/dev/console - Kernel upgrades from 2.0 to 2.2

2000-01-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I was learning (a little) about tty devices, and learned, from `potato' MAKEDEV and the kernel sources, that in 2.0 kernels, /dev/console -> /dev/tty0, but in 2.2, /dev/console should be node 5,1. I've been running 2.2 for some time... but until yesterday, my /dev/console was still a symlin

Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700

2000-01-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I got one of the above printers and reinstalled apsfilter with the > Ghostscript escp2 driver but can't print... I get an error in filter "f" or > something like that... > > Let me cut to the chase... I need a printcap! Has anyone else here got one > of these work

RE: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Alex McCool
doh!!! I forgot about that extra slash mark - Thanks +=> -Original Message- +=> From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +=> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:46 PM +=> To: Alex McCool +=> Cc: 'Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira'; Debian User list +=> Subject: Re: Samba error when get

Re: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Kent West
Alex McCool wrote: > I've tried using the //servername/c$like in NT but I dont think > samba likes that. > Instead create a sharepoint with a real name on the NT box. > I can mount a C$ share if I use the following syntax: smbmount-2.2.x //servername/c\$ Note the "\" before the "$". > > +=

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
>how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) > >here's how i do it: > ># mount /dev/hdc /bt > >(where /bt is a directory i created.) > >i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a >music cd). > >hth. I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is i

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Clyde Wilson
On 26 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > dkphoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which > > first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: > > /dev/cdrom > > > > ...which I do. Then it asks me to help fin

Groups and what not.

2000-01-26 Thread Hans
Can someone give me a pointer to some on-line info on group management (preferably in laymen's terms). I understand file permissions and their use, but I'd like to secure my data by only giving access to me, a user, and root to certain partitions on a server. I have me, the user and root set up, bu

upgrading perl

2000-01-26 Thread Bart Jason Himel
Has anyone successfully upgraded their version of perl from 5.004 to 5.005. No matter what I try, I simply cannot get it to remove perl-5.004-base so that I can install perl-5.005. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone may provide.

Disappearing ToolBar

2000-01-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Has anyone noticed the disappearance of toolbars in Netscape? I'm using "potato" updated almost daily, so the Netscape version is the most recent one: 4.71. For example, the main Mail/Newsgroup screen has the usual icons, but if I select "Reply" the Compose message dialog is missing its

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" wrote: > > > > --- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > > > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > > > > > SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rat

RE: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Alex McCool
I've tried using the //servername/c$like in NT but I dont think samba likes that. Instead create a sharepoint with a real name on the NT box. +=> -Original Message- +=> From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira +=> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +=> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:55 PM

Re: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, it's my fault but the sharepont is /c or an alias that is in NT? Quoting Alex McCool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ># smbmount file://sideraco/c /mnt -U Linux -I 222.222.222.2 -D > sideraco -P > >AriaLinux > > > > Your first arg is incorrect it should look like the string

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
>David, is the CD mounted? >If not, have a look at mount command. dselect says it's mounted. (after I enter: dev/cdrom in response to its query) What sort of input is it looking for? Could you give me at least an example? Maybe that would help to clear the fog. David Kachel

Re: Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Alex McCool
> ># smbmount file://sideraco/c /mnt -U Linux -I 222.222.222.2 -D sideraco -P >AriaLinux > Your first arg is incorrect it should look like the string you pass when using "net use * \\suckieNT\sharepnt" not the URL style

Re: Laptop loses display

2000-01-26 Thread Alex McCool
> >> I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe >> >> After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? >> Has anyone seen this before? >> Could it be the terminal setting? >> If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but never >> the laptop display >>

Re: copying passwd files

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:55:13 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one >machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode When in doubt always use binary mode, so your files get transported byte per byte, no ma

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread paul
Thanks for the info, I am eagerly awaiting a full featured Memnonic or Amaya release. Until then... I guess its Netscape whenever the need for features outweighs reliability. thanks again, -ptw-

Samba error when getting file from NT Server to Linux client

2000-01-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, I have a small problem with Samba in Debian 2.1 (Slink), kernel 2.0.36 and samba 2.0.5. I have a NT Server and a Linux client. I want to get some files from NT Server to the Linux client. They are in the same network and the IP's are: NT Server - 222.222.

Re: problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

2000-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:21:03AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and > > nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names, > > could these two be currupted? > > > > I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I do

Problems with GNOME; Using pon as user

2000-01-26 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I downloaded GNOME last night with apt, and it seems like it installed the programs that come with GNOME, but when I boot up, the GNOME bar-type thing isn't there. Do I need to configure something to do this? One more problem. A little while ago, I mailed about using 'pon' as a normal user

Sound on IBM Thinkpad 390E

2000-01-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello to the list, I am trying to get sound to work on my IBM Thinkpad 390E running Debian 2.1. I have been unable to get sound to work until very recently. I was told that I could type the following, as root, upon bootup, to make sound work: insmod soundcore insmod esssolo1 mixctrl 7 0

copying passwd files

2000-01-26 Thread zdrysdal
Hi When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode thanx

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
dkphoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which > first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: > /dev/cdrom > > ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. > > No matter what I enter,

Re: less and color

2000-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
> On 26/1/2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an > >alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping > >ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of > >more. However, when piping ls stdout to t

Laptop loses display

2000-01-26 Thread a user
I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe    After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? Has anyone seen this before? Could it be the terminal setting? If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but never the laptop display  

problem with sigHUP

2000-01-26 Thread Jim Penny
This is on a current woody system; but I think the problem was introduced in an upgrade that was part of potato. See below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps eax | fgrep more | cut -c1-80 23483 pts/4S 0:00 more /etc/passwd 23488 pts/9S 0:00 fgrep more [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# killall -HUP mor

printing on remote printer

2000-01-26 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
I had remote printing from my laptop to my workstation with printer working, when both ran slink. It also worked with my mailserver, and the mailserver and laptop have the same printcap file: lp|hp690|hp690:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\ :rm=daria.sloterdijk.nl:\ :rp=lp:\

Re: Statistics Package Recommendations?

2000-01-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 01/26/00, Matthew W. Roberts addressed "Statistics Package Recommendations?": > I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find > any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering > if there are any more mature libraries out there. Is this what you're look

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Mognet
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 26 08:30:13 2000 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:30:13 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Received: 26 Jan 2000 11:49:05 GMT Resent-Date: 26 Jan 2000 11:48:20 - Resent-C

Re: X hangs modem/ppp

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
fire up gpm (console mouse driver/server) start using it to copy/paste and see if that does the same, if it does then it is for sure a conflict(doesnt have to be an IRQ conflict it can be an I/O conflict) if not..not sure what to reccomend, it is a hardware modem right and not a winmodem ..while m

Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

2000-01-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all! I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had to click on "If you know that you have Flash installed" link. Is there some trick to properly configure it? I'm using Navigator 4.7, and all I have done

Re: problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

2000-01-26 Thread Ian Winter
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:21:03AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and > nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names, > could these two be currupted? > > I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I don't know if

Re: Statistics Package Recommendations?

2000-01-26 Thread Colin Telmer
You can wrap up routines from scalapack and blas into C or C++. Moreover, you can do it with octave libs (I know you can do it but I have never done it so you may want to ask directions from elsewhere). I wouldn't be suprised that you could also do it from R. Cheers. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew

kernel panics - sometimes

2000-01-26 Thread Werner Reisberger
My system crashes from time to time but I cannot reproduce the crashes. It may run 2 month without any problems and suddenly a daily cronjob or a simple shell command seems to cause the crash. Here is what I could write today from the system console: Code: 39 73 70 75 22 c7 43 4c 11 00 a1 3

Dare I dist-upgrade a server from slink to potato right now?

2000-01-26 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
We're running into a problem with the version of glibc that's on our news server, which is running slink. I've dist-upgraded a firewall machine at home a few weeks ago without a hitch but the machine at the office is a news server that handles over 4 gig of alt.binaries newsgroups a day (we handle

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:00:18 PST, aphro writes: >netscape uses a child called dns-helper and it tries to resolve some of >the netscape domains to see if DNS is working and because(i believe) of >the single threaded tcp portion of netscape this locks the browser until >the resolution is complete. th

X hangs modem/ppp

2000-01-26 Thread Kurt Swigart
My ppp connection quits working when I start X. It doesn't happen all the time, just about 60%. Stopping X does not make it better. The problem seems to be with the modem (or the serial port), since even if I kill pppd, I cannot communicate with the modem. I can't even send it "ATZ". I have fo

Matrox Rainbow Runner

2000-01-26 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I was planning to buy a new computer, and include some tv-tuner/grabber card; I saw that Matrox makes an edition of the G400 (called Marvel or something like that) with a TV-tuner and video acquisition/output; it seems quite a nice thing to buy, and the price is not that bad. I didn't find

Re: Statistics Package Recommendations?

2000-01-26 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
> > I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find > > any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering > > if there are any more mature libraries out there. > > There's lots of debian packages. Octave(matlab clone), R(S clone), python, > scilab for examples

What happend to Netscape?

2000-01-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have been using Netscape 4.7 on my Debian (unstable) box for quite a while. Lately I feel Netscape has gone back to having the problems I felt was solved in 4.7: Memory leaks, crashing and slow rendering. Since it is still Netscape 4.7 something else in Debian must have changed to caus

Re: mouse

2000-01-26 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> I got the xwindows to work but the mouse is not working. I use the > Microsoft mouse driver when I setup the mouse but it seems like that does > not work. Can anyone help me with this problem. I don't have enough information to really help you, but if your mouse plugs into your PS/2 port, 95% o

Re: Statistics Package Recommendations?

2000-01-26 Thread Colin Telmer
There's lots of debian packages. Octave(matlab clone), R(S clone), python, scilab for examples. Look in the math section and look at R. Cheers. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find > any Debian packages, but did find

Statistics Package Recommendations?

2000-01-26 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering if there are any more mature libraries out there. Thanks, -- Matthew Roberts Structural Engine

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about >the 486- >100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice >has a Cirrus >Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both >systems use >the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a >swap partition >but Alice has a swap file on the

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul >1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child paul >process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal paul >behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the number of "child" Netscapes not paul >always

Re: xfree

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
unless VA/ORA updated it since last i bought it no it does not nate On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James Taylor wrote: jtaylo >Hello: jtaylo > jtaylo >I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether jtaylo >the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI, jtay

licq question

2000-01-26 Thread debuser
I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start lic

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread Raphael Clancy
These symptoms are typical Netscape behavior. almost everyone coplains of this sort of thing, yet no one I know has a definitive answer on how to fix them. I've heard alternately that both upgrading and installing older versions of glibc helps also trying differnt versions of netscape is not a b

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:16:07PM -0500, paul wrote: > Netscape has some odd behaviors which I was wondering if anyone here could > shed some light upon. > > 1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child > process either one or two times. Why does this happen?

Re: xfree

2000-01-26 Thread Raphael Clancy
As far as I know, they shipped slink r3 so if your video card is not supported in the standard slink distro, you might consider visiting http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ for info on how to get a more up to date version of X. R. >>> James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/26/00 10:37AM >>> Hello: I

Re: xfree

2000-01-26 Thread Howard Mann
James Taylor wrote: > > Hello: > > I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether > the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI, > VA linux, et al. included support for the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra chipset. > Does anyone know? > > Thanks, > > James

Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread paul
Netscape has some odd behaviors which I was wondering if anyone here could shed some light upon. 1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the n

Re: problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

2000-01-26 Thread Bruce Sass
Check the filesystems section of /boot/config- to see if they have been compiled into the kernel. IIRC, "cat /proc/filesystems" will tell you what filesystems the kernel had compiled in or have been loaded as modules. -- On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/f

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- "W. Keegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I > "think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33. I told you :) > The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- > 100 (Alice) machine it's only got

mouse

2000-01-26 Thread Hutchinson, Floyd
I got the xwindows to work but the mouse is not working. I use the Microsoft mouse driver when I setup the mouse but it seems like that does not work. Can anyone help me with this problem.

Re: Gnome complain it cannot find internet address for hostname

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me > that Gnome cannot find the internet address for scgf (my system > hostname). > > My /etc/hosts contains: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 0.0.0.0 scgf.gmx.net scgf > > If

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
add more ram.. in cases with 64MB and below, swapping to disk more then you have available memory really causes severe performance problems esp in a GUI enviornment regaurdless of OS. and/or get another physical hdd to swap to. or, run it off of NFS and run the swap from local disk. with a decent N

Re: new to debian...

2000-01-26 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't have be able to quote it for a while. However, I can say that even XF86Setup fa

Re: Gnome complain it cannot find internet address for hostname

2000-01-26 Thread Clyde Wilson
How about changing your address to 127.0.0.1 too? On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I recently installed Gnome (1.0.5x) on my Debian (Potato) system and am > managing to get everything configured as I like it. > > Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me

xfree

2000-01-26 Thread James Taylor
Hello: I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI, VA linux, et al. included support for the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra chipset. Does anyone know? Thanks, James

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I never could get the permissions configured correctly on the Debian package of majordomo and installed from the source tarball instead. Bob On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: > Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new > user to a list, majordomo

Re: Drivers-EMERGENCY>HELP IMMEDIATELY

2000-01-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Hutchinson, Floyd wrote: > I install Debian version 2.1.r4 on a Dell Optiplex GX1. But I am having > trouble locating the drivers for the ‘3com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100MB TX” > and ‘ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x’. Can anyone help locate these drivers and > help me with installin

making deb file from source.

2000-01-26 Thread Marco Giardini
how do i make a deb file after having used the apt-get source filename and the dpkg-source -x file.dsc? Thanks for replying. .oesse. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|d|i|n|i| +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Tecn

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread W. Keegan
> I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, >1G hd, > networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a > 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I > welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross > misconfiguration. I'v

Gnome complain it cannot find internet address for hostname

2000-01-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
I recently installed Gnome (1.0.5x) on my Debian (Potato) system and am managing to get everything configured as I like it. Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me that Gnome cannot find the internet address for scgf (my system hostname). My /etc/hosts contains: 127.

help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard Ma

Re: GnomeICU dies

2000-01-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 25 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > gnomeicu was working up to about two weeks ago then this started. > Actually now that I think about it, gnomeicu didn't work a few months > back and then all of a sudden it started working (for about one month) > then to where it is now... I know. It's twist

Drivers-EMERGENCY>HELP IMMEDIATELY

2000-01-26 Thread Hutchinson, Floyd
I install Debian version 2.1.r4 on a Dell Optiplex GX1. But I am having trouble locating the drivers for the ‘3com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100MB TX” and ‘ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x’. Can anyone help locate these drivers and help me with installing them. Thank you.

Re: I thought Potato used a 2.2.x kernel?

2000-01-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Jessop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly > on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM) > but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget > which). How? Why? >

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

2000-01-26 Thread David Henderson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bill Wilson wrote: > I agree 100%. I was just describing what I had done for single user > home setup. Shortly after I posted that message I was regretting not > having suggested a /usr/bin/shutdown script using sudo as a better idea > for many who read the list. Sorry. h

lpd & nis

2000-01-26 Thread Paul Miller
I have setup NIS to distribute the /etc/printcap file on my NIS server, and I can see the printcap on the clients with 'ypcat printcap'. Now how do I tell lpd and lpr to use the NIS printcap file instead of /etc/printcap? BTW, I am using the lprng package in Slink. Thanx in advance, -- Paul Mil

What is Tapir?

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Jessop
THat is what I had problems with last night (and this morning) trying to upgrade my system. mike

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

2000-01-26 Thread Bill Wilson
On 26-Jan-00 Ethan Benson wrote: >>ln -s /sbin/shutdown /usr/bin/shutdown >>chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown > > > this will allow ANYONE on your system to shutdown or reboot your > system, whether they are logged into gnome or logged in via ssh from > anywhere.. > > if security is not a

Re: Ponyprog

2000-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dear Sir(s), > > Problems with Ponyprog: > --- > > I have Debian 2.0 with a 2.2.9 Kernel installed on my IBM x86 Cyrix Pentium > 200. > Having read the instructions from http://www.cs.unibio.it I have it impossible > to properly install Ponyprog.

Re: Any considerations for debian on Athlon processor

2000-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any special considerations when installing debian (probably > potato) in a box with an Athlon 800 Mhz with 10,2 GB and a Matrox G400??? > potato works well with a G400. And with an Athlon. Did not try both at the same time yet

Re: Voodoo Banshee Help

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Blackman wrote: david >Hey All, david > I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I david >finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the david >server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. maybe i can help.. david >The debs are h

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Michel [UNKNOWN] Dänzer wrote: > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the o

I thought Potato used a 2.2.x kernel?

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Jessop
I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM) but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget which). How? Why? Thanks btw for all the help yesterday! I had a night

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind enough to tell me the exact directory) while your at it check the permissio

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread hawk
also make sure that you caches are turned on in the bios. I ran into sluggish performance a couple of months ago after a bios reset, and this was it. Of course, this gateway p120 is still about the same speed as my 486/50 thinkpad with 4m less memory (ok, except when rendering postscript or

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-26 Thread Tilman Kranz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:25:08PM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: > could you please tell me exactly which packages did you install, > beacuse when i want to install libc6_2.1.2-11.deb it says that i > should update timezone package which i cannot find. Greetings, this is gonna be a looong posti

Re: less and color

2000-01-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/1/2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less comman

less and color

2000-01-26 Thread ljh
I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less command, less displays the directory listing in b

Re: Problems with gateway on LAN

2000-01-26 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:40:50AM +1100, Andrew wrote: > I have a network of 4 machines. Two running Debian, one Win98 and one > WinNT. I have been trying to setup one of the Linux machines as a > masqurading gateway with aliased interfaces. Currently all 4 machines > are on the same segment of

Voodoo Banshee Help

2000-01-26 Thread David Blackman
Hey All, I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. The debs are hopelessly broken: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libglide2-v3:

Epson Stylus Photo 700

2000-01-26 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I got one of the above printers and reinstalled apsfilter with the Ghostscript escp2 driver but can't print... I get an error in filter "f" or something like that... Let me cut to the chase... I need a printcap! Has anyone else here got one of these working? I read on Slashdot one fella got

Hard drive partitioning. My thoughts.

2000-01-26 Thread John Gay
After reading the replies, and the FHS several times, I've decided to use the following partitioning scheme. Currently 6G hda2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 64M Swap, 1G for /home, and the rest, almost 2G for /usr. Proposed. 6G hda 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 64M Swap, rest for /home. 13G

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output pag

Re: relocating mail server

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 2000-01-25 01:55:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to know how to forward all the emails from my current > > email server to this new potato box? > > You were not really specific in what you wanted to do, so I assume > that you have

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > page and change pages when I want to ? ls | more

newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread DOUGLAS HUNTER
When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast.Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page bypage and change pages when I want to ?I've also got a problem with GNOME in that the screen only part

apt-get dist upgrade

2000-01-26 Thread Marco Giardini
trying to upgrade to the potato, i get several error in MDsum for differents deb files. One of this is the cpio. This sound quite strange. Any idea? PS I'have just mirrored with rsync the potato release for i386. It's the last release for sure! .oesse. --

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adam Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Okay, but the current RAID in 2.2.14 doesn't work now (for SMP), and > doesn't work right (if it's being replaced). I guess one could ask, > how did this happen? IIRC, Ingo was rewriting RAID during the Linux 2.1 cycle. Somehow it didn't make it into the main

Re: X coming up in 320x240!!!!

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- Josh Orfanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded to Xfree3.3.6 to support my Diamond Viper 550. The installation > goes fine but when I startx X comes up in 320x240. Shift-Alt + or - on the > number pad or the keyboard does nothing but put a + and - sign on the xterm > prompt. Try Ctrl

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric G . Miller wrote: >On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:57:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Eric G . Miller wrote: >> >Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in >> >/etc/init.d. >> >> DO NOT do

is 'smail' sleeping ?

2000-01-26 Thread lorenzo . zampese
In the last days I disturbed you all about exim, because I wasn't able to send e-mail. A lot of you helped me and I wish to thank you all for the attention. But exim didn't work anyway on my system. I SOLVED my problem using 'smail' than 'exim' and BINGO !!! When I tried to use exim, fetchmail sh

hylafax passwd?

2000-01-26 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I installed hylafax on my slink 2.1r4 machine the other day. After running the setup scripts faxsetup(i think it was called so) and faxaddmodem the daemons faxq and hfaxd can be started and are so at boottime. I also included my user in the fax group (it was already earlier in the dialout group

Re: problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

2000-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names, could these two be currupted? I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I don't know if I really understood. /etc/modules holds the following entries: vfat l

Re: How to fix apt/dpkg/dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: > [...] > > Unpacking netstd... > dpkg: error processing... netstd_3.07-7slink... > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/finger', which is also in package finger > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processi

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread DWM
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > > > On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: > > > Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was > > > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the > > > sa

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