Eeek,
Just made the mistake of trying a terminal switch whilst running quake2
3.2 beta ( curiousity did indeed kill the cat here ) anyway
resulted in a total lockup. took of 3dfx loop cable and bypassed monitor
no luck :(.
No response on numlock/caps either so i had to reboot.
When it came back u
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:26:57 -0700, you wrote:
>George Bonser wrote:
>> Well, first of all, it looks like the xterm is now a separate package.
Thanks George, I have xterm back now. Netscape still won't start and
brings up an "error manager" to report it to netscape. I don't send it
because it was
I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.06 on a hamm box. If someone sends me
an email message with a .bmp or .avi attachment, can I view the
attachment? If I click on the .bmp attachment it asks where I want to
save the decoded file. If I give it a name, it saves the file, but I
still haven't been able
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 05:41:52PM -0400, Daniel E. Hollis wrote:
> At that stage where I can install device drivers, there's no menu choice
> for pcmcia cards. None. I opened the virtual terminal and looked around.
Uh, it's on the _previous_ menu. When you are offered "Install Drivers"
se
I've posted this before, but I'll try again.
> I've got a printcap entry like this:
>
> beeper:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\
>
> I've got a filter named beeper-filter that looks like this:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> prin
Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:04:35 -0400 Mark H Mabry writes:
> >
> > I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and
> > xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow
> > they deleted (at least) the "xdm" executable. Some of the mess
George Bonser wrote:
> Well, first of all, it looks like the xterm is now a separate package. I
> just installed it myself because all of a sudden I could not run an xterm
> either. It looks like it used to be in one of the other bundles but has
> now been split off by itself, sure would be nice if
Hi,
I have experienced problems with netscape freezing up when accessing
debian's mailing list archives (debian-user, debian-development).
This has happened intermittently with every netscape version I have
used as far back as I can remember. I have never known where the
problem really is (my se
Hi All,
I posted a few weeks ago about not begin able to get my pcmcia card to work
on my TI/Acer 610CD laptop. The card is an Eiger labs epx-10bt, which needed
the the modules file modified slightly. I did that to no avail, so I'm in the
middle of attempting to reinstall the system.
At
stick writes:
> What's the connection between pppupd and the persist option of ppp?
> Does one interfere with the other?
I wouldn't run them at the same time.
> Do they do the same thing?
pppupd does pings to keep your connection alive.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Hor
> I half-considered getting some pressed and selling them just for the
> price of the pressing (about a $1 a cd) and shipping. Would there be any
> demand for that or is everybody happy with their CD supplier?
Any chance of doing slink? I have an old 386/33 I like to use for test
installs, but th
Hello all. I'm relatively new at linux so bear with me. I set up linux on
my box about two or three weeks ago. Everything was going fine and dandy.
I got everything going fine including X windows.
However, yesterday, I was in X, and installing maelstrom and quake (a
guy's gotta relax ya know...) a
Greetings Debianites,
I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for.
My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells
me I don't have my CVROOT variable set. If I run it from xterm, everything
is fine, but the variables that are set when I login a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> John writes:
> > Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like:
>
> Yes, I could do this, but I don't need to: my isp doesn't use 'dynamic
> dns'.
>
> My interest is in helping new users whose isp's won't tell them the
> nameserver ip's because the
I tried to upgrade slink x3.3.2.3a-1 to -5 and things broke. Got
several "directory not deleted" type errors and X will not run xterm,
netscape and more apps. Starts and screen along with fvwm2 comes up
but not much more runs. Using the 3.3.2.3a s3v server. Any "How to
unscrew" ideas? Thanks!
--
On 24 Oct 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote:
>
> Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I use dail-up connection to the internet. I have noticed that while I am
> > off line I can not send mails from pine. It generates an error and does
> > not spool the mail. When I am on line
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:35:46 +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote:
>Yes. 2.1 counts bytes in /proc/net/dev. But IIRC there are still some
>NIC-drivers which don't supply these numbers. tulip does. I've no clue about
>SNMPD, but I suppose you'll have to teach it to use the byte counters, too.
Aiyeee. L
I have completed my installation of Debian 2.0. This basically was
a rebuild of an old 1.1 system, which needed a refreshment.
All worked well, and I am currently attempting to solve the
last bits and pieces.
One strange thing remains. If I print a normal resulution fax
received by mgetty from the
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:11:28 -0700 Albert Hurd writes:
>
> I am trying to use postscript fonts in plain TeX (I have no trouble in
> LaTeX) and get the following message when tex'ing the .tex file:
>
> ! Font \times=Times not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
>
>\par
>
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:04:35 -0400 Mark H Mabry writes:
>
> I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and
> xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow
> they deleted (at least) the "xdm" executable. Some of the message
> during the failure said that
On: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:17:16 -0400 Mitch Blevins writes:
>
> Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink thru a Squid
> proxy? Or is it just me...
On work I'm forced to use a proxy server (because of a firewall
sitting between me and the internet). The only way I found for
updating my sy
hello,
does xfree already support the matrox marvel g200 (agp version)? if not,
which x server and settings can i use until then?
thanks a lot for your help,
michael
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 12:08:08PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it
> (put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't
> load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd
> but there is no su
I thought that might be the answer. If I build a custom kernel (no
modules, everthing built in) for the gateway machine on another
computer how can I replace the kernel on the boot/rescue disk that I
tried to use? Will the install then procede as normal, or is there
anything else that I need to do
Please tell me whether your Linux boot diskettes support the
following hardware
SCSI controller Tekram DC 390 ( narrow )
ABit Mainboard IT5H ( v 1.0 )
Thanks.
W.Tintemann
Kastanienweg 5
D-69221 Dossenheim
Germany
I downloaded staroffice from their ftp site. I tried to install it
(put the files into /usr/local/staroffice and got the message 'can't
load library libXpm.so.4' I looked in the oldlibs section of the cd
but there is no such package. What package provides libXpm.so.4 or
where can I find it? Ha
>> "JE" == Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JE> How can I capture these messages into a file so that I
JE> may be able to see what's going on? I've tried looking in /var/log
JE> to see if anythere seems related, but haven't found anything.
JE> I think what I want to do is redirect stderr i
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Linux myself, and don't know how to redirect the output
> messages of startx to a file, though I'm confident it can be done. Maybe
> someone else can enlighten us on the details.
>
> However, what you can do, is press S
I'm pretty new to Linux myself, and don't know how to redirect the output
messages of startx to a file, though I'm confident it can be done. Maybe
someone else can enlighten us on the details.
However, what you can do, is press Shift-PgUp; apparently Debian keeps a
buffer of the last couple of scr
Folks,
Thanks for the tips, but so far still no joy.
Regarding posting all the messages, I can't even read them all.
As the messages start to scroll up, the display blinks (trying to go into
graphics mode, I suspect,) then comes back to text.
Most of the (**) messages run past during this
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I use dail-up connection to the internet. I have noticed that while I am
> off line I can not send mails from pine. It generates an error and does
> not spool the mail. When I am on line everything works fine.
>
> Any ideas why?
> Thanks
>
>
Howdy all!
What's the connection between pppupd and the persist option of ppp?
Does one interfere with the other? Do they do the same thing?
Should I choose one over the other?
oThanks ina dvance.
Chuck
--
Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Practical Network D
Sorry to keep this thread going, but perhaps one more clarification.
The original post said that the bug occured on RedHat 5.1 of our
system administrator. I immediately emailed Red Hat
(haven't heard from them yet), and also posted to Debian.
I got a reply from Debian within 12 hours and look
On Sat, Oct 24 1998, Eugene Sevinian spake thus:
> What all this means? Is something wrong?
not seriously, i dont think.
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
> Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
> Unable to load NLS ch
> I use dail-up connection to the internet. I have noticed that while I am
> off line I can not send mails from pine. It generates an error and does
> not spool the mail. When I am on line everything works fine.
IIRC, pine implements SMTP itself: you may need to tell it that you are
offline...
M
Hi,
after apgrading to hamm Im getting this kind of messages each time during
linux boot. What all this means? Is something wrong?
TIA,
Eugene.
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp4
Hi!
Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> >Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data
> >goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on
> >_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing.
I guess this is pretty offtopic but I thought I'd ask :) Having looked at
pretty much all the debian cd vendors, and not being too happy with any
of them, I half-considered getting some pressed and selling them just for
the price of the pressing (about a $1 a cd) and shipping. Would there be
any de
Hi
I use dail-up connection to the internet. I have noticed that while I am
off line I can not send mails from pine. It generates an error and does
not spool the mail. When I am on line everything works fine.
Any ideas why?
Thanks
ZORO
Hi,
I post this before and did not see much reply.
Has anyone here had any experience with ADSL on Linux that would
provide similar IP-Masq as PPP(modem) could?
THanks!
--
Timothy C. Phan
Intelligence Quest Research, INC.
Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to
> xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package.
> The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing.
>
> Can I overcome this problem?
The p
I did what you suggest below, and when I ran lilo, I got the following
message:
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Added OldLinux
And on boot, it again froze at
LI
Thanks again... Any other suggestions?
Steven
> See marks below.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Ho
Dear all,
Mail is just not working on pick.sel :(
my original setup tried to be clever, and then I tried a simpler one,
neither of which worked (indented lines in [] are the simpler setup).
When I try to send messages to a user on pick, I get an unroutable mail
domain error, and when try
I've installed Netscape4.5 (nice job on the installer, guys)
but I can't seem to use it to send mail because it insists on
cryto-signing it and I don't have any certificates. Could
some kind soul tell me how to turn this feature off? I've
been through Mail and News preferences but can't seem to
I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to
xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package.
The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing.
Can I overcome this problem?
(I like xephem LOTS better. My machine at school is running a
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote:
> The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security
> lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0
> you might have a security hole. There was also security
> problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions
> (2.0.2 I think) not in pa
No replies to my last post. Probably it was too long. Compressed:
What does a kernel to be used with rescue disks need other than
initrd/ramdisk?
How can I find out what the problem is when dinstall exits with error
code 100?
How can I disable scsi bus scans at the boot prompt?
Gruss
--
Lukas E
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a wierd problem: during boot process mount fails with the following
> message:
>
> Starting portmapper... Mounting remote filesystems...
> mount: RPC: Program not registered
I saw this once when rpc.mountd and/or rpc.nfsd on the server
Well, I don't know what's going on. I worked out all the dependancies,
installed the packages, everything looked hunky-dory, but when I type "panel",
I get this:
Message: Initializing CORBA for panel
/convert: No such file or directory
/convert: No such file or directory
/anytopnm: No such file
Mark Phillips wrote:
> How does it know how much memory is to be used for caching? Can you set
> this? (I presume the caching software is part of the kernel.)
The kernel likes to use a certian percentage of yuor memory for cache, if
it's free. It's tunable by writing to /proc/sys/vm/freepages
(/
D'jinnie wrote:
> I recently visited http://mysql.org (was trying to figure out whether I
> should migrate to it). I haven't read their license - but there are a few
> links there that suggested to me that it's not very free - because they
> wanted money for it. Is it GPLed or how does it work?
My
Hello,
This is further to my post last titled "THIRD TIME - please help". I am
sorry but I haven't got a copy because I had to format my Win95 partition
and re-install.
No doubt you are all bored of this but I have tried all of the suggestions
given and still can't get Hamm to install from CD.
See marks below.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Howdy Folks!
>
> I'm having a small problem configuring lilo and I'm hoping someone can
> help.
>
> I have a Pentium 133 running slink with kernel 2.0.35.
> I have a SCSI bootdisk and I want to make my IDE drive my root drive.
>
> ie.. boot=/dev/s
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>> If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where
>> you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin
>> directory! (Same privileges are required)
>>
>> Just a thought.
>
> Just make the . direc
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> >Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data
> >goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on
> >_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same th
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
> > from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
> > drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
> >
Even more wierd, I've reinstalled kernel-image (2.0.35 right from slink)
the NFS started working, but dhcpcd stopped - just gives me IP 0.0.0.0
Reinstallation of dhcpcd did not help.
Any ideas ?
Sergey.
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a wierd problem: during boot pro
Mark Phillips wrote:
> I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
> from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
> drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
> and somehow use it to cache my existing hard dri
Hello,
I'm attempting to create mail archives automatically from some mail
inboxes using hypermail in a cron script. This works fine, until it comes
time to make them available on our Novell based web server.
I can ncpmount the files OK (though I don't understand what changes files
from appear
> From: "Rodrigo Moya"
>
>
> >hi,
> >i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using
> >debian and i need gcc binaries for the same.
> >Any resources on net ?
> >thanks in advance
> >
> Are they not in the distribution? You mean gcc, the GNU C compiler?
Isn't there a change from gcc to egcs
Hi,
I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
and somehow use it to cache my existing hard drives -- ie stuff which i
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"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the
> standard desktop automation application around here except for a small
> band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I
> can read the MS Word document
Howdy Folks!
I'm having a small problem configuring lilo and I'm hoping someone can
help.
I have a Pentium 133 running slink with kernel 2.0.35.
I have a SCSI bootdisk and I want to make my IDE drive my root drive.
ie.. boot=/dev/sda3
root=/dev/hda2
I wish to boot the SCSI drive because
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