Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chuck Stickelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ben Frame wrote: > > > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work > > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I > > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, > > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every

Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

I built the pine 4.10 .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Now I'm running 4.10. It has some nice new features. I'll post the tentatively legal and approved unofficial *.debs to my web site soon. I'll keep everyone posted. Like I said before, I'm not a maintainer, just a screwer-arounder. PEACE. In all seriousness, I'll jibe the legal end with UW a

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Mark Wagnon wrote: > Guenter Schmidt wrote: > > > > If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the > > magicfilter-script. mine looks like that: > > > > # Original default entry > > #defaultcat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N \eE > > # My default to change Font an

Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider than 65 characters. I don't seem to be able to view what is hidden on the right

PINE(TM) 4.10: Go get 'em

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Ok. Go here: http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html *.debs for the new pine(TM) version 4.10 I'm in the process of talking with debian and UW. I'll keep y'all posted. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Richard Harran
You can use '-x <' and '-x >' to scroll horizontally, or '-x {' and '-x }' to make that window wider / narrower. Rich Martin Schulze wrote: > > Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, > which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). >

laptop lacks /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my network recognized after I start the machine? I don't understand the initialization scripts, so I don't want to fool around with th

migrating from Redhat

1999-02-25 Thread steve latif
I have a laptop with redhat 5.2 on it. I would like to upgrade (!) to debian. Is there a way of doing this without losing all my workfiles (in /home/*) and some custom apps I have in /usr/local. I also have Oracle installed in /u01 /u02 etc thanks Steve -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is

Fw: Squid Crash

1999-02-25 Thread ken
Can somebody please help me. The squid proxy server dies on me every now and again and I can't find out why. It looks as though it tries to restart itself for some reason but why I don't know. There are times when it will run for days on end and then suddenly die. Sometimes it won't even restart w

Re: istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11

1999-02-25 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > I managed to start xfstt from inside x using: > as root - xfstt --sync (do i need this every time ?) > then as normal user: > xfstt & > xset +fp unix/:7100 (I get an error - bad path #48 if i try this before i > start xfstt) > questio

Re: I built the pine 4.10 .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Now I'm running 4.10. It has some nice new features. And a few strange ones, as I recall (probably why it has not moved out of project/experimental.) > > I'll post the tentatively legal and approved unofficial *.debs to my web > site soon. > >

Re: Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, >which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). > >Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider >t

Re: Hypermail 2.0b3 ?

1999-02-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 22:03:16 +, Ryan Finnesey wrote: > Hi is Hypermail 2.0b3 that best way to archive a mailing list? I recommend you always keep an archive of the list in plain mbox format, in case you want to switch tools, or need to regenerate a web archive. In the past, hypermail had

Re: laptop lacks /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-25 Thread David Z. Maze
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pollywog> I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my Pollywog> /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this Pollywog> file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my Pollywog> network recognized after I start the machine? /etc/rc

Re: Debian user friendly

1999-02-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:56:39 -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > [21:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$xfig > Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) >

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
> This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. > Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org > before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to > pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions > have been asked be

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
> It sounds like you are running hamm (Deb 2.0), or better, and >have not installed the libc5 libraries. You are probably using >the old libc5 based NS versions. So you'll need to install libc5, >libXpm, libg++, and libstdc++, all from the oldlibs section in >Deb's distribution. > You can also ge

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
>Instead of using www.debian.org, I'd suggest using dejanews to search >the debian-user archives. > >Using dejanews's "power search" option, you can require that your >search look in the group "linux.debian.user", which is this list. Thanks for the tip! Anthony

Dependency problem with libc6

1999-02-25 Thread crp
I'm using Debian 2.0 which comes with libc6_2.0.7t-1. I also had to install libc6-dev_2.0.7t-1 and libc6-pic_2.0.7t-1. Later I needed the 2.0.7u version (for some packages which I can't remember - WindowMaker was probably one of them) so I downloaded libc6_2.0.7u-4 (just that one) from the Debia

Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
For such small disk I recommend only few partitions, perhaps / and /home (/var, if you `must' have one). The fewer partitions the lower probability you guess the sizes wrong... Jozef Skvarcek ___ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

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1999-02-25 Thread Bob Huber
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Re: Oracle in dba group

1999-02-25 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Eric Wayte wrote: > I was scanning the archives at www.debian.org and may have a solution > for you! When installing Oracle on Solaris/SPARC, you have to edit > /etc/group by hand and make sure that the oracle account is listed in > the dba group: > > dba::101:oracle Yes, t

adduser

1999-02-25 Thread pat
Hi, if someone can explain this to me... I'd like to create a login which has a dot in it. adduser doesn't want to, telling me to force with --force-badname but even with that switch it doesn't work, adduser doesn't want to create it at all. why is that ? what's wrong with a dot in a login name

Transmitting Telex Directly to email ..

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Rae
Have any of you heard of transmitting telex data directly into outbound email (SMTP)? Is this possible? Any utils I should look at ? Thanks and Best Regards Mike Rae

Disk-Disk

1999-02-25 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Debians: I've got a little problem. I've got two computers, one has Win95, AWE32, NEC 40x, 32 meg ram. The other has ... 8 meg ram and Debian. Ok, gotta get Debian up and running before it gets the goodies. Anyway, I pulled the HD from the other and put it in the one so I could boot Debian a

ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
Can anyone tell me why on my ThinkPad, I can compile a kernel with 'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'? I cannot do this with my other machine which has 64MB RAM; it won't be able to load the kernel because it is too large. I was surprised that I actually got my ThinkPad to boot into the new

Re: Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle > for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't > recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how > might I disable it? If h

Re: ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:10:57 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: >I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when >a larger machine can't handle it. Most likely you're not compiling as much into your laptop kernel as you do

Re: Using LILO to boot Win95 of /dev/hdb1?

1999-02-25 Thread mike shupp
Someobe here wrote: > > I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT > > and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the > > first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second > > drive, hdb. > > > > My lilo.conf looks li

Re: ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:10:57 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: > >>I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when >>a larger machine can't handle it. > > Most likely you're not comp

PHP3 debugger

1999-02-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger??? Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined function debugger_on() in /url on line 10" Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;) [Debugger] debugger.host =

PHP3 debugger

1999-02-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger??? Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined function debugger_on() in /url on line 10" Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;) [Debugger] debugger.host =

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Sam Franc
I second your reply. I mostly just lurk on this list because I don't know enough to ask a ?. But I also find it very difficult to search archives. I did it last week and the first 5 times the robot returned zero answers. I had to keep rewording the search to get anything. I finally got some replys

Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-25 Thread rich
Howdy all, I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s /dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt documentatio

size of kernel too big?

1999-02-25 Thread rich
Hello everybody, I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I see this... monkeyho

Help: Repeat Error in inst.

1999-02-25 Thread Sky Goodhew
Sorry for what may seem to be a stoopid Q. But, I am trying to install deb on a secondary HD, the HD has the files need for install. + I am booting from that drive, D: But after expanding linux I got this message repeated for 3/4 hour, before I rebooted: hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 {Drive

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