does anybody use apt-find ?

1999-06-22 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello! I'v install new apt-find (0.6.0p1-1) on my slink box. But it does not work. The transcript is: galileo# apt-find Parsing apt sources list... It is an absolute dist thingy... Boy they suck major ass. It is an absolute dist thingy... Boy they suck major ass. Segmentation fault Does anybod

Re: hamm dist sites

1999-06-22 Thread Phil Dyer
Robert Rati wrote: > Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones > I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. > > Rob > > http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ ftp://debian.midco.net/debian

Re: SB Live Linux drivers?? && Creative DVD??

1999-06-22 Thread kerkhoff
I have a SoundBlaster Live! value as well. The drivers are compiled for 2.2.5, but I used 'insmod -f sblive.o' to force them to load, and they loaded fine. Of course there is nothing to adjust Enviromental Audio, etc, but better than nothing. Creative is just terrible with drivers. The no sourc

hamm dist sites

1999-06-22 Thread Robert Rati
Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Bab

CERTIFIED GIFTED PSYCHICS

1999-06-22 Thread jimsmith
TALK TO THE WORLDS GREATEST PSYCHICS 1 800 592 7827

Re: Linux MP3 streamers?

1999-06-22 Thread Fitsch
Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi, Does anyone know of any good MP3 streamers (not players) out there for > Linux? Players like x11amp and freeamp require that the mp3s be downloaded to > local machine. > > Tha

Re: Another two questions...

1999-06-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jun, Enrico Zini wrote about "Flushing the slink question cache" > > 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown, >while I often find a need for it in many environments: is there another way >(i.e. "The Debian Right Way") to do it? *- On 22 Jun, Enric

Linux MP3 streamers?

1999-06-22 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Does anyone know of any good MP3 streamers (not players) out there for Linux? Players like x11amp and freeamp require that the mp3s be downloaded to local machine. Thanks much, nram -- Ramesh Natarajan Ge

Re: startx

1999-06-22 Thread The Doctor What
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:49:41PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I've just found a way to do this : > startx -- :13 > for example to open X on the tty 8 but have you any idea of how to swich to > the 13th tty ? > X opens it on the tty13 but when I switch back to the 1st(2nd, 3rd...) > console, I

Distributed computing

1999-06-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everyone, Could some one point me to resources available on distributed computing. What it is, how it works and who to make it work under linux, etc... Thank you, ZORO Take these broken wings and learn to fly...

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-22 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:29:53 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ah, when you said "File System is 32-bit" i thought you meant just that, >and not the filesystem io. Ah, but this isn't about what _I_ mean, but what terminology W9x uses... >Checking, the io is indeed 32 bit. Also, as

Another two questions...

1999-06-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I forgotten two more questions to ask: 1) How's life going for visual impaired people? The only package specific to blind users is emacspeak, but I know there's more: is BRLTTY still alive? Last time I checked was some two years ago: has something new come out since then? 2)

Re: Kernel Compiling Problem

1999-06-22 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:52:18 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you tried running "make-kpkg clean" or removing the stamp-configure >file? The problem you describe sounds exactly like the problem solved by >these two solutions, as given in the make-kpkg manpage. ... which makes

Re: Testing the system

1999-06-22 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > Is there a way to test all the files on a sytem like the RPM can ? > when I type rpm Va, it checks all the file on the system and reports > missing files, broken files > Cruft does a part of the job but not the entire ! Salmi It is not clear what y

Flushing the slink question cache

1999-06-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink distribution: 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown, while I often find a need for it in many environments: is there another way (i.e. "The Debian Right Way") to do it? 2)

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul Seelig wrote: > > There is the common misconception coined by the very term "Linux > community", that the Linux users are a somewhat homogeneous crowd and > you simply fell for that. The Linux crowd is IMHO by far the most > heterogeneous bunch of computer users imageinable and this refelect

Testing the system

1999-06-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
Is there a way to test all the files on a sytem like the RPM can ? when I type rpm Va, it checks all the file on the system and reports missing files, broken files Cruft does a part of the job but not the entire ! -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ |

Re: StarOffice 5 breaks with potato?

1999-06-22 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Brad" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using StarOffice 5.01 or 5.1? There is quite a difference, namely > that 5.1 works and 5.01 doesn't. 5.01... darn! > There was quite the discussion on the list a few months ago about > StarOffice 5, you may want to check

Re: [potato] Font servers broken?

1999-06-22 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See the file /usr/doc/xfs/README.Debian: seen, but it's not my case > Also, be aware that, as of xfs 3.3.3.1-3, the default xfs configuration has > TCP port listening disabled for security reasons. If you have xfs ser

Re: startx

1999-06-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
> Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty > (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one? I know it can be done > with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with > xdm and wdm locking up my box, and I prefer not to take that chance. :) I'v

Re: Getting there

1999-06-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
> I am sitting here now on my Debian box listening to NetRadio having X11Amp > ready, all in all, I have a new envoironemt to work in that in many ways is > just as appealing as my Windows environment was, except for the fact that this > one is much more stable and looks s much better than MS W

multi-session CD writing and mounting?

1999-06-22 Thread Jinsong Zhao
>From the man page of cdrecord, it looks like cdrecord can write multi-sessions on one CD. But then why do we do that? Is there anyway to mount the second session? Also, I could not find any Linux tool to read/write VCD. Any suggestions? Another problem is that mtvp could not play once my ide cd-

Re: Compaq Deskpro 6000 install trouble

1999-06-22 Thread Alex Pilger
I ran into the same problem today. My beast is a Compaq Deskpro 6000 with Adaptec SCSI card (2940U) and an IDE-CDROM. Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : > > The problem I'm aware of with the Compaq Deskpro 6000 was a a : > > model sold two years ago with an Adaptec SCSI card (2940U)

Re: Nic went bye bye

1999-06-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone had their nic stop working when changing from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10 > kernel? I have an isa linksys card that I just use the ne2000 driver > with, only for some reason at boot up, it can not find my nic even though > the io port has not changed. To

SOLVED!: 3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

1999-06-22 Thread Bill Von Elm
Pedro, This did the trick! Many thanks for your help. -Bill- Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > Most likely the autonegotiation is not working well, probably because > the switch your PC is connecting to has this feature disabled. If you > are loading the driver as a module add the following options wh

Re: Kernel Compiling Problem

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, richard wrote: > A problem has recently started compliling custom kerenels. I had to > rebuild my machine (long story) > and now the custom kernels are't build properly. The line I use to build > them is > > make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.Y kernel_image > > where X is usually

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:50:55PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote: > > > > does anyone else using them have root menu weirdness like this: > > > > Debian > > Debian -> Debian > > Apps > > ...(etc)... > > Workspace -> Worksp

Ref: 3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

1999-06-22 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Most likely the autonegotiation is not working well, probably because the switch your PC is connecting to has this feature disabled. If you are loading the driver as a module add the following options when you load it full_duplex=1 options=12 to force it to work in 100Mbps Full Duplex. For instan

Re: Kernel Compiling Problem

1999-06-22 Thread Chris Flipse
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:13:17PM +0100, richard wrote: >where X is usually a major change number and Y is a tweak number. eg >custom.0.1 >Unfortunately ALL my kernels are now building with the custom number of >.0.1 as if I'm issuing >the line > >make-kpkg --revision=custom.0.1 kernel_image make

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-22 Thread Mark Bainter
R. Brock Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Ramesh Natarajan writes: > > > Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP > > > id? I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is > > > there a env variable, API or a file that hol

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Yes, I know how to build packages. Great! i posted the directions in case you didn't, and for anyone else watching the thread who didn't.

Re: Errors compiling mpg123 with esd support

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, eric a. Farris wrote: > i downloaded the source for mpg123-0.59r and am attempting to compile it > with esd support (make linux-esd). the compile begins smoothly, then > stops with the following error: > > audio_esd.o: In function `audio_open': > audio_esd.o(.text+0x17e): und

acroread 4

1999-06-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> >Hi, >I just downloaded acrobat reader 4.0 from the >adobe website. >It coredumps in my slink system. Do I need at >least potato to run >this program?? > >Thanks. > >Shao. I also downloaded acroread 4 and installed it. It runs fine on my slink system. Try ldd and

xserver host id ?? (del / backspace problems)

1999-06-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am having backspace/del problems with xterm. Things work out right on the debian server if erase = del. Things work out right on exceed with erase = backspace. What I am trying to do is put some commands in my .profile (or .bash_profile, or .bashrc) to set the erase char properly. So far, I c

SB Live Linux drivers??

1999-06-22 Thread J.W. Jones
Hello all,   I have been looking around recently for SoundBlaster Live! drivers for Linux. Creative has drivers precompiled for kernel versions 2.0.36 and 2.2.5, (stinky buggers won't release the sources so you can compile your own) but I use kernel 2.2.9 and soon to be kernel version 2.2.10

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:50:55PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote: > On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's > > easier to just download the .debs :-) > > > > --tim :-) > > > > > and while we're on the subject of wm

Re: lilo and win98

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Would you mind checking? The information on that tab doesn't actually > apply to the filesystem itself, but to the disk I/O driver. W9x says > the filesystem is 32 bit if it has completely replaced the BIOS disk > drivers with its own, protected mode

Re: How can I tell "xterm -e finger" not to close when finger does?

1999-06-22 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Frankie wrote: > Cos I'm trying to set up a command with gw, you see. try xterm -e sh -c "finger; read" -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre g

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jun 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: New windows > Date: Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:35:44AM +0100 > > In reply to:Anthony Campbell > > > Could some Windowmaker enthusiast tell me what else is needed please? > > > > Anthony > Anthony > > What version are you running? I h

Re: WindowMaker and GNOME

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Kristopher Johnson wrote: > I've installed GNOME and the wmaker-gnome package (using apt and a > mirror of ftp.gnome.org). I can switch between IceWM and Enlightenment > without any problem, but if I try to switch to WindowMaker using the > GNOME Control Panel, it times out while trying to start.

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
thomas lakofski wrote: Just to throw in some more controversy :-) I have always ran netscape glibc 2 versions. (with communicator 3.something, 4.5, .51 and .6) except maybe the communicator 3.something. I have never had a bus error, and I use netscape at least every day. BTW I am using glibc2.1

How can I tell "xterm -e finger" not to close when finger does?

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Cos I'm trying to set up a command with gw, you see. cheers in advance, frankie. P.S. I have tried using sh to execute the command, but sh closes afterwards as well. P.P.S. Please make it really complicated so I don't look stupid for missing something obvious :-) -- ,

Kernel Compiling Problem

1999-06-22 Thread richard
A problem has recently started compliling custom kerenels. I had to rebuild my machine (long story) and now the custom kernels are't build properly. The line I use to build them is make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.Y kernel_image where X is usually a major change number and Y is a tweak number. eg cu

Can't change gmc's icons on the desktop

1999-06-22 Thread eric a. Farris
Since one of the latter updates from potato, the icons that appear on the desktop (home, mountable devices) now have the standard folder icon and efforts in changing them (via right-click -> Properties -> Options) seem to fail. i am using gmc 4.5.33 and the gnome-core is 1.0.6 . -- eric Farris [

SOLUTION: trying out glibc2.1 with Slink

1999-06-22 Thread Raj Manandhar
A couple of weeks ago I posted to the list asking about trying out glibc 2.1 without upgrading my whole system to potato. I got some responses (which I didn't save, sorry). Here's what worked for me. The best solution was to create a potato subdirectory, chroot to it, untar the potato base system

Nic went bye bye

1999-06-22 Thread Robert Rati
Has anyone had their nic stop working when changing from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10 kernel? I have an isa linksys card that I just use the ne2000 driver with, only for some reason at boot up, it can not find my nic even though the io port has not changed. To make it worse, I can't just insmod the module (I

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread eric a. Farris
On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's > easier to just download the .debs :-) > > --tim :-) > and while we're on the subject of wmaker 0.60 debs... does anyone else using them have root menu wierdness like this: Debi

Re: No menuconfig!?

1999-06-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: No menuconfig!? Date: Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 07:54:15PM +1000 In reply to:Revenant Quoting Revenant([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm wanting to rebuild the kernel, but when I try to "make menuconfig" > I get an error like "no rule for menuconfig". "make config" likewise > doesn'

Re: No menuconfig!?

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote: > I'm wanting to rebuild the kernel, but when I try to "make menuconfig" > I get an error like "no rule for menuconfig". "make config" likewise > doesn't work. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Sanity check: You are in the base directory of a kernel source tre

3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

1999-06-22 Thread Bill Von Elm
Hello All, I recently had to move a system from a 10MB ethernet segment to a 100MB segment. I edited "/etc/init.d/network" to re-assign the IP parameters and that worked just fine, but I can't seem to get the card (a 3Com 3c905B 10/100) to run at 100MB. During system boot-up the "100MB" LED on

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread deblists
Hello Mario, I encountered similar problems, only at least my WindowMaker didn't crash at startup. I replaced the reference to menu.hook with the complete path of it, it's somewhere under /etc. Find it with 'locate' :-) $ locate menu.hook And edit the file WMRootMenu by hand if you wish. Worked

Re: menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > I'm running slink but got wmaker 0.60 and compiled it. After installing > it i tryed to run it but it would crash continually. After looking at > the console i found that it was looking for a menu.hook that was > referenced in WMRootMenu. The

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-22 Thread The Doctor What
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Frankie wrote: > If there is not an x11amp package in slink, then a solution would be to > download the > (debianised) source and compile it. Almost all of the debian sources (in my > experience) seem to compile straight away, with no problems. This way th

Re: [Application] disassembler

1999-06-22 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Nguyen Hai Ha wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wandering if there is any disassembler for x86 going around. > Would anybody kindly give me some information about this. > Thanks in advance. objdump in binutils OK

acroread 4

1999-06-22 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just downloaded acrobat reader 4.0 from the adobe website. It coredumps in my slink system. Do I need at least potato to run this program?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running De

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-22 Thread Bruce Sass
That should be: www.ompages.com iirc. -- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: > I found what I think you were searching for here, > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00668.html > > Unfortunately the link to http://ompages.com is dead right now but maybe > you coul

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > i don't know about a binary deb, but the source packages are available > from your favorite Debian mirror, in the debian/project/experimental > directory. Yes, I know how to build packages. But I didn't realize that pine vers

Anyone been able to install on an HP Vectra?

1999-06-22 Thread Mark Wright
I've got an HP Vectra VE box that I'm trying to install Debian on. I boot from the rescue disk, it starts loading and detecting hardware and then stops after this line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Does anyone know what an "md driver" is and why is it hanging my install? Mark. --

Matrox MGA-G100 and upgrading X ...

1999-06-22 Thread per_adua32
I recently installed debian alongside Win95 on a computer I've had just under a year. I thought I'd install the X window server today, but it seems that the version of X that came with my debian cd does not support my videocard (Matrox MGA-G100). I had a look at deja.com and found the follo

Re: potato wmaker (0.53.0-2)

1999-06-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I know that this version of wmaker is in unstable, but can anybody else > use it? Works fine fer me. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

unknown message sloved

1999-06-22 Thread Harald Kretzschmar
Quoting P. van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - > source(/0):~$ cat /etc/init.d/network > #! /bin/sh > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 /* It tries to add the network, but that already > has been done in the previous line */ > - > > the "r

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: New windows Date: Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:35:44AM +0100 In reply to:Anthony Campbell Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 22 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote: > > Well, this seems like the ideal opportunity for me to advertise my > > ignorance: > > > > What exa

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
If there is a file called $HOME/mail/mbox, imapd will use that as the inbox. Actually this is a bug (report #33780) it should look in $HOME/mbox but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet. To answer your questions, 1) The config file is unsupported and can break between versions. The a

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > Instead I am again presented with the taskbar and popup menus that hasn't > > > really changed for years. Is this to conquer new users, or is it becuase > > > Linux > > > users "secretly" have missed the l

Re: APT: how to dwnld already debs...

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting churasco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > howdie, this must be a simple faq... but haven't found it in any > documentation: > > How to do you ask apt-get to download all the .deb files necessary for a > given package, if that package is already installed on your machine? I've > tried "apt-get -d in

Re: [PHP3] IMP and folders

1999-06-22 Thread Rene H. Larsen
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, we're talking about a 2.1 debian machine. It's running > imap server version 4.4(-4). PHP version is 3.0.7 amd imp version is > 2.0.7. > > My defaults.php3 says the following in the folders section: > > /* Folder con

Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-22 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi My backup saga continues. I'm now trying to use amanda but i'm not sure that i have de definitions of tape correctly. /proc/scsi/scsi says this: Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 And my current amanda.conf sa

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several handy > dock > apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop environment. Also, > Windowmaker looks good! So different from MS, and yet very easy to configure > and use. > > Then

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:53:04AM -0400, Dpk wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote: > >I have two questions: > >1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a >lot of warning for using a configuration file. > >2) Is there a Debian policy about mail

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-22 Thread Paul Harris
> Short answer: do nothing. > > I don't know what the apne.o module is. But it sounds as if you > may be looking for a problem that isn't there. > > If you're compiling a kernel, you've got kernel-package, kernel-source > and pcmcia-source installed. Once you've configured the kernel in the > usu

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Hans van den Boogert
And nobody mentioned the best thing that happened to mankind since sliced bread: the Tab WM!!! I set up aliases for the programs I need in .bashrc ('net for netscape, 'wp' for WP8, 'sound' for the sound apps, etc. Just open a window, type the alias and off you go. Simplify thy life. -- Hans

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Matt Folwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I could be totally wrong, but I think... > > On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:11:52AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > > I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting > > in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). > > > > In my /etc/in

Errors compiling mpg123 with esd support

1999-06-22 Thread eric a. Farris
I love that esd mixes sounds on the fly. one of my biggest complaints with WinAmp under when-doze was that it didn't allow other sounds to come through. under esd, my mp3s (now playing on xmms) seamlessly mix with my GNOME and licq sounds. GQMpeg has some awesome skins. it uses mpg123 as its back-

lost arks haircuts backups etc

1999-06-22 Thread claydona
Hi there, Raid1 the RAid documentation reccomends regular scheduled backups, so I was thinking that though disk mirroring sounds cool its maybe just a little system resource heavy for your basic twin ide desktop pc. Backups Can anyone share a simple cron.weekly shell script that will copy

No menuconfig!?

1999-06-22 Thread Revenant
I'm wanting to rebuild the kernel, but when I try to "make menuconfig" I get an error like "no rule for menuconfig". "make config" likewise doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you. -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Why use a keyboard layout deliberately

potato wmaker (0.53.0-2)

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Hi, I know that this version of wmaker is in unstable, but can anybody else use it? I cannot change the window focus, and the mouse does nothing outside of the front window. I have tried running it with and without gnome, and with and without the wmaker-gnome package. All to no avail :-( I would qu

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Paul Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > does anyone know if the kernel supports this card? i only saw options for > > > the de-600 to de-620. > > > > I use one. It says NE2000 compatible when you plug it in. > > I guess people get bored with adding new model numbers > > when they're basica

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Angus Claydon
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Tim Nicholas wrote: > actually while i use and like WindowMaker i think that the look and feel of > win9x is the best thing that M$ ever did. Which may not be saying much but > still the L&F is alot better than the underlyeing crap that they write. > > Hi snip> > I came fro

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Dpk
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote: I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the /var/spool/mail. I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in ${HOME}/mail/inbox fi

Re: New windows

1999-06-22 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 22-Jun-99 Revenant wrote: > Well, this seems like the ideal opportunity for me to advertise my > ignorance: > > What exactly is the difference between a window manager and a desktop > environment? > I am also ignorant regarding this. I just know I am perfectly happy with Windowmaker. So if

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ~> I think you need to archive your postings and their replies a > ~> bit more efficiently. I was about to cut and paste a previous > ~> reply on the subject when I noticed that the question was posed > ~> by you! > > I can assure you they are efficientl

WindowMaker and GNOME

1999-06-22 Thread Kristopher Johnson
I've installed GNOME and the wmaker-gnome package (using apt and a mirror of ftp.gnome.org). I can switch between IceWM and Enlightenment without any problem, but if I try to switch to WindowMaker using the GNOME Control Panel, it times out while trying to start. I'm running GNOME by using an .xse

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-22 Thread Angus Claydon
> Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned) IP id? > I know pppd invokes ip-up with the local IP. But outside that, is there a env > variable, API or a file that holds returns this info? > > Thanks much, > nram ifconfig

apt-get !update

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, apt-get isn't updating. I just added deb http//:ftp.netgod.net x/ and I say that a number of packages have been updated since I last ran an update, but I have no New or Updated packages . Also apt reports a data transfer rate of >140Kbps, over a V34 modem (I wish!) TIA, Jon -- Email: [E

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-22 Thread Shao Zhang
What about this one?? ifconfig | \ grep "inet addr" | \ grep -v "127.0.0.1" | \ awk '{print $2;}' | \ awk -F':' '{print $2;}' On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:23:29PM -0500, R. Brock Lynn wrote: > scratch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: > > > > > > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-

Re: APT: how to dwnld already debs...

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, You can repack your installed .deb's with dpkg-repack. You could also mount the CD on officeMachine (or use ftp) and copy the .deb's to the zip drive. I have a simmilar set-up and use the above two methods. Sometimes a deb gets left out, but apt will let you know when when you try to inst

Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

1999-06-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jun, Tom Pfeifer wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's" > Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> Hi all: >> >> Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape >> browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package? >> >> As far as I found out, ver

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:23:51PM +0200, Rigacci wrote: > The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in ${HOME}/mail/ but > it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER} for the inbox. This isn't a "real solution", but, will IMAP accept a sym link in /var/spool/mail/${USER} ==> ${HO

Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

1999-06-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Hi all: > > Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape > browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package? > > As far as I found out, versions >=4.5 can be found in unstable, right? > Can there be any problem because Slink has gli

APT: how to dwnld already debs...

1999-06-22 Thread churasco
howdie, this must be a simple faq... but haven't found it in any documentation: How to do you ask apt-get to download all the .deb files necessary for a given package, if that package is already installed on your machine? I've tried "apt-get -d install SOME-PACKAGE" but it works only for those pac

Re: FAQ: Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?

1999-06-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Jun, Joey Hess wrote about "FAQ: Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?" > apt-get install realplayer > > It's that simple. You will be told what to get and where. Why do people keep > asking this FAQ and making it so hard on themselves? > Because this requires that slink u

Re: diald -- help or source!

1999-06-22 Thread John Hasler
Tracy Nelson writes: > My connection script is simple editing of the original to whit: > +++ > MODEM_INIT="ATZ&C1&D2%C0" > "connect" 130 lines, 3693 characters > # The phone number to dial > ... Is this the exact complete script? If so, you have two problems: a) The first and third lines are ex

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Jun, Brad wrote about "Re: How to determine local IP" > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, scratch wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: >> >> > > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1 >> > >> > nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :) >> >> Something l

IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Rigacci
I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the /var/spool/mail. I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in ${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates its folder

Compiling python-1.5.2-3 on slink - problems

1999-06-22 Thread Johann Spies
I hope somebody can help me with this one: I am trying to compile the python source from potato/source and I am getting errors while compiling the dbmmodule.c. The errors seems to be related to my lib6c-dev. I have the following installed version: Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.0.7.19981211-6 So

Install questions etc

1999-06-22 Thread Joakim Svensson
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi debian users, I am a very new user of Linux. I do have some 10+ year users experience with different unixes though so It feels pretty good. I am awaiting a new high spec pc and while wai

menus for wmaker 0.60

1999-06-22 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm running slink but got wmaker 0.60 and compiled it. After installing it i tryed to run it but it would crash continually. After looking at the console i found that it was looking for a menu.hook that was referenced in WMRootMenu. The only way i could find to solve this problem was to run wma

Re: DESEA DORMIR BIEN?

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Um, anyone know what this is about? I get the idea that sleeping at night has little or nothing to do with debian. frankie P.S. what is an ANUNCIOS GRATIS? sounds disturbingly like spam to me... P.P.S. if so is someone going to mail him (in argentinian? spanish?) and explain debian user's poli

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Richard Dansereau wrote: > Hello all! > > I seem to remember a while back there was a discussion about whether > or not to include some rather large packages (i.e. ones containing > data, such as astronomical data) in the Debian releases. I think > the main consensus was not to include these type

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
John Gay wrote: > Thanks for the info, but I think you over looked a few items. > The reason I want to upgrade to potato is, I installed x11amp, which required > newer libs than slink uses. This has broken apt. I've seen this problem > mentioned before and the recommended fix was to upgrade to pot

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