Re: SOUND HELP

1999-03-25 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Craig T. Hancock wrote: > I don't undersand what I am doing wrong if anyone can help I would greatly > appricate > it If I am getting this right, you have a Soundblaster 16 *Plug and Play* ? In any case, that's what I have. If that is correct, you might need to compile all

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging > > areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). > > (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever) And if possible, an apt sources.li

mySQL

1999-03-25 Thread Chen . ShanChao
hi, I am looking for mySQL source. It's not easy for me to download it from internet. in fact, I just can use email to relate with internet. please email a mySQL for linux source to me. thanks. my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv.conf

1999-03-25 Thread Michael Beattie
> > Also, in Windoze, I don't need to put in the dns search entries. But in > > linux, > > > > I must put them in resolv.conf. Why? > > > > I have not set up a WindoZe system in quite a while so I may be wrong > here but I seem to recall that when setting up the dial-up-networking > I had t

bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,

1999-03-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! In /etc/bashrc, do I put anything else than the 'aliases'? I've put all the rest in /etc/profile, but if I do a non-login interactive shell, all the 'exports' don't load so all the rest. What exactly goes where? TIA! -- p.

wdm

1999-03-25 Thread dyer
Anybody using wdm? I'm having a problem at bootup. wdm starts, but hangs for a full minute before finally giving me a login screen. I'm not exactly sure how wdm is dealing with the xserver, or xdm, so I'm kinda stumped. Heres wdm.log: xdm error (pid 204): Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting xdm er

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
Michael Beattie wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging > > > areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). > > > (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever)

CD-ROM

1999-03-25 Thread Henrique Esteves Fazzio
As a user of Windows98, I've been having some frequent problems (common problems) with it. So I thought about changing my "os", but what system to choose? So I found Linux for FREE, a plattaform that is growing in the market and has many programs that I need, for it. I'm

re-entrant functions

1999-03-25 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, What package is the re-entrant development stuff in? I'm trying to compile something that needs getpwuid_r. I seem to have getpwuid, but I don't seem to have the re-entrant version. Thanks, Rich

Re: resolv.conf

1999-03-25 Thread Charles C. Fu
Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: >> Also, in Windoze, I don't need to put in the dns search >> entries. But in linux, >> I must put them in resolv.conf. Why? Or in named.conf in /etc. Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responds: > As my summer project, I implemented [getting the nameserver

Re: mySQL

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > hi, >I am looking for mySQL source. It's not easy for > me to download it from internet. in fact, I just can > use email to relate with internet. > please email a mySQL for linux source to me. > thanks. > my email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Chen, The address

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about "Re: The GNU thing" > > I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals > > or do everything under X. > > Do you know what the problem is?

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > > other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > > root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > > "A20 gate not responding!"... > [snip] > > The problem machine is a 486DX3

Re: bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,

1999-03-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Environment variable definitions and such that should be set for ALL users should be added to /etc/profile. Since there's no assurance that all users will have their logon shell set to bash (unless, of course, it's your own home system), it's probably wise to stick with "traditional" bourne-shell

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > > > I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with > > > CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals > > > or do everything under X. You didn't say what it is you need to do when you suspend XEmacs, so this may not help... Since you don't like mul

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > The A20 line has something to do with working around a bug in memory > addressing that first showed up in 286's I think. I don't really know much > about it, but on my 486, their is an option in the BIOS to set the line. > You might try changing this

Re: resolv.conf

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
Michael Beattie writes: > In windows, the DNS server's address can be requested from the peer > during PPP negotiation, (you dont need to enter DNS address's for most > ISP's anymore) whereas in linux, that particular feature of PPP > negotiation is not available in pppd. (The address can be suppli

Re: bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,

1999-03-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > In /etc/bashrc, do I put anything else than the 'aliases'? > > I've put all the rest in /etc/profile, but if I do a non-login > interactive shell, all the 'exports' don't load so all the rest. > > What exactly goes where? > De

Network connections weirdness.

1999-03-25 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I recently installed (well, 4 months ago anyway) a debian machine (intel) at work, and had problems connecting to it from outside the building, but only sometimes (telnet, ftp, ssh, whatever). I attributed that to firewall weirdness as there are definately weird things going on on that firewall.

Re: who's shooting me out (idle = 37 min)

1999-03-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- perhaps /etc/autolog.conf - -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills

gnome 1.0.x libs

1999-03-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to get the elightenment window manager 0.15, only it needs the libs for gnome ver 1.0.x (i think its 1.0.2) , among others libgnome32 1.0.2-1 libgnomeui32 imlib1 1.9.4-1 libcapplet0 1.9.3-4 etc. I can't seem to find these libs anywhere. If anyone knows where i may find them, or how to inst

RE: gnome 1.0.x libs

1999-03-25 Thread Alan Bailward
> I tried to get the elightenment window manager 0.15, only it needs the > libs for gnome ver 1.0.x (i think its 1.0.2) , among others > libgnome32 1.0.2-1 > libgnomeui32 > imlib1 1.9.4-1 > libcapplet0 1.9.3-4 > etc. > I can't seem to find these libs anywhere. > If anyone knows where i may find th

Remote Printing Problems

1999-03-25 Thread wax_man
I'm having problems with my remote printing and am looking for some more help. I have got it setup where I can print xemacs, tkrat, command line, etc. However, if I try to print from Netscape or Star Office, nothing ever prints. I've checked logs on my little print server, and don't see anything

iconv

1999-03-25 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, Is there iconv for Linux? If not, is there an equivalent? Thanks, Rich

boot problem

1999-03-25 Thread whbell
Hello all, I seem to be causing myself problems in my boot somewhere. Sometime after installing a new kernel and before my next reboot. I do something that breaks my boot process, (I am not used to uptimes of weeks instead of hours ;-). I am using slink with lilo for my boot on a dedicated lin

Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-25 Thread Gary Singleton
Hello Debian users! I usually just lurk and learn that way but I have a few quick questions that I would appreciate a little info on. 1.) I somehow managed to delete my /var/log/news directory and was getting boot errors. I apparently fixed it by recreating the directory as root but that made t

Kernel compile errors

1999-03-25 Thread John Leget
Running potato im coming up against the following with kernel 2.2.4 acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close' make[2]: *** [acct.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.4/k

KBackup and vfat

1999-03-25 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! KBackup don't make the incremental backup on my vfat file system: the selected filelist contain only newly created files, the modified ones don't. If I mount them as an msdos file system, the KBackup works well. Any, ideas? Thanks! Karesz.

Re: Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > 1.) I somehow managed to delete my /var/log/news > directory and was getting boot errors. I apparently > fixed it by recreating the directory as root but that > made the /news subdir owned by root:root. Is this > correct or should it be owned by root:news? [prom

Re: Kernel compile errors

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Running potato im coming up against the following with kernel 2.2.4 > > acct.c: In function `sys_acct': > acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' > acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close' > make[2]: *** [acct.o] Error 1 > make[2]: Leav

Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-25 Thread Mark Phillips
I am currently trying to install IP masquerading at home. I've been reading the Mini IP Masquerading HOWTO, and I have some questions which I am hoping someone can answer. 1. The HOWTO says to add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/

Re: VMware again

1999-03-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see from the vmware web page that 64 MB RAM is required. Does anyone > know if this is a hard requirement? I'd like to install the demo on a > system with 40 MB. It's a matter of speed. I've installed Win95 over VMware on my AMD K6 200Mhz with 32 MB

Compaq Deskpro 4000 series and text corruption

1999-03-25 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
Got Debian installed on the machines at work :) X Windows runs fine: as does command line text mode _provided_ you boot from a rescue disk in single user mode or otherwise prevent X Windows from running. Once X has run: the console is hosed: scanText appears to overscan as the scan

Re: OFFICEJET + MAGIC FILTER

1999-03-25 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
> > I'm looking for a Linux driver for HP OfficeJet Pro 1150C. > > Apparently, magicfilter does not support it. Well, I have another question about that printer... Is it possible to use its scanner? Thaks, Giuseppe

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-25 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:55:47AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole > > lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted > > them). > > > > Now

Re: C question

1999-03-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates > directories. Now I want to rewrite the script in C. I know nothing > about checking permissions nor creating directories with C. I don't > even know if it's possible, so if someone does know how to do this or a > place that might

Re: VMware again

1999-03-25 Thread homega
Sorry to ask, what's VMWare? is it like an emu? any pointers to info? TIA, Horacio. Peter Makholm dixit: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I see from the vmware web page that 64 MB RAM is required. Does anyone > > know if this is a hard requirement? I'd like to install the de

Re: VMware again

1999-03-25 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > what's VMWare? is it like an emu? any pointers to info? VMware is a company taht produces a virtual x86 machine running on x86 Linux or (soon to come) x86 WinNT. It is buy-ware but a beta release is free to public download. for more infomation: http://www.vmware.com

Re: Kernel compile errors

1999-03-25 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 06:22:41PM +1200, John Leget wrote: > Running potato im coming up against the following with kernel 2.2.4 > > acct.c: In function `sys_acct': > acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' > acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close' > make[2]: *** [ac

Kernel 2.2.4 more compile errors

1999-03-25 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Linus is on vacation :( gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/mnt/hda1/src/linux-2.2.4/linux-2.2.4-vanilla/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /mnt/hda1/src/linux

libstdc++2.9-headers

1999-03-25 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, i've compiled a new kernel 2.0.36 a while ago I installed libstdc++2.9 and libstdc++2.9-dev. (for use of KDE) Now i want to install licq, so far so good. But licq say's, install your libstdc++ headers. How can i install them !! I tried several times, but i can't get it right. Cuno

RE: SB PCI 64

1999-03-25 Thread Alexandre DEVAURE
Hello, I have a SB PCI 64 too. I tried to use es1370 support but it didn't work. I compiled the es1371 support and now the card plays well. Thanks Ian for that tip. -- De :Ian Keith Setford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date d'envoi : mardi 23 mars 1999 15:36 A : Tuv- OK! Cc :debian-

Multi session on CDs

1999-03-25 Thread Alexandre DEVAURE
Hello, I'd like to make multi session on CDs. I use cdrecord et mkisofs and I saw an option named multi in cdrecord but I don't see HOWTOs talking about this. Does somebody do it successfully ? Thanks, Alexandre Devaure



1999-03-25 Thread mailing

Upgrading from Hamm to Slink

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Hello, I'm upgrading from Hamm to Slink, I didn' reboot yet but everything seems OK except for a few minor (?) problems: - I started upgrading with dselect/ftp then I downloaded apt and am actually using it. the problem is that I have a few packages left in "/var/cache/apt/archives", though

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-25 Thread Holger Schauer
"HM" == Hamish Moffatt schrieb am 24 Mar 1999 23:19:54 +0100: HM> IMHO, the info browser (in emacs or standalone) adds little HM> functionality over a plain HTML document, except that it is much HM> less accessible for non-emacs users. I disagree. What if you don't have lynx installed and

Re: rpm to deb

1999-03-25 Thread Doug Dine
>> I thought RedHat had an agreement with Netscape that allows RedHat to >> distribute the software. > I thought it was included because when Netscape > made the software free,the new license allowed Linux distributions to include > it. > I think theonly reason it wasn't included in Debian 2.0

Idle xwindows disappear

1999-03-25 Thread Fred Perry
On a PC running Debian Linux 2.0, xwindows disappear after being idle for a certain amount of time. Anyone have any ideas? Is there some setting in a config file that can cause this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Fred

Re: Idle xwindows disappear

1999-03-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Mar, Fred Perry wrote about "Idle xwindows disappear" > > On a PC running Debian Linux 2.0, xwindows disappear after being idle for > a certain amount of time. Anyone have any ideas? Is there some setting > in a config file that can cause this? Thanks in advance. > Make sure the aut

Re: resolv.conf

1999-03-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Michael Beattie writes: > > In windows, the DNS server's address can be requested from the peer > > during PPP negotiation, (you dont need to enter DNS address's for most > > ISP's anymore) whereas in linux, that particular feature of PPP > > negotiation is not

Re: some doubts

1999-03-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > I have not been saying anything but I have also noticed random files > disappearing from one of my systems too, since an upgrade to glibc2.1 and > damnit, I can't downgrade to 2.0.7 because one of the install script

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There is one more thing. On 286's and above when in real mode, if the segment register is set to 0x then the address's above 0x will overflow into address bit a20 giving access to an additional 65k(-16 bytes) of memory in real mode. This was known as 'hi-mem' access and dos 4.0 and abo

Re: wdm

1999-03-25 Thread shaleh
> > Anybody using wdm? > I'm having a problem at bootup. wdm starts, but hangs for a full minute > before finally giving me a login screen. I'm not exactly sure how wdm is > dealing with the xserver, or xdm, so I'm kinda stumped. > ummm, wdm replaces xdm I thought. So try using one or the other

Diald and PPP

1999-03-25 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, Which is the debian way to configure diald an ppp? Im trying to use my current /etc/ppp/peers/foo scripts with "pon foo" but it doesn't work. It will be great if one can re-use those scripts. Please Help. -- Felipe Alvarez.

Re: wdm

1999-03-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 08:09:17PM -0500, dyer wrote: > Anybody using wdm? > I'm having a problem at bootup. wdm starts, but hangs for a full minute > before finally giving me a login screen. I'm not exactly sure how wdm is > dealing with the xserver, or xdm, so I'm kinda stumped. looks like you

[PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

1999-03-25 Thread Jor-el
Hi, It seems to me that the current PPP initiation scripts do not allow one to maintain multiple accounts at one ISP for different users on the same dial-out machine. The only way I can think of doing it right now is to fake it by creating a separate 'provider' for each user even though th

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

1999-03-25 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Jor-el: Why not try creating separate PPP setups under separate shell accounts. Peter Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > It seems to me that the current PPP initiation scripts do not > allow one to maintain multiple accounts at one ISP for different users on > the same dial-out machine. The only

Help with cdwriting

1999-03-25 Thread Brian Schramm
I have desided to go back to Debian for my Linux needs. I am now installing a Debian 2.1 box with a HP cd writer drive in it. This is going to be the main purpose of this box. I know under redhat I used /dev/sgc for the device to access the drive. I am assuming I use the /dev/sg0-9 driver for D

Problems installing Staroffice

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Hello again, I sent a mail earlier about upgrading from Hamm to Slink, some of the problems are now solved (dselect removed the installed packages, the new kernel is OK, etc.), but I have new problems. When I try to install Starffice I get the following message: can't find the StarOffice arch

Oups ! (followup to my previous mail)

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
please forget the part in my previous mail about Staroffice, I just discovered hat the package is just the installer, sorry ! Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Messiaen

ntfs package

1999-03-25 Thread Richard Vanek
Hi I installed ntfs at Debian 2.1 and mount doesn't understand -t ntfs option. Could you please help me how I can mount ntfs partition ? Thanx --- Richard Vanek

Re: slackware 4.0

1999-03-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat? Yes, in terms of unstability for sure. If it would be as easy as getting glibc 2.1 from cvs and the kernel from kernel.org and recompiling the softwar

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:51:49AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > > > The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux > > > under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the > > > GCC compiler. I think that all

Re: ntfs package

1999-03-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Do you have ntfs support compiled into your kernel? The support is "experimental" I believe and that is for the read-only. I understand the read-write ability to be considered unsafe to use. I have had no problems with the read-only stuff working though. HTH. -Ian On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Richa

Re: Xfree and Frame Buffer

1999-03-25 Thread Nicolas PROCHAZKA
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using XF86_FBDev as X11 Server for frame Buffer system. My problem is > > that I don't succeed to configure any mode in 16,24, or 32 bits, can > > anybody help me ? > > did you try `startx -bpp 16` ? When using frame buffer under X with

Re: C question

1999-03-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates directories. > Now I want to rewrite > the script in C. I know nothing about checking permissions nor creating > directories with C. I > don't even know if it's possible, so if someone does know

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I think this statement is absolute truth. Linux wouldn't exist without > > GCC, but it certainly could without textutils or shellutils and suchlike. > interesting opinion. Maybe you never tried to "dpkg --purge --force-depends > --force-essential

Re: boot problem

1999-03-25 Thread whbell
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >boot=/dev/hda1 > >root=/dev/hda1 > >append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x310,eth1" > >compact > >install=/boot/boot.b > >delay=20 > >map=/boot/map > >vga=normal > >image=/vmlinuz > >label=Linux > >read-only > > I would remove the compact option. I n

Loading OSS drivers at boot

1999-03-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I want to load OSS at boot. I have the commercial version, and no sound support is compiled into my kernel (2.2.1) as the OSS documentations says. The OSS drivers has to be loaded by root, and I want them loaded at boot time. What I did was to copy the "soundon" script into the /etc/rc.boot d

RE: Loading OSS drivers at boot

1999-03-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Why do I get this message when I load the OSS driver at boot, and not when > loading it as a command from root? Is there another way to load it at boot? > I > am really unsure about the Debian stratup scripts, and the OSS documentation > doesn't tell how to l

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-03-25 Thread Dale E. Martin
Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have desided to go back to Debian for my Linux needs. I am now installing a > Debian 2.1 box with a HP cd writer drive in it. This is going to be the main > purpose of this box. > > I know under redhat I used /dev/sgc for the device to access the dr

OT Apache and whitespaces

1999-03-25 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, this is probably not the correct list to contact but I don't know where to ask for it otherwise. I have a directory on my webserver (running apache 1.3.1) that has a whitespace in it's name (sorry, PC stuff :-( ). unfortunately I don't succeed in creating any link to this directory (e

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > I think this statement is absolute truth. Linux wouldn't exist without > > > GCC, but it certainly could without textutils or shellutils and suchlike. > > > interesting opinion. Maybe you never tried to "dpkg --purge --force-depends > >

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-03-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have the sr0 devices. I mount using /dev/scd0? I'm, in scsi emulation mode with my ide-cdr. I performed the command cdrecord dev=4.0 -checkdrive. I got errors. Do I have to mess around with config files? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of La

Verifying a debian system

1999-03-25 Thread Sami Dalouche
Is there a way to verify an entire debian system (permissions, missing files...) like the rpm -Va ? -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.34.83.16.76 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ : 25529539

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-03-25 Thread Dale E. Martin
Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the sr0 devices. I mount using /dev/scd0? I'm, in scsi emulation > mode with my ide-cdr. > > I performed the command > cdrecord dev=4.0 -checkdrive. it should be a comma ("4,0"), and "4" should be the SCSI id of _your_ drive. Mine

Re: Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-25 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Mono wrote: > I'm having major problems with my printer. Parport detects it at startup > and does nothing. I've tried putting it's address in the lilo command > line with no luck. It's listed under /proc at port 0 with no information > after probing. Is the 700 series simp

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-25 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > It is a proper domain, the problem is that most spammers do not use real > e-mail addresses, so we have no way of knowing whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > the originator of the spam. I believe I already deleted the spam, so I cannot > check the headers again t

Invoking Netscape from my email client

1999-03-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have my email client set to invoke Netscape when I click on an URL (XFmail). The problem is when I already have Netscape open I get an error message telling me about a lock file and that I can not use the cache and history. Is there a way to make the clicked URL go to the already open Netsca

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
> It seems to me that the current PPP initiation scripts do not allow one > to maintain multiple accounts at one ISP for different users on the same > dial-out machine. The only way I can think of doing it right now is to > fake it by creating a separate 'provider' for each user even though the > p

Re: Diald and PPP

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
> Hi, Which is the debian way to configure diald an ppp? There isn't any yet. I may start on a 'dialdconfig' after I get pppconfig 2.0 out. > Im trying to use my current /etc/ppp/peers/foo scripts with "pon foo" but > it doesn't work. pon starts pppd. diald wants to do that itself. > It will

RE: Problems installing Staroffice

1999-03-25 Thread Judith E. Bush
The Star Office deb is an installer -- you need to d/l the code from the star office site. When i (re)installed star office in Jan, the debian package did not install the latest version. The latest free version appears is personal, and it appears that the user, not root, ought to install it. cheer

re rsync

1999-03-25 Thread John Leget
hi, Ive been trying rsync to copy some iso images it seems to work ok except for one thing. I find that when i get disconnected and the system reconnects it doesnt move the temp file it creates during download and it just continues from the *.iso in my source directory and creates another temp fi

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've been using IP Masquerade at home for at least a year now and it has been working great. I'll try to answer some of these. On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am currently trying to install IP masquerading at home. I've been > reading the Mini IP Masquerading HOWTO, and I have som

Re: Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-25 Thread shaleh
> > > I've put the source, patch, and debs of this at the usual place > (http://netgod.net/). ISDN is compiled in now (I think). > Has anyone compiled this successfully in potato? I get the following acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' acct.

Re: Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-25 Thread Johnie Ingram
"shaleh" == shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: shaleh> acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments shaleh> to function `filp_close' acct.c:203: too few arguments to shaleh> function `filp_close' Add ", NULL" to the invocations of filp_close. netgod

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-25 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >> >> I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 >> video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with >> Debian 2.1, even though the distribution supports an older version. Thanks >> f

Re: X11 installation

1999-03-25 Thread Kent West
"Favreau, Vincent F." wrote: > Ok, thanks. I think I skipped so steps during the installation ... > Still, I mounted all disks properly and I am working on ZIP drive, CDROM > and modem installations. > I have a big HD and would like to start developping projects that were > initially made for UNIX

Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-25 Thread Jay Barbee
I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no errors at all. The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure If

Re: Problems installing Staroffice

1999-03-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Problems installing Staroffice Date: Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 03:41:35PM + In reply to:Mamoun Alissali Quoting Mamoun Alissali([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again, > > I sent a mail earlier about upgrading from Hamm to Slink, some of the > problems are now solved (dse

Re: Home Page Design

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog wrote: > I believe I already deleted the spam, so I cannot check the headers again > to find the origin of the spam. Don't worry about it. The list masters will already have dealt with it. They have resources far beyond what most of us can muster. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: some doubts

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > I think that such behavior shouldn't be a feature. If some essential file > is missing, the installation program should, at least, warn the > administrator. This happened when, for example, installing a new version > of login. My login.{defs,access} were rm'ed (a

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-25 Thread John Hasler
George Bonser writes: > The other programs would have been written if they didn't already > exist. Since they DID already exist, there was no point in wasting the > effort to reinvent wheels and these other programs were SUPPOSED to be > free. Now we see that there is a big giant string attached to

Re: C question

1999-03-25 Thread John Galt
The man page for TCSH shows how to check permissions within a TCSH script. try searching for filetest. On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, richard wrote: > > > I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions now. What is > a good unix/C > newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some help. Now my

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #527

1999-03-25 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office for most of the day on Thurs. March 25, 1999.

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-03-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Here's what I have: office:/home/pnpuri# cdrecord dev=1,0 -checkdrive Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jrg Schilling scsidev: '1,0' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'HP ' Identifikation : 'CD-Write

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-25 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Chris Reay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The process appears to > be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at > all, and after a while finds "too many errors ..." and returns to the > dselect menu without installing the packages. Hi Chris, IMHO there are two possibl

rxvt: keypad doesn't work

1999-03-25 Thread scratch
Hi everybody, another newbie question. Upon installing the rxvt package, I noticed that it is very nice at serving my needs. It even does things better than xterm in respect to the del/backspace problem. The problem is, it seems my keypad doesn't work in rxvt. I can use the keypad in other X pr

Re: /var/lib/dpkg on diskless linux

1999-03-25 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I operate a cluster of diskless linux PCs using debian hamm. It works quite >well and i can say that debian causes the least problems with diskless machines >(tried SuSe an Redhat too). >However i was wondering about /var/lib/dpkg. Normally, in a diskless

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-25 Thread Jeff Katcher
Mark Phillips wrote: > > I am currently trying to install IP masquerading at home. I've been > reading the Mini IP Masquerading HOWTO, and I have some questions > which I am hoping someone can answer. > > 1. The HOWTO says to add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: > > /sbin/depmod -

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