RE: "Cannot find map file"

2000-07-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes but my kernel image (and the map file) does not reside in /boot. It lives, believe it or not, in /dosc/linux/boot/, which is not even automatically mounted at boot time, though I guess that doesn't make a difference since the messages I get come before the non-root partitions are mounted, but

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Russ Pitman
I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to tell fetchmail to disregard th

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > [snip] > > > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > > of pr

keycodes

2000-07-25 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, When i seen the message about keycodes, i just remembered something, i have mouse systems 107-key ergo keyboard and i was wondering if there is a any way to make use of the 3 extra keys what are normally used by windows, prefferably in console mode, because i use X maybe once in 3 months

Re: Maximum characters in username

2000-07-25 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many > characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is > 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more characters than > that. A year or more ago, I had

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-25 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success / > > failure? I'd also like to know about this. > > (By the way, there is also afio, which is a command-line tool like tar > > but compresses one file at a time. The format, of course,

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
R. D. Loga writes: > I ran pppconfig but found no option to add a ppp user. That option is in the version of pppconfig in unstable. > I had already made the user a member of the dip and dialout groups. I think you have an old version of the ppp package that sets the permissions on /etc/chatscrip

Re: init.d

2000-07-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:58PM +0900, keke abe wrote > John Pearson wrote: > > > Scripts in the Debian init.d directories are run using > > run-parts. > > I believe run-parts is used to run scripts in rc.boot, not those > in init.d. > Oops, right you are. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Help: What does this mean

2000-07-25 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: I setup the following keycodes with xmodmap: keycode 24 = q Q 0x0b8 0x0c8 0x0d8 0x0e8 each keycode will generate 6 possible keycodes. My modifier map looks like this: shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lockCaps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) m

A few unrelated questions: GMT vs Local, Monitor problems, Soft-RAID

2000-07-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
I recently received a new computer at work, and instead of re-installing, I took the hard drive from my existing machine and installed it in the new machine. After making sure it was sitting in the same place on the same IDE controller, everything worked almost fine (obviously I needed to change my

bye

2000-07-25 Thread zdrysdal
Bye all, i am off on my big OE. thanx 4 all the help. Zane

Re: converting email from MS

2000-07-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
> Agner-Nichols wrote: > > Does anyone know of a program to convert Microsoft Outlook Express 5 > mail folders to mbox? I have heard of one for OE4, but am not aware > of an upgrade for use against OE5? http://www.micropop.com/code/ It should be able to convert your OE5 mailboxes into mbox; I'v

Re: Pkg cvsbook

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, R. D. Loga wrote: > I apt-get installed pkg cvsbook. Now how do I access it? Where is it? dpkg --listfiles cvsbook Mike

Re: Kernel recompile problems

2000-07-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
> My first problem is that after the recompile and setting up lilo, > when I reboot my computer, every single module fails to load because > of a huge number of unresolved symbol errors. It sounds like you forgot to install the modules, or installed them in the same directory as the old modules.

Pkg cvsbook

2000-07-25 Thread R. D. Loga
I apt-get installed pkg cvsbook. Now how do I access it? Where is it?

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
I haven't used ppp with Debian, but I understood that permission to activate it was set in the same way as other resource accesses, such as sound - all you need to do is add the user to the appropriate group. For example: to allow myself to use the sound card while a normal user, I just added myse

Re: which free ISP?

2000-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 05:15:34PM -0700, tjm wrote: > Hi. Freewwweb, which I have been using on > the road with my Debian/Toshiba laptop, has > cancelled all accounts and handed them over > to Juno. Are there any other free ISP's that > allow a connection using Linux? Well, try www.worldshare.c

Kernel recompile problems

2000-07-25 Thread cxpx
I re-compiled my kernel (2.2.15) in an attempt to get my cd-writer working. It failed miserably for some reason. My first problem is that after the recompile and setting up lilo, when I reboot my computer, every single module fails to load because of a huge number of unresolved symbol errors. The

RE: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread R. D. Loga
I ran pppconfig but found no option to add a ppp user. I had already made the user a member of the dip and dialout groups. -Original Message- From: André Dahlqvist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:18 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: N

odd dma_intr error

2000-07-25 Thread Mathew Johnston
Hi, on one of my boxes I get the following error once in a while: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1253727, sector=1253576 it repeats sometimes, and lists other sectors, but the same idea. Any idea what's going o

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote: > When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script > failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file > permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all > the scripts in /etc/ppp

3dfx Voodoo3 3000 setup

2000-07-25 Thread jswain
Hello     I tried to install my 3dfx card using the drivers found from linux.3dfx.com when I got it all installed using Alien I tried starting the XF86Setup and it said that I was missing a Tklib.  I was just wondering is there was anyway that you could give me some advice or a patch.  Somet

Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-25 Thread R. D. Loga
When a non-root user types pon at the prompt they get "Connect script failed". Pon works fine for the root user. I changed several file permissions to get this far. Do I have to change permissions on all the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory too? Is there an easy way to allow non-root users

bug in xdm 3.3.6-10 ??

2000-07-25 Thread John R. McPherson
Hi all, Have I done something wromg or is this a bug? Running potato, with lots of old potato packages (I update random packages infrequently :) Upgraded xdm last night, and in now won't log users (or root) in. Instead of saying "Debian GNU/linux" it says "Xwindow system". The /var/log/xdm.log in

converting email from MS

2000-07-25 Thread Agner-Nichols
Does anyone know of a program to convert Microsoft Outlook Express 5 mail folders to mbox?  I have heard of one for OE4, but am not aware of an upgrade for use against OE5?   thanx in advance

Re: voodoo3 board not found -FIXED

2000-07-25 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Thanks, Jean-Phillipe; that worked. (Nate, I didn't try your suggestion, but thanks anyway :) For other's future reference, here's what I did (everything as root, so there's probably a better way...) 1) Install the device3dfx-source package (apt-get install device3dfx-source) and the kernel-hea

bug of sh ?

2000-07-25 Thread Tong Sun
I don't know I've found a bug of sh or it is exactly the case it should be: The problme is mainly that, for the following script, step1 p1 `lengthy shell invoking` p... >> output step2 p1 `lengthy shell invoking` p... >> output ... stepN p1 `lengthy shell invoking` p... >> output the stepN will

Re: Maximum characters in username

2000-07-25 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > Hello, everyone, > > Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many > characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is > 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more character

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere around a week ago, fetchmail started hanging on me. After > fairly thorough investigation I'm still not sure just what changed to > cause this, or even whether it's client side or se

which free ISP?

2000-07-25 Thread tjm
Hi. Freewwweb, which I have been using on the road with my Debian/Toshiba laptop, has cancelled all accounts and handed them over to Juno. Are there any other free ISP's that allow a connection using Linux? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: combining unused space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . > > IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that > was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into > files. There's about 80

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: >> > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead >> > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of >> > the login prompt. :) > >> Press ^V the

Re: how to configure the networks card in RedHat

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Nianwei Xing wrote: > Hi,linux: > I just install RedHat 6.2 with ftp. After > installation, I find that the netscape do not work. I > went to "Control Panel" to configurate the networks, > and find that under that item "interface" that my > machine is at the status "inactive"

Re: Can't get WordPerfect installed

2000-07-25 Thread cls--colo spgs
oops, the run command is just "~/xwp" (_not_ ~/.xwp...no "." before the "xwp). (i usually run it from a drop-down menu, resulting in xterm rustiness.) sorry for the confusion, bentley taylor. // .. cls--colo spgs wrote: > let me get this straight, you've installed, but it won't run? or it wo

how to configure the networks card in RedHat

2000-07-25 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi,linux: I just install RedHat 6.2 with ftp. After installation, I find that the netscape do not work. I went to "Control Panel" to configurate the networks, and find that under that item "interface" that my machine is at the status "inactive" and I make it "active" and then save it. After that I

Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-07-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:03:21AM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > > Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? > That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone > else can help there. According to Stevens "TCP/IP Il

Re: MGE UPS and HP DDS4.

2000-07-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-07-24 08:59:12 +0200, Magnus Hultin écrivait : > The UPS is an MGE Pulsar ESV 11+. I tried the software > that came with it and the newer version available on MGE's > homepage. I also tried mgeupsd and apcupsd (hoping the > UPS would be APC-compatible). None of the programs managed > to co

Re: Can't get WordPerfect installed

2000-07-25 Thread cls--colo spgs
let me get this straight, you've installed, but it won't run? or it won't install? (the 2d paragraph sounds like it won't install, but the 4th sounds like it's installed, but won't load/run.) if it's installed, the run command is ~/.xwp (with ~/ being the path to ".xwp"). if it won't install, le

RE: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Kenrick, Chris
I can't remember if my Accton EN1207D-TX-WOL card was labelled as 'Cheetah', but I managed to get it working using a kernel module downloaded from Accton's site itself. The box the card came in said that it supported Linux, but they didn't even bother to put the Linux kernel module and source on

Alsa-modules

2000-07-25 Thread Gary L. Dolan
The alsa-modules binaries have not been available at debian or any of  the mirrors for several days now. Anyone know why?

Re: Matrox G400 not supported in kernel?

2000-07-25 Thread Brian May
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> Well, I only know that Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt Eric> has this to say: Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt says this: 1. Note: LILO cannot handle hex, for booting directly with "vga=mode-number" you have to transform the numbers to deci

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > You've just got the system to send a ^O character to the screen which will > > reset it gracefully. > > Yes, but also ^V before the ^O, like you said. > Do you know wh

Re: combining unused space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Bolan Meek
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . Oh, I read a version of this earlier. It was there. I didn't reply since I don't know an answer for you off the top of my head. Not even off the top of the pointiest part of my head... > I

Re: IP namesever

2000-07-25 Thread Bolan Meek
> ... ppp connection...IP address of the namesever is necessary to connect [?] The IP address of the nameserver is not necessary for a ppp connection, but it is necessary to have in a "nameserver I.i.P.p" entry in /etc/resolv.conf in order to use DNS names rather than IP addresses after you've co

Re: Dedication of the Debian 2.2 release

2000-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
[ Not posted to -announce to reduce clutter there. ] Ben Collins wrote: > The dedication can be found (and is attached here for completeness) at: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/doc/dedication-2.2.txt Actually, that's ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/dedication-2.2.txt -- see shy jo

RE: IP namesever

2000-07-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jul-2000 cam_random wrote: > I’m configuring my ppp connection…I was wondering if the IP address of the > namesever is necessary to connect…sorry about the newbie question. > Yes, put your nameserver address in your /etc/resolv.conf like this: nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.1.1

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > the login prompt. :) > Press ^V then ^O then ENTER at the prompt. > The system

IP namesever

2000-07-25 Thread cam_random
I’m configuring my ppp connection…I was wondering if the IP address of the namesever is necessary to connect…sorry about the newbie question.   Justin Camblin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: cam random "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" -Albert Einste

combining unused space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces (

openssh segfaults at login if ~/.hushlogin does not exist

2000-07-25 Thread Andras BALI
Hi, I'm using Woody but this problem occured in Potato as well. I have the latest OpenSSH installed (ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) with SUID root enabled. I haven't modified any of the configuration files, they're from the stock debian package. When a user that doesn't have a ~/.hushlogin file tries t

Re: lprng out of date?

2000-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:33:07PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > Anyone know why the lprng package is so out of date? The current package is > based on release 3.6.12 (10/26/99) and their have been a host of updates > (current release 3.6.22) since then. Maybe it's because of the frozen state > of

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:25:33PM -0700, Jim Ray wrote: > I would delete that message manually and see if the problem goes away. I > have seen certain messages cause this problem but I have never figured out > why this happens. > > jim ray > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Ph

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the

lprng out of date?

2000-07-25 Thread Charles Lewis
Anyone know why the lprng package is so out of date? The current package is based on release 3.6.12 (10/26/99) and their have been a host of updates (current release 3.6.22) since then. Maybe it's because of the frozen state of potato right now. I wouldn't be worried except that it is starting to a

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Ray
I would delete that message manually and see if the problem goes away. I have seen certain messages cause this problem but I have never figured out why this happens. jim ray On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere arou

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Its an RTL8139... Thanks, works like a dream. (The "Quick Installation Guide" claimed it was an EN1207D, which according to the Ethernet Howto should use de4x5 or tulip, so I tried those with all combinations of parameters I could think off... Should this be reported as a "bug" in the howto's?

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: [snip] > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > the l

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > > (tty1) to go all funky. > > > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the

painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Paul Phillips
Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. Somewhere around a week ago, fetchmail started hanging on me. After fairly thorough investigation I'm still not sure just what changed to cause this, or even whether it's client side or server; though, I think it's something on the server, because I didn't chan

apt-zip

2000-07-25 Thread S. Champ
apt-zip-list --skip-mount returns: E: Unmet dependencies. try using -f ...and there is no explanation in manpage or info, as to what the "-f" is for. and no explanation of where the error is coming from, if it's not directly from apt-zip and it's breaking all attempts at using apt-zip-lis

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
You can try `reset', but I've also found that running `top' fixes a corrupted display. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-054

terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal (tty1) to go all funky. It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of the login prompt. :) I saw someone undoing a situation as

Re: S/MIME MUA

2000-07-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 13:17:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: > >> I am actually using mutt but I just discovered that it handle PGP/MIME > >> (rfc2015) and not S/MIME (rfs2633-4). > > > > What is the difference? I thought that there was only one sta

Re: my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:52:47 -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: >I >assume I need to change *something* in my mail configuration . . . Use "local_domains=" in your exim.conf to tell Exim the names it should accept mail for, such as local_domains=hawkins.ds.psu.edu:fac13.ds.psu.edu HTH, Ralf

Re: my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
>It's apparent that the MTA on 146.186.61.98 (a.k.a fac13.ds.psu.edu) >is rejecting mail address to user 'hawk'. But it's not rejecting all of it; just some. The debian list always comes through, for example (at least I think it's always). aack. Now bells ring. The actual address of this ma

Re: Can't get WordPerfect installed

2000-07-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Cam Ellison" wrote: > I have the downloaded version of WP 8. After untar-ing the files (tar > -zxf **), I get what I assume to be the usual set of directories and > files. > > However, when I start Runme, it first asks whether I have unzipped and > untar-ed. A response of "Y" gets an error me

Re: my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Bolan Meek
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I seem to receive most of my mail, but some isn't coming through. For > example, sending to me from yahoo, my sister received the bounce > message: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [her address] > Subject: failure delivery > Content-Length: 1069 > > Message from

Re: Matrox G400 not supported in kernel?

2000-07-25 Thread Tom Marshall
> > Here is my lilo.conf: > > > > boot=/dev/hda > > root=/dev/hda1 > > compact > > install=/boot/boot.b > > map=/boot/map > > delay=20 > > vga=normal > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16 > > append="video=matrox:vesa:0x192" >

Re: init.d

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:03:09AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > Scripts in the Debian init.d directories are run using > run-parts. Run-parts ignores scripts that don't conform to > certain naming conventions: > > DESCRIPTION >run-parts runs a number of scripts or programs found in a >

Re: A java environment for me

2000-07-25 Thread Riku Saikkonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Which java development tools should I get? Debian have anything for >java 2? I looked at Jbuilder foundation, but that puppy is *huge*. > >how 'bout emacs support? Emacs itself has quite a lot of support for many languages, including Java. Some Java-supporting things t

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you > >don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses > >globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered o

my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I seem to receive most of my mail, but some isn't coming through. For example, sending to me from yahoo, my sister received the bounce message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [her address] Subject: failure delivery Content-Length: 1069 Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the f

Re: Maximum characters in username

2000-07-25 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hmm, this can't be it since it won't accept my full name (22 characters). > I am not sure this is true but try 256 characters. I think that what > they setup for WindowsNT and Linux was following? > > Dan > > Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, everyone, > > > > Ok, he

putting existing disk space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that I can search them. I"m figuring to make them ~10mb each so that I can grep them silly, filter them, etc., in a last-ditch attempt to find my paper (I have a 40mb swap partition that can be used for this until I succeed).

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-25 Thread Riku Saikkonen
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you >don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses >globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one >big compressed file. If something happens to th

Maximum characters in username

2000-07-25 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, everyone, Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more characters than that. You'd also think that it would be easy to find the answer to t

HELP: system locks during boot

2000-07-25 Thread James Polson
Hi, I have a big problem. I tried to use XF86Setup to configure my system for X-windows. Unfortunately, not only did it not work, but now the system doesn't boot properly. The last message displayed is: Starting X font sever: xfs and then the system locks. Obviously a result of what I tried to

Re: Help with mail address

2000-07-25 Thread Chris Tessone
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:09:16AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > I can't figure out how to set my email return address to what my ISP > expects. I am the only user on my system. I tried to send mail out, > with no success, eventually discovering that it was using > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have set EMA

Re: S/MIME MUA

2000-07-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 13:17:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: >> I am actually using mutt but I just discovered that it handle PGP/MIME >> (rfc2015) and not S/MIME (rfs2633-4). > > What is the difference? I thought that there was only one standard... The beauty of standards... S/MIME is an older stan

Help with mail address

2000-07-25 Thread Cam Ellison
I can't figure out how to set my email return address to what my ISP expects. I am the only user on my system. I tried to send mail out, with no success, eventually discovering that it was using [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have set EMAIL to my email address, but my ISP will still not accept a fetchmail

Re: Bogus BogoMips with new kernel?

2000-07-25 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:06:20PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > I recently (this weekend) reïnstalled potato on a laptop, pentium 120, > which used to have a couple of months old version of potato on it. It used > to have a bogomips rating of about 48, if I remember correctly. Now

Can't get WordPerfect installed

2000-07-25 Thread Cam Ellison
I have the downloaded version of WP 8. After untar-ing the files (tar -zxf **), I get what I assume to be the usual set of directories and files. However, when I start Runme, it first asks whether I have unzipped and untar-ed. A response of "Y" gets an error message ("No files to install", or s

RE: "Cannot find map file"

2000-07-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: > What does this mean? -chris > > Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: Cannot find map file. > Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: No module symbols loaded. > > Check your /boot directory. Do you have a System.map file there for your kernel version? Are you

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-25 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Gary Hennigan wrote: > There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you > don't want to use software compression with tar. In addition, you should have some sort of verification that the data written to tape is actually good. I personally have used BRU for over 5 years. Very

Recompile Kernel -> no Ethernet

2000-07-25 Thread adam b.
Okay, so I recompiled my kernel to use the new 2.4 test4 kernel and I'm very pleased. :) EXCEPT, doing so make my SMC EtherEZ (8416T) go away! I can't seem to get it to show up anywhere. Before I was using isapnp and a module to load it, now I seem to be able to compile pnp into

"Cannot find map file"

2000-07-25 Thread Krzys Majewski
What does this mean? -chris Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: Cannot find map file. Jul 25 08:42:33 cr275960-a kernel: No module symbols loaded.

Re: Newbie question

2000-07-25 Thread Bolan Meek
Declan Grady wrote: > > I have a Dell Latitude LS, and read the how-to at > www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/ but I cant figure out how to build a new > kernel (to include support for ethernet adaptor) Step-by-step instructions are included with the kernel sources, whether you get the Debian packa

Re: Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Its an RTL8139...

Newbie question

2000-07-25 Thread Declan Grady
I have a Dell Latitude LS, and read the how-to at www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/ but I cant figure out how to build a new kernel (to include support for ethernet adaptor) Any FAQ's on this subject ? Please help Declan Grady

Re: Disk Defragmentation

2000-07-25 Thread David Z Maze
Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there JH> for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but JH> it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is JH> something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's JH> just cause I'm lazy:b Can a

Accton Cheetah PCI network card

2000-07-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hi, Anyone know if there is support for an Accton Cheetah PCI network card? I got stuck with the install when I had to load a module for the network card. (Network install.) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe (I'll appreciate a CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Replying for a new thread (was HP CD-Writer 7200 plus?)

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to use parallel port cd-writers such as (and especially) HP > CD-Writer 7200 Plus with debian slink? If you're going to start a new thread please don't "reply" to an existing thread and just change the subject. Any threading news/mail reader wi

Re: dsl + pppoe problems continue. ( pppoe !works , here)

2000-07-25 Thread Stan Kaufman
"S. Champ" wrote: > > 3) having ipv6 configured into the kernel (on-install): > would this be a possible problem-reason? Don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. Also which kernel are you using? I was unable to get the 2.2.17-pre-6 to work; it compiled and booted fine but choke

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ... > depends what you're used to I guess. There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses globall

Re: dsl + pppoe problems continue. ( pppoe !works , here)

2000-07-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jul-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> >> I am using PacBell Internet and I could not get the Enternet software to >> connect me. I suggest you go to www.roaringpenguin.com and get the rpm >> package, then use Alien to make a Deb package from it. >> >> Roaring Penguin got my DS

Re: Disk Defragmentation

2000-07-25 Thread Frodo Baggins
Jon Hughes scripsit: >What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there >for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but >it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is >something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's >just cause I'm lazy:b Can anyone recommend anything >else, o

Re: dsl + pppoe problems continue. ( pppoe !works , here)

2000-07-25 Thread Stan Kaufman
Pollywog wrote: > > I am using PacBell Internet and I could not get the Enternet software to > connect me. I suggest you go to www.roaringpenguin.com and get the rpm > package, then use Alien to make a Deb package from it. > > Roaring Penguin got my DSL working. > The pppoe.deb package right f

Re: Threads and mysql

2000-07-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Error 11 is EGAIN (which means Try Again which generally means there was an attempt to allocate some resource which had run out at the time). There could be numerous reasons why mysql can't run more than 256 processes, e.g. because the threads share a single file descriptor table and they're all tr

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-25 Thread Dale Morris
I used apt-get remove xdm and it cured the problem. Thanks for your help On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:22:41AM -0700 59, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get rid of the graphic login that comes up when I log out of X? It > makes it impossible for me to do anything from the command

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