Re: sendmail: to queue or not to queue

1999-08-27 Thread John Forest
Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey, > > I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being > scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: > > . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to >deliver immediately > . if an incoming email i

Debian newbie question

1999-08-27 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian. Thanks in advance for all help Ari Sigurðsson

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-27 Thread John Gay
Well, after reviewing the replies I've received and having another look through www.x11.org's comparison chart, it look like the best candidate for most features, ease of configuration via GUI tools and good displays on my daughters remote X-Terminal with it's 8 bit colour limit, is WindowMaker.

Re: setting up .Xresources

1999-08-27 Thread Ernest Johanson
The X man page has the info. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:46:17 + > From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Subject: setting up .Xresources > >

Re: X-Window help the debian way?

1999-08-27 Thread John Carline
Chris someone wrote: > Hi there, I am new to debian using SuSE for the last two years. > I installed hamm last night and every thing was pretty easy to install > even though, I did come across a problem with my mouse getting assigned to > my modem com port, hehe, dunno how, but fixed that, and it

Mutt headers

1999-08-27 Thread Stephen R . Gore
I'm having a problem with my mutt headers. As you can see, the From: and Reply-To: fields have an extra space between R and .. My .muttrc has these entries: my_hdr From: Stephen R. Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> my_hdr Reply-To: Stephen R. Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any ideas why this is

Re: setting up .Xresources

1999-08-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: setting up .Xresources Date: Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 06:46:17PM + In reply to:Mark Wagnon Quoting Mark Wagnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone point me to some documentation on how to set up my > .Xresources? Syntax, etc? > Try man X or rgrep -ri xresources /usr/doc/x

X-Window help the debian way?

1999-08-27 Thread Chris someone
Hi there, I am new to debian using SuSE for the last two years. I installed hamm last night and every thing was pretty easy to install even though, I did come across a problem with my mouse getting assigned to my modem com port, hehe, dunno how, but fixed that, and it fixed my modem and mouse pr

Re: Talk

1999-08-27 Thread Stephen R . Gore
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:52:10PM +0200, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > Since i use Debian i can't use talk command > i've always this message : > > [Your party is refusing messages] > ---end quoted text--- Debian's default config is "mesg n". To enable talk, the user must enter "mesg y" at the c

Re: Talk

1999-08-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tony both parties need to have talkd running ( see /etc/inetd.conf ) and in one of the login screen...they/you need to have set the option/command, "mesg y" to say you are willing to accept incoming talk sessions have fun linuxing alvin > Since i use Debian i can't use talk command > i

Re: Talk

1999-08-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:52:10PM +0200, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > Since i use Debian i can't use talk command > i've always this message : > > [Your party is refusing messages] > > Any ideas ? Tony, I bet we need more info. :) First, were you running another unix/linux before, and now that y

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:33:19PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > Well, /etc/redhat-release and IIRC /etc/SuSE-Version are two more to add > > to the list. > > What about 'uname -a' ? Will that do it? You could read /etc/issue or > /etc/issue.net but I for one change those for security reasons. /etc

Talk

1999-08-27 Thread Tony Schonfeld
Since i use Debian i can't use talk command i've always this message : [Your party is refusing messages] Any ideas ? Tony Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.f5git.ampr.org Hamnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (33) 0610104815 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Aug-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the >> base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines. >> What do other dists have that is a sure way of kno

Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-27 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, is there a simple solution to move folders in /var/spool/mail/$user to /home/$user/mailbox, i'm working with exim and qpopper and symlinks seems not to work. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.8

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-27 Thread Nathan Duehr
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: This is really interesting. I didn't realize the kernel did this. I'll probably try this out this weekend. (I love finding little tweaks like this...) > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to > have a swap partition on a di

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the > base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines. > What do other dists have that is a sure way of knowing what dist is set > up on the machin

Re: Netscape

1999-08-27 Thread Ryan Chouinard
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > That's interested. I seem to have experienced the most problems when I > was running it under AfterStep; fewer now that I run under IceWM (no > GNOME). > > Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML > forms correctly? Whenever I need to select

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Eeek, dave, you gotta wrap your lines at 70 to 76 characters.. (thank god for vim's reformatting.. :) On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:43:55AM -0500, Dave McFadden wrote: [/dev/hda3 == 100mb, much drive space left] > > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount > it as /u

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:08:25AM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote: > > I can imagine another philosophy for automatic package installing. I > am sure that many people (I myself for instance) have installed many > more packages than they actually use. For that case I can imagine a > utility that remember

deskjet, color cartrige and black text...

1999-08-27 Thread Ben Collins
Ok, I've got a color HP deskjet printer with a color cartrige installed. My problems is that whenever I print something blackand white (be it postscript or just plain text) it wants me to put in the b/w cartrige, which I don't want to have to do. It does this even though I am using the dj500c-filte

Re: Page length using a2ps

1999-08-27 Thread Ernest Johanson
Saadi, Do a search in the a2ps info document for --lines-per-page. You might be specifying an incorrect font-size parameter. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jor-el wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:46:55 -0500 (CDT) > From: Jor-el <[E

Re: setting up .Xresources

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Aug, Mark Wagnon wrote about "setting up .Xresources" > Can someone point me to some documentation on how to set up my > .Xresources? Syntax, etc? > > tia Start with 'man X' there is a section titled RESOURCES that describes how they work and the general syntax as well as gives a few ex

Re: cpp macros: quotes and spaces (# and ##)

1999-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/08/27(5)/19:08, joost witteveen montris sian geniecon skribante: > I've got a define > > #define WRAP_STAT __xstat > > and from the macro WRAP_STAT, I want to define > > #define NEXT_STAT next___xstat > and > #define WRAP_STAT_QUOTE "__xstat" [What doesn't work:] > #define NEXT_STAT ne

setting up .Xresources

1999-08-27 Thread Mark Wagnon
Can someone point me to some documentation on how to set up my .Xresources? Syntax, etc? tia -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.d

Re: SNMP

1999-08-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:00:31 -0500, David Engel wrote: >On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Ken Long wrote: >> Well, since reading your message, I've been trying.pretty >> unsuccessfully, however. I notice with the default configuration, I can't >> even connect from the localhost! I

Re: problem: both dselect and apt hang at "Correcting dependencies"

1999-08-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > I can't install or upgrade anything right now as dselect and apt both > hang (taking my system load to 1.0) while trying to "Correcting > dependencies..." I'm using Potato, of course. Heh. Grab the 0.3.11.1 version of APT from http://www.debian.org/~j

problem: both dselect and apt hang at "Correcting dependencies"

1999-08-27 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
I can't install or upgrade anything right now as dselect and apt both hang (taking my system load to 1.0) while trying to "Correcting dependencies..." I'm using Potato, of course. Heh. Here's output from dselect: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available inf

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *- On 27 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about "Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12" > > > Oh, I didn't realise you needed make-kpkg clean - > > What effect would me not using it have? > > > > On a prestine source it is not needed. But if you have used make-kpkg > in

Re: Monitoring eth0 with wmnet

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Monitoring eth0 with wmnet" > Hello, > > I am trying (unsuccessfuly) to monitor the ethernet traffic from > my laptop using wmnet. > > It looks like it is only set up to handle ppp traffic. I dont > have a modem handy, so cant test it on ppp (can I?).

cpp macros: quotes and spaces (# and ##)

1999-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
I've got a define #define WRAP_STAT __xstat and from the macro WRAP_STAT, I want to define #define NEXT_STAT next___xstat and #define WRAP_STAT_QUOTE "__xstat" To define NEXT_STAT in terms of WRAP_STAT, I tried #define NEXT_STAT next_ ## WRAP_STAT (with the ## to get rid of the space in betwee

kde

1999-08-27 Thread jason
anyone have a working apt entry to get kde? snowcrash doesn't seem to like me anymore.. -jason "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." -Einstein

Re: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Sean Fulmer
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Samantha Summers wrote: > I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. > > I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup > doesn't see it. > > I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. > They

Monitoring eth0 with wmnet

1999-08-27 Thread John
Hello, I am trying (unsuccessfuly) to monitor the ethernet traffic from my laptop using wmnet. It looks like it is only set up to handle ppp traffic. I dont have a modem handy, so cant test it on ppp (can I?). Here is the output of my failed attempts: # wmnet -x 1000 -l

sbpcd CDROM Problem! Need Help!

1999-08-27 Thread Tam Ma
Hi everyone, Ok, here is my problem. I just install "slink" yesterday using the floppies method because I can't boot from my Matsushita/Panasonic CR-563 CDROM. So I install the base system using the floppy set and everything went great. I got the base system installed, YES Anyway, the problem

Re: Subject: How to install a source package?

1999-08-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:52:47AM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Most packages, when compiled from source, will install their libraries > > and executables in /usr/local somewhere, which is okay because dpkg > > shouldn't touch that area. It must be possible t

Re: Installing Debian 2.1r2

1999-08-27 Thread Michael Curry
At 10:26 AM 8/27/99 -0400, Cory Rudder wrote: >Hello, I received a Debian disk with the "Debian GNU/ Linux; Guide to >installation and usage". I am not very impressed with the "dbootstrap" >so far after a dozen attempts on three different machines. I'm ready >to give up. In my lifetime I have

Re: Netscape

1999-08-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Carline wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > You know, I'm starting to think NS Communicator has some deep, > > evil magic embedded in it. > > [cut] > > > > If anyone is interested, I'm using a K6-200, 64M ram, GNOME with > > fvwm2. I use NS daily for browsing, email, and news

Re: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Evan Day
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Samantha Summers wrote: ) I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. ) ) I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup ) doesn't see it. ) ) I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. ) They are both 3.3.2.3a-11

OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Servis
What is the best way to determine which distribution of Linux a machine is running? I know that Debian has a file /etc/debian_version which is part of the base-files package so that should be present on all Debian machines. What do other dists have that is a sure way of knowing what dist is set

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-27 Thread Robert Kerr
Thanks for the thoughts. I commented out the rdbuff->setbuf line and it works much better now. Also, I did post to comp.lang.c++.moderated too--yours and one other message were the first responses I got--proving that the debian list is a wonderful resource. -bob On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:03:2

Re: /etc/hosts problem

1999-08-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:40:38AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > 127.0.0.1 is the localhost ( your machine ). Unless > your machine is acting as the name server names will not be secolved. but what about "order hosts,bind"? -- - Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROT

Re: pppd question

1999-08-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 02:20:12PM -, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote: > > I had a working dial-up ppp link with an ISP provider. > Recently, I am failing to setup the connection. > I am not able to figure up what the problem is. > The setup I am using now is just the same as before. > I have append

Re: How to install a source package?

1999-08-27 Thread markzimm
Thanks for the kick-start; I have gotten this to work. For the benefit of the other side discussions that this question started, let me give a little background. I wanted to install qmail which is only available in source form. Since it provides 'mail-user-agent', I wanted to do this by the book s

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: > | I've always used, for example, "--revision=2.2.12-hostname.1" because > | dselect always wanted to replace my custom kernels with the stock ones > | once that version went up

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:18:13PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:20:03AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > | At 06:25 PM 8/26/99 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > | >make (menu)config > | >make-kpkg clean > | >make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > | >dpkg -i .

CD boot images extraction

1999-08-27 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Is there a way to extract the boot image on a cd where it has been hidden? I looked through the docs for mkisofs and mkhybrid. I know how to create and hide the image but not how to find one the has been hidden.

Dialin question

1999-08-27 Thread Douglas Eck
I'm currently using wvdial and like it. Now I only have one phone line with call forwarding and want to do the following with demand dialing (note, I know roughly about all of the packages required... I'd just like to get thoughts from anyone who has done anything this silly already ...) On demand

Re: Installing Debian 2.1r2

1999-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Cory Rudder wrote: >Hello, I received a Debian disk with the "Debian GNU/ Linux; Guide to >installation and usage". I am not very impressed with the "dbootstrap" so >far after a dozen attempts on three different machines. I'm ready to give >up. In my lifetime I have never seen a pre-package

Re: Anybody keeps pcmcia-cs_3.0.12-?.deb or pcmcia-cs_3.0.10-?.deb ??

1999-08-27 Thread mcclosk
|> When I upgraded pcmcia-cs package to 3.0.14, I found my pcmcia |> network card does not work. It seems the problem is not easy for me |> to solve because the error messages are complains about "NULL |> pointers" in the kernel and lots of CPU register error messages are |> dumped. Since network

Re: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Samantha: Perhaps you should download the drivers from: http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html or try the debian packages at: http://www.netgod.net/X/ Hope this hleps. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada,

Installing Debian 2.1r2

1999-08-27 Thread Cory Rudder
Hello, I received a Debian disk with the "Debian GNU/ Linux; Guide to installation and usage". I am not very impressed with the "dbootstrap" so far after a dozen attempts on three different machines. I'm ready to give up. In my lifetime I have never seen a pre-packaged loader operate as this one do

RE: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Jon Hughes
I managed to get my Velocity 4400 working with the 3.3.3.1 as SVGA, so you may want to grab that. On the other hand, as a public service announcement, after STB was bought out by 3DFX their customer service for that product went down the tubes. Four email attempts and a phone call later (on whic

Re: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Samantha Summers wrote: > I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. > > I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup > doesn't see it. > > I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. > They

Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Samantha Summers
I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup doesn't see it. I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. They are both 3.3.2.3a-11. Help! =( ___

Re: /etc/hosts problem

1999-08-27 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
127.0.0.1 is the localhost ( your machine ). Unless your machine is acting as the name server names will not be secolved. You will have to get the name server from the network administrator.

pppd question

1999-08-27 Thread Chittaranjan Mandal
I had a working dial-up ppp link with an ISP provider. Recently, I am failing to setup the connection. I am not able to figure up what the problem is. The setup I am using now is just the same as before. I have appended a transcript of the logged messages. Would you like to take a look to see what

Re: install

1999-08-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I should like to install the X-Windows system under my Debian-Linux > 1.3.1. distribution, but I have some problem with using the mouse. > It seems so easy to install the mouse, but this is the case. I have a > two-button Microsoft mouse connected to the PS/2 port and it doesn't > response. Wha

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about "Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12" > Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The order should be >> >> apply patch >> make config >> make-kpkg clean >> make-kpkg --revision .. > > Oh, I didn't realise you needed make-kpkg clean - I have never used thi

Re: Samba with 2.2.x kernels

1999-08-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Samba with 2.2.x kernels Date: Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:43:40AM +0200 In reply to:Peter Weiss Quoting Peter Weiss([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > trying to mount a samba volume on my debian box fails with > > smbmount-2.1.x //Vincent/user /mnt -U pewe >

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: : Dave McFadden said: : > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right now

RE: Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewa

1999-08-27 Thread Brian McGroarty
> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > Is there something more I should have to use the potato apt > > with 2.1? > > > > I installed and configured apt as below. I can fetch via > > http proxy just fine. But immediately after fetching,

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The order should be > > apply patch > make config > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --revision .. Oh, I didn't realise you needed make-kpkg clean - I have never used this command, I have always gone from make xconfig to make-kpkg kernel-image . . . I

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : : On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: : : > Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? : > : > After comp. starts I see (at tty1) login promt at screen bottom and last : > outpu

Re: [Test] Message to debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 06:46:50 -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: > I stopped getting my mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sending this > test to see if our company's firewall is screening out my messages, or if > something else is going on. It's getting out. Probably your company email server has bee

Re: Netscape

1999-08-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: > i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and > the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them > all... (which could explain why the libc5 version of Netscape doesn't show > th

Network hangs with 2.2.x kernels

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I have a P90 (with 20M of memory*) which is the server for our home network. It has Debian 2.1r2 installed onto it. When I try and use the 2.2.x series kernels on the machine and FTP after downloading about 20-30K it just stops. I have tried .1,.5,.7 and .9 and they all have the same proble

Kernel 2.2.11 hangs with crc error

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, another stupid problem today: Building a kernel image of the 2.2.11 kernel using kernel-package version 6.05 on my slink system works fine. Even installing it and running lilo reports no problems so far. But when booting all I see is LILO: Loading L

Re: Samba with 2.2.x kernels

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Weiss
> On 27 Aug 1999 10:43:40 +0200, Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Peter> Hello, Peter> trying to mount a samba volume on my debian box fails with Peter> [...] Peter> The Access denied message sounds a bit strange cause the volume can be Peter> mounted on a 2.0.33 kernel bas

Re: compiling potato packages on slink (Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?)

1999-08-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:38:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which reminds me, building source packages is really not as easy as > one would hope it to be. > I had to go through some contortions to build the potato ssh-1.2.27 > package on slink. Example: The perl5 dependency had to be

Re: Page length using a2ps

1999-08-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68 > rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try > to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the > --lines-per-page option), it doesnt seem to make a difference : I stil

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > All you have to do is > > mv /tmp /tmp-old > mount /new/partition /tmp > cp -r /tmp-old /tmp Better yet: use cp -a > rm -rf /tmp-old (Don't do this before you're happy with the new scheme!) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really ni

modules loading (possibly zip driver quesiton too...)

1999-08-27 Thread Jon Hughes
I just posted a question last night about some problems with a ZIP drive. One thing I read that could be a possible solution is the module lp is loading before ppa (at least, that's what the book says...). I haven't yet figured out in Debian where to set up which modules load when in what file

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dave McFadden said: > I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount it > as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than > extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right now. > :-) Taking the opposite approach from t

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Brad said: > This was posted a while back on the list. i forget who or when though... > > # mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.old > # clear > /etc/issue > # cat /etc/issue.old >> /etc/issue Assuming you're using bash as your shell, a much simpler option is to just create a file in your home director

Re: make partition larger

1999-08-27 Thread Dave McFadden
Martin Fluch wrote: > Can you tell me, how you have partitinated your harddisk exactly, > e.g. the output of cfdisk would be nice and how you've mounted them... > (i've have some experience with repartitioniering a hharddsik with a > running system on it, since i have made this two times allready

/etc/hosts problem

1999-08-27 Thread Fredrik Ax
My problem is that the /etc/hosts files doesn't seem to be used when resolving hostnames. I'm runing Debian 2.1 r2 with Linux kernel 2.2.11 (downloaded recompiled source) glibc 2.0.7 (libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb) libresolv 2.0.7 (libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb) Here are some confi

RE: Wierd compile error with libpthread.a

1999-08-27 Thread Brooks, Rupert
Sorry for the slow response. This worked. Actually I had to include in netlib.a and pcap.a and only link in libpthread. Nevertheless the problem is fixed My only excuse is that I didn't write that mess, it was distributed by my ISP. Thanks much for the help Rupe -- Fr

[Test] Message to debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-27 Thread Stanley J. Benes
Hi. I stopped getting my mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sending this test to see if our company's firewall is screening out my messages, or if something else is going on. If you all can see this mail, could someone please respond directly to me? Thanks! -- Stanley J. Benes Technology and

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave McFadden wrote: > Any and all suggestions on how to grow the storage space on my box would > be greatly appreciated. And a df -h output would be nice, too. Martin --- For public PGP key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sendmail: to queue or not to queue

1999-08-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to deliver immediately . if an incoming email is being sent to a remote mail address, que

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1474

1999-08-27 Thread Milan Prpic
unsubscribe On 27 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [NON-Text Body part not included]

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > At 06:25 PM 8/26/99 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > >make (menu)config > >make-kpkg clean > >make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > >dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.12_custom.1.0_.deb > > > >These four steps work fine for me (though I'm stil

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1474

1999-08-27 Thread Milan Prpic
unsubscribe On 27 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [NON-Text Body part not included]

Re: make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Martin Fluch
Can you tell me, how you have partitinated your harddisk exactly, e.g. the output of cfdisk would be nice and how you've mounted them... (i've have some experience with repartitioniering a hharddsik with a running system on it, since i have made this two times allready, playing around with cfdisk,

Re: install

1999-08-27 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-2] Csépes Zoltán wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I should like to install the X-Windows system under my Debian-Linux > 1.3.1. distribution, but I have some problem with using the mouse. > It seems so easy to install the mouse, but this is the case. I have a > two-button Mic

make partitions larger?

1999-08-27 Thread Dave McFadden
I'm trying to gracefully recover from an error I made in my first debian installation several months ago: While attempting to make /root fairly small, I created hda3 as 100M, wasting most of a 4G disk. I have just realized what I did and now I would like to bring this system up to something more

Re: Netscape Feedback

1999-08-27 Thread Matthew Tuck
Ryan Chouinard wrote: > I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but these seem to be the most > common. Netscape has a lot of work to do if they want to remain > in the good with Linux users. Thank you everyone that sent me info. If > anyone has other problems, let me know so I can add them to

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 02:28:25AM -0400, Robbie Huffman wrote: > Hmmm...I though E and most of GNOME used Raster's imlib, which means they do > an excellent job of dithering, even in 8 bit color. At least that has been my > expereince. It's the next best thing to re-writing X code to get applicat

Re: X with kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-27 Thread Keith Harbaugh
I just compiled 2.2.12: here's the uname -a: Linux euler 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 05:43:17 UTC 1999 i586 unknown No problem whatsoever, it just dropped in and replaced the previous 2.2.11 I had been running. I'm running mainly a straight slink system, but with netgod.net's X 3.3.3.1 + glibc-2.0.7 c

xterm-menus not working

1999-08-27 Thread Johann Spies
After reading the Xterm-FaQ I changed the geometry lines in .XDefaults to XTerm*geometry: 80x24 XTerm.VT100*geometry: 80x24 to see if I can get Xterm's menus to work, but it did not help. I get a small pop-up frame with a few letters in but no menu-options. According to the FAQ this is becaus

Re: parport0 has no irq.

1999-08-27 Thread Frank Barknecht
Marius Aamodt Eriksen hat gesagt: // Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: > Hi, I've set up my system for PLIP, and when I try to load the plip module, I > get an error message that parport0 has no IRQ. When trying to load the > module with parameters (i.e. insmod plip irq=5), the system complains that

Automatic software removal (was Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000))

1999-08-27 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:08:25AM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote > John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [objections for auto-installing Debian packages when a user types a > > command from a package that has not yet been installed. One of the > > objections is, that package installation ought

Anybody keeps pcmcia-cs_3.0.12-?.deb or pcmcia-cs_3.0.10-?.deb ??

1999-08-27 Thread changcs
Sorry for bothering: When I upgraded pcmcia-cs package to 3.0.14, I found my pcmcia network card does not work. It seems the problem is not easy for me to solve because the error messages are complains about "NULL pointers" in the kernel and lots of CPU register error messages are dumped. Since ne

Samba with 2.2.x kernels

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, trying to mount a samba volume on my debian box fails with smbmount-2.1.x //Vincent/user /mnt -U pewe load_client_codepage: filename /etc/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist. Added interface ip=193.96.166.51 bcast=193.96.166.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Server time

Re: PPP speeds; "nice"-ness

1999-08-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:01:14AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: >> >> This prompts me to ask, is there a concept of "nice"ness for TCP/IP >> connections? No it doesn't exist. >> How does apt arrange to have a priority,

Re: ftp trouble - cannot chroot

1999-08-27 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:40:20PM -0500, Brad wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > > I believe that what has happened to you is that you are operating in a > > chroot'd environment and that in that environment there is no /bin/ls to > > run,

Need Suggestions for getting scanner to work

1999-08-27 Thread John Foster
I have just installed a Mustek 1200ED scanner on my system. I am running a stable slink production system. I have installed sane from Debian and seem to have the scanimage and xscanimage saned etc working. I read all the docs and have not been able to get it going. This scanner is attached via a PC

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-27 Thread Paul Huygen
John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [objections for auto-installing Debian packages when a user types a > command from a package that has not yet been installed. One of the > objections is, that package installation ought to be a task of the > manager of the computer system and not of an ord

install

1999-08-27 Thread Csépes Zoltán
Dear Sir, I should like to install the X-Windows system under my Debian-Linux 1.3.1. distribution, but I have some problem with using the mouse. It seems so easy to install the mouse, but this is the case. I have a two-button Microsoft mouse connected to the PS/2 port and it doesn't response. Wha

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