Re: [svlug] Linux Developers/Web people needed for Bay Area Startup

1999-11-22 Thread ikluft
> From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Captech ise offering eCommerce diagnostic solutions and are > looking to expand our team [...] Christoph - Expect to get barked at by some of SVLUG's officers real soon. Because of the way headhunters have abused the SVLUG list in the past, they re

Linux Developers/Web people needed for Bay Area Startup

1999-11-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
Captech ise offering eCommerce diagnostic solutions and are looking to expand our team in preparation for the anticipated IPO next year. We are using Debian/Linux and have several Debian people on staff. We pay competitive wages and provide excellent benefits. 2 Web Developers. Develop Web applica

quickie.

1999-11-22 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi everyone, sure someone will know the answer to this. whoever does, could you please reply to me off the list. i'm planning on building a new server. i want to raid 5 the hard drives for security, reliability etc. can i mount a scsi raid 5 system onto the / partition? will kernel 2.2 do it?

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-22 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other > > reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to > > access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you > > select gimp for installation. > > Really? > > pe

Re: phoenix maxi gamer 3D xserver [URGENT]

1999-11-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > > I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on his > computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the xserver > exists (and if so, where I can download it). My first suggestion would be to try the SVGA

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread aphro
a quick fix may be to install the distribution onto a non raid'd drive and just copy it over once the raid is setup. this is how i setup my (software) based raid servers.. installed to 1 partition, made the rest of the partitions mirrored, and just cp -a'd the files over after i made the raid arra

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > > > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > > > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I di= >

OREXX doesn't wait

1999-11-22 Thread
I'm having trouble setting up OREXX. It doesn't wait for user input at pull statements, just flies through the program. Also interactive traces don't wait for returns. This is with xterm/bash. In the console everything is fine. Also tried csh. Any ideas at all what's going on? --== Sent vi

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > > Try `mem=256M' instead. > > > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... > > No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. > Try `mem=255M' instead. Fine, I'll give it a try tomorrow. Even if it starts, anyway, the problem re

Confused

1999-11-22 Thread Atheist Bastard
I have just in the last few weeks started to mess with Linux. I have successfully installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on an old P100 box with CDROM. My problem is that I want to investigate the contents of the CDROMs that I have, but nothing I have found that talks about anything like directory comman

liloing hdc as hda

1999-11-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace my dying disk. dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on the secondary controller. I switched cables, and it wouldn't boot, so I presume the

phoenix maxi gamer 3D xserver [URGENT]

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on his computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the xserver exists (and if so, where I can download it). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PURGE COMPLETE.

anybody try tkrat 2.0b5 on a Debian potato system?

1999-11-22 Thread Brian Servis
I have been having problems getting the 2.0 beta versions of tkrat to run on my potato system. It compiles fine but has problems with the c-client library blt_busy that is included int the source tree. Whenever this function is called it Segfaults and dies. If I comment the calls to blt_busy out

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to > patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb, > at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can > get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url, > but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg).

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Try `mem=256M' instead. > > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... > > No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. Try `mem=255M' instead. JY -- Jean-Yves

Re: free linux

1999-11-22 Thread aphro
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Tomas Faquini wrote: faquin >I want free linux, how can i get it faquin > Tom?s Faquini download it from any one of a hundred(thousand?) distro sites, ftp.cdrom.com /pub/linux is a good place to start. or attend a local install fest..or go to www.linuxmall.

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no g

Horde+imp install problem

1999-11-22 Thread Tomislav Renic
Please CC me with any answers as I subscribe only to the digest. Guys, I tried installing horde and imp today, and the postinst script just freezes on me. Any ideas what the problem could be? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GE d s++:++ a-- C++ UL P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N++ o K-

linux download...

1999-11-22 Thread Marcina Lewandowskiego
 

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Nov-1999 J C Lawrence wrote: > A more elegant way of running procmail under Exim as an LDA is to > install the following transport and director in /etc/exim.conf: > > The director: > > procmail_pipe: > driver = pipe > command = "/usr/bin/procmail" > user = ${local_part} >

Re: free linux

1999-11-22 Thread Kent West
Tomas Faquini wrote: > > I want free linux, how can i get it >Tomás Faquini > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You can download it from the web, or borrow a friend's CD, or purchase a book that includes a "free" CD, etc. There are severa

Re: free linux

1999-11-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 18:27:42 -0200, Tomas Faquini wrote: > I want free linux, how can i get it See http://www.debian.org/intro/free for what "free" means and http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist and http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors for information on how to obtain Debian. If you

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care > > about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable >

Re: Broken web browsing

1999-11-22 Thread aphro
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Tom Allard wrote: m1tca0 >One other thing I failed to mention: I have apache installed (to give them m1tca0 >a nice customized home page as well as easy access to docs via dwww) and I m1tca0 >*can* browse http://localhost/ . check firewall rules, check if there is a proxy s

free linux

1999-11-22 Thread Tomas Faquini
I want free linux, how can i get it Tomás Faquini

recording voice?

1999-11-22 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Is there any good util to record voice from mic? -gnana

Re: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 10:25:13AM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > just out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill kerneld? > > are you trying to set kmod properly? > > if yes, could someone provide sample docs/configuration > for kmod? The only info i was able to find is > 1K file in kerne

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:03AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: > > ebbin2 >However, the quality differences are only noticeable > ebbin2 >by -very- high trained professionals or with oscilloscopes. > > i cant tell the diff between 96kbps (what i use on my rio) and 128kb

xset fp rehash is not run after installing X fonts ?

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
I have just installed xfonts-intl-european.deb. According to xset man, fp rehash The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value, causing the server to reread the font databases in the current font path. This is generally only used when ad

Re: Broken web browsing

1999-11-22 Thread Tom Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You say you can "nslookup" the sites; can you "ping" any of them? Yes, and I can even telnet, ssh and ftp to them. One other thing I failed to mention: I have apache installed (to give them a nice customized home page as well as easy access to docs via dwww) and I *can

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care > about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable > to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? > > I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps

scsi cards

1999-11-22 Thread jason
i'm looking to move my desktop machine to scsi soon and was wondering what some good reliable scsi cards are i imagine the adaptec 2940 u2w is good.. but what about the 2940 u2 ? or solutions from other manufacturers? i'm also interested in maybe running raid since it would reduce the amount of b

Re: Broken web browsing

1999-11-22 Thread Kent West
Tom Allard wrote: > > I have a machine for my in-laws that I built using Slink and I got them > an account on MindSpring for their web browsing pleasure (about all they > will use this machine for other than Word Perfect). > > My problem is that I can't get any web browsers to work. I use wvdial

Re: Newbie question floppy format

1999-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, julie wright wrote: > Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. Returned error - command not found. > Thanks for any he

Re: Newbie question floppy format

1999-11-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, julie wright wrote: : Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? : Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not : work. Returned error - command not found. Try `superformat' instead. If that doesn't work yo

Re: X, middle mouse,Artec, do see output in /dev/mouse

1999-11-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Joost" == Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> But I've already tried all possible X mice. And everything Joost> works with the Microsoft setting, except for the middle Joost> button. Strange thing is that I've now got two such mice, Joost> bought at different times, and from

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Try `mem=256M' instead. > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. I can't see why syslinux reports having less than 608Kb of base memory. Well, I *can* see why, since the base memory

Maelstrom?

1999-11-22 Thread Ian Stirling
The sound in Maelstrom is very patchy with the following error message repeated in the gaps .. "Mixer: Can't write to audio device: Resource temporarily unavailable" I do not think it has anything to do with the driver for the sound card because the same problem occurred on an older machine with

Newbie question floppy format

1999-11-22 Thread julie wright
Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not work. Returned error - command not found. Thanks for any help in advance. JRW __ Get Your P

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread peter karlsson
Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?

Unidentified subject!

1999-11-22 Thread Andrew Plumb
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Locale question

1999-11-22 Thread Michael Meskes
I never cared much about localization but now I'm stuck with a program that works well with all locales but has to do some output without using the locale. Since the output is a floating point I get e.g. 14,7 instead of 14.7 using the german locale. But I need it to output 14.7. So far it uses pri

Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> I am not sure how xemacs handles the gpm input. GNU Emacs does Ian> it through a subprocess and an associated Elisp module Ian> (t-mouse.el). If this is the case for xemacs too, the right Alt Ian> key (AltGr) should work. Brian> Yes, i

Broken web browsing

1999-11-22 Thread Tom Allard
I have a machine for my in-laws that I built using Slink and I got them an account on MindSpring for their web browsing pleasure (about all they will use this machine for other than Word Perfect). My problem is that I can't get any web browsers to work. I use wvdial to connect to MindSpring and

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" proclaimed: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > >[Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] > >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 > >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 > >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as '

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Enrico Zini wrote: : : Hello! : : I'm trying to install Debian slink on a double pentium 2 server with a : Mylex DAC960 RAID controller with 3 IBM UW2 9Gb disks. : : After compiling a custom kernel for the boot floppy and making it boot and : see the DAC960, I found

samba and Mac

1999-11-22 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I do not know if anyone on this list has mac networking experience but here goes. I am trying to get my mac machine running the Dave Client to appear on my Linux machine running Debian. I can see the mac and linux machine in the windows network neighborhood and I can see the linux and window

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-22 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: > > In reply to:John Foster > John > > I have been using commercial OSS for over 2 years now and have never > had any problem with anyone using it. > > uname -a > Linux mtntop 2.2.12 #3 Fri Aug 27 11:29:52 EDT 1999 i586 unknown > > Here are some permissions

Re: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > just out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill kerneld? I'm trying to kill kerneld just because I get the message "you almost certainly don't want to be running kerneld with 2.2 kernels". So I'm assuming that I don't want to be running kerneld. Maybe I am doing it w

Presentation software (was Re: in need of information)

1999-11-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Please try to use a more descriptive subject. On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 15:27:47 -, CGE1009 wrote: > I was hoping you could forward me any relevant information you have with > regard to presentation graphics tools and packages. The only packages I'm aware of that were more or less designed for

Re: /etc/syslog/conf

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
[19:07:49 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/syslog.conf sysklogd: /etc/syslog.conf [19:09:26 /tmp]$ Therefor, unpacking the sysklogd package and taking /etc/syslog.conf from it should get you back the config file. But I am not sure that other packages do not change it to suit there needs. If I am not mistake

Re: apt-get to install new kernel

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.13 ? As far as I know, 2.2.13 is one of the recent stable kernels. It is surly the last recent kernels with a deb package. There is also a deb for the kernel source (kernel-source-2.2.13). If your /etc/apt/sources.list works then you probably do not have to change

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
Sorry to keep replying to my own posts but I have sysklogd installed now. The thing I did to get around the errors was an accident. Instead of going into dselect and selecting sysklogd to install, I ran dselect again and skipped selecting (I had previously done that) and went strait to install an

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Nov, Jason Taylor wrote about "sshd from /etc/rc5.d" > I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation > says that it is normally run from /etc/rc, it seems that /etc/rc5.d is the > comparable place in Debian to run it from. However, I created the sym link > to the

Re: LILO

1999-11-22 Thread Marc Mongeon
See the "Multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO" at www.linux.doc, or some other LDP mirror. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line betwe

Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm trying to install Debian slink on a double pentium 2 server with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller with 3 IBM UW2 9Gb disks. After compiling a custom kernel for the boot floppy and making it boot and see the DAC960, I found that the Debian installation hangs: it gets stuck asking me if I

RE: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-22 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
just out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill kerneld? are you trying to set kmod properly? if yes, could someone provide sample docs/configuration for kmod? The only info i was able to find is 1K file in kernel sources thank you OK On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > I

Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Help! I just lost X overnight. I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?

Re: HELP: Error: can't find libjava.so

1999-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:10:34PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: ok, found a fix. but still i do not know what failed. but as it seems it could be /bin/sh. > now when i try to launch any java program i get the message > Error: can't find libjava.so . ok, editing the java_wrapper i

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
Ok, I left things last night late and am back at it. I booted up today and tried reinstalling sysklogd again. This time dselect tells me, Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "/var/run" (Missing operator before run?) syntax error at -e line 1, near "/var/run" Executi

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 09:25:12AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > > > > One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, > > > and I > > > was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between > > > the 2 > > > distros so that a

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi Jason, The scripts in the /etc/rc?.d directories should accept "stop" or "start" as their argument. The first should stop the daemon and the latter of course start it.. Please look at /usr/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz for a short explanation. HTH, Remco On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:50, J

Re: zsh problems in potato

1999-11-22 Thread Tobias Rundström
> > I've just upgraded to Potato, and I really like it. But I use zsh and it > > seems > > like the completition with the tab-key don't work anymore? Is this my fault > > or has any change been made to zsh? > > No, this version of zsh changed the completion options. To initialize them > type (I

Re: xfstt vs. xfs-xtt

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Is there any program which lists all used ports? (Haven't this been > asked before?) Try lsof -i and lsof -U to see which sockets are bound. -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Jason Taylor
Thank you, I made that change as well. Coming from a FreeBSD background I am quickly learning the idiosyncrasies between it and Linux. Again, thanks guys... A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation > says

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Jason Taylor
Thank you, that was it... -Jason - Original Message - From: Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jason Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 10:46 AM Subject: Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wr

more jaZip

1999-11-22 Thread Andresito del Hierro
Hello Peter Yes it seems that my ext2 zip disks don't work on jaZip. Yes I guess I did not fdisk them when I ext2 them. I forgot to send my last mail to the list --sorry folks! :-( -- Andres > Andresito del Hierro wrote: > > > Hello Peter > > > > fdisk said! "Device contains neither a valid D

Re: [potato] broke ps printing (still)

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 03:40:19AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > On Sat, 1999-11-20 at 17:31:37 -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello all; > > > > I upgraded to gs-aladdin from gs as one person suggested, but I still > > can't print ps. Basically nothing happens, lpq shows: > > > > Printer: [EMAIL

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread aphro
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Onno wrote: ebbin2 >However, the quality differences are only noticeable ebbin2 >by -very- high trained professionals or with oscilloscopes. i cant tell the diff between 96kbps (what i use on my rio) and 128kbps (on my pc) ! doh! heheh nate -

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation > says that it is normally run from /etc/rc, it seems that /etc/rc5.d is the > comparable place in Debian to run it from. However, I created the sym link > to the s

Re: zsh problems in potato

1999-11-22 Thread C. R. Oldham
Tobias Rundström wrote: > Hi! > > I've just upgraded to Potato, and I really like it. But I use zsh and it seems > like the completition with the tab-key don't work anymore? Is this my fault > or has any change been made to zsh? No, this version of zsh changed the completion options. To initia

Re: sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jason Taylor wrote: > I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation > says that it is normally run from /etc/rc, it seems that /etc/rc5.d is the > comparable place in Debian to run it from. However, I created the s

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, quite right. What I was thinking of was that the terminal you start > from is effectively out of use as long as X is running because it > contains the starting-up stuff. You can also kill X from that terminal. I use a shell function (which t

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-22 Thread Kent West
Shaul Karl wrote: > > > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > I think I had something similar (or was it the exact thing) with slink and > 2.0.36 sources. I also believe I saw someone else who reported it to the list > not long ago. > I never solved it and m

in need of information

1999-11-22 Thread CGE1009
Dear sir/Madam, My name is Amanda Dwyer, and I am doing a Computing and German course in the Carlow Institute of Technology. I am doing a presentation in Technical Documentation and I was hoping you could forward me any relevant information you have with regard to presentation graphics tools

(solved) Making CDs with rsync

1999-11-22 Thread Raphael Clancy
Just in case anyone cares ;-) I would strongly recommend against using the pseudo-image / rsync method for making ISO files of the slink install CDs. I went through the whole process, and ran into a raft of problems. The first being that most of the archive site listed at deian.org have changed

Re: little www svr

1999-11-22 Thread Marc Mongeon
Jean-Yves: I'm a little confused about what you're asking. If your ISP is providing 500MB disk space, presumably on their Web server, then you don't need to worry about running a Web server. You create the page content and upload it to their server using ftp. If you are running your own Web ser

LILO

1999-11-22 Thread Neil D. Roberts
How do I have to configure lilo.conf, in order for it to ask me to boot Linux or WindowsNT ? Linux is on Primary Master and WindowsNT is on Primary Slave. . . Thanks -- * Neil David John Roberts - Lander World Communications Server S

Re: offline apt-get update?

1999-11-22 Thread Vincent Murphy
= Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991122 1450]: > Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in > /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz yeah i have read that, but it doesn't answer my question. the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the connected m

Re: bootdisk problem

1999-11-22 Thread Marc Mongeon
> I was booting off the bootdisk and when the initial message and the boot: > prompt comes up, I hit enter, and it loads the root.bin, prints 4 periods, > and then hangs, like this: > >loading root.bin > > I tried all the boot images, resc-1440, resc-1440-safe, resc-1440-tecra, > resc-1440-

HELP: Error: can't find libjava.so

1999-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, I have installed the java-dummy package and the standard jdk from blackdown, this worked perfectly since this morning, when i decided to do once more an update of my portato system. now when i try to launch any java program i get the message Error: can't find libjava.so . I tryed

sshd from /etc/rc5.d

1999-11-22 Thread Jason Taylor
I recently installed openssh onto a debian box and the documentation says that it is normally run from /etc/rc, it seems that /etc/rc5.d is the comparable place in Debian to run it from. However, I created the sym link to the sshd file located elsewhere in the /etc/rc5.d directory. I cannot get

APT & NFS-shared cache - segfaults

1999-11-22 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Hi! I know it has been asked many times before, but has anyone actually succeded in sharing /var/cache/apt and /var/state/apt over NFS? I had lock problems at first, but I switched to knfsd and lock problem appears to be solved. However, apt now gives the segmentation fault trying to update packag

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Nov 1999, Mike Werner wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. > > Not quite. X will come

Re: Creative AWE64 - full duplex supported?

1999-11-22 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
I dont think any of the OSS drivers supports full duplex, you may have better luck with the ALSA drivers, I know they have much better support for full duplex. /nisse On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Is Creative AWE64 soundcard - Full duplex support availble in 2.2.x > kernels? > >

Re: yes jaZIP works

1999-11-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andresito del Hierro wrote: > Thank you Peter! > > Yes it recognizes the different partitions, GREAT and easy!. All the > DOS formated disks work well and get mounted (being /dev/sda1 or > /dev/sda4). How do you get ext2 format to be mounted with JaZip? Jazip reads the partition table. So if y

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-22 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:11:44AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Michael Stenner wrote: > > I think that both are true, whether you mind depends on YOUR > > standards. In any event, I recommend giving a few a try. > > OK, I'll see how much is the space requirement. > > > There are many Window Man

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-22 Thread Fabrizio Tivano
Hello Paulo, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm having a hard time to configure mgetty on a 56 Kbs modem that can > only connect at 38.400 bps. This look like to be a default serial speed. Try to setup serial port speed at 115.200 and initalize your

Re: offline apt-get update?

1999-11-22 Thread Brian Servis
Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz Abstract This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment, specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades. *- On 22 Nov, Vincent Murphy wrote about "offline ap

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > Isn't www.bookpool.com generally cheaper then amazon ?

zsh problems in potato

1999-11-22 Thread Tobias Rundström
Hi! I've just upgraded to Potato, and I really like it. But I use zsh and it seems like the completition with the tab-key don't work anymore? Is this my fault or has any change been made to zsh? Kind regards tobias.. -- -- Tobias Rundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.tobi.nu --

HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-11-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm sure I sent this message to the list, but it hasn't shown as yet: I tried to install perl5 from potato, but I couldn't (and now all the perl stuff is messed up). First, I tried to `dpkg -i perl-5.005_5.005.03-4.deb', but it requires perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb and conflicts with the

yes jaZIP works

1999-11-22 Thread Andresito del Hierro
Thank you Peter! Yes it recognizes the different partitions, GREAT and easy!. All the DOS formated disks work well and get mounted (being /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4). How do you get ext2 format to be mounted with JaZip? Regards Andres. > jaZip should read them whether they have partition /dev/sda1 o

Re: HP 710C - ..again..!!

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Antonio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dear Sir/Madame, > > After hundreds of searches I now feel really hopeless. > My little problem is the following: I use Lotus Freelance 4.0 > Professional for DOS, but this of course does not come for a driver for > such printer. > Please -I'm praying You- te

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > 18:39 ~ $ which [ > > /usr/bin/[ > > 18:39 ~ $ type [ > > [ is a shell builtin >^^^ > Hm... does it mean that "magic" is not quite magical...? I thought "file" used magic; it says: file /usr/bin/\[ /usr/bin/[:

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: > I haven't seen the second edition so I don't know how Randal starts it > off but in case he doesn't or for those who learn from the man pages > or by looking at scripts I will give an unsolicited edict: > > Start every program with > > #!/usr/l

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jeff Sciortino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Now I'm trying running with gpm shut down. This seems to be giving me > _much_ higherreliability. I'm not totally comfortable with this > solution, since it seems like the problem should be some sort of > hardware conflict. > > I checked out whethe

Creative AWE64 - full duplex supported?

1999-11-22 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Is Creative AWE64 soundcard - Full duplex support availble in 2.2.x kernels? -gnana

Inchon International Airport Information

1999-11-22 Thread han
To whom it may concern Please refer to the attached news information for Inchon international Airport in Korea. This news letter(attached file) should be delivered to personnel who are related to airport business and are interested in our facilities/services. If this is mistakenly de

Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near "startup links for " Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near

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