Re: kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:09:36PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to

Re: Gnome/X stuff

2000-09-09 Thread Mark Simos
Somewhat OT, but reasonably close to this posting Is there a doc somewhere that describes window managers, display managers, etc. and how they interact with each other, X, and X programs? I am windows person and not too familiar with the extra layer of separation / interaction that

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:09:36PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to

xerox docuprint C11

2000-09-09 Thread James Mahoney
Hello, I am shopping for a new printer and I was wondering if anyone has had any success with the Xerox docuprint C11 under Linux. I checked linuxprinting.org and this printer was not listed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please respond directly to me as I am not subscribed to this list. --

Re: installation problems

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
Please keep list mail on-list. List added to response. Reply-to set to list. On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:53:37PM -0700, Screwy Squirrel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Can you provide more context? I'm not sure exactly where in the > > installa

Re: Problem with Linksys LNE100TX NIC

2000-09-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I bought the Linksys LNE100TX NIC because it claims to be compatible > with Linux (and I believe them). I haven't been too lucky, though. > > I downloaded and compiled the latest Tulip dri

Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yes, it is when running LILO that I get the error. It leaves the machine in an unbootable state. Installing LILO onn a floppy or on the IDE drive made things happy, but I don't like it as I had been booting off the same SCSI disk for over a year. It wasn't unt

Re: Gnome/X stuff

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > session save worked. I ended up taking "panel" out of my Xsession file just > to see what would happen. With the Gnome panel gone, logging off from icewm > let's the thing "gently" log off (when I get back to th

Re: Gnome/X stuff

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
Note that the "one huge block of text" mode of posting is strongly discouraged. Post has been structured in paragraphs. On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:32:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Okay, here's what's going down. I've put Gnome on a few ways. First > setup I had goi

Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread John Gilger
Did you run lilo after you installed the new kernal? John - Original Message - From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 7:48 PM Subject: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Problem with Linksys LNE100TX NIC

2000-09-09 Thread Andrew Whitlock
I use this NIC in my boxes, and I _think_ your tulip driver is detecting the wrong card. What kernel are you using? Mine worked with the kernel's tulip.c driver as far back as 2.2.1, and it works in 2.2.17 and 2.4 test 7. Here is the message on init with 2.2.17 pre6: tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [

Gnome/X stuff

2000-09-09 Thread Rubbish5
Okay, here's what's going down. I've put Gnome on a few ways. First setup I had going I was originally running Debian 2.1, then I went up to 2.2, and downloaded Gnome with apt-get. So it's kind of working fine, but it's also giving me some flak kinda. First of all the whole session save thin

Problem with Linksys LNE100TX NIC

2000-09-09 Thread Gutierrez Family
I bought the Linksys LNE100TX NIC because it claims to be compatible with Linux (and I believe them).  I haven't been too lucky, though.   I downloaded and compiled the latest Tulip driver without errors... successful first step. I compiled the driver as a module (I got errors when compilin

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:29:41PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to locally serve X apps. > > > > > > Or if you want to be multiuser. IIRC, vncserver will serve the current > > > display, right? > > > > See other follow

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I

Re: DHCP client setup for @Home

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I just tried installing Potato using the latest boot floppies (compact > set) and had the same result - pump failed to get configuration info > using DHCP. I ended up statically configuring the ethernet card in my > system using the same values as would/

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Brad
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:23:51PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > An older version of MI/X? > [SNIP] > > I haven't had tremendous experience, but StarNet has X-Win32 for sale > ($100?)... the > demo runs for 2 hours, the way I'd use it is definitely under the two hour > limit. It is a m

vga-alike x11 font wanted

2000-09-09 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi there, i found two fonts, which partly meet the criteria: * vga - this one looks good and has the right proportions, but has a wrong encoding (pc437) for a west-european xterm, so umlauts, etc. are messed up. * -etl-fixed-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1 - it has the right proportions

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far > >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how > >you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their > If there are no f

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread ktb
Dale Morris wrote: > > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to be the one that executes when > I rebo

RE: ClassyTcl

2000-09-09 Thread Bill Barnes
Have not found a deb for ClassyTcl. I'm running 2.2 woody and have problems compiling the source. ClassyTcl looks like a robust GUI builder. Installed the Windoze binary to evaluate it, but only interested in Linux version. >= Original Message From Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >> Hel

Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-09 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hi again, everyone.I forgot to mention that after compiling my new kernel, I now get manymodules-related error messages.  If I remember correctly, I did thefollowing:make mrproper (cleaned everything right out)make xconfigmake depmake clean (don't know if this was really necessary, since I'

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Thanks! It worked. Here is the method I used... in /etc/modutils/ I made a file named: matroxfb the information I included in it was: options matroxfb pixclock=1 left=170 right=70 upper=21 lower=11 hslen=96 vslen=15 xres=1024 yres=768 depth=24 #options matroxfb vesa=0x1BB mind you the

Phone-answering software?

2000-09-09 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls (to a phone that's connected to a modem), and... 1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or 2) Inform me when I'm on-line and there's an incoming call? Any help would be appreciated, since I'm goin

Re: Socks and apt/dselect

2000-09-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > I have dante installed, my system is sockafied, but i can't apt-get > doesn't seem to care for socks. In reading debbugs, it would appear that > jason isn't too interested in fixing support for that. Which is a pain, > as socks is very usefull, and is in very wide use. I do not know what y

Re: ClassyTcl

2000-09-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello the List: > > Has anybody installed this package? > [03:06:24 /tmp]$ grep-available -i ClassyTCL [03:06:41 /tmp]$ Does it has a deb? What does it do? > Thanks, > Bill Barnes > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -- Shau

xpilot - rplay - no sound

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Garrone
Hi, I have installed the latest stable xpilot rplay client debian package version 4.1.0-4.U.4. I cant get any sound. I have not configured rplay, or xpilot, in any way. I can play all the individual sounds in /usr/share/games/xpilot/sound, using rplay and rptp. When the client starts, it emit

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:33:02PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Saturday, 09 September 2000 at 16:02, Parrish M Myers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb > > module? I have tried the following: > > > > options matroxfb video=matrox:ves

Re: installation problems

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
Can you provide more context? I'm not sure exactly where in the installation this is (I don't have to reinstall Debian regularly ), or if your system is *entirely* nonresponsive. Have you tried switching to another virtual console? On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:35:25AM -0700, Screwy Squirrel ([EMAI

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Brendan Cully
On Saturday, 09 September 2000 at 16:02, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb > module? I have tried the following: > > options matroxfb video=matrox:vesa:0x1BB > > and then some variations of that. Every time I try to do this t

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Jonathan Markevich
> > > > > The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free > > > > > anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* free? > > > > > > > > An older version of MI/X? > > > > > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to locally serve X apps. > > > > Or if you want to be

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > /dev/hda is the first disk. to boot off of /dev/sda you need to > probably reconfigure your BIOS or something to do it, or install LILO to > the MBR on /dev/hda. Yeah, I actually did that before I received this email, b

Re: webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Nate Amsden said: > what i do in situations like this is run > > lsof | grep LISTEN > > or lsof | grep 8080 > > or lsof | grep LISTEN | grep 8080 Thanks for the reminder... I knew there was another fuser-like command, but couldn't remember its name. It agrees with fuser, though - grepping for

Re: webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Nate Amsden
what i do in situations like this is run lsof | grep LISTEN or lsof | grep 8080 or lsof | grep LISTEN | grep 8080 nate Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I've been getting webcache connection attempts showing up in my logs for the > last couple days, always from the same IP. So I got sick of it and s

kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to be the one that executes when I reboot? If so will it have configured

matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi, Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb module? I have tried the following: options matroxfb video=matrox:vesa:0x1BB and then some variations of that. Every time I try to do this the matroxfb module complains that "param_video" is a non-valid argument. Does a

webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've been getting webcache connection attempts showing up in my logs for the last couple days, always from the same IP. So I got sick of it and sent him a nastygram and, in the process of composing it, tried telnetting to port 8080 on the machine in question. I connected. The only response I was

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:11:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far > >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how > >you'd like to do this. Ther

RE: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Christian Pernegger
That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) Two things are important: 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey still works fine, BTW) 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'd

Re: Q: 'outputting' manpages

2000-09-09 Thread Raja R Harinath
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** Now I have a question: ** > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. If you really want to print the contents:

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:41:32PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > OK. The trick is to get "man" to output in PostScript format: > man -t will do it. > > Then use the utility "psnup" (one of the GNU pstools package.). > It will print two or more pages of the man output onto one page, > thus savi

Re: c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:49:16PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: > > > > --- > > c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig > > cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused sin

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. >

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:52:15AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:03:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free > > > > anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* fre

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, thus spake Sven Burgener: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny chara

Re: informazioni

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
My italian is bad but maybe this will help you: http://www.debian.org/international/Italian -chris

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha, the parameter is actually called "-m" ("macro"), the "an" is an argument to the parameter. -chris > That seems to do a fine job. I cannot find a documentation of that > "-man" parameter anywhere. Where would that be? (checked the man > page of *roff) >

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. > > > > Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little. > > Well you can do something like this: > > 13:27:57$ zcat

informazioni

2000-09-09 Thread Ercole Francavilla
SPETT.LE DEBIAN MI SONO CONNESSO ALL'FTP PER SCARICARE IL VOSTRO SISTEMA OPERATIVO... MA NON SO QUALI FILES SCARICARE. PREMETTO CHE DI LINUX NON SO ASSOLUTAMENTE PARLARE, ANCHE SE VOGLIO ADDENTRARMI IN QUESTO MONDO.   IN FTP HO TROVATO: dists doc indices project tools IS-IR. IS-IR.gz IS-IR.pa

kernel 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-09 Thread lbredeso
I upgraded from potato to woody and installed the newest kernel. However, when I boot from the new kernel, it locks up when it tries to start inetd. If I try to boot the old kernel, there are no problems. Does anyone know what this could be? luke

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. > > Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little. Well you can do something like this: 13:27:57$ zcat man.1.gz | nroff -man > ~/tmp/woo but this still puts funky characters in the ou

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. > You can

Re: PGP and Mutt

2000-09-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
Brian and others, thanks for the replys, I guess I can't solve all without reading:) On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:09:34PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:21:58AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > now I get the following error message once I open a signed mail: > > > >[--

Re: Compile issue with linux-2.4.0-test8 and gcc 2.95.2-14

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
You probably already know this but, apparently the recommended gcc for compiling 2.4.0-test* is 2.7.2.3. I did see something like "gcc 2.95 may give problems" in one of the readme files in the kernel sources. -chris ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I sent this one off to the linux-kernel em

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type M-x man

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The package hwtools installs a script at /etc/init.d/hwtools, which is where I invoke hdparm from. I think the default script, when installed, has a commented out section for hdparm. Tom Jamie Raymond wrote: > > Hi, > > Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked > up

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:48:02PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever > I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only > change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new > k

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Nate Amsden
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever > I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only > change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new

Where/what is net-pf-18?

2000-09-09 Thread Cam Ellison
I got this error message in syslog: Can't locate module net-pf-18. Anyone know what this is? Would it have something to do with the fact that I cannot ping my kids' machine any more? (nor vice versa, even though ping seems to work within both systems. TIA Cam Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych. [

Compile issue with linux-2.4.0-test8 and gcc 2.95.2-14

2000-09-09 Thread ^chewie
I sent this one off to the linux-kernel email list as well, but figured that since Debian is the environment I work in, I'd let you have a crack at it. Suggestions? -- ^chewie - Forwarded message from ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:23:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vg

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Ray Percival
This is going to suck before they fix this. :) -- Original Message -- From: "Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 11:52:28 +0800 >On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:18 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > >>I've r

LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new kernel. The kernel works fine, as I hav

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Cam Ellison
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:18 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: >I've received one.. Me too. Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From the lovely Sunshine Coast, where it only SEEMS to rain.

X won't start

2000-09-09 Thread Ray Percival
Just installed 2.2 when it boots it looks like xfs and xdm both start up. When I type startx I get. x: exec of /usr/bin/x11/xf86_svfg failed. I used xf86config to build a config file this is a Diamond Viper 770 and I used the card definition that came with x. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Ray

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good? Taken from "man rc.boot": [snip] The /etc/rc.boot directory is obsolete. It has been super­ seded by the /etc/rcS.d directory. At boot time, first the

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
Dear Vee-Eye, On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. > > Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. >

how to turn off auto-fill-mode in XEmacs21?

2000-09-09 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, I'd like to turn off the line wrappping (xemacs truncates the long lines at the end of line). I think this is the variable 'auto-fill-mode' but I can't turn it off. How to turn it off? If it possible send me a working .emacs file for XEmacs21. Thanks Attila -- ---

/etc/rc.boot

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good? Should its files be run by /etc/inittab via /etc/rcS? The contents of my /etc/rc.boot: 0setserial* hdparm* kbd* update-modules* -chris

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
I worried about this too a few days ago and came to the conclusion that adding a line to an existing script might be unreliable, since package installations may replace said script.. so I added my own script. I then put this script in /etc/rc.boot/, a directory whose infinite mysteries I have yet t

Re: PGP and Mutt

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > If it helps, my .muttrc is attached. Note that I've got gpg, not pgp, > installed. I'd recommend you use the same. There is only one tag in my > muttrc which appears relevant, that's the "pgp_autosign" hook. >

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
> thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. > Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. What does that mean? When configuring the keymap with kbdconfig

Re: c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: > > --- > c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig > cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused since linking not done > c++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus':

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Christoph Groth wrote: > > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? > > I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume > that your sister is not a cracker and your father

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
Just a small clarification sought : What exactly is meant by Gnome or KDE compliance ? Is it the capability of running Gnome or KDE apps ? I'm on fvwm2 and blackbox. I've both qt (for KDE) and necessary libs for running gnome apps installed. I am able to run kmail, kedit (and other kde pa

Editor for rescue disks/ floppy distros

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
"Everthing's the same except the name". This is a re- post, just for change of thread for reasons as below. Yes, I clean forgot that there are people on our list who are on threaded mail readers .. I posted this on the thread of "Joe editor" yesterday. Thanks Curt for reminding me. USM Bis

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > The keymap that should be loaded is > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz it is there: Uranus:/home/peter# ls /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de* /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz /usr/sha

c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Johann Spies
I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: --- c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused since linking not done c++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory - and the following error when I

Re: Debian for kids

2000-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Leonardo Dutra wrote: > Hi, > > Somebody would know to say me where can find information about the Debian for > kids project ? > > I would like to install it so that my son uses Linux since small :) Maybe not exactly what you were looking for but. http://www.linuxforkid

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume that your sister is not a cracker and your father not a

highlight *.cc files as *.cpp in xemacs

2000-09-09 Thread Attila Csosz
How to get the same syntax highlight for *.cc files as for the *.cpp files (default) in XEmacs? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim- - Get my PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.c

multiple SMTP servers with exim

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, I'd like exim to send my mail via more than one smarthost as I am using several providers and every provider has its own SMTP server that accepts mails only when logged in by `his' provider. I have tried to set route_list in /etc/exim.conf to "* first.server:second.server bydns_a" Now wh

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:44:15AM -0500, Jamie Raymond wrote: > Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked > upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d > be appropriate?) Perhaps /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh? Otherwise, just create your own scrip

a pb w/ restrict rules in diald

2000-09-09 Thread GINTRU
Hi, when i use restrict rules to make the line available from 7am to 2pm, i have this problem : the line can't be setted up beetween 7am and 2pm if u mind take a look at my /etc/diald/standard.filter file i would appreciate ... is it a bug in woody diald version ? ... i gonna feel bad in can't

Debian for kids

2000-09-09 Thread Leonardo Dutra
Hi, Somebody would know to say me where can find information about the Debian for kids project ? I would like to install it so that my son uses Linux since small :) Thanks Leonardo Dutra Porto Alegre -RS - Brazil

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
The keymap that should be loaded is /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz Normally with kbdconfig you can browse through the directory of /usr/share/keymaps/ and choose the one you need. If you are using console-tools after the installation it should get your /etc/console-t

Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
This is a general question for the list. I have a computer at home that I want to make availble for the family to use. However I want to try and ensure that they won't be able to do anything that could cause damage to the OS. What is the list's thoughts regarding what should I make sure is of

hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Jamie Raymond
Hi, Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d be appropriate?) Thanks, Jamie

Psion S5

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Berger
I have a Psion S5 and would like to mount it on my potato box, which sould be more elegant than minicom/Comms single file ymodem transfers. p3nfsd should do, but I can't get it to work. I simply don't understand the documentation. I'm even unsure if I would have to install nfs in order to use p3nfs

Re: exim and local MX records

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dave Sherohman said: > Does exim have a setting similar to relay_domains_include_local_mx, but for > local delivery instead of just relaying? > > I host services for a couple groups, and one of them now wants to augment > its .org domain with the corresponding .com and .net. I, being lazy, > woul

Re: audio/x--mp3 and other associatetions

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I'm pretty new to this so take my advice accordingly: In netscape you would go to edit->preferences->Navigator->applications Click on the 'Applications' selection from the menu. Click 'New' Description - MPEG URL MIMEType - audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes - m3u

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jonathan Markevich said: > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to locally serve X apps. > > Or if you want to be multiuser. IIRC, vncserver will serve the current > display, right? The Win32 vncserver serves the current display. (It essentially tricks Windows into thinking the remote

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Preben Randhol
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/09/2000 (13:02) : > Sawfish is highly scriptable via lisp, so it probably isn't fast, either. It is faster than the default Enlightenment at least. Neither does it require that you have the latest video card with Open-GL and 128Mb RAM. -- Preben Randh

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Preben Randhol
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/09/2000 (10:38) : > Read the quote again. I wrote "the only wm with _full_ support" etc. > If sawfish is "Most integrated", the others are necessarily "less > integrated", or not? I don't want the wm and the desktop to step over > each other, and that

exim and local MX records

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Does exim have a setting similar to relay_domains_include_local_mx, but for local delivery instead of just relaying? I host services for a couple groups, and one of them now wants to augment its .org domain with the corresponding .com and .net. I, being lazy, would like to be able to set this up

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how >you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their If there are no fixed events

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I've received one.. s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:50:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam > > > > Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box > > storage limit has exceeded. > > Is everyone else getting bounc

German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply-To: I just installed debian, potato, on a new comp. Now I cannot use the German keys "a "u "s (latex-babel notation) neither on the console nor with X. I've choosen qwertz-nodeadkeys at installation and several time with "kbdconfig". Curiously the "z" and "y" key

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem - solved

2000-09-09 Thread alice
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:11:13 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm, that's odd I tried to set up wvdial just now and it's saying > that > /dev/mouse is linked to ttyS0, and sure enough it does seem to could > this be causing some of my problems? Is that something that's safe to > manually unl

Re: Debian on Dell?

2000-09-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:11:21PM -0500, Jay Ford wrote: > Can anybody verify that Debian runs on a Dell Precision 420? Debian runs on about everything ;) > It has an integrated dual-channel (Ultra 160 & Ultra Wide) SCSI controller. > Does Debian support it? Which vendor? > There are sever

Re: slightly OT: short in video?

2000-09-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: [video problems] > If this is the problem, what would be the best way of fix it? FYI the > video is integrated on the motherboard, so simply replacing it won't > work. :( Or is the sucker toast? A videocard onboard in a 486-system? We

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