Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the > official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, > however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been > unsuccessful in

Re: how to change TCP WSindow Size

2001-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:56:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ip route help $ man route Mirek

Re: hdd time-out??!!

2001-06-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:52:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > kernelversion 2.2.19 (potato) > So it's dying? All I could remember when I installed that I had some > problems using it with Linux (Red Hat 6 at the time). I 've checked > the bios and all my drives have a smart function en

Re: Netscape memory leak in debian?

2001-05-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:55:13AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 27 May 2001 19:05:41 +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > Has ony one noticed that when you exit Communicator > > 4.77 if you select File / Exit; then go to the console > > type top > (...) > > Everybody noticed this and a lot more. Mo

Re: conclusion from Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:12:07PM -0400, D-Man wrote: [...] > Well, I have more or less solved the problem (at least identified what > the solution would be) : > > It turns out I had xinetd configured properly. When I tried it on the > Duron 750 box (with 128MB RAM) it works beautifully with no

Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: [...] > Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and > nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work > when run from xinetd? I would rather have as few permanent services > on this machine as possibl

Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:11:00PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > I have 2 Debian machines with samba installed. On one machine it > works (except for the printers, I'll figure that out later) and on the > other [sn]mbd won't start. [...] > > Ok, so something is already using the port ... what is using

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:34:24AM +0200, vester wrote: [...] > > # depmod -av > > (Have you ever done? On Debian it should be automatic but you may have a > > broken system) > > output is a long list with all my modules in the respective > /lib/modules/2.4.4/... directories. > > apart from th

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:56:54PM +0200, vester wrote: [...] > what about modprobe though? i checked the version and it it 2.4.2 -- does > that mean i can only load kernel 2.4.2 modules? > > i am using debian testing, modutils 2.4.2 is the newest version ii modutils 2.4.6-3 Lin

Re: ftp.isc.org refusing connections

2001-05-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > Thought I would download the latest bind sources. ftp.isc.org is refusing > connections. Are they down or has my reputation preceeded me? >From www.isc.org: ISC's FTP server is temporarily unavailable. We regret any inconvenience th

Re: apt error : too many open files

2001-04-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:20:05PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I am using debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.19 and am having the folling > problem : when I log in as root and use dpkg or apt every thing works fine > . But if I log in a normal user and "su -" to root the dpkg or apt gives > errors as

Re: ppmtogif in Debian?

2001-04-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:32:34PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Which package in Debian contains ppmtogif? > "apt-cache search ppmtogif" didn't return anything. netpbm-nonfree :( Mirek

Re: Magicfilter (in woody) problem.

2001-03-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:48:43AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 01 Mar 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I am having no problems with this version. > > > > Bob > > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:53:39PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Re: Magicfilter (in woody) problem.

2001-03-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:32:18PM +0100, Dominique Rousset wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:53:39PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Don't upgrade to magicfilter_1.2-43 in woody. > > > Postinst is generating thousends e-mails

Magicfilter (in woody) problem.

2001-03-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, Don't upgrade to magicfilter_1.2-43 in woody. Postinst is generating thousends e-mails (I got about 10k). Mirek

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 upgrade

2001-02-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:41:10PM -0500, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > Recently I installed XFree86 on my Intel box in the hopes of getting the > NVIDIA drivers up and running. I changed the config files for apt to > point to the unstable distro and did the upgrade but it didn't seem to > work. Curr

Re: kernel 2.4.x and latin2 (iso8859-2) characters in console

2001-02-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:12:19PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that latin2 (iso8859-2) characters are no longer > displayed in console with kernel 2.4.1 :((( > This is my setup: > > SCREEN_FONT=lat2u-16 > APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02 > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=user > SCREEN_

Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:14:34PM -0800, Calyth wrote: > As you bring this up I do notice that it happens on my machine too. Answer is - 2.4.0 has new filesystem (why? I don't know) and whithout mounting it you can use shared memory. Do it: $ mkdir /var/shm and add a line to /etc/fstab: non

Re: udp or tcp?

2000-09-25 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hello > > Is the following a tcp or a udp packet? How do I tell? > > Sep 24 15:20:25 host kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 \ > PROTO=17 10.209.80.109:68 255.255.255.255:67 \ > L=576 S=0x00 I=9145 F=0x4000 T=32 (#11)

Re: built-in bash functions

2000-09-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 01:44:49PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey guys. When I do a type -p ls, nothing is output. which ls returns > /bin/ls, but does the failure of the type -p signify that it's a shell > built-in? If so, how does that work wrt installing a new version of ls? There >

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:33:11PM +0200, Floods wrote: > I have an Athlon-based system too and grub sees all my 192M. > This is my linux section in menu.lst file: > > title linux > kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=2 mem=192m > initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

Re: Kernel COmpile Problems

2000-09-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:31:15AM -, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hi... I had a small problem when I was compiling my kernel. when I typed > the "make bzImage" command, at the end I got an error message saying "make: > as86: Command not found" or something like that. Do I have to install any > p

Re: How do I adust the Gamma level?

2000-09-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:57:32PM +0800, Wong TM (Huang Deming) wrote: > > How do I adust the Gamma level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a > Creative TNT. I don't know about 4.0.0, I use 3.x.x and my starting script is: startx -- -bpp 32 -dpi 120 -gamma 0.7 -bestRefresh &>~/.xsessio

Re: SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:27:03PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Dear .deb, > > I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a > SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? > > I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers without parameters but all I > get is a device or

Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: [...] > It will break scripts, but it doesn't seem like anyone cares about > that (Ohhh, I imagine there is a major flamer war going on > somewhere). The future proof and locale portable way to do the above > is: > > ls /dev/tty[[:lowe

WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, Some time ago I discoverd a problem with sort (from textutils). It doesn't work for me :(. Maintainger of textutils package wrote me that is problem only with my (pl_PL) locale. After that he discovered that even en_AU locale is broken. This bug (#69544) has been reassigned to libc6. Today I

Re: Potato splitvt not working

2000-09-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:09:25PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > Does anyone have splitvt running on Potato? I have it running fine > > on Slink but when I run it on Potato I get the error: > > No available pseudo terminals > > That is on a console or an xterm. > >

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:06:12AM -0700, Mike wrote: > Greetings: > > I've got potato on a network with some windows machines. Potato has wuftpd > installed and configured in inetd.conf. sshd is also started when it boots. > > When I try to ftp from windows to potato (using the local ip addre

Re: Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?

2000-08-22 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0500, Brad wrote: > In case anyone would find it useful, it's not very difficult to package > the subject. I must assume a i386 libc6 system, since i have no others > to test the instructions. If anyone else would, post an addendum. You'll > need the approrpiate

Re: Sendmail feature wanted

2000-08-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:29:57AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi All, > I use Sendmail to send and recive mail through Internet but I want the > following feature: when an e-mail comes to an unknow user, it will be > delivery > to a know user. Add to sedma

Re: VM problem.

2000-07-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:00:36PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:56:04AM +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Jul 13 08:39:12 brain kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > > > > http... > > > [...] > > > > I'm using unstable with kernel 2.2.17

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:04:20PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: [...] > That was how it was configured by default when I installed potato, and when I > would move the mouse it would jump randomly around the screen, usually not > being drawn, and all of the buttons would click randomly, brin

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote: [...] > In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a > mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but > the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on > that bo

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:35:08AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > In the recent potato update of the X packages from > 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will > file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error > messages on startup are: > > X: server socket directory ha

Re: tracing route

2000-06-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:55:21PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace > > a rout? What package contains it? > > The command is traceroute, in the package traceroute. Another utility of > that same type

Re: ipchains latency

2000-06-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:30:37PM -0500, Chris Brown wrote: [...] > firewalling? I shouldn't think this is the problem... Are there any > errors that add to connection latency that I should be looking for in > the firewalling rules? It was a bug in ipchains structure in some kernels ( <=2.2.1

Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:08:10PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Have you tested how "xpdf" deals with them? But xpdf has many problems with fonts :( Mirek

Re: potato boot floppies

2000-06-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 02:53:36PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > When writing - or trying to, anyway - the images, I get the following: > > hp90:/mnt/hd2/data/Tmp/potato # dd of=/dev/fd0 if=base-1.bin bs=1024 > dd: /dev/fd0: No space left on device > 5+0 records in > 4+0 records out > hp90:/mnt/hd

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-16 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:40:13PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > > partition? > > Well, can't say that I hav

Re: How to set up printing in Netscape

2000-03-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:31:00AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > However, I have the newest magicfilter installed (according to apt, pointed > at potato), and > ghostscript appears to not be available in potato: I get a message about it > not having an > available version although it is in the databa

Re: How to set up printing in Netscape

2000-03-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:04:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Well, FWIW, have you worked out your printing problem? What are > > you printing to in Netscape -- what's the command you're using? Any > > error messages? Anything turn up in your print queue (lpq)?

Re: Partitioning with On track disk manager

2000-03-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:13:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:26:07AM +1100, David Soo generated a stream of 1s > and 0s: > > Hi all, > > Hoping that someone might be able to help me out here in Australia. > > > > I have a 13.5GB IBM HD and partitioned it with On

Re: remote printer via Windows

2000-03-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:04:02PM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian potato computer but the printer (HP Laserjet 6L) is > conected to a Windows box. > I instaled smbclient and Samba, and took the example from the doc > (modified a litle). My printcap have this record: > lp|r

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case > I guess I'd b

Re: loopback routing - just curious

2000-02-23 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:42:19AM +0800, da Bobstopper wrote: > hiya, i've noticed that > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > doesn't seem to work anymore and, even more curiously, doesn't seem to be > needed. i can still ping 127.0.0.1 but the 127.0.0.0 route isn't evident in > my route -n output.

Re: Malformed packages in unstable

2000-02-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:11:05AM -0500, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I was trying to find out where to report this, but I couldn't.. > > Xshipwars reports that it cannot be installed because of dependancy > problems. Hi, apt-get -d install xshipwars Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

Re: SOLVED: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

2000-02-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:20:30PM +, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg -S mimencode did not show this imformation as i ran it last time. > I just installed metamail and now get this program. Yes, dpkg -S can inform only about installed files. In general you have to read file .../debian/dist

Re: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

2000-02-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > where is the programm mimencode that is needed by mgetty+sendfax (script > new_fax). $ dpkg -S mimencode metamail: /usr/bin/mimencode metamail: /usr/man/man1/mimencode.1.gz Mirek

Re: Capture Text Console screen

2000-02-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 12:47:55PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Did somebody knows about program to capture/grab > > text console screen ? Normally you can do it by GPM, > > but on my laptop it does not work with

Re: SAMBA and X

2000-02-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:17:53PM -0500, Pee wrote: > Do I really need to install X to run Samba? > TIA-Pee Why? Basic packages: Package: task-samba Depends: samba, samba-doc, smbclient, swat, smbfs Package: samba Depends: samba-common (= 2.0.6-3), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libpam0g Package: samba-co

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:00:51PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > My personal solution to this problem is to middle-click to open a new window, > stop download, copy the address, paste it to xterm, type Ctrl-A then 'wget' > :) I use wget too. But my solution is right-click and -> "Copy Link Loc

Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux

1999-12-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. > MK> ^^^ > MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. > MK> > MK>Now you need a proper boot (a

Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux

1999-12-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:15AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: [...] > That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of > all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to > get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.

Re: how to clone a system?

1999-12-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:15:02PM +0100, rogalsky wrote: > I have to clone a system without copying it. In other words: How can I > make a new instalation of a system using the same packages as an already > installed system? I think coping filesystem or raw partition (when disks are identical) is

Re: running two webservers on the same machine

1999-12-16 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:50:06PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > I work with Shao here and we've been asked to basically get zeus and apache > running on the same machine, both on port 80 but both binded to different ip > addresses... > > (That way we could have the functionality of both). >

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:40:54PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > I used your short list as above: > > > > # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst` > > 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 199

Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found

1999-12-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:47:16PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > > ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp > servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I > just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ > (1st relav

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:18:13PM +, David B. Wilson wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > #! /bin/sh > > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > > pbm2ppa - - | > >^ > >Why this pipe? >

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, I use lprng but maybe I help you On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems > with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with > a uid/gid that the l

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. I don't have any problem with lprng :) > > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > >

acorp 10/100Mbps PCMCIA Fast Ethernet Adapter.

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, How to configure Acorp 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card ? Mirek

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it both ways. In potato current lprng (3.6.12-1) uses daemon.lp uid/gid. Mirek

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried > lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many others use lprng for

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although > I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps"

Re: Remote printing

1999-11-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:51:35PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi bon > > Asumming your printer is hooked up to WinNT parallel port /dev/lp0 ( LPT1 ) > > > /etc/printcap >lp0|hp5si|HP LaserJet 5si:\ > :lp=:\ > :rp=lp0:\ > :rm=hp5si.your_domain.com:\ > :sd=/v

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:10:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > pbruts >An out-of-date mirror. The one I listed above is much more up-to-date > pbruts >(and is the author's actual homepage). You should especially check > pbruts >http://xanim.va.pubnix.com

Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

1999-11-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:04:42PM -0500, Daniel Ferrante wrote: > I got the disks above and I was able to install my Debian (after > a while of strugle with NT... removed it... ;) Anyway, now I am getting a > warning message from LILO saying that my hard drive is not the first > drive! >

Re: html to postscript converter

1999-11-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:55:50PM +0100, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Where can I find a html to postscript converter for slink? I can perform > the conversion by using netscape->SaveAs, but this way I have to open > and SaveAs each file, which is very tedious and embarrasing. > > Thanks in advan

Re: Can Navigator spawn other mail proggy?

1999-10-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:09:23PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:51:12PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:01:56PM -0700, > > Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > Was wonder if anyone knows if Navigator can be configured to spawn > > > another

Re: kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs

1999-10-19 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:09:13PM -0700, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > hello, > I am trying to install kernel 2.2.12. I compiled as documented in the > README of the kernel source distribution. I edited lilo.conf and exec > lilo and added. My root dev=/dev/sda3 (extend partition) boot=/dev/sda > But

Re: fetchmail

1999-10-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:53:23PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a popper that works like fetchmail but can retrieve all > mail that are destined to a domain (ie: the one that runs the popper). > > The connection would be like this: > > [Internet]---[sendmail]--[modem]--//[m

Re: chroot

1999-10-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:18:19AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > has anyone tried to use this command? I'm trying to build a > personalized distribution and need this command so set things up. I > think I need it anyways. Whenever I try to us it, I get > > chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No su

Re: Mem greater then 64MB

1999-10-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 01:03:31PM +0100, Rajesh Mittal wrote: > Hi > >I have got debian box with 96 Mb as ram . >I am using LILO to boot in linux. > > But It always show me 64 mb ram with free command. > >what is the option to be added in lilo to make it read 96 mb ram. Hi,

Re: /dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...

1999-10-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:39:23AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 10:16:37PM -0500, rich wrote: > > Howdy all, > > . > > monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt > /dev/lp0 > > bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device > > > > However, the output of 'lsmod' shows

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:09:13PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > > > > >You mean a process _named_ pdmenu is doing this, I'll bet. > > Yes > > > >I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. If > >you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. I had one proces

Re: Getting source deb files

1999-10-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:59:43AM -0400, Joe Block wrote: > Hi. > > Where do I find the source deb files for packages in potato? I'd like to > install They are on all debian mirros :) > postfix on a slink system, but it wants me to upgrade glibc which I'd rather > not > do. I'm

Re: Serial conn. to WIN (success with slip!):next steps

1999-10-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 05:54:43PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hello!!! > > Forget about all recent mails from me: I have succeeded now making a slip > connection!!! Yes, I only had no getty running for the ttyS1 port, and now > all seems fine. I'm using diplogini over the windows dialup ter

Re: xinetd problems

1999-09-28 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:18:23PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > > I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), > > Use `id' tag - different in any service definition > > Well, the problem is that the id number is the port from /etc/services, and > there is only one id per

Re: xinetd problems

1999-09-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:32:27AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using xinetd because it can bind services to certain network interfaces. > BUT, I'm not able to get it to bind *one* service to *two* interfaces (out > of three). How do I do that? > > I can't specify the service twice

watchdog problem

1999-09-24 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, Today watchdog restarted my machine: Sep 24 09:02:16 xxx watchdog[911]: test binary returned 247 Sep 24 09:02:25 xxx watchdog[911]: shutting down the system because of error 247 [...] Sep 24 09:06:14 xxx watchdog[308]: starting daemon (4.5): int=10s realtime=no sync=no soft=no mla=25 ping=non

Re: apt-get / overwriting common files

1999-09-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this > kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpac

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > I just tried (as root) the three fdisk examples (-l is lowercase > L) given above. Only the last one worked: "fdisk -l /dev/hda". > The -u does nothing at all. Does anybody else see this behavior, > or has my fdisk been lobot

Re: sendfax say "gs: command not found"

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:46:16PM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi, all > > Can anyone tell me in what package there is "gs" program ? > Hi, gs is provided by gs (free) or gs-aladdin (non-free) packages. Mirek

apt-get dselect-upgrade

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, on one of my debian (potato) machines I have: $ apt-get dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Segmentation fault (core dumped) apt-get upgrade works ok. How to cure/diagnose it. My versions: ii apt 0.3.12 Advanced front-end for d

Re: Error when building custom kernel

1999-09-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:04:40AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When > I get to the "make-kpkg" part, everything works fine until I get this error: > > make[2]: as86: Command not found > make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127

Re: mc not working (?) now smb.conf failure

1999-09-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:52:50AM +, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Hi, > > i just entered the debian-user mailing list, and wanted to ask for that. > Thanks! > But now i get the funny message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/reimann > mc > params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/e

Re: mc not working (?)

1999-09-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:13:08AM +0200, Jens Carsten Hansen wrote: > Hi, I use mc frequently ( also to edit textfiles, I'm not a vi guy ), but > recently it stopped working. > when I try to start it, the machine hangs for a few seconds, there is a lot of > harddisk activity, then it exits with; >

Re: printer whoohs with LPRng

1999-09-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 03:32:01PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > When I try to print something with my linux box, I get nothing. > I am using LPRng. I also successfully configured my printer port. > > $ echo "Hello World" > /dev/lp0 > > will print hello world. I have to manually form feed th

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > mario mentioned, > > > > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using > > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. > > In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem

Re: Using apt with downloaded files

1999-09-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:45:40PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a Zip > disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set up > apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with > setting up t

Re: Sharing package caches

1999-09-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a couple machine here that I want to have share their lists of > available packages and downloaded package binaries. To this end, I've had > one of them share its /var/cache/apt directory and NFS mounted it on the > other.

Re: problem installing dnsutils

1999-09-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:10:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I tried to install the dnsutils package (using apt-get on potato) and I got > this: > > Unpacking replacement dnsutils ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a8.2.1-5_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:56:40AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Yes, > > I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel > with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf > to insert the modules > > parport > and > parport_pc > > If I do an ls

Re: xauth

1999-09-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Seth R Arnold said: > > > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No > > > change. > > > > If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your displ

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
aOn Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:18:35PM -, Ari Sigur?sson wrote: > if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then > perhaps a restart of samba is enough? > try > > /etc/init.d/samba > Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} > No, this is wrong. smbmount don't need samba install

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:04:21PM +0200, Andreas Piesk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > on Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ernest Johanson wrote: > > I just upgraded a potato system to 2.2.12 due to the 2.2.11 memory leak. > > The release notes say that the .12 kernel won't compile with gcc 2.95

Re: Print error after lprng update (potato)

1999-09-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:02:16PM -0300, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > I had my potato system working smoothly until yesterday when I updated the > system with apt. After that I haven't been able to print. The lpr command > displays the following message: > >Status Information: > > sending

Re: ipconfig eth0:1 down doesnt do what i think it would

1999-08-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:56:56PM +1000, meridian wrote: > > Hi, > i have added eth0:1 with the ip of my static ip assigned by my isp, which > is only supposed to be up on the local network when my connection to my > isp goes down. however when my connection comes back up i get ip-up to run > >

Re: Weird swap growth

1999-08-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 05:47:48PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is > > 64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk. > > That should be plenty for 'norm

Re: Netscape crashing problem possible solve

1999-08-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:40:58AM +0200, Geordy Korte wrote: > Hi, > > After looking a couple of weeks at the threads here in the list about > netscape 4.61 crashing with potato I have come up with a solve that > actualy works. > > Instead of installing the libc6 version which crashes constantly

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