make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when I run make menuconfig, I get the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c In file included from

Re: make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:19:33 PDT, Dale Morris writes: >I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when I run make menuconfig, I g >et the following error: >dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory >I know I need a development library here. Can anyone tell me which one it is? libncurs

Re: cdrom

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:23:54PM -0400, Andy The King wrote: > > I just recently purchased a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. Although my > friend told me that I can just down loaded for free from the web. So I > installed it on my machine and everything runs well except for that my > cdrom didn'

Framebuffer

2000-08-04 Thread Jack Morgan
I am trying to change my console resolutions. I log in to the console (not X-windows) and run a program, such as lynx or mutt. It opens at 640x480. My laptop screen can do 800x600. I tried "fbset fb0" but got no such device!? I read TFM but... Suggestions? Options? Places to look? Thanks [EMAI

Re: make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks, I'm reconfiguring now. It's a lot easier with menuconfig Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:19:33 PDT, Dale Morris writes: > >I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when I run make menuconfig, I > >g > >et the following error: > > >dialog.h:29:

Re: make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Debian GNU
--- Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when > I run make menuconfig, I get the following error: > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE > -DCURSES_LOC

Re: make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Debian GNU
I think the curses.h is missing. Try installing the library ncurses. Be sure to give a make mrproper before givin make menuconfig. --- Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when > I run make menuconfig, I get the following error: > make[1]: Enter

Re: make menuconfig error

2000-08-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:19:33PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to compile my new 2.2.16 kernel and when I run make menuconfig, I > get the following error: > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Pap Tibor
How much memory do you have on your card? The possible highest resolution depends on your memory. I'm using S3 Trio64V+ with 2 MB memory, with 1024x768 16bpp. If you have 1MB, you still can use this resolution, but with 8 bit color depth only. --Pap Tibor On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:

compiling the hx hotline client?!

2000-08-04 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has successfully compiled the hx hotline client under potato. I have libreadline and libreadline-dev 4.1-1 packages installed and all the files compile. However, the linker says that there are undefined references in hx_tty.c to several identifiers of the form 'rl

Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
Color me clueless, but I just found something way cool. I guess I *should* have spent more time with Novell. Last night's SVLUG presentation featured a couple of guys from Eazel showing off a number of Nautalis features, including the ability to browse RPMs as if they were a mounted filesystem.

Laptops and Linux (was: Re: tecra bootdisk)

2000-08-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 03 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I had to use a Tecra disk on my ThinkPad. Then I installed a new > kernel (made with 'make-kpkg'). I am able to use 'mkboot' but I > don't know if that has anything to do with the fact that I made a > custom kernel. Just as a completely unrelated questio

Can't get online

2000-08-04 Thread Allan Peak
I can't figure out how to get online. I have a RoadRunner cable modem with a RealTek RTL 8029 card. __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Can't get online

2000-08-04 Thread Allan Peak
I can't figure out how to get online. I have a RoadRunner cable modem with a RealTek RTL 8029 card. __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Hans
I don't have that box here with me, but I have the same card which runs 1024x768 fine with an IBM G50 monitor. I think you probably want to change the monitor to High Frequency SVGA, but check if your monitor can take that (vertical freq at least 70 Hz). -- Hans At 12:29 PM 8/3/00 +0200, Stefan Be

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much memory do you have on your card? The possible highest > resolution depends on your memory. I'm using S3 Trio64V+ with 2 MB > memory, with 1024x768 16bpp. If you have 1MB, you still can use this > resolution, but wit

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no problems with the S3 Trio64V+ at 1024x768 -16/24bit > but it may be because I had 4 meg ram and upgraded to 8meg latterly > still using it on a 'passed over' machine. You can upgrade the S3 Trio64V+ to 8 MB

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > but check if your monitor can take that (vertical freq at least 70 > Hz). How would I do this without documentation for the monitor? (The only thing I know is that the monitor in question is a Compaq Presario 1410 monito

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Well-- The oportunity to comment here is too good to pass. I believe that mc should also be known as LSAK ( Linux Swiss Army Knife). Been an addict for years and still don't know all its tricks-:)) On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:51:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Color me clueless, but I ju

Re: Laptops and Linux (was: Re: tecra bootdisk)

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Tessone
On 3 August 2000 at 23:05, Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in the market for a new computer and I'm still deciding if > I'll go with a desktop or with a laptop... I'm looking for > something that uses only free-software, without third-party > drivers and th

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

2000-08-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I assume that Bolan is on the list? And Ben, are you on -user? Is there a way to check with this list-agent who is on a list like majordomo can? Or is it just disabled? On 03 Aug 2000, Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, good, so, with this assumption, one ought to remove

Re: Palm packages

2000-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:01:30PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debians, >Looking into the local package database with dpkg -l "*palm*" I > found two packages concerning palm, namel gcc-mk68-palmos anf > binutils-m68k-palmos. If I understand weel, they allows to install a > cross-compiler f

Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all When running fdisk -l I get the following: box:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 111 20632+ 83 Linux Partition 1 has different

Re: Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:16:47AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > When running fdisk -l I get the following: > > box:~ # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System

Re: Framebuffer

2000-08-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:32:51PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I am trying to change my console resolutions. I log in to the > console (not X-windows) and run a program, such as lynx or mutt. It > opens at 640x480. My laptop screen can do 800x600. I tried "fbset fb0" > but got no such device!? I r

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-04 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Try using mc . Just select the file and hit 'F3'. > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > > hi. > > > > i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/* > > > > the question: > > > > what is the command to r

Re: Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snipped my stuff] > If I'm doing my math right, your /dev/hda is a 1.5 GB disk. Which seems > a bit small for the issue I suspect. But I suck at math. Something in > th 6-12 GB range would more likely have these issues. Yes, it is a 1.5 GB disk. The other (hdb) is

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-04 Thread Corey Popelier
You can use zmore iirc. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > > > Try using mc . Just select the file and hit 'F3'. > > > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:

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2000-08-04 Thread Andreas Hammargren
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Re: Man -K

2000-08-04 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Piotr Krukowiecki writes: > > But they don't. And you can't describe man which has 100 pages or more in > > one line. > > Of course you. More importantly, you can put the keywords that people are > most likely to search for in that one line. The man for

dual boot with lilo & Linux on slave drive

2000-08-04 Thread Wilson Yau
Can lilo installed on MBR of the 2nd HD handle dual boot at boot time? If yes, how?

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-04 Thread Andrei Ivanov
What seems to be the problem? Read Ethernet-HOWTO for specific card installations. Basically, main thing is to get ethernet card working correctly. dhcpcd will take it from there. Any error messages in logs, what are the symptoms? Andrei ---

[Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
This might be a trivial questions with a quick No! as the answer ... At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my (vanilla NT 4.0) desktop at work which is set to let other 'share' its files. I

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > > > Try using mc . Just select the file and hit 'F3'. > > For navigating directories, viewing gzips as well as jpgs etc. Try "lynx ." or lynx /usr/doc . In addition to lynx being a we

Volunteers needed for MashPotato tech support crew in #Debian on irc.debian.org around August 15.

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Lau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, this is Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau from #debian at irc.debian.org calling out for volunteers who know a bit of Debian GNU/Linux and can offer a part of time to help others. As many of you are well aware, the third test cycle of Debian is about to

Volunteers needed for MashPotato tech support crew in #Debian on irc.debian.org around August 15.

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Lau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, this is Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau from #debian at irc.debian.org calling out for volunteers who know a bit of Debian GNU/Linux and can offer a part of time to help others. As many of you are well aware, the third test cycle of Debian is about to

apt-get vs. dselect?

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I'm going through the process of upgrading the kernel on my router box, and implementing some better firewall rules (Thanks to the TrinityOS doc. Very helpful). Traditionally I've used dselect to manage the packages that I have installed, but it gets rather cumbersome having to scro

kernel config

2000-08-04 Thread Dale Morris
I have reinstalled potato, and compiled the 2.2.16 kernel. In my last installation I had sound and printing when I rebooted after compiling, this time I dont. I am sure there is a switch I'm not setting properly. Before, I thought the trick was to set the switches to M for sound, and set the ke

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I assume that Bolan is on the list? And Ben, are you on > -user? See, the thing is, I didn't start this thread of discussion and I'm not at all interested in a rehash of this topic. And what's more, I already asked on debian-user to be dropped fr

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > This might be a trivial questions with a quick No! as the answer ... > > At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of > the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my > (vanilla

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:44:01AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of > > the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my > > (vanilla NT 4.0

precmnd in bash?

2000-08-04 Thread Brian Stults
Is there a function in bash that is similar to tcsh's precmnd? Something that will allow you to run a command before each prompt is printed? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://

Re: precmnd in bash?

2000-08-04 Thread Brian Stults
Brian Stults wrote: > > Is there a function in bash that is similar to tcsh's precmnd? > Something that will allow you to run a command before each prompt is > printed? Thanks. > I'll answer my own question in case it's of interest to anyone (and from now on I'll always search for 5 additional

xfstt and font not available

2000-08-04 Thread Matthew Davis
Hi all, I have just wiped my system and reinstalled Debian (thanks completely to Windows 2000 and my dual booting). I was attempting to setup my truetype fonts for use in X, and I seem to be doing something wrong. Here's what I've done and what it happening: Copied /WINNT/Fonts/* /user/share/fon

emacs and screen

2000-08-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does anybody know if it's possible to make screen get along better with emacs? They have a whole lot of overlapping keyboard commands, and I'd like it if screen didn't grab all my C-a's and stuff. I've read the screen FAQ and man page, but it didn't really addr

Re: precmnd in bash?

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Brian Stults wrote: > Brian Stults wrote: > > > > Is there a function in bash that is similar to tcsh's precmnd? > > Something that will allow you to run a command before each prompt is > > printed? Thanks. > > > > I'll answer my own question in case it's of interest to a

Re: t-dsl

2000-08-04 Thread Stefan Nobis
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, first of all, you want to assign the user an address via DHCP, > or else it's an administrative nightmare. You can use Radius, LDAP-based solutions and surley much more. With PPPoE there are even more possibilities to hack IP-addresses then with

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Kent West
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:44:01AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of > > > the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to acc

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

2000-08-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On 04 Aug 2000, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See, the thing is, I didn't start this thread of discussion and > I'm not at all interested in a rehash of this topic. And what's > more, I already asked on debian-user to be dropped from CC:'s. ROTFL 8-)) Here you can see quite clearly tha

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-04 Thread John Bagdanoff
I had trouble downloading with gnapster too, so I switched to knapster, which I found more reliable. John *** K, it seems to download now, though I still get the fopen() errors. I like the gnapster interface but things like this, I hate to say,

Re: xfstt and font not available

2000-08-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:18:47PM -0500, Matthew Davis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just wiped my system and reinstalled Debian (thanks completely to > Windows 2000 and my dual booting). I was attempting to setup my > truetype fonts for use in X, and I seem to be doing something wrong. > Here's w

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Yes, as I wrote, that works fine for NT servers providing a share. I use > > that with the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab so that I can simply say > > mount /mountpoint > > and the rest happens auto

Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven - Lore
Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow completely fscked up my router. It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that part looks like it's working great. I've got 2 other network cards, both 3Com 905B. I have the 3c59x module loadin

Re: uninstalling staroffice

2000-08-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: uninstalling staroffice Date: Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:09:04PM -0700 In reply to:jojo zero Quoting jojo zero([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. > apt-get remove staroffice comes to mind or dpkg (purge | deinstall) staroffic

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Werner
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Color me clueless, but I just found something way cool. I guess I > *should* have spent more time with Novell. > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without havi

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Greg Strockbine.
> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs :-) greg s.

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, > and zip programs are all installed. Interestingly, though, it can't browse cpio archi

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Kent West
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > Yes, as I wrote, that works fine for NT servers providing a share. I use > > > that with the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab so that I can simply say > > > mount /mo

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without having to unarchive and untar all the constituent components. See also the debview package: Description: Emacs mode

Trouble with initial istall

2000-08-04 Thread Ed Burke
Debian helpers, I got partially through an install when I ran in to trouble. Is there ANY body out there that can help?I'm afraid to mention scsi but that seems to be where the trouble may be. I don't really know. If I upset someone on your staff I am truely sorry - It

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Kevin
I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... 255.255.255.0 Can you do that ? Adam Scriven - Lore wrote: > > Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow > completely fscked up my router. > > It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Pe

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Kevin
I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... 255.255.255.0 Can you do that.. anyone ? Adam Scriven - Lore wrote: > > Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow > completely fscked up my router. > > It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (R

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Kevin wrote: > I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... > 255.255.255.0 > Can you do that.. anyone ? Those aren't broadcast addresses... they're subnet masks. === Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-674

Is there anybody out there?

2000-08-04 Thread Ed Burke
I am trying to do an initial install of Debian [New Riders/Mac Millan Pubs.] and I ran into a dead end path. Quite by accident I found I can boot from the CD, so I don't need the path to the boot loader. However the process ended when I didn't understand how to get the OS to recgnize my HD

dwww errors

2000-08-04 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi. I'm running potato, and my dwww seems to be not quite right. For instance, on the debian document menu, a number of choices result in not found messages, or other arb errors. If I manually browse the same location in netscape useing file:///whatever (by looking at the URL dwww generates) thin

Print accounting

2000-08-04 Thread Neilen Marais
I have an HPLJ 4l set up with magicfilter, and it prints fine, but no print accounting seems to be taking place... When I print nothing gets logged at all. This is how my printcap file looks: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#144

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Kevin
whoopsie... :) been in windows too long.. anyhow.. possible though ? "Mark A. Bialik" wrote: > > Kevin wrote: > > > I see you have both 192.* nets using the same broadcast... > > 255.255.255.0 > > Can you do that.. anyone ? > > Those aren't broadcast addresses... they're subnet masks. > > ==

RE: Is there anybody out there?

2000-08-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Aug-1980 Ed Burke wrote: >I am trying to do an initial install of Debian [New Riders/Mac > Millan Pubs.] and I > ran into a dead end path. Quite by accident I found I can boot from the > CD, so I don't > need the path to the boot loader. However the process ended when I > didn't un

Re: Trouble with initial istall

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 03, 1980 at 10:32:39PM -0700, Ed Burke wrote: Fix your system date. > Debian helpers, I got partially through an install when I ran in to > trouble. Is there ANY body out there that can help?I'm afraid to > mention scsi but that seems to be where the trouble m

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Kevin wrote: > whoopsie... :) been in windows too long.. > anyhow.. possible though ? Sure, you may have many different networks all using the same subnet masks. 255.255.255.0 will give his networks a network number of 192.168.1.0 with a broadcast of 192.168.1.255, and 192.168.0.0/192.168.0.255.

Re: autofs question

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:15:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount > points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to > them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an > xterm,

Re: Distribution Download

2000-08-04 Thread romeu
Thanks, Justin. This is the kind of ftp program I was looking for. Gaucho cam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]Para

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
At 14:36 2000/08/04 -0400, you wrote: whoopsie... :) been in windows too long.. anyhow.. possible though ? Yup. That just means to use the whole C block as one subnet. Basically, I've got 2 different subnets, 192.168.0.* and 192.168.1.*. BUT, I got it to work...and I got my portforwarding wor

Re: emacs and screen

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Tessone
On 4 August 2000 at 10:28, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Does anybody know if it's possible to make screen get along better with > emacs? They have a whole lot of overlapping keyboard commands, and I'd > like it if screen didn't grab all m

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
At 13:22 2000/08/03 -0400, you wrote: At 11:11 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: each time i re-install windows on the box (every 6 months, tops), it fscks the pnp info on every card, so i sometimes have to set my card on pnp or manual config. when this happens, changing the io address fixes the "d

Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Okay, due to some *very* large storage requirements, I've gotten a ST173404LW drive (73.4 Gig Ultra2 160 drive), and I've hooked it up to the onboard AIC-7890 controller on my ASUS p2b-s motherboard (which has worked fine with my 9 and 18 GB ATLAS drives). However, I can't partition the new driv

FIXED: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok, no laughing. I setup the TrinityOS firewall script too. I didn't mention this, but I have no idea why. I had the $INTIF setup wrong. eth1 != eth0. Sorry. Adam Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-04 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
At 11:44 on Aug 4, Dirk Eddelbuettel combined all the right letters to say: > No, I mean C:\ as the main partition on the 'desktop' computer. > Permissions are read-access for everyone. Can I read those from Linux via > Samba? What *have* you tried? If you do a `smbmount` (no args) it blah bl

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, >> and zip programs are all installed. > > Inter

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Peter S Galbraith writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning. "): > >Richard Kaszeta wrote: > >> I've gotten a >> ST173404LW drive (73.4 Gig Ultra2 160 drive), >> However, I can't partition the new drive. Cfdisk on debian 2.1 >> refus

Loading fetchmail man page in Gnome-help uses all memory

2000-08-04 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello list, I noticed a curious thing this evening - when I load the fetchmail man page in the Gnome help browser, it grabs all my memory - 256MB and ramps up swap usage until all that's gone too - another 256MB - previously none was used. CPU utilisation runs at about 75% on both cpus (SMP syste

xterm and shell behaviors

2000-08-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
I'm a new convert to Debian, and I need a little help changing a few behaviors of xterm and the shell (bash). 1. When I press tab to autocomplete something in the command line, and there are more than one possible autocompletion, the shell BEEPS. This is very annoying, especially when my gf i

RE: autofs question

2000-08-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 03-Aug-2000 Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount > points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to > them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an > xterm, or from within an applica

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter S Galbraith writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning. "): > > > >Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > > >> I've gotten a > >> ST173404LW drive (73.4 Gig Ultra2 160 drive), > >> However, I can

Re: gnus-list-identifiers

2000-08-04 Thread Felix Natter
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Felix> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If I get a mailing list that prefixes subject lines with > >> [Cocoon Devel], how do I remove it? > >> > >> In earlier versi

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-08-04 Thread Felix Natter
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 12:03 PM 7/28/00 -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: > >Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a > download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility > will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for th

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > It seems like it will be better and surely safer than Outlook, Why better and, most particularly, why safer? Given that GNOME is built to allow components to interact with one another via scripting, there is no reason to suppose tha

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

2000-08-04 Thread Alberto
use: poll POP_SERVER protocol POP3: user POP_USER, no keep, no rewrite, fetchall password YOUR_PASSWD; At 23:11 03/08/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:02:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail s

How is leafnode's delaybody supposed to work?

2000-08-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
I'd like to proxy news in a LAN with a potato server and 2 Windows clients. Both low and high traffic text groups will be read and some binary groups scavenged :) The obvious choice for me was leafnode, BUT the standard mode where it gets all messages in all groups is obviously to expensive in ter

X crashed on laptop update

2000-08-04 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello I just updated updated X (woody) on my laptop with the result it does not work anymore. From windows I get it's a ATI LT PRO and I use the Mach64 server. I've not changed anything else in X. The only thing I get is the lowest few pixels on the screen are turned on - the rest is black Sorry

some tcsh questions

2000-08-04 Thread Jonas Moberg
I've (after many years of use..) been looking up what my shell actually can do for me to make my life easier. I've been going thru the features of tcsh (first shell I ever used, but I'm determined to go thru bash and zsh or ksh (when time permits that is..)). So, of course, I got some questions

Re: ppp connection speed

2000-08-04 Thread Jesús Ruiz de Infante
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my > provider. > > Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware) > > But how/where can I see with which speed the modem has b

Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Gary Hennigan writes ("Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning."): >There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G >partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB >range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times though! > >You might read the Large Disk HOWTO to see

Cyber Cafe with Linux

2000-08-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to build a cyber cafe with 9 clients and 1 server all with Linux! It has to have scanner, printers (with accounting), webcams, CD-R, Zip and acouting. What scanner I can buy? What printer and system printing I can use? What webcam? CD-R

Re: xterm and shell behaviors

2000-08-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:55:39PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > 1. When I press tab to autocomplete something in the command line, > and there are more than one possible autocompletion, the shell BEEPS. > This is very annoying, especially when my gf is asleep within ten feet > of my computer.

Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Dear debs Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you choose Slack? >From what I've read, it's probably the distro closest to the "roll-your-own" type of thing. Correct? Slack's package format is ".tgz"; c

Re: xterm and shell behaviors

2000-08-04 Thread Tom Marshall
The system defaults for X apps are under usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. The user preferences are read from ~/.Xresources and/or ~/.Xdefaults. The preferences for colors and what to do with ^G (the beep) can be set in these files. The manpages for xrdb and xterm should be helpful also. To save y

C programming

2000-08-04 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi the list, I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an explanation on why the two "for" below give different results. Thanks, ChriS -.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.

Re: Questions on Slack / *BSDs

2000-08-04 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:26:44PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's > (particularly) good about it? -> What particular things made you > choose Slack? It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :) > >From what I

Re: C programming

2000-08-04 Thread John Reinke
Quick answer here - I'll make two assumptions: 1) This is NOT for a programming assignment. ;-) 2) Using the comma within a condition is treated as AND (&&). That's messier code than I usually create. Making the z = x + y assignment is part of the loop's condition, so it is evaluated at whatever

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