Re: Wanted !!! : elf-x11r6lib de@d or @live :)

1998-04-15 Thread Paul Miller
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 10:35:52PM +0200, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > to install Tkrat, I need something called elf-x11r6lib, i've looked all > > around debian ftp site and don't found it :,( > > > > If someone know where can i get i

Re: procmail question

1998-04-15 Thread Art Lemasters
> Hi all there! > I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I have big > mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can anybody tell me > how? Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info (better yet) pages. They are some of the better-writt

Viewing pdf files

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I want to view a pdf file, so I used xpdf but got the following: $ xpdf cgtntk.pdf xpdf version 0.6 Copyright 1996 Derek B. Noonburg Error: PDF file is encrypted and cannot be displayed Error: * Decryption support is currently not included in xpdf

Re: Viewing pdf files

1998-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Phillips wrote: > I want to view a pdf file, so I used xpdf but got the following: > $ xpdf cgtntk.pdf > xpdf version 0.6 > Copyright 1996 Derek B. Noonburg > Error: PDF file is encrypted and cannot be displayed > Error: * Decryption support is currently not inc

How can I add the 3rd ethernet card ?

1998-04-15 Thread Stellar R'espree
Hi, I use a PC linux machine with 2 ethernet cards. (one for eth0, the other for eth1). And now, I want to add third ethernet card. It is recognized as eht2 at my machine, but when I tried to following command, /sbin/ifconfig eth2 123.123.123.123 broadcast 123.123.123.255 netmask 255.255.255

Re: procmail question

1998-04-15 Thread Carl Mummert
Art Lemasters wrote: > Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info (better yet) > pages. They are some of the better-written documents I've seen! Oh... > and read the /usr/doc/procmail directory (.gz files with the "zless" > command) first! The examples in the procmailex page sho

Re: ppp Questions.

1998-04-15 Thread Petra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hi, > > > > I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to > > work, VS, my old one

Assistance

1998-04-15 Thread Joel C. Rando
On behalf of Stephen J. Carpenter: I have not gotten an e-mail off of my server since the computer went down Thursday 4/9/98, so I would appreciate replies directed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My computer went down Thursday due to hardware related problems. I replaced the Motherboard and am sti

Dselect fails?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
Hm... sorry for bothering everyone with my feeble questions... but after installing Debian 2.0... i try running dselect, and everytime I try to get files, it say "file does not exist" blah blah blah... I updated my "database" across the ftp.debian.org with the "hamm contrib non-free". Is

Re: Dselect fails?

1998-04-15 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > after installing Debian 2.0... i try running dselect, and everytime I try to > get > files, it say "file does not exist" blah blah blah... I updated my "database" > across the ftp.debian.org with the "hamm contrib non-free". Is this wrong? > Any Did

Re: Dselect fails?

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Hm... sorry for bothering everyone with my feeble questions... but > after installing Debian 2.0... i try running dselect, and everytime I try to > get > files, it say "file does not exist" blah blah blah... I updated my "database" > across the ft

Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
Okay... this is getting semi-annoying, I do not know why my clock automagically changes back about 4 hours behind.. maybe 5. My local clock is fine, it worked fine in Debian 1.3R6, but after installing Debian 2.0 (upgrading), it changed into some odd time. I think it has something to do w

Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system. > > I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all > > of my out-of-date packages. Las

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if > hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a RAID0 (stripping) > installation. Also I would like to know if the menu for installation has > RAID0 confi

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #157

1998-04-15 Thread Pascal MIQUET
Hello cam, How lucky you are, because, I've got a PS/2 a 8580 model 386 processor, with SCSI controller, no ESDI, and I'm unable to install the CDRom :( what kind of configuration are you using ? > > Subject: Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11 > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:41:49 -0500 > From: "Cam Ve

Re: SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Ciciretti
I found what Marcus was talking about at Mega Haus http://www.megahaus.com Here is the description of it: Part of the DataPort Removable Bracket Family. DataPort IDE removable hard drive kit. Complete kit includes 3.5" IDE plastic cartridge and a metal IDE receiving frame. Receiving frame mount

New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up with: # lilo Added linux * Added dos ide: probable bad entry for /dev/

Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Chris
Hi, I am currently running a debian bo system, and I am considering upgrading (or more to the point - re-installing) to a hamm system. I am, however, conserned about stablility... Does anyone know of any major problems with a hamm system? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations

1998-04-15 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I have a large netscape bookmark file of several hundred bookmarks. > Manipulating these has become a pain. Whenever I edit bookmarks---in either > Netscape 4.03 or a Mozilla package from a couple weeks ago---and try to > change > to sort by

Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Phillips
I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave IDE pair, only on

RE: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
> Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > fine. There are none of the problems that Red Hat has been having with > its 5.0 release. I'd like more info about kernel 2.0.33. We have a linux box running 2.0.33 and nearly all packets from hamm, and I afraid... -- To

RE: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Erik A Nelson
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: > > Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > > fine. There are none of the problems that Red Hat has been having with > > its 5.0 release. > > I'd like more info about kernel 2.0.33. We have a linux box running 2.0.

Re: Viewing pdf files

1998-04-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Mark! This not answer your question, but... Did you tried with gv, it's also a gs frontend but much nicer and _useful_ regards, Ulisses - - "Compu

Re: Viewing pdf files

1998-04-15 Thread Mark Phillips
> This not answer your question, but... > > Did you tried with gv, it's also a gs frontend but much nicer and _useful_ Yes I did try, but it didn't work. Cheers, Mark. __ _\/___\__/___M

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Remco! On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if > > hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a

Re: ppp Questions.

1998-04-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Petra wrote: > I knew about the IP stuff what I was wondering was wether or not this > stuff: Apr 13 19:23:00 petra pppd[11431]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 > magic=0x7df7] was healthy It's normal. These are packages that the ppp demons on both sides send whe

equal interrupts

1998-04-15 Thread Bernd Kummer
hi everybody, i have a problem with my pci-bios : it assigns the same interrupt on two different devices (SCSI and USB) as you can see in the attachment. i would not really care about it if i had no problems with recording cd's. my question is if this is normal or an error of the bios ?? Very mu

cdrecord

1998-04-15 Thread Bernd Kummer
hi, does anybody know if there is another cd recording program for linux than cdrecord ??? bye bye !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp Questions.

1998-04-15 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Petra wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I installed pppconfig,

THANKS: Re: How much HD is necessary to mirror Debian x86?

1998-04-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! Thanks to Nathan and Santiago! On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > : > : Hi all! > : > : I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribut

visual-tcl

1998-04-15 Thread Bernd Kummer
hello, i wrote a little tcl-program with visual-tcl. now i want a message to appear when a ping fails to another computer. e.g :if expr `ping earth|pingOk` \<> 1 then (set a variable or do something like that) fi pingOk is a little filter-prog that checks if the Ping-Stri

Re: equal interrupts

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> hi everybody, >> >> i have a problem with my pci-bios : it assigns the same interrupt on two >> different devices (SCSI and USB) as you can see in the attachment. >> >> i would not really care about it if i had no problems with recording >> cd's. my question is if this is normal or an error of

loadlin

1998-04-15 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
hye, I'm regarding using loadlin to boot linux from dos. I have got a computer at work with dos/win3.11 installed on it. I am not allowed to format or partition harddisk. I want to run debian on it. The computer has 16 Mb RAM, I won't use swap memory (I know, it's a shame!!!) Can I install all o

Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carroll Kong wrote: > Okay... this is getting semi-annoying, I do not know why my clock >automagically changes back about 4 hours behind.. maybe 5. My local clock i >s >fine, it worked fine in Debian 1.3R6, but after installing Debian 2.0 >(upgrading), it changed into some odd ti

why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Chris de Weth
Hi! I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red Hat linux? To me it seems that they have a far greater community to support others questions. I'm thinking of going to use Linux at work, so security is quite important. From a friend I just got this list address, and I do

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: > > > Hi, > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). > I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to > boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up > with: > > # lilo > Added linux

Re: Debian "2.0"

1998-04-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > [...] > Although it still says Debian 1.3 on the outside...once again, no big > deal to fix. /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, right? Yes, but these files are "conffiles". dpkg should have asked you about keeping them

Re: procmail question

1998-04-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Vaclav Hula wrote: > I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I > have big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can > anybody tell me how? What you need is probably: cat mbox | formail -s procm

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Ian Stuart
Chris de Weth wrote: > > Hi! > > I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red > Hat linux? As a newbie to this arena, my impression is that RedHat has a better public profile. As we all know, public profiles & reality often differ... > I'm thinking of going to use Linu

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red > > Hat linux? > As a newbie to this arena, my impression is that RedHat has a better > public profile. > > As we all know, public profiles & reality often differ... > [snip] > Red

Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?

1998-04-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 05:46:07AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: (...) > > > > Your install is broken by buggy grep 2.1-6. > > I got the same result but I upgrade a copy of my system :) > > Get grep 2.1-7 and maybe reinstall all packages by hand (whith: dpkg -i). > > No, these are two different p

Re: installation

1998-04-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Peter Luongo wrote: > i am trying to install Debian 1.3 and am not getting very far. instead > of loading and decompressing linux first, the rescue disk is trying to > load root.bin, and failing each time. it then just tells me that the > boot failed and to insert a new di

Mirror

1998-04-15 Thread John Boggon
How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | slink/non-free directories ? If I add the lines exclude_patt+|contrib/ exlude_patt+|non-free/ to my mirror script it will not retrieve any of the contrib directories.

A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Chris
Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable? Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive, however it seems alot of old packages are missing (ie. pine, etc). Will these be included when it goes stable? Another thing - is there any plans for debianizing the

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > I'm planning to install hamm on a system with raid0(stripping), but seems > to me that raidtools is not included in the base system so a raid > installation cann't be done through the installation method, so I suposse > the w

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
I was in the same position as you as of yesterday. I upgraded, although, i had to use the upgrade script three times (well just to make sure, I only needed to do it twice) for dependencies. However, I could not figure out how to reexecute the script installation after the first time, so I

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable? > > Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive, > however it seems alot of old packages are missing (ie. pine, etc). Will > these be includ

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Chris wrote: > Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable? I forget whether a date is set or not...but my system crashed due to major hardware failure (I am respondign from work now)...hamm seems rather stable > Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive,

KDE Beta-3

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I am trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it avaliable in .deb format? Also if you install a .tgz form

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP I can't seem to get mail working but... I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm I saw the deb of hamm in hamm/non-free/binary-i386/mail -Steve

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
There is no "better" distribution. It is a matter of taste and style. I like slackware, but it has no package system. :) I find Debian to be a nice combination in between. It has a good package system and does not seem to have as many bugs as redhat. Although I could be wrong since red

network startup script

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest why this script doesn't seem to work on 2.1.90? It's my /etc/init.d/network. I added the netmask on the route line for lo because it seemed to help, but I still get some other errors, and ifconfig seems to hang. #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 25

Re: KDE Beta-3

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Pople
>Hi all, > >I am trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am >trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does >anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it >avaliable in .deb format? Providing you have instal

kernels

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? dpkg/apt/dselect continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one, which doesn't suite my hardware at all of course (and causes random reboots dur

email sendmail problems?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
For odd reasons, I cannot send email to one user on my college network. Pine immediately says, blahblah username not found. Not sending. I thought it is supposed to send it with sendmail?!?! Have I configured sendmail improperly? Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Pople
> There is no "better" distribution. It is a matter of taste and style. >I like slackware, but it has no package system. :) I find Debian to be a nice >combination in between. It has a good package system and does not seem to have >as many bugs as redhat. Although I could be wrong since

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > combination in between. It has a good package system and does not seem to > have > as many bugs as redhat. Although I could be wrong since red hat has a lot of > patches. Try them yourself and get a feel for it. This could be interpreted several ways. Either RedHat is quicker at gettin

Re: kernels

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian > kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? > dpkg/apt/dselect > continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one, > which doesn't suite my hardware at all of course (and causes ra

-I- Re: email sendmail problems?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
Ignore this.. i think i may have fixed it. :( Sorry about the flood of 'newbie' questions. Heheeh :) Carroll Kong On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > For odd reasons, I cannot send email to one user on my college network. > Pine immediately says, blahblah username not fo

Re: KDE Beta-3

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> > trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am >> > trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does >> > anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it >> > avaliable in .deb format? >> >>KDE is sort of

Xwindows

1998-04-15 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I own a Hercules Stingray 128/3D 3DFX card (pci)6 megs vidram. and when I do xwindows, I get gigantic icons and screens. has anyone else ran across this problem, if have please let me know how you repaired it. Mike Holliday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Maarten Bezemer wrote: > I installed Debian 1.3.1 even without any floppy (one actually, the boot > disk created after the install to boot the new system) > Just booted from CD and all went quite easy. If your system didn't support > IDE/ATAPI-CDROM boot, you only need the fir

Re: Xwindows

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I own a Hercules Stingray 128/3D 3DFX card (pci)6 megs vidram. > and when I do xwindows, I get gigantic icons and screens. > has anyone else ran across this problem, if have please let me know how > you repaired it. I own an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo which has the same Voodoo Rush chipse

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-15 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I want to install Debian in a RAID 5 w/ 4 9.1GB HDs server. Are there something that I must know? TIA Leonardo Ruoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: > > > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. > > Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > There are some rather severe problems with memory corruption. Generally, > you will only see them on busy systems. Other problems include memory > leaks, filesystem problems and system hangs. There are also networking > issues. 2.0.3

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Thomas Kocourek wrote: [...] > > And lastly, if you are > using EDO memory SIMMs and your motherboard supports SDRAM memory, switch over > to SDRAM. You can get a large speed up doing this alone. My kernel > compile times used to be ~35 minutes. When I changed from EDO to SDRAM, the > kernel compi

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > I am, however, conserned about stablility... > > > > Does anyone know of any major problems with a hamm system? > > > > Chris > > Only on systems that have run 2.0.33. All systems running 2.0.32 are > fi

Re: Stopping XDM

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Shaleh wrote: > All daemons in Debian can be stopped by calling the start-stop-daemon. > An easier way is to look in /etc/init.d and call its script. for XDM it > is /etc/init.d/xdm stop (start would restart it). Yes, and change the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config into

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe that is true > I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work > well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP > I can't seem to get mail working but... > I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm > I sa

Re: kernels

1998-04-15 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian > kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? > dpkg/apt/dselect > continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one, > which doesn't suite my h

Re: network startup script

1998-04-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can anyone suggest why this script doesn't seem to work on 2.1.90? > It's my /etc/init.d/network. I added the netmask on the route line > for lo because it seemed to help, but I still get some other errors, > and ifconfig seems to hang. > > #!/bin/sh >

newbie :X & Arena www brower

1998-04-15 Thread demonspawn
I have been unable to get arena www broweser working and configure X windows to load stuff automatically? I ran dselect ,arena is installed (dkpg -s arena).Its not on any menu on any of the window managers(wm),In the xterm I typed arena,get message bad command error.Days have past.Now I'm about to

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello Remco! > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would l

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, tko wrote: > Mark Phillips writes: > > > > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE > > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up > > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. > > > > What if I

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:09:52PM +1000, Chris wrote: > Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable? When the're no more release critical bugs left. A list of these is posted on debian-devel-announce with some regularity (latest: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announ

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Phillips writes: > > > > > > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE > > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up > > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I want to install Debian in a RAID 5 w/ 4 9.1GB HDs server. Are there > something that I must know? Yes, you must know how to do that. :-) Read the relevant HOWTOs and man pages. Documents you should read include at least: /usr/doc/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Isabelle Dauthieu
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > Chris de Weth wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red > > Hat linux? > As a newbie to this arena, my impression is that RedHat has a better > public profile. > > As we all know, public profiles & reality often di

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Ian Stuart
Isabelle Dauthieu wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > where to ask this question to Red Hat users. Maybe someone can tell me > > > what distribution is better? > > >From my own experience (a portable using a PCMCIA network adapter), > > > > RedHat is easier to install initia

Re: Xwindows

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Mike, Below is the message I sent to some one else who was having problems with his Voodoo Rush card. I hope that it helps. -Ossama Forwarded message: -- I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset, an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo. The Xserver/driver

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten Bezemer) wrote: > Someone told me there are far more rpm-packages available, and other > distributions also use rpm. What's true about that? The core set of RPM packages, what RedHat produces, is much smaller than Debian's main distribution. While some other companies

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Alan Su
Ian Stuart wrote (Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:14:33 + ): |>> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: |>> > |>> > RedHat is easier to install initially (it's only 2 floppies as opposed |>> > to Debians 6+), however the updating system in debian (dselect) is _far_ |>> > superior.. |>> |>I feel I must cla

Re: Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: > Use tzconfig to set your timezone. > > Then set your clock right with date. > > Finally, use hwclock --hctosys --utc to set your hardware clock to the > current Universal time. If you want to use local zone time instead of GMT (for instance if your machine is dua

new ATI Mach64 boards, expert@work, 3D RAGE II+

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Izma
>From a search of the list archives looking for info on the Mach64 server, I've seen references to the fact that some of the recent ATI boards ([EMAIL PROTECTED], 3D RAGE II+ chips) don't work with the Mach64 server supplied with Debian 1.3.1.r6. One reply indicated that downloading the XFree86 pac

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I don't believe that is true > I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work Yes, you and me both downloaded the .deb of pine (and pico, and pine-docs, probably). However, it's been removed from binary-i386. I'd like to know why it's only

re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>As we all know, public profiles & reality often differ... >RedHat is easier to install initially (it's only 2 floppies as opposed >to Debians 6+), however the updating system in debian (dselect) is _far_ >superior.. speaking of profiles & reality differing :) You're off by 6 :) Either boot fro

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Marco Anglesio wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I don't believe that is true > > I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work > > Yes, you and me both downloaded the .deb of pine (and pico, and > pine-docs, probably). However, it's been remov

[tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-15 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set and tcsh running under xterm keeps logging me out after a period of inactivity. S. -- "Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BA

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > Isabelle Dauthieu wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > > where to ask this question to Red Hat users. Maybe someone can tell me > > > > what distribution is better? > > > >From my own experience (a portable using a PCMCIA networ

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > The original post also asked about the enlightenment wm. The list of > prospective packages > (http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html) lists it as one > that's being "worked on". > IIRC, the future maintaine

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-15 Thread servis
On 15 Apr, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi, > > How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable > it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set > and tcsh running under xterm keeps logging me out after a period of > inactivity. > > S.

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Isabelle Dauthieu wrote: > > In my humble opinion, there is no great difference between installing a > debian or a red hat distribution, but upgrading a debian one is far > easier. Moreover a debian installation is able to install redhat packages, > the reverse is false. No,

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-15 Thread Keith Beattie
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi, > > How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable unset autologout > it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set I don't see how these two problems could be related but... If your DISPLAY is not

How can I get dselect to reinstall all installed packages?

1998-04-15 Thread Louis W. Erickson
I have a desire to get dselect to reinstall every package that I have installed, from my known-clean CD-rom. (I've had a security issue arise, and don't know the extent of the possible changes.) I don't want to have to remove every package, or to upgrade to a new version of Debian; I'm very happ

HELP!!!

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
A friend of mine sent out an e-mail about this last night (taking half-assed dictation in his own way) I woul dlike to elaborate and ask again for help...I am desparate. Last thursday I was recompiling my kernel (2.0.29) on a hamm system (pre-freze but this had worked b4) and I got the dreaded SIGN

Re: giflib2

1998-04-15 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > Namely that the package you're asking for doesn't exist. HOWEVER, there > > is a libgif2 and that is what you want. Assuming of course that you're > > willing to hack apart the .deb file, edit the dependancy, and put it back > >

HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Albert Hurd
Could anyone help me understand the following, and what to do about it: Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. The rather extensive find explains the disk thrashing, but who is nobody, and how do I te

Re: How can I get dselect to reinstall all installed packages?

1998-04-15 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Louis W. Erickson wrote: > I have a desire to get dselect to reinstall every package that I have > installed, from my known-clean CD-rom. > > (I've had a security issue arise, and don't know the extent of the > possible changes.) > > I don't want to have to remove every pack

Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins > thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. > The rather extensive find explains the disk thrashing, but who is > nobody, > and how do I tell him to knock it off. This has happened twice on two >

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