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1999-02-16 Thread Spencer Marks
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Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first > attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 > instead of the one I have 2.0.34. It was my understanding that dselect > would download, place the new kernel in

is there a trick to removing emacs?

1999-02-16 Thread Pollywog
I want to remove all the emacs stuff and use vim as my editor. Can I safely remove emacs without doing something special first? thanks -- Andrew

Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Dan Willard
Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think I already know the answer but would like confirmation. Thanks. --Dano

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread ktb
Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > > Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first > > attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 > > instead of the one I have 2.0.34. It was my understanding that dselect > > wou

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Dan Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown | in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie | file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think | I already know the answe

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Lawrence Walton
I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement. Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping. /Blatant Debian plug/ Also I almost alway agree with Debian's file placement. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Johnie Ingram
"ktb" == ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ktb> OK I took a look at ftp.debian.org and I see no kernel package. ktb> Where would I find a deb 2.2.1 package? I found a kernel package ktb> at ftp://ftp.netgod.net/linux/v2.2/ but can dselect can't handle ktb> this? I've looked all over the debian s

Re: is there a trick to removing emacs?

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I want to remove all the emacs stuff and use vim as my editor. > Can I safely remove emacs without doing something special first? > You can safely remove any Debian package, just type dpkg --remove emacs20 (or the name of whichever Emacs flavor you've insta

wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread Spencer Marks
Hi, I've been running Red Hat 5.2 for a while and now want to try out Debian. To that end, I purchased the user guide which came with 2.0 cd. I am installing on a ThinkPad 600. I can boot from the CD. However, when Linux loads, the machine hangs. I really don't want to the 9 floppy disk thing

boot parameters

1999-02-16 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: I would like to go to debian from my present redhat 5.1 system. I have an Adaptec 2920 controller and a Seagate ST-34555N disk. Both of these may require some parameters at the boot prompt . My question is, given that I am now using linux, how can I find out what those parameters should b

apm (was: Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?)

1999-02-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 07:10:39PM +, Allens wrote: > You have got to recompile the kernel, and enable apm support. > > Peter Allen > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > With modern power-saving BIOSes, the thing can even turn th

Re: boot parameters

1999-02-16 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Phil Reardon wrote: > Hello: I would like to go to debian from my present redhat 5.1 system. > I have an Adaptec 2920 controller and a Seagate ST-34555N disk. Both of > these may require some parameters at the boot prompt . My question is, > given that I am now using linux,

Re: boot parameters

1999-02-16 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Phil Reardon wrote: > Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > > cat /etc/lilo.conf > > > > I'm not sure what the exact line is, I think it's append= or something, > > but it'll be pretty obvious if you already know what to look for, and it > > sounds like you do. > > > This is what I go

Re: Curious Question

1999-02-16 Thread JonesMB
I have at various times in the past 2 years used or administered Linux, Solaris, Irix and HP-UX and I have found that there is little difference in file locations and a couple of commands from a user's perspective. The location of system files may be differ from BSD based systems to SysV based

Re:Samba (or at least it was a while ago)

1999-02-16 Thread Dan Willard
I seem to remember someone last week mentioning that they would like to create a 'dump' that people could write to but not view/retrieve. I might have stumbled across the answer, make the share directory's permissions write execute, and add the line create mode = 0222 in the smb.conf file. This

running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

1999-02-16 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
First of all, thank you to everyone who sent help. I now only have (I hope) 2 problems. I was wrong about using cron to start Exim daemon, the 2 ways that were suggested to me were using init and using inetd. Problem #1: I found that using init overrides my security from hosts.deny and

Re: apm (was: Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?)

1999-02-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > Hmmm, this thread died without answering the question I was lurking to > listen for. I have apmd up and running but can't figure out how to > make it go to sleep on a schedule. Winblows had (has, presumably) a > place where you could

Re: modem doesn't work at startup

1999-02-16 Thread ragOO
Frankie wrote: > when I turn my computer on, and try to dial out (with xisp), it won't > connect. > As such xISP is hassle free and it dials out the first time upon configuration. Your problem may be with your modem initialization string or the correct serial port not being shown out to xISP

x11amp not playing correctly

1999-02-16 Thread Matt Garman
I installed x11amp, but it has a nasty problem. It "skips" when it plays, but consistenly. It's hard to describe, but imagine several, consistent but short-lived skips. The effect is such that it really slows down the music (because of the regular skipping). Sometimes it appears to skip twice

Re: x11amp not playing correctly

1999-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Garman wrote: > > I installed x11amp, but it has a nasty problem. It "skips" when it > plays, but consistenly. It's hard to describe, but imagine several, > consistent but short-lived skips. The effect is such that it really > slows down the music (because of the regular skipping). Someti

Re: apm (was: Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?)

1999-02-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:03:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Hmmm, this thread died without answering the question I was lurking to > > listen for. I have apmd up and running but can't figure out how to > > make it go to sleep

modem configuration..

1999-02-16 Thread suraj vijayan
> >Hello, > > I've installed LINUX (debian 2.0.2) on my IBM 240 E pc. LINUX is > unable to sense the built in modem. PC has Rockwell HCF 56K > modem at IRQ 4 on COM1. It works fine with Windows. I tried > editing /etc/rc.boot/0serial script with various parameters. > Whenever I run 'wvdialconf /d

Re: wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread claydona
On 15 Feb 1999, Spencer Marks wrote: I'm writing to you from my second installation on an i586. I didn't have the cd so I downloaded everything and copied to an msdos partition. I got all the *1440.bin files but I booted successfully both times having the base2_0.tgz file on a msdos partition.

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:56:07AM -0600, David Webster wrote: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? I have two servers with Realtek 8029-based PCI cards which work fine. I use the ne2k-pci module (in 2.0.34 or better). It works fine. One of the

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 05:02:04PM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote: > I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and > addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement. > Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping. > > /Blatant Debian plug/ > Also I almo

accessing debian from an hpterm

1999-02-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have an HP-UX workstation where I work; if I connect to my Debian box using an hpterm window, the terminal emulation is appalling. Arrow keys don't work for command line history (but it looks like hpterm isn't actually sending anything to the telnet session; and I don't use the arrow keys norma

xdm & kdm

1999-02-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I want to run xdm on vt7, and kdm on vt8. So how do I do it? Also, how do I force all my users to use /etc/X11/Xsession, rather than ~/.xsession?? Thanks. shao.

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-16 Thread joop . vson
The NE2000 PCI-module is probing a number of addresses, make sure that your card is configured for one of those addresses. This can probably be done with the DOS-program (sorry) you have got with your card, Joop

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-16 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Mitch Blevins wrote: > I saw that. It works great. My network is running wonderfully now (as to the Linux nodes). I just need to get my windows box to hear my 3Com card, and I'm in business. > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > AAAH!!! > > > > Well I made it back from Frye's and bought

Re: SLRN woes

1999-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote: > Quoting Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It's not peculiar to the potato version. I get the same thing in hamm. I've > > had to download the "active" file separately and abstract the entries I > > need. > > > > Anthony > > > > How do you download

XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
Hi, Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? Regards Graham

dselect dependencies w/ install of frozen

1999-02-16 Thread Brian Hooper
Hi there - I am trying to install libc6 and libc6-dev on a machine w/ slink, but I am having trouble with getting the package dependencies to work out. In particular, it looks like libc6-dev requires that libc6 be exactly the same version (2.0.7t-1)... however my libc6 is newer than that (2.0.7.1

Re: pine4.deb?

1999-02-16 Thread Jeremy
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Pete wrote: > anyway, if anyone knows of such a package, i'd much appreciate it if they > could point me in the proper direction. I couldn't find one either, so I downloaded the RedHat RPM and converted it over with alien. Installation went fine and pine works great. You can

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format > anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? It will not be in the distribution till the maintainer of the X11 Debian packages feels comfortable about the current (3.3.2) packages. Anyway

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-16 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Jiri Baum wrote: Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible, you'll probably need to adjust the "chat script" that pon is using (most likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ). IT WORKS! I noticed that the modem returns NO CARRIER quite often in minicom. I removed abort on "NO CARR

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-16 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The NE2000 PCI-module is probing a number of addresses, > make sure that your card is configured for one of those addresses. > This can probably be done with the DOS-program (sorry) you have got > with your card, Joop Is the necessary information t

Problems with Crypto++ in debian

1999-02-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! Did anybody succeeded to compile the free cryptographic C++ library Crypto++ 3.0 (ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/mirror/ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/crypto/LIBS/cryptolib/crypto30.zip) in debian hamm linux? The egcs-2.90.29 fails to compile it. Maybe it is the result of egcs's namespaces problem?

Re: xdm & kdm

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I want to run xdm on vt7, and kdm on vt8. So how do I do it? I do not remember quite exactly the process how I managed to do it, but it worked ... Well, you have to set up two independent directories - /etc/X11/xdm and /etc/X11/kdm (you can copy /etc/X11/xdm to /etc/X11/kdm

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > > Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format > > anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? > > It will not be in the distribution till the maintainer of the X11 Debian > packages feels comfortable about the curren

pine 4.1 on debian slink

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Cocker
There is a termcap compatibility lib in the old libraries section of slink packages which has the termcaplib and a termcap file. I installed that and then the downloaded the linux binaries from the pine homepage. Pine 4.10 works on my slink system cheers Matt Cocker

Re: modem configuration..

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > > I've installed LINUX (debian 2.0.2) on my IBM 240 E pc. LINUX is > > unable to sense the built in modem. PC has Rockwell HCF 56K > > modem at IRQ 4 on COM1. It works fine with Windows. I tried > > editing /etc/rc.boot/0serial script with various parameters. > > Whenever I run 'w

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > > > > Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first > > > attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 > > > instead of the one I have 2.

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
Hi, I have a SCSII zip installed on a hamm system. During boot with no disk in the drive I get the following messages: aha152x: processing commandline: ok aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enab

Re: Installing DOS and ATAPI CD probs

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
> Else, since reinstallation the CDROM driver is not working well. It's and > OTI-HERMES ATAPI (primary slave) and during installation gave many errors > like: > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > and I'm having a hard time to mount it or to run dselect with it. > I

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
> David Webster wrote: > > > > Well Windows and OS/2 don't seem to have a problem with letting you > > configure your sound stuff right up front. How hard is it to add a > > sound item to modconf screen used in in the "Drivers Configuration" > > phase of the install?. Afterall, these drivers are

Re: CDROM trouble and Kernel message.

1999-02-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I saw a test patch on linux-kernel this morning, for what sounds like the same problem you're having. I'll take a look and see if I can find it again. On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:15:26PM +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > Hello! > > I'm having some strange problems. I can't eject my CDROM even tho it

Installazione di Debian

1999-02-16 Thread Fabio Drigani
Come si esegue la partizione del disco rigido, senza cancellare dati utili gia' residenti? Grazie mille, Un nuovo utente di Linux Debian un po' confuso. Fabio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Floppy Drive Alignment Software

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general. thanks Rod

newest ncp

1999-02-16 Thread Ben Frame
I am trying to use ncpmount to mount subdirectories on a Novell Netware server, but my current version of ncpfs only allows the mounting of volumes - not subdirectories. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a newer version available that DOES allow you to mount a specific subdirectory?

[vim] :se num -> underlined numbers

1999-02-16 Thread Graham Ashton
I've got vim installed on both hamm and slink boxes, versions 5.0 and 5.3 of vim respectively, and use both from the same remote rxvt session. When I switch line numbering on in 5.0, everything looks fine. When I switch it on in 5.3, the line numbers themselves are underlined. It's really annoying

Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-16 Thread servis
Has anyone had any luck getting the Acrobat reader plugin to work in Netscape-4.5-libc6 packages? Without fail it crashes netscape. Thanks, -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, be

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter Paluch wrote: > 1.) There is not even one (!) word processor which is able to export the > documents in MS Office97 format and is working properly with Slovak locale > in XWin. You don't need to blame, nor Debian, nor Linux in general, that M$Office is being used at your office. If they want

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread David B. Teague
> > Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > > > Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format > > > anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? As I understand it, you need to go to www.XFree.org, find the 3.3.3 server for your card, and copy it over the 3.3.2 server. I h

Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I need to get the full access Thanks.

RE: ISP connect

1999-02-16 Thread Bill Bell
I have USED MSN untill recently. I found that I needed to give my user name in the following format: "MSN/user_name" (including the quotes for chatscript) This may help. Bill Bell >> I use the KDE window to configure dial-up settings. I have reconfigured the >> connect script to this: >>

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello again, > > 1.) There is not even one (!) word processor which is able to export the > > documents in MS Office97 format and is working properly with Slovak locale > > in XWin. > > You don't need to blame, nor Debian, nor Linux in general, that M$Office is > being used at your o

Libraries for Enlightenment

1999-02-16 Thread homega
Hi, I downloaded enlightenment 0.14-6, enlightenment-docs, enlightenment-theme and econfigedit .deb packages. For the library requirements, I managed to find libesd0, libfnlib0, libpng2, libtiff3g, giflib3g (instead of libungif3g), and zlib1g 1.1.3-2. I haven't found imlib1, not even at debian's

Re: newest ncp

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I am trying to use ncpmount to mount subdirectories on a Novell > Netware server, but my current version of ncpfs only allows the > mounting of volumes - not subdirectories. I was wondering if > anyone knew if there was a newer version available that DOES allow > you to mount

Problems compiling Sendmail 8.9.3

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Myers
When I try to compile Sendmail 8.9.3 with the Berkley DB routines from sleepycat.com, I get two errors about unresolved externals. Can someone tell me what to try? -- Matthew D. Myers Catch me after work, I'll buy you a beer.

"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

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and | addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement. | Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping. | | /Blatant Debian plug/ | Also I almost alway agree with D

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G. Others think 1,073,741,824 bytes is 1G. 6 x 1G = 6,442,459,944 bytes. Which 6.4G if you use the 1000 for 1k base. It d

Re: Libraries for Enlightenment

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello! == > I haven't found > imlib1, not even at debian's ftp site... where could I find it? does it > belong to some other package? You can find imlib in slink distribution, the graphics directory. > It is also required to have libc6 (>=2.0.7u), and I have libc6 2.0.7t-1 (hamm) > installe

ATN: running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

1999-02-16 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
A problem occurred (on my system with Exim) that made some mail bounce (now fixed) and caused me to be removed from the list, right after I sent my message about Exim if anyone could forward their responses to my original mail "running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite" to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X won't load

1999-02-16 Thread Bach, David S
I get the following messages when doing startx: -- X: exec of failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocket

filename conversion

1999-02-16 Thread caa
hello everyone, i just uploaded some 800++ files to my debian box (from a windoze box) and found out that all filenames had been transformed to their uppercase equivalent ... anybody knows how do i convert all these files back to their lowercase equivalent while keeping the numbers and the d

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I don't think this is the case since this the drive is a Western Digital 26400 Caviar and it does report 6GB excatly it reports 6.14...GB > -- > From: Lewis, James M. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 10:56 AM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org';

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter Paluch wrote: > Again - I am terribly sorry if I offended someone. I didn't mean it so, > indeed. You maybe don't see this event to be so serious than I see it, but > in fact the present state doesn't allow me to use my native language on > Linux. I didn't think you offended someone. At leas

exmh broken again

1999-02-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
grr. As of yestderday's updates to frozen, exmh seems to be broken again. It gives an error of invalid command name "Gpg_Init" while executing "Gpg_Init" (procedure "Pgp_Init" line 157) invoked from within "Pgp_Init" (procedure "Exmh" line 112) invoked from within "Exmh"

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I > need to get the full access Roderick: Are you sure that isn't an "Unformatted size"? I had that happen to me just recently: My HDD was advertised as a 10.4 gig drive, (they

Weird memory allocate problem

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Hello - I've been running Debian 2.0 on an HP Brio, PMMX166, 16 M RAM. This morning I was greeted by a bizarre message when I tried to log in at the console -- some of the messages flashed by too quickly b/c mingetty cleared the screen, but there was a memory error for crypt, and after a few trie

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hi folks, I may be missing the point here, but it looks to me that if you use the hdparm utility (DOS utility - you'll have to put it on a DOS boot floppy) to check the drive geometry as reported by the BIOS, then go to Linux and check that fdisk uses the same geometry parameters, you can verify t

hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hi all How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or /dev/null. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks

Re: Problems compiling Sendmail 8.9.3

1999-02-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Matthew Myers wrote: > When I try to compile Sendmail 8.9.3 with the Berkley DB routines from > sleepycat.com, I get two errors about unresolved externals. Can someone > tell me what to try? My first suggestion (if this is for i386) would be to just get the .deb and install

dmesg: What file?

1999-02-16 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg is displaying? Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio NOrthern University Ada, OH 45810

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
If I get what your saying here. Linux does report the correct heads,sectors, cylinders as the manufacture claims are on the disk. But it only reports 6.1GB FDISK sees only this too. Rod > -- > From: Philippe Andersson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1

Re: filename conversion

1999-02-16 Thread servis
*- On 16 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "filename conversion" > hello everyone, > i just uploaded some 800++ files to my debian box (from a windoze box) and > found out that all filenames had been transformed to their uppercase > equivalent ... > anybody knows how do i convert all these f

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread homega
Lewis, James M. dixit: > Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers > sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk > folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G. Others think 1,073,741,824 bytes > is 1G. 6 x 1G = 6,442,459,944 bytes. Which 6.4G if you

trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread smarks
Hi, I have a ThinkPad 600. I can boot from the 2.0 CD OK. I hit return to begin install. Loading root.bin goes by ok. Next I see: Loading Linux.. That seems to complete, as the cursor moves to the next line. However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get ar

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-16 Thread John Hasler
John Bagdanoff writes: > That was a stock 0setserial, just with the change to irq3 as I mentioned > before. When I updated packages from slink, setserial (_2.14-3) was one > that I upgraded to. So I reverted to the hamm setserial (_2.12-6) and > now the change to irq3 stays permanent. I didn't u

Re: trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:34:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get >around this problem? (I tried Loadln with the file from the cd and got the >same results.) Obviously you don't have a problem booting from CD, but you have a

deb. kernel patch

1999-02-16 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm looking for debinized kernel patches for my 2.0.34 kernel. I've been looking at the Debian ftp site and can't find anything. Maybe what I'm looking for isn't there. Where can I find them? In general how do you ever find anything at an ftp site? Isn't there a list of the paths to what y

Re: accessing debian from an hpterm

1999-02-16 Thread Carl Johnson
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an HP-UX workstation where I work; if I connect to my Debian box > using an hpterm window, the terminal emulation is appalling. > > Arrow keys don't work for command line history (but it looks like hpterm isn't > actually sending anything to th

Re: hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hi all > How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying > to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with > error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or > /dev/null. Any suggestion

GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread David Webster
I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other stuff. Is there any online documentation that sorts

changing timezone

1999-02-16 Thread Pollywog
I must have goofed when I set my timezone during Debian installation. Is there a way to change this? Thanks -- Andrew

Re:dfm

1999-02-16 Thread John Greer
i have icewm and dfm running on my system at home and i am now trying to get DFM set up so that when I view a directory I can assign icons to files depending on the icon. The man page for DFM tells how to do this using a .dfmext file in my home directory but when I do this all of the icons dis

Installazione di Debian

1999-02-16 Thread Marco Frattola
Come si esegue la partizione del disco rigido, senza cancellare dati utili gia' residenti? Grazie mille, Un nuovo utente di Linux Debian un po' confuso. fabio, questa mailing list e' internzionale ed e' obbligo e cortesia usare l'inglese translation of user question for non-italian speaker: how

Re: changing timezone

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Myers
use tzconfig Pollywog wrote: > > I must have goofed when I set my timezone during Debian installation. Is > there a way to change this? > > Thanks > > -- > Andrew > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Matthew D. Myers ==

slink=frozen still??

1999-02-16 Thread Ken Long
Hi there. I'm curious about something. When is the target for slink to be released now?? Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the information on the web page states a target date of sometime in December of 1998 for release. Well, it's February of 1999 now and i

Re: "green" linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-16 Thread sawitt
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > There is a filed called "crontab" in the "etc" directory. That is my "system > wide" crontab. This file I am able to edit and modify... > > then there are crontab files in the "/var/spool/cron/crontabs" directory > that are to be edited with the cr

Pop authentication from a Netware server?

1999-02-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
Hello. I've almost convinced a company to use a Linux box for mail service on their network of 15 workstations. They're running Novell 5 as their main network OS. What I've proposed to them is to install a Linux box to connect to their dual ISDN Internet connection, and to run their mail servi

Re: Floppy Drive Alignment Software

1999-02-16 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Person, Roderick wrote: > Hi All, > > My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to > help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general. > > thanks > Rod > > Alignment? Are you sure? I thought that alignment problems needed an osc

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > Can somebody explain this to me? > > > > $ find /cdrom -iname wx* > > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* > > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb > > > > Why does the first 'find' query give no results? >

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-16 Thread servis
*- On 16 Feb, Ken Long wrote about "slink=frozen still??" > > Hi there. I'm curious about something. > > When is the target for slink to be released now?? > http://www.netgod.net/footer.cgi > Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the > information on the web pa

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread Kirk Hogenson
David Webster wrote: > > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK > libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff > like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other stuff. Gnome is bas

RE: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread David Zanetti
That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Phone x33

RE: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-16 Thread David Zanetti
On a related note, the normal acrobat reader dies horribly under slink for me. Probably libraries, but as it's closed source I can't recompile it.. *curses quietly* David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Phone x3354 or 04 801 33

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
David Zanetti wrote: > That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( > > Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, > and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( An easy fix of course is to put your new (3.3.3) server in /usr/local/X11/bin or somethin

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