exim: smarthost

1999-03-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Any easy way of configuring exim so it sends all the mail it has not being able to send for himself to a smarthost? Something like smail offered before... -- p.

HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-14 Thread Will Lowe
I've managed to seriously bung up my system, and libncurses.so.4 is causing problems. Are there any shells in debian _not_ linked against this library? ATM even root can't do anything, because nobody can get a shell started ... Will ---

can't use RAM > 64 MB with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-03-14 Thread Werner Reisberger
Using Debian 2.0r4 and kernel 2.2.3 I am getting problems if I use my second 64 MB RAM Dimm module. I tested it with both modules so there isn't a faulty one involved. I had the same problems with kernel 2.0.34 (using the kernel parameter "mem=128M") and thought an upgrade would help since it was

RE: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade

1999-03-14 Thread Simon Martin
Thanks Thomas, Works like a dream and it even makes sense! > -Original Message- > From: thomas lakofski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 March 1999 11:19 > To: Simon Martin > Cc: Debian-user list > Subject: Re: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade > > > On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wro

Re: Sound card configuration

1999-03-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Ok, basicly you just go through the isapnp.conf and uncomment relevant lines, which will give you certain parameters on the card. Dont worry about clock chip. Isapnp doesnt deal with clocks. All it does is configure the card. Below is what you could use for isapnp.conf. I've cut all the parts tha

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Jeff Lessem
Benjamin Suto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently > upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. > > Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and > the following message in my system

Netscape "gone"

1999-03-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am a Linux newbie and I have managed to get my running Netscape 4.03 to stop running. I was remocving some "stuff" I thought I didn't need. Netscape needs it! :) When I try to run Netscape I get the message "unable to load libXt.so.6". I do have that library (I think, I have a file called l

Re: Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Douglas Bates wrote: > /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted > to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now > like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. > I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which > is the same type as /d

Re: other tools like Xadmin?

1999-03-14 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > I am looking for other tool like Xadmin but that do not require X > Windows in order to work. > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com linuxconf deb´s can be found in projects/experimental on ftp.debian.org or any mirror -- Heute i

"slink install and X"

1999-03-14 Thread Craig McVean
HI to all' i'm about to upgrade hamm to slink, My problem is 1/ i had a problem with my Xserver and had to set it to setituid root, will the upgrade correct this security flaw or should i take some actuon first ie: remove the Xpackage before upgrade??

Re: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-14 Thread Steve Hsieh
ftp service has probably been disabled in /etc/inetd.conf. Check to make sure it hasn't been commented out. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Maheu wrote: > After upgrading to slink I can't ftp into my box, but I can ftp out of it. > > If I try to ftp to my box I get > > ftp: connect: Connection refu

RE: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Mar-99 John Maheu wrote: > After upgrading to slink I can't ftp into my box, but I can ftp out of it. > > If I try to ftp to my box I get > > ftp: connect: Connection refused > > My /etc/hosts.allow is empty and /etc/hosts.deny only has the ALL: > PARANOID entry. > > Any ideas on how to

Installing Linux

1999-03-14 Thread Maria Helena Albornoz Vasquez
Hello,   I'm a Linux beginner and I want to install Linux in my computer but I experienced some problem.   I have a Pentium 133 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM with a 1.6Gb hard disk with Win95 installed. The hard disk is yet partitionned (with the windows95 Fdisk) as follow : Primary partition  600 Mb  

2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-14 Thread John Maheu
After upgrading to slink I can't ftp into my box, but I can ftp out of it. If I try to ftp to my box I get ftp: connect: Connection refused My /etc/hosts.allow is empty and /etc/hosts.deny only has the ALL: PARANOID entry. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks John

Sound card configuration

1999-03-14 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, Need some help setting up my sound card :) Sound card resources obtained from Windows. Acer FX-3D resources: IO Range 0220-022F IO Range 0388-038B IRQ 05 DMA 01 IO Range 0110-011F DMA 03 Plug-n-Play resources: IO Range 0274-0277 I did "pnpdump 0x277 > /etc/isapnp.conf" to create the is

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 12:35:44PM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: > That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont > just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand > shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run > FD

Re: Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Matthew Sachs
I called the OSS people recently, and they said they would have a driver by May or June. Anyone know a good, very cheap soundcard I could use until then? On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > >I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is > still no d

Re: Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > [Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't > usually have the time to keep up with this list.] There is nothing special about VFAT filesystem. You can just create regular FAT16 partition with mkdosfs form dosfst

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > This is done by 'depmod -a'. In my system (slink) I have modutils package I did that and received a bunch of strange messages for my effort. I took a look at the Changes file that comes with the kernel sources. I a have versions of some packages that are older than what

dosemu troubles: permissions & a missing cursor

1999-03-14 Thread Curt Daugaard
I've run into two problems running dosemu. (1) I can't start dosemu in an X-window or use the modem unless I'm running as root, this despite the fact I have "all c_all" permissions in the user config file. (Before upgrading to v. 98.1 I could run in X, but I'm not sure about the modem.) (2) Whe

Re: searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Holger Mense wrote: > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, > is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" the > contents of all(!) .deb-files on the cd-rom? I got it myself with help from a friend... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
John Leget wrote: > > Hi, > > "depmod -a" > > check out "man depmod" > > cheers Thanks, I'll check that out. -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \

reltek rtl8029 pci network card installation

1999-03-14 Thread eli azolay
 

Re: searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread James Dietrich
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:42:14PM +, Holger Mense wrote: > Hi... > > I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux > Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which > .deb-package it is. > > Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special f

Re: diald question

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Mar-99 John Hasler wrote: > Pollywog writes: >> Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? > > "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > >> I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 >> to work when I put in in diald.o

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-14 Thread James Dietrich
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:08:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): > > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: yellow > XTerm

searching for files on cdrom

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
Hi... I have a problem: sometimes I need some special files for a Linux Installation (actually its msgfmt :) , but I don't know in which .deb-package it is. Does someone know how to search the whole cd-rom for a special file, or, is their a possibility to list recursivly with "dpkg --contents" th

other tools like Xadmin?

1999-03-14 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I am looking for other tool like Xadmin but that do not require X Windows in order to work. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: diald question

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. > I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 > to work when I put in in diald.options. 'disconnect-timeout' doesn't do wha

Re: mutt-Netscape and nmh

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Ciciretti
To get mutt to read a MH folder all you have to is 'touch FOLDER_NAME/.mh_sequences' . Mutt looks for this file to determine mailbox type. If you do use MHfolders add the line 'set mh_purge' , if you don't then Mutt just move the message file to ,filename and does not actually delete it. I

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/14/99 9:22:21 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi- > I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > > Thanky you, > -James > cat will work the same as type will. you can also use: more to do the same thing, but one page at a

termcap/info help

1999-03-14 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to termcap but it doesn't work; even

Re: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wrote: > 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script > /etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf > command before it executes anything. There should be a file /etc/init.d/sendmail.dpkg-new -- you might want to

Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Douglas Bates
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping

Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-14 Thread MallarJ
I'm using KDE 1.1 & Debian 2.1 (slink): I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: yellow XTerm*geometry: 69x28 Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in b

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Mar-99 Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > >> Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the >> e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for >> faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? > > mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get go

Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade

1999-03-14 Thread Simon Martin
Hi All I just updated from 2.0 to 2.1. Everything went smoothly except for the sendmail installation. Sendmail found my existing install and asked me whether I wanted to keep it or not, I said keep. Unfortunately there seem to be a few side effects with this. 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /e

[gnome] panel just segfaults :(

1999-03-14 Thread badpixel
Hi! I run linux 2.2.3 and potato, and i'm trying to install gnome. I used to packages from www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage2 or something like that, but panel (and gmc) just segfaults when i try to start em. Ä(~)> panel ** CRITICAL **: file connection.c: line 973 (iiop_get_fd): assertion `gio

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: > Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the > e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for > faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get going here (granted it's not as full featured as

a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card from Gateway 2000

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is ther

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there

Linux and Mpact AGP Display Card

1999-03-14 Thread Nitesh
I have installed Red Hat 5.2 Linux in my GATEWAY 2000 computer. It has a AGP Display Card with Mpact Media Processor from Chromatic Research Inc. Now I am trying to run X Windows in my system but I did not find the correct display driver for this card. So how can I use X Windows ? Is there

Re: PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi again, I do not get anything about the speed when I do "plog -f". The only thing I get there is "connect ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1. However, in my Xisp dialer I get the following: OK PROTOCOL:LAPM COMPRESSION:V42B CONNECT 44000 Is this the same? On 14-Mar-99 thomas lakofski wrote: > On Sun, 14

diald question

1999-03-14 Thread Pollywog
Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0 to work when I put in in diald.options. When I get disconnected, diald waits 30s to reconnect. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread William Schwartz
That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot files... You can then run FDISK manually to do what you want to... will -Original Message- F

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Max Kamenetsky wrote: > This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm > using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try > to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows > what's going on. It s

Re: PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: > > /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so > this puzzles me. This line refers actually to a program which is listen

Re: Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
I'd love for someone to prove otherwise, but as far as I know there is still no driver available for any Vortex or Vortex2 card, which of course includes the Turtle Beach Montego. SJG On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux?

Re: DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!

1999-03-14 Thread Paul Miller
Robert Aisenberg wrote: > > Hi- > When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: > > "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files > currently installed!" > > The file I want to install is that server. > Try 'dpkg -i [name of .deb file]' -- Paul

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "i" == ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. i> e.g. cat |more or cat |less You don't need the cat in this case. Just do less filename or more filename Less is better then more. Ciao, Martin

PPP connection

1999-03-14 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, when I am logged on to my ISP and do a "ps a" I get the following: /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 Does this mean I have something set wrong. My modem connects at 44-48000, so this puzzles me. A newbie needs help :) --- Regards Christian Dysthe E-Mail: Ch

DPKG PROBLEM, PLEASE HELP!!

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying: "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files currently installed!" The file I want to install is that server. Thank you for your help, -James

Re: Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 10:24 AM 3/14/99 -0500, Robert Aisenberg wrote: >Hi- >I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type > cat If the file is longer than 25 lines I suggest you use more or less. e.g. cat |moreor cat |less see the manual for cat, more, less, tail hth Ivan. >Thanky yo

Stupid Question

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I was wondering how I could view a text file like dos's type Thanky you, -James

Re: init runs away with glibc2.1

1999-03-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
Greg Wooledge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that > init had started to run away: > (Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?) Well, my computer decided the matter for me. About half an hour after writin

Re: web link checker

1999-03-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, > > but it is in unstable. Cheers. > > So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html > or, a slightly

New glibc & java problems

1999-03-14 Thread Ali Graham
Apologies if this is off topic for this list; I remember seeing that a list had been opened up for debian & java but when I went to the mailing lists page on www.debian.org I didn't see it Anyway, I recently decided to check out Java, and (not being entirely sure what I was doing) installled

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 03:14 PM 3/14/99 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: >> >> George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien >> filesystem" :) > >Try to install MS DOS 6.0 > >It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:05:11PM +0800, ivan wrote: > > George, I know you know that Windows _does_not_delete_ the "alien > filesystem" :) Try to install MS DOS 6.0 It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one big partition, and then install DOS. It will NOT let y

Re: Re[2]: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialling up and that this > Linux machine is not the place I want to do the 'keepalive' work from. > > Any clue as to a scr

Re: E 0.15.1 debs

1999-03-14 Thread Andreas Kremer
> Well, a new release, a new set of debs. You have really done a great work. Enlightenment now looks like it is possible to use it day-to-day. Only the icE does not want to appear in the theme menu. Well done. Andreas.

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread ivan
At 06:27 PM 3/12/99 -0800, George Bonser wrote: >Look, people, I could make a Linux distribution JUST as easy as Windows to >install if I build it like the Windows installation ... it goes on the >first bootable partition, PERIOD, it does not allow multi-boot of other >operating systems, AT ALL,

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Alec Smith writes: > You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on > DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with > /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. He appears to be trying to run pppd with the default provider files distributed with ppp. They need

Re: Mozilla Fault

1999-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 09:31:44 -0800, Rob Pratt wrote: > I got Mozilla installed from Debian packages, but when I run it, it > creates two small windows (in fvwm95) then closes and returns the message, > "Segmentation fault." Can anyone help me troubleshoot this one? Not really. The current Debi

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 19:16:32 +, Holger Mense wrote: > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > projects/experimental... Its packaging was extremely old, and incompatible with the curre

Re: Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread John Galt
AFAIK there's no patch path through the 2.0.x -> 2.2.x barrier. You could try to install the kernel-source package of the kernel you wish to upgrade to, or you could get the raw source from ftp.kernel.org, the "official" site. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I downloa

Re: can't locate module ppp0

1999-03-14 Thread Mike
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: > > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 > Mar 13 18:20:

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 08:39:00PM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I took a look

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-14 Thread mike shupp
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > >it goes on the first bootable partition, PERIOD, > > Well, not true, if you are using NT, you can install it on what ever > partition you would like. All it needs is the NT loader to exist on the boot > device. This could be a floppy... Hmm

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-14 Thread Holger Mense
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > > projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x > > (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the

Re: Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:50:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. > I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect > to leafnode and get the news groups. [...] > I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These > holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking > RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have > it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my works

Re: rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
There's bugs in kernel 2.0.x which RealPlayer takes advantage of. These holes were closed during development of 2.2.x, therefore breaking RealPlayer. I believe there is a way around the problem, but I do not have it as I'm using 2.0.37pre8 on my workstation. What really needs to happen is RealNetw

rvplayer segfault

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
This is truly bizarre, but I can't get rvplayer to work on my system. I'm using kernel 2.2.3 with glibc2.1.1 and rvplayer segfaults every time I try to start it. I'm attaching the full strace in the hope that someone knows what's going on. It seems to barf as soon as it opens locale.alias, but t

Re: Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
http://www.kernel.org and look at the mirror list for latest versions. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 > currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x > > Thanks. > > Doug Dine > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ht

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email. >GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you >_MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news >with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and

Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, Where can I download patches for the Linux kernel? I have 2.0.36 currently and am seeing that everyone else has 2.2.x Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless NetZero - We

Turtle Beach Montego

1999-03-14 Thread Jesse Lee
I have a turtle beach montego sound card. Can it work under linux? If so what driver do i use? I have a dual boot macine and by the time you read this Hope fully  I will have kernel 2.2.3 installed(hopefully reiterated)!!   any info is greatly appreciated (newbie here:)   Jesse Lee (aka Dad

Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote: > Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the > distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using > xosview but > that seems to be broken with my current setup :( You are right, I think it works fine, i

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-14 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem becaus

E 0.15.1 debs

1999-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
Well, a new release, a new set of debs. Same thing as before: http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ Apt line: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Also, people asked about the gnome staging area - apt line deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main Imlib 1.9.4 debs

Re: Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I've tried adding: > leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* Try leafnode: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1 Hope this works, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http:/

Sound Card Plug-n-Play

1999-03-14 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, Does anyone have a sound card with an AD1816 chip that they have successfully configured to work? I found a sound driver for it at http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek/projects/linux.html Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/lov

Directory Stats & Mounting Partitions

1999-03-14 Thread David Densmore
How do I list the total size of all files in a directory in bytes (not including ./ and ../)? How do I list the total size of a directory recursively showing total bytes, number of sub directories and number of files without actually listing them all like ls -R, which does not list the grand total

Netscape won't go

1999-03-14 Thread eferen
I had had Netscape working once under Caldera OpenLinux, but had to do a re-install. Naturally, I thought since it worked before it would be easy to get Nescape going again. HA!! I cannot figure out for the life of me what I'm doing wrong. I am now trying to get it to go under RedHat (since I'm

init runs away with glibc2.1

1999-03-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that init had started to run away: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 12.5 13.0 8944 8300 ? R17:42 44:26 init [2] (That RSS is awfully big, too, but doesn't seem to be growing.)

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:14:01 -0500, Benjamin Suto wrote: >No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to >telnet in, it disconnects me before I can even get a login prompt with >the following error in the syslog: Check you

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
Alec Smith wrote: > > I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is > configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would > be my uneducated guess as to your problem. > No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to telnet in, it

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would be my uneducated guess as to your problem. On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Benjamin Suto wrote: > > I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've rec

Re: SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-14 Thread John Leget
Hi, Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using xosview but that seems to be broken with my current setup :( Interestingly some months back when i went SMP top showed 200% for a while :). A

Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and the following message in my system logs. Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam:

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:06:00AM +, Bob Bernstein wrote: > thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': > > Aha. Thanks for the tip. Stupid me though, it dawned on me, when I got the > pppupd package, that I'm using a new OpenBSD box for dialli

Where is ldd in potato?

1999-03-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just noticed that I no longer have ldd on my system. I see in the changelog for ldso that it was removed and is now provided by glibc 2.1. I have also seen messages which infer that glibc 2.1 isn't quite ready for use. What is suggested here? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EM

Allowing Connections

1999-03-14 Thread wax_man
I'm having problems getting my /etc/hosts.allow file set up correctly. I"m trying to allow any system on my network (192.168.1.X) to connect to leafnode and get the news groups. The original file had: leafnode:127.0.0.1 I've tried adding: leafenode:127.0.0.1 192.168.1.* but it does not seem to

Debian 2.1 Miscellany

1999-03-14 Thread SEGV
I'm installing Debian 2.1 from ISO-image-burned CDs onto a clean drive, /dev/hda2. I have an existing hamm beta installed on /dev/hda3, and Win95 (for games) on /dev/hda1. I have lilo installed as MBR on /dev/hda. Is it possible to configure lilo to load both different kernels from both different

DHCP and problems with apache, samba etc

1999-03-14 Thread Dean Carpenter
When using dhcp, since the hostname doesn't resolve to an IP address right away, there are a few packages that barf, like apache and samba. These appear to attempt to find the IP address from the system name. In the case of dhcp, this may not be known. You can't hardcode an address in the /etc/h

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread Alec Smith
You could also try changing the line to /dev/ttyS1 if your modme is on DOS com2... Or whichever other port. They're numbered starting with /dev/ttyS0 which is com1 on DOS. On 13 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when

Problems with dpkg

1999-03-14 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- Whenever I use dpkg, while it is checking the package databse it always says: "Files list for package xserver-vga16 missing assuming package has no files currently installed" This is the file I want to install so I have a problem. Thank you, -James

Re: Help

1999-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > I have installed Debian 2.0. I think it installed all right, but when I > try to connect online I get error message :In file > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option /dev/modem > ... > What can I do about this? Run pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

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