2000-03-27 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:38:14PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > I have a realtek 8139 compatible network card, and I downloaded the kernel > 2.2.14 sources. And evrything compiled fine!..except that 'make xconfig' > doesn't allow me to select the realtek 8139 as a module...it appea

Re: debian install

2000-03-26 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:09:34PM -0600, Richard McNally wrote: > Debian, > I bought debian thinking it was a purist Open Source product. Well you were right then. > However, I got it home and can't get beyond installing the base system. > The product hangs and gives a message like"a problem o

Re: How to configure ls colors

2000-03-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:09:23PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: > > Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of > > manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor > > /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... > > >Fr

Re: URGENT: libwww-perl: automated form filling

2000-03-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:22:13PM +0100, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > Hi all, Debian people. > > I'm quite new to perl and, in particular to libwww-perl. > I fell on it because I was looking for some API to write > www clients to automatically fill forms. > > The pro

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-18 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:30:21PM +0530, Chirag wrote: > > > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do > > this? > > > > Ron > > > I guess time can do it But not sure. Pls consult the manpage of t

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-12 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:01PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 03:45:25AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > > Well, I'm getting there. Yes, the new rescue and boot disks helped. I was > > able to mount the partitions, run fsck on them (not while mounted, mind > > yo

Re: I screwed up and cannot boot

2000-03-11 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 10:15:42AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) > >(you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to > >specify a config file: > >

Re: XF86-4.0 and potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released? > is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source? > I like not hosing up my dependancies, etc. > > Robert My guess would be zero

Re: installing- last try before win98

2000-03-07 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:33:01AM -0800, smoke wrote: > i downloaded the files from the getting started, dos install. i have > install, linux > drv1440.bin, loadlin.exe, root.bin,resc1440.bin and base2_1.tgz. > i run the install bat and get a command to enter kernal name. i tried > linux and nothi

Re: Kernel panic - init not found. Please help !!

2000-03-07 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 08:52:53AM -0800, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > Hello All, > The 2.2.14 kernel starts ok but right after : > > Freeing unused kernel memory : 36k freed > > it says: > > Kernel panic. init not found. Pass init= option to the > kernel. > # > # General setup > # > # C

Re: URGENT! Linux won't load

2000-03-05 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:51:06PM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I totally screwed up my friend's Linux. I got the kernel source 2.2.1 > and when I configured it I set the CPU as Pentium, but the computer is > actually a 486. Now Linux won't boot and I really don't want to > reinstall. _Ple

Re: starting process in background

2000-03-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:53:45PM -0800, aphro wrote: > whats the best way? im running a icecast server and wanna set it to start > on boot.. > > what i got goin is.. > > su icecast -c /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast >/dev/null & > > BUT the problem is it segfaults when i have the & ..without t

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX with Debian 2.1

2000-02-29 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:41:55PM -, Andrew Jones wrote: > I am trying to install debian 2.1 for the 1st time, I have a D-Link > DFE-530TX PCI network card, it's not listed in the list of supported network > cards, can i use this card with debian ? > > > Andrew Jones, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

Re: pppd/modem frustration.

2000-02-09 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Hans wrote: > I've posted a question about this earlier this week, but nobody responded. > Is it that much out of the ordinary that no-one can give me some hints or > tips? > > - when connecting to my ISP the connection comes up with the correct flow > rat

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-07 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: > > >It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides > > >kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. > > > > > >What am I missing? > > > > No, kernel-source doesn't provide ker

Re: Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

2000-02-04 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > A few days ago I posted this: > > > I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses > ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no co

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:15:45PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I am wondering if it is not the *server* behavior to send it > uncompressed. This happens to me too, but when I try one of the .tar.gz > files, it downloads compressed. Seems unlikely that my Netscape is > taking it upon itself to

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:12:58PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > thank you > > OK Shift + Left-Click saves the link insteading of displaying the contents. Is this what you mean ?

Re: total directory sizes?

2000-02-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:03:43PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > If I want to see how much space /usr or /home is taking up, how do I do > it? > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] du -sh /home (= disk-usage summary-only human-readable-sizes directory-/home) -- Regards, Paul

Re: IDE Harddisk problem

2000-01-24 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:13:48AM +0100, Karl Philipp wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I've a computer with a SCSI harddisk and a IDE 10GB Harddisk. > > Last Sunday I installed Debian Release 2.1 on my PC. > The Linux partitions are on the SCSI harddisk. > The IDE harddisk provides VFAT partitio

Re: Lilo ?

2000-01-24 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:57:16PM -0800, cedric wrote: > Bought Debian from LInuxMall and it came with a free RH 6.1 > CD. I decided to update from RH60 to 6.1 first. Every thing > went fine during the install and setup. Now, LILO does not > work. When I enter 'dos' at the LILO prompt nothing happ

Re: Locate question

2000-01-24 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:13:42PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > > Sometime during updates from slink to potato the locate database is > not updated any longer. Anacron is running after a reboot, but the > updatedb does not locate recent files. Can somebody enlightenment me > how things

Re: automate multi form submission

2000-01-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:17:16PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I am setting up a system where I can automatically submit all > the info to a FORM for registering a new domain name using perl > scripts. > > I use the following in my perl script and it works with most of

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:55:48PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > > How does one add commands to be executed after the machine boot is complete? > > When my box starts up, the sound levels are maxed out, and I'd like to be > > abl

Re: hard disk not recognized

2000-01-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:44:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I > wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free. > Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian > and

Re: weird ppp output (fwd)

2000-01-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Robert Marlow wrote: > I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs: > > > this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet > traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen > this before and can tell me what the problem is? the ppp conne

Re: Hard disk forces BIOS upgrade - but can I use it safely before upgrading ?

2000-01-12 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Success ! I've now got all 10.2Gb available. I had tried to R the FM and came up with nothing, but I went back for another look and found (the excellent) Large-Disk.txt.gz. (It was tucked away in the mini subdirectory) It gave me confidence that Linux should be able to use the full disk ev

Hard disk forces BIOS upgrade - but can I use it safely before upgrading ?

2000-01-11 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Hi, I've made do with a 1.2Gb HD, housing 500Mb of Win95 (boo, hiss!) and 700Mb of debian + swap for a few years now, and recently it's been a whole load of no fun juggling everything. So I've bought a new hard disk (Maxtor DiamondMax VL20 10.2Gb UDMA66), but have discovered that my Award BIOS wi

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-09 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding > > the paranthesis around the st

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-08 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding > the paranthesis around the string definition? > Is it a GCC extension? > -- > Wojciech Zabolotny >

Re: permanently turning on gcc Pentium optimization

2000-01-03 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 03:45:30AM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > > To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change > > your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from > > > > *cc1: > > %(cc1_cpu) %{prof

Re: Kermit works in DOS with exact same settings but not Debian.

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Did you try playing with the character size setting ? cs7 and cs8 are the most typical. You can change this with stty. -- Regards, Paul

Re: permanently turning on gcc Pentium optimization

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
I accidently deleted the previous mails in the thread, so I'm hoping the original poster get's this ! To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from *cc1: %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} *cc1: %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} -march=i586 As others hav

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

2000-01-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:28:53PM +, Kevin Traas wrote: > Greetings, > Any ideas would be ***greatly*** appreciated. > > i.e. What manages Job Control in a Linux system? The kernel? The > shell? Init? (I've rolled my own init, btw.) And, why might Job > Control be disabled? > >

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:31:53AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > There is a kernel-headers package...(?) > I'd like to download it. I guess it's for people who need to compile modules but don't want to download the full source. It's in main / devel, but I haven't downloaded it. > Once I had a problem c

Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:06:36PM -0800, aphro wrote: > can someone tell me where syslog gets the hostname from? its marking all > my logs using the hostname localhost. > > my $HOSTNAME is still set to 'aphro' > > my /etc/hosts has a line: > 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro > > and i recently add

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:51:50PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Do I need to make this symlink: > > ln -s /usr/src/linux/include /usr/include ? > > I already have /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.2.13 symlinked to /usr/src/linux > > I already have a /usr/include, which was made when I installed Potato.

Re: Setting up XF86Config

1999-12-29 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:52:05PM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > Where am I going wrong? > What other information is needed? > > Cam Have you tried the info at the XFree86 web site ? They have a detailed info per chip family. Just note your xfree version number e.g. 3.3.5 for current potato, and

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-24 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Clyde Wilson wrote: > > /etc/chatscripts/provider > > # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 1.9.3beta2.0. > # Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them. > # > # ispauth PAP > # abortstring > ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO > DIAL

Re: Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a "permission > denied" when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm > root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as > a user. > > Also, could someone explain why /us

Re: logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? > I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable > # apt-get --compile source logrotate > but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) > > przemol > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
aphro wrote: > > You cannot read mail with a SMTP server. that is for sending mail > ONLY. This is true for every SMTP server there is(many mail packages > include both POP3 and SMTP so it may seem as if the smtp is allowing users > to read mail) the daemons listen on different ports(smtp 25 pop

Re: scan large files

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the > directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. > > Thanks. > > Shao. The only other shell tool you need is man :) >From find(1) -size n[bckw]

Re: dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. > But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no "dip" group listed, only a > "dialout" group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the > /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the "dialout" group? You should

Re: libd.so.3

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Tom wrote: > > Sorry that is libdb.so.3 > > On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Tom wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install lyris and it requires libd.so.3 > > I can't seem to find that on the debian.org page. Does anyone know how > > I can get that. Thanks. > > > > Tom funkiest:~$ dpkg -S libdb.

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> "Ing. Miguel Zelada" wrote: > > Hi I need read my mails that in my server Redhat 6.0 with sendamail > I configurate inetd.conf and I remove #, in pop-3 and pop-2 but when > acces around Outlook expres don`t read mi emails. > I need if have configurate other section in mi Redhat o in mi Windows >

Re: UK Freeserve Connection

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Godric wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > Two points re the above :(1) I assume your /etc/chatscript file > is called freeserve? (2) try enclosing your ISP username in > single quotes as it contains dots. This may well be the problem. I think he was saying there wasn't a problem with this scr

Re: NEWBIES, SMTP and SECURITY

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Albert Hurd wrote: > 1. Why is smtp installed by default? The typical user who uses Netscape > apparently > doesn't need it. Perhaps it should be installed only with packages that need > it, and security > problems addressed. Extract from slink netbase_3.11-1.2.deb's postinst file : # create

Re: UK Freeserve Connection

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Mike Norris wrote: > including the > /usr/doc/ppp-HOWTO confusethehelloutofauser > > and thoroughly confused about the whole process of connecting to my provider. > > I'm at the table banging/screaming stage! > > Can someone HELP me with a simple IDIOT-PROOF guide on connecting

Re: pppd died

1999-12-22 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Greg Madden wrote: > > The new Corellinux is based on Debian, Kernel 2.2.12, so there may be a > few Corel users, (me) out there. I don't doubt it. Good luck to you all. > Corel has done new deb packages. > ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/ It seems to

Re: pppd died

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Jacob Smith wrote: > > Hey > > I have just installed the Corel Linux, I have gotten everything to run > pretty smoothly on it however when I try to connect to the internet it > returns an error message every time saying pppd daemon died unexpectedly. > All the setting dial up setting in there dia

Re: network settings

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Brian Thomas wrote: > > Seasons Greetings!... > What is the file I need to use to change my network settings (i.e., IP > address, DNS etc.) > Any help is appreciated. > > regards, > BT /etc/resolv.conf If you connect via ppp, /etc/resolv.conf is copied from 1 or more files in /etc/ppp/resolv/<>

Re: MTA

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
peter karlsson wrote: > > Hi! > > I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to > resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail > and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use > for outgoing mail. I've had s

Re: IP

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
luis wrote: > > hello > > when i connect using ppp and get a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.221 i can > not make a telnet to me from another machine > > from another machine (cenected using eth0) i can ping to the machine > using ppp, but when i try to make a telnet to the ppp machine i always > get

Re: sendmail

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
luis wrote: > > hello > > sorry, my problem with sendmail is that all the messages are deferred > > how can i disable this behaviour ? > > thanks a lot > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null deferred means that delivery has been put off until later, when it w

Re: Problem with Mutt <-> GPG cooperation

1999-12-21 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:41:52PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > 1.0 appears to be in unstable according to a search on > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > Is it able to handle automatically multipart/splitted messages (eg. > > generated by mpack)? Mutt has very sophsticated han

Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD

1999-12-20 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Hi there, > > I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could > give me some ideas... > > well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that > decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for > at l

Re: X won't start after upgrade

1999-12-18 Thread Paul J. Keenan
pollywog wrote: > > Hello, > > I am unable to start X after today's upgrade (Potato) and I am unsure exactly > what was removed that caused things to get messed up. > > Should there be a symlink for the X binary? I believe there should be one in > /etc/X11 linked to the binary, or is that no

Re: LogCheck and it's rules

1999-12-14 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Robert Ramiega wrote: > named[.*]: USAGE .* .* CPU=.*/.* CHILDCPU=.*/.* > PAM_unix[.*]: (ssh) session opened for user .* by (.*) > > and i still get in logcheck mails: > Dec 13 23:46:53 plukwa named[159]: USAGE 945125213 945085613 CPU=61.74u/56.5s > CHILDCPU=0u/0s > Dec 13 23:04:55 plukwa PAM_u

Re: Off Topic - Journalist Slams Linux

1999-12-14 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Art Lemasters wrote: > > Dwight Silverman, who writes about "high technology for the > Houston Chronicle," (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 12-13-99) called > Linux the "geek fad du jour." He said quite a few negative and > inaccurate things about Linux...seems to be on a crusade to increase > M

Re: CDROM problems

1999-12-12 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Big Gaute wrote: > > I have recently installed a 8X IDE CDROM drive from Samsung in my old 486. > However, when I mount or sccess it, everything will typically work fine > for a few minutes, and then the CDROM craps out, making loud and > mysterious noises, starting and stopping the engine every f

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-10 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Matthias Hertel wrote: > Well, its not clean, and it doesn't even work correctly (it doesn't > correctly handle |-dependecies), and there are probably other bugs, > but here is a perl script that I threw together when I was new to > Debian (and perl) that does what you want: It lists all packages

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Gary Hennigan wrote: > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html > > For information and source code for the driver, tulip.c > > There's lots of info there for the tulip-based cards. > > Of course if you do decide to get an updated the driver you'll have to > rebuild the kernel. >

Re: I want secrets of net

1999-12-05 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> Adriano Filipe wrote: > > My name is Adriano , i´m from Portugal and i wanted to now secrets of > net , secrets from all types the more simples to the more complicated > even does to get into web sites and chang it or go inside my best > friend´s cpu. Don´t get me wrong ,and don´t think that i w

Re: Refresh debian binaries

1999-12-05 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"A. M. Varon" wrote: > > How do refresh/reinstall debian binaries while all the configs > are intact? > > regards, > > = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head > = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com > = === = > = = = If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. > = =

Re: ?

1999-12-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for drivers to > my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916) > it was given to me for free & i cant find drivers > (i have only the hardware) > Can u help me ? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/

Re: minicom

1999-12-02 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> Woodrow Lovett wrote: > > How do you start minicom? A good guess for this type of thing is to try the package name at the shell prompt. It works in this case. After installing minicom, type 'minicom' at the prompt (minus the quotes, of course). The executable program is installed in /usr/bin

Re: Can libqt1g and libqt2 coexist?

1999-12-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Pollywog wrote: > > On 04-Dec-1999 Cyrus Patel wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've got kde.tdyc.com in my sources.list and currently have libqt1g > > installed. > > > > However, I was playing around trying to compile some apps that need qt2 and > > when I tryed to install libqt2 it asked to remove

Re: Sound Card

1999-11-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Hola Paulo, I checked /usr/src/linux/Documentation and found a document called ESS ... I've attached it to the foot of this message. It sounds like you need the soundblaster module (sb.o). These's another doc specific to the ESS1868, don't know if this might also apply to your board's chip. Use

Re: Kernel

1999-11-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
aphro wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > litban >I think "make menuconfig" will do the job. > litban >But, on i386 potato distro, I couldn't do it because there was no > litban >string.h or something. Was it due to the inavailability of curses > litban >package? > > I get similar

Re: Gnome-print / Gnumeric

1999-09-29 Thread Paul J. Keenan
> John May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Has anyone managed to get gnumeric + gnome-print working at all? > > I mailed the gnome-print author and the package maintainer for two > weeks ago (approx.) and have not yet recieved an answer. > > If you find out you are more then welcome