Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-23 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 22/10/99 Brad wrote: > > > > Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and > > > change the line: > > > id:5:initdefault: > > > to: > > > id:3:initdefault: > > > >I don't believe this will work on a D

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Brad wrote: RedHat doesn't start xdm through init either, but uses a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d. RedHat is set up so that xdm will only start in runlevel 5 (although you could always run it by hand in any runlevel if you felt like it). The change Onno posted would set the default run

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-23 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 22 Oct, 1999 à 06:52:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > MK>> The other Thing is, how can I get a full FTP-Mirror (SLINK stable + > src) ??? > MK> > MK>Use wget, it had be designed for that. > > Hello, > > wget does download ALL !!! > It is too much !!! > > I like to get only the stabl

Re: snowcrash and netgod

1999-10-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Oct, jason wrote about "snowcrash and netgod" > i know that i can use these to get the newest versions of kde and X > respectivly but i don;t remember the entire address of either or the > complete apt.sources line. any help is appreciated. > > Snowcrash is dead it is now kde.tdyc.com

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does it fix ... The Java that > crashes/freezes NS, the DNS lookups that freeze NS, the random crashes if > you don't close windows in the correct order, etc. Not as far as I can tell. (Well, I'm not sure I've seen DNS lookup lockups, but I've seen plenty of lockup

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!

1999-10-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >if you are running a system > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > netscape. No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. Daniel

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > netscape. > > No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0

How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread Dirk Lother
Dear debian users, where can I find information on how to mount NT 4.0 Server volumes under Linux ? I'm looking for a way to access an NT Server with a floppy Linux in order to save data from broken down NT clients. Could you think of a way to do that ? Thanks in advance !! Yours, Dirk

Sendmail 8.10.0.Beta6 (slated for experimental)

1999-10-23 Thread Richard A Nelson
I've just replaced the subject on incoming so that the file sendmail_8.10.0.Beta6.announce is in /usr/doc/sendmail. This will be a `big` release, but *fortunately*, one that means you don't need to anything other than rebuilding sendmail.cf (if you've let the automagic crap run)! Notes: * IPV6

Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 question

1999-10-23 Thread Cliff Rice
Hello all, Newbie question: I get the error below when I attempt to do a cat endoftheworld to /dev/dsp. Obviously I've not configured something right for my soundcard since the test failed. I've included the files below. Any help is most welcome. Thanks in advance Cliff Sound error: Coul

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
Original Message Follows From: Jake Griesbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Can't boot from floppies - HELP! Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:18:53 -0600 (MDT) I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the f

Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-23 Thread jh
Sorry to keep posting on this subject. I have tried about 35 different combinations in xf86config, but I still cannot find what the monitor needs. Every time I run xf86config and then do startx I get a screen with screwed, flickering and unreadable characters. My monitor is a Micron m14fg During

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
Original Message Follows From: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brant Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Need help for x window Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:46:06 -0600 -- Thanks for your words of advice. I have been running xf86config and rerunning it but I can not n

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> During xf86config it says that I may find info on my monitor by reading > /usr/doc/xserver-common/monitors.gz I do not know how to look at this file. cd to that directory, then type gunzip monitors.gz Then you can view the file. If you can't find any info on the monitor on the net, I sugest you

Re: Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a > "boot:" option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Here is a lilo file I use: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vm

Is it possible to get libc6 >= 2.1 to run on slink? How/Where?

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I'm not up to speed on libc6 at all. From what I can gather it is not just a regular package. I thought I had a HOWTO on this, but it turned out to be a libc5->libc6 "upgrade" document. A while back I tried to get enlightenment-conf up, and I believe it needed libc6 >= 2.1 or some depen

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: cd to that directory, then type gunzip monitors.gz Then you can view the file. nah, use zless or zmore then you do not have to recommpress it again (or have it wasting extra space) Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erb

glibc's crypt

1999-10-23 Thread Brian Lavender
Does the glibc in Debian slink have the good crypt by default? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread John
Hmmm, it still cant browse a download dir without losing the downloads name seem to suffer from memory loss , forgets the default download dir and sometimes a news server dissapears from the list only to reappear on subsequent openings. Fo

slink minicom sez: "already online; pls hangup"

1999-10-23 Thread Eric House
I upgraded my HP Omnibook 800 from hamm to slink a few weeks ago, and since then have been unable to use the version of minicom that's part of that dist. When I attempt to dial, it puts up an alert telling me "You're already online; please hangup" -- or words to that effect. When I moved my deskt

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread jh
At 08:12 PM 10/22/99 PDT, you wrote: >Hey :) Post your monitor type here, and maybe someone else can help you. >Just for the sake of mentioning it... There should be a sticker on the back >that lists at least the base Horz & Vertical Frequencies(it may be a long >shot...) Here's an even long

xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Wiard
i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file locally? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Dave Wiard wrote: i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file locally? control - alt F1 F2 etc give you the norm

EXIM settings for dialup.

1999-10-23 Thread Ronald Tin
Not sure if I should post here (but I'm running exim on a debian :) So, I have a Debian unstable running exim 3.03, connecting to the Internet through PPP without fixed IP. I have configured exim to use "smarthost"(*) to send mail, performing address rewrite like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:56:30PM -0700, Dave Wiard wrote: > i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm > running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm > running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file > locally? > Ctrl-

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
install samba, read up on the docs, it will take some tweaking to get it to work with NT(has to do with encryption during auth) but it works..and works good nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have YIKES - That sounds like the power supply specs! BE CAREFUL! The

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >if you are running a system > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with > > > net

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > install samba, read up on the docs, it will take some tweaking to get it > to work with NT(has to do with encryption during auth) > > but it works..and works good That would work, but I don't think that's what he's looking for. It sou

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > > From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >if you are running a system > > > > with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
--- Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have tried most of the combinations listed. I know the info

Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing > the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any > account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r > /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinst

FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Evan Burkitt
I have just installed Debian 2.1 and need some advice on how to get FTP and telnet working. For ftp I can see that inetd runs in.ftpd when an ftp client attempts to connect, but the operation fails on the client side with "Connection closed by remote host". On the server I have a user named ftp

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the best way to go with those if you mus

Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello & Help! I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... I used dselect to select a package and it wanted to upgrade a bunch on stuff. I let it because I was interested to see how long it would take with my new DSL connection. After the upgrade I have seen these pro

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Art Lemasters wrote: Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the b

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello & Help! > > I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... > > After the upgrade I have seen these problems: (It upgraded about 50M of > packages). > > 1. I can not login to a virtual terminal.

c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Wiard
I've got a messed up c++: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory anybody know how to fix this? i'm running potato.. Dave Wiard

Magic cookie problem

1999-10-23 Thread Johann Spies
I start X with alias "startx -ls -xauth" and regularly get the following error message: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected. I then kill the process and start again. Most of the time it works the se

Re: X Dacspeed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:31:42AM -0700, aphro wrote: > DAC speed is related to the VIDEO card only. it just defines how fas the > video card can draw to the analog output at the specific refresh > rates(somewhere along those lines) it is different from the refresh rate > on the monitor. even if

Installing nedit and xmbase-grok

1999-10-23 Thread Andreas Kurth
Running potato, I wonder how to install both xmbase-grok and nedit (or plan). Xmbase-grok depends on lesstif1, which replaces lesstifg, while nedit and plan depend on lesstifg. Is there a way to have both lesstif1 and lesstifg dependend packages installed? Thanks, Andreas. -- Andreas Kurth

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-23 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:56:29PM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > With all the recent activity concerning exim etc., I'd decided to set things > up > myself instead of using Netscape. > > I was about to post asking some questions, but you have just provided the > answers!! I'm glad I could he

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:37:03PM -0600, jh wrote: > Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. > I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have > tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have > tried most o

Package differences - bla_all.deb vs. bla.deb

1999-10-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
What is the difference between the locales_2.1.2-5_all.deb package file and the locales_2.1.2-5.deb package file? I assume packages with a _i386 "extention" are specifically for the i386 architecture. That makes me think the _all package is for all architectures, but then what is the packag

a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread peter karlsson
How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost column unreadable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
oh, in that case ... it may be easier to make a dos boot disk, and download ntfsdos (www.ntinternals.com i believe) to recover the data. i havent seen a (simple) boot disk rescue thing for linux to rescue NT. ntfsdos(read only) is free, a read write version is commercial. i dont remember the ot

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
check to see if there is anything in /etc/hosts.deny i think debian defaults to denying everyone access (could be wrong) then either add your ips to /etc/hosts.allow, comment out the lines(reccomended) in hosts.deny (tweak it later) or rm hosts.deny hosts.allow/deny easiest way to add your stuff:

Re: c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
(re)install libstdc++ ?? run ldconfig -v | grep libcstc++ to make sure its loaded if its installed, if not add the path to it to /etc/ld.so.conf or to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. (there may be a better way to do this but thats how i do it and it works pretty good for me) my system (slink): [E

printer

1999-10-23 Thread HU-LIAO
We connected the printer with Linux (Debian 1.3) server by hub. It worked well. After someone having done something wrong for example, having connected a new PC with Linux server and tried  printing without installation of the drive of printer, now it always continue to print out something w

Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread denis miller
I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) Any suggestions about how to get them working together? Denis

Re: Install Printer under Linux

1999-10-23 Thread Dr.ahmed ebrahim mohamed aboanber
Dear Jaroslaw: Many thanks for your letter, and sorry for my delay reply becouse of my trip. After I checked my files, I found the problem now is that there is no magicfilter, so could you please let me know the name of this package, can I find it on the CDROM or it is better to get from th

Re: EXIM settings for dialup.

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Ronald Tin wrote: > Not sure if I should post here (but I'm running exim on a debian :) > > So, I have a Debian unstable running exim 3.03, connecting to the > Internet through PPP without fixed IP. I have configured exim to > use "smarthost"(*) to send mail, performing address rewrite like > this

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Dave Wiard wrote: > i've been running potato and want to give gnome a shot. since i have xdm > running, if i screw anything up, i'll need to fix my problems. with xdm > running, is there a way to get a shell login so i can fix the file > locally? > > Dave Wiard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CS - Western

Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 question

1999-10-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Cliff Rice wrote: > Hello all, > > Newbie question: I get the error below when I attempt to > do a cat endoftheworld to /dev/dsp. Obviously I've not > configured something right for my soundcard since the test > failed. I've included the files below. Any help is most > welcome. > > Thanks in ad

Re: c++ messed up

1999-10-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:00:42 -0700, Dave Wiard wrote: > I've got a messed up c++: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory A libstdc++*.so symlink is missing. > anybody know how to fix this? No, you'll need to provide more information. Is the package system OK (dpkg --a

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1999, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I think something is writing to > > the hardware clock on closing down but what could this be? > > /etc/rc*.d/*hwclock.sh (which are symlinks to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh). > > The relevant code from my version

Re: Looking for monitor sync settings

1999-10-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Oct, Ethan Benson wrote about "Re: Looking for monitor sync settings" > On 22/10/99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: > >>cd to that directory, then type gunzip monitors.gz >>Then you can view the file. > > nah, use zless or zmore then you do not have to recommpress it again > (or have it wasting ex

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > What is going on? Please help me recover my system. I currently have a > single login as root where I was running dselect. I am afraid to log > off because I don't want to be locked out permanently. Can you attach all of the

Why isn't my ftp working?

1999-10-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
When I put together my potato partition, I noticed that I was no longer able to ftp to my machine. I actually wasn't able to do much. But I copied my slink config files over, and that helped most services. So could someone tell me where ftpd starts from? And, is there any encrypted ftpd that I

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ > Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) My condolences. I've played with it and think it's one of the worst POS email programs the world has ever seen. > An

non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Uurcus the Swale
Hi, can somebody please tell me exactly what line I need in /etc/apt/sources.list to access the non-US archives? I need to use FTP not HTTP, and currently I have non-us.debian.org listed as the FTP host. Thanks in advance! U = ()() "Don't modify spaghetti code unless you can eat the conseq

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What specific problem are you using. Sorry; I meant "What specific problem are you having?" -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infin

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:48:41AM -0700, Uurcus the Swale wrote: > Hi, can somebody please tell me exactly what line I need in > /etc/apt/sources.list to access the non-US archives? > I need to use FTP not HTTP, and currently I have non-us.debian.org listed > as the FTP host. > maybe you try somet

Re: printer

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 05:51:55PM +0800, HU-LIAO wrote: > We connected the printer with Linux (Debian 1.3) server by hub. It worked > well. After someone having done something wrong for example, having connected > a new PC with Linux server and tried printing without installation of the > driv

boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and shutdown. During boot it gets as far as "mounting local file systems... not mounted anything". It then pauses for several minutes before finally continuing, after which the system seems to work normally. On running shutdown, it proce

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0400, denis miller wrote: > I am trying to integrate a Debian server with some machines running M$ > Outlook. (Customer choice, what can I say!) Any suggestions about how Bad, bad customers :)) > to get them working together? > > Denis I use "qpopper" on my

Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a fatal server error. Specifically, it says that there wasn't a config file foun

Re: Laptop works... sort of, Part 2

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > There was one other problem that I forgot to mention: > > When the machine goes into a suspend while I'm running X, it will frequently > (but not always) come back up with an all white screen and I haven't been > able to find a way

Re: boot and shutown both suddenly getting delayed

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:21:52PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and > shutdown. During boot it gets as far as "mounting local file systems... > not mounted anything". It then pauses for several minutes before finally > continuing, a

Re: Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:25:32AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp > package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or > "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a > fatal

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok Ben, here they are. One other thing to note: During the install I had a message with "modutils" stating that The form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs I could not find where to change thi. I did find a file called conf.modules.old

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Eric, I have attacked the output from /etc/dpkg -S pam "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Hello & Help! > > > > I have a potato system that was running fine until a few minutes ago... > > > > After the upgrad

Re: a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:28:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it > prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost > column unreadable. > I made the following change to /etc/a2ps-site.cfg: # D

Re: Drum roll, please...

1999-10-23 Thread Stacy anon
that was classic!! I must save this one :) Glad to hear you made it home with no more than wet underwear and socks. you changed your signature cool :) -- Steve C. Lamb |Keep word, Lysander; we must starve our sight ICQ: 5107343 | From lovers' food til

Re: a2ps margins

1999-10-23 Thread David J. Kanter
You may want to try two things: 1. Look at the docs in /usr/doc/a2ps/html. Nicely laid out help there. 2. Set the default paper size. I have a DeskJet, and telling a2ps that adjusts the margins appropriately. On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:28:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > How do I set the a2ps

multiple volume tape utility?

1999-10-23 Thread Martin Weinberg
I have a very long (e.g. 80GB) input stream that I want to dd onto a tape (DLT). I'm in a quandry on how to do this. Sounds like an FAQ but can't find a pointer anywhere.n Is there a utility that will accept data from a pipe and pause at EOT and let me change volumes? Any suggestions? --Marti

Re: Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
"Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp > package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or > "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a > fatal server error. Specifically, it says

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:51:47AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ok Ben, here they are. > > One other thing to note: During the install I had a message with "modutils" > stating > that The form: > Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form: > Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs

Re: EXIM settings for dialup.

1999-10-23 Thread Ronald Tin
Sorry that I didn't make it clear.. :( I don't have much problems sending the mail through alumni.ust.hk. And no problems for sending local mail too. (There was quite a number of problems, but were solved before I decided to post here :) The problem is that local mails suffers from the address r

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread Dave Wiard
Thanks guys. I knew there was a way to switch consoles, but I couldn't remember how to make it happen. That worked great! btw: enlightenment 0.16.0 is broken with potato. it hangs it loads completely. i could just have a completely messed up potato, too. i've never done this before. Dave Wia

Re: Why isn't my ftp working?

1999-10-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Take a look at /etc/inetd.conf for a line like: #ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd If it shows up like that, delete the octothorpe (#) at the beginning of the line. This happened to one of my systems during an upgrade. Bob On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:

network tools wanted for ...?

1999-10-23 Thread Lars Nixdorf
hallo, I'm searching for networking tools (comerziel or freeware) for: -monitoring services conectivity (nocol,spong,..) -statistical graphical presaentation (mrgt my choose, are there tools that have the same database like mrgt, or tools that convert it) -graphic

Re: a2ps margins (solved)

1999-10-23 Thread peter karlsson
Dave Thayer: > N.B. this is for US letter size paper. Assuming that you are using european > standard paper sizes in Sweden, you will need to look around for the > corresponding medium commands for A4(?) paper. A4dj worked fine. And, yes, it's a DeskJet clone that I have, an Olivetti JP150W. Th

compiling a KDE App (kdesu)

1999-10-23 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi hackers, normally i am using gnome/enlighenment, but for root-shells with X this system lacks some simple tool like kdesu, that does all this authorization-stuff. ok, with my old SuSE it was no problem either to install the package or to compile it by using ./configure and so on. Now, i do no

Re: xdm/shell login

1999-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Dave Wiard writes: > enlightenment 0.16.0 is broken with potato. it hangs it loads > completely. I installed it last night. Works. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money fro

poff makes X hang

1999-10-23 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I have a strange problem I haven't seen before. When I type poff my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[<---] doesn't work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot. If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots when my connection is closed. some syslog me

adding win 95 partition

1999-10-23 Thread James Ruby
I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap they are all primary partitions. Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and make partitions that windows 95 can see and use,

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
I use this at home for my wife's Outlook 98. Just have the server run IMAP and Outlook 98 is a fine client.

Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

1999-10-23 Thread Daniel Yang
I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. I installed it on my Debian 2.1 system. Everything seemed to be fine with installation until I tried to run "./netscape". The first problem I got was that netscap

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 or beyond? Patrick

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Patrick Kirk wrote: > Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 > or beyond? I believe xfmail can do IMAP. I don't recall whether Mahogany Mail can do it. -- Andrew

automated md5sum checks

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ok, I modified the file as you show below. Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the following in it? Not sure if this is important or not. auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so password required pam_unix.so session required

Re: Is it possible to get libc6 >= 2.1 to run on slink? How/Where?

1999-10-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
John Miskinis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In any case I would be love a pointer to some info on libc6, I'm > very confused. Or a note stating that 2.1 is not possible on slink > if applicable. You can upgrade slink to glibc 2.1. I've done it, and it causes no problems as far as I know. Edit /

segmentation faults

1999-10-23 Thread John
Have been unable to find any definition and write-up on 'segmentation faults'. I have encountered this whilst trying a package installation as part of the learning process - the matter is not critical, but nontheless I would like to understand what is involved in case I meet this error when it is i

Re: poff makes X hang

1999-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Jocke writes: > When I type poff my machine hangs > If I instead kills the pppd process the machine reboots > when my connection is closed. > This have started when I compiled and used 2.3.22 ... ^^ > Anyone got any ideas? Yes. You are using a

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ok, I modified the file as you show below. > > Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the > following in it? > Not sure if this is important or not. > auth required pam_unix.so > account

how to read MIME from nmh? is tm packaged?

1999-10-23 Thread Britton
I have started getting a bunch of MIME encoded MF Word documents from a prospective employer. I am trying to figure out how to save the attachment in a file with nmh as you can do with pine. I'm hoping that this is possible even though when I do mh-edit-mhn or the list I get cannot exec I havn

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