linux kernel compile

1999-10-21 Thread Vincent & Sylvia Gaines
First I would just like to thank the people behind the Debian distribution. I work with software and have been very impressed with the way they have organized their system distribution updates. to me ( still a "newbie") dselect is a vital tool worth it's weight in gold! 1.) I installed Debian G

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-21 Thread eric k. wolven
Sal: The kernel pkg script makes the modules. The dpkg -i kernel-image (etc) installs the modules--and warns you to mv any old modules. No make_install_modules is necessary with the kpg script. I tried to install the 2.3.4 kernel from ftp.kernel.org. My system booted but fluttered, so I stuc

Linux masquerading via M$ proxy

1999-10-21 Thread david . cureton
I am in a situation where access to the net is via Microsoft Proxy. I would like to use my Linux box for net access but I have only seen client software for the M$ Proxy for wintel workstation. >From the advertising blurb it seams that the Microsoft Proxy will do application proxy'ing and IP ma

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Yep. Looks like the 2.2.x series is smart enought not to need them. Course, I still include them for completion's sake. Bryan On 20-Oct-99 Colin Marquardt wrote: > * Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out >> t

Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Brian May
Hello All, I have been looking for a excellent newsreader. Currently I have yet to find a excellent one. I have made comparisons here to non-Debian programs that (slrn and gnus) that may be out-of-date or wrong for Debian. Please tell me if you think anything I have said is wrong. Currently I us

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
Charles Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out > the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were > needed in slink and not potato I don't know. It's a kernel issue. Linux 2.2.x automatically adds

Re: Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?

1999-10-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
David Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools > I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are > hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's > Netware/GroupWise. > The basi

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
Oskar Liljeblad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I send email through the local MTA, Exim 3.03, > a Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is added. > This should really be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that's > my public email address), but it's "usel" because that's > my local username. > So how do I solve i

/usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local? mine are: drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/ What gives?? Why is this directory setgid? Is everyone elses system the same way? Thanks, Bryan

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Oct-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: >> "BS" == Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BS> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local? mine > BS> are: > > BS> drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff 1024 May 15 18:38 local/ > > BS> What gives?? Why is this directory se

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread John Carline
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local? > > mine are: > > drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/ > > What gives?? Why is this directory setgid? > > Is everyone elses system the same way? Both my slink and potato disks are the same pe

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-21 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: [[[SNIP quoted details of using make-kpkg]]] > > Some people have mentioned earlier making another target as well : modules > (or modules_install). Is that necessary ? Do you mean 'modules-image'? That's used if you hav

sound blaster pnp, please help!

1999-10-21 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello I've finally got my system upgraded to debian potato (don't know how I got emacs installed). However, my sound card only partially works. Wav and au files play, but midi and mp3 do not. I'm trying to play mp3 with mpg123. This worked on redhat with its sndconfig utility. The exact details of

RE: IBM Thinkpad 560 - (YES, ALL SET FOR THOSE PROBLEMS)

1999-10-21 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Wow, I sent that mail on 9/9/99 (interesting numbers) and since then I've become a linux nut. Yes, I ended up using the tecra disks. I think it might have been you that helped me way back then. The problems I was experiencing were due to the PCMCIA-based CDROM I had, and I thought it was p

ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer accepts any options? It causes interesting (though generally harmless) output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep -l "echo -n" /etc/init.d/* | wc -l 35 I have

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > mine are: > > drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/ > > What gives?? Why is this directory setgid? setgid on a directory makes all the files created in that directory group-owned by the group of the directory. This allows member

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dir -d /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1024 Aug 15 19:23 /usr/local I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed. Dunno if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:43:57PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Cou

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed. Dunno > if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho. It does. Mount points take on the permissions of the / directory of the mounted filesystem when they are mounted. But t

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Oct-99 John Carline wrote: > Bryan Scaringe wrote: > >> Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local? >> >> mine are: >> >> drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/ >> >> What gives?? Why is this directory setgid? >> >> Is everyone elses system the same way?

GTK themes and libpixmap?

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I recently picked up the theme "DarkMarble" from gtk.themes.org. Half of the widgets don't work. Specificly, the ones with pixmaps. they are just plain blue. Also, I get a slew of these errors: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so", Gtk-WARNING **: Unabl

X 3.3.3 and KDE

1999-10-21 Thread jason
anybody remember the servers i can set apt to get KDE (snowcrash or something like that?) and X 3.3.3? thanks -jason "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." -Einstein

Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Again :) EGM>I'm gueessing something's wrong with your modelines to producethis effect. When you configured X did you use xvidtune to adjust the timings (and screen size under various resolutions)? It usually does a pretty good job despite the warning. I don't use FVWM so I can't he

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things I dislike about slrn: > - poor support for MIME, and no support for PGP. I know this doesn't help you now, but the author has stated that he will add MIME support. As for PGP, see http://www.ollie.clive.ia.us/j

RE: GTK themes and libpixmap? NEVERMIND

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Duh! The package was gtk-engines-pixmap. It's late. I'm going to bed. Bryan On 21-Oct-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I recently picked up the theme "DarkMarble" from gtk.themes.org. > Half of the widgets don't work. Specificly, the ones with pixmaps. > they are just plain blue. Also, I get a sl

Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Baker
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. > > I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but > although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail. > There's a fetchmail error message saying somet

[Fwd: Sound with Debian]

1999-10-21 Thread Kent West
I believe this was intended for the list; accordingly I've forwarded it. (No need to reply to me, just to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and perhaps the list.) "Dr. Yasha Karant" wrote: > > Greetings. > > I obtained your email from the Debian list on sound. > > Short of recompiling a kernel or licensing-fo

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:27:48PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer > accepts any options? It causes interesting (though generally harmless) > output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh. For > example: > >

RE: sound blaster pnp, please help!

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
man isapnp man isapnp.conf generate a basic isapnp.conf file like this: pnpdump > ~/isapnp.conf That will create a file called isapnp.conf in your home directory. When we're finished, we will copy it to /etc/isapnp.conf. Now, somethings you need to do: 1) Make sure support for ALL ISA PNP card

RE: [Fwd: Sound with Debian]

1999-10-21 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Hmm. Since Support for sound cards is part of the kernel, and the kernel is the same in all Linux distributions, then I would have to say: if RedHat supports it, Debian supports it. Granted, Debian doesn't have the sndconf executable, but that just builds a line for the modules.conf file, which y

Re: [Fwd: Sound with Debian]

1999-10-21 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Dr. Yasha Karant" wrote: > > > > Short of recompiling a kernel or licensing-for-fee > > commercial OSS, how do I support a Crystal 4232PNP > > sound "card" (actually part of the Dell mother board)? It depends on which kernel version you have. Witn 2.0.x, i t

Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread jh
Hi. I have recently installed the x packages from cd. When I type startx I receive: Could not find file! Tried /root/xf86config /etc/x11/ef86config /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config.debian /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config Fatal server error: No config file found! -x11Tra

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:15:29PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +1000, > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - adequate support for GPG (could be better IMHO). > > Why do you think mutt's support of gpg is only adequate? I use it on a > daily basis wi

small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread jh
Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. Thanks, Jeff

Re: small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:46:02PM -0600, jh wrote: > Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go > through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so > it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this > question makes sens

Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

1999-10-21 Thread Erich Newell
Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days? I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live... ...or alternatively, if you could point me to a listserv tutorial or tell me how to request archived posts... Than

Re: small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, jh wrote: > Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go > through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so > it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this > que

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:16:10PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > I tried that, and it sends to the list and the *recipient* of the message, > not the sender. > > Do you know how to get it to reply to the sender, instead of the > recipient? > >From /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz:

rtl8139 in slink?

1999-10-21 Thread aphro
curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12 currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the rtl8139.c file is there(it failed to compile as a module for some reason) gonna t

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-21 Thread d1temp
On 20 Oct, Brant Wells wrote: > Jean Yves BARBIER wrote >> > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded >> > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > Just a quick hint for downloading files... If you click on a link to > download a file, and the sc

Re: small dselect question AND X Window problem

1999-10-21 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, You might not realize yet that CASE matters on Linux/Unix.. /etc/X11/XF86Config I think it can be in a couple other places, and in fact I got "hosed" this way a few times, as I had files in two places and couldn't figure out why the changes I made were not being seen.

How do I get rid of a package that won't purge

1999-10-21 Thread Bruce Jackson
I am trying to get of a package using dpkg --purge but it won't saying package is in a very inconsistent state and must be reinstalled. Dpkg can't install the package. Now I am in a catch 22. Please help Bruce Jackson

rtl8139 in slink(again)

1999-10-21 Thread aphro
2.0.36 kernel works great. (has a rtl8139 module) i wish i knew why O'Reilley (sp?) chose 2.2.12 to be the default kernel..the other 2.1r3 slink cd i have (burned from downloaded ISO) defaults to 2.0.36(i believe) btw besides this minor hiccup that book/cd combo rules. even tho i know debian pre

Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail

1999-10-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
This is fixed in later versions (i.e., 3.2.0.102-1 in potato). You might want to get the Debian source package of that and build your own slink package. exim is another possibility. I don't personally think sendmail would be a step backwards--I use it. On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0700, T

ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi all, can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x kernels? what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;) -gnana

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/10/99 jh wrote: Fatal server error: No config file found! -x11TransSocketUNIConnect: Can't connect: errno= 111 Giving up. xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error. My question is how do I find and properly install

Setting default preferences for X

1999-10-21 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Can anyone tell me how to set default preferences for X using xdm. Just now I'd like to set DPMS blanking for login screen od xdm. In user session I've put "xset dpms X Y Z" in Xsession script. But this script executed only after login. Where can I place this xset call, so that it should be execu

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/10/99 Brad wrote: > Has anyone tried compiling the recent kernels (ie 2.2.10-12) with gcc 2.95 > or 2.95.2 ? Any problems ?? I've done it, no problems here. YMMV. with 2.2.12 you had to add -fno-scrict-aliasing to the Makefile CC arguments, I am told that 2.2.13 will detect gcc 2.95 an

Re: Purging mozilla

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/10/99 David Jardine wrote: It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran which according to my understanding of the manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it didn't say that exactly, but this s

Re: ttysnoop

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:53AM +0100, Kris wrote: > > It would be excellent if I could log all insecure telnet traffic, > partly as an incentive for my users to use SSH and partly because > there are a lot of 16 year-old students around. Please just send a > private e-mail if this is a case of

Re: Emacs20: problem redefining umlaut-keys

1999-10-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Jonas, On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:46:04AM +0200, Jonas Rathert wrote: > I've got some problems using Emacs 20 with my Debian/GNU Linux system > (potato): In my .emacs I have the following lines: > > ---8<--(snip,snip)--8< > (define-key c-mode-map [?ö]

Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
Hey :) Sorry, I'm not much of an X'pert. However, if X runs after configuring with xf86config, then you can still run xvidtune. Haven't a clue if that'll help your problem though. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net |

Re: rtl8139 in slink?

1999-10-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: : curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and : it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12 : currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the : rtl8139.c file is there(it failed t

Re: Remote printing?

1999-10-21 Thread peter karlsson
peter karlsson: > But, when I try to print, it says that "Jobs queued, but could not start > daemon", which is strange, because lpd is running. And I have added a line > with its IP number in the "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the machine that has got the > printer. I solved the problem now, seems that the

Re: small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Hately
jh wrote: > > Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go > through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so > it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this > question makes sense. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > -- > Uns

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
There should be a file /etc/X11/XF86Config. If its not there, run xf86config program to setup X, and it will be generated. if xf86config does not work, get it. It is now a separate package, so you may not have installed it. Andrew ---

SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the output of grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. florida: 555-1212 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
From: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. I have recently installed the x packages from cd. When I type startx I receive: Could not find file! Tried /root/xf86config /etc/x11/ef86config /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config.debian /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config Fatal server erro

Re: small dselect question

1999-10-21 Thread Brant Wells
Hi. If I just want to install 1 program from dselect, would I want to go through and put an = sign by the programs that are currently installed so it doesn't have to go through all the files when installing? I hope this question makes sense. If you know exactly where the .deb package is, you c

Antwort: Re: staroffice - multiuser? [still prob]

1999-10-21 Thread klaus_drews
Maybe a permission problem ? I started adding a new user and group for soffice and installed under his permission. Afterwards just add the users you want to this group, verify that all permission are set correctly for the group (not only for the user) and thats it. Now you should get the normal

Re: Setting default preferences for X

1999-10-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
No, set it in XF86Config: Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Matrox Millennium G200 8MB" Option "power_saver" VideoRam 8192 Of course, your board, video ram, etc... will differ. You can set the timeouts under the Screen

Re: linux kernel compile

1999-10-21 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Vincent & Sylvia Gaines wrote: > First I would just like to thank the people behind the Debian > distribution. > I work with software and have been very impressed with the way they have > > organized their system distribution updates. to me ( still a "newbie") > dselect is a vital tool worth it's

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:37:26PM -0800, Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the > output of > > grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" > > to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. value=`grep fl

Debian and Microsoft proxy

1999-10-21 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, I have access to the net via microsoft proxy which is capable of ip masq. However to used it on wintel boxes a client need to be installed. Once installed this which works fine. Is it possible to access the net (ip masq. not proxy web content) via the MS proxy server using debian. Is it

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:51:48AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x > kernels? what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. > ;) If you mean Ensoniq, then the answer is "probably". I don't know the full range of c

exim and +@domain

1999-10-21 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept all + and deliver it to ? &rw -- - ___ - Robert Waldner Junior Network Engineer // / ___ _/_ -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RW960-RIPE --- /--- / / / / /___/ / ---

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1820

1999-10-21 Thread Rune Linding Raun
hi xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist? sincerely rune linding raun

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel Haude
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi > > printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on gho

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-21 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:10:53PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) A friend of mine wrote a small script to see

Re: Matrox G400 and X (was: debian-user-digest ...)

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 21/10/99 Rune Linding Raun wrote: xfree86 server for matrox g400max does it exist? The SVGA server supports this card, it is listed in the XF86Config program so you should have no problems. (if you do upgrade to Xfree 3.3.5) Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://ww

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:00:11AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > > this only concern metafont to produce a dvi. dvips relies on ghostscript > > (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion. > > What does dvips need ghostscript for? It doesn't. All one needs ghostscript for is printing on

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:53:26AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: > What do you want in the variable? Multiple lines? > Did you try > set foo=$( grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" ) > Whats the greater context? > Andrew > I finally got it with export GREP_RESULT=`grep $LOCATION $HOME/roam.db

How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel Haude
Hi, I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of course, the debian package manager doesn't know about this, so whenever I use dselect, i

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:36:01AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes ('). Thanx, figured it out, and man did I feel like a dummy. About 15 minutes after I sent off the e-mail. Nevermind that I tried everything for an hour or two and read and read all d

Re: How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Haude wrote: > Is there a way to tell dselect: "I installed sucha-and-such myself, it's > there, so stop bitching (and remember next time)"? > See "http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/equivs.html";. You can create any pseudo package with equivs which fools t

Re: How to shut up dselect?

1999-10-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question related to installing non-debian programs: > > When I first installed Debian 2.1, I noticed that it came with teTeX 0.9. > I un-installed that and installed teTeX-1.0 from the CTAN archive. Of > course, the

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, > I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the > output of > > grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" > > to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. > > florida: 555-1212 you mean, in a shell variable? In bash and maybe sh this should

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Hately
Ben Lutgens wrote: > > I had to use the back quotes`` Back quotes can't be nested, while $( ) does the same job and can be nested -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690

What does Quality mean?

1999-10-21 Thread Debian Mail
When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like: Release Quality Package (size) stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5 (0.7k) Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions. What does this Quality stand for? Stef

Re: A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

1999-10-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> shaul wrote: > > > > What is M-VIA version ? > > I have a no name NIC. It works with the standard ne module, though it is not > > perfect. The point is that the box has an attached diskette with a fet916.c > > file that I currently can not compile, and this file seems to do some > > thought > >

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Right. What I wasn't sure of is whether the installer sets the directory permissions before prompting you to mount additional filesystems, or afterward. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:45:45PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > > I set mine up as a sepe

Re: What does Quality mean?

1999-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:44 +0200, Debian Mail wrote: > When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like: > >Release Quality Package (size) >stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5 (0.7k) > Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions. > >

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > can i purchase ensonique cards? are they supported very well in 2.2.x > > kernels? > > what other 32-bit cards are very well supported and cheap. ;) > > > > -gnana > > >

Re: Digest: TNT2 Ultra and SB Live

1999-10-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There is a link in the front web site "www.debian.org" to mail archives. Follow it. Erich Newell wrote: > Could someone please forward me the digests for the 7 days? > > I'm particularly interested in the posts regarding the Diamond > V770 Ultra (TNT2 Ultra) and the Sound Blaster Live... > > ...

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-21 Thread Michael Stenner
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:41:57AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to get mutt to, when replying to list, also reply to > > > the sender of the message? > > > > If you hit "g" to reply (instead

Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple hundred bucks to buy some hardware to enhance my science classroom, but haven'

Update on modutils

1999-10-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
As a lot of you have experienced, the changes I made in modutils 2.3.5-1 managed to break a fair number of machines. I have just uploaded 2.3.6-3 to fix this. Let me explain what happened: In /etc/modutils/paths there were a lot of path-statements to set the default paths where depmod,insmod and

Re: Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-21 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Well, in my case wsoundserver revision 0.2.0-1 doesn't work at all. It ALWAYS segfaults. I'm using kernel 2.2.12 and the latest wmaker 0.61.1-1 running on Potato. Could anyone with the above setting please tell me if wsoundserver works for them? I want to see if I'm alone on this or if this is a

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Oct, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote about "netscape 4.7 and download" > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch t

Looking for CuciPop info

1999-10-21 Thread rsluder
Hello Sir, We are looking for info on Cucipop Y2K compatability. I have tried contacting the author, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but he has not answered. If you could please point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Rick Sluder System Engineer Road Ru

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-21 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> Let me get this straight: Some person (Joe) writes to a list and you > get the mail. You hit "g" and Joe is not listed as a recipient? Yep, and I am unstead. (And I don't think metoo is even set, either) > > That might be some funky "reply-to" stuff that I haven't run > into. Sorry. > >

Re: exim and +@domain

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 21 Oct, Robert Waldner wrote about "exim and +@domain" > > I need above construct for use with procmail. How can I tell exim to accept > all > + and deliver it to ? > Add the following in your Directors section above the localuser director. suffix_local: suffix = +* driver = localus

Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is easier to understand than the "man" files. As I understand, exim is a local mail agent which uses SMTP? to send mail around the localnetwork. Fetchmail delivers remote mail, POP3 in my case, to this local network and th

Lynx and ATP with http proxy

1999-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi,     Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when I have to use a http proxy with my university.   Thanks in advance Richard

Unidentified subject!

1999-10-21 Thread searchen
I would like to know how I can configure my Linux-server so that I can call on it. The server is not always connected to the internet. I'm using ISDN to call in on my provider. So the server has a ISDN (Teles 16.3) card. I want to be able to use another computer with a modem or ISDN card to logi

Re: ensonique?

1999-10-21 Thread Charles Lewis
I have an an ensonique 1371, and it works good. I had to enable it (as a module) in the kernel (2.2), and add 'es1371' to /etc/modules so that it loads on bootup, but haven't had any problems so far except that I can't figure out how to get rid of some random DMA timeouts.

Configuring HP printer

1999-10-21 Thread Micha Feigin
Is the support for HP printers only using the hp 550 module in magicfilter, or is there a newer module ? I am looking to configure a HP 815 (I think its 810 in the states). How do I use the diferent printer options? (resolution, double sided printing, printing quolity, etc) Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native sound support. It does not matt

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-21 Thread David Natkins
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > "ekw" == eric k wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ekw> Ingo: Get the "kernel package" (dselect or apt-get) & install > > ekw> unpack kernel-source. etc. > > ekw> make menuconfig or xconfig > > ekw> then: make-kpkg clean > > ekw> then: m

Solution: SB PCI 128 sound card and ALSA 0.4.1 on 2.2.x potato (revised)

1999-10-21 Thread Brian Boonstra
(revised with a forgotten step) Hi It was a terrible pain for me to get this card working with my potato system, so I for the benefit of any future souls clever enough to search the archives for help, here is (my understanding of) how it worked: - Compile a new kernel with OSS native

XConfig help!

1999-10-21 Thread Tam Ma
Hi guys, This will be my second attemp trying to configure xfree86. I am a newbie to linux and this is my first crack at X window so can you guys give a little help before hose the whole system..hehe. Anyway the favor is that if you are not busy, can you send me your "XF86Config" file so I can exa

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