On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:10:50PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote:
>
> >
> > Okay, leave. Debian doesn't need you more than you need it. See you when
> > you get a clue.
> >
>
> Well, I think THAT kind of comment is just as bad. I have been using
> Debian si
Hi!
A while back I had requested a way to set the default Windows Manager
upon boot up.
It was
exec .
I have no idea what else. Can someone please tell me what this is
again? I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you !
I've added a password to the appropriate line in the /etc/ircd/ircd.conf
file.
It looks like: I:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:mypass:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1
I have the rest of the 'I" lines commented out.
It does not ask for a password when I log on to the irc server.
What have I missed. I want anyone who log
I have just been through this process having decided to switch over from
SuSE to debian. i must say that the install system is fine until dselect
with a multi CD set. I actually reinstalled SuSE and nearly gave up before
deciding not be overcome and going ahead and trying. Eventually mount the CD
m
I have the Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI CDROM drive, with an AMD K6-2 350 and
128Mb of PC100 memory.
I have compiled the kernel, watch updatedb start running in the middle
of a burn and compiled the Mercury compiler (much more memory, cpu and
disk intensive then the kernel) during CD burns without any h
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:10:50PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> thing is that the initial installation is important to a newbie because
> that is what they are focused on at the start. The fact that it will save
> them hours and hours down the road in maintenance once they DO get it set
> up is n
"G. Crimp" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:52:05PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> >
> > You could edit
> > /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook
> > directly.
> > kent
> >
>
> Bad idea. /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook is an automatically
> generated file. Next time the file is regenerated, any changes y
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
> If you ran update-menus as root user, it won't look in ~/.menu for
I ran it as a normal user.
> update-menus" or somewhere under /usr/doc/menu. Why not put the entry in
> /etc/menu and run as root ?
Because StarOffice is personalized for each user,
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> You also have to restart the window manager.
I did. I even logout and then login the user. And still no luck :-(.
--
Tad
To All-- Thanks for the feedback, and my sincere congratulations to those
of you who've mastered the intricacies of Debian. For years I've been
hoping to find an OS that would get me out of Windows, and I had high
hopes Linux might be it, but all I have to show for scores of hours is
the immense f
I'm looking for suggestions on how to handle newsreading
on my new debian linux workstation. =). I'm leaving forte Agent
behind in the windows world and am a little sad to see it
go, but here are my initial questions about unix newsreaders...
First of all, is there are way to set up a local news s
Christopher Clark writes:
> The reference to sl0 is presumably diald.
Why are you trying to dial out with diald running?
> Could anybody give my a pointer please.
If you really need to dial out with diald running and establish a default
route over the ppp link, put route commands in ip-up.d and
Can anyone suggest how I can upgrade perl to 5.005 without dselect
forcing me to remove something like 150 packages? It seems that
perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl but doesn't provide it.
Consequently, all the packages that depend on perl want to uninstall
themselves. Any clues?
Please cc me
I've installed KDE 1.1 but I've a symlink to a nonexistant file. It's a bug?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 JÚL 5 21:15 /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde
-> debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/kde
Currently I use 'kde' instead of 'startkde'.
Thanks
Attila
--
---
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
>
> $ echo 'int main(){ unlink("--exclude_files=\"blah\"");}' > file.c && \
> > gcc file.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out file.c &
perl -e 'unlink q?--exclude_files="blah"?'
Hi Max,
Well I can certainly appreciate that you're frustrated and fed-up! Linux can
be a PITA in the beginning, but if you can manage the initial learning curve
there's lots of interesting stuff to do. Lots of people use Debian, and it's a
community effort, so I don't think it's useless (of
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have
> come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS!
Interesting opinion. i disagree though.
> It won't drive your printer,
Drives my printer (Epson Stylus Color 6
$ echo 'int main(){ unlink("--exclude_files=\"blah\"");}' > file.c && \
> gcc file.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out file.c &
Carl
Hi,
After I moved from 'slink' to 'potato' I have noticed that the host
information from the output of 'w', 'who' and 'last' is gone. For
example 'who' gives
$ who
peter:0 Jun 23 16:44
peterpts/0Jun 23 16:44 (:0.0)
peterpts/1Jun 23 16:45
but the last lin
Okay, leave. Debian doesn't need you more than you need it. See you when
you get a clue.
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have
> come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It
> won't drive yo
Hi!
Is debian prepared for having these special kind of permissions
for /dev/log?
-- p.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:58:56 +0100 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: silly q
FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have
come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It
won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation
is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation
procedure has more b
> I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts?
> connected to. Is there any advantage to a switch in a small home
> network? Money, at this level, really isn't the issue, but I don't
> want to spend extra money on a switch if it's overkill for a small
> network and doesn
On 05-Jul-99 George Bonser wrote:
>
> oh,oh looks like we need an xchat-dev package with the header files and
> like.
>
Yes, that's what I thought.
--
Andrew
> > The standard things people will tell you to do are:
> > - turn everything off
>
> What is "everything"? I've downloaded the lasg and have been reading
> through it...but so far I have only disable things in
> /etc/inetd.conf. Are there other locations that I need to be concerned with?
Yo
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:35PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> I'm a bit of a pine junkie; is there a way to install it using apt-get; for
> exanple a line I can add to the sources-list?
There is a pine package in non-free. Add non-free to the list of
distributions for the main Debian archive i
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:37:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
>
> > Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
> >rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> > work??
>
> No. The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not
> the shell being
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:33:14PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sami Dalouche:
> > > The operative word being `need to'. It'd be a very good feature indeed
> > > if the e-mail client checked the size of the message and said, when
> > > appropriate, something along the lines of "this is an
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 09:01:10PM +, Nathan Valentine wrote:
> Sami Dalouche wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:37:09PM +0100, BENJAMIN FARRELL wrote:
> > > Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x
> > > (other
> > > than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't
> And don't reply with: "Have you tried mutt?" I have. I do not like mutt or elm
Hmm. What's the problem w/ mutt ?
If it's too awful, it could be great to develop a Gnome or GTK interface to
it. Is it possible - if a developper could answer - ?
Have you tried Kmail, The KDE mail software ? I know
are you looking for NTP? that's main/net/ntp. HTH
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Daniel Dui wrote:
> I think there is a debian package that keeps the system time
> synchronized with GMT (well in my case with CET) .
>
> Does anyone know what is this package's name?
>
> BTW the machine is permanently con
On 3 Jul 99, at 12:12, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out the file "/etc/apt/sources.list". That said however,
> since Potato is glbc2.1 vs. 2.0 for slink it's pretty much an all or
> nothing upgrade, ie. you'll be downloading pretty much everything.
> If you still want to move to Potato
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
qmail yes, fetchmail maybe, depending on your definition of an MTA.
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
> what form?
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:45:57AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts?
If you're using cat5. If you're just using coax cable, you don't need a
hub or switch and can just hang everything off the one wire.
> Which one? I believe I u
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:46:04PM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote:
> dialing out (e.g. using pon) connects ok to my ISP and negotiates PPP
> The reference to sl0 is presumably diald.
> Could anybody give my a pointer please.
If you are using diald it's easiest to *only* use diald. In your diald
Hi all,
I'm a bit of a pine junkie; is there a way to install it using apt-get; for
exanple a line I can add to the sources-list?
Thanks in advance.
Patrick
Wise Chinese Proverb: "Fed up of your computer winning at chess? Try it at
kick-boxing instead!"
Exim does permit header manipulations including rewrite.
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:52:05PM -0500, ktb wrote:
>
> You could edit
> /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook
> directly.
> kent
>
Bad idea. /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook is an automatically
generated file. Next time the file is regenerated, any changes you made to
it will be lost. The Debi
Hi all:
I'm using locale and xkbd. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere to
make each window "remember" its state of keyboard layout... So that if
I switch to another language in Licq, it would stay that way, and when
I turn back to emacs, the layout woud be the one that I used when I
left i
As far as I know, X11amp is being replaced with XMMS. Take a look at:
www.xmms.org
Trying to access www.X11amp.org will take you to XMMS also.
On 05-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp.
> xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. I don't
>
Hi all,
When I try to telnet into my newly installed debian server, I get a message
"Connection to host lost".
Same message when I do so on the machine itself.
I can ping the machine so the NIC is working. Is there something I need to
do to enable telnet access?
Sorry if this seems a very basi
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:19:46PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since
> potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends
> on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato
> and try compilin
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
> work??
No. The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not
the shell being clever.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:16:17PM +0200, Robert Ramiega wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:49:23AM +0200, Illo de' Illis wrote:
> > flawlessly for me (I own a PalmIII). You can try pose (PalmOS emulator for
> POSE ? I thought it's WIn* only (for unix/linux you can use xcopilot which
> does prett
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Thanks for the response guys. Sofar I understand that
>
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
>
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery s
I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived
deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful
lot of questions that crop up time and time again. These aren't directly
related to the Debian-FAQ but crop up enough that maybe there should be
somethi
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> I've installed fetchmail and exim, but haven't had time to read the man
> pages. Does anybody have a good way to convert man pages into readable
> ASCII text, so I can print them out and read them off-line? (The purchasing
>
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:25:44 +0100, you wrote:
>Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:14:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>> >On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >> I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on Debian? I
>> >> grepped for klogd in /etc but did no
You could edit
/etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook
directly.
kent
Tadeusz Bak wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to
> put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I
> created a file .menu/soffice in my home direct
I have problem connecting to my ISP.
I am new to debian having used (mostly) Red Hat; I am using 5.2 with exmh
and sendmail to generate this. The problem stems from trying to set up a
gateway between my local network (via eth0) and the Internet ppp0
i.e. this computer has two names and two i/p add
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
>
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
> what form?)
Correct so far.
Anyone succeed in compiling the plugins for xchat?
I can't seem to do it.
~/atenea$make
gcc -c -g -Wall `gtk-config --cflags` atenea.c
atenea.c:21: ../xchat.h: No such file or directory
atenea.c:22: ../plugin.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [atenea.o] Error 1
tnx
--
Andrew
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer
> > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new
> > package in potato but when I run "apt-get update;
hi
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp.
> xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles.
that looks like quite consistent number. On my cyrix-333
i usually got 18-19%.
> I don't
> think x11amp used more than a couple percent.
i be
Well many daemons are controlled but not all, for example mail and RPC are not.
You can see what is running on your system with netstat:
netstat -a --inet
Any socket with LISTEN is dangerous since it can be connected to. The other
place to look for daemons being started is /etc/innitta
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Alec Smith wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system.
> I'm looking at the following possible combinations.
>
> 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
> 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
> 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
> 4. IDE CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
>
I use cron to execute netdate (in netstd) daily to update my clock.
This is my cron script:
> #!/bin/sh
> netdate ntp.xs4all.nl uva.nl ntp.demon.nl && hwclock --systohc --utc
Try to find ntp servers near you..
Regards,
Remco
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 15:42, Daniel Dui wrote:
> I think there is
I'm going to be setting up a small 100Mb home network soon and I'd
like some info/help. While I know plenty about Unix/Linux sysadmin, I
know next to nothing about networking. At first my network will
consist of two hosts, with a third host present intermittently (a
laptop that floats with me). I d
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to
> > put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I
> > created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents:
> >
> > ?package(local.
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Tadeusz Bak wrote:
> On 2 Jul 1999, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > features, including modem detection, support for seperate nameservers for
> > each provider, and support for dynamic dns. I would particularly like to
>
> Could you explain me please how can I configure separate na
Hi Debian users,
I installed Debian at my friend's lab and he wants to install
everything
in /usr under /usr/local to remote mount.
What is the safesty way to copy /usr to /usr/local?
Thanks, Paulo Henrique
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a NEC 4 disk cdrom drive. Sometimes after using xmcd, the
> drive seems to get all balled up. It seems to get confused about whether
> there are any CD's in any of the 4 slots and just keeps cycling through them
> looking. When it gets in
I am doing the IDE/IDE thing. If you already have a SCSI controller, you could
go for that. I have had no problems; just compile SCSI-IDE emulation support
into the kernel so that both your IDE cdroms will speak scsi.
Somebody mentioned CPU usage. I don't see why this should matter, I don't touc
On 04-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 04-Jul-99 Mark Wagnon wrote:
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I've got another question (or two). I've been trying to get networking
>> setup and I seem to be on the right track. I have a book entitled "The
>> Linux Network" and I've managed to get my two systems to ping
Each time I run netscape 4.5, talkback dumps core. Here is the backtrace
when I ran gdb on the core file.
Core was generated by `/usr/local/netscape-4.5/talkback/talkback -nub'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Erreur de segmentation.
#0 0x0 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0 in ?? ()
#1 0x4017ee9e in
Quoting Ramakrishnan M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> hello,
> I had been reading the Linux Device Drivers,and tried running the
> first program.
> #define KERNEL
> #include ...
> ...init_module(...)
> .
That first line is wrong, but I guess you copied into the email
wrongly.
> when I do insmod
Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:14:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> >On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on Debian? I
> >> grepped for klogd in /etc but did not find explicit code to do so.
> >
> >/etc/init.d/s
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:06:23AM +0530, Ramakrishnan M wrote:
> hello,
> I had been reading the Linux Device Drivers,and tried running the
> first program.
> #define KERNEL
> #include ...
> ...init_module(...)
> .
>
> when I do insmod prog.o it says the program has been compiled to run
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system.
> I'm looking at the following possible combinations.
>
> 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
> 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
> 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
> 4. IDE CD-
Thanks for the response guys. Sofar I understand that
qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
what form?)
Then exim (Mail
Hi,
I'd like to say thanks to everyone who replyed to my question. It's working
great now :-) Now I can get my maths c/w done :-)
--
Best Wishes,
Andy Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
-- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates
Daniel Dui writes:
> I think there is a debian package that keeps the system time
> synchronized with GMT (well in my case with CET) .
> Does anyone know what is this package's name?
Look at chrony and xntp3. Chrony is only in unstable. If you install it
you will have to change the default conf
Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In a lab network, I have a dual homed Debian host that should act as a
> packet filter between the external ("untrusted") and the internal
> ("trusted") interface. The untrusted network is on eth0; the trusted
> network on eth1. The host should assign IP numbers on the
Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm running icewm-gnome and I like it very much. However
> every time I logon it will give me a pile of windows that
> I apparently was open when I logged off (sometimes it even
> starts some programs that I definitely wasn't running anymore
> when I logged o
Hi, I have a Diamond Stealth 2500 series graphics card and I'm having a
problem during X many time a fatal error occurs and I'm not able to get
back to it. Only restarting linux. I think I've read on this mailing list a
way to solve this but I can't remember. Can anybody help?
Regards,
Paulo Jorge
>
> Hi,
> I once had a problem moving from bo to slink. Many packages were removed
> and had to be reinstalled. One of the things that got lost is the
> documentation on C functions. For example I used to run "man strcpy" and
> the documentation of the function "strcpy" will be displayed, now it
Howdy,
I'm running icewm-gnome and I like it very much. However
every time I logon it will give me a pile of windows that
I apparently was open when I logged off (sometimes it even
starts some programs that I definitely wasn't running anymore
when I logged off). However in stead of spreading a
I think there is a debian package that keeps the system time
synchronized with GMT (well in my case with CET) .
Does anyone know what is this package's name?
BTW the machine is permanently connected.
thank you
daniel
--
Daniel Dui [EMAIL PRO
On 04-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote:
>>
> Mahogany is new, and still has some bugs, but I like it.
>
> I am still using xfmail but want to move to Mahogany as soon as some of
> the little bugs are fixed.
Thanks for the reference. I just tried mahogany. Nice GUI, and clearly
going somewhere.
I didn't stu
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:49:23AM +0200, Illo de' Illis wrote:
> flawlessly for me (I own a PalmIII). You can try pose (PalmOS emulator for
POSE ? I thought it's WIn* only (for unix/linux you can use xcopilot which
does pretty much the same)
--
Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC: _Jed
Hi,
I once had a problem moving from bo to slink. Many packages were removed
and had to be reinstalled. One of the things that got lost is the
documentation on C functions. For example I used to run "man strcpy" and
the documentation of the function "strcpy" will be displayed, now it does
not work
TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME:
I've installed (finally!) Debian 2.1 on an 486 w\a VESA ISA
motherboard & a 16450 UART serial card (I think). Now, unhappily, Slink
will not detect my modem, a Diamond Supra 288i SP, which previously
worked just fine on Windows.
I've run wvdial.conf, but it too d
> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> Microsoft will not "invent" DNS until NT5. Easy way is to
George> simply insert the IP adddesses into the /etc/hosts file OR
George> buy the book "DNS and BIND" from www.ora.com and learn how
George> to build your own DNS
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:22:05AM +, Dan wrote:
> Whats "excude"?
>
> >On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> >
> > > Umm... wouldn't a simple
> > >
> > >rm '--excude=files.txt'
> > >
> > > work??
> >
> >That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
> >
> >rm: unrecognized option `-
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:51:46PM +0530, Ramakrishnan M wrote:
>
> Is there anything else needed??? The program
> ad1848_mixer_reroute.c was compile d and put in the root
> directory.While running it I got the output "/dev/mixer:
> no such device".The device exists,but the driver is unable to
>
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer
> ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new
> package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade"
> apt tells me t
Hello,
I need some help in setting up an OPTi82C931 based soundcard.
What I did was,I downloaded the evaluation version of OSS (20 minute
version),and got it working in the single shot. Using it I made a note of
the IRQ's
and DMAs and the io addresses.Then I uninstalled it and compiled the ker
Howdy,
I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer
ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new
package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade"
apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks
my system is already u
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:04:28AM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to
> put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I
> created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to
> put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I
> created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory with the contents:
>
> ?package(local.soffice):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editor
Whats "excude"?
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> work??
That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
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Hi,
I have a NEC 4 disk cdrom drive. Sometimes after using xmcd, the
drive seems to get all balled up. It seems to get confused about whether
there are any CD's in any of the 4 slots and just keeps cycling through them
looking. When it gets in this state, I can't play any more CD's
The /etc/resolv.conf file contains both those servers?
From: "Rudy Broersma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian User List"
Subject: DNS Lookups
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:44:53 +0200
Hi,
My linux boxes can't perform DNS lookups. For example, if I want to mount
an
SMB Share, I have to do somethi
Hi,
My linux boxes can't perform DNS lookups. For example, if I want to mount an
SMB Share, I have to do something like this:
SMBMOUNT //NTSERVER/NT_SHARE /MOUNTPOINT
But all I get back is: NTServer: Unknown host.
The same happends when I ping my NTserver using his domain name: Ping
NTServer
Al
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> Umm... wouldn't a simple
>
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
>
> work??
That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.
rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
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Mvh
Hi again,
When I try to restart /etc/init.d/network or set the route from the
cli, I get an SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument error. I searched through
the archives, and the only thing I found was a reference to 2.2.*
kernels and upgrade netbase to the one in potato.
The kernel on this machine is 2.0.3
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:51:50AM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > That is, rm -i -- --exclude=files.txt would have removed the file.
>
> One of the wonderful thing about Linux, is that there are several ways to
> fix things. :-)
>
> - * Linux -
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:03:16AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp.
> xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. I don't
> think x11amp used more than a couple percent.
One of the bugs in x11amp was that it used to mask the CPU usage of the
Hi!
Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):
354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
>>> .
And it just sits there, doing nothing ?
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