Re: E-mail (POP) not working

1999-12-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This smells suspiciously like a permissions (tcpd) problem. Check /var/log/daemon.log. If tcpd is the problem then there should be a line like: Dec 8 18:11:53 chilin qpopper[28923]: refused connect from X.X.X.X Also of course have a look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to see how thing

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-09 Thread Ian Stirling
Kent West wrote: > I did not see the entries you mentioned. So I put those entries that you > mentioned > in, and commented out the "soundcore" entry already in the file. Then I did a > "rmmod > es1371" and "rmmod soundcore", then did "insmod sound" and got a message that > the > sound module w

New Guy questions

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Vormbaum
Hi, I am completely new to the Linux world. Today i set up a Linux machine and somehow I got it to boot, but now I don't know what to do with it. I need to connect it to my network to start with, but in the setup the 3Com 3c905 card I am using was not there. Before I ask a whole bunch of dumb

Re: New Guy questions

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Jason Vormbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > I am completely new to the Linux world. Today i set up a Linux machine and > somehow I got it to boot, but now I don't know what to do with it. I need > to connect it to my network to start with, but in the setup the 3Com 3c905 > card I am using was not there.

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-09 Thread Allan K. Neal
I have a DEC PCI network card. I use the tulip driver in kernel 2.0.36 and it works just fine. I don't know if it is the same card, but it is the same series. Allan On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:15:44PM -0800, aphro wrote: > which driver(s) have you tried? i am using 2 of those cards using the >

RE: New Guy questions

1999-12-09 Thread Tom Warfield
Jason im in the same boat as you. I have just began to learn within the last few weeks so I understand the information overload you are going through. This link is to ZDTV and they take you through a video install of a Linux box. Kinda cool, and is very basic. http://ecn.www.ecn

Re: locking the console

1999-12-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:41:59AM -0800, aphro wrote: > I find it useful to just run stuff in screen, then detach & logout when/if > I need the machine secured. frees up the box for other people to use and > at the same time keeps my process(s)( running. could leave for a month and > they'd still

Re: help i bombed my server

1999-12-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:06:40AM -0500, Evan Moore wrote: > i found out why telnet is not working after i upgraded from debian 1.3 ... > I can't login at all anymore even on a vc. the ttys are not respawning and > the available logins tell me that they are Unable to determine my tty > name. i am

user dialup access

1999-12-09 Thread steve doerr
I have the follwing permissions situation and would like to give users dialup access. It appears users can execute pon, but the modem doesn't dial. Does the user need /dev/ttyS1 access? If so, how is that done, because chmod on that device says operation not permitted. Any help appreciated! Ste

RE: user dialup access

1999-12-09 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Dec-1999 steve doerr wrote: > I have the follwing permissions situation and would like to give users > dialup access. It appears users can execute pon, but the modem doesn't > dial. Does the user need /dev/ttyS1 access? If so, how is that done, > because chmod on that device says operatio

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-09 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an > empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not

Re: Font in GNOME

1999-12-09 Thread Bryan Scaringe
What, specifically, are the errors? On 08-Dec-1999 Oki DZ wrote: > > > Sven Gaerner wrote: >> I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The >> font > ^^^ > Hi, > How did you do it? > I have tried to install gmc, but it complains ab

test (pls ignore)

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel Yang
test

Where to find / generate /etc/devfs.aliases ?

1999-12-09 Thread Matthew Bloch
As the subject, really... I've worked out how the debian modutils stuff works, but /etc/devfs.aliases seems to be absent so I'm not getting the device aliases working properly; easily hacked but I'd like to do it properly. Any ideas? -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )

Re: user dialup access

1999-12-09 Thread John Hasler
steve doerr writes: > I have the follwing permissions situation and would like to give users > dialup access. It appears users can execute pon, but the modem doesn't > dial. Add your users to the 'dip' group. Change the permissions on pppd back to -rwsr-x---1 root dip179664 Oct

WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-09 Thread jmarkevich
I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I really could use StarOffice about now. I couldn't find the Archives, think it was down. Please point me in the right direction, thanks.

Re: Mozilla

1999-12-09 Thread aphro
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Oki DZ wrote: litban >I'm running potato. litban >Would redownloading the package fix the problem? it might, mozilla should work fine on potato. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Kent West wrote: > > ktb wrote: > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an > > empty directory. /usr is also shown to

Burning potato CD.

1999-12-09 Thread Big Gaute
I'n planning to upgrade my 486 at home to potato when I go home from university. To this end I have decided to burn some CDs with potato on them, so that I do not have to download more than absolutely necessary at home, since I only have a slow 28k modem there, and (practically) unlimited free ac

Floppy Drive

1999-12-09 Thread Plasmatik6
How do I access my floppy drive from command line? Donivan Roby

attention, Alexander Ling

1999-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
I think Alexander Ling reads this list -- Alexander, if you read this, your email is bouncing and I would like to get in touch with you. -- see shy jo

Re: Floppy Drive

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I access my floppy drive from command line? You can do so with the following command, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy that is if you have a /floppy directory which I think is created by default so you probably do and the file system you are trying to access

Re: Apache local cgi-bin

1999-12-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
Could be several things. I suggest you put apache in debug mode (in httpd.conf) try to execute your script again, then check the logs to see why they're failing. It may be they're not being run as perl scripts, may be you need to 'AddHandler cgi-script *.cgi *.pl', maybe the script is trying to do

imap (was: Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny)

1999-12-09 Thread Onno
At 01:28 PM 12/8/99 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: [snip] >Do you have an /etc/cram-md5.pwd file? >Does it have actual usernames and passwords in it? Do you have more info on this? Regards, Onno >-- >Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-09 Thread Onno
Got the answer ;-) And youre right ofcourse Regards, Onno At 03:15 PM 12/8/99 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >A plea to debian-user readers >= > >Please, please, please if you are going to install things, especially from >unstable, extra-especially if you rely u

lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade

1999-12-09 Thread Svante Signell
Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. Trying to activate results in: route add -net 127.0.0.0 SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ifconfig lo

/root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

1999-12-09 Thread Kerne Fahey
I have two very vague & general questions: 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop), I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various aesthetic and convenience reason

Printer problem

1999-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to set up my printer using apsfilter. I have a hp 815 (I think that its a variation on the 810 with extra language support) I tried using the cdjcolor driver (It was the only one apropriate that was found, aps filter tried to add a sufix to hpdj which made it not work, and the driver for th

sharing mailbox with win98

1999-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running on my system potato together with win98 I wan't to download all my outside mail to my computer (quota problems), only the problem is that I keep switching betwin systems (deferent projects need deferent systems), so I can't use only one to read mail. I was wondering if there is a way t

Re: need help with gdb

1999-12-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > BTW: How come that there is a gdb dir under /usr/doc/ but there is not one > > under /usr/share/doc/ ? What is the exact policy about /usr/doc/ and > > /usr/share/doc/ ? > /usr/doc was the traditional location of the documentation. This has changed > since Debian tries to get conform to the F

Re: /root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

1999-12-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/12/99 Kerne Fahey wrote: 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop), I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various aesthetic and convenience reasons, mostly

Re: locking the console

1999-12-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On 8/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: Yeah, screen is a pretty rad program. I was looking for something with a timeout, though, so my dumb self could go away and not have to worry about mischeif happening. This is really not a major security issue, just an idle thought. just another random thought..

Re: CD burning problems

1999-12-09 Thread Alex V. Toropov
David Blackman wrote: > Please try mkisofs, iy's better maintained, more up to date, and most > frontends prefer it. > > mkisofs -rva -o But as far as I know mkisofs doesn't genetate jolet fs. Alex > > > thanks, > dave > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Kernel SCSI for Adaptec 1505

1999-12-09 Thread Bill Leach
First, while subscribed to a number of debian lists, I am not currently subscribed to debian-user so please reply to me or cc me. Thank you. I have tried to build (yet another new kernel) for a machine that has the now usual pri/sec ide and a new Adaptec 1505 scsi card. The card is recognized b

Re: sharing mailbox with win98

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Vence
Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am running on my system potato together with win98 > I wan't to download all my outside mail to my computer (quota problems), > only the problem is that I keep switching betwin systems (deferent > projects need deferent systems), so I can't use only one to read mail. I >

Re: lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade

1999-12-09 Thread dyer
Svante Signell wrote: > Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After > upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. > > ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. > Trying to activate results in: > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > S

PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread Andy Thomas
I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by default? I thought I'd downloaded a few things but couldn't find them. It turns out that the dns settings from pppconfig in resolv.conf worked after

Two problems to solve...(i hope)

1999-12-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, I don't wont to bore anyone but I need to solve to little problem on my new computer. (i've already installed succesfully debian on more than 20 boxes but i'm not able and i've no time to solve them) First of all Linux is unable to find my UDMA66 HardDisk. I know that exists so

Re: Kernel SCSI for Adaptec 1505

1999-12-09 Thread mheyes
You need to force detection at boot with "append=x,x,x,x," added in your /etc/lilo.conf file. Documentation should be in the man lilo file. I'm not at my seat at home right now so I can't be more specific. I have the same card and it works fine when you do this. Michael Heyes Bill Leach <

Re: Two problems to solve...(i hope)

1999-12-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:22:47PM +, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > First of all Linux is unable to find my UDMA66 HardDisk. I know that > exists some patches to make it working. Anyone have already tryed them? Yep, I use slink with kernel 2.2.12; patch comes from: ftp.kernel.org/people/

Problem with apt-get

1999-12-09 Thread graham . lillico
Hi, Can anyone tell me how I can get apt-get to go through a proxy. Regards Graham

Re: sharing mailbox with win98

1999-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
MK>One quick way is if you have a primary system, lets say potato, set the MK>other one to NOT delete messages on the server. Most mail clients let MK>you configure that somewhere near creating a mail server connection. It MK>is usually on a per server basiss. Then he has all mails two times on

Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
If you have 'X' up I would say install Netscape Communicator. If your downloading ftp I would try 'ncftp'. hth, kent Andy Thomas wrote: > > I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx > is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by > defa

Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Andy Thomas wrote: > > I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx > is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by > default? I haven't used Lynx much but I would guess the directory you fired it up in or your home directory, possibly /t

Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
My Compaq died last Sunday, so I rented a replacement to take me to the LSP specification meeting this weekend. Well the short version is that it is an IBM ThinkPad, and the Debian 2.1 boot disks will not work. (root.bin gets loaded as does the kernel, but there it hangs without uncompressing the k

Re: Font in GNOME

1999-12-09 Thread Sven Gaerner
Oki DZ wrote: > Sven Gaerner wrote: > > I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The > > font > ^^^ > Hi, > How did you do it? > I have tried to install gmc, but it complains about some libraries. > (Yes, I'm running potato). > > Ok

Re: sharing mailbox with win98

1999-12-09 Thread Radim Gelner
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: > The other thing is Netscape and put the mailfolder > on a Fat16/VFAT partition which is readable for > Linux AND Windows. > > > Webmistress Michelle Quite clever! ;-) Radim

Re: /root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

1999-12-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kerne Fahey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop), > I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making > a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various > aesthetic and convenienc

Partition useage

1999-12-09 Thread Woodrow Lovett
When I partitioned my harddrive the HowTo's impressed me with there suggestion to have a small root and swap partition, and a large partition to hold programs. I partitioned my hard as suggested. Now I have run into the problem of having run out of space on the root partition. Can I cp my /us

PVM

1999-12-09 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I found myself too stupid to execute Python examples, so I decided to turn to PVM (I was told it could also do the task I need), but during installation of pvm and pvm-dev I got the following warnings: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/lib

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
> Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red > Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! Try the tecra disks, resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-safe.bin. I am using a ThinkPad 770Z, and I had to use the tecra rescue disk to get it up and running. > Dwarf // Heik

Tulip network card IS working! Thanks!

1999-12-09 Thread Jose Roberto de Chermont Teixeira
Hi all! I would just like to thank everybody for the attention for my problem with my tulip card. In case someone want to know what I have done to get it working here's what I have done: I visited the address told by Gary http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html which I already knew

Re: PVM

1999-12-09 Thread Marek Habersack
* Blazej Sawionek said: > I found myself too stupid to execute Python examples, so I decided to turn to > PVM (I was told it could also do the task I need), but during installation of > pvm and pvm-dev > I got the following warnings: > > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a sym

Casper the Ghost has taken over my SendMail

1999-12-09 Thread Tom Warfield
Were running sendmail on a Debian box. Every know and again I get this message: This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-crea

Re: locking the console

1999-12-09 Thread Joe Block
Rob Mahurin wrote: > Yeah, screen is a pretty rad program. I was looking for something > with a timeout, though, so my dumb self could go away and not have to > worry about mischeif happening. install idled and remove the console from the exempt ttys in /etc/idled.conf jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 8 Dec 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: : * Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is href="http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/";> GOGO , : > that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times : > faster than LAME

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-09 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an > > > empty directo

Re: Floppy Drive

1999-12-09 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How do I access my floppy drive from command line? > > You can do so with the following command, > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > > that is if you have a /floppy directory which I think is created by > default so you probably do and the file syst

Re: /root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

1999-12-09 Thread Joe Block
Kerne Fahey wrote: > > I have two very vague & general questions: > > 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop), > I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making > a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various

ipmasqadm

1999-12-09 Thread Dave Wiard
could somebody help me out with this one. i'm trying to masq my amd behind my alpha, but i only get the following error reported back upon trying to exec ipmasqadm: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $SEEN_IP 4000 -R $HIDE_IP 4000 portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument i'm running pota

Re: Casper the Ghost has taken over my SendMail

1999-12-09 Thread aphro
that is normal and has nothing to do with sendmail it is part of POP3, the only way to 'get rid' of it is to use another POP server, the most efficient way to store data about read/received/unread/etc messages is to store it in the inbox itself. Most modern mail clients know what that message is

Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread Kent West
Andy Thomas wrote: > I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx > is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by > default? I thought I'd downloaded a few things but couldn't find them. > > It turns out that the dns settings from pppconfig

Gnome Terminal

1999-12-09 Thread graham . lillico
Hi, I have just upgraded my slink dist to use the latest gnome and enlightenment releases but I have noticed that gnome-terminal now take at least 2 to 3 time longer to start up, that is did before. Does anyone know why thats is? Regards Graham

Re: Problem with apt-get

1999-12-09 Thread Marshal Wong
If you have a http proxy, you can set the $http_proxy environment to the proxy address, or you can add it into /etc/apt/apt.conf. Check apt.conf(5) for more details. Marshal From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with apt-get Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 12:39:26 +0100 (CET) > Hi, > > Can anyone t

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red > > Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! > > Try the tecra disks, resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-safe.bin. > I am using a ThinkPad 770Z, and I had to use the tecra r

Re: Problem with apt-get

1999-12-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how I can get apt-get to go through a proxy. > You might want to customize the following (mine) /etc/apt/apt.conf and then forgot the proxy matter as far as apt-get concerns. /* In some instances involving filenames it is possible to set the default directory wh

ThinkPad boot disk

1999-12-09 Thread Glen S Mehn
RTFM for ThinkPads! Laptops! Installs! One laptop is not the same as all! I think the boot disk you need is "resc-tecra.bin" or "resc-tecra-safe.bin" Other things: @ the boot prompt, try floppy=thinkpad, mem=http://www.debian.org. Different combinations of this should work. There's also :debian-

AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI controller

1999-12-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I have a machine here with an AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI card in it (or at least that's how it identifies itself) that works fine under Win98, but refuses to cooperate in Linux. Specifically, using kernels 2.2.9 or 2.2.12 compiled with generic SCSI, SCSI CD-ROM, and AHA-152x support, no hosts are detect

SMTP not working in my ISP

1999-12-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have an ISP (isp.com.br) that cant my clients (either with modem or network) cant send mails. I'm using exim and potato. What can be wrong. I'm ataching the errors of /var/log/exim/mainlog and ataching /etc/exim.conf. Thanks for any help,

Re: SMTP not working in my ISP

1999-12-09 Thread Marcin Kurc
your entries in /etc/exim.conf - relay_domains = and relay_domains_include_local_mx = are commented off. Configure it. On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:10:35PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I have an ISP (isp.com.br) that cant my clients (either with

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Re: SMTP not working in my ISP

1999-12-09 Thread menezes
Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > I have an ISP (isp.com.br) that cant my clients (either with modem or > network) cant send mails. I'm using exim and potato. > What can be wrong. > I'm ataching the errors of /var/log/exim/mainl

Multiple rodents in X

1999-12-09 Thread aphro
Anyknow know if it is possible to have multiple pointing devices in X at the same time? I currently use alogitech trackball but just bought a new keyboard (an Acer Future) which is super ergo and has its own trackpad. I really want to use the track pad, but the trackball is good for some stuff too

Re: AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI controller

1999-12-09 Thread mheyes
You probably need to add "append=x,x,x,x" to your /etc/lilo.conf file to force detection at boot. I believe it's explained in the lilo man pages. Michael Heyes Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/09/99 12:52:50 PM To: Debian-User cc:(bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/BerisfordPlc) S

/usr Read-only

1999-12-09 Thread Hans Gubitz
On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

video cards

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Winters
does anyone know what server and settings to use with a ati rage fury 128 video card?

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dale, can you try just booting with the rescue disk at <http://www.debian.org/~aph/boot-floppies/2.1.12-19991209/> ? Let me know if this doesn't work... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: AHA-1520B/1522B SCSI controller

1999-12-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You probably need to add "append=x,x,x,x" to your /etc/lilo.conf file to force > detection at boot. I believe it's explained in the lilo man pages. The syntax of append is in man lilo.conf, and then I had to look in /drivers/scsi/aha152x.c to find out what to append. But

lilo.conf for boot from hda and sda?

1999-12-09 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, It would be nice if someone could help me on this: I have suse-6.3 om my hda and debian-2.2 on my sda. My bios supports booting from either one, by changing boot order. However, it would be very convenient to boot the other Linux version without changing the bios settings! Curreent status i

Netscape time

1999-12-09 Thread mheyes
My system time is set to local time zone and is correct, but Netscape time stamped on my email is GMT. I can't find any netscape docs help locate the problem. Are there any docs I can check to track down the problem? Thanks. Michael Heyes

rs6000/7013

1999-12-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
Does anyone know if an ibm rs6000/7013 is usable with debian? I tried to find it at linuxppc.org but it was not in the supported list and not in the unsupported list. The hardware howto is x86 only. Can anyone clue me in?? I know next to nothing about this box except that it is going to die at

RE: lilo.conf for boot from hda and sda?

1999-12-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > It would be nice if someone could help me on this: > > I have suse-6.3 om my hda and debian-2.2 on my sda. My bios supports > booting from either one, by changing boot order. However, it would be > very convenient to boot the other Linux version without changing the > bios settings!

Potato install--Profiles gone?

1999-12-09 Thread J.L.Gomez Dans
Hi! I installed potato today on a new machine. Everything went smoothly. However, the bit after you reboot and choose a user account and root password in which you select the packages profile for your machine (i.e., if you're gonna use it as a sever, scientific workstation, developer...) i

Re: /root -> /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc

1999-12-09 Thread Kerne Fahey
Still, questions about David Wright's hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > Quoting Kerne Fahey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop), > > I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it,

Re: Netscape time

1999-12-09 Thread aphro
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mheyes > mheyes > mheyes >My system time is set to local time zone and is correct, but Netscape time mheyes >stamped on my email is GMT. I can't find any netscape docs help locate the mheyes >problem. Are there any docs I can check to track down the pr

Re: Problem with apt-get

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can get apt-get to go through a proxy. man apt.conf export http_proxy="http://fooo:1243/"; apt-get update Jason

Is anyone using the oneliner package?

1999-12-09 Thread Jamey Sharp
Hi, all... I maintain a small package that I wrote, called oneliner. It's a little buggy, though it would be easy for me to fix the bugs. However, almost all of oneliner's functionality is in the Gnome panel applet "mini-commander", and it's implemented significantly better there, too. So I'm try

[Fwd: C-Kermit 7.0 Beta.11 ready for testing]

1999-12-09 Thread William Burrow
Is Debian going to include Kermit in its next iteration, or is it too late to include now? Notice Frank de Cruz' recent comment on licensing... -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and

Re: rs6000/7013

1999-12-09 Thread Art Lemasters
Here's an interesting note for you, Albert. James, I'm not sure Albert can answer your question, but he has worked with IBM AIX systems, and if I remember correctly, isn't the rs6000 a system that houses IBM AIX sometimes (and other times, that horrid other proprietary OS...VMS or whatever)?

Re: [Fwd: C-Kermit 7.0 Beta.11 ready for testing]

1999-12-09 Thread Tom Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is Debian going to include Kermit in its next iteration, or is it too late > to include now? Notice Frank de Cruz' recent comment on licensing... It's still not DFSG compliant: According to the license: The source code may not be changed beyond any patches required

Re: Is anyone using the oneliner package?

1999-12-09 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:59:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote: > So I'm trying to decide whether I should request the removal of oneliner, > or fix the bugs in it. The only reason that I can see to *not* request > oneliner's removal is if someone is actually using it. My question, then, > is: Are any

video cards

1999-12-09 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Hi Jason, >does anyone know what server and settings to use with a ati rage fury 128 video card? I have the same chipset in my computer. You need to get the XFCom_Rage128 server from the SuSE website. Check the debian-user archives; there have been several good postings on this issue. If you h

Re: Tulip network card IS working! Thanks!

1999-12-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > If anyone would like the driver I compiled, I wouldn't mind to send it > directly to the addresses of anyone who ask me, if you don't mind about > the something like NSA_KEY that I found on the code :) Please, just > kiding! The arch

voodoo3 3000

1999-12-09 Thread Nathan York
i have a voodoo3 3000 and was wondering if anyone knew the correct xserver to run with iti have tried the generic Voodoo3 it gives me the SVGA server, but this is seemingly not working...or at least not at the resolution and bpp i wantany help is appreciated. oh, and i got my apt-get probl

potato: Problem with gcc2.95.2 and float.h

1999-12-09 Thread Ralf Sinoradzki
Hi ! I've just updated my gcc-libs and got an error in float.h (i386) because 'long double' is not defined on my system. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/include/float.h Line 80-86: #ifndef __LDBL_UNION__ #define __LDBL_UNION__ union __convert_long_double { unsigned int __convert_long_double

Re: Is anyone using the oneliner package?

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:14:29PM -0600, David Starner was heard to say: > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:59:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote: > > So I'm trying to decide whether I should request the removal of oneliner, > > or fix the bugs in it. The only reason that I can see to *not* request > > oneli

startx as non-root

1999-12-09 Thread pplaw
debs, my "startx" only works as "root." but i need to run it as "non-root." (error message: "you are not authorised to run the x server".) i've added the non-root user name to "dip." the file permissions for "startx" is "755". ("-rwxr-xr-x"). any suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Newbie rudely asks for directional pointers

1999-12-09 Thread Darryl Röthering
Hi: I am a Debian newbie, with a moderate knowledge of Unix and a long history of Mainframe system programming (I go back to when source was available for MVS!). I just got an old CD-less laptop loaded up with the basic Debian. Can anyone give me some profitable pointers for determining what p

Gcc compile/linker math

1999-12-09 Thread j way
I can't get gcc to link math functions like cos( ) etc. from usr/include/math.h. | mathcalls.h Box is slink. Any help appreciated. TIA.

Re: Is anyone using the oneliner package?

1999-12-09 Thread Jamey Sharp
David Starner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:59:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote: > > So I'm trying to decide whether I should request the removal of > > oneliner, or fix the bugs in it. The only reason that I can see to > > *not* request oneliner's removal is if someone is actually using it. >

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