Re: NFS problem

1999-04-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Use a FQDN instead of IP. For some reason it seems /etc/exports doesn't like IPs. Horvath Robert wrote: > Hi, > > I might be dumb but I have installed the nfs-server package and my > /etc/exports is as follows on the computer 152.66.73.163: > > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesys

Re: Qmail question

1999-04-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It's packaged as sources because the author's license doesn't allow binary distribution without permission (which debian apparently doesn't have). Don't despair though. Just install the -src deb and then it will make the binary .deb for you which you can then install with dpkg. It's a piece of ca

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have 4 different kernels, for Slink, in my lilo.conf, as well as 3 > for Slackware, 2 for hamm and 3 for Potato. Same system 2 harddrives. > I make a new kernel, copy the zImage/bzImage to /boot (on all 4 > distributions) as whatever the kernel is, ie sl

Re: potato's octave?

1999-04-30 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:56:19PM -0700, Obi wrote: > I keep getting seg faults when I try to run it. Am I the only one? It's probably the problem with glibc2.1. The package was compiled against 2.0, and segfaults when used under 2.1. I've downloaded the sources and compiled it against 2.1 and ev

Re: Qmail question

1999-04-30 Thread mguenthe
The .deb contains the source code, and when you run 'dpkg --install qmail' it automagically unpacks it, compiles it, and asks if you want to install the finished product. I was quite impressed when I tried it, and have been quite happy with the ease of configuration and performance of qmail. HTH,

Re: SOLVED! Re: Mutt - one more problem

1999-04-30 Thread Shao Zhang
How many bits does PINE use by default BTW?? Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:15:20AM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi All! > > I'm on my way from pine to mutt. Last time I discovered however a big > > problem. When I send the letter with non-ASCII characters in the

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-30 Thread Shao Zhang
I had that before, but then it complains about lilo everytime it boots up. So I had to turn it off again... Arcady Genkin wrote: > debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the > > > partition table. > > Could someone give an opinion

Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

1999-04-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Tom's Unix on a Floopy (do an alta vista search) could be a good place tos start. Boot from the floppy, then use it to set up & install on the hard disk . . . rick --

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 07:48:59PM -0400, Jeffrey Brock wrote: > When I start X, it fails with the message: > > Fatal Server Error: > Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device) > > It's a PS/2 mouse, and it gets detected by the motherboard on bootup. > > XF86Config has "PS/2" for Prot

changing user name

1999-04-30 Thread Marlon Urias
If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about doing a thorough job? Simply changing the passwd entry doesnt seem to be the right thing because then all the files with ownership oldLogin.oldLogin wont be availabe for user newLogin. Thanks for the help.

no sound devices

1999-04-30 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, when I install Slink I end up with no sound devices. Compile the kernel to include the regular stuff and sound. When I reboot, the sound card (MAD/Mozart AD 1845) is initialised but I cannot control the mixer or send anything to /dev/audio, etc. Reading /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/Readme.li

Re: What are the Bogomips for a P166?

1999-04-30 Thread Colin Tree
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: Hi, I have a P166 sitting right behind me and it comes up with 66.00 BogoMips. but in front of me is a K6-11-350 which peaks out at 696.00 BogoMips. Sooo does that mean I can do more than 10 times as much work on the K6 ?? What a sales gimick !! Prob

Re: Diald not installing defaultroute to sl0

1999-04-30 Thread Colin Tree
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Nissim Karpenstein wrote: Hi Nissim, Check out your /etc/ppp/options disable proxyarp, it worked for me. > >I'm having some trouble setting up diald. I put the defaultroute option >in the diald.options file, but after running diald, the slip connection >is not being se

maintainer of CD images

1999-04-30 Thread Steffen Evers
I would like to download a CD image of the current SLink release. That is 2.1r2, right ? I've found only the 2.1r0. As I have heard that the images should be up to date I would like to know who is responsible for the images, so I can remind him to update the image. Steffen

Re: changing user name

1999-04-30 Thread Debian project development discussion
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:57:46PM -0700, Marlon Urias wrote: > If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about > doing a thorough job? Simply changing the passwd entry doesnt seem to be > the right thing because then all the files with ownership > oldLogin.oldLogin > wont

RE: changing user name

1999-04-30 Thread Shaleh
On 30-Apr-99 Marlon Urias wrote: > If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about > doing a thorough job? Simply changing the passwd entry doesnt seem to be > the right thing because then all the files with ownership > oldLogin.oldLogin > wont be availabe for user newLog

Re: NFS problem

1999-04-30 Thread Carl Mummert
> Use a FQDN instead of IP. For some reason it seems /etc/exports doesn't like > IPs. my /etc/exports (excerpts): # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # / 152.30.5.6 (rw) / 152.30.5.2 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) /home/elentari 152.30.5.2 (rw, no_r

Re: [Debian]: Ein paar Fragen

1999-04-30 Thread KaHa
Bernd Mayer wrote: > > > "Martin T." schrieb: > > 2. Was hat es mit den timezones auf sich und wie kann ich die > >veraendern ? Ich habe bei der Installation Eurapa/Berlin > >angegeben. Wenn die BIOS-Uhr nun auf die lokale Uhrzeit > >eingestellt ist, ist die Systemuhrzeit 2 Std. vo

Re: What are the Bogomips for a P166?

1999-04-30 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Colin Tree wrote: > Hi, > I have a P166 sitting right behind me > and it comes up with 66.00 BogoMips. > > but in front of me is a K6-11-350 > which peaks out at 696.00 BogoMips. > > Sooo does that mean I can do more than > 10 times as much work on the K6 ?? > What a sa

Wierd Gnome Problem

1999-04-30 Thread Jerry Gardner
I just installed Gnome 1.0.1 from the .debs in http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink on my Slink system. Here's what I have installed: ii gnome-admin 1.0.1-1Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview) ii gnome-bin 1.0.3-1Miscellaneous binaries us

Slink Install Problem

1999-04-30 Thread Chad Schrader
I'm having trouble installing Debian 2.1 from CD-ROM. I'm able to boot from the CD and get the partitions initialized (I'm using the partitions from my Red Hat 5.2 installation). When I go to install the kernel and modules, I enter the installation medium and CD interface. When it asks me for t

PHP3+MySQL problems

1999-04-30 Thread Chris
Hi. Well, I seem to be having problems getting PHP to recognize that I have mysql support in place. When I try to view a document with a mysql_connect() function in it, I get: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/cmayes/public_html/apples.php3 on line

gnome

1999-04-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
I was wondering what the ideal system to run gnome on is? I'm talking software wise, I'm putting a system togther, and I don't know whether to go potato or slink. Also what is the best method to get gnome working. Oh, this is an intel machine and will have accelerated X on it. Thanks. -Aaron So

2 of 100 can be a matrix look and see

1999-04-30 Thread firelight50
Hello I am really sorry for the interruption but My name is sandy Young and I have a recipe for sweet potato Hawaii cane candy casserole. This recipe was given to me by my great grandmother. ( she used to make it every time we would go see her I loved it!) anyways let me get to the point my hu

Re: Sabre fails

1999-04-30 Thread Steve Gore
SG> I'm having a problem w/sabre. When I try to run it, this SG> happens: MZ> Hmm, I've never seen this with Sabre. It seems to be a problem when reading files. If you don't have C/C++ libraries from Debian 2.1, could you mail me what versions of the libraries y

Re: changing user name

1999-04-30 Thread Marlon Urias
Thanks for the help!marlon On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Debian project development discussion wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:57:46PM -0700, Marlon Urias wrote: > > If I get a user who wants to change only their username how do I go about > > doing a thorough job? Simply changing

Re: changing user name

1999-04-30 Thread Richard Harran
There is also a slightly less hardcore command, usermod, which lets you change login-name, home directory, group, uid, etc, without getting involved with the password file. Eg usermod -l -d -m HTH Rich Marlon Urias wrote: > > Thanks for the help!marlon > > On Thu,

Re: Using Xapps on another Linux system

1999-04-30 Thread Richard Harran
This is the old xhost problem. You need to type: xhost + in an xterm on the X-Server. This is a security issue for the server, so a better, though probably harder in practice, approach would be to set (and export) the 'XAUTHORITY' variable of the client to that of the server. If you ar

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-04-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) wrote: > I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the > appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email > (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never > bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would

Re: Using Xapps on another Linux system

1999-04-30 Thread Shao Zhang
What is wrong with the ssh? ssh -l username ip-address Richard Harran wrote: > This is the old xhost problem. You need to type: > xhost + > in an xterm on the X-Server. > > This is a security issue for the server, so a better, though probably > harder in practice, approach would be to

Re: SOLVED! Re: Mutt - one more problem

1999-04-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:40:20AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > How many bits does PINE use by default BTW?? 7 AFAIK, however I've configured PINE so long time ago, that I don't remeber if it is really the default setting. WZab

Gnuserv and emacs20

1999-04-30 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message: error in process filter: Wrong number of arguments: #[(list) "ƒF@@[EMAIL PROTECTED] !Ä ˆ žpÉ [other binary-stuff] Does anybody have m

APM configuration for server?

1999-04-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I'd like to switch on the APM in my debian-linux server to reduce it's power requirements. What are the reasonable settings? Does it require any additional adjustments in any packages (eg. switching of some frequently activated cron tasks)? TIA for any help

Re: BLAS library?

1999-04-30 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library? > The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize > there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS library, but this is for > light development work on an old 486 and I'm not even sure the PPro > o

R: Samba completely crash my system!

1999-04-30 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-Messaggio originale- Da: Dan Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: 'Fabio Massimo Di Nitto' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Data: venerdì 30 aprile 1999 1.20 Oggetto: RE: Samba completely crash my system! Scsi is ok. I've tested it with a second linux box via nfs and also

Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Hi, Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel). My question is: How do I kill xdm, or prevent xdm from starting at boot-time (so I can start X w

RE: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
You can go to a open console with ALT+CONTROL+Fn. Then, if you really want to stop X, you have to go to /etc/init.d/ and execute: $/etc/init.d>./xdm stop. If later on you want to restart it execute: $/etc/init.d>./xdm start. > -Mensaje original- > De: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [SMTP:[EMAI

Re: potato's octave?

1999-04-30 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:56:19PM -0700, Obi wrote: > > I keep getting seg faults when I try to run it. Am I the only one? > > It's probably the problem with glibc2.1. The package was compiled against 2.0, > and segfaults when used under 2.1. I've do

slow pinging

1999-04-30 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi ppl, After setting up a new box with Debian in our LAN, we saw that pinging to/from this machine is ~3 times slower then all other PCs among each other. I tryied to turn off all obsolete kernel options but it did not changed to much. Are there any possible reasons except hardware ones for such

Re: maintainer of CD images

1999-04-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Steffen Evers wrote: >I would like to download a CD image of the current SLink release. >That is 2.1r2, right ? > >I've found only the 2.1r0. > >As I have heard that the images should be up to date I would like to >know who is responsible for the images, so I can remind him to

Re: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi, > > Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my > computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would > like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel). > > My question is: > > How do I kill xdm, or prevent xd

how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
did someone know if apt-get keep it's output somewhere, or the way to do it ? because the long list of thing to do during the install ? I try : apt-get upgrade 1>&2 apt-get_output.txt but I don't see what is wrong. thanks.

.xsession in xdm session

1999-04-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed a Debian Linux Sun Port in a Sparc 4 here at school, but some people have a .xsession file that is not executable because they use Solaris and some program set this file. But they cant log in xdm because xdm found the .xsession file but cant execute it. T

[THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11

1999-04-30 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! First of all, thanks to all those who guided me into the depths of installing Linux into an archaic i386 with only 40 megs hard drive. This has been accomplished, and it is now acting as a printer server). My question is: it's easy enough to connect a win 95/8 machine to this

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > did someone know if apt-get keep it's output somewhere, or the way to do > it ? > because the long list of thing to do during the install ? > > I try : > apt-get upgrade 1>&2 apt-get_output.txt > but I don't see what is wrong. > > thanks. Try:

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:48:49 +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Khalid> did someone know if apt-get keep it's output somewhere, or the way to do Khalid> it ? Khalid> because the long list of thing to do during the install ? Khalid> I try : Khalid> apt-g

Possible problem with xlock and xscreensaver on potato

1999-04-30 Thread Charles E. Suprin
Hello, My machine using potato is configured so that the xscreensaver turns on when I am inactive. However there are other times when I use xlock to lock the display manually. When I do this xscreensaver kicks on and I am forced to enter my password twice. The problem is that a plaintext copy

Re: libc6(-dev) version problem in slink

1999-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Gray wrote: > I've been having a problem installing Debian standard packages. > > The version of libc6 installed from the base diskettes was 2.0.7v-1 but > the version of libc6-dev listed as available from the ftp site is 2.0.7t-1 This is strange. In slink, libc6 and

Re: SB16 Vibra Pnp PCI

1999-04-30 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
J'ai la meme carte et noyau 2.2.5. pour que ca marche j'ai : tout le son en modules dans la config cocher : OSS sound modules 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support

Re: SB16 Vibra Pnp PCI

1999-04-30 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
J'ai la meme carte et noyau 2.2.5. pour que ca marche j'ai : tout le son en modules dans la config cocher : OSS sound modules 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support

Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

1999-04-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > I'm trying to install debian on an ancient 386, with 8 Mb RAM, and a > 40Mb Hard Disk. I'm running into problems, as the HDD is *very* small. I managed to get Debian on a 386/6MB, but it had two 40MB drives. As others have advised, you're lik

Re: PHP3+MySQL problems

1999-04-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
Chris wrote: > Hi. Well, I seem to be having problems getting PHP to recognize that I > have mysql support in place. When I try to view a document with a > mysql_connect() function in it, I get: > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() > in /home/cmayes/public_

Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2

1999-04-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi all, I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to kernel 2.2.4 which came on my Debian-CDs. Now printing has stopped. I compiled lp and parport as modules, changed the printcap to point to /dev/lp0 instead of lp1. The printer (Nec Silentwriter2 S60P - Postscript) seems to get some data because it display

RE: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Alexandre DEVAURE
Well, I think there is a better way but I don't have a debian system now so the file names can changed. In the /etc/X11 directory, in a file named config, you have the line "xdm-start" or "start-xdm". Change it in "no-xdm-start" or "no-start-xdm" or comment out it. When the script /etc/init.d/x

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
thanks. I try what you say, but I would like to see the output in the same time (during the upgrade) in my terminal that it is save in the file.

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-04-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) wrote: | > I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the | > appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email | > (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just neve

Re: Possible problem with xlock and xscreensaver on potato

1999-04-30 Thread Andreas Persenius
Quoting Charles E. Suprin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My machine using potato is configured so that the xscreensaver turns on > when I am inactive. However there are other times when I use xlock to > lock the display manually. When I do this xscreensaver kicks on and I > am forced to enter my passwor

Buggy kernel-sources package in Debian 2.1?

1999-04-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to install the kernel-source-2.0.36 package from the 2.1 distribution. I call dpkg -i and everything seems to work fine, no errors are reported. However, when dpkg is done I look at /usr/src and it doesn't have the source tree or any of the simlinks; the only thing I see is a

pppd can't find Ethernet address for proxy ARP

1999-04-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, Everytime I launch pppd with the pon command I see that the log file reports something like "Can't determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP." So far I've been unable to connect my home network to my ISP using IPMasquarade and the only reason I can think of is this proxy ARP problem with

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Carl Mummert
> I used the script utility from the bsdutils package but would be > interested in a more readable solution cause script reports all control > characters as well. This is the best way to capture output froma program. While I am unsure about apt, some other programs are immune to shell

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Kirk Hogenson
You could use tail -f in a different window: xterm #1> apt-get upgrade >output.txt 2>&1 xterm #2> tail -f output.txt or maybe in the same window by backgrounding the first. Or, you could use tee: apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | tee output.txt | tee Kirk Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > thanks. > > I t

slrnpull - a security risk?

1999-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
I can only use slrnpull as root. Is it safe? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 33

FW: Microsoft Restaurant...Just some Microsoft humor

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
> > If Restaurants Functioned Like Microsoft... > Patron: Waiter! > Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support. > Waiter. What seems to be the problem? > Patron: There's a fly in my soup! > Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won't be there this time. > Patron: No, it's still there.

silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
At least I hope it's silly Installing 2.1_r0 and I have a PS/2 mouse (says so on the mouse) plugged onto the PS/2 port on the box. Problem is, neither gpm nor X seem to be happy with it (i.e. see it at all) gpm's "autodetect" promptly rules out ALL possibilities claiming they have a different "r

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
I have to say that using the gpm autodetect never worked for me. Just type in the mouse type and info yourself Just use /dev/psaux for the mouse type. I never used XF86Setup. Didn't like it. I prefer xf86config, much better! Try that and use the same driver for the mouse. > -Original Mess

Re: libc6(-dev) version problem in slink

1999-04-30 Thread Chris Gray
Thanks for your reply. Yes, you're right, I was accidentally mixing hamm and slink because the mirror site I was using still has slink as frozen and hamm as current. I used slink base disks and then selected "current" not realizing this was taking me to the hamm packages and so I was getting vers

mod_roaming questions

1999-04-30 Thread Ben Frame
Hello, I'm relatively new to apache, but I'm trying to setup a roaming access server with Potato. I thought I had set it up correctly but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe one of you apache studs can help out. Here's the story: I setup a machine with potato. Then I installed the apache pac

Re: BLAS library?

1999-04-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library? | > The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize | > there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS library, but this is for | > light development work

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: >I have to say that using the gpm autodetect never worked for me. > >Just type in the mouse type and info yourself Just use /dev/psaux for the >mouse type. I did that, actually, with no luck. It claims that /dev/psaux is not a directory (which I agre

Re: BLAS library?

1999-04-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: | "Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Is there still not a package available that contains the BLAS library? | | > The fact that LAPACK is there is great, but I need BLAS too. I realize | | > there's an optimized PPro version of the BLAS

Re: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/30/99 4:46:11 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my > computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would > like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel). > > My

Re: [Thanks] Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Thanks guys!

Programming with QT

1999-04-30 Thread MallarJ
For those interested, this came over the KDE list today - it's yet another O'Reilly & Associates book - this one on programming with the QT libraries... http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prowqt/ "Programming with Qt" By Matthias Kalle Dalheimer 1st Edition April 1999

Re: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/30/99 8:03:30 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well, I think there is a better way but I don't have a debian system now so > the file names can changed. > In the /etc/X11 directory, in a file named config, you have the line "xdm- > start" or "start-xd

Re: pppd can't find Ethernet address for proxy ARP

1999-04-30 Thread John Hasler
Pedro writes: > Everytime I launch pppd with the pon command I see that the log file > reports something like "Can't determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP." Edit /etc/ppp/options and comment out the proxyarp option by putting a '#' in front of it. Let me know if this helps. -- John Hasler [EM

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
> It claims that /dev/psaux is not a > directory (which I agree with :) ). Sorry I didn't mention it > [Person, Roderick] This sound like the you need to make the device, although I have to say I never had this problem, with a mouse of having to make the device. I'

Looking for a good book...

1999-04-30 Thread Matthew Roberts
Hi, I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is that basically all there is? If I buy it does any o

Glide packages

1999-04-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi, are the glide libraries packaged for debian? It seems that at one point mesag3-glide and mesag-glide-dev were available, but no longer. Or am I missing something? Thamks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Sup

what happened to courtney?

1999-04-30 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i am building a new firewall machine and in the process discovered that courteny is no longer available as a debian package? can someone verify this, or did i miss something? also am looking for recommendations on intrusion detection software, if y'all know of any... thanks in advance, /

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > It claims that /dev/psaux is not a >> directory (which I agree with :) ). Sorry I didn't mention it >> > [Person, Roderick] > This sound like the you need to make the device, although I have to >say I never had this proble

Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

1999-04-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Apr, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about "Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x" > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Try going back to a previous version of ppp. I installed 2.3.7-3, and my ppp >>broke completely. Going back to whatever version came with hamm or slink >>fixed my trouble

Re: Looking for a good book...

1999-04-30 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I found O'Reilly's book: Running Linux, written by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman a very useful book. It is not a specail debian book. It is about Linux in general. I am also quite new to Linux (my first contact with Linux was in februari of this year) and I have learned a lot from the book. I hope

ftp of complicated directory structure (with tmp simlinks)

1999-04-30 Thread Richard Harran
I am trying to completely copy a complicated directory structure using ftp. It has four levels of directories, all with lots of branches. I have a root directory on the target machine, and want to create the directory structure, and copy all the files into the right places. I have tried filerunn

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: LILO - System.map conflict Date: Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:20:59PM -0400 In reply to:Arcady Genkin Quoting Arcady Genkin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [ snip] > > I find the discussion about the system.map file interesting as I have > > no problem with new kernels on any of th

Re: Exim Filter

1999-04-30 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > 2. How can I have exim dump any mail that passes through all my filters into > a > special misc folder? I don't want any mail to end up in my > /var/spool/mail/user file. Put at the end of your exim filter (.forward) file: if not delivered then sa

Internet connection

1999-04-30 Thread Alessandro Giacomin
Hi everybody, I'm a brand new user of Linux and I have a very simple question (for you, but not for me...). I've installed Debian distribution and when required I've entered my ISP connection data. Now the question is (don't laugh please): how do I connect to the Internet? I've tried typing pppon b

Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11

1999-04-30 Thread bradleyb
I don't believe there is an SMB client for DOS or Win3x... There would be if M$ had any respect for their customer base, but If you have Windows for Workgroups available, I believe that can act as an SMB client. As for dos, I would suggest looking into NCP, i.e. the NetWare protocol. You could

Re: ftp of complicated directory structure (with tmp simlinks)

1999-04-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am trying to completely copy a complicated directory structure using | ftp. It has four levels of directories, all with lots of branches. I | have a root directory on the target machine, and want to create the | directory structure, and copy all the

Re: ftp of complicated directory structure (with tmp simlinks)

1999-04-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Apr, Richard Harran wrote about "ftp of complicated directory structure (with tmp simlinks)" > I am trying to completely copy a complicated directory structure using > ftp. It has four levels of directories, all with lots of branches. I Package: wget Status: install ok installed Priori

Re: Preventing xdm from starting

1999-04-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Alexandre DEVAURE wrote: > Well, I think there is a better way but I don't have a debian system = > now so the file names can changed. > In the /etc/X11 directory, in a file named config, you have the line = > "xdm-start" or "start-xdm". Change it in "no-xdm-start" or = > "no-start-xdm" or comme

X 3.3.3 scratch

1999-04-30 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
perhaps a bug : after installing the last X 3.3.3.1-1 package from debian with dselect+apt, I can't run XF86Setup : sometime I get a segmentation fault some time it works for 1 minute, and it scratch when I click in the card button. I can solve it a little by using : xf86config I have :

Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11

1999-04-30 Thread Jean L Francois
The clients to do SMB for DOS and multiple win and os/2: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/30/99 09:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Jean L Francois) Subject:Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11 I don't believ

Re: Internet connection

1999-04-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the connection) and your modem should start-up. HTH. -Ian On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Al

Re: 1.6 gig hard drive addition

1999-04-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Chuck Lackey wrote: > I now have a 1.6 gig hd to add to my Linux (test) box. This is an old > 486 mb without LBA mode. All the drives (as yet) installed are 540 M or > less. Can I add the 1.6 G without ontrack or similar programs? > This isn't intended (at this time) to be a b

Linux experts

1999-04-30 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, now I have your attention. I want to set up an ocational private connection between work and home acrosed the net. I have ssh on both computers but I do not know if that is all I need. I will be using it to transfer files and do manual configuration mostly. Since I will be working with root

Re: DMA memory shortage

1999-04-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, John Leget wrote: > Running 2.2.6-ac2, potato , ASUS P2B-DS Dual 450, 128Mb, SCSI Disks ,IDE > CDROM (hda ),ZIP (hdc) > > In my continuing crusade to get info from my CDROM for mp3's :), ive > just come across the following > > Apr 28 21:33:22 gabriel kernel: DMA memory shor

Re: [THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11

1999-04-30 Thread bradleyb
MS networking for DOS -- well, I'll be damned! Too bad I didn't know about that when it would have been useful. -Brad On 30 Apr 1999, Jean L Francois wrote: > The clients to do SMB for DOS and multiple win and os/2: > > ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/ > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Cannot find map file. > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Loaded 51 symbols from 4 modules. > > Apr 29 15:02:56 main kernel: Linux version 2.2.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > > version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Apr 20 22:43:57 EDT 1999 > >

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

1999-04-30 Thread Bob Hilliard
Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:48:49 +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > > Khalid> did someone know if apt-get keep it's output somewhere, or the way to > do > Khalid> it ? > Khalid> because the long list of thing to do during

Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x

1999-04-30 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: > I do think it is a kernel issue though since I did not have these > problems with 2.0.36. I'm running 2.3.7 with 2.0.36 and I also am not seeing these problems. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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