Re: proper, debian location of latex files

2001-01-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained |> from CTAN? Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in |> addition to the /usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained |> from sources other than debian be put in some logical place in the |> deb-package tree? files f

Re: init output..

2001-01-11 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:24:02AM -0500, Mark Leary wrote: > Is there anyway to capture the output of the various scripts run by init > at startup? Or maybe increase the size of the shift-pgup buffer. I'm > getting a couple errors on boot but they scroll by too fast for me to tell > where they a

apt-get install postgres7-potato ?

2001-01-11 Thread will trillich
did i see someone post a "here's a sources.list line to install postgres v7 on potato..." a while back? i can't find it searching for "postgres;potato" at lists.debian.org. any pointers? can i install postgres7 on potato the debian way (via apt-get)? -- See, if you were allowed to keep the money

lynx & image viewing

2001-01-11 Thread Giulio Morgan
I am using lynx in an xterm as a web browser with image loading toggled on. I have tried to set the .lynx_cfg file so that when lynx spawns a viewing window, lynx itself will remain active (so that I can load up as many images as I like and keep browsing). By my understanding, from reading the .lyn

Re: Modules Not Loading

2001-01-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:01:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be > loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that > can't be loaded. I know they were built and installed. I have checked and > they

init output..

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Leary
Is there anyway to capture the output of the various scripts run by init at startup? Or maybe increase the size of the shift-pgup buffer. I'm getting a couple errors on boot but they scroll by too fast for me to tell where they are coming from. Thanks.. -Mark

Re: apt-get update and upgrade

2001-01-11 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html > > Yes, I am familiar with that site. I've got it bookmarked already ;-) > > Does this section, > http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html#ToC5, need > u

Modules Not Loading

2001-01-11 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I have several modules in the /etc/modules file that are supposed to be loaded upon boot. I receive an error message for each one saying that can't be loaded. I know they were built and installed. I have checked and they are in the right place. I have tried to load them manually with insmod

proper, debian location of latex files

2001-01-11 Thread Giulio Morgan
What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained from CTAN? Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in addition to the /usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained from sources other than debian be put in some logical place in the deb-package tree? files from /macros/latex

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Dale Morris
Big learning curve here. I only have the one drive and when I hooked it to the mb I undoubtedly wired it up wrong. I just checked and it is on the secondary controller. What now? Can I just hook it up properly, change the fstab to read hda, then reboot or do I have to move partitions from hdc to hd

Re: libcurses/libncurses problem

2001-01-11 Thread Giulio Morgan
"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > > ->Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ->CWA> I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application > ->CWA> (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: > ->CWA> > -

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Why not just open up another window and "kill" the netscape pid? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: -> This may be a strange request but I'm trying to write a littl

re: wu-ftpd

2001-01-11 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Its very possible. I have set it up on numerous occaisions for my company. Here is a howto. -- Origional Message -- hey all, i'm setting up an ftp (wu-ftpd) server and i'm wondering if there is any way to set the ftp users start dir? say i have a dir called /stuff, and i want 5 (or however m

Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-11 Thread Monte Milanuk
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used > > links to browse the documentation in > > /usr/share/doc/cupsys

[0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-11 Thread ktb
This may be a strange request but I'm trying to write a little wrapper of sorts for Netscape that removes the lock file automatically after killing the browser when it hangs. The problem I'm having is finding a site that hangs Netscape. I usually have no tr

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:05:13AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > well actually two questions. First, is it easy to pass parameters to the > > kernel like with lilo.conf's 'append='? > > Yes, just press "c" when grub's menu shows (spending time for the > defined delay). Sorry, guess I didn't make m

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Gray
> D-Man writes: d> | "noatime", and then remounting without that option. It also appears d> | that 'touch' can change the access time of the file with the -a flag. d> | But I think I'm coming in on the end of this thread and that might d> I just joined the thread when the su

Re: snmpd package do not have processor load in snmp tree?

2001-01-11 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:40:45AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Yes we can also find the load average at /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf. > As you said, we'd like to get the CPU usage in % (1-100%) for user, > system, idle, as we seen from the 'top' command. Is it the per-second > CPU usa

Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread Issakov M.
>On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their > >date/timestamps? Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all > >files touched, which causes mutt to lose track of the folders which h

Re: Trouble using traceroute.

2001-01-11 Thread sena
On 11/01/2001 at 14:06 -0800, brian moore wrote: > This is a sign that you have an ipchains (or ipfwadm or iptables...) > rule that is forbidding output of UDP. > That was it... Thanks! ~sena -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.smux.net/~sena/ gpg fingerprint: F20B 12A8 A8F6 FD1F 9B1D BA62

Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used > links to browse the documentation in > /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian. It said that cup

Re: GTK??

2001-01-11 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:11:12 -0800 (PST), Xucaen said: > > All of the languages I have listed have GTK > > bindings. If you plan on > > using GTK, check out Glade. (it is listed on > > the GTK web site) Glade > > > where is the GTK web site? I keep hearing about > GTK hoping I would p

minicom (was Re: Serial terminal software.)

2001-01-11 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I have compiled a fresh kernel with serial console support and tried to connect my notebook with minicom to it. However I only managed to get it to work with a 4800 speed connection. A VT320 terminal works at 9600 and 19200. Any hints how I can improve speed? I'm using kernel 2.0.38 on my

Re: snmpd package do not have processor load in snmp tree?

2001-01-11 Thread vincent
Hi Brian, Yes we can also find the load average at /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf. As you said, we'd like to get the CPU usage in % (1-100%) for user, system, idle, as we seen from the 'top' command. Is it the per-second CPU usage you mentioned? We'd like to use the value in MRTG report. If we can't get i

Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-11 Thread Monte Milanuk
I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used links to browse the documentation in /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian. It said that cups was almost setup, but due to a bug in adduser, it hadn't added root t

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:41:06PM +, john gennard wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2001 5:08 am, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: > > Greetings, everyone. > > > > I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled > > so far. > > > > But, I think my boot disk is defective, since i

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Romain Lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Brian May wrote: > > > > > "Romain" == Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, > > Romain> and I had no problem installing, none

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
Romain Lerallut wrote: Brian May wrote: "Romain" == Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, Romain> and I had no problem installing, none at all :-) Romain> However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > In my grub I have: > > > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319 > > > But you can't modify those options before you actually log in, can you ? If I remember right (I don't want to break my uptime :-), pressing the 'e' key

GTK??

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
> All of the languages I have listed have GTK > bindings. If you plan on > using GTK, check out Glade. (it is listed on > the GTK web site) Glade where is the GTK web site? I keep hearing about GTK hoping I would pick up on what it is but so far I haven't a clue... thanks!

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:02:49AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > man su? Not sure, but that's where I'd look. Possibly also a suid > executable, where UID != root. suid bits can only be used to elevate privileges, not reduce them. when you run a suid binary only the euid is changed, no

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:42:02PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I wonder why this is even an option; is there a reason anyone would > # install Linux without ext2 support? > # I have always wondered why the option was given. > > ReiserFS/ext3: Some peo

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
Bob Billson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:18:22PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: I have used grub and it is simplicity itself to setup .. and very, very good. I was thinking about trying out grub in place of lilo on my machine. One well actually two questions. First, is it easy to pass

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > > I was looking at /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. In the 2.2.x kernel docs, recommends > adding an appropriate line to /etc/fstab. However, Debian choose not to and > does it in a boot script instead; not sure why. I am tempted to hack toge

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:06PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: | > D-Man writes: | | d> | How is mutt (or any other MUA) meant to do it then? | d> | | | d> By checking the file itself for new messages, rather than | d> relying on the timestamp. Some MUA's handle new messages i

Re: (OT) exec nonreadable shell scripts

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0500, D-Man wrote: ... > I recall seeing somewhere that with the new interpreter, .pyo files > can be executed (by the interpreter, but by calling the file not the > interpreter). Maybe not. I wish I could remember where I saw > that. It doesn't work here wit

lpr / magicfilter packages misbehaving

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, tonight I cleaned up my dselect list and purged lpr as I prefer lprng. To my surprise the printer started to malfunction, missing files:( What happens is that lpr installs and removes /var/log/lp-{acct,errs} but magicfilter creates printcap files *with* those files (af/lf). Magicfilters rec

Re: Any Linux-based PhotoID software?

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:50:03PM -0700, Jason Mogavero wrote: | Any of you WINE folks know if there's serial/parallel support for Win32 | apps? | WINE can print to a parallel printer. But I think it sends it through lpd. | My university creates ID cards for students using a small camera | at

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Scott Patterson wrote: > >Greetings, everyone. > > > >I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so > >far. > > > >But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for > >the > > > >Loading Linux.. > > > >process to complete

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Liam Ward wrote: > A reboot usually solves this for me but maybe you've already tried > that... Reboot? What is a "reboot"...? What is it, tell me. (An inquiring mind wants to know.) ;-) Well, I haven't tried that. (I guess Linux has spoiled me.) Oki

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: > > cat

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:37:10PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: | "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? | | I've always used loadlin, so I don't know much about lilo. Grub | is easy to configure and install, and has the

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Gray
> D-Man writes: d> | How is mutt (or any other MUA) meant to do it then? d> | d> By checking the file itself for new messages, rather than d> relying on the timestamp. Some MUA's handle new messages in d> folders better. (ie, you can open up the mailbox, not read d

Re: hp laserjet4plus

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install magicfilter On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:47:07PM -0800, paul taylor wrote: > I have a hp laserjet4plus. Setup seemed to recognize it but printcap only > lists a generic printer. I need the printcap script for this printer or > some way of getting back into setup or install to make th

Re: AVA-1505A, USB

2001-01-11 Thread mgriffa
Hi! I have an AHA1505, (with an unsupported CDR unfortunately) I could make it work by appending the parameter to the kernel on lilo boot (later on lilo.conf. This looks my lilo.conf image = /boot/vmlinuz append = "aha152x,7,5,0" ... I'd suggest you to boot and append the pa

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:23:55PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:07:51PM -0700, user list wrote: > > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange > > servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well > > known? we ar

ssh-nonfree

2001-01-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Immediately after installing ssh-nonfree, I get this error when trying to start sshd: Starting Secure Shell server: sshd/etc/ssh-nonfree/sshd_config line 26: Bad configuration option: loglevel . This is being read from the default config file installed with the package. Any ideas as to what the

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Brian May wrote: > > > "Romain" == Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, > Romain> and I had no problem installing, none at all :-) > > Romain> However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the > Ro

/etc/resolv.conf not there with potato

2001-01-11 Thread Lyall Ward
Hi, I am just learning how things work in debian and have come across a problem. There is no resolv.conf. I have tried just creating it and while this fixes the problem of the file not being there, nothing seems to use it(Eg I still have to ping by IP address and nslookup thinks the default namser

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Brian May
> "Romain" == Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner, Romain> and I had no problem installing, none at all :-) Romain> However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the Romain> kernel when I boot: For inst

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
Ok, maybe that was just personal preference overriding objectivity. Good catch. ;) I haven't used rsync a whole lot, so my opinions are more slanted to use scp. Having now actually read the man page for sync, that'll work like a champ. (assuming it's a *nix box he's connecting to) -Orig

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote: ->Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? -> ->Thanks! -> It's not grub, but GAG is Great !!! http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Works off a "floppy" where you can try it over and over before you actually write it to your

Re: X Install and No Mouse

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Well I'm not sure how well I'll go answering your question, but I'll try. hammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After initiating "startx" a window comes up with a menu. I am not > sure this is an X window or the window manager. But the mouse > cursor is not present and the mouse buttons are not ef

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Brian May wrote: > > > "Tom" == Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? > Tom> Thanks! > > grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is > still manual, but I could be mistaken), but once i

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? I've always used loadlin, so I don't know much about lilo. Grub is easy to configure and install, and has the capability to make a partition bootable (active in MS terms), hide/unhide

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Mogavero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Someone else mentioned using rsync tunneled through ssh, Jason> which isn't a bad idea either, but I think scp is more Jason> suited to scripting as long as the host files are set up Jason> correctly. Why? Persona

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:07:45PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jason Mogavero wrote: > > > If you use ssh to administer the machines that need to transfer files, you > > can use scp, which is an encrypted file transfer method using the ssh > > daemon. If you're transferring f

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
-Original Message- From: Robert Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:08 PM To: Jason Mogavero Cc: Debian List Subject: RE: Anonymous FTP >I was under the impression that I couldn't run scp unattended. Is that >not correct? Well, unless you use .shost file

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jason Mogavero wrote: > If you use ssh to administer the machines that need to transfer files, you > can use scp, which is an encrypted file transfer method using the ssh > daemon. If you're transferring files into an unsecure network, you'd be > better off using scp anyway.

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Brian May
> "Tom" == Tom Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? Tom> Thanks! grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is still manual, but I could be mistaken), but once installed you can boot from any ker

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Brian May
> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I simply used the configurations for my 2.2.18 kernel and >> then did a > "make oldconfig". > So, yes, I did select ext2 >> support built-in, as I did in 2.2.18. Pollywog> I wonder why this is even an option; is there

Re: AVA-1505A, USB

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:46:38AM +0100, root wrote: (not such a good idea, better to make a user account than to use root) [snip] | 2)Somedoby kwnos if is it possible to make a point to point connection | using the USB port?? | If yes, how I must

RE: Any Linux-based PhotoID software?

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
Have you tried running the ID software in WINE or VMWare? If it's just a serial connection to the camera and parallel to the printer, it should work just dandy with VMWare...can't speak for WINE as I haven't mucked with it very much. The best part about VMWare is that once you get your Windows

Re: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at > my place of work. Out of curiosity, why are the FTP privileges going away? > We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files and such > o

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem (*help*, *help*)

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:19:41PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Well, it's a pain but I'd go through the config the old-fashioned way, > eg.: > > make clean > make-kpkg clean > make distclean > make (xconfig|config|menuconfig) > make-kpkg > > Something ob

RE: Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
If you use ssh to administer the machines that need to transfer files, you can use scp, which is an encrypted file transfer method using the ssh daemon. If you're transferring files into an unsecure network, you'd be better off using scp anyway. The downfall of this is that you need valid account

AVA-1505A, USB

2001-01-11 Thread root
1)I read in the kernel helps that the SCSI driver for Adaptec aha152x can drive even the Adaptec AVA-1505 series. I can't make it run at all. Can some one, that had the same problem and resolved it, tell me how I must configure module or some other to make it run?? 2)Somedoby kwnos if is it poss

Re: ssh to solaris: how do i get fully functional terminal?

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Mackenzie
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:24:05PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > What terminal are you using? Linux console? (What is $TERM when you > log in to the Solaris system?) > > If it is "linux" you can just use > export TERM=vt100 well, > | export TERM=dtterm gives me an almost functioning terminal. just

Re: USB and Potato 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:50, Ray Percival wrote: > My Logitech trackball also works like a dream. THis was the doc that > got me over the hump. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html Yeah, I didn't know about that at the time so I did it the old-fashioned way. :} My marble works ver

Re: lprng not working

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, > my lpd is not working correctly. The init script is loaded at boottime, > but no daemon is started. When I try to start it manually, the following > happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # /etc/init.d/lprng start > Starting printer spool

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
I've just install (yesterday) uwm and found that it created a softlink from /usr/doc/uwm to /usr/share/doc/udm, so the documentation is easily findable on my system. Anyway, I'm really glad I read this list otherwise I'd have never come across uwm. It really is excellant. If you're bored by the si

Re: ssh to solaris: how do i get fully functional terminal?

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
What terminal are you using? Linux console? (What is $TERM when you log in to the Solaris system?) If it is "linux" you can just use export TERM=vt100 The linux console is compatible with vt100 termcap/terminfo entries. HTH, -D On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:52:10AM +1100, Mark Mackenzie wrote:

Re: boot disk problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sthitaprajna
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:05:43 +0100 Nina Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > extremely long time to boot. However, I do not suspect that there is > something wrong with the disk because I have tried several different > disks and they all have the same problem. When I insert the rescue > floppy and

Re: Gcc, Objective-C

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
I haven't heard much about Objective C. I would guess that it is dying, but maybe I'm just not listening in the right groups. What features are you looking for in the language besides portability? ANSI C is quite portable. C++ works if you don't use some of the really complex features. Java is

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:11:04PM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > Try checking out the different servers at netcraft's what's that server > running (now includes uptime stats). > > http://www.netcraft.com/whats > > Just checking www.hotmail.com would not be sufficient in this case. If you >

RE: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
Great link, thanks Nicolechecking the login page, I see that they've made the switch to IIS 5.0/Win2k, both for the login page and the actual mail-reading section. The site lc7.law5.hotmail.passport.com runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 The site lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com runs Microsof

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I wonder why this is even an option; is there a reason anyone would # install Linux without ext2 support? # I have always wondered why the option was given. A number of reasons; Embedded applications: typical "embedded" applications are *extremely* memory

Anonymous FTP

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at my place of work. We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files and such on a machine that is outside our firewall. What kind of replacements are available to allow unattended transfer of files from a

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? I've only used Grub every now and then to poke at it; I'm not willing to give up my tried-and-true LILO setup. However, Grub does seem more technically advanced at this stage - it understand

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? I've heard it doesn't support RAID (and possibly LVM) partitions. I find it more simple to use than LILO when it is installed (you don't have to worry to launch LI

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:36:54PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I wonder why this is even an option; is there a reason anyone would > install Linux without ext2 support? > I have always wondered why the option was given. In a word: choice. Before ext2 there was the original ext. Or was it called ext

Re: Trouble using traceroute.

2001-01-11 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:25:31PM +, sena wrote: > Hi. > > When using traceroute (as root), I get the following problem: > > decoy:~# traceroute 194.65.3.20 > traceroute to 194.65.3.20 (194.65.3.20) from decoy, 30 hops max, 38 byte > packets > traceroute: sendto: Operation not permitted >

OT: Any Linux-based PhotoID software?

2001-01-11 Thread Kent West
My university creates ID cards for students using a small camera attached to a Windows box running PhotoCard software. I am getting mighty tired of trying to keep this Winblows box running. Does anyone have any leads on high-quality photo imaging/idcard-generating software that'll run on Debian

ssh to solaris: how do i get fully functional terminal?

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Mackenzie
hi, (this has to be a faq, but i cannot find it) export TERM=dtterm gives me an almost functioning terminal. just have to fix up sun's annoying delete, home/end & pgup/dn key problems. if i was in X i would: (from xterm FAQ) XTerm.VT100.Translations: #override \

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
This is correct. They used to run on FreeBSD. When MS bought hotmail they tried switching them to NT4, but it fell over horribly under the load. Apparently Win2k is actually an improvement over NT4, as according to recent Netcraft surveys they were actually able to switch from BSD to 2k. Unfort

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
--- Mark Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > During the last few weeks, there have been > > discussions about how to keep X from > > automatically starting upon booting the > system. > > Most replys leaned towards disabling xdm in > the > > runlevel d

Re: Creating a bootable CD from online files!!

2001-01-11 Thread mike
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:33:26PM -0500, mike wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:09:13AM -0500, seg wrote: > > Files I have gotten from the FTP site: > > > > -base2_2.tgz > > -loadlin.exe > > -entire compact directory (drivers.tgz, install.bat, kernel-config and > > linux) > > -entire doc

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Try checking out the different servers at netcraft's what's that server running (now includes uptime stats). http://www.netcraft.com/whats Just checking www.hotmail.com would not be sufficient in this case. If you have a hotmail account, check the addresses it actually sends you to to read mail.

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Pollywog
> > I simply used the configurations for my 2.2.18 kernel and then did a > > "make oldconfig". > > So, yes, I did select ext2 support built-in, as I did in 2.2.18. I wonder why this is even an option; is there a reason anyone would install Linux without ext2 support? I have always wondered why

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:18:22PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I have used grub and it is simplicity itself to setup .. and > very, very good. I was thinking about trying out grub in place of lilo on my machine. One well actually two questions. First, is it easy to pass parameters to the ker

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread john gennard
On Thursday 11 January 2001 5:08 am, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings, everyone. > > I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled > so far. > > But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes > for the > > Loading Linux.. > > process to

GDM keeps reloading

2001-01-11 Thread Steve Doerr
Hello. I hope someone can help me with this configuration issue. I just upgraded to xf86-4 and since then I can't login to x - it just keeps reloading the login box for root and users. The xserver is fine w/ resolutions and fonts, but the upgrade seems to have disabled gnome session authorizatio

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Waldner
As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever it´s called. Search on slashdot&friends along the last security-debacles there, that´s where I got it. cheers, &rw On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:07:51 MST, user list

RE: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
It is 'normal' that a windows after linux installation messes up your lilo bootloader state. Do fdisk /mbr on a windows command prompt and reboot to linux (using a rescue disk) after that configure your lilo.conf file to make lilo boot correctly and reinstall lilo Also make sur

Re: Creating a bootable CD from online files!!

2001-01-11 Thread mike
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:09:13AM -0500, seg wrote: > Files I have gotten from the FTP site: > > -base2_2.tgz > -loadlin.exe > -entire compact directory (drivers.tgz, install.bat, kernel-config and > linux) > -entire doc directory > > I am pretty sure I have all the files needed to crea

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:07:51PM -0700, user list wrote: > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange > servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well > known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where I work. I'm on a > uni

problem uploading files

2001-01-11 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I recently installed debian 2.2rev2 without any graphical stuff, but also I installed mason, junkbuster, and ipv6 just for testing. When I connect to my ISP, I can download files without any problem, but when I try to send a file bigger than 3kb(using ftp, or send a mail with an attachment) the con

Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Schuetz
Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? Thanks! Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: dselect/firewall

2001-01-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if your pc is configured with DHCP and this server is set-up properly you should not enter any of these parameters, maybe the proxy in question is configured for Socks 5 authentication and thus you need to install (floppy's) a socks 5 proxy client of some sort. You are probably inside an NT domain(

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:28:53PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the follo

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