Re: HowTo?: Log Everything -> file

1998-02-17 Thread mwb
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > What's the trick to getting into a file all the contents of a console session, > i.e. commands, and the output of commands, into a log file for that session? script Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 16 Feb 98 at 16:31, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > The PII says 39 Mflop/s. >I was kinda hoping something near 80 Mflop/s for the PII I'm not surprised. Everything I've read indicates the x86 series is running out room for improvements. Your findings are another confirmation. Richard B. Tall

Re: HowTo?: Log Everything -> file

1998-02-17 Thread john
Bob Bernstein writes: > What's the trick to getting into a file all the contents of a console > session, i.e. commands, and the output of commands, into a log file for > that session? That is exactly what 'script' is for. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Keith Beattie
George Bonser wrote: > > > You are, of course correct, but we should give them some idea of how > many of their subscribers they have offended ;) Yea, I see what you mean but I'm a little concerned that Linux, and to a larger extent free software, will be damaged by people taking a "religious" a

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and > newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I > want Linux specific answers. > > Ten days ago a professor here bought a Pentium II/233 system. H

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
I know I'm not playing fair comparing the systems this way (different kernels, memory, chipset, ...) but I was hoping somebody could give better statistics on this. Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. -- TO UNSUB

Re: Hello

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Ben Pfaff wrote in response to someone else who wrote: >I would like to know how debian handles in a machine with two pentiums. = >Are two cpus quicker then one in any situation. I mean does every = >program run quicker. > > Generally any particular process will only run on

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Tim Bell wrote: > First, a meta-question: is this the right list to be asking > hamm-specific questions, or is there a developers list which is > preferred for such things? AFAIK this is the right list. > > Now, the problem: > > $ date > Mon Feb 16 23:26:53 /etc/localtime

Re[2]: HowTo?: Log Everything -> file

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the script(1) command. Wow! Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this one. (Wish they were all this easy...naw, that would be pretty boring, huh?) Cheers, - Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
>I know I'm not playing fair comparing the systems this way (different >kernels, memory, chipset, ...) but I was hoping somebody could give better >statistics on this. > > Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it > on my PII/233 for comparison if you want.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 16-Feb-1998, Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and > newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I > want Linux specific answers. > > Ten days ago a professor here bought a

network problem

1998-02-17 Thread S Lim
Hi, I am building my first linux box on a 486, 3Com Card (3c509) on ISA, ethernet. I set the io address to 0x300. In my first installation, the network worked allright. I could ping, telnet, etc. I shut the system down and switch it off. When I switched the system on the next morning, the networki

Processors

1998-02-17 Thread Charles
Hello all, I have a question that isnt entirely debian specific, I hope this doesn't irritate anyone. I have recently been quoted a price of $1100 for a dual PPro333 with motherboard, using DIMM's (SDRAM). My questions are: 1) Is it beneficial for me to purchase this for the LAN that I am in

about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

1998-02-17 Thread John Spence
While trying to decide on the most logical place to start my IP-Masquerading rules, I checked the faq for wisdom. Placing a script in /etc/init.d and then working out what numeric argument to pass to update-rc.d seemed to be the best bet. Answer 11.3 states that scripts in "/etc/init.d all take a

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

1998-02-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical > USR Couriers AFIAK, and their configuration *appears* to be the same. > But one port always shows connect speed in wtmp, and the others do not: Are you sure that they

Re: Re[2]: HowTo?: Log Everything -> file

1998-02-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try the script(1) command. > > Wow! Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this one. (Wish they were all this > easy...naw, that would be pretty boring, huh?) The command "apropos " can help you

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Corey Miller
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Brian Mays wrote: > A good way to do this is to use the kernel-source and kernel-package > packages. After installing both packages, do the following (as root): > > [detailed compilation instructions snipped] Please excuse my newbie-ness to the Debian world, but I w

Re: Diff window managers for diff users

1998-02-17 Thread Jan Weytjens
-Original Message- From: Jan Weytjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Krzysztof Adamski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Diff window managers for diff users >If you use startx, it

Re: How do you patch a debian package?

1998-02-17 Thread Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I downloaded the debian package for message handler email system. Turns > out it doesn't view the digest list formats correctly. On checking the > net, I found under mh's homepage, there's a patch. I'm a newbie and have > very little C expertise, how do I patch the debian package ? > > Any he

Re: modconf needs whiptail under hamm

1998-02-17 Thread Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Go to a site that mirrors debian-incoming such as ftp.du.debian.org and > get the newt and whiptail that you find there. You must mean ftp.de.debian.org > Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA3ABA Linux hamradio software map: http://huizen.dds.nl/~pa3aba ( === Still under construction =

Clueless newbie in need - PPP problems

1998-02-17 Thread Stuart Smith
Hi. I'm realy stuck here. I have managed to get the PPP set up (barely) and connect to my internet account. I can not, however DO anything. When I try to use ftp, dpkg-ftp, telnet, ect., I get an error reading 'ftp : : Hostname lookup failure'. The send data light and recieve data light on my mod

How to setup Linux Network

1998-02-17 Thread Dai Jian Jun
>Hi, >I am a newer of Linux , I have already download the > base-1.bin base-2.bin base-3.bin base-4.bin base-5.bin > resc1440.bin drv1440.bin >and install the them on a compaq 4/66 , >I configed the network about ip address , gateway and ethernet >network card etc , and then install t

Re: libc6 <-> libc5

1998-02-17 Thread Selim Issever
OK,.. a somewhat older question,.. but a new problem arised,.. I now need the g++ compiler as I am writing OO-code. I didnt find a altg++ package,.. or is it possible to provide libpaths to gcc so that it compiles C++ code,.. (I am just very bad in compilers and linkers). Thanks in advance again!

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 11:29:59PM +, Tim Bell wrote: > First, a meta-question: is this the right list to be asking > hamm-specific questions, or is there a developers list which is > preferred for such things? > > Now, the problem: > > $ date > Mon Feb 16 23:26:53 /etc/localtime 1998 > $ dpk

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Marcus Brinkmann: > Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are Who mentioned fixed size files? > and why ls shows the wrong information? Ls shows the right information, but some people interpret it in the wrong way :) Has already been discussed in thi

Re: libc6 <-> libc5

1998-02-17 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Selim Issever wrote: > I now need the g++ compiler as I am writing OO-code. I didnt find a altg++ > package,.. or is it possible to provide libpaths to gcc so that it > compiles C++ code,.. (I am just very bad in compilers and linkers). There is no separat

Re: Debian people taking care of spam

1998-02-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Since last week we're also reacting on spam and reporting abuse > to the abusing party, their provider. For two days Igor Grobman > has taken over the job as Anti-Spam Manager. He also informs > abuse.net about spam and relaying. Igor, can you send m

Re: mounting /tmp

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > I'm trying to mount a filesystem (ext2) as /tmp, and am experiencing > what I assume to be problems with the permissions. For example, when I > type "man bash" (as a normal user) I get the message: > > bash: can't create a temporary filename: No suc

smbfs

1998-02-17 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, I'm having trouble with smbfs etc when I try to use smbmount to mount a win95 drive, I get the following errors: $ smbmount //[service]/c /mnt -n smb_get_length: Invalid NBT packet smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL mo

Linux on acer [misdirected mail]

1998-02-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, s/o please answer this guy. Regards, Joey -Forwarded message from Eckstein Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- >From (liceul teoretic (Ady Endre) elmeleti liceum), Bucharest. We are using Acer-Debian Linux (given as only official software distribution for to be used in the school)

Re: Mail setup and configuration

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
RUSSELL COOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I have mail in /var/spool/mail/ . The system tells me > it's there, but when I type 'mail' or 'mailx', it gives me the > headers, but when I then type p to print the message, it tells me > the messages are saved. `mail' is not exactly user-friendl

Re: about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

1998-02-17 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, John Spence wrote: > While trying to decide on the most logical place to start my > IP-Masquerading rules, I checked the faq for wisdom. > > Placing a script in /etc/init.d and then working out what numeric argument > to pass to update-rc.d seemed to be the best bet. > > Ans

Re: Clueless newbie in need - PPP problems

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
Stuart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I'm realy stuck here. I have managed to get the PPP set up > (barely) and connect to my internet account. I can not, however DO > anything. When I try to use ftp, dpkg-ftp, telnet, ect., I get an > error reading 'ftp : : Hostname lookup failure'. Se

Installing UMSDOS

1998-02-17 Thread Bujtar Janos
HEllo ! Can anybody tell me an URL or any other docu. when i can find more information how to install UMSDOS on DOS partition? thnx ! james -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
All this talk of flops has left me wondering is there any similar benchmarking (better still comparative info) for the SGI's? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

help! /dev/ttyp* permissions & group

1998-02-17 Thread oexel
hi everybody, I've posted this question to comp.os.linux.misc some weeks ago and got no responses at all! please see if you can help me; I'm running Debian 1.3 (bo) with 2.0.29 kernel; if someone logs in via telnet and then logs out the /dev/ttyp* used is left with different permissions; in the f

Re: smbfs

1998-02-17 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc when I try to use smbmount to mount : a win95 drive, I get the following errors: : : $ smbmount //[service]/c /mnt -n : smb_get_length: Invalid NBT packet : smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL : smb

HP Colorado 5GB IDE

1998-02-17 Thread IAN WATKINS
Can anyone enlighten me as to how to use a HP Colorado 5GB Internal IDE tape drive under Linux? I have had a look at various packages that come with Debian, but so far I haven't been able to work out how to get it to work. If there's a HOWTO somewhere then I'd be happy to be pointed in the ri

dpkg --help | less

1998-02-17 Thread IAN WATKINS
On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into the picture at all. To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all the help came out in the file. Is this correct behaviour or am I miss

Re: Installing UMSDOS

1998-02-17 Thread Sen Nagata
i believe there is a UMSDOS howto at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html i found this to be pretty helpful when installing umsdos for my machine. -sen at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:37:21 +0100 Bujtar Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > HEllo ! > > Can anybody t

Re: libc6 <-> libc5

1998-02-17 Thread Selim Issever
First off: thanks for the __fast__ reply! 2nd: it works :) -> great! 3rd: I explicitly need to tell him the include path: -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/g++/ I would have expected it be automatic,.. *shrug* anyway,.. ThanX to all linux/debian/package developers/maintainers/newgroup and mailin

freedos

1998-02-17 Thread pai
-- Forwarded message -- I am a Linux fanatic living in India. I currently use Slackware 3.3. I wish to keep my system Microsoft-free. I have the follwing problem. (1) It is almost impossible to get non pnp ethernet cards, modems etc in India. (2) Further these cards are us

permedia2 graphics chip

1998-02-17 Thread Shaya Potter
[cc: me as I'm not subscribed to this list] My father is planning on buying a new computer, and I'm trying to find a card that offers very good speed under Windows for both 2D (for him) and 3D rendering (games for me) and works in X under linux (Doesn't matter if it supports 3D, though accleration

Re: freedos

1998-02-17 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a Linux fanatic living in India. > > I currently use Slackware 3.3. > > I wish to keep my system Microsoft-free. I have the follwing problem. > > (1) It is almost impossible to get non pnp ethernet cards, modems etc in > India. > (2) Further these card

Questions...

1998-02-17 Thread Joakim Burman
Hi Debian users, Some "Newbie" questions... Is... Debian 1.3=stable=bo? Is... Debian 1.3.x=unstable=hamm? Can I run unstable packages on a bo-kernel? Can I run stable packages on a hamm-kernel? (e.g backward-compatible) Thanks... /Joakim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: freedos

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Clark
Have you tried using isapnptools to configure your pnp cards under Linux yet? It actually works quite well in most cases. Although you should consider switching to Debian, the tool is available via ftp. See the FAQ at: http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/isapnpfaq.html >From the Debia

Re: Questions...

1998-02-17 Thread dpk
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Joakim Burman wrote: > Hi Debian users, > > Some "Newbie" questions... > > Is... Debian 1.3=stable=bo? > Is... Debian 1.3.x=unstable=hamm? > Can I run unstable packages on a bo-kernel? Debian 1.3/1.3.X=stable=bo=libc5 release Debian 2.0=unstable=hamm=libc6(gnulibc2) releas

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I've just send a comment to Jesse Berst, the author of the whole mess, so I think, that it makes sens to send a Cc to debian-users. === "I've chosen Linux and I'm not afraid about my, and its future" I'm working

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi all! > > I've just send a comment to Jesse Berst, the author of the whole mess, so > I think, that it makes sens to send a Cc to debian-users. > === [snip] Hi, It seem

Re: network problem

1998-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, S Lim wrote: > I am building my first linux box on a 486, 3Com Card (3c509) on ISA, > ethernet. I set the io address to 0x300. In my first installation, the > network worked allright. I could ping, telnet, etc. I shut the system down > and switch it off. When I switched the sy

Re: about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

1998-02-17 Thread John Spence
> > Would the IP-Masq rules be best started from /etc/ppp/ip-up ? > > I use a script in /etc/rc.boot which is run automatically on boot. > I guess ip-up would do, but I think it's better to set all that sort of > stuff up on boot up. > I think there is a default "setserial" one that you could loo

Re: permedia2 graphics chip

1998-02-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
My father is planning on buying a new computer, and I'm trying to find a card that offers very good speed under Windows for both 2D (for him) and 3D rendering (games for me) and works in X under linux (Doesn't matter if it supports 3D, though accleration would be nice). I seem to be le

Ping timeout on Linux <---> Win 95

1998-02-17 Thread nimennor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have recently setup a home network between Linux, and Windows 95. I'm able to ping, telnet, and after setting up Samba and Ip-Masq, use the Linux's printer, and surf the inet, but the problem is: after about 5-10 minutes, it `ping` o

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > Yea, I see what you mean but I'm a little concerned that Linux, and to > a larger extent free software, will be damaged by people taking a > "religious" attitude towards their software and not tolerating any > criticism. I'm not accusing you (or anyone)

Re: help me buy a cheap sound card

1998-02-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>I wish to buy a cheap sound card, just to be able to put some sound in >my system, but all that I tried failed... > >Can someone point me a cheap one that (certainly) works under Linux? I spent $9.95 on one when I ordered something else. Not a package deal, I just wasn't willing to

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen Gregory
SGI workstations aren't that fast cpu wise. Where they run circles around other computers is due to SGI's fantastic graphics and rendering. This dosen't mean that they are slow. I was useing an SGI INDY2 with 180Mhz(hmm, that seems to fast) R5000 mips processor to crack RC5 under the Bovine project

Re: about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

1998-02-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 00:36 +1030 1998-02-18, John Spence wrote: >Using "defaults" was supposed to add symlinks for runlevels 2 to 5 but the >output of the command was the following which seems to indicate that it >did more than that. I assume that each of the following directories is >for a specific runlevel: > > Ad

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-17 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to Marcus Brinkmann: > > Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are > > Who mentioned fixed size files? I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I think that I should explain

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Colin R. Telmer: > I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I > think that I should explain. Warning, I did not completely grasp your > explanation but I think I got the jist of it (this will show in the > wording I use). lastlog is an ordered file that saves

Re: about the FAQ and /etc/init.d

1998-02-17 Thread John Spence
> > Adding system startup links pointing to /etc/init.d/jmasq ... > > rc2.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq > > rc3.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq > > rc4.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq > > rc5.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq > > rc0.d/K19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq > > rc1.d/K19jmasq -> ../init.d

Re: afterstep config file in /tmp

1998-02-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 13 Feb 1998, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what causes the steprc not to be deleted > for some users? I suspect something in the personal setup files (this is > a student lab, and once somebody gets a nice looking setup it tends to > be copied around), but since I am n

RE: usr mounted on md device

1998-02-17 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Great suggestion - but lsof complains my booted kernel doesn't match the System.map file. I recompiled the kernel and it updated the System.map file and lsof still complains. Thanks, Pat -- From: Jens Ritter Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 6:03 PM To: Patrick Ouellette Cc:

IP Masquerading

1998-02-17 Thread fealvar
Hi, i could not get IP Masquerading work. I got two linux machines in a network with more machines. I've set up one machine as a Firewall for masquerading the other one but it seems that only one packet passes through the firewall. In the firewall i've done #ipfwadm -F -p deny #ipfwadm -F -a m

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it > on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. and Alex Yukhimets: > Same here, only with PII/300. You can find the source code here: http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/~mmagallo/flops_p.c This is e

Re: Fatal Server error

1998-02-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, K.Y.Lo wrote: : Hi : : I have a problem with X-windows setup. : : Fatal Server error: : Cannot open mouse (I/O error) : : Help me! : : I have MS mouse (serial port). Should I use insmod to set mouse on? Did you configure X correctly? And does the device for you

Re: hamm timezones problem

1998-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Tim Bell wrote: > > > First, a meta-question: is this the right list to be asking > > hamm-specific questions, or is there a developers list which is > > preferred for such things? > > AFAIK this is the right list. > > > > > N

Re: How to setup Linux Network

1998-02-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dai Jian Jun wrote: : >I am a newer of Linux , I have already download the : > base-1.bin base-2.bin base-3.bin base-4.bin base-5.bin : > resc1440.bin drv1440.bin : >and install the them on a compaq 4/66 , : >I configed the network about ip address , gateway an

Re: IP Masquerading

1998-02-17 Thread Steve Mayer
I may be wrong here, but with your source mask set at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32, the only packets that will make it through are broadcast packets. What happens if you change the source address to xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24. Someone enlighten me if I've foobar'd this. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Mdutils boot problem

1998-02-17 Thread Norris Preyer
Hi all, I seem to have a mis-configured mdutils package (version 0.35-14 running on an up-to-date hamm system) and hope someone can help. I have a single entry in /etc/mdtab created by mdcreate: /dev/md0 linear,4k,0,8fd9453a /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdc3 /dev/hdc5 /dev/hdc6 and an

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread aqy6633
> On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it > > on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. > > and Alex Yukhimets: > > > Same here, only with PII/300. > > You can find the source code here: > >http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/~mmaga

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 17 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it >> on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. > > and Alex Yukhimets: > >> Same here, only with PII/300. > > You can find the source code here: > >

Mail config problems

1998-02-17 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks to all who replied to my problems using mail and mailx. They still don't work for me, even though I can read my spool file. Mail lists my headers, but when I press enter to read the message, it exits and tells me that the messages remain on the spool. It won't show them to me. Could this

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 17-Feb-1998, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to raise a chuckle and let you see how much ignorance is out there, > this was posted by someone calling themselves, I believe, a unix sys > admin, in the "dos" Onenet conference (FirstClass conf system) last September > > : Linux

how can I change priority of focused/non-focused windows?

1998-02-17 Thread David Stern
Hi, I've noticed that most http and ftp clients will have decreased download rates when their window loses focus. There doesn't need to be any other modem usage, or even a resource intensive app in focus for this to occur. I've tried `renice', but this doesn't noticeably change the behavior I

Re: Mdutils boot problem

1998-02-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 08:17:19AM -0800, Norris Preyer wrote: > I seem to have a mis-configured mdutils package (version 0.35-14 > running on an up-to-date hamm system) and hope someone can help. Oups, sorry, two days ago I noticed that the S25mdutils.sh was not removed by removing mdutils.

Re: kernel + SB 16 PnP

1998-02-17 Thread Jutta Wrage
Hello Lothar! Maybe your problem 1. comes from the SB. I hat the same problem. And ther was no way to boot any kernel I had on floppy or harddisk. As I have DOS on the same machine, I configured the soundcard under DOS to the parameters of th old card, so that it didn't conflict with the othe

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Advantages of using make-kpkg -- -- - - I have been asked several times about the advantages of using the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux way of hand compiling kernels, and I have come up with this list. This

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Andy Kahn
"Marcelo E. Magallon" wrote: -> -> On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: -> -> > Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it -> > on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. -> -> and Alex Yukhimets: -> -> > Same here, only with PII/300. -> -> You can find the source code her

Printer

1998-02-17 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I just 'inherited' an IBM Laserprinter E. I have no manual for it and tried to find out about it on the IBM web site to no avail. Does anyone know what GS settings I would use to drive this printer? I would love to set it up so I can share it with my systems here. Thank

Man does not display tables

1998-02-17 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
I installed Debian 1.3.1 from the Official CD. I installed the packages that dselect suggests. I found that the man program don't understand some tags. For example in the /usr/man/man4/console_codes.4.gz file I see the following that is supposed to be a table: .SS "ESC- but not CSI-sequences" .TS

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread wingman
On 17 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Advantages of using make-kpkg > -- -- - - > > I have been asked several times about the advantages of using > the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux way of hand > compiling

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All very good points except alot of people including myself prefer > compiling their own kernels for various reasons. But at the same time run > into packages that "require" the debian package version even though you > have same or newer self compiled kernel installed.

Mounting MS-DOS filesystems

1998-02-17 Thread Gregory B . Dickinson
I am running 1.3.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5120. I have 2 hard drives, pri master is 1.2gb, pri slave is 630mb. The primary master is Linux 100%, except for a Boot Manager Partition. The second drive is DOS 6.22, 1 big partition. Whenever I attempt to mount the secondary drive under Linux (

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks for the info JOn On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Stephen Gregory wrote: > SGI workstations aren't that fast cpu wise. Where they run circles > around other computers is due to SGI's fantastic graphics and > rendering. This dosen't mean that they are slow. I was useing an SGI > INDY2 with 180M

Re: Questions...

1998-02-17 Thread Shaleh
Joakim Burman wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > > Some "Newbie" questions... > > Is... Debian 1.3=stable=bo? 1.3.x is stable (codename is bo) > Is... Debian 1.3.x=unstable=hamm? 2.0.x is unstable (means changing not buggy). It is codenamed hamm > Can I run unstable packages on a bo-kernel? > Ca

Problems installing Debian from 1.3.1 CDROM

1998-02-17 Thread Jonas
I'm trying to install debian from the Official 1.3.1 distribution, unfortunately the setup routines cannot mount my cdrom. The CDROM is detected (as /dev/hdd) but when it comes to mount the CDROM to install Debian, I get the following message: Bad logical zone size 1 mount: wrong fs type, bad opt

PGP Issues

1998-02-17 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
I've just installed the pgp-us package, and tried to run the key generation portion of the program. It accepts my input, pass phrase, etc., but fails as follows after calculating the key indicating that it failed while attempting to write the key file to my home directory. Has anyone else had thi

Re: More BASH questions

1998-02-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Fulgham, Brent/SCO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate "screen dumps" of > bash sessions? > > For example, let's say I have a test-mode application that asks for > some input and then outputs something in response. Is there a way > to have this whole

Re: PGP Issues

1998-02-17 Thread Shaleh
You caught me before I could talk to the maintainer. Create a ~/.pgp dir. It will work from there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PGP Issues

1998-02-17 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 12:44:28PM -0700, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I've just installed the pgp-us package, and tried to run the key > generation portion of the program. It accepts my input, pass phrase, > etc., but fails as follows after calculating the key indicating that it > failed while att

Dselect problems on a new FTP installtion.

1998-02-17 Thread Mohamed Ishan
Hi, I just upgraded my redhat to debian 1.3.1, but for some odd reason (is this cause of a package I've installed?) I seem to get the following error when I tried to run dselect again (for ftp installation). *** Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/li

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Rob Browning
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not to mention that I personally run devel kernels for various > reasons. Huh? I'm running make-kpkg compiled versions of the 2.1.79 and 2.1.87 built from the source I downloaded from ftp.kernel.org the other day. What's your point? And when I discovered the chown

Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Tom King
I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several disks? Than

The Ideal Linux Machine

1998-02-17 Thread Adam Greene
I work for a company that assembles computers and I am interested in putting together computers that will come preloaded with Linux, and I am wondering what people would consider necessary for a good Linux Box, and then we will start offering Linux-Ready Units. (If my boss okays the concept :-) -

Re: dpkg --help | less

1998-02-17 Thread Igor Grobman
> On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote: IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into IW> the picture at all. To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all t

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is > there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several > di

Two-monitors

1998-02-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have two video cards installed on my machine. I also have 2 monitors I'd like to have running. However I have not yet figured out how to get the system using the second video card. So far the only place I see any trace of the second one is in /proc/pci where it is listed as a PCI device. To p

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread T-SNAKE
> > there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across > > several disks? Thanks. My meegar advise might be try to uuencode it and slip it into two files then zip each, put it on the dos partion (assuming you have one) and uudecode. Achaic, but it should work ;) Of course, then you'd

Re: mounting /tmp

1998-02-17 Thread Greg Norris
I tried that, and it did the trick. Thanx! I had assumed (obviously incorrectly) that the permissions on whatever directory it was being mounted to determined that. On 17 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > > > I'm trying to mount a filesystem (ext2) as /t

help me understand timezones

1998-02-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the first boot), and I had no time to dig into this, untill finally I just changed the BIOS c

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