Alsa and sb16. No go.

1999-06-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Here is the error ... viper:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting sound driver: snd-sb16 /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy snd-sb-dsp: No such file or directory failed. viper:~# The file /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o exists. I compiled the kernel with modul

Re: XDM problems

1999-06-06 Thread Adam Rice
Quoting Chris Flipse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Currenty running XFree86 3.3.3.1 using the s3v server. Try using the SVGA server instead... it's supposed to be less buggy. From what I've read, the s3v server will be going away in future anyway. Having said that, I get intermittent crashes on exitting

re: $HOME/Maildir

1999-06-06 Thread debian
Where do I find patches for Pine to use $HOME/Maildir delivery. Also where can I get a IMAPD as well.. My MTA is qmail, and my pop3d is the qmail-pop3d, I'd like to install a patched pine to use Maildir, and then also install an IMAPD as well.. Hints?!

re: Stallion Brumby drivers/utils

1999-06-06 Thread debian
I download the Stallion utils on the Stallion homesite, but the utils don't all compile on debian. The one I most interested in is the stlstats (which shows port statistics) Anyone manage to get that compiled?

PCMCIA and NFS

1999-06-06 Thread Alec Smith
Is there a way to go about making NFS connections (automatically) after the card manager is started for PCMCIA network adapters? I'd like to avoid having to do a mount -a as root before I can start working. Configuration is basically a complete Potato install.

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: netscape 4.6 Date: Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:54:17PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *- On 6 Jun, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6" > > > > Subject: Re: netscape 4.6 > > Date: Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -

problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3

1999-06-06 Thread Raphaël
I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application tells me: gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache_info I do have imlib installed. I've

Re: System beep

1999-06-06 Thread Kevin Turner
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 01:44:47AM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > Is there any way of intercepting the horrible PC case beep and > sending a nice sample to /dev/dsp instead? I really hate the > grunt my case generates on tab completion in bash and so on. ...and if the oplbeep patches someone e

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Michael Merten
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 10:48:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > > They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; > > making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... >

Re: apt-get proxy

1999-06-06 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, debian wrote: > > Also once I have downloaded/upgraded using dselect to apt-get how do I > > configure apt-get to use the MS-proxy on company lan, which doesn't require > > authentication > > It's in the documentation somewhere. > # export ftp_proxy=ftp://your ftp addr

SDCC - a free C compiler for 8051. Is available as deb package?

1999-06-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! I'm interested if there are any plans to debianize the SDCC, a very good GPL'd C compiler for 8051 (and similar) microcontrollers? It is available at http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Forum/1353 -- Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jun, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6" > > Subject: Re: netscape 4.6 > Date: Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -0500 > > In reply to:Brian Servis > > Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> *- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6" >> > Serge Gavri

Re: VT options.

1999-06-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
man xterm --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 <-

lilo: multiple drives (scsi and ide)

1999-06-06 Thread Philip S. Hempel
I have a ide drive that is booting with linux I have configured lilo to boot both windows and linux with it. The linux drive is ide the other two are scsi. I boot into windows and it will freak out for some reason and never boot. I will turn off the ide drive int the  cmos and it does fine. I use

Re: VT options.

1999-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 15:20:51 -0400 (EDT), Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: >Can anyone tell me how I can modify the configuration file of xterminal, >so that I can set different background color as well as make it >scrollable by default without having to use mid

Netscape.ad ...

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
... should allow to customize communicator/netscape. a quick test in one of mine parallel-linuxes: "Open Page..." -> "Open the Page..." (search and replace, 2 occurences) gives the expected change in the File menu of the communicator. but not in slink. perhaps someone can save me from diving int

VT options.

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Can anyone tell me how I can modify the configuration file of xterminal, so that I can set different background color as well as make it scrollable by default without having to use middle button + ctrl to call up VT options and enable the setting every time a new xterm is opened. Thanks!

/tmp symlink problems in man

1999-06-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is debian affected too? For the message it seems it is as slink uses 2.3.10. Any confirmation would be appreciated. -- p. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:02:19 +0200 From: Marc Heuse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /tmp

X fonts.

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi all, I am having some problem with emacs. Can anyone tell me how to make the Chinese fonts available in X? I have the following fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc cmex24m.pcf.gz etl14-sisheng.pcf.gz etl16-sisheng.pcf.gz etl24-sisheng.pcf.gz gb16fs.pcf.gz gb16st.pcf.gz gb24st.pcf.gz guobi

new to linux sorta

1999-06-06 Thread matthew lamb
okay so i have installed debian from a pile of floppys to a machine wich has 4 hard drives i took one of the drives a parted it for linux. now how do i add packages to the system over my network from my wiondows 95 ftp server. i downloaded the squid proxy server no how do i put it on my linux ma

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jason Willoughby hat gesagt: // Jason Willoughby wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # xmcd > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > Yeah

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:38:05PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > It's not _all_ bad, because of this (from > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe) > > # Mailing list advertising policy > # > # This policy is intended to fight mailing-list "spamming"

Re: How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread Thomas Ruedas
>Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how >to access my dos partition from within linux. My computer is setup with >a linux partition, a linux swap partition and a dos partition. In addition to what Andrei pointed out, a more primitive and limited way would be acces

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: netscape 4.6 Date: Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6" > > Serge Gavrilov wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> Does anybody know: is (unoff

Re: apt-get configuration for multi cd set

1999-06-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:22:54 +0200, you wrote: >How should I configure apt-get to use > >1) my 2 CD binary distribution >2) ftp.debian.org > >in this order? specifying file:/cd for the CD set seems inappropriate, because >there are 2 CDs, and it should tell me which one to insert, just like dselec

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On 6 Jun 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # Mailing list advertising policy > > # > > # This policy is intended to fight mailing-list "spamming". > > # > > # The Debian Linux mailing lists accept commercial advertising for > > # payment. We offer a fee w

Re: New Riva TNT Linux drivers

1999-06-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 3 Jun 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Has anyone taken the plunge and installed all the new Riva TNT OpenGL > stuff? Any gotcha's? I've been using the XF86_SVGA 3.3.1 server for > quite some time with my TNT card and haven't had a problem. The new X server they provide has the VMWare DGA patc

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: >> isn't there some way of stopping this spam? can't posting ability > It's not _all_ bad, because of this (from > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe) > # Mailing list advertising policy > # > # This p

Re: GNOME startup

1999-06-06 Thread Bill Wilson
Thanks for the response, but no, I use just a straight exec /usr/bin/gnome-session I should have mentioned that this is an intermittent problem that occurs about 50% of the them time, and the panel always reappears correctly after I log back in the second time. On 06-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: lib termcap problems...

1999-06-06 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
On 5 Jun 99, at 11:35, vmlinuz wrote: > Hellow.. > > I have trying to compiling Pine 4.10 on slink and I get this error: > > ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory > > debian:/# ls -l /lib/libtermcap.so.2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 5 11:10 /lib/libtermcap.so.2 >

Re: GNOME startup

1999-06-06 Thread Morgoth3
Did you use a & mark after execing panel in your .xsession file? That may have caused the problem. Colin Winters

Re: CD-ROM and floppy problem update.

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > Well, I don't know how and why, but I am now able to mount the floppy > module on the system. Strange thing is, I can only mount the Debian boot > disk as a msdos disk, although I have to mount a Redhat boot disk as ext2 > disk. This is normal, it a

Re: Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:34:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > It was my assumption that the original poster hadn't made any changes > to the old /lib directory - hence the only change required > is to remove the fstab entry and reboot... > > However, if the ori

re: GNOME startup

1999-06-06 Thread Bill Wilson
I also have this problem. During the slow startup period which eventually gives me the default panel settings, I monitor cpu and disk activity and find that there is almost none. > Sometimes GNOME does not startup immediately. Instead, the panel appears > after a minute or so with the default set

Re: fetchmail won't work in slink

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Loll
I got fetchmail working by changing my /etc/exim.conf. The line I changed was local_domains= , to: local_domains=localhost .     thanks to all that replied. -jason - Original Message - From: Jason Loll To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 6:3

Re: Cooledit for debian?

1999-06-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> Does anyone know whether somebody is packaging cooledit for Debian? It is > a very nice, and fast X-editor with a lot of features. The place to check on things like this is the Debian "Work Needing and Prospective Packages" page (it's under the Developer's section of http://www.debian.org at

Re: fvwm2 preference file?

1999-06-06 Thread ktb
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks! Take a look at the file .fvwm2rc there it explains the differernt "*.hook" files you can create in order to do it the debian way. I place the exterms and so forth that I want to load on startup in ~.f

Re: fvwm2 preference file?

1999-06-06 Thread John
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks! > I assume you mean fvwm2's configuration file? Try "/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc" or "~/.fvwm2rc" Also check out the "hook" files in the fvwm2 directory. If your files arn't located there, do a "locat

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; > making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... This is exactly what you shouldn't install LILO in the MBR. The Debian

Re: Netscape problem

1999-06-06 Thread Ulrich Echterling
Giorgio Gargiulo wrote: > > If in my HTML page I insert same frames by using : > > in Netscape browser the height of frames is different from 69 pixel, 8 pixel > etc. > > If I use Explorer the height is correct. > > Can I solve this problem? Try example: frameborder=no instead of frameborde

GNOME startup

1999-06-06 Thread Andreas Voegele
Sometimes GNOME does not startup immediately. Instead, the panel appears after a minute or so with the default settings and icons enabled. To get my session I've got to kill "gnome-session" and relogin. I've got two systems running potato and I've got the problem on both systems. Does anybody else

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread scratch
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > The communicator/netscape v4.6 as well as X 3.3.3.1 and a few other > newer debs for slink can be found at, http://ftp.netgod.net/x, or add > the line below to your sources.list file for apt. This is a Debian > developers site, they are built from the pot

mySql probs...

1999-06-06 Thread Jeff Bachtel
In dselect, from unstable, I get: libdbd-mysql-perl depends on libmysql6 libmysql6 does not appear to be available (and gnudip, which I'm trying to install, depends on libdbd-mysql-perl) This was working a bit earlier when I simply used the mysql package, instead of trying to go with mysql-base

pdf to html

1999-06-06 Thread Lawrence
Is there any software that can convert acrobat .pdf file to .html format? Lawrence

Re: How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:01:44PM -0400, hammy wrote: > Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to > access my dos partition from within linux. The previous advice is quite correct, however if you want to automate this at boot time you'll need to edit a file cal

fvwm2 preference file?

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

TV card doesn't work under Linux

1999-06-06 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
Hi! I have a Typhoon TV card but I can't make it to work under Linux. I have the BTTV driver compiled as modules. The driver detects the card as a BT878 (Hauppage old) and outputs the correct configuration (IRQ, memory...) at startup, but the TV program (I'm using kwintv) isn't able to find any ch

Re: tetex weirdness

1999-06-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:23:13PM -0500, Joseph Chung wrote: > I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade > from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R > database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need > t

Re: lib termcap problems...

1999-06-06 Thread Holger Mense
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, vmlinuz wrote: > Hellow.. > > I have trying to compiling Pine 4.10 on slink and I get this error: > > ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory > > debian:/# ls -l /lib/libtermcap.so.2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 5 11:10 /lib/libtermcap.so.2 >

Re: Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Craig McPherson
On 6 Jun 99, at 15:42, Brian May wrote: > It was my assumption that the original poster hadn't made any changes > to the old /lib directory - hence the only change required > is to remove the fstab entry and reboot... I didn't do anything to the old lib directory; I was just asking what happened

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: Thank you! > > The communicator/netscape v4.6 as well as X 3.3.3.1 and a few other > newer debs for slink can be found at, http://ftp.netgod.net/x, or add > the line below to your sources.list file for apt. This is a Debian > develop

Re: How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:01:44 -0400, "hammy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, is there any program that will let me choose which operating system to >boot up with? Several boot managers exist that you could try; Linux comes with LILO. For some alternatives look at: http://www.linuxapps.com/

Re: tetex weirdness

1999-06-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade >from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R >database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need >to take 15 minutes to pop

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 02:03:40 +0200, "Jean-Yves F. Barbier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; >making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... You are not doing Linux or yourself any favors by disp

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:53:38 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I purchased my PC, it came with Win95 preloaded. After >installing linux on it, lilo did back up the original bootsector and >stored it in /boot, but over the past two years, and after a couple of >Linux reinst

Re: Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 12:31:57PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * Jens K Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to keep my system "as it" but with APM support. Since > > I have never compiled the kernel before, I have no idea what to > > select and what to leave out when runing ma

Re: XDM problems

1999-06-06 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote > I've got an issue with the *dm programs > I had thought it was just an issue with xdm, but this just happened with > kdm as well... > > I can log in through *dm, and everything works fine while I'm working in > X. However, occasio

CD-ROM and floppy problem update.

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Well, I don't know how and why, but I am now able to mount the floppy module on the system. Strange thing is, I can only mount the Debian boot disk as a msdos disk, although I have to mount a Redhat boot disk as ext2 disk. I also note, I can read, write and execute on my DOS partition, just l

CD-ROM & floppy swap problem.

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I was using a TEAC 4X IDE CD-ROM on a Compaq LTE 5200 notebook without problem to mount it, until I decided to test if I can mount the floppy. So, I swap the module, and found the floppy cannot be mounted. So, I switch back to the CD-ROM, and now I am having a problem mounting the CD-ROM

Re: LPR/LPD error

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since I installed slink, I cannot print. lpr.log shows an error > message "lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=13)" but when I try to > print, as root, using lpr > /dev/lp1, nothing comes out of > the printer. Given that error message, it sounds a

Re: Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:34:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: It was my assumption that the original poster hadn't made any changes to the old /lib directory - hence the only change required is to remove the fstab entry and reboot... However, if the original poster had deleted the original /lib directory

Re: Using hold (dselect)

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > Is there any simple way to toggle hold on all installed packages? Put the cursor on the line "--- Up to date installed packages ---" and press '='. You can do the same with the line "--- Updated packages (newer version is available) ---" To turn

Re: dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate > partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for > this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell > dselect that I was mounting from a directo

Re: Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian May wrote: > >2. In the future, if I decide to use my 128 MB partition on hdc for > >something else, how should I go about that? Will everything break if > >I unmount /lib? > > Yes, everything will break (for all practical purposes - see below for > true technical ex

Re: Repartition swap?

1999-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Partition Magic 4.0 ($-ware) will do this. The CD-ROM has some files you can copy to a floppy which is bootable (DOS), so you don't need a Windows OS to use it. I recently used it to wipe Win98 off my HD and repartition it all for Linux, including chaning the size of the swap partition (enlarging

tetex weirdness

1999-06-06 Thread Joseph Chung
I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need to take 15 minutes to pop up? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,

Installing from disk

1999-06-06 Thread Morgoth3
I'm installing my debian system from floppy disk, since I cannot use internet, due to having an AOL account (stupid parents.) Is there a way I can take large files and get them onto floppy disks? Even compressing some files wouldn't allow them to be transferred, and I was wondering if there wa

Using hold (dselect)

1999-06-06 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Is there any simple way to toggle hold on all installed packages?

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:29:58AM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've got problems running X apps as root with xdm. See /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL

Configuring Zip Drive

1999-06-06 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
Hi! How can I give Zip Drive support in Linux 2.2.9. When I used monkey (kernel 2.0.30), I can load the Zip Drive module using a script that unload the printer , load Zip and mount it and another that umount the Zip and restoure the printer. But it's not easy to use my Zip Drive in a slink with Ke

Sound Card Problem

1999-06-06 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
Hello Debian users!! I finnaly initilize my sound card in a Slink using kernel 2.2.9. But I had to load DOS drivers and use loalin before loading the sound modules (Without this step, I can olny use audio CD ). I can play midis and some wav without any problem. But some wav and all my MP3 sounds h

Re: Monitoring remote server

1999-06-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Christian, Big Brother 1.08 isn't unstable at all. Go to http://maclawran.ca/bb-dnld and get the latest tar ball (1.09b or c). It has many nice features and runs very well. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.net Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > we have recently gotten our web server

Re: Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Over the past few days, I've been slowly getting my Debian system >set up, and I have a quick question about mounting. On hdc, I had >128 MB of unpartitioned space, so I decided to make it another >Linux partition and decide what to do with it later.

Quick mounting question

1999-06-06 Thread Craig McPherson
Over the past few days, I've been slowly getting my Debian system set up, and I have a quick question about mounting. On hdc, I had 128 MB of unpartitioned space, so I decided to make it another Linux partition and decide what to do with it later. It was the only Linux partition on hdc, so af

wmaker hangs

1999-06-06 Thread Harold Hartley
Hi, well I had to reinstall linux on my sparc again to fix a problem.. well, it root wmaker works fine when I type startx... but when I type startx as a user on my system xwindow hangs and doesn't start . hope someone has the answer for me.. Thanks Harold

dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread fairfax
I am having a bit of trouble getting some packages installed from the slink distribution. I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell ds

LPR/LPD error

1999-06-06 Thread fairfax
Since I installed slink, I cannot print. lpr.log shows an error message "lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=13)" but when I try to print, as root, using lpr > /dev/lp1, nothing comes out of the printer. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? I suspected it might be because I didn't h

Re: How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread William Park
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:01:44PM -0400, hammy wrote: > Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me > how to access my dos partition from within linux. My computer is > setup with a linux partition, a linux swap partition and a dos > partition. mount -t msdos /dev/hda? /d

Re: Monitoring remote server

1999-06-06 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings Christian, I run several Debian boxes doing many things, as well as a few NT boxes. I have found that NOCOL (http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/) does the job VERY well. Hope this helps... Anthony At 09:25 PM 6/5/99 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: >Hi, > >we have recent

Re: System beep

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > Is there any way of intercepting the horrible PC case beep and > sending a nice sample to /dev/dsp instead? I really hate the > grunt my case generates on tab completion in bash and so on. >From the Sound-HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO on your s

Repartition swap?

1999-06-06 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Is there a way to repartition the swap space? I think I don't need that much swap, and want to squeeze out some extra partition for filesystem. The whole filesystem is on an extended partition (the primary partition is a DOS system) and I did not create logical drives of it, so the whole

Monitoring remote server

1999-06-06 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, we have recently gotten our web server set up running Debian slink (What a joy!). I was wondering what the easiest way would be to monitor the server and get an email and/or page if the server goes down. I have seen some tools that are available in potato (one of them being "bigbrother"), but

Re: How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to > access my dos partition from within linux. > My computer is setup with a linux partition, a linux swap partition and a dos > partition. Create a directory where you want the dos partition to be. Lets call it dos/ in /

How do I access dos partitions?

1999-06-06 Thread hammy
Hi, as a novice linux user, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to access my dos partition from within linux. My computer is setup with a linux partition, a linux swap partition and a dos partition.   Also, is there any program that will let me choose which operating system to boot up

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6" > Serge Gavrilov wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system >> exists somewhere? > > in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also > had to found a way. i d

System beep

1999-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Is there any way of intercepting the horrible PC case beep and sending a nice sample to /dev/dsp instead? I really hate the grunt my case generates on tab completion in bash and so on. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]

Re: International Business Opportunities

1999-06-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:25:55AM -0700, Ecotech Technologies, L.L.C. wrote: > [spam] > > isn't there some way of stopping this spam? can't posting ability > be restricted to those who subscribe to the list? It's not _all_ bad, because of this (fr

Re: netscape 4.6

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Serge Gavrilov wrote: > > Hello! > > Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system > exists somewhere? in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also had to found a way. i decided to download the tarball from netscape and to use the debian-insta

Re: Getting Netscape to use my mailer

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not able to make Netscape open and use my email program when I click on > an > email link. I have tried all kinds of commands, but no go. I use XFmail, but > it > should be a "standard" way to do this? i have collected an url from some messages, because

Re: fetchmail won't work in slink

1999-06-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
hi, $ locate fetchmail | grep bin /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmailconf have you tried fetchmailconf ? hafi

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:58:36PM -0400, Jason Willoughby wrote: > > Yeah, xdm is more paranoid than startx. You can disable access controls > by running, as alisdair, "xhost +". Check the man page for more info. great, thanks! -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the

Re: Recovering the original boot sector

1999-06-06 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Jor-el wrote: > > Hi, > > When I purchased my PC, it came with Win95 preloaded. After > installing linux on it, lilo did back up the original bootsector and > stored it in /boot, but over the past two years, and after a couple of > Linux reinstalls, I lost the original bootsector (blush).

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Willoughby
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # xmcd > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Yeah, xdm is more paranoid than startx. You can disable access controls by r