Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
i may be wrong but i think the esound daemon does this, not though in the way you say. i believe, apps send the output of the audio to the daemon and the daemon opens /dev/dsp and outputs it there. any number of apps can talk to the daemon and the daemon can/will output sound from multiple source

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

1999-10-13 Thread aphro
i dont know but i've always used mke2fs to format a linux ext2 drive i see mke2fs and mkfs.ext2 are 2 different binarys on my debian 2.1 server. try usin mke2fs instead of mkfs.ext2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator h

Trident 3dImage975 and X

1999-10-13 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all: I have what I hope is a quick question. I'm having trouble getting X to work using the SVGA server with my Trident 3DImage 975 Card. The VGA 16 server works fine, but as you can imagine looks slightly less beautiful than I would like. I'm using the X that came with Slink, although I

LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Marcin Kurc
Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Marcin Kurc wrote about "LUGs etc." > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > Hi Ho! I am at Purdue. Purdue has a LUG, their home page is at http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/PLUG/. Branden Robinson, the Debian Xfree86 maintainer, is also at Pur

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
Yes, I am from Indiana. Rob On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote: > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > > -- > Marcin Kurc > Indiana Institute of Technology > System Administrator >

cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
Hi, i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a stable, with some unstable packages. copy of errors: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such file or directory what could be the problem? Bruno Van de Casteele N.P. Puam

Potato On CD

1999-10-13 Thread David Natkins
Does anyone out there know of a way to get potato on CD. The CD's I have only have slink. I don't have a CD burner and find CD's a convient way to keep a back up of my system. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474

Re: DHCP problem....

1999-10-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, ok. Well the first thing is you want to use the newer client, (dhcp-client-beta if you're running slink, dhcp-client if you're running potato). Using the newer client is necessary because this client does not go into the background until it gets an address (or times out, but let's hope/assume

Re: cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote about "cannot start "make menuconfig"" > Hi, > > i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a > stable, with some unstable packages. > copy of errors: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such f

Re: cannot start "make menuconfig"

1999-10-13 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: > Hi, > > i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a > stable, with some unstable packages. > copy of errors: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such file or dir

How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what smbd handles but I am getting the following errors in the smb logs: [1999/10/13 11:

Re: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use > and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound > to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what > smbd handles but I am getting th

Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hello, >Please forgive me for this newbie question. I >am new to linux and >Debian. > I have a question regarding installation. I have a >13 gig hard drive >which I partitioned this past weekend so that I could >dual boot Debian >Linux alongside Windows 98. Using the fips program, I >

RE: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Oct-99 Brian Servis wrote: > > Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use > and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound > to the port? /etc/services points to netbios-ssn service which is what > smbd handles but I am getting the follow

Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Run `ls -i /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /sbin/mke2fs'. You will see that they are the same inode - therefore they are the same file with two names hardlinked. Bob _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 aphro <[EMAI

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-10-13 Thread Markus Fischer
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote : > Install the APT package with dselect (last one you'll ever need to > install :-). Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list (change the mirror if > necessary): > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
It appears to be a new feature but I have the same version of both dselect and apt on both systems. I'd like to add this to the older system as well. Everything is completely installed. Bob On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:37:46PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux >server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer >from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH >faster and more s

ipmasqadm portfw not working to Sun

1999-10-13 Thread Michael Laing
I am running linux 2.2.12 w/potato netbase and glibc2.1 on my ipmasq'ing slink machine. Port forwarding works great to internal linux boxen. I can't get it to work to my Sun (Solaris 7) tho... tcpdump shows the packets going to the sun but nothing comes back. I am just setting up this Sun so I ca

Re: How to tell what is binding a port?

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Pollywog wrote about "RE: How to tell what is binding a port?" > > On 13-Oct-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> >> Something is binding to port 139 which is what samba is trying to use >> and thus smbd is failing to start. How can I track down what is bound >> to the port? /etc/services po

boot disk

1999-10-13 Thread raymond ferrari
I am having problems creating a boot disk as the resc1440 on the cd is too large for my 1.44M floppy. I do not have a bootable cd-rom. What should I do? I am using the cd from the Linux World Expo. that was handed out. Also, what do I use for the drivers is this the boot(file) or install(file). Pl

Re: Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I don't quite understand what is wrong here, but I know that FIPS makes 2 DOS partitions. When I FIPSed my hard drive (back in the days) I then deleted the new partition and made 1 linux and 1 swap. Hope that is relevant. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:37:31AM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > Hello, >

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-13 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and make sure your baud rate is set to 115200 or 57600. You might also want to add the lines: bsdcomp 15,15 deflate 15,15 vj-max-slots 16 To juice up compression. Hope this helps. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:38:27PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hy there,

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread John Foster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux > >server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer > >from Debian if you rename it to the proper c

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-10-13 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Markus Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote : > > Install the APT package with dselect (last one you'll ever need to > > install :-). Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list (change the mirror if > > necessary): > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable

debs to reinstall glibc

1999-10-13 Thread Brian J. Stults
Can someone tell me which deb files are needed to reinstall glibc? I'm using potato. If you need more information, just let me know. I assume I can just download the files and then use dpkg to reinstall. Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (5

Re: boot disk

1999-10-13 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote: > I am having problems creating a boot disk as the resc1440 on the cd is > too large for my 1.44M floppy. I do not have a bootable cd-rom. What > should I do? I am using the cd from the Linux World Expo. that was > handed out. Also, what do I use for the

Re: debs to reinstall glibc

1999-10-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Oct, Brian J. Stults wrote about "debs to reinstall glibc " > Can someone tell me which deb files are needed to reinstall glibc? I'm > using potato. If you need more information, just let me know. I assume > I can just download the files and then use dpkg to reinstall. > libc6 Since

Re: debian-security: another new mailing list

1999-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Keith Harbaugh wrote: > This is to announce the establishment of a new debian mailing list: > > debian-security, > > for the discussion of all aspects of security > significant to the Debian system, including cryptography. How can it happen that this list was made without the se

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, > running dselect with the apt method, I get asked "Do you want to erase > the downloaded .deb files (Y/n)?" On the other system, I am not asked, > but I would like to cha

qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato. It runs fine, but I cannot find where it is keeping its log file(s). Anyone know where they are? Or does it not keep a log by default. Thanks, Gerry

Re: satan - other scanners

1999-10-13 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:52:53PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "AO" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AO> have you looked into portsentry ?? ( same folks as logcheck )... - > AO> on my todo list > > Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I > ha

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I think you do an "apt-get clean". Don't know how to automate it; try > apt.conf(5). Isn't there a command like 'apt-get autoclean' ? Does that automate it? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Grou

Pine4.20

1999-10-13 Thread Mats Johansson
Are they any unoffical deb out there with Pine 4.20 as it was with Pine4.10? //Mats E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
Oops, found them as soon as I sent this message (always happens). They are in /var/log/mail.*. I was looking for something like /var/log/qmail. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Gerry On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato.

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

1999-10-13 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:31:40PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Joop Stakenborg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > At the moment I am using a Sound Blaster vibra16x pnp card, > > this card is not really supported by OSSFree (kernel) > > or ALSA. > > I have this card. It works fine for me, but it

How to make custom HTML tags for asWedit?

1999-10-13 Thread John Foster
I need to be able to make customized HTML tags in asWedit. or Netscape Composer, or CoffeeCan HTML Editor++. Any suggestions, or other progs that will allow this? This is something that I was able to do with HotDog in the Windows World. I am trying to avoid using any thing to manage my site that re

The NU seminars

1999-10-13 Thread NU
From:The NewAmerica University (NU). To:NU participant with the password [_ _ _R.S.] (If you do not want to renew your membership, put REMOVE and click REPLY. If you are not sure that you ever send us an email asking for information,please request for a copy, and we will send you the data). U

Re: LUGs etc.

1999-10-13 Thread Marcin Kurc
I'm trying to start up LUG here - Fort Wayne. So far, I just have maybe 5 people interested. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:58:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 13 Oct, Marcin Kurc wrote about "LUGs etc." > > Are there any linux users from Indiana on this list? or maybe Fort Wayne IN? > > > >

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

1999-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks. apt.conf will handle it. On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, > > running dselect with the apt method, I get asked "Do you want to er

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

1999-10-13 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:06:35PM -0300, Pablo De Napoli wrote: > Hello! Hi, > > I think that we should consider: > > 1) Create some easy-to-use tools for making debian packages ( not for > experts I mean) in order that everybody can make a debian package and > so debian is updated faster (or

libqt and qt are they the same !?

1999-10-13 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi Maintainers, could anyone please solve the dependency-conflict of libqt1.44-6.3 and qt1g-1.44-6.1. Both seem to contain the same - maybe in different minor versions, but nevertheless some packages depend on qt1g (tuxeyes) some on libqt1g (kdebase) Maybe i am the only one... Would be nice, to

fortune problems?

1999-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
For some reason, when I run fortune I get this message: fortune: no place to put residual probability (0%) This happened after I ran the newest wine which caused a kernel panic. I had to do a hard reboot to get the syatem back. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?

Re: chroot

1999-10-13 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, 13.10.99 00:18 -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory $ ldd /bin/bash libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40018000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40058000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005c000) /

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Adam Shand
> i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else > down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then > BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off. upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care. it gets really bad. just to reiterate. there is n

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-13 Thread Ben Messinger
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Adam Shand wrote: > > > i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else > > down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then > > BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off. > > upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care.

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