elm still no signature file working

1998-07-24 Thread Keith
I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the these two lines: # local ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages... localsignature = .signature # remote ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages... remotesignature = .signature And I made a .signature file and put it

Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Keith
My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 --- I don't k

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: > My time is still not right. > > My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what > I get: > > debian# clock > Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 > --- > If I type date this is what I g

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:21:56PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I can > swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer one that > does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) Try asclock, debian://slink/main

trn newsreader

1998-07-24 Thread Keith
Thank God, my signature is finally working. Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable, how do I do that? Her

Re: elm still no signature file working

1998-07-24 Thread Jack Kern
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:00:56PM -0400, Keith wrote: > I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the > these two lines: > > # local ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages... > localsignature = .signature > > # remote ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages... >

more questions about time

1998-07-24 Thread Keith
I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? EST5EDT is my time zone. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-24 Thread Tomt
At 08:52 PM 7/23/1998 +1000, you wrote: >> >It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something >> >other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try >> >to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). >> Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 >> >Also

linux on a gateway laptop

1998-07-24 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Greets, So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X, pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured. Might someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series laptop who might be able to lend a clue? -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set

printing 2.0 beta

1998-07-24 Thread Richard Sevenich
I just installed 2.0 Beta from CD ROM. I cannot print via the local parallel port. Printer works in that other OS - so hardware is OK. I must have gone astray somewhere in the install. Symptoms: lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. cat filename > /dev/lp

Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

1998-07-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to > follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem > to have hit a roadblock. > > I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc > and the Fvwm2 docs--in the

Re: more questions about time

1998-07-24 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: > I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig > and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is > the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set > to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? > EST5EDT is my t

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

1998-07-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 19 Jul 1998, Carl Johnson wrote: > If I have a momentary power flicker, the odds are > fairly good that the modem will be completely locked up. The only fix > is to unplug the modem for a few seconds, and it will then come up > fine. This wouldn't be a problem if I had a UPS, but it seems a >

Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

1998-07-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can > put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using > > mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1 > > where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok, > because I

Re: printing 2.0 beta

1998-07-24 Thread Erv Walter
Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file. > cat filename > /dev/lp1 - produces message > "/dev/lp1: Device not configured." > dmesg reports > "lp: Driver configured but no interfaces

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Keith wrote: >My time is still not right. > >My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what >I get: > >debian# clock >Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 >--- >If I type date this is what I get > >debian# date >Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998

Re: trn newsreader

1998-07-24 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Thank God, my signature is finally working. > >Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working. >Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it. >In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting >up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set

Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

1998-07-24 Thread Richard Alhama
I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup? /\ Richard

Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

1998-07-24 Thread Michael Ziller
I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS aren't disabled... Is there anything else I have to do to enable these file

Re: Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

1998-07-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Ziller wrote: >I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, >and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to >select these options are greyed out. Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS >aren't disabled... > >Is there anythin

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

1998-07-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote: > Excellent! That did it. > > FYI, I couldn't just change the config; I had to remove the module and then > add it right back in, changing the parameters at that point. > > One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system > to see t

Re: Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

1998-07-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Richard Alhama hat gesagt: // Richard Alhama wrote: > I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also > have some packages from slink. > > Now my question is: > > What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? > > Do I have

Re: HTML HAMM Man Pages

1998-07-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Chris Russell hat gesagt: // Chris Russell wrote: > Anyone know of a link to the hamm man pages via a browser since man is > not included in the base system? In particular apt-get. The package "dwww" installs a cgi-script, that gives a convenient user interface to nearly all the documentation o

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-24 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Shaleh wrote: > > Curt E. Spann wrote: > >What video card should I get? > > You ask later so I will kill two birds with one stone. AGP is both > poorly supported and a waste of money. AGP cards can actually lessen > system performance. System resources are stolen to give the enhanced > video.

Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

1998-07-24 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can > just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); > on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the > customizati

problems with anti-spam policies

1998-07-24 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all I'm subcribed to some mailing lists with my real email adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I read this email from pusa.eleinf.uv.es and from a non-permanent link (wich I named caligula. with no domain...) I always use pine, In caligula's pine setup I use the user-domain option set to "pusa.eleinf.u

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SVD" == Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SVD> (But just because I love awk, a perl hacker would surely give you a SVD> different solution, and a Bourne-shell hacker yet another one, etc. :-). Here is the perl hacker ;-) perl -MFile::Copy -e 'for (@ARGV) {move $_, lc $_}' *.c

Re: [Debian]: das Systemupdate funktioniert nicht richtig

1998-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DM" == Dirk Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> ich zum Systemstart immer folgende Fehlermeldung: DM> /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token ';' DM> /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: ' ;cron reload automatically' [...] DM> ; cron reloads automatically ^ Das muß ein #

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread tko
Keith writes: > > My time is still not right. > > My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what > I get: > > debian# clock > Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 > --- > If I type date this is what I get > > debian# date > Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 > ---

Debian on Mac PPC

1998-07-24 Thread Jorge Sousa
Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to install Debian Linux on a Mac PowerPC? Thanks, Jorge Sousa -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

1998-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system KW> to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know KW> how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future KW> referenc

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread servis
*-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) | | | mmv is cool, but has no "lowercase" function. | >From the mmv man page: To convert the string matched by a wildcard to either low­ ercase or uppercase before embedding it in the target name, insert 'l' or 'u', respectively, between

Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!

1998-07-24 Thread Jorge Sousa
Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to upgrade. Jorge Sousa -Original Message- From: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> *-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul) s> | mmv is cool, but has no "lowercase" function. >> From the mmv man page: [...] *blush* OK, just delete everything after "cool". Perl rules anyway ;-) Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscri

Re: linux on a gateway laptop

1998-07-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I've got a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 and have sound working. It mainly depends on what chips are used. My 2100 uses the ESS ES1688 AudioDrive. Check the info in Win95 or your manuals to see if you have this same chipset. Seth M. Landsman wrote: > Greets, > So I have this shiny new laptop r

RAID controller & dinstall

1998-07-24 Thread Daniel Imamura
Hi all, Has anyone ever tried to install a Mylex DAC960 PL Raid controller? I'm trying to do so and ran into the following problem: I've got its driver from www.dandelion.com/Linux/ , re-built the rescue disk and set the rdev. The system boots up normally and it finds the controlle

Dselect doesn't install from non-free or contrib

1998-07-24 Thread Liam Healy
I am trying to install a 2.0 beta system from mounted filesystem, /usr/debian which has subdirs main, non-free and contrib. Dselect sees everything, even gives a reasonabe package count in each of the three areas (> 1500 in main, in the hundreds for each of non-free and contrib, as I recall). Whe

Hamm not in Stable Dir

1998-07-24 Thread Kent West
I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. ==

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

1998-07-24 Thread Nuno Carvalho
> I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last > night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the > ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be > pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I thi

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

1998-07-24 Thread aqy6633
> I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last > night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the > ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be > pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I woul

startup info

1998-07-24 Thread Robert Rati
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |

Xemacs help

1998-07-24 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. 1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make delete act as delete? 2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors? Thanks , Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

xview and xviewg in hamm

1998-07-24 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, after the upgrade to hamm an old libc5-executable that depends on xview did segfault (I had both xview and xviewg installed.): # arb Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait # /bin/arb: line 118: 946 Segmentation fault (core dumped) arb_ntree $args ARB done I tried

Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!

1998-07-24 Thread Raul Miller
Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? Also, postgresql is a part of debian 2.0. [If you want high performance, you'll need to change /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init so that it has PGFSYNC=no]. -- Raul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

1998-07-24 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever Linux installation. I've been waiting for this release for quite some time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the installation

Re: startup info

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. see the files on /var/log /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \

No Official 2.0 CDs yet?

1998-07-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I can understand that CDs aren't cut and available for purchase just yet, but I'd like to place an order before the weekend! No US or Canadian web pages that I've have updated their web pages to advertise 2.0. BTW, what does an official 2-CD set contain? main and source but not contrib? -- www

Re: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

1998-07-24 Thread Matthew D. Myers
If you are a newcomer, the source CD is not necessary. The source CD contains source code to all the applications, etc on the Debian distribution. All you really need is the binary CD. As for the most recent stable version, with this being the initial release, they will all be the same. -

Advanced Power Management & Linux

1998-07-24 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi all, I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called "Advanced Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in "sleep" mode when

Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

1998-07-24 Thread Young, Ed
I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be in

Re: Advanced Power Management & Linux

1998-07-24 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony > Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0 > (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called "Advanced > Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in "sleep" mode

Re: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

1998-07-24 Thread Shaleh
With no X, 120mb is plenty of room for your needs. The 8mb of RAM will make it slow to use on a daily basis, but for travel time use it will not be too bad. I would recommend a 20mb swap and the other 100mb for the rest. If you are picky about what you install, you should be fine. My ful blown

DHCP and hostname

1998-07-24 Thread E. S. Venkatraman
My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are assigned using DHCP. I use "dhcpcd" to get the IP address but it also mangles my machine's hostname (probably because the DHCP server is not properly configured). Is there a way to query the DNS server for the correct hostname from the

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Joerg Plate
> Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they > are lowercase? 1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; # usage: rename perlexp [files] ($op = shift) || die "Usage: $0 perlexp [filenames]\n"; if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { @ARGV = ; chop(@ARGV); } $

dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=

RE: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

1998-07-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Jul-98 Young, Ed wrote: > I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte > harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to > run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some > emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly d

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Eric House
On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: > > Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they > > are lowercase? > > 1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename > #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw > > use locale; > [...] Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
> How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. > I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for > dummies please. If you're not a unix person, try "Running Linux" by M

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Shaleh
What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any "Teach yourself UNIX" type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to debian-docs and see what they have to say. The /usr/doc/H

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: >Why not, in bash: >for f in $(ls); do >oldName=$f >newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) >mv -i $oldName $newName >done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 . drwx

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread David B. Teague
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the same thing as date. I have been following the discourse with interest. I have a Hamm system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a tzc

Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

1998-07-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Most mirrors are still not caught up. I expect this to occure in two days time (for all mirrors) The only two mirrors that are up-to-date are http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian http://open.hands.com/debian And va's private mirror. All 3 are the only push mirrors an were uptodate about an hour aft

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo). These are flagged as required packages and should be installed by default. Bob On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. > > I have the same problem as Keith,

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
> What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? The gtk file selection dialogs don't show _any_ file or directory that starts with a dot, in any gtk-enabled app. Will -- |

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes: > >>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using >>> one or more scripts, such as >>> >>> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string >>> >>> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. >>> >>> The

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? > I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but > all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. > > > I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for > > dummies please. > I

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? .directories > As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any "Teach yourself > UNIX" type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian > is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to

Previous posts

1998-07-24 Thread Taren
This is just to thank all of those who responded to my original post, and repost, about my problems with setting up ipchains... Your help was overwhelming. Taren -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Shaleh
If you must get gimp to show a dotfile (or directory) just type '.' in the file blank and hit 'tab'. GIMP (and all GTK apps) work like bash does. Tab gives file completion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Xemacs help

1998-07-24 Thread Keith Beattie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have two questions regarding Xemacs .. There is a wealth of information in the Xemacs sample files (sample.Xdefaults and sample.emacs). These can be brought up in Xemacs via the Help->Samples pull-down or can be found in the Xemacs' etc directory (e.g.

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when > activating special feat

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > > the one included in 2.0.33 (which

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:20:19AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote: > > >Why not, in bash: > > >for f in $(ls); do > >oldName=$f > >newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) > >mv -i $oldName $newName > >done > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morph

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:28:25 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >So what? >Didn't you saw the "-i" option he supplied to the mv command? >That's why Eric's solution works :P If that is the case then why not just do it all by hand in the first place? Sheesh. -- Steve C. Lamb

install help ?libc5?

1998-07-24 Thread John McPeek
I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release. I got though the install and selected the standard package for dselect to install. After hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed because of a libc5 conflict and shortly there after I got pages of similar errors (libc5

Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?

1998-07-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? My Official CDs have not reached me yet. So I would have to do the basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via FTP. There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that people have reported (h

"Free" Interbase

1998-07-24 Thread Mike Barton
>Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? >check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for >Linux. It >runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos >I need to upgrade. >Jorge Sousa It may "appear" free but you ought to have a look at the license agreement. It says Re

Re: "Free" Interbase

1998-07-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
>Want a good RDBMS for Linux??? > >check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for >Linux. It >runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos >I need to upgrade. >Jorge Sousa Mike Barton wrote: > It may "appear" free but you ought to have a look at the li

Re: hamm problem: X and backspace/home/end

1998-07-24 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I saw a message in another thread that stated the X keyboard extension had to be enabled for backspace to work properly. That was my problem; now I've gotten rid of the xmodmap statement to fix backspace. On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I found the info on the bug t

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-24 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > You can try the aic-driver which is available at > > > > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ > > > > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than > > the one in

Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian

1998-07-24 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi list! First i have to say sorry for the long posting ;) I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions (of which some may be a little offtopic): 2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD and CD_ROM. I have a bunch of official CD's (including

[Re: The future?] User Documentation

1998-07-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 24 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, what should I do with my packages for the next Debian release? > I am kind of lost. What are the guidelines for Slink? The new file > system standard? Can we please have contributors to the Debian Documentation Project, to write user documentation.

xloadimage needs libtiff - where?

1998-07-24 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Trying to install some hamm packages but can't find libtiff.so.3 anywhere. Any suggestions? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

even more sound problems

1998-07-24 Thread Robert Rati
I have a SB Pro/16/WSS sound card on my mother board that I use for sound. I have compiled sounds support as a module and included /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support in the kernel. I Have isapnp setup and the sound devices are detected and listed in /dev/sndstat. When I try to play sound, the best I

where to put ctan files?

1998-07-24 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello: Where can I install a package from ctan? I tried putting it in /usr/local/lib/texmf, then ran texhash as root. I thought this would be enough, but not so. What did I miss here? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

boot errors

1998-07-24 Thread Robert Rati
I have 1 2 gig drive separted into 4 partitions. One is win95 boot partition, another is 650 meg, and the last two are for Linux, one 800 meg Linux native, and one 45 meg swap file. I mount them in /etc/fstab like this: # /dev/hda6 / ext2defaults,er

Re: Updated pidentd patch?

1998-07-24 Thread Taren
Look on ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se, in /pub/unix/ident/servers. You'll find pidentd-2.7.4.tar.gz, pidentd--2.8.2.tar.gz, pidentd-2.8.3.tar.gz and pidentd-3.0b1.tar.gz there, as well as older versions. Taren > Does any one have or know where I can get an update pidentd patch. I got > the source fo

Re: xloadimage needs libtiff - where?

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
libtiff3g On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. Trying to install some hamm packages but > can't find libtiff.so.3 anywhere. > > Any suggestions? > > thanks, > -- > tony mollica > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >