Some details about problems with RTL8139

1999-08-10 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I really need help on getting two network cards to work. I'm able to work with them on Windows NT and on Linux(only if I had, initially, started first with NT :-(( ). What happens: [Machine1] [Machine2] 1. Start this machine

Re: issue and motd with xdm

1999-08-10 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:08:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would like to display a message before users logon to my machine. I have the > message in /etc/motd and /etc/issue. If I come in through a "terminal" window, > via ssh for examples, I see the /etc/motd contents. W

Re: Module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. 1. After "make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image" do make-kpkg modules_image . 2. Then either: a) mv /lib/modules/[kernel version] \ /lib/modules/[kernel version]-old or b) rm -rf /lib/modules/[kernel version] 3.

Re: dselect problem with Packages.cd

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
Are you sure they exist on the CD? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Switching to KDM...

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:54:01PM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: | Hi, Debian newbie asking his normal stupid question :-) | | I have KDE on my computer, works just fine, etc etc. When the computer | boots up it goes straight into XDM. I can log in and kill xdm from a text | window and start up kdm,

Re: Easy way to install potato?

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
| Please define ``bare minimum''. | | At which point in the installation process is it reached? Okay, from the CD go through the install process, select some tasks or packages, etc. Then finish up to the point were it tells you it's going to reboot. Fine, do that. Next, after boot up,

Re: Module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Paul Miller
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. > 1. After "make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image" do > make-kpkg modules_image . Actually 'make-kpkg kernel-image' also compiles any modules you configured. So it is not necessary to do this ext

lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Butler
Hello. I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites. After login, there is a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections. After ten of these, lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached. Then it stops. I would like to increase this limit. Reading the man page (ma

Re: Module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
| > You forget to do a couple important steps if you're using modules. | > 1. After "make-kpkg -revision... kernel_image" do | > make-kpkg modules_image . | | Actually 'make-kpkg kernel-image' also compiles any modules you | configured. So it is not necessary to do this extra step. I never

Re: Switching to KDM...

1999-08-10 Thread Gene Schafhauser
Try removing kdm, then reinstalling it. You may have to use --force-overwrite when you run dpkg on the reinstall since kdm wants to overwrite some files that were previously installed by xdm. Gene On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:54:01PM -0400, you wrote: > Hi, Debian newbie asking his normal stupid

How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-10 Thread Joseph Chung
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if t

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian Butler wrote: > Hello. I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites. After login, there is > a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections. After ten of these, > lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached. Then it > stops. > > I would l

xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
When I open xawtv from an xterm I get this error can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory... no video grabber device available. When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "video". Do I have make the device 'vi

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | > less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully > functiona

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Bernhard Rieder
NatePuri wrote: > > When I open xawtv from an xterm I get this error > > can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory... > no video grabber device available. > > When I did a ./MAKEDEV from /dev directory the proggy said > ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "video

Record from line in

1999-08-10 Thread Bek Oberin
I'm using esound and want to record some stuff that's coming in on the "line in" of my sound card. I can hear the stuff fine through the speakers, but it'll only record from the "mic in" socket. Anybody? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video I don't have /dev/video0 either. > -- >__ ___ > // )___--"""-. > \ |,"( /`--"" `.Bernhard Rieder > \/ o\ > ( _.-.

Re: Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network

1999-08-10 Thread Bruce Jackson
David Natkins wrote: > > Bruce, > Exactly what does Exim say? (check /var/log/exim/mainlog). > > Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the > > firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email > > for the inter

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been > having > just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the > ?.deb?s, and > then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... Sure enou

i want to trade Redhat 6.0, Win98 ... for Debian

1999-08-10 Thread a
Do you have extra Debian CD (2.0 or later)? I am still using Debian 1.2 and can't get new Debians cheaply. I have Reahat 6.0, Win98, VC, VB, BC ... for exchange. Consider this: First I mail you CD(s) you want; Upon receipt, you mail me Debian CD; Finally I email you registered numbers. I live in

problems installing Slink from apt

1999-08-10 Thread Pollywog
I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my CDROM

Re: Apache-ssl wont auto restart. Needs password.

1999-08-10 Thread Don Erickson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >we have Apache-ssl installed and running on our Debian Slink web >server. The only problem we have is that Apache-ssl won't restart >automatically if it goes down or if we reboot. This because we need to >put in a password after having entered "apache-

RE: problems installing Slink from apt

1999-08-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: > I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base > system > to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose > how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can > only use it with APT and this is not

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread John Carline
Immanuel Yap wrote: > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > > similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | > > less) I get the following: WARNING: Te

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. Did you compile your kernel with support for your video grabber card? Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: gnome-apt

1999-08-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change > in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper > circumstances. Was there? Hmm.. > It seems there's some new library feature to handle media swappin

Re: Dabian 2.9.4

1999-08-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I think, I have seen the this two drivers in the Kernel package (not the patch). Download it from http://www.linuxrouter.org/ At 15:43 09.08.1999 -0400, you wrote > This was the original Message: MK>Hi, MK> MK>I have downloaded the linux router project, i can make it work ok. but

Re: problems installing Slink from apt

1999-08-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system > to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose > how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can > only use it with APT and this

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Michael Merten wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... >> >are there any script guru's out there with the time and the >> >inclination

script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread venu
hi all shell scripters ! if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i remove the blank lines ? cherio venu

Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???

1999-08-10 Thread Martin Uecker
Colin Marquardt wrote: > >> > my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and > >> > >> What options do you give fetchmail? I just use -a (plus -vvv when I > >> want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a > >> message from the server, it flushes it (this

Soundcard & Printer Hassles

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Ludwig
I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work on the old motherboard ), and as such I'm having a few hassles with Linux doing some things. The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: > if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? grep -v ^$ This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^) and its end ($). Or rather "without nothing"

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread venu
hey... that was quick !! thanks stephan... Stephan wrote:... >grep -v ^$ > >This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^) >and its end ($). Or rather "without nothing" between beginning and >end (-v is grep's negation option). > i did it like this uing awk. ca

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote: > hi all shell scripters ! > > if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? > > cherio > venu > Well, one way would be to 'cat | tr -s '\n' > ', IIRC. Mike [Private mail welcome, bu

Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread Holger Leiser
I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long time to load it. Can it be possible that there is a conflict with shared libraries ?

Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: > I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long > time to load it. Can it be possible that there > is a conflict with shared libraries ? That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the loading time of any ap

using 6 serial ports

1999-08-10 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I added a board with 4 serial ports to my PC. I can access the first two serial ports on that board but I do not succeed in connecting to the other 2 ports. I added support for more then 4 serial ports to the kernel and I added some setserial lines to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial but it still

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if >you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing >is stopping you from changing your own system around. But be aware that >whenever yo

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:19:40PM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, NatePuri wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:48:21AM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > > ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video > > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. > > Did you compile your kernel with suppor

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >Ok, thanks for taking a look at it! (You didn't see anything >obvious that could be done simpler or more efficiently? I always >seem to do things the hard way :) Nothing obvious. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ==

Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. I get this on the termi

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Bernhard Rieder
NatePuri wrote: > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. If you did already MAKEDEV video and it didn't work then you have to make your video device manually mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 Also you should be shure that the kernel loads msp3400 and tuner. The depencies in the kernel seem to be broken so t

Modem Problems

1999-08-10 Thread Thys van der Merwe
Hi I hope someone can help me with this. I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the packages off the net using dselect. At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem wasn

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1999-08-10 Thread Holger Leiser
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Re: Any help with Realtek RTL8139 ?

1999-08-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:39:15PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > What Windows NT does, that I'm sure I need, it's force both network cards to > 10Mbits FullDuplex. > I'm unable to get 100Mbits - still didn't test but it seems I've an UTP cat3 > cable. :-( > > So, probably, Linux is not

quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. I use: \usepackage{portland} \begin{document} \landscape \end{document} But it does not work Please help me... Shao. -- _

Re: using 6 serial ports

1999-08-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I had the same problem. Then I have used for every Serial Port a seperatly pair od IO/IRQ and now it works. But you need a serial card where you have enough IO and IRQ's I can set up on my serial card 32 different IO's and all IRQ's. Webmistress Michelle At 10:09 10.08.1999 +0200, y

searching for a file-please help

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello, folks! Could some of you please look for a file (I need it for compiling KOffice) named openparts.idl on your hard disk (porobably in /include/idl/)? I wonder if I have lost it, or if no one has got it and the KOffice development group has made some mistakes?? Thanks very much, Stephan Ha

Bootable Install CD ISO...

1999-08-10 Thread Umut Ceyhan
Where can I find Debian bootable CD ISO image for x86 ? Thanks lot...

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:34:55PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I just cannot find out how to set the a4paper to landscape. > I use: > > \usepackage{portland} > > \begin{document} > \landscape > \end{document} > > But it does not work What do yo

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Butler
[regarding lynx limit of refresh URLs] Patrick Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it is the DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE parameter in /etc/lynx.cfg for two > reasons: > > 1. It appears to default to 10 > > 2. It says the "minimum allowed value is 2, for the current document and > at least one to fetch."

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work > it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This > include

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > I think I will go for mutt since the PGP stuff works really fine now. > However, I have some questions regarding procmail. You have chosen wisely. I switched recently and can't imagine using anything else. > Is it poss

Re: Modem Problems

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Thys van der Merwe wrote: > Hi > > I hope someone can help me with this. > > I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the > packages off the net using dselect. > > At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then rotates my document 90 degrees... If I lpr -Pprinter file.ps, it comes out in portrait

Re: Soundcard & Printer Hassles

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 05:05:52PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work > on the old motherboard ), and as such I'm having a few hassles with > Linux doing some things. > > The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it wa

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I > > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work > > it's just

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:44:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed > > > that I > > > can no lon

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk > browser and double click it then it starts. > > > I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to > > work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- > > unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.g

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1

1999-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:32 PM Subject: XFree86 3.3.3.1 .deb files for Debian 2.1 > I would like to install Xfree86 3.3.3.1 on Debian 2.1 and do not know which > .deb files to download. I would appreciate any help. > > > -- > Un

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote about "Re: rc?.d policy?" > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>No Debian has no policy about runlevels, which is pretty strange if >>you ask me, they rejected a bug against policy on this issue. Nothing >>is stopp

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Dan Everton wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed > > > that I > > > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mo

Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread jfoltz
Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? Thanks -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is > upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment > tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated >

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: > Dan Everton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I'v

Strange fetchmail/exim/whoknows behaviour

1999-08-10 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to some packages in http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the latest apt installed). Anyway, since that time I have started having problems

Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
(I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice) A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around these things -- When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won't be sure how the takeup of space on these will turn out in the long run

Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)

1999-08-10 Thread John Foster
Max Lawson wrote: > > Hello ! > > I've installed Debian-Skink on my friend box which used to run > under Win95. > The problem is that I'm not able to access the installed printer. > It's a Canon LBP 660, a M$-specific hardware !-( > And I don't know how to customize the printcap file. >

SB Live and SMP machines?

1999-08-10 Thread Robert Rati
I got a SB Live sounds card for some reason (like there's a noticable sound difference) and found a driver for it on creative's site. Unfortunately, the module says it's for non-smp machines. I'm putting together a dual proc machine and was wondering if anyone has tried/gotten the module to work o

Re: rc?.d policy?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote about "Re: rc?.d policy?" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > >> But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is >> upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment >

Re: Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Share a directory?" > Hi, > > If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available > the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I > need to look at? > > Thanks > You want the Samba suite of packages. samba sa

Re: scsi hd idle spin down

1999-08-10 Thread Eberhard Burr
Weasel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when > needed. what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? > PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an A

make slink SMP-clean?

1999-08-10 Thread Eberhard Burr
Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands, namely top and ps show funny results like negati

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > There is no latex errors. The file.tex compiled fine. > When I view it using gv, it still displays as portrait. > If I use gv -landscape, it changes the page size and then > rotates my document 90 degrees... > > If I lpr

Re: Share a directory?

1999-08-10 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:15:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available > the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I > need to look at? I think Samba will do the job dennis > > Thanks Hope this h

Kernel Header Files

1999-08-10 Thread Smith, Tim
I have not been able to find any documentation on how to upgrade the /usr/include/* header files for the kernel after upgrading to the 2.2.10 version of the kernel. Any pointers to how and/or the correct documentation? I have already used make-kpkg kernel_install and make-kpkg kernel_headers, o

Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1

1999-08-10 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote: > > I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long > > time to load it. Can it be possible that there > > is a conflict with shared libraries ? > > That is a possiblity, there are a number

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > Immanuel Yap wrote: > > > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > > > similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to l

Re: make slink SMP-clean?

1999-08-10 Thread Norris Preyer
> "Eberhard" == Eberhard Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went > smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP > kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for > some minor no-brainers

Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)

1999-08-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something didn't come out so well as I expected... I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: make menuconfig (OK) make dep (OK) make clean (OK) make modules (OK) make bzImage ...and that's where t

RE: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
cat --help cat -s temp > temp1 This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses if you want that line gone too. If you have a long file with a page of blank space, cat -s README would fix that for you. On 10-Aug-99 venu wrote: > hi all shell scripters ! > > if

Re: quick simple latex question

1999-08-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 08/10/99 at 15:14:49, David Wright wrote concerning "Re: quick simple latex question": > I get the impression from the LaTeX Companion that portland > requires you to insert \special commands (after the \clearpage > commands) to turn the page. > > I use lscape myself which works fine. It'll ha

Re: Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)

1999-08-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about "Kernel 2.2.10 make error (internal compiler error)" > Hi there, > > I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something > didn't come out so well as I expected... > > I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did: > > ma

Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-10 Thread Colin McMillen
I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? (The username and mail server are correct, by the way)... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] fetch

Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Joseph Chung wrote: > if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for > those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before Tell them not to turn the PC off. Best thing to do is configure it to automatically turn off the screen and any surplus

Re: Kernel Header Files

1999-08-10 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! /usr/include/* are part of libc package. AFAIK you have to upgrade libc to have newer /usr/include/* I had the same problem several days ago and asked here if it is safe to upgrade to libc-2.1 from potato to have 2.2 kernel headers. The answers were, that in general with standard Debian softwar

compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Everyone, I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to handle it. I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable and this is what I get: # dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-2.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: e

Re: Bizarre problem, at my wits' end

1999-08-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote: > I am having the strangest problem. [...] Okay, that's weird. > As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, > unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k > with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -

Re: [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)

1999-08-10 Thread Max Lawson
Hi John, Thanx for your answer. I'll try your tip. I can't access right now the box I'm puttind debian on. A question. You're talking about a Canon Installation manual. I would like to know if you're refering to the manual shipped with the printer ? I've received a response from

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am experiencing a problem compiling pine/pico and I do not know how to > handle it. > > I have installed pine396-diffs_2.deb and pine396-src_2.deb from the stable > and this is what I get: > > # dpkg-source -x p

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Julian Stoev
You don't need to do this. Start dselect and install the pine package and whatever it depends on. It is in source form, not in binary form as other packages you see in dselect. Then look in /usr/src/pine* Then you have change in the pine directory and enter: debian/rules binary This will create

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Where do I get the patch from? And pine4.10 does not draw my signature right... there is a bug in it from my point of view :) On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I am experiencing a problem compiling

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you are running potato, upgrade netscape-base-4 to version 4.61-18. That fixed it for me. Bob On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:34:15PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: > > Dan Everton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:09:55PM +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > NatePuri wrote: > > > > I don't have /dev/video0 either. > If you did already MAKEDEV video and it didn't work > then you have to make your video device manually > > mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 Ok, I did this... > Also you should be

Re: xawtv (no /dev/video)

1999-08-10 Thread Bernhard Rieder
NatePuri wrote: > Now the problem that I'm having now that it starts up, and I have > edited the .xawtv file with my channels in it, I just get a blue screen > and no video. Looks like you selected a wrong input source. Do You have a source= in your ~/.xawtv ? -- ~/.xawtv ---

Re: compiling pine

1999-08-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I do not use dselect, I use dpkg directly, because I could never understand how to tame dselect and dselect knows no more than package.gz for corresponding tree.. There is nothing in the package file for non-free about any patch program... Could you tell me where to get it? > He means the pat

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Lex Chive
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:31:25PM +, John Carline wrote: > Immanuel Yap wrote: > > > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > > > similar messages. For example,

Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-10 Thread Lex Chive
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > > Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives > without the need for every user to have his .forward set to > |/usr/bin/procmail so only having a .procmailrc fur users that want it? > Of course, yo

read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Mike Wood
I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be helpful.

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