Re: ALSA is miserable. (Help?)

1999-09-10 Thread lexchive
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:57:25PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Thanks for bearing with me... there's barely anything in the whole package. > If I may... > > dpkg -L alsa-modules > Sorry for giving the wrong package name b4... you need to install the alsa-source package, and compile whats

Re: KDevelop in potato, anyone?

1999-09-10 Thread Adam Shand
there is a kdevelop debian package. i installed it earlier today and played with it briefly. it seemed to work alright for the 10 minutes i played with it. you can grab it from: http://kde.tdyc.com/packages.php3 adam. On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Has anyone been able t

Re: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml'

1999-09-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 05:37:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I typed: > > > > $ cvs commit -r 1.5 maint-guide.sgml > > > > Edited the changelog, saved it, exited, and after some time got this > > message: > > > > cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml' > > c

ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-10 Thread Levi
I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new kernel. I've got ppp set up and it works just fine with kernel 2.0.34, but I can never seem to get connected with kernel 2.2.12. I've read the kernel docs and they say 2.2.12 requires pppd 2.3.8 or better, but I've got 2.3.9 intsalled, so i don't k

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own > partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. > I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' > > This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to

Re: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml'

1999-09-10 Thread othman
On 11 Sep, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > I typed: > > $ cvs commit -r 1.5 maint-guide.sgml > > Edited the changelog, saved it, exited, and after some time got this > message: > > cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml' > cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors fi

Re: Good practice (defaults, rxvt)

1999-09-10 Thread RESET
: On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:26:03 +0200, Joakim Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] Joakim:: I am currently using rxvt. (What term do Joakim:: you all use ? and why? ) I have two reasons to use wterm: I like transparent backgrounds in my terminals, and the NeXT style scrollb

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm happy in my new /home, but I want to clean out my old /home. > 'df -h /' still shows a full file sys, yet 'du -hs /home' shows over > 2M. I'm assuming that 2M is still hiding under / somewhere, 2M is not really an awful lot of space, you know.

Re: Using apt with downloaded files

1999-09-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: > I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a > Zip disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set > up apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with > setting up the apt configuration

Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-10 Thread mmiller
I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created /dev/hda8 and made an ext2 file sys there. I then mounted /dev/hda8 on /mnt, and issued 'cp -rp /home/* /mnt' This looked good, so I changed /etc/fstab to reflect this new home for /home, and rebooted. I'm happ

cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml'

1999-09-10 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, I typed: $ cvs commit -r 1.5 maint-guide.sgml Edited the changelog, saved it, exited, and after some time got this message: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml' cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvs01258baa What t

Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It's absolutely, positively, and definitely NOT NEEDED (or even desirable) for recent kernels. In fact, doing so can cause subtle breakages if you compile programs locally, because they can pick up definitions which don't match what libc is setup to use. On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:42:06AM -0700,

Sharing package caches

1999-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a couple machine here that I want to have share their lists of available packages and downloaded package binaries. To this end, I've had one of them share its /var/cache/apt directory and NFS mounted it on the other. Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work. When I update the list of avai

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

1999-09-10 Thread David Blackman
I hate modules, I've got a 627 Kb kernel. I love it. The kernel snippet said you only had 1 scsi adapter, (the AHA) --dave On 10 Sep 1999, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you have scsi cd support? > > Yes, as a module. I have a scsi adapter (aha2940),

Re: libstdc++.2.8.so

1999-09-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Gilles Molinie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:23 AM Subject: libstdc++.2.8.so > HI, > an error occured when I launched netscape on a Linu xplatform. The error message > is : > "libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open

Re: Good practice (defaults, rxvt)

1999-09-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Joakim Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: Good practice (defaults, rxvt) In reply to your question, what term I like best: I've never thought about complicated memory usage questions, but the one I like best is

Re: /var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Indeed. I didn't really understand the point (I DO mount /var/tmp, > /tmp, and /home noexec on some servers ...) I find that noexec is only useful on NFS-mounted filesystems if you are trying to prevent spoofing. There's really not a benefit in prev

Using apt with downloaded files

1999-09-10 Thread David Kanter
I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a Zip disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set up apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with setting up the apt configuration file. Thanks, Dave

ucd snmp

1999-09-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
I'm attempting to build the UCD snmp lib for slink since I'm reluctant to upgrade our prodution servers to potato (and libc 2.1). In the potato pkg list libucdsnmp3.6 depends on libc6 >=2.1; am I screwed? (I admit to not investigating fully whether libucdsnmp3.6 needs libc 2.1 ...) When I attemp

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 10 Sep, 1999 à 04:53:19AM +0200, shaul wrote: > > > > Is there a way to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be > > able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init > > inherits the zombi process. > > > > Doesn't 'ps l' displays the Parent Proce

dpkg broken

1999-09-10 Thread Chris Gray
I recently upgraded my dpkg package to the latest in the unstable tree because another package suggested it. Now whenever I try to run dpkg I get a Segmentation Fault. That's it. All the terminal says is "Segmentation fault". I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I am running the l

abi-word compilation fails

1999-09-10 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to build abiword on slink. sudo debian/rules binary fails with fakeroot, execve /tmp/abiword-0.7.4/abi-0.7.4/src/pkg/linux/scripts/install_debian.sh: Permission denied make[3]: *** [deb] Error 1 That also happens when I do it as root. Why is permission denied? Johann --

how are drivers loaded in a d-linux box?

1999-09-10 Thread pplaw
debs, i have a question, to which an answer is obvious probably to all but me, regarding the modem driver, as my bootable linux box just gives me a prompt when i "pon," regardless of the modem label (/dev/ttyS01; /dev/ttyS02...):how does a newly reformatted hard drive, previously running w

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

1999-09-10 Thread Morgan Fletcher
David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you have scsi cd support? Yes, as a module. I have a scsi adapter (aha2940), scsi cd, scsi hd and one ide cd-r. So the scsi cd devices were already there and scd0 has been working. Please look at the kernel config snipped I posted. > Make those, kee

Re: ALSA is miserable. (Help?)

1999-09-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > There's no code in there to compile, that I can see. I got excited when I > saw /dev/snd but it doesn't seem to mean anything. There's no real > installation docs either... it seems like it's all API reference.

Re: offtopic: WindowMaker questions

1999-09-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Thu, 09 Sep, 1999 à 07:55:13PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > > it's possible that an icon in the dock contain other icons ? For > > example, in the terminal icon, have the possibility to choose other > > terminals. In afterstep that was possibl

pvm package strangeness

1999-09-10 Thread Nick Cabatoff
This one's really got me stumped. Here's the scenario: Under slink/i386: - user runs binaries linked to libpvm3 - suddently (as of this week), any calls made to that library result in a segfault - even the example program provided with pvm do this - this occurs on several different machines,

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
mario mentioned, > > But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of > > This is exactly what happened here. My 2.2. generated a lot of collision > on the network and I was cut off (my fiber was removed) till I > downgraded to 2.0.38. > > I think 2.2 is the problem. Seems th

Re: ALSA is miserable. (Help?)

1999-09-10 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Thanks for bearing with me... there's barely anything in the whole package. If I may... dpkg -L alsa-modules /dev /dev/snd /usr /usr/include /usr/include/asound.h /usr/include/asoundid.h /usr/doc /usr/doc/alsa-modules /usr/doc/alsa-modules/README /usr/doc/alsa-modules/README.kernel /usr/doc/alsa

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

1999-09-10 Thread David Blackman
You DON'T have scsi emulation in there. make sure scsi-emulation is on, scsi cdrom si on, ide cdrom is off. make sure you installed the kernel (I know taht sounds stupid, but hey, my first kernels sat there in arch/i386/boot) if you had scsi-emu workign you'd have 2 scsi hosts LMK --dave On 10

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-10 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem that's stopping > me from booting with 2.2 :) > > But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of This is exactly what happened here. My 2.2. generated a lot of colli

Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?" > Hi, > > I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow > the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I > noticed no reference to linking /u

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread Rogerio A. de Paula
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Pete Harlan wrote: > > > > > Appletalk disk-serving to our Macs stopped working around 2.2.10 or > > so. I went back to 2.0.37 and it works again. The above URL didn't > > mention netatalk. It's the only thing we notic

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

1999-09-10 Thread David Blackman
Do you have scsi cd support? also to make scd's do ./MAKEDEV scd## where ## is a number. Make those, keep out ide-cdrom support, keep in ide-scsi emultaion, keep in scsi cd, scsi generic. try it and LMK --dave On 10 Sep 1999, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: OpenGL in Linux

1999-09-10 Thread Jason Christensen
Debian has a .deb archive containing the source code for the 3dfx device (loadable module), but lacks an achive containing the device drivers themselves. This is most likely due to the significant differences among 3dfx based chipsets (ie voodoo, voodoo2, banshee, voodoo3). Some are 3D only, some

Re: Avoiding gpm before installing GNOME

1999-09-10 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:55:35PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I'm going to try out GNOME this weekend, but have read about many problems > regarding it's gpm. How can I avoid gpm from being installed during the > installation? Will I be asked about this after installing the package? And is > i

Re: /var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, William T Wilson wrote: : On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote: : : > That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program : > which executes scripts from within /var. : : It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix

Debian on UMSDOS

1999-09-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have any experience with installing Debian on a UMSDOS partition? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Avoiding gpm before installing GNOME

1999-09-10 Thread David Kanter
I'm going to try out GNOME this weekend, but have read about many problems regarding it's gpm. How can I avoid gpm from being installed during the installation? Will I be asked about this after installing the package? And is it possible to use my regular xdm with xbanner with GNOME? I assume it

IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
mario mentioned, > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem that's stopping me from booting with 2.2 :) But can someone tell me what causes

Re: Other KDE apt sources?

1999-09-10 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:32:24PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > KDE TDYC is currently restructured (check kde-debian mail archive at > > kde.tdyc.com). Network traffic/load was too high. Hopefully the > > transition will be finished RSN (tm). After that there should be > > sources available again

Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi

1999-09-10 Thread Morgan Fletcher
David Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, listen here's the deal: you need to take OUT ide-cd support Done. > leave in scsi-emulation, scsi-generic, scsi-cdrom.. > now ./MAKDEV sg Done. I now have /dev/sg[0-16]. > I'm pretty sure that the /dev/scd* come pre-made > the important thi

Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Sep 10, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow > the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I > noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs > under the source. Is

Re: graphic login does not allow choice of wm

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Sep 9, 1999, John wrote: > Have installed 2.1 from Official CDs: this took 2hrs as program continually > spent long periods searching sectors and 'resetting atapi' and made it > difficult > to recall what options I selected. After completion XF86Setup was run > successfully and startx fv

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-10 Thread Obi
I fixed that with the nolock options as suggested by Miquel. My problem was that mutt couldn't lock the file (you see an error 37), so I couldn't modify the mailbox at all. graziano On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:18:09PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I'm having problems w

Re: can't send mail back and forth between debian & local domain

1999-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:49:25AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > Mark mentioned, > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:20:12PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. > > You don't provide any details of your configuration - wh

Re: exim dying on slink

1999-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:00:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've recently installed a system with Slink, and set it up as > a mail hub for our domain. We also run a type of mailing list > from another box, which our mail hub acts as a smarthost for. > However, when the mailing list send

A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread kvaughan
Hi, I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs under the source. Is this no longer necessary, or is it a grievous mis

Re: /var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program > which executes scripts from within /var. It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix something which isn't broken. Simply mount /var in the normal wa

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I'm having problems with mutt and NFS too. I mount /var/spool/mail by NFS and cant delete mails. How to fix this? Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Obi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks! It actually works ... only if I mount that directly but it > doesn't work if I use amd

playmidi: How to use?

1999-09-10 Thread Johann Spies
I have read the playmidi-documentation but cannot figure out how to play a soundfile with it. The following happens: $playmidi -r -f /mnt/bitware/voice/m155.rif Playmidi 2.3 Copyright (C) 1994-1996 Nathan I. Laredo This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see th

Re: /var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread Richard Kettlewell
Nathan E Norman writes: > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: >> can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and >> postinstall scripts when installing packages ? > > /var/lib/dpkg/info iirc That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program which execu

exim dying on slink

1999-09-10 Thread drew
I've recently installed a system with Slink, and set it up as a mail hub for our domain. We also run a type of mailing list from another box, which our mail hub acts as a smarthost for. However, when the mailing list sends out email (anywhere from 1-2 thousand at once), after a number of success

Re: LessTif 0.89

1999-09-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:25:12 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > do anyone know when (or *if*) LessTif 0.89 deb's will be released? The Debian LessTif packages are currently orphaned. > I was taking a peek at LessTif's Homepage and, among other wonderful news, > they say that now Netsca

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, John R. Sheets wrote: > > > Does this also apply to the 2.2 kernel in unstable? I was thinking > about upgrading my kernel, but if that'll prevent me from using ipx, I > won't bother. (I'm running off a 2.1 dist with a bunch of stuff > upgraded to unstable, but not the ker

Re: /var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: : HEllo, : : can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall : scripts when installing packages ? /var/lib/dpkg/info iirc -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread John R. Sheets
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. Does this also apply to the 2.2 kernel in unstable? I was thinking about upgrading my kernel, but if that'll prevent me

[Philadelphia] PADS Meeting: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures

1999-09-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) will meet this coming Wednesday to discuss ``Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures''. PADS Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ Please note the new location!!! PADS Main Meeting: Topic: Overcoming Debian's New Maintainer Procedures Speak

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Pete Harlan wrote: > > Appletalk disk-serving to our Macs stopped working around 2.2.10 or > so. I went back to 2.0.37 and it works again. The above URL didn't > mention netatalk. It's the only thing we noticed breaking when using > 2.2 with slink. IPX also has a bug that

LessTif 0.89

1999-09-10 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, do anyone know when (or *if*) LessTif 0.89 deb's will be released? I was taking a peek at LessTif's Homepage and, among other wonderful news, they say that now Netscape-smotif should be running 'out of the box' with LessTif... In case the deb's are not on the 'soon released' list, ha

Re: I upgraded X...I think?

1999-09-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "I upgraded X...I think?" > I tried to update X on my Slink, but am not sure if I did everything > correctly. > > Because I don't have an internet connection available at my Linux box, I > downloaded most of the files from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ at

I upgraded X...I think?

1999-09-10 Thread David Kanter
I tried to update X on my Slink, but am not sure if I did everything correctly. Because I don't have an internet connection available at my Linux box, I downloaded most of the files from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ at another machine and used dpkg to upgrade everything I could, such as the v

HELP with potato:scp problem....

1999-09-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i ran recently into the following problem: scp jSim.jar inforezo.u-strasbg.fr:java Executing /usr/bin/ssh1 for ssh1 compatibility. command-line line 0: Bad configuration option. Connection lost. so what's wrong here -- ciao bboett

/var mounted noexec

1999-09-10 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
HEllo, can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall scripts when installing packages ? I have /var mounted noexec, and want to link those directories to /usr. /var is not place for scripts. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

1999-09-10 Thread Obi
Thanks! It actually works ... only if I mount that directly but it doesn't work if I use amd specifying nolock! I'll figure it out though. Thanks again graziano On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:51:28PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Obi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: can't send mail back and forth between debian & local domain

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Mark mentioned, > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:20:12PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. > You don't provide any details of your configuration - which MTA are you > using (smail?), and how did you set it up? It's smail, as

Re: Databases

1999-09-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
In a question concerning databases, Timothy Hospedales asked for advice about: >2. What web/software client interface method is best to use and why? We have had tremendous success with MySQL. As a database engine for medium size projects (medium size is, oh, say, anywhere from 10 to 10 million

Re: Printing *should* work...

1999-09-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > This may be a stab in the dark, but I once had a similar problem. > After each bootup, I could not print untill I had done a > > dpkg -i lpr_whatever.deb Hmmm. I finally did get things working this morning; I reran "magicfilterconfig --force", and so

Re: What is xemacs-tty?

1999-09-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Sep, rich wrote about "What is xemacs-tty?" > Hello, > > I just installed XEmacs, and in my Windowmaker menu there now appears: > > XEmacs20-nomule > XEmacs20-tty-nomule > > What is the tty entry? Why do I have 2 installations of Xemacs when I > only picked 1? > It is an menu entry fo

gdm not authorized to connect

1999-09-10 Thread Reimann Ingo
Hi there, maybe a silly problem: After new installation of potatoe from scratch, i would like to use gdm for graphical logins instead of xdm (which already worked) So i threw out any S??xdm out of my /etc/rc2.d and tried to start up gdm. Unfortunalety i only got a nice blank X-Screen without any g

Re: Which package contains:

1999-09-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Sep, Urban Gabor wrote about "Which package contains:" > Hi, > > Which package contain the following programs: > xload > xinfo > xman > or should I compile them from source? :-) > No one has mentioned the 'Search the Contents of the Latest Release' at the bottom of

Re: Magicfilter question?

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Look for your the config file for your printer in /etc/magcfilter/ , and check for the binaries it uses (or just grep it for "bin"). It turned out that the deskjet uses djscript. I found the package by grepping a Contents-i386 file from the base directory the distribution, but grepping /var/l

Re: PDC in samba

1999-09-10 Thread Debian Mail
> > > How did you configure Samba as a PDC? Last I heard Samba didn't yet handle > > > NT Domain logins since the code was under heavy development. > > > > samba can be a PDC since version 2 > > The code for NT PDC's is only available through CVS. > http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ntdom_faq/samba

xemacs21-nomule broken ?

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've downloaded xemacs21-nomule and all other dependant files (with apt) and it won't install. dpkg says the following error when setting-up xemacs21-nomule: -- install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for xemacs21 WARNING: Couldn't find an obvious def

Dpkg Format question

1999-09-10 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, I've a design question relying to the debian package format: A .deb file is an ar-archive and some .tgz files in it. So far so good. Why does debian take 2 utilities (tar and ar) with different file formats to build a package? (I don't want to change a thing here, I'm

RE: SB16 pnp

1999-09-10 Thread Jon Hughes
While the others probably have more sound advice (no pun intended) one thing I just dealt with was the devices. It said that it would create the necessary ones (/dev/sndstat, /dev/audio, etc) but my installation did not for some reason. Had to use the script at the end of the read

Gnome-session problem

1999-09-10 Thread Johann Spies
Sometimes when I do startx I get the following error message : GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected. This does not always happen. When it happens, I do Alt-Ctrl-Bksp and startx again and then it usua

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail. > > > When I save a message from a person say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I want to mutt to give me a default filename like this: > > > > > > ~/Mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good practice (defaults, rxvt)

1999-09-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:35:52AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:26:03AM +0200, Joakim Svensson wrote: > > I am currently using rxvt. (What term do > > you all use ? and why? ) > > here is the line that i have in my windowmaker toolbar thingy icon: > rxvt -bg black -fg d

Re: problem installing dnsutils

1999-09-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:10:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I tried to install the dnsutils package (using apt-get on potato) and I got > this: > > Unpacking replacement dnsutils ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-5_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:56:40AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Yes, > > I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel > with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf > to insert the modules > > parport > and > parport_pc > > If I do an ls

Re: module list

1999-09-10 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:32:51AM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > I attempted to install Debian; and found myself (a newbie) > at a loss to know which modules to install. Where can I > find a list of modules, with descriptions? Andrew, the linux kernel's Documentation/modules.txt lists a few, bu

Re: Good practice (defaults, rxvt)

1999-09-10 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:26:03AM +0200, Joakim Svensson wrote: > I am currently using rxvt. (What term do > you all use ? and why? ) here is the line that i have in my windowmaker toolbar thingy icon: rxvt -bg black -fg darkgrey -ls -title amidala (Funny, I thought I used to have -n amidala in

module list

1999-09-10 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I attempted to install Debian; and found myself (a newbie) at a loss to know which modules to install. Where can I find a list of modules, with descriptions? Thanks, Andrew

Good practice (defaults, rxvt)

1999-09-10 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi all, After using Debian for a couple of months I have a pretty well working Potato but I feel its a bit "cluttered" with lots of stuff that I never really needed and things I couldn't get rid of correctly. So I did a clean slink install on a new partition that will be my new main install. I w

StarOffice -- memory usage

1999-09-10 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hi folks Ok, this has gone beyond my knowledge of memory. I wondered how much memory StarOffice 5.1 took -- and it appears to need quite a bit, based on this display from top: 2:10am up 3 days, 3:12, 6 users, load average: 1.56, 1.64, 1.83 71 processes: 67 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0

Re: Window managers or desktop managers...

1999-09-10 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One that machine, I use FXCE, > which looks a lot like CDE, but uses GTK. I don't believe it is packaged > for Debian (at least, not for slink), but it's relatively painless to > build and install from source (./configure ; make ; make install). It's

Re: Problem with ISA Kingston ethernet card

1999-09-10 Thread lexchive
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:24:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did not do any good. I will try changing IRQ again... thats the most likely > cause for this misbehaviour I think. Btw, when I said it worked for windows, > thats not on the same computer (that one only has linux). I will try a

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Yes, I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf to insert the modules parport and parport_pc If I do an lsmod I get debian:~# lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc

Re: timidity help

1999-09-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephan Hachinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 3:52 AM Subject: Re: timidity help > Yes, I thought about that. I don't know how to create a symbolic link though. How do I do this? > > Thanks >

Re: kernel compile error

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Paul wrote: Have you installed libc6-dev and libncurses4-dev (this one only for make menuconfig) ? bye! > (Not sure if this made it the first time) > Back Again! >2 distinct problems this time, firstly I seem to have been > taken off the list (so please copy to t

Re: Which package contains:

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > Which package contain the following programs: > xload > xinfo > xman xload and xman in xcontrib. I don't know where is xinfo. To find a file, do this: enter irc.debian.org to channel #debian. Then, write: @find xinfo

dst cahe overflow

1999-09-10 Thread Luis Quintano
Hello! One of the linux/debian machines I'm administrating has been given some problems. It keeps giving this kind of messages: NET: 7 messages suppressed. dst cache overflow NET: 4 messages suppressed. dst cache overflow NET: 1 messages suppressed. dst cache overflow dst cache overflow NET: 1 me

Re: Which package contains:

1999-09-10 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:49:32AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > Which package contain the following programs: > xload > xinfo > xman > or should I compile them from source? :-) short answer: xcontrib has xman and xload .. long answer: amidala:/home/sarnold# apt-cache

Re: power-shut-off... again

1999-09-10 Thread Seth R Arnold
Virtanen, a friend of mine has similar problems -- his pentium II needs mounting brackets to hold it to the motherboard, and he hasn't bought them yet. It might not help, but ... one never knows. :) On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:57:51AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > > Managed to get this damn machine wo

Re: X11amp

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Afternooon all. > I got x11amp running, but somehow user can not use volume/balance > controls. The slidebar works, just nothing happens. Yet user can control > the equalizer. Under root everything works. > I thought that user might not be in the group wi

Re: gnome panel... a few questions

1999-09-10 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I have the panel starting in my windowmaker environment via > (GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart) panel &. > I also load the gen_util_applet and gmc the same way. > > Question 1) Very often when I load windowmaker it says there is already > a panel

Re: CD player question

1999-09-10 Thread lexchive
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:25:39PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:32:18PM -0500, David Cureton wrote: > > Generally CD roms play audio cd's in the following way. > > That's the way I expected. My problem is that I a) saw them add the cable > and b) it works under M$

Re: Question

1999-09-10 Thread bwarsing
Is it a plug n' play card? - Original Message - From: Taupter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 11:39 PM Subject: Re: Question > > > > I am not too linux literate (I had to start with that). I would > > > appreciate if you could tell me how to get

Re: Which package contains:

1999-09-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:49:32AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > Which package contain the following programs: > xload xcontrib > xinfo Hmm, I don't know this one, there is one in the non-free scilab package, but maybe that is not what you mean. What does it do? I do know x

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