Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread William Schwartz
- Original Message - From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 8:50 PM Subject: Re: Sun goes fully open source! > BTW, M$ would have some difficulties in supporting NCs; NT is not > multi-user. FYI: that is not true, not any more. Microsoft has

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread William Schwartz
The way I understand it, D-DNS is EXACTLY what you are looking for. This will provide your internal hosts that are assigned an address from DHCP with a DNS entry as well... Will - Original Message - From: Olaf Conradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users

Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?

1999-05-05 Thread William Schwartz
use: df will - Original Message - From: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: How to check the amount of free disk space? > Hi, > > This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread William Schwartz
The "network neighborhood" functionality in Windows can lag behind for up to 15 minutes. Its becuase of the way "browsing" is handled in Windows... So, it is normal for a machine to not show up immediately. There are more technical explinations for this (refering to master browsers and such window

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread William Schwartz
That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run FDISK manually to do what you want to... will -Original Message- F

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread William Schwartz
I know that everyone loves to hate Microsoft, and its Windows products. I know they are an easy target becuase they make a very successful product that has quite a few problems. They are a big corporation that "controls" the pc industry. and Linux is the "underdog"... All of this makes Windows VERY

Re: web based mail

1999-03-03 Thread William Schwartz
The link does work if you take off the 's... http://web.horde.org/ Will - Original Message - From: Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 8:13 AM Subject: Re: web based mail >On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:17:10 -0500

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread William Schwartz
You are correct. If you IP Address is within the local network, but your default router is incorrect, your machine will not know how to get off the local network. Any time you move a machine in an IP network, you really need to change the IP address / subnet-mask and default router for it to work c

"green" linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-16 Thread William Schwartz
OK, I've been having problems understanding something. I'm new to debian, and I still cant figure this out about cron... I have read the man pages, but I'm still not clear. There is a filed called "crontab" in the "etc" directory. That is my "system wide" crontab. This file I am able to edit and m

problems in DSELECT

1999-02-15 Thread William Schwartz
I used dselect to update all my SLINK packages today, and it wants to update my Apache... It is popping up with a dependicy problem, and wont let me past this point. The screen has 2 packages listed on it: apache & apache-common The installed version is 1.3.3-4 and it wants to install 1.3.3-6. No

Re: Stupid user...

1999-02-11 Thread William Schwartz
Thanks to all who replied... getting rid of my "xdm" did it. I was concerned that my keyboard had gone bad, but it was just the gui login / xdm giving it fits. Thanks for the help! will - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: William Schwartz <[EMAIL PR

Stupid user...

1999-02-11 Thread William Schwartz
Well, I did something stupid, and I don't know how I did it or how to make it stop... I added a package that when debian starts up, it proceeds right into a GUI login screen (with a penguin head). Now, the problem is that I don't like it, and I want it to go away. I don't remember what package it

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread William Schwartz
I really hate to continue this thread, but I thought I'd throw in my experience. I was "turned on" to Linux by a friend, and he was using Debian, so I installed it and tried it. About 2 days later I had a working Debian system. Mind you I was a COMPLETE Unix numb-nuts. The only real command I knew

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
That worked GREAT. Thank you very much. will -Original Message- From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:20 PM Subject: Re: X problems after an update > >On

Re: X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
>I just upgraded myself and have run into quite a few problems. First >see if the file ~/.xsessions_errors (?) is produced. For me there was >a shell programming error in /etc/X11/Xsession that needed to be >corrected. Yep. There are some reported. It says: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: et

X problems after an update

1999-02-03 Thread William Schwartz
Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but now after doing the update, it no longer works. The error I'm getting is

SLINK installation question

1999-01-15 Thread William Schwartz
If I'm installing SLINK (frozen) from scratch and APT asks me if I want to get packages from "STABLE FROZEN or UNSTABLE" I should normally choose "FROZEN" right? Those match SLINK installation? Thanks will

Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS

1999-01-15 Thread William Schwartz
I get there via: irc.ca.us.openprojects.net There is a list of sites on their WWW site http://web.openprojects.net/ I have had the same problems with irc.debian.org... http://web.openprojects.net/services/irc.html <= is the list of IRC servers... will -Original Message- From: Chris Ho

Help with CRON

1999-01-13 Thread William Schwartz
OK. I can't figure this out. maybe someone can help me real quick. I'm trying to schedule MRTG to run every 5 minutes. Easy enough? I put the following entry into my "crontab" file. (Yea, i used "crontab -e" to edit the file as root) 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg Now, I

Where is the Debian support IRC channel?

1999-01-13 Thread William Schwartz
Hello, a VERY simple question: Where is the IRC support channel at these days. I'm not able to connect to IRC.DEBIAN.ORG any longer. Thanks for the help! Will Schwartz