Re: general linux questions

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:13:27PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > i keep forgetting about xargs. very clever gizmo! > > > > to sort the output by date, it's rather simple: > > > > locate | xargs ls -dlt > > > > the -d is so directoriy contents wouldn't be liste

Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:36:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:32:59PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > i guess that this'll help cut down on the my.netvigator.com idiocy? > > No. Pretty much all mailing list software rewrites the envelope sender > so that bounces don'

acceleration + threshold vs. speed

2000-10-06 Thread Ignasi Tura Olivella
Dear colleagues, Under 1024x768 the idea of 'acceleration' and 'threshold' from xset values dizzies me a lot as a Windoze user. I was very used to the simple 'speed' value under Windoze. Can anyone point me to any direction so I can be able to get something similar to just speed, like I have unde

voodoo3 on debian

2000-10-06 Thread Vachirasuk Setalaphruk
Hi, I am trying to get my voodoo3 to work on potato. It seems like softwares cannot find the card and cannot be accelerated. The 3dfx.o module is loaded alright and I also have /dev/3dfx c 107,0 too. But when I run test files that come with libglide2-dev, they give me errors like this even when I

Re: Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. >> I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) > >One of the people in it was using ODP: instead of Re: in his su

instalation of soundcard

2000-10-06 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I'm trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE 64 (Isa PnP) to work on a new installed Potato system, but just can't get it. I think I did everything I read in the Sound-AWE mini-HOWTO and Kernel-source documentation. My isapnp.conf file look as follows: (READPORT 0x0273) (ISOLATE PRESERVE)

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread csj
Daunting installation? I totally disagree. Debian is the easiest console mode installation I have ever seen (Win 3.1, Redhat 5.something, etc.). The difficult part for me was creating the bootable CD. Once I figured out the queer directory structure, it was as simple as flopping the CD on the driv

Re: partitions and lilo

2000-10-06 Thread csj
Hello Jaye, ? here Well I guess I may have shared a partition or two. I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "same root partition." But here's the [annotated] view from Mandrake. [EMAIL PROTECTED] penguin]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 380M 49M

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Christen Welch
Ah, sorry. apt-find is a sym link to capt, which is a lot better than dselect. Sorry if that was misleading. -- Chaotic42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ It's too nice a day to be stupid inside - Ren Hoek (Ren & Stimpy) pgpSyvqGcRB2L.pgp Desc

Re: Installation

2000-10-06 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:20:46PM +, Legion _ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hi. I have recently acquired an old 386 sx computer with an 82 meg HDD. I > want to put Debian on it. >A long time ago, I had gone online and asked around for this before, and > someone had pointed me to 7 flop

Netscape text save working spottily

2000-10-06 Thread Dale Amon
Has anyone had trouble with netscape lately?? Ah, let me rephrase that :-) Has anyone else been having trouble with saving pages as text? It used to work just fine, but now it gives me 0 length files much of the time. See if you have the same problem. I've been unable to save this page, forexample

Re: Virtual screen switcher

2000-10-06 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:01PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can > go to another virtual screen. Makes obsolete, more or less. > I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? > egbert "screen" is a

Re: KDE for stable?

2000-10-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:30PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Mail the maintainer, I am certain he can make potato debs available. > > I am interested in KDE for potato, too. Could you mail me if there are > such debs? They are sitting at kd

Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2000-10-06 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:26:57PM +0200, thus spake Marc Maute: > hi, > I dont know if I`m really connected > the ifconfig show me a entry for ppp0 > but no packages were recieved. > How can I look at the output from the ppp/options? > After I had add debug nothing changed. > And I think I have no

Re: Sound testing

2000-10-06 Thread Timothy Bedding
Krzys Majewski wrote > I use "saytime". For example: I tried running saytime but it did not work. Nothing sounding like the time came out of the speaker. cat /bin/bash > /dev/audio gives white noise from the speaker so something is working. Is there likely to be problem with my installation

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl wrote: > Isn't there a way to combine the two HDs' capacity without > recompiling the kernel (maybe by just loading a module or > something) or can I perhaps just download such a kernel which >

Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Legion _
Hi. I have recently acquired an old 386 sx computer with an 82 meg HDD. I want to put Debian on it. A long time ago, I had gone online and asked around for this before, and someone had pointed me to 7 floppies worth of files from the www.debian.org ftp site, and I actually did manage to inst

Re: ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jens Luedicke wrote: > > > Additionally you'll need to get the "isdnutils" package. > > > This package provides some ISDN specific tools and > > > programs such as "ipppd" and "isdnctrl". > > > Configuration => RTFM > > > > Any of the above apply to my setup? > at least you'll need the "isdnutils"

quake and libvga.config

2000-10-06 Thread Attila Csosz
Could someone give me some advice about using mouse accelerate constants in /etc/vga/libvga.config. I'd like to use it to play quake (qw) but they behave very strange. If someone who play quake use it please send me a working libvga.config. Thanks Attila -- --

re: yahoo instant messanger

2000-10-06 Thread Donald R Spielman Jr
Hi,   I have yahoo instant messanger and it does not seem to be working. I would like to know how to reactivate it .   Thanks, Monica Spielman

Re: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-06 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob

Re: 2.2.4pre9 and modules

2000-10-06 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For the major compile, pre2.2.4pre8, the kernel-package.deb route has worked fine. Within /usr/src/linux make-kpkg --revision=laptop.1 kernel_image After which dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-version.deb installs kernel+selected modules. I've had to do the pcmcia modules "by hand" h

Re: Virtual screen switcher

2000-10-06 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:27:01PM +, Geordie Birch wrote: > chvt > It works. After sending my question I opened one of my eyes and discovered that there is a package 'screen' with the program 'screen'. It offers some more possibilities and complexities. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgra

Re: Virtual screen switcher

2000-10-06 Thread William Jensen
Potato has it and the name is screen. apt-get install screen stimpy:~$ dpkg -l screen Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Re: some general (samba) questions

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:23:23PM +0200, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. > Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I > try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Hav

Re: KDE for stable?

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:30PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Mail the maintainer, I am certain he can make potato debs available. > I am interested in KDE for potato, too. Could you mail me if there are such debs? -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.d

Re: ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jens Luedicke wrote: > > What is the difference in Linux, and specifically, why is there a > > difference? > > Windoze can't handle ISDN cards directly, so you'll need to > setup a little driver that "emulates" a modem, so you can > work with all the AT commands. Windoze is dumb, and thats > the

Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2000-10-06 Thread Marc Maute
hi, I dont know if I`m really connected the ifconfig show me a entry for ppp0 but no packages were recieved. How can I look at the output from the ppp/options? After I had add debug nothing changed. And I think I have not entered a IP for DNS So I dont know what the problem is. Again the probleme

Re: Virtual screen switcher

2000-10-06 Thread Geordie Birch
chvt THUS SPAKE Egbert Bouwman, on Oct 6: > Hello, > There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can > go to another virtual screen. Makes obsolete, more or less. > I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? > egbert > -- > Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 D

Re: ethereal and display

2000-10-06 Thread Jonas Moberg
> Hey Guys, > I would like to be able to use ethereal without having > to start X from root. I've never really understood what > tells the xserver who can display, but if anyone could tell > me what I am doing wrong, much appriciated! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > [EM

Virtual screen switcher

2000-10-06 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

RE: KDE for stable?

2000-10-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Mail the maintainer, I am certain he can make potato debs available.

Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:32:59PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i guess that this'll help cut down on the my.netvigator.com idiocy? No. Pretty much all mailing list software rewrites the envelope sender so that bounces don't go to individual subscribers. This has always been the case for Debia

KDE for stable?

2000-10-06 Thread cjm2
Hi: Sorry if this is something that has been covered -- I'm pretty new to the mailing list. I'm running Potato (after an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from slink) with the 2.2.12 kernel. I'd like to add KDE to the system, but I'm hesitant to begin tracking unstable because I don't have much Debian expe

Re: /usr/share, why bother?

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:28:09AM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > Am I just dense, and such a setting is fully documented and I just > need to rtfm? I know, disk space is real cheap, so wasting a few > hundred meg per machine isn't a big deal, and there isn't really > anything in /usr/share that I,

Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:54:52PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Karsten, > > Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > > I'm getting a number of messages apparently sent or resent from > > bounce-debian-user. I've also had some significant procmail recipie > > problems in recent weeks resulting in inappr

Re: Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: > What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. > I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) One of the people in it was using ODP: instead of Re: in his subject lines. That might have done it. Chr

Re: ethereal and display

2000-10-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as the user that is running X try: xhost +localhost then run your program as root. should work, shouldnt have to export the display either, although its good practice i guess. nate On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: debian >Hey Guys, debian >I would like to be able to use ethereal withou

ethereal and display

2000-10-06 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I would like to be able to use ethereal without having to start X from root. I've never really understood what tells the xserver who can display, but if anyone could tell me what I am doing wrong, much appriciated! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2000-10-06 Thread John Hasler
Marc Maute writes: > I have some problems with ppp/ddebian. We can't help you without more information. What _exactly_ have you tried and what _exactly_ happened? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: apt on non-debian system

2000-10-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > I'd like to install apt on RH. I don't want to install deb's on RH. > I want only use it as it reads in /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.txt (apt-get > update && apt-get -d dist-upgrade with state file from other, debian > system) > > So, is it possibile

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Damn, I had to make a presentation using a laptop and a projector. I could not use a PDF file because acroread would not show the document in landscape. From the previous messages the way to convert the PS to PDF is given by the next example. Say the latex file is: \documentclass[semhelv,landsca

apt on non-debian system

2000-10-06 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
Hi I'd like to install apt on RH. I don't want to install deb's on RH. I want only use it as it reads in /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.txt (apt-get update && apt-get -d dist-upgrade with state file from other, debian system) So, is it possibile ? -- Peter irc: #Debian.pl

Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt

2000-10-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt Date: Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:30:23PM -0400 In reply to:mike Quoting mike([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this > in Mandrake before i started using Debian. However. i have > been unable to

ppp/wvdial help!

2000-10-06 Thread Marc Maute
hi, I have some problems with ppp/ddebian. I can connect to my provider but I cant load a page or ping to ... So I hope you can help me. Marc -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: > RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (Disks?) > LVM stands for Logical Volume Management (IIRC). I've always heard 'Disks' but I suppose, sooner or later someone will come up with a drive which isn't a disk that is still suitable for RAID

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread James Antill
Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LVM is a much more flexible method, because it uses smaller partitions, and > can move them around on the fly. I haven't done as much research in this > department, but it does seem very interesting. Basically, you setup > partitions > on your drives,

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-06 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-10-05 16:26:40, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:40:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > > >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them i

some general (samba) questions

2000-10-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hello everybody, I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. How can I get a view which users are created on my linux-machine? This would be help

Re: How to mount another partition as home?

2000-10-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:56:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > How do I mount another partition as home or /usr/local? > > I have tried the following: > > put in fstab > > /dev/hda8 /home/jsext2defaults,rw,user 0 1 > > and it left me with a ~ directory where I can not run any

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation Date: Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:42:13PM +0100 In reply to:Glyn Millington Quoting Glyn Millington([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm just over a month into Debian and have hassled the list with > lots of my configuration problems. That

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Francesco" == Francesco Bochicchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesco> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: >> The only thing in syslog is a >> >> gnome-name-server[500]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting >> >> that seems to be at

RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-06 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> AHH.. I have just seen your later post about editing the pd file. |> Question: Do you find the quality of ps2pdf satisfactory. Are you |> really projecting this? Perhaps I don't have the right gs fonts or |> something cos my fonts come out horrid. Any tips. This is probably an off-the-wall

How to mount another partition as home?

2000-10-06 Thread Johann Spies
How do I mount another partition as home or /usr/local? I have tried the following: put in fstab /dev/hda8 /home/jsext2defaults,rw,user 0 1 and it left me with a ~ directory where I can not run any binary - even if I create it as js. I hope somebody can help me on this one

Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Pollywog
What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) -- Andrew

Re: Debian chicken

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jason Quigley wrote: > --On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, > > and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, > > but > > Tryi

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Phil Brutsche wrote: > Use a regular expression: > > find -name "[Ss]yncpp" The one Ethan Benson suggested is actually what I looked for, unfortunaty the man page on my system ('98) does not contain this option. > > can I generaly launch "startx" out of 3 terminals and keep them all up > > at

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
will trillich wrote: > i keep forgetting about xargs. very clever gizmo! > > to sort the output by date, it's rather simple: > > locate | xargs ls -dlt > > the -d is so directoriy contents wouldn't be listed, only the directory > item itself; -l says 'gimme a long listing' and -t says 'sort

Re: general linux questions

2000-10-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Ethan Benson wrote: > > how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase > > letters? > > Something in the kind of: > > find -name "syncppp" > > ...but should be able to find "Syncpp" (even if it doesn't exist in > > reality) > > find -iname "syncppp" > > read the find man

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I think it should be in the file tetex-base in the /etc/X11/Xresources directory. I have to check this at home. What I did here (at the office) is enter the line XDvi*expert: true in this tetex-base file and then I started xdvi and indeed, there were no buttons. Greetings, Stefan Goe

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 06, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > > > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought > > > > > it > > > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debia

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Adam Scriven
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl wrote: > And what do you mean with "LVM is more flexible" (and by the way > what does RAID and LVM mean?)? RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (Disks?) LVM stands for Logical Volume Management (IIRC). I've done quite a bit

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Halahan
Maybe a better way to do this, rather than edit the ps file is to issue >> dvips -t landscape filename.dvi -o to get the landscape ps file. However when you convert to pdf the page is shown sideways and on my acroread i cannot rotate it. Viewing a presentation sideways is not fun. Any ideas

Re: Newbie Question

2000-10-06 Thread Lorand Somogyi
Why not using apt-get?? Like ``apt-get install whatever''. (But first do ``apt-cdrom add'' for the whole set of Potato CDs, that will read the package info. You have to do this only once... The source for this is at ``/etc/apt/sources.list'' file) For example: # apt-cdrom add (loop for the whole

Re: Newbie Question

2000-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Grant) wrote: > I installed 2.1 then used dselect to install >apps from 2.2 Potato disk 1 and 2. I have at least 9 dependency problems >and return status 1 errors after install, configure, and remove. > >I suspect it's a kernel thing but I have never recompiled a kernel. No

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Markus Stahl
Can't you perhaps remember the name of the package for the multiple-disks-tools? This would be very helpful. Or does anybody else know how the package is called? And what do you mean with "LVM is more flexible" (and by the way what does RAID and LVM mean?)? Date sent: Thu, 5 Oct 2

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Markus Stahl
Yes, I have transfered the old /home tree to the new drive. I just didn't write it, because I thought it would be unnecessary. My problem is, I want to combine the capacity of both HDs. Because when I just mount the new drive to one point (in my case at /home), every data written in this direct

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Markus Stahl
Date sent: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:00:38 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: how can I add disk space? Isn't there a way to combine the two HDs' capacity without recompiling the kernel (may

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread David A. Rogers
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: Well, don't be shy. Share the answer please. dar > Hello, > > Ignore my previous message. I think I have found it > > Greetings, > > Stefan > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:46:05PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Interesting. I will

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #170

2000-10-06 Thread Dale Amon
> this though, i have wdm running and sometimes do things like: > > X -query localhost :1 vt8 > > to get a second x based login screen, or more interesting: > > X -query dogbert :1 vt8 > > to get a X based login from remote machine dogbert. (your at the > mercy of your network security here t

ISDN question

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I've noticed quite a few questions about ISDN recently, and I must admit I'm a bit confused. In my NT4 and OS/2 installations there is no difference between a "normal" modem and an ISDN one. I just tell the dialler program which serial port the modem is on, and set the port speed to max, and fi

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > > So I had no problems. But if someone never saw his Linux-guru-friend > writing the line "S3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 3 ttyS3" into > inittab to get the fax running, how can he ever configure it? > The Debian mgetty package does that for you, in the form of a c

ISDN after upgrade to potato

2000-10-06 Thread Veit Waltemath
Hey list, I'm new to Debian so i fiddle a bit with it. I installed a 2.1, configurated the ISDN-Devices and upgrade via apt-get dist-upgrade to potato. All went well. Now my ISDN System not dial automatically, i allways have to use isdnctrl. I have a look in the doc and saw that i have to configur

RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Halahan
I tried this recently. What happened was that ps2pdf gave rubbish looking results. I don't know why this happens, but the quality is far worse than for pdflatex. pdflatex, whilst quality is good, doesn't recofgnise the \specials from fancybox package of pstricks of some such. Therefore the pdfl

Re: modem performance w/pon vs. wvdial

2000-10-06 Thread John Hasler
John Kerr Anderson writes: > Do I need to change the modem initialization string (inside the modem), > if so, how do I accomplish that? Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', choose 'Modemint', and edit the initialization string. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Newbie Question

2000-10-06 Thread Matt Grant
I installed 2.1 then used dselect to install apps from 2.2 Potato disk 1 and 2. I have at least 9 dependency problems and return status 1 errors after install, configure, and remove. I suspect it's a kernel thing but I have never recompiled a kernel. Should I just re-install the system with the

Re: Citrix ICA client on Debian 2.2

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Tony Holroyd, > Has anyone successfully installed the Citrix ICA client on a Debian 2.2 box. I run it on such a box at work. It needs the libc5 version of libXaw, which can be found in the xlib6 package (which probably depends on libc5, but let apt worry about that for you). If you can liv

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:22:49AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > No. Linux doesn't support this since it is insecure. It works with perl > > scripts only, because Perl does some extra checks and explicit handling to > > make it work. > > Also, doesn't perl use a special suid binary to run these script

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:47PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > However, I solved gvim's problem by putting > > Vim*scrollBackground: Black > Vim*scrollForeground: Blue > > in ~/.vimrc > > The same > > GV*scrollBackground: Black > GV*scrollForeground: Blue >

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, Ignore my previous message. I think I have found it Greetings, Stefan On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:46:05PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > Interesting. I will try this at home. (Here at work I don't have this problem) > > One small question. In which file should I have specifie

Citrix ICA client on Debian 2.2

2000-10-06 Thread Tony Holroyd
Has anyone successfully installed the Citrix ICA client on a Debian 2.2 box. I am getting can't load library libXaw.so.6. messages. LibXaw is on the box, Any hints? Tony Holroyd IT Network Manager Velmore Ltd

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:39:16PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > I'm sure people are going to disagree with my assessment, claiming > that dselect is user friendly, it's just that all the users are too > stupid to use it. So maybe we need some good data. dselect is user friendly, its just picky

Re: OT: mailing list, bounce-debian-user ?

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Karsten, Quoth kmself@ix.netcom.com, > I'm getting a number of messages apparently sent or resent from > bounce-debian-user. I've also had some significant procmail recipie > problems in recent weeks resulting in inappropriate message rejection, > particularly from mailing lists. I believe

Re: Software to record console output (sort of...)

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ethan Benson, > > Someone has asked me to do something and record what I do so that he can > > see how it works, but I can't for the life of me remember what this > > program was called. I've tried searching through apt-cache and apropos > > for record, script, pager, etc., but no joy. > >

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, Interesting. I will try this at home. (Here at work I don't have this problem) One small question. In which file should I have specified this expert mode? Greetings, Stefan. On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:39:08PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello Stefan, > > Seems to me more like a xdv

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Walter Tautz, > I would slightly concur with your assessment of dselect but > only in the sense that it lists simply too many packages. I > am not sure, but perhaps it is possible to present the various > software types in a less verbose manner. Sort of like the slrn > news reader where on

kernel-2.2's ip_masq* modules equivalent in 2.4 kernel to use netfilter

2000-10-06 Thread Livia Admin
hi lists. i'm just trying to get ready in using netfilter in 2.4 kernel just want to ask a question ... to any of you who had tried it 1) what's the alternate modules in 2.4 that're 2.2-kernel's ip_masq* modules?

Re: Software to record console output (sort of...)

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 09:39:17PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Someone has asked me to do something and record what I do so that he can > see how it works, but I can't for the life of me remember what this > program was called. I've tried searching through apt-cache and apropos > for record, sc

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth James Antill, > > Try apt-find. > > # dpkg -S apt-find > dpkg: *apt-find* not found. > # apt-get install apt-find > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package apt-find I think what he means is apt-cache. Try man apt-cache. cheers, -- Dam

Software to record console output (sort of...)

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Hi gang, I remember years and year ago, when I first installed debian (bo, I think), the install instructions recommended that you run this little program that records everything that happens on the console. I think it just saves it to an ascii file with escape codes, but if you catted the resulti

Re: (1) xdvi (2) ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 & Xfree86-v4.0.1

2000-10-06 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Stefan, Seems to me more like a xdvi configuration problem. Are you sure, that you havn't specified the expert option either in your X-resources or on the command line? Because that would make the buttons go away. Regards, Daniel On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > > I

Re: 2.2.4pre9 and modules

2000-10-06 Thread Damian Menscher
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, mallum wrote: > To get support for my new ata100 drive , last night I installed the 2.2.4pre9 > kernel ( using kernel-package ) . It all went fine (the drive worked) ... but > then I noticed non of the modules Id selected seemed to be loading on boot. > > I checked /lib/module

Re: setuid question

2000-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can somebody explain to me what setuid does? > >I have installed Debian 2.2 and copied my old home(~) directory on to the >new installation. The difference between the old home and the new one >is > >old: drwxr-xr-x >new: drwxr-sr-x That isn't setuid, it'

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-06 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:42:13PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > % help > help: Command not found. > What shell are you using? ihatemilk:/home/ihatemilk% help GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) These shell commands are

2.2.4pre9 and modules

2000-10-06 Thread mallum
Aloha All; To get support for my new ata100 drive , last night I installed the 2.2.4pre9 kernel ( using kernel-package ) . It all went fine (the drive worked) ... but then I noticed non of the modules Id selected seemed to be loading on boot. I checked /lib/modules/2.2.4pre9 and non of the module

Re: Basic Debian firewall

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:01:31AM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: >About this, > >In my linuxbox startup configuration, I don't know where are the >initialization scripts for ipchains, or where can I put my own >scripts, someone knows where is the right place? all DEBIAN init stuff is in

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:26:12PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:26:32PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > but even with -r, the 'recoverable' sessions all show up in different > > vi buffers... if you don't want to save what's in all those buf

Fetchmail problem: long pauses

2000-10-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down dramatically. At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens: Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to collect all

Re: separate alias/redirect files for different domains using sendmail

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:52:48PM +0200, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to figure out how to be able to use separate alias/redirect > files for different domains (like a .redirect in their home-dir), so I (as > admin) don't have to keep updating the aliases, because someone wan

how program can use more than 256 processes

2000-10-06 Thread George Chavdarov
Hello all, i have following problem maximum limit of processes is 256 for any user kernel supports up to 1024 (kernel 2.2) how i can make user to have more than 256 processes in fact i need it for mysql ulimit in shell and set it in /etc/limits.conf dont work. any ideas Best regards, Geo

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