Weird Routing/IP-Masquerading issue

1999-11-29 Thread Stephen Pitts
es anyone have any ideas? Please CC me as I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user (I can only handle one high-traffic list, and zope takes the cake!) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 # internal network is hard-coded;

Please help a poor gaijin!

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
English documentation is a little confusing and my Japanese fluency isn't enough to begin to try and understand the stuff written in Japanese. Thanks to any and all who can shed light on this for me. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Fetchmail Errors in Potato

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
status=2 > fetchmail: All connections are wedged. Exiting. > What's the output of 'fetchmail -v'? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Help with compiling

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
ething like this: g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo.c g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo2.c g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -c foo3.c g++ -o foo_program foo.o foo2.o foo3.o -lgtk -lmysqlclient or this: g++ -O2 -Wall -pedantic -ansi -o foo_program foo.c foo2.c foo3.c -lgtk -lmysqlclient -- Stephen Pi

Re: z/bzImages, shell scripts

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
ried making scripts containing mv -iv and cp > -iv. What is the problem here, and just as importantly, what is a posssible > solution? What _exact_ commands are you using to set the aliases? > P.S. I know this is probably a silly question, but if my CD-ROM drive is the > second device on my first IDE Controller, would it be /dev/hdb ? Yup, you're right on the money. BTW, The only silly questions are the ones left unasked. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: removing kdm

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
ty hack is to look over the postrm script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm), and either fix it or do what it does manually and delete it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: modules loading (possibly zip driver quesiton too...)

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
way to do that. /etc/modules contains a list of modules loaded at boot time. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
is to implement a per-user ~/.forward file. Check /usr/doc/exim/filters.txt.gz. This has the added benefit of being able to allow your users to sort their email as well. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: kde

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:48:22PM -0500, jason wrote: > anyone have a working apt entry to get kde? snowcrash doesn't seem to like > me anymore.. > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/debian potato kde contrib works fine, snowcrash merged with a KDE rpm site and they got a new server. --

Re: hardware...

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
ave also played > with SlackWare, no complaints on it. But, after seeing the Debian system > my son has setup on his computer... well... you got me hooked! I've used Slackware, RedHat, Caldera, and Debian and I've been a happy Debian user for 3 years. Debian is cool and with the Corel and Stormix alliances, it can only get better :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: considerations for kernal upgrade

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
yourself a libc5 deb of the newest smail? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Libraries

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
so) would probably be a better idea than static if you are looking to conserve disk space. By definition, no one else could send you libraries that are optimized for YOUR specific task, so I'm not sure why you want others to send you libraries. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: mounting problems

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
for IDE devices, right? That means that, to user-level programs, your CDROMs are /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. You'll have to 'modprobe ide-scsi' before using the CD-ROM devices, or add its name to /etc/modules so that it is autoloaded on startup. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Wierd compile error with libpthread.a

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
inked with pthread (a standard libc component..no need to statically link this) and libc, and statically linked with everything else, per 'ldd pppoe'. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: how to create a dummy /dev/dsp

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
> > Thanks, > cd /dev; MAKEDEV audio -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: any gif animator for linux!!

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: > > is there any gif animator available for linux...if so > pls tell where to get... > Try grabbing a newer (1.1.x) version of the gimp from http://www.gimp.org. I'm pretty sure it has support for some types of animat

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
section of /etc/X11/XF86Config (start with 'Section "Pointer"' and end with 'EndSection') -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
ill be old and slow (<200MB), is it worth it? Try it out and see. I'd say yes, because one of the drives wouldn't be going back and forth, moving the head all around. If it doesn't make any difference, you can use it to back up data or something. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: network firewalling situation

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen Pitts
body tell me what I'm doing wrong? The firewalling stuff changed in 2.2. ipchains is now used instead of ipfwadm. Either run 2.0.37 instead of 2.2.10, or convert your scripts to use ipchains. For more info, Check out the IP-CHAINS-HOWTO or the IP-Masquerading-mini-HOWTO, both available

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-08-24 Thread Stephen Pitts
develop. heh heh. :) I was a developer a couple of years ago, but stopped doing it. Right now, there's a major backlog, and the rumor is that they won't accept new ones until after potato's release in November. Check the debian-devel archives if you are interested. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: compiling help

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
ed by g++, then they link. If they are both compiled by gcc, then they link. Otherwise, not a chance. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Learning ZSH

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
ell matches it. > > He has tab complete for apt, dpkg, telnet, and other fun things. > Whoa! sounds really cool..I could think of lots of uses for that! I've used bash for my whole 'linux life', can anyone recommend a tutorial/web page for zsh? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Small faux pas with LILO

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
7;m wrong, but the MBR is fine, the partition boot record is what's corrupted. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Small faux pas with LILO

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
s back the way they were: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: compiling help

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
++ interchangably. cc is a standard unix name for the C compiler, and is symlinked to gcc on my system. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
running > in the process table unless there's a connection in progress... > You are right..I am wrong Please forgive me :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Installing Debian 2.1 problem

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
at you want to do. You shouldn't need to so that, IMHO. What modules have you tried to load in the install program? Hoe do you know that it hates your CD-ROM drive? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: PCL 5 and Magicfilter

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
hplj3:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/samba-ljet3-filter:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3/acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Restart lpd (or lprng..it seems to be better and not die randomly on me) and everything should work! -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmast

Re: burn a cd from an iso file

1999-08-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
nto the directory that you tell xcdroast. Then click 'Master image' and click 'Write image'. Key in the name of the ISO file. Image Size and Image-ISO9660-Label should show something once you key in the image. Then, click 'Start Write Image.' Alternatively, check out

Migrate them slowly

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
looFTP/gftp, et. al). and then the kicker: Explorer's UI -> LiteStep (Afterstep/WindowMaker for windows) Gradually, a little at a time, we get them used to it. Then, we replace the kernel. An experienced user helps them set it up, and they already know how to use the programs. Voila! W

Re: restricted shell

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
7;t offer a flowers bouquet with each new mail, > so I had to give her XCMail ;-) ); > is, in this case, ssh what I should be installing? If you can, do ssh and grab the unix version or the freeware windows program 'Tera Term Pro'. If not, telnet is a good second choice, because it

Re: web db suggestions please

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
ecent for the front end but > I've never done this before so I'm no > expert. But I have absolutely no idea what db to use. I need something > small and fast initially. Suggestions? > Definately go with PHP3 and MySQL. I've had great luck with it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
ight there! I've had connections go from what you experience to near-perfect after I dropped the MTU to 552 (512 + 40 byte header) or even 296 (256 + 40 byte header). Check your PPP config files (can't recall where Debian puts them..haven't needed PPP in over a year) and add 'mru 552&

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
inting to an HP Laserjet III attatched to a Windows machine), I got it to work without much trouble following instructions in the Samba and Magicfilter documentation. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:49:06AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > [cut] > > My next project..developing an admin system using Python and wxWindows. > > I can develop under Linux and deliver it to my client running > > Windows without chang

Re: Multiple installation question.

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
king on a system to let you do a 'kickstart' install similar to RedHat. Check the debian-admintool list for info (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/). Until then, hire monkeys to do the gruntwork :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:13:39AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some > > non-NFS compatible way. > > You have to run lockd if you want locking to work

Re: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
user-space daemon. I no longer get any boot-up errors, and lockd seems to be running OK. However, kexpress/gdbm still can't generate locks. Wordperfect works OK, though. Whatever..I'll go back to symlinking ~/.kde/share/apps/kexpress to /usr/local/smpitts-kexpress and move on! --

Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
dently, my NFS server CAN'T do file locking. Loading the 'lockd' moduel and restarting the service doesn't do anything either. Should I try kernel-level NFS server support? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: configure for SoundBlaster cdrom sbpcd.h ?

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
nyways, if it was builtin to the kernel. Better is adding 'options sbpcd sbpcd=0x230,1' to /etc/modutils/sbpcd, and running 'update-modules'. Then 'rmmod sbpcd; modprobe sbpcd' should work, and it will load automatically without autoprobe the next time you reboot. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
enter. Hit '+' to select it, Enter to get out of that menu, and [I]nstall to install it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Scratchy sound during IO operations

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
ound cards. Is there any setting I can tell something (BIOS, kernel, etc) so that the bus is shared better? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
e any workarounds to these NFS locking problems? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: About rlogind, rshd and terminal information

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
for initialisation of the terminal (since nvi > uses ncurses), but does anybody have a clue og what it > might be?? > > I am puzzeled, to say the least! > What is the value of $TERM in these two situations? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
eliver it to my client running Windows without changing the code..do that with any other language (including the much-acclaimed JDK/Swing combo!) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Strange (?) boot-up messages

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
u use your floppy drive just fine? Looking at the source in drivers/block/floppy.c, it has something to do with seeking and getting high transfer rates (128k/s) on special floppy drive controllers. > > Thanks for your attention!!! Any time -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
; I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to > 'local_domains=' and restarted exim, but no change. Are you sure that exim is running? The default /etc/init.d/exim has a big 'exit 0' at the very top of the script? What does "ps aux | grep 'exim'" say? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: apt with smbmount

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
bmount won't work. Yes, but that wouldn't work either, because no microsoft filesystem supports symlinks. > I'd like > to avoid making any changes to the winbox because he uses it for work > and I don't want to be responsible for fixing anything on it that > might break

Re: Default Dir in X11

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
ciated. How do you start X? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Fonts and Wordperfect 8

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
(like ttmkfdir for Truetype fonts or mkfontdir for PCF fonts) ? Perhaps..if nothing else..I can use my WP fonts in Abiword or something else. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
if I'm wrong, but that changes the window manager for all users, and it doesn't even start the GNOME panel! -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: glibc 2.1.2 and slink

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:28:26PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: > Hi! > > Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev > packages) from potato on slink? Why not just install the glibc 2.1 package from potato instead of building it yourself? -- Stephen

Re: Best 2.2.x for Slink?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
ore important > than leading edge. > > Get 2.2.11! I had 2.2.10 wipe out a hard drive and had funny NFS problems with 2.2.7. Because stable releases only have bug fixes, newer is better. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
Errr..not exactly. As long as you upgrade your libc6 and a few other core packages to the potato versions, you can keep everything else as a slink version. slink packages work fine with the potato libraries, but the converse isn't true. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: knfs success?

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Pitts
using NFS. Here's what it looks like on one of my boxes: /home ender(rw) /mp3 ender(rw) The server is orwell..on the client, ender, I have entries like this in my fstab: orwell:/home/home nfs defaults0 0 orwell:/mp3 /mp3nfs defaults 0 0 a

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1

1999-08-09 Thread Stephen Pitts
grams. Don't grab them unless you know that you must, because building debs will take several hours. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: SCSI Emulation

1999-08-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
ontroller for your IDE drives is not a real device! Look at /proc/scsi/ide-scsi/0 or /proc/scsi/scsi to verify that it is enabled. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Esound and vmware

1999-08-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
running VMWare? What user started esd? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: network audio system?

1999-08-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
o on > this > one. Thanks for all the help and info. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > At this point, I think the more popular approach is to use esd (package esound). Some programs (xmms comes to mind) have builtin support for it, while others can be convinced to use

Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...

1999-08-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
til you do dpkg --set-selections < /usr/local/dpkg_packages. All of the packages that you had on your old system will be automagically selected in dselect for you! -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: what's the difference of netscape and navigator browser

1999-08-06 Thread Stephen Pitts
a document describing web browsers and configuration? Netscape was a company that made two web browser products: Navigator and Communicator. They were bought by AOL a while back. Navigator can only view web pages, while Communicator can also do mail, news, web page editing, etc. -- Stephen

Re: Video Card

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
ves with glx built into the X server from nVidia (not the ones with -dyn at the end) from nVidia 3. put XF86_SVGA in /usr/local/bin and edit /etc/X11/Xserver 4. Put libGL.so.* in /usr/local/lib and run ldconfig -v / Quake2 and Quake3 look wonderful, as does any/all other GL stuff! -- Stephen

Re: QT 2.00 and Slink

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
nk flags: > GIF supports: no > > Creating makefiles... > > Qt is now configured for building. Just run make. > To reconfigure, run make clean and configure. > Try using "rm config.cache; CC=g++ ./configure" and see if the build works. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: apt-get blocked by firewall what ports does it use?

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
g/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:05:03AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > BTW any POSIX shell and termcap system will respond the same to a "echo > $TERM", HTH > Even inside of an xterm? My xterms give me 'xterm-debian' and on a virtual console, I get 'linux'. --

Re: xemacs in color in rxvt

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
"export TERM=xterm-debian", and then run xemacs. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: keyboard problem in X/started after restore from backup

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
eck those permissions. > > Finally, should I have done something different with tar in > order to make it properly > restore permissions? Seems strange, since as I said I have > done essentially the same > thing before with no problems . Taking a cursory glance over the tar man

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
ition with a swap partiton. > how can i configure my CR-563 > creative labs in the installation program? Wait for the section "Configure Device Driver Modules". Pick the matcd module. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: 2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
Bad Things (TM) in regards to the new kernel networking code (i.e. setting the IP address to 0.0.0.0 IIRC). A newer dhcpcd-sv package is part of potato and it has worked fine for me. If you don't run potato, you can fairly easily grab the source and recompile it against glibc 2.0. -- Stephe

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:06:18AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:22:49AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with > > > the "ma

Re: gtk-config

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
xtremely up to date. You see posts from people on -user at least once a week wanting to install stuff from potato, everything from xmms to kernel-package to the new X. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Unstable and xmms

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
u find bugs (wmifs segfaulted on me...I rebuild the package from source with -g, ran it in the debugger, and found the problem), run potato stuff on slink, and shows you the flexibility of the Linux system. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: QT 2.00 and Slink

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Is it using gcc or g++ to compile? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Newbie question : kernel-package vs perl5

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Edit the debian/control file and change the perl5 depends to 'perl'. Type "debian/rules binary" and install the resulting package. Learning how to rebuild a Debian package from source can be a great asset, especially if you intend to use potato packages (where some of the co

Re: How to make a boot disk?

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:54:34AM +0800, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear All, > > I have forgotten to make a boot disk during installation. > Is there any method to create it again ? > Try liloconfig -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
SysRq combo to kill the xserver. Go back to the gdb console and type 'where'. That will tell you where it crashed. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Three networking questions

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
olders load incredibly slowly with mutt. (15-20 seconds for around 1000 messages). Are there any performance tweaks for NFS and/or Maildir that anyone knows about? (Other than not to use them in combination :-)) Thanks for any info on the above problems. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Init takes long time and what is lspci?

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
now on debian-devel is the idea of using ash instead of bash for /bin/sh. Since ash is faster/uses less memory than bash, it could significantly decrease the bootup time of your system. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: alsa modules

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
were having by preloading everything. I'm with you: I have 32 modules right now in /lib/modules/2.2.7 and the only one loaded at boot time is for my ethernet card, via-rhine. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: alsa modules

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Earth to Shao..is anyone out there? What you are doing is the same as what "make install" for ALSA does..preloading the modules at boot time and defeating the whole point of modules. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
dist-upgrade". It handles everything and installs all of the packages in the right order. Because of the glibc2.1 upgrade, I'm not sure how to do it your way. I've used APT since before slink and it did everything in the right order. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
> Strange. I thought *BSD are using EGCS as well. > Nope, moving to EGCS is on the FreeBSD 4.0 feature list. Its in the ports collection for 3.2, but my ISP (understandably) probably wouldn't want to install it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Default editor at install

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
VI. Also, I believe that ae is the default editor, although there was a heated debate on debian-devel a while back about the default editor. Our beloved VIM lost out because people said it wasn't intuitive and that it was too hard to learn . You can take my VIM when you pry it from my cold, de

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
linked lists and sorting, and found out that FreeBSD is not up to par with Linux in terms of C++ compilers and lacked some STL features I needed, and ended up rewriting the programs in Python to get them to port over cleanly. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: debian vs redhat

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
x27;t start dhcpcd on 2.2.x kernels. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Setup a Proxy or Ipmasq

1999-07-29 Thread Stephen Pitts
uctions are in the HOWTO as to exactly what to compile in), and post to the list if you don't understand anything. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: C2 Certification

1999-07-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
ur help. > > Jasmine Chan Why does it matter? NT is only C2 certified when it is not connected to a network :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Potato

1999-07-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
eporting any/all bugs you find. I've found a couple, and the maintainers are very courteous about fixing them, especially on the rare occasions I included a patch. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: mail list abuse? (was Re: sendmail/fetchmail how?)

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
just thank those who responded to my video card question. I'm going > with the Riva TNT, just so you know. And that Linux hardware link > (http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html) was *very* > informative -- highly recommended. Cool! I'm the happy owner of a Riva TNT

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
s to apostrophes, and fail to follow the ASCII standard character codes. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
Thank you for your attention :-). Try "make-kpkg clean". It should clear out some old cruft in the configuration files. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: ssh client

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
handy. I could send you a ZIP file via email, though. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: gnome-apt for slink?

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
Debian, you may come across a scenario that requires you to do this because of a package bug. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
APT to download directly from the mirror that you got your packages from. If a package is already in /var/cache/apt/archives, it won't be downloaded again, but APT will get any packages you don't have that it needs. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: irc.openprojects.net

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:50:20AM -0700, Thomas wrote: > Just do dpkg -s ps It's dpkg -S ps, but that doesn't help if the package with ps isn't installed :-). -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
eds an MTA to send mail :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Change the signatures for -user and -devel!

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
itional "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to unsubscribe. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: System woes..unkillable processes and more!

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
OK, great. Partition Magic hosed my partition table. I'm going to send the drive back to Seagate, 1 MB of bad sectors or not. This incident with this Linux installation is totally opposite all of my other linux experiences. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

Re: Network addressing

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
get confused? Try setting the netmask that way, and see what happens > > And a semi-related question: on a pure Win98 machine, how do you find out > the Ethernet address of the NIC card? I tried looking through the registry, > but didn't find anything that looked right. Start

Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card problem part 2

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
ing > other computers on my local network. The settings in ifconfig and route > disappears after a reboot, I presume this is not right. > Au contrair. On boot-time, all ethernet devices are configured by /etc/init.d/network. Change the ifconfig lines there to automatically setup your network card. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

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