Lilo and >1023 error

I just recompiled to include sound modules, and when I run lilo to register the change, I end up with an error: 1432>1023 cylinders I don't know how I got to have the kernel in a place out of the first 1023, I have a 10mb dos partition setup to correct for a bug with my Tekram DC390F scsi card.

problem printing with cups

After doing a dist-upgrade last night on my potato system, lprng got replaced with cups. I found a PPD file for my printer (Epson Stylus Color 900) in the "evaluation" version of printpro (commercial version of cups) and put it in "/etc/cups/ppd/". The problem is I cannot print anything. :'( When

Send an DNS Message

Hi ! How do I enable an DNS message and send it to nameserver ? Thanks.    

Re: HD probs

Mark Crotts wrote: > > Reply-To: > I'm getting some hard drive errors. > Here is an example: > hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest > Error } > hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=657663, > sector=657600end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), se

Re: problem printing with cups

--- Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After doing a dist-upgrade last night on my potato system, lprng got > replaced with cups. I found a PPD file for my printer (Epson Stylus > Color 900) in the "evaluation" version of printpro (commercial > version > of cups) and put it in "/etc/cups/p

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

> "Rogerio" == Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rogerio> On Jun 04 2000, David S. Bateman wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, does Helix add anything to Gnome or is it >> just an easy install? I went to the website and looked at the >> screenshots and it looks pretty much

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/06/2000 (09:17) : > I disagree! Helix Gnome is *way* better than the old Debian Gnome > packages were. It's worth the upgrade! And exactly what is so much better if I may ask? -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: How to start Gnome

> "MH" == MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> " Not my understanding... It's an executable script like MH> " /etc/X11/Xsession. Try chmod -x .xsession for yourself. MH> " Then see if what you put in .xsession gets used. MH> It's getting used anyway... MH> But that's no

Suspend and X

Hi! I'm running potato + kernel 2.2.14 on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 7000. I used to be able to susend the thing without any problems at all, but then something happend. I can't recall that I changed anything or that I did see any updates on apmd. Now I can only suspend when I am in console mode.

Re: Netscape6 vs Potato

Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't crack this one: > I was hoping to try out Netscape6.0 in potato, but it > complains about a missing "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". While > dselect was still working, I did a search for it, but nothing > turned up. Anybody

Re: Java 1.2

Mats Rynge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I wonder what I have to do in order to be able to use Java 1.2 on my > potato box. If I understand it right, I need glibc 2.1, which means that > I have to go to unstable. I want to stay away from the unstable if > possible. potato is currently fr

world clock

Hi all does any one now of an X clock that can be set to a particular time zone? I would love to be able to show concurrently two or three clocks with the times in different countries. TIA Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html

Re: Lilo and >1023 error

Lilo can't boot from a partition that is over 1024 cylinders, but I heard a while ago there was a new version that can handle more then 1024 cylinders, perhaps it's in woody. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Matt wrote: > I just recompiled to include sound modules, and when I run lilo to > regi

Re: Modules

T wrote: > > Hi, > i just got a cd drive for my computer and i was wondering what module i > should install to use it? It is a 40x Diamond Data. Could someone please > help me. I also got an internal modem. How do i get it to recognise this? > When i try to set up a ppp account, it will no

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

Larry Shields wrote: > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > is what happened this morning... > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be accessed, but it could'nt...Here is what it > was

Re: Enlightenment 0.16.4

Hey, I ran startx &> log to see what was going on, and the output spat this out: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us_intl -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/

Re: Lilo and >1023 error

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:46:17AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Lilo can't boot from a partition that is over 1024 cylinders, but I heard > a while ago there was a new version that can handle more then 1024 > cylinders, perhaps it's in woody. potato too, but you must add an additional keyword to

Re: Debian 'crashes'

Hello Michiel, On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64 > Mb). On Netscape's webpage they strongly recommend at least 64 Mb of RAM for use of Netscap

Re: a) telnet, b) x window setting

Hi. On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > You'll find your videocard in the card-list during x configuration > (AFAIK) and you only need to know the hsync an vsync of your monitor and > IIYAMA puts that in the manual that comes with the monitor. Do I have to install the different servers l

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

On 06 Jun 2000, Vitux wrote: > Larry Shields wrote: > > > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > > is what happened this morning... > > > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be access

ftp.lh.umu.se -> ftp.acc.umu.se

A note to people making updates/mirroring from ftp.lh.umu.se: The debian-mirror at ftp.lh.umu.se is going away any day now. Please use ftp.acc.umu.se (aka ftp.se.debian.org) instead. The mirror at ftp.lh.umu.se has been around since Debian 0.96R3 Thanks to the Department of Education at Umea Un

Installing from CD-ROM from dselect

I managed to mess up when I tried to install debian potato yesterday. It was almost (I once briefly tried to install 2.1 a year ago) my first encounter with debian and dselect and I managed to go into : * 0. [A]ccess Choose the access method to use. And somehow I managed to change the ins

PPP conections

  Hi Until recently I've been able to set up stable ppp connections to my isp. I recently changed modems and they have been dropping out after 10 or 20 minutes. I'm now using a d-link dfm-560e speed is no longer a problem. I have been using the modems default settings. Attached is a copy of porti

Re: Installing from CD-ROM from dselect

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/06/2000 (12:15) : > But my question is. Is there an easy way (in dselect) to tell the > program that I want to install from a series of cdroms and not from the > net. I don't have any net at all on my machine so I will have to install > programs from C

Re: a) telnet, b) x window setting

During config you'll find out what server is needed, fi you don't have it installed at that moment you can install it after configuration. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi. > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > You'll find your videocard in the c

Re: Debian 'crashes'

Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michiel, > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > > It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > > netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64 > > Mb). > > On Netscape's webpage they

Newbie question - Mail Server

Hi, Sorry if this is a silly question.. but Do any of the mail progs provide a mail server, (like mdaemon for win). I would like to use a linux box as a firewall and mail server, but I cant find any (understandable) info on the mail end. Any help most appreciated. Declan Grady

world clock

Richard Black wrote ("world clock"): > > Hi all > > does any one now of an X clock that can be set to a particular time > zone? I would love to be able to show concurrently two or three clocks > with the times in different countries. Any clock should do the trick, if you set the "TZ" variable a

switching from/to X -query display

i have an sun-server accessable to run remote X sessions (dtlogin fetched with X -query ...). logging onto the sun works fine, switching back to local (linux) X with ctrl-alt-f7 is fine, too. but switching to sun's display back again i run in trouble. all i can see is a black screen with a tty-sty

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

>> I disagree! Helix Gnome is *way* better than the old Debian Gnome >> packages were. It's worth the upgrade! > And exactly what is so much better if I may ask? Having installed Helixcode on a couple of users' Debian machines, they were thrilled with it. I wondered the same thing, why?

Re: Debian 'crashes'

Ragga Muffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotes: > Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > > It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > > > netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64 > > > Mb). > >

Re: switching from/to X -query display

Gerhard Kroder wrote: > i have an sun-server accessable to run remote X sessions (dtlogin > fetched with X -query ...). logging onto the sun works fine, switching > back to local (linux) X with ctrl-alt-f7 is fine, too. but switching to > sun's display back again i run in trouble. all i can see i

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 06 Jun 2000, Vitux wrote: > > Larry Shields wrote: > > > > > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but > > > here > > > is what happened this morning... > > > > > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the sc

Re: Newbie question - Mail Server

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:43:39AM +0100, Declan Grady wrote: > Hi, > Sorry if this is a silly question.. but > > Do any of the mail progs provide a mail server, (like mdaemon for win). I don't know anything about mdaemon ... but there are several smtp mail tranport programs (exim, sendmail,

Re: Debian 'crashes'

Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > Ragga Muffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotes: > > Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade, > > > > netsape and seti at the same time, in my comput

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/06/2000 (13:15) : >Having installed Helixcode on a couple of users' Debian machines, they > were thrilled with it. I wondered the same thing, why? > >In my experience, it was due to the fact that the desktop seemed more > "polished." That, a

Re: time problems

Quoting john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I was wondering if anybody also experienced this problem...I use a dual boot > system (debian/win98) and when I use debian and set the correct time/date > the nxt time I boot into windows it shows me the wrong time/date so I set it > again...then agai

Re: UPS - setserial - baud_base?

Quoting Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Now I have a few questions about he setup and software. According to > the documentation "The port must be set to run at 2400 baud, > gety/login off, modem control enabled." > [...] > 1. Does that mean that I have to do a setserial /dev/ups baud_base >

Re: PPP conections

David Hallam wrote: > > Hi > Until recently I've been able to set up stable ppp connections to my > isp. > I recently changed modems and they have been dropping out after 10 or > 20 minutes. Hi Do you have an "idle timeout" set for your connection? Try this (as root at bash prompt #): # grep idl

Enlightenment configuration tool?

Hello: I'm running an up to date intel-potato distribution, and cannot find the enlightenment configuration tool anywhere. What am I missing? It is mentioned (but shaded out) in the gnome configuration menus, and I use it at work on my RH 6.1 system.

Re: Lilo and >1023 error

Matt wrote: > > I just recompiled to include sound modules, and when I run lilo to > register the change, I end up with an error: > > 1432>1023 cylinders hi- This is pretty easy to do, but its best if you make provisions for it before you install. This 'trick' has been around for quite a whi

Re: Lilo and >1023 error

If I'm not mistaken, the latest version (21 or 22?) doesn't have the >1023 limit anymore. If repartitioning your drive to create a small /boot is an issue, you may want to look for the newer LiLO and see what it can do. On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Ron Flory wrote: > Matt wrote: > > > > I just recompil

Re: Lilo and >1023 error

Alec Smith wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken, the latest version (21 or 22?) doesn't have the > 1023 limit anymore. If repartitioning your drive to create a small > /boot is an issue, you may want to look for the newer LiLO and see what > it can do. Interesting. Does this mean they dont make dire

Re: Enlightenment configuration tool?

It's basically been removed. Right click on your background, or left click and then look at "settings". That's the config for E now. Robert Thus spake Nathan O. Siemers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hello: > I'm running an up to date intel-potato distribution, and > cannot fi

kernel-image 2.2.15

Hi, On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading kernel-image-2.2.15-2.2.15-1.deb. And that's not what I want. Just want to use my own kern

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:21:38PM +0200, Martijn Meijers wrote: > Hi, > > On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 > and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading > kernel-imag

How to find a package containing a given executable

Hi, One of the most common queries I have with the Debian packaging system, which I don't know how to make, is to search for the name of the package(s) which install a given file or files. For instance, the most recent such case I have was looking for the gvim executable. As it happens, this is pro

RE: kernel-image 2.2.15

This happened to me last night. I made a quick and dirty fix. Probably there is a better one. What I did: I ran dselect and marked my kernel image as "on hold" (find your kernel image in the selection list and type an "="). Now apt-get don't try to upgrade my package anymore. Anyhow this is weir

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

Martijn Meijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 > and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading > kernel-image-2.2.15-2.2.15-1.deb. And tha

RE: kernel-image 2.2.15

From: Paulo J. da Silva e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What I did: I ran dselect and marked my kernel image as "on > hold" (find your kernel image in the selection list and type > an "="). Unrelated question - how do you find what packages are on hold, and/or unhold them? I just did an ap

Re: exim doing wierd stuff

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Group, > I have been trying to get my potato box to run exim and have been running > into some errors. Hi Jay, I did a fresh install of potato (frozen - cd images May ~15) 3 days ago and ended up with the same problem. I found out the

How to find a package containing a given executable

I do this from cron every night: #! /bin/bash cd /usr/local/fromDebian DEBIAN=ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists wget -o LOG-unstable-contents $DEBIAN/unstable/Contents-i386.gz mv Contents-i386.gz Contents.unstable.gz Then I could do zgrep gvim /usr/local/fromDebian/Contents.unstable.gz or

Interbase

Hi , Does anyone know if the DBMS Interbase is packaged for Debian? I've tried to check using: apt-cache search interbase, with no success. Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions, Sath

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:21:38PM +0200, Martijn Meijers wrote: > Hi, > > On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 > and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading > kernel-imag

unable to start X after upgrade to potato

I have recently upgraded to potato, and after doing so, I can no longer open an X session, either from xdm or from startx. The version is 3.3.6-6. At boot time, the last two lines of the messages generated by the boot process are: "Checking for valid XFree86 Server configuration...unable to chec

Re: sendmail 8.11.0.Beta1-1

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:31:21PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I'm testing sendmail on frozen dist > What I need to setup in order to get SMTP AUTH running ? > > I've put "pwcheck_method: passwd" on Sendmail.conf and on > saslpasswd.conf, > but still users' cannot autenticate their smtp's > > I

network installer uses HTTP instead of FTP to load base2_x.tgz

hi- I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send this message. I'm not new to Linux, but I am new to Debian. While doing network installs (m68k arch at the moment), the installer asks where it may find the base2_x.tgz. The installer seems to only know how to perform http transfers, and w

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:21:38PM +0200, Martijn Meijers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15 > > and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine. > > > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's

Where do I find administrators' documentation?

Hi, I don't know for sure if this is the best place to ask (debian-doc looks more like it's for the people developing documentation, rather than for asking *about* it - tell me if I'm wrong and I'll ask there), but here goes... I've used Debian off and on for a while now, and the thing I find most

Re: SCSI Problems with stock install of slink

I had the same problem. There is a problem with the other scsi drivers confusing the aic7xxx driver. I was able to install using the boot floppies with only the aic7xxx scsi driver. They can be found at: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ -- Andy On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:50:12PM +0530, Ra

Re: kernel-image 2.2.15

Hi, Compiled with: make-kpkg --revision 8:landsat.0.0.1 --bzimage kernel_image everything's working fine now. Thanks! Martijn > > But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading > > kernel-image-2.2.15-2.2.15-1.deb. And that's not what I want. Just want to > > use my own ke

Re: potato kbd (was: kernel-image 2.2.15)

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 14:37, Moore, Paul wrote: > Unrelated question - how do you find what packages are on hold, and/or > unhold them? I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to potato (finally got a > CD!!!) and found that the kbd package was held, for no reason that I could > discern. I tried to f

Re: network installation

Hi, Thanks for all the replied I got from this group. Speaking of NFS? How do I set it up on the existed Debian box and the new box? Thanks! Ron Rademaker wrote: > > You just do a normal install with boot disks, then you install the rest > using nfs or apt or ftp (you can install the

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

I would say that it's mainly visual improvements but I like the panel that you get on the top of your desktop: it is swanky and handy. When I moved to helix, I ended up switching from enlightenment to sawfish (formerly sawmill) as they work quite well together. Overall, I'd say they've done a fine

Re: unable to start X after upgrade to potato

Only an idea: this message comes from the files /etc/init.d/kdm or /etc/init.d/xdm (grep "unable to check" /etc/init.d/*) > if [ -x /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config ]; then > if parse-xf86config --quiet --nowarning --noadvisory > /etc/X11/XF86Config; then >problem= > els

Re: Send an DNS Message

> Tran Van Tan wrote: > > Hi ! > How do I enable an DNS message and send it to nameserver ? Uh... maybe it's just a terminology problem, or language problem, but... One doesn't _send_ DNS messages to a nameserver, one sends DNS _queries_. This is handled in the resolver library, or kernel netwo

unable to start X after upgrade to potato

Peter Mickle wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to potato, and after doing so, I can no > longer open an X session, either from xdm or from startx. The version > is 3.3.6-6. > > At boot time, the last two lines of the messages generated > by the boot process are: > > "Checking for valid XFree86

Re: Send an DNS Message

Perhaps you mean how to do dynamic dns updates? There's lots of info and i think some examples in: http://www.pop-uc.rcts.pt/mirrors/dnsrd/ -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell Buildi

GTK slowness

Running: Debian 2.2 (unstable) I'm noticing all my apps since I installed Debian have been slower. This has to do with any GTK apps (gnome, gedit, g*). It seems it takes awhile to say, redraw a box, or scroll down in gedit. Really bizarre and didn't happen to me in Redhat. I'm running the most cu

Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq

Hi, we are trying to set up a box that acts as a router for our office. I have ppp and ipmasq working. When I configure ppp to demand dial (the demand and idle options in /etc/ppp/peers/provider) we seem to run into problems. I start pppd with pon, but when I want to activate the dial up (ping

Re: problem printing with cups

Parrish M Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The print drivers you get from printpro are dependent on a licence > server and a valid licence. Everything works perfectly except the > driver it self. I tried it for my Deskjet 970Cxi... ain't gonna > happen. *grr* The thing is, is that not even t

Netscape oddity

Hello, I'm running potato on 2.2.14 kernel. I used dselect to pull down the latest netscape (an upgrade from 4.07). All went very well - no pain at all. But I notice now that it locks KDE up tight until it has routing outside my lan. I have blank screen for home page so it SHOULDN'T be look

Re: how can I read a MS Word attachment with Debian software

Hi My Potato system uses wordview to read MS Word 97 and earlier .doc file content. It omits most of the formatting. --David On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: > Hello, > > When someone sends me an attachment in word 97 or whatever, what is my > best option for reading it with the softwar

LOADLIN

Hi, I am using slink on an IBM ThinkPad 755c with a separate DOS 6.2 partition. My problem is that when I try to boot debian from a .bat file or from the command line, loadlin gets to where it is uncompressing the kernel and then halts the system with the message 'ran out of input data'. I ha

Re: Netscape oddity

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I'm running potato on 2.2.14 kernel. I used dselect to pull down the > latest netscape (an upgrade from 4.07). All went very well - no pain > at all. But I notice now that it locks KDE up tight until it has routing > outside my lan. I have blank screen for home page so

Re: New to Debian and would like some input on this message

Not sure on specifics, but the message concerns NFS. If you don't need to run NFS, you might wish to disable it. Where is 205.136.135.133 in relation to your network? On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:50:14AM -0400, Daniel Ray wrote: > Security Violations > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 2 09:02:06 mail ke

Re: LOADLIN

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:24:37PM -0400, Marc Johnson wrote: > Hi, I am using slink on an IBM ThinkPad 755c with a separate DOS > 6.2 partition. So am I. > smartdrv /C > c:\debian\loadlin.exe c:\debian\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 floppy=thinkpad It probably isn't relevant, but my 755 doesn

Re: exim doing wierd stuff

Hi Mario! On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I put some lines in /etc/init.d/networking, like these: > --- > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo > -- No, no, no. You don't

RE: Video problems during 2.2 install

> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote: > > I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video > > card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 > > resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but > > it's a whole _lot_

Re: how can I read a MS Word attachment with Debian software

On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:42:57AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 21:51:11 -0700, Erik Ryberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hello, > > When someone sends me an attachment in word 97 or whatever, what is my > > best option for reading it with the software available on

Re: PacBell DSL and Linux

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:30:00AM +, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone been able to set up DSL (PacBell, specifically) without recourse > to any OS other than Linux? I believe PacBell's DSL requires the first login > to be via a Windows machine. This has been covered fairly extensively on the S

/etc/X11/Xsession changed?

Hello all! Last night I did an upgrade and I noticed that a bunch of the X11 files were updated. This morning I noticed that my /etc/environment file was not being sourced anymore. Did /etc/X11/Xsession change to remove the sourcing of /etc/environment? The manpage for X11 suggests that it shou

Re: staroffice

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:13:10AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 05:57:24PM -0700, > Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, I recently installed staroffice and it works on only one > > user (the default one) and I was wondering how I can make my > > ot

Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

All Subject line says it all. ghostview crashes when I try to read .pdf files created recently. Is there a fix? Hope someone knows ... or can give me a pointer to another source of information. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,

Mozilla send mail

Hello, I am unable to get mozilla to send e-mail. Receiving is ok. 'Alert` says destination is in California. Is there a send-permissions file associated with mozilla? Running Potato, mozilla_m15-2.deb, '486, compiled kernel, TIA, -jlw

Re: Libré Software universities? (USA or Canada)

On Jun 05, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Are there any good inexpensive community or state colleges out there > that will allow us to use our freed toolset for the coursework? McGill's pretty cheap compared to American universities, and its CS department is very open to free software. In fact, we'v

Is there way to modify Toolbars in Netscape?

Title says it all. I want to modify the tool bar that has the Shop, Stop etc. buttons. Either make them smaller or be able to add to and delete them. I absolutely hate the Shop button. I often hit it instead of the Stop button--wonder if that's an accident :-) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sel

Anyone know of any software for online banking??

I want a Linux replacement for Microsoft Money or Quicken. I have tried MoneyDance, XACC, GNU-Cash, and several others that are under development but none of them allow for downloading from my bank. This is currently my only reason for using any Microsoft programs and I want to totally convert to a

Re: Anyone know of any software for online banking??

Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 10:33:51 AM, John wrote: > I want a Linux replacement for Microsoft Money or Quicken. I have tried What you listed is all there is. Sorry. Gotta wait. OTOH I'm rather fond of Quicken2000 and PocketQuicken so my standard just went up, again. :( -- Ste

Re: exim doing wierd stuff

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi Mario! Hi Peter, > > On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > I put some lines in /etc/init.d/networking, like these: > > --- > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 2

what upgrades require reboot?

I am curious about when you need to reboot after upgrading packages. I assume if I upgrade a package like gnome-libs, I should restart gnome but it won't require rebooting. On the other hand, I assume that upgrading packages like bash and libc will require a reboot. Is that true? How can I know

Re: what upgrades require reboot?

Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 11:00:20 AM, Brian wrote: > On the other hand, I assume that upgrading packages like bash and libc will > require a reboot. Is that true? How can I know when I should reboot or not? You need to reboot when you upgrade the kernel. Other than that I can't think of a reas

Re: what upgrades require reboot?

* Brian Stults in "what upgrades require reboot?" dated 2000/06/06 14:00 wrote: > I am curious about when you need to reboot after upgrading packages. I > assume if I upgrade a package like gnome-libs, I should restart gnome > but it won't require rebooting. On the other hand, I assume that > up

Re: sendmail 8.11.0.Beta1-1

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:04:53PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > Thank you, but my problem is the following: > > I've correctly setup /usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf > /usr/lib/sasl/saslpasswd.conf > > I need some help on howto generate /etc/sasldb throught saslpasswd, which > user need to setup ? mail

Re: what upgrades require reboot?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:32:34PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > * Brian Stults in "what upgrades require reboot?" dated 2000/06/06 14:00 > wrote: > > > I am curious about when you need to reboot after upgrading packages. I > > assume if I upgrade a package like gnome-libs, I should restart gnome

kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped

Hi there, I just noticed this boot-time warning on a freshly-installed Debian 2.1r4 system, running kernel 2.3.99pre7. Any ideas what this means and how to fix it? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The

Re: what upgrades require reboot?

Are there any O.S. that did not want to reboot when a new kernel is installed? I remember hearing that FreeBSD doesnt need this... Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:32:34PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > * Brian Stults in "what upgrades req

PPP Server (PPP HOWTO very poor)

Hi all, I have to setup a PPP Server but the PPP HOWTO is very poor. Only 4 pages for this topic. Anyone knows any doc in the Net explaining better how to do this? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: Interbase

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 14:52:30 +0100, Sathpal Singh wrote: > Does anyone know if the DBMS Interbase is packaged for Debian? It is not. There has not yet been a source release of Interbase; the Interbase source release is expected within the next months (check technocrat.net for details). After

Where to place swap file according to FSSTND?

Hi there, I have only a small root FS (30 megs,) and I don't want a swap part'n (not very flexible,) therefore I use a swap file. Which is the "proper" place to place the swap file? Is it recommended to make a link to /dev/swap? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L

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