Re: mcedit?

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sun, 10 Oct, 1999 à 11:04:53AM +0300, tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > before I installed gnome, I could call up mcedit independently of > Midnight commander. It will no longer come up. This is a drag, since I > would like to use mcedit as my primary editor for a while. > > I don't suppose anyone

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used. are you runni

Re: Enlightenment .16 segfaults.

1999-10-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Without having tried anything on my own system, I would suggest > that you remove the .enlightenment directory in your home directory > and try to load it again. > > It is very likely that an old configuration file is incompatible with > the new vers

Linux Web developers wanted for the Bay Area by Capital Technologies

1999-10-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is using Debian/Linux extensively and is looking to increase its team of people working with Debian/Linux to design an eCommerce monitoring system. We are looking for a Senior person and one or two junior positions. The emotional center of our offering is our customer web site

Re: DHCP problem....

1999-10-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would add: if you want to be able to ping the machine just like you can windows boxes then you'll need the Linux version of the software which makes this mechanism (Lan Manager a.k.a. Windows Networking) work. This package is called samba and is available as a couple different debian packages.

Re: I'm a BEGINNER

1999-10-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > > Oh please..Linux does not crack computers. People do. You can crack a > > site with Windows, if you know how to. You actually don't need to know > > how. > > uhm, I think he meant to write "check". The transitions "heck" --> > "hack" --> "crack" are farther away (especially the last one

Where was that modelines generator site?

1999-10-12 Thread Curt Daugaard
A couple of months ago someone posted the URL for a site that allowed you to put in your monitor and graphics card specs and get back a list of modelines suitable for use in the XF86Config file. I've misplaced the address. Would someone who has it please post it on this list again? Thanks. Curt

help.. your search is not running yet and need help

1999-10-12 Thread chris_weadick
I am installing Debian on a Compaq SystemPro/LT (arrrg Compaq!!!) and having a couple of problems (probably provoked by a lack of a CDROM). I have the software 'all installed' and configured except the proxy server. I am in the process of trying to install the 2nd card. I have gone through the FAQ

http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-12 Thread Pablo De Napoli
Hello! I think that Debian is the best Linux distribution , since it suports free software , and it is easy to install and upgrade , and higly stable and secure. Is the linux distribution that better reflects the spirit of free software. But I think that there is something that we should care abo

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-12 Thread iehrenwald
> I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH > faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used. Does it fix th

Re: I'm a BEGINNER

1999-10-12 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can I heck the web-site with LINUX OS ? >> Send me information abaout that .. > Oh please..Linux does not crack computers. People do. You can crack a > site with Windows, if you know how to. You actually don't need to know > how. uhm, I think he

Re: nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-12 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> And if nosuid is > a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the > /home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory? Being that nosuid is a mount option, this would be quite easy to do if your /home was a separate partition, which I assume it is not. Somewhere i

Squid (suddenly) does not resolv local hostnames

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent Martelli
I'm having a strange problem with squid. It suddenly does not resolv local hostnames which are not in /etc/hosts. For instance, if I try to browse www with "lynx http://www/";, it says: The requested URL could not be retrieved - While trying t

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

1999-10-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Edward Betts wrote: > > Is it still easy to change back to $HOME/mail or preferably $HOME/Mail ? > Does it require modifiying of source code, or just changing a config file? > A config file kind of sort of. See docs/imaprc.txt in the source. The author warns strongly again

Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-12 Thread John Foster
I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used. -- John Foster AdVance

Re: I'm a BEGINNER

1999-10-12 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:09:20PM -0700, Dias Cakep wrote: > Can I heck the web-site with LINUX OS ? > Send me information abaout that .. I'm assuming you meant "can I crack web-sites with Linux?". The answer is yes, but you can do that with many other operating systems. Also, nobody here is

Re: DHCP problem....

1999-10-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I just installed DHCP client on Debian slink machine. It works almost > fine it just does not pick up the host name :(. It is seen on the > network by its IP address only. If I ping it by the name from the local > console it respo

SCSI problem

1999-10-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to install Debian on an old machine (Pentium) but the installation stops after detecting the SCSI hardrive. I have searched the old messages on Debian and found differing views as to what one should do to get it to install. I was wondering if the final solution has been found? The pro

DHCP problem....

1999-10-12 Thread J.M. \"Jersey\" Miszczyk
Hi there :), I just installed DHCP client on Debian slink machine. It works almost fine it just does not pick up the host name :(. It is seen on the network by its IP address only. If I ping it by the name from the local console it responds that the host name is not known (I removed its sta

Re: wu-ftpd vs proftpd vs ftpd

1999-10-12 Thread aphro
id avoid proftpd until they re write the thing, too many bugs in it's core, unless security isn't a main concern. wuftpd has similar problems but most of them have been fixed and i've seen no reports of flawed code like proftpd has. i use normal ftpd (port from openBSD) i think i use v20 (compile

Re: Job Control?

1999-10-12 Thread David Z. Maze
bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BW> On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:38:08PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: NLM> There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this. It's NLM> packaged for Debian. You'd run your program in a screen session NLM> in one window ('screen mutt' for example). BW> BW>

terror with adaptec aha1510b :-(

1999-10-12 Thread trapstep
Hi all! I have Matsonic MS6260S board with a k6-2 300, 64megs of ram, an adaptec aha1510b isa scsi controller, a micropolis 9GB (3391av) hd (active terminated), an ibm dcas 3GB and an epson gt5000 scsi scanner connected via 1 meter hd50->centronics cable + active terminator on the scanners sub-d

Re: user X session at boot

1999-10-12 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Yep, on my box, I have my X session start for me, with a locked screensaver starting on top of it. It's great so I can turn on my box, go and get some food, and when I come back it will be ready to use. I attached the file I use (tailor it to your needs). Put it in /etc/init.d. You'll have to r

Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...??

1999-10-12 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Have you tried booting from a Win95 floppy disk and see if you can > access that partition from a DOS prompt? Because if what I'm suggesting > did happen, your Win95 boot record is overwritten with Lilo, and you > won't be able to access your C drive. > > Actually, I hope I'm wrong for your sake

EsounD trouble

1999-10-12 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Can I use EsounD without GNOME/Enlightenment? I installed the esound package but I can't get anything to play via esd. The only thing I can get out of the speaker is the esd startup tone sequence (when I run esd in the background). I tried esdplay, esdcat, esddsp, xmms (with esound plugin) but I c

Re: Mem greater then 64MB

1999-10-12 Thread debuser
Also, kernels 2.0.36 and above are able to detect more than 64MB automatically on most systems. Gerry On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > append="mem=96M" > > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 01:03:31PM +0100, Rajesh Mittal wrote: > > Hi > > > >I have got debian box with 96 Mb as ram . >

Re: Job Control?

1999-10-12 Thread bwarsing
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:38:08PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this. It's packaged for > Debian. You'd run your program in a screen session in one window ('screen > mutt' for example). You could then detach the screen session from that > window

Re: Job Control?

1999-10-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Got a quick one. > How do I get a particular transfer control of a particular PID to > another ttyX or xterm? > Don't think I've ever read anything about this. There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this. It

Re: Realvideo menu buttons do not work-Solved!

1999-10-12 Thread John Foster
John Foster wrote: > > I just installed RV. It seems to work as far as playing a directed file > as in netscape, but the buttons for setting up preferences, selecting > sites, etc do not work. Any help?? Thanks! --- I solved the problem by removing

Re: Job Control?

1999-10-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 1:16:29 PM, bwarsing wrote: > How do I get a particular transfer control of a particular PID to > another ttyX or xterm? > Don't think I've ever read anything about this. I don't think there is a way to do it at the base level. Take a look at screen, however, which

mcedit?

1999-10-12 Thread tf
Hey guys, before I installed gnome, I could call up mcedit independently of Midnight commander. It will no longer come up. This is a drag, since I would like to use mcedit as my primary editor for a while. I don't suppose anyone knows how I can get it back? -- -t

Job Control?

1999-10-12 Thread bwarsing
Hi, Got a quick one. How do I get a particular transfer control of a particular PID to another ttyX or xterm? Don't think I've ever read anything about this. Thanks, bw

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread Stephen R. Gore
David Natkins wrote: > > > "Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > > You're quite correct. I had to build first to check, since I had cleaned > > after the last build. Running make-kpkg clean again in a cleaned source > > tree seems not to make no difference though.. > > Do you get any errors when you r

Re: parse error before `size_t' (audiofile)

1999-10-12 Thread Raja R Harinath
"Brian J. Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting a lot of messages like this while trying to install > audiofile from source. Here's some of the output from configure: > > In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57, > from audiofile.c:33: [snip] Can you check

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread David Natkins
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > You're quite correct. I had to build first to check, since I had cleaned > after the last build. Running make-kpkg clean again in a cleaned source > tree seems not to make no difference though.. Do you get any errors when you ran make-kpkg clean ? -- David Na

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread Stephen R. Gore
David Natkins wrote: > > "Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > > Hrmm.. I updated last night also (from http.us.debian.org). My version is > > now 6.26. I just built a test kernel_image and then ran 'make-kpkg clean'. > > No problems here... > Thanks for the response Steve, but you ran the make-kpkg clean

parse error before `size_t' (audiofile)

1999-10-12 Thread Brian J. Stults
I'm getting a lot of messages like this while trying to install audiofile from source. Here's some of the output from configure: In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57, from audiofile.c:33: /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `_IO_sgetn' /usr/local/inc

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread David Natkins
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > Hrmm.. I updated last night also (from http.us.debian.org). My version is > now 6.26. I just built a test kernel_image and then ran 'make-kpkg clean'. > No problems here... Thanks for the response Steve, but you ran the make-kpkg clean after

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread Stephen R. Gore
David Natkins wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm not at my computer, but I updated from ftp.debian.org > last night. When I did make-kpkg clean, I got a whole bunch of messages > about a variable not be initialized - I believe it was version. Now > make-kpkg clean doesn't require anyother variables, so I

Re: wu-ftpd vs proftpd vs ftpd

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wu-ftpd 2.5.0-4 > proftpd 1.2.0pre7-3 > ftpd 0.11-4 > > Which one of them is better? I don't want something that is going to puke > on large files. Something that has lots of features to play with would be > nice. User and anonymous ftp access is required.

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:24:33PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > In addition, the GLX support on my G200 runs twice as quick as the > > > > TNT2. This is a pretty appalling situation, really. > > > > > > That's really suprising

The libslang problem in potato

1999-10-12 Thread Justin Settle
Hello, Well for almost a week now I've been trying to update some of the files and this libslang dependency problem has thwarted it. I am just wondering if there is a way around this problem or when this package can be fixed. Thenka, Justin -- Debian 2.2 w/2.2.12 Op in #linux on Dalnet

Re: latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread Stephen R. Gore
David Natkins wrote: > Would someone be able to confirm my suspicion? Which version of kernel-package are you referring to? 'Latest' isn't very definitive, since not all mirrors are always synched... There was an Important bug (#46986) against kernel-package 6.24, but it seems to be fixed in 6.2

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > In addition, the GLX support on my G200 runs twice as quick as the > > > TNT2. This is a pretty appalling situation, really. > > > > That's really suprising. My TNT card was noticeably faster than a > > G200 playing Quake2, and tha

Re: Eggdrop and Debian

1999-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Clarke wrote: > Could somebody please explain to me how I can get eggdrop working with > Debian. apt-get install eggdrop ? -- see shy jo

wu-ftpd vs proftpd vs ftpd

1999-10-12 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all, I'm trying to decide which ftp server to install. Typing "apt-get install ftp" listed: wu-ftpd 2.5.0-4 proftpd 1.2.0pre7-3 ftpd 0.11-4 Which one of them is better? I don't want something that is going to puke on large files. Something that has lots of features to play with would be ni

Install /usr/bin files

1999-10-12 Thread j way
Hi, is there an easy way to reinstall the contents of /usr/bin from (Slink) startup floppies or some such? Tnx.

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

1999-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 18:27:33 +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > I am thinking about a new one. The PCI64 by Sound Blaster > seems a good candidate. Check out /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.txt.gz; I followed it for my card and it works fine (but I don't know if I have the PCI or the I

Re: Eggdrop and Debian

1999-10-12 Thread aphro
id do ldconfig -v | grep tcl and look what it says. for me: galactica:/users/admin/nate# ldconfig -v | grep tcl libtcl7.6.so.1 => libtcl7.6.so.1 libpgtcl.so.1 => libpgtcl.so.1 libtcl8.0.so.1 => libtcl8.0.so.1 i'd find where libtcl8.0.so.1 (locate) is and make a link to it

Re: word perfect stuff...

1999-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 18:44:45 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > apt-get install xpm4g Nope. "xpm4.7" (from oldlibs) as WordPerfect is still a libc5 binary. Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudo

Re: I just am not doing something right.

1999-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
Jim Ruby wrote: > [snip] > /sbin/ipchains -P input DENY > /sbin/ipchains -P output DENY > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -F input > /sbin/ipchains -F output > /sbin/ipchains -F forward > /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i lo > /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s 192.168

Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

1999-10-12 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Hi, At the moment I am using a Sound Blaster vibra16x pnp card, this card is not really supported by OSSFree (kernel) or ALSA. Although the card produces sound, it gives dma errors when using the second dma channel and it is unable to work in full duplex. I am getting fed up with this card

Re: word perfect stuff...

1999-10-12 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 05:32:57 tf wrote: > hey guys, > > I have wordperfect installed, but I may have mangled the installation. > when I try to start it, I get > > ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > hmm. do I have this library? Should I move my WordPerfect directory > out of home, to

Eggdrop and Debian

1999-10-12 Thread Richard Clarke
Could somebody please explain to me how I can get eggdrop working with Debian. I have installed tcl8 using both *.dev and *.tar.gz. But everytime, even tho I know tcl is installed...when I try and run eggdrop (yes it compiles just fine) it says... ./eggdrop: error in loading shared libraries libtcl

Re: Slow TNT2?

1999-10-12 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > > I've got a PIII/450, 128MB, Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 system here > > running potato current and it's quite slow in X. Dragging windows > > around is slower than my PII/3

latest version of kernel package is broken in potato

1999-10-12 Thread David Natkins
Would someone be able to confirm my suspicion? -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474

Re: "Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
"David J. Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache > list? The mystery cache list is /var/lib/dpkg/status -- you don't want to remove it, but you may want to edit it. Be careful, and keep a backup.

Re: App for creating .deb files from perl Modules

1999-10-12 Thread David Coe
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] unless there is some way to > make dselect & apt recognize that the required packages are installed, > though not where debian expects them. [...] Take a look at the debian package equivs -- it was made for that; you must be careful with the depen

Re: Weird SO5.1 problem

1999-10-12 Thread Nitebirdz
Robert, It seems to be doing the same in my box, but I do not know why. Nitebirdz On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > I've been stumped on why SO5.1 hasn't been working on my machine and on a > whim, I did a ps aux | grep soffice while it was loaded. What I found was > over 10 ins

satan - Anyone Else Using It?

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
While trying to run satan here, I received a _compilation_ error message. Have any of you tried satan in potato (as I have) and received the same message (or not)? Art

Re: restarting daemons

1999-10-12 Thread Nitebirz
Lev, This is the way I generally do it, although there are some other ways. First, I run "less" or "more" on /var/run/httpd.pid (I am currently running a Red Hat distro here, but you should look for the same file in the Debian box which perhaps will be locate somewehere else). This will

Savage4

1999-10-12 Thread John Franck
I have a Savage4 graphics card. I am trying to run X on my computer, but don't want to use VGA16. I downloaded the latest version of X 3.3.5, which was supposed to support Savage4 for Linux, but was unable to find it in the supported card list. Does anyone know what I can do to get this to wo

Re: du and df conflict; disk space missing

1999-10-12 Thread Paul Reavis
Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm very confused. I have a samba server running print services, and the > > only real problem I have with it is that my users keep getting "out of > > disk space" errors when printing. My /var partition is totally full: > > > > Files

[no subject]

1999-10-12 Thread trapstep
Hi list! I have some serious trouble using my Epson GT5000 scsi scanner. I use it with an aha1510b ISA adapter (aha152x-driver). There are two harddisk attched internally, one is active terminated. The scanner is attached via a 1m long hd50->centronics cable and on the sub-d25 port of the scann

Re: 3dfx and some sound questions

1999-10-12 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:57:16PM +0200, Joakim Svensson wrote: > > Alsa ? OSS ? > > or just recompile kernel and skip Alsa altogehter (soundblaster 128PCI). > kernel drivers will be lighter and more stable. On the other hand, you might get some fancy features with Alsa (didnt try OSS since AF

Re: du and df conflict; disk space missing

1999-10-12 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm very confused. I have a samba server running print services, and the > only real problem I have with it is that my users keep getting "out of > disk space" errors when printing. My /var partition is totally full: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Availa

realplayer with broadcast.com

1999-10-12 Thread Brian J. Stults
While we're on the subject of realplayer... I have G2 installed and it plays most realaudio formats just fine. However, when I try to listen to hockey games through broadcast.com, it plays the introductory advertisement, but then crashes when it tries to play the broadcast. Any suggestions? Tha

RE: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Oct-99 Ted Harding wrote: > On 12-Oct-99 Cyrus Patel wrote: >> Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? > > I don't know the answer to that (and I wish I did). > > Hope this helps, > Ted. Which reminds me -- I have a related query of my own. If you want to try the files I'm talki

Realvideo menu buttons do not work???

1999-10-12 Thread John Foster
I just installed RV. It seems to work as far as playing a directed file as in netscape, but the buttons for setting up preferences, selecting sites, etc do not work. Any help?? Thanks! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: Enlightenment .16 segafaults.

1999-10-12 Thread flonesaw
Without having tried anything on my own system, I would suggest that you remove the .enlightenment directory in your home directory and try to load it again. It is very likely that an old configuration file is incompatible with the new version. This has happened in previous E releases. Please le

Re: word perfect stuff...

1999-10-12 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, tf wrote: > hey guys, > > I have wordperfect installed, but I may have mangled the installation. > when I try to start it, I get > > ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > hmm. do I have this library? Should I move my WordPerfect directory > out of home, to usr/loca

Re: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Oct-99 Kristopher Johnson wrote: > "(Ted Harding)" wrote: >> When you get the ".ram" file from the supplying site, this usually >> has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) >> itself, similar to the following: >> >> pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.r

Re: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread aphro
real audio/video has a protection scheme, which lets the broadcaster decide wether they want you to be able to record the stream or not. there was a crack floating around for the winXX version to record RA but i havent seen a linux one(and i dont have the winXX one either, it was about 2 years ago

word perfect stuff...

1999-10-12 Thread tf
hey guys, I have wordperfect installed, but I may have mangled the installation. when I try to start it, I get ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' hmm. do I have this library? Should I move my WordPerfect directory out of home, to usr/local? dumb questions, perhaps, but thanks anyway! --

du and df conflict; disk space missing

1999-10-12 Thread Paul Reavis
I'm very confused. I have a samba server running print services, and the only real problem I have with it is that my users keep getting "out of disk space" errors when printing. My /var partition is totally full: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda6

Re: 3dfx and some sound questions

1999-10-12 Thread aphro
the RIVA driver you got there is the right one to use. i use it on my TNT(1) 16MB and it flies in quake2/3. the demo of myth2 doesnt have 3d accel(i dont think?) so i cant try it out. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

1999-10-12 Thread David Z. Maze
David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DJK> When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I DJK> got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: DJK> DJK> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ DJK> DJK> Do I have too small a partition,

Re: Voodoo Banshee + Debian => X == null ?

1999-10-12 Thread Tiago Alves Macambira
Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: > > Hi Folks! > > Well, I just bought a Blaster 3D Banshee AGP and to my surprise > bla bla bla I just sending this e-mail to thank those ones that helped me... In special, I would like to thank Taupter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by his post and his indication of

Re: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Kristopher Johnson
"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > When you get the ".ram" file from the supplying site, this usually > has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) > itself, similar to the following: > > pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.rm > > pnm://ras.radio.cz/zpravy.ra > > You

Re: Printable area for HP LJ 6L

1999-10-12 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:08:23PM +0200, Laurent Martelli wrote: > > "DP" == David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DP> printing seems to more or less happen, except that the printable > DP> area seems to be incorrectly set. For example when I print a > DP> text file usin

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

1999-10-12 Thread Edward Betts
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail > the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for > the best overall if I make it $HOME again. Reasons: > > 1) That's what most of the bug reports a

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:35:04PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > When I tried to use wwwoffle the only thing I noticed was a continuous > stream of errors: > Error writing to client [Broken pipe]; client disconnected?. > Oct 12 12:33:33 duckman wwwoffles[24568]: Timed out reading the reply.

Re: Mem greater then 64MB

1999-10-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 01:03:31PM +0100, Rajesh Mittal wrote: > Hi > >I have got debian box with 96 Mb as ram . >I am using LILO to boot in linux. > > But It always show me 64 mb ram with free command. > >what is the option to be added in lilo to make it read 96 mb ram. Hi,

Re: Mem greater then 64MB

1999-10-12 Thread Marcin Kurc
append="mem=96M" On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 01:03:31PM +0100, Rajesh Mittal wrote: > Hi > >I have got debian box with 96 Mb as ram . >I am using LILO to boot in linux. > > But It always show me 64 mb ram with free command. > >what is the option to be added in lilo to make it read

Re: replacing debs with locally compiled packages

1999-10-12 Thread John Hasler
Jim wrote: > This one's a quickie. Seems to me that if I want to replace a package > I've already installed with the distro (slink) with my own build of the > source, I should just be able to remove (w/o purging configs) the package > using dselect/dpkg and then go ahead and install my own build.

RE: OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Oct-99 Cyrus Patel wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was > wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I > don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. It depends (aspects of this are cov

samba and windows printing

1999-10-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have read a ton of how to, and still not been able to figure this out. I want to be able to print from linux to a shared windows network printer. Some of the important info: pinter share name=deskjet computer its on=sarah workgroup=Wilson I tried to follow the howto on this, but I am not sur

"Cleaning out" dselect

1999-10-12 Thread David J. Kanter
While using dselect when I really didn't know what I was doing, I'd select packages and in the heat of the moment, wind up putting some things on hold, flagging others for deletion, and eventually quitting out of confusion. But now that I know how to use dselect better, I'd like to update some of

apt-get dist-upgrade problem

1999-10-12 Thread David J. Kanter
When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Do I have too small a partition, is that the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- David J. Kan

Re: Printable area for HP LJ 6L

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "DP" == David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> Hi, DP> I have an HP laserjet 6L and using magicfilter, a2ps and gs DP> versions which came with slink. DP> printing seems to more or less happen, except that the printable DP> area seems to be incorrectly set. For example whe

Mem greater then 64MB

1999-10-12 Thread Rajesh Mittal
Hi I have got debian box with 96 Mb as ram . I am using LILO to boot in linux. But It always show me 64 mb ram with free command. what is the option to be added in lilo to make it read 96 mb ram. Please email me back with your suggestions. Thanks Rajesh =

OT - How to save real audio files?

1999-10-12 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi Guys, This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? Thanks alot, Cyrus -- Cyr

3dfx and some sound questions

1999-10-12 Thread Joakim Svensson
for a ASUS SC-200 scsi card to hook up my scanner. I have yet to set up my cdrw but I had it working on a previous install so that should work without problems. So what is this post about? Read on.. The rest of this post will be about 3dfx/openGL/Mesa etc and sound configuration. A couple of day

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-12 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> I'm using netscape with wwwoffle (www offline explorer, a personal http > proxy), > and it works very well. If you install this package, then you can switch off > the netscape cache, and the wwwoffle will keep the size of the cache below > the > configured limit. This solution has other advant

Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...??

1999-10-12 Thread Martin Waller
Oops - you're quite right. fdisk /MBR from a dos boot disk...? Martin From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...?? Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:09:16 -0400 This is a guess based on your description of what happens. It

Enlightenment .16 segafaults.

1999-10-12 Thread A. M. Varon
I have downloaded Enlightenment 0.16 .debs from www.debian.org/~ljlane. Well, when I start E... it gives me an indicator in terms of percentage. When it hits 91%... it segfaults. Anybody has a fix for this? regards, = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://and

Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:11:41AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Art, dimly reminiscing of having used his birdbrain and beak to peck the > enter key repeatedly for a 1.0 install on older hardware... ...or maybe it was 1.2 (rex?). Anyway, my point was that installs have been fairly easy with olde

Re: S3 Virge AGP

1999-10-12 Thread Nikolay Hristov
> > Hi, > > > > I've an S3 Virge GX2 with AGP, and it seems to me, that causes some > > stability problems in my Slink box. Which X server is recommended? > > Is XF86-S3V 3.3.5 compatible with my card? > > > > Regards, I think that it was XF86_SVGA for S3 Virge video cards! Geroy

Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.

1999-10-12 Thread Art Lemasters
Seriously, Mike, bleeding edge hardware and software will be either more expensive or more difficult to install. I choose the slightly more difficult route to getting work done, because high market profile tools (like Bill's favorites) are too expensive and lacking in security for corporations

smail misconfigured?

1999-10-12 Thread Markus Reuscher
Hi all! I want to receive mails on my server with the addresse [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] everything is allright. But when I send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get this reply: - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to ns

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